LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 29: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 30: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday of the Paralytic Man
+Ed & +Marge Sekerak from
Kim & Pam Trevis
Mon.1: NO LITURGY
Tues. 2: NO LITURGY
Wed. 3: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 4: NO LITURGY
Fri. 5: 8:30 am @Infant Jesus
For the Living & Deceased
Members of the Sacred Heart
Society of St. Nicholas
Sat. 6: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 7: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday of the Samaritan
Woman
In memory of the Senda,
Zakucia & Gozur families
From Marge Babik
Collection Report
Week of 04/23/2023
$ 887.00 Offertory
$ 105.00 Candles
$ 2.00 Children
$ 20.00 Easter
$ 10.00 Seminary collection
$ 40.00 Renovation
$ 45.00 Garage Rent
$ 1109.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 28
Sunday: 20
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Kisak- Inn at Glenellen, Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Mary Dubos and Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd. and Margaret and William Zigarevich at home. May God grant to all the sick and homebound of our parish many blessed, happy and healthy years.
UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:
The NEW total we have collected is $111,152.10 for the Capital Campaign. We continue to work towards our goal of $200, 000. Thank you for your generous donations and continued support to our Church.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The 2023 Sanctuary request sheet is available on the vestibule table. Please call Paula Slemons for specific request.
RUMMAGE SALE:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 2140 Highland Road, Hermitage is having a Rummage & Bake Sale. The event will be held on Thursday, May 4th from 4:00pm-7:00 pm; Friday, May 5th from 9:00 am-2:00 pm and Saturday, May 6th from 9:00 am-1:00 pm. Household items, clothing, toys, books, furniture and more are available.
CONDOLENCES:
Our deepest sympathy and prayers to the Mingo family on the passing on of our former parishioner Randy Mingo. Services were held last Tuesday. Blessed repose to his servant Randall.
THANK YOU!
To Patrick A Rouan & Linda Mathews,
John R & Ruth Straub, Terry & David Healey for generous donation in memory of Andrew L Stanislav
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of April 30-May 6, there are no requests.
THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE PARALYTIC,
CHRYSOSTOM: The perseverance of the paralytic was astonishing. He was thirty-eight years old, and each year he hoped to be freed from his disease. He lay there waiting, never giving up. If he had not persevered as much as he did, wouldn’t his future prospects, let alone the past, have been enough to discourage him from staying around that place? Consider how alert the other sick people there would be, since no one knew for sure when the waters would be troubled. The lame and the limping could observe it, but how would a blind man? Maybe he learned it from the clamor that arose. Let us be ashamed then, beloved, let us be ashamed and groan over our excessive laziness. That man had been waiting thirty-eight years without obtaining what he desired, and he still did not withdraw. And he failed, not through any carelessness of his own but through being oppressed and suffering violence from others. And still he did not give up. We … might persist in prayer for something for ten days or so, and if we have not obtained it, we are too lazy afterwards to employ the same energy [as he did]. And yet, we will wait forever on our fellow human beings, fighting and enduring hardships, performing menial labor, all for the chance of something that in the end fails to meet our expectations. But when it comes to our Master, from whom we are sure to obtain a reward greater than our labors … we exercise no such diligence in waiting on him…. For even if we receive nothing from him, isn’t the very fact that we are able to converse with him continually the cause often thousand blessings? HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 36.1-2.16
CHRIST IS RISEN!
INDEED HE IS RISEN!
CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!
VOISTINU VOSKRESE!
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