LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 10: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+George Kotyuha from
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony
Swindler
Sun. 11: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
2nd Sunday of Pentecost
For the parishioners
Mon. 12: NO LITURGY
Tues. 13: NO LITURGY
Wed. 14: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 15: NO LITURGY
Fri. 16: NO LITURGY
Sat. 17: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 18: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
3nd Sunday after Pentecost
Father’s Day
+Ed & +Marge Sekerak from
Kim & Pam Trevis
Collection Report
Week of 06/04/2023
$ 594.00 Offertory
$ 100.00 Candles
$ 10.00 Holy Days
$ 2.00 Children
$ 50.00 Renovation
$ 756.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 14
Sunday: 28
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 $112,099.10 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.
SIMPLY SLAVIC:
The Simply Slavic Heritage Fest will be Friday, June 16th from 5:00pm- 11:00pm and Saturday, June 17th from 12:00 (noon) – 11:00pm on Federal Plaza east in downtown Youngstown. Admission is $5.00 and children 12 years old and younger are free. The event will include live music, folk dance performers, homemade ethic food, ethnic vendors and much more.
PARISHIONER NEWS:
Congratulations to Erin and Michael Broderick on the birth of their daughter Ella Marie on April 13th. Ella is the granddaughter of Sylvia and Tom Shirilla. May God bless Ella and her family with health, happiness and many blessed years.
SACRED HEART SOCIETY:
June is the month of the Most Sacred Heart Society.
Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2023.
Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:
Treasurer: Mary Jane Backus
5645 Clingan Rd. Unit 23-A
Struthers, Ohio 44471
NEW members are always welcome!
JESUS, I Trust in YOU!
CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:
The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 11-17, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Norman & +Mary Jane Guidos from Bob & Millie Jonda. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
How Jesus called His first disciples.
Chrysostom: “And they left their nets, and followed him.” And yet John (the Evangelist) says that they were called in a different way. From this it is evident that this was a second call. One may conclude this from several evidences. For there it is said that they came to him when “John had not yet been thrown into prison” but here it says after he was in confinement. And there Andrew calls Peter, but here Jesus calls both. On the one hand, John says, “Jesus saw Simon coming and said, ‘You are Simon, the Son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas, which is translated Peter.'”On the other hand, Matthew says that he was already called by that name, for he says,
“Seeing Simon who was called Peter.” … In the other instance, Andrew is seen coming into his house and hearing many things. But here, having heard one brief call, they both followed immediately. When they earlier had seen that John was in prison and that Jesus was withdrawing, it would not have been unnatural for them to return again to their own craft, fishing, having followed him at the beginning and then later having left him to fish. Accordingly, you now see that Jesus finds them actively fishing. But he neither resisted them at first when they desired to withdraw from him, nor having withdrawn themselves, did he let them go altogether. He gave way when they moved aside from him and came again to win them back. This, after all, is exactly what fishing is all about. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 14.M
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