LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
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
Mon. 19: NO LITURGY
Tues. 20: NO LITURGY
Wed. 21: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 22: NO LITURGY
Fri. 23: NO LITURGY
Sat. 24: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
NO LITURGY
Sun. 25: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
NO LITURGY
9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
4th Sunday after Pentecost
+Mary Rotunno from Vic &
Sue Boyer
Collection Report
Week of 06/11/2023
$ 985.00 Offertory
$ 166.00 Candles
$ 5.00 Holy Days
$ 175.00 Garage Rent
$ 1331.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 29
Sunday:17
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.
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.
There will be no Liturgy next weekend at St. Nicholas Church. All parishioners are encouraged to attend Liturgy at Infant Jesus at 9 AM on Sunday June 25, or any local Byzantine Catholic Church. Sorry for inconvenience.
SACRED HEART SOCIETY:
June is the month of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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!
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY:
Wishing all fathers, grandfathers, godfathers a very Happy Father’s day. May God bless all with health, happiness and many blessed years.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 18-24, the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Edward “Red” Vrabel from the Graneto & Vrabel families. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.
CHRYSOSTOM: Note the acceleration of images: just when the lilies are decked out, he no longer calls them lilies but “grass of the field.”13 He then points further to their vulnerable condition by saying “which are here today.” Then he does not merely say “and not tomorrow” but rather more callously “cast into the oven.” These creatures are not merely “clothed” but “so clothed” in this way as to be later brought to nothing. Do you see how Jesus everywhere abounds in amplifications and intensifications? And he does so in order to press his points home. So then he adds, “Will he not much more clothe you?” The force of the emphasis is on “you” to indicate covertly how great is the value set upon your personal existence and the concern God shows for you in particular. It is as though he were saying, “You, to whom he gave a soul, for whom he fashioned a body, for whose sake he made everything in creation, for whose sake he sent prophets, and gave the law, and wrought those innumerable good works, and for whose sake he gave up his only begotten Son.” THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 22.1.14
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