September 16, 2023 Bulletin

        LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 16: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

          Saturday after the

          Exaltation of the Cross

          For the parishioners

Sun. 17: 11:00 am @ St.  Nicholas

          Sunday after the Exaltation

          Of the Cross

          +John & +Mary Backus and

          The deceased members of the

          Backus family from Mary

          Jane Backus

Mon. 18: NO LITURGY

Tues. 19: NO LITURGY

Wed. 20: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 21: NO LITURGY

Fri. 22: NO LITURGY

Sat. 23: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

          Conception of John the

          Baptist

          +John & + Carmela Horvath

          From Mr. & Mrs. Migletz

Sun. 24: 11:00 am @ St.  Nicholas

          17^th Sunday after Pentecost

          For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 09/10/2023

$                 947.00     Offertory

$                 137.00     Candles

$                   90.00     Renovation

$                   75.00     Rent

$                   45.00     Holy Day

$                     4.00     Children

$               1298.00   TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday:23

Sunday: 24

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS: Michael Kisak- Inn at Glenellen, Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, 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 $118,048.10 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

SUPER BINGO:

St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church, 356 Belle Vista, 2nd Super Bingo ($6,000 in pay-outs) will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2023. Doors open at 2:00pm, dinner served 2:00-4:30 and 1^st game begins at 5:30. Tickets are $45.00 and includes 24 cards and 1 special pack, pasta and meatball dinners plus other prizes. Tickets are at church hall from 9:00am-5:00pm or at Bingo.

ECG CLASSES:

ECF classes will be starting in October following 9:00 am Sunday liturgies at Infant Jesus of Prague. All children pre-school through 12^th grade are invited and encouraged to attend. There is a sign-up sheet in vestibule.

CHINESE AUCTION:

St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, in Hermitage is holding their 46^th Annual Chinese Auction on Sunday. October 8^th. Doors open at 1:00 pm and drawing starts at 2:15 pm. Admission is $6.00 and includes lunch & one free tear sheet. Additional sheets are 6 for $5.00.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of September 17-23, 2023 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Michael & +Helen Tirpak and the right sanctuary is in memory of +Richard Alan Tirpak. Both candles are given by Robert & Helen Marie Vaclav.

The glory of God hid in suffering.

Cyril of Alexandria: He who as God was beyond suffering, suffered in his own flesh as a human being. When he became flesh, being God, he did not in any way cease to be God. Precisely as he entered into the created order, he remained above creation. He remained as giver of the law when he came to serve “under the law. “He retained the inviolable divine dignity precisely when he took on “the form of a slave.” It was precisely as only begotten Son that he became “the firstborn among many brothers,” while still remaining the only begotten. So why should it seem so strange that he should suffer in the flesh according to his humanity, even while tran­scending suffering according to his divinity? Thus the ever astute Paul says that the Word himself who is “in the form of God “and equal to God the Father ” became obe­dient even unto death, death of the cross,” letters, 55, To Anastasius and the monks.