LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 20: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 21: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday of the Publican &
Pharisee
+Paul & +Margaret Bayus
From Tara Metzger
Mon. 22: NO LITURGY
Tues. 23: NO LITURGY
Wed. 24: NO LITURGY
Thurs: 25: NO LITURGY
Fri. 26: NO LITURGY
Sat. 27: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 28: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
+Paul & +Margaret Bayus
From Marty & JoAnn Stock
Collection Report
Week of 01/14/2024
$ 677.00 Offertory
$ 200.00 Christmas
$ 3.00 Initial Offering
$ 25.00 Renovation
$ 92.00 Candles
$ 997.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 17
Sunday: 18
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Volsko- 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 collected is $122,647.10 for the Capital campaign. We continue to work towards our goal of $200,000. Thank you for your continued generosity and support to our church.
SANCTUARY CANDLE REQUEST:
The sanctuary candle request sheet for 2024 is on the back table in the church. Cost remains $10 per candle. Please call Paula @ (330) 799-5983 for specific requests. Money can be deposited in the weekend collection.
END OF YEAR STATEMENTS:
There is a sign-up sheet in the back of the church for parishioners who want their end-of year contribution statement.
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS:
Thank you to all who helped take down the Christmas decorations last Sunday. Your continued time and support of our parish is greatly appreciated.
MEN’S RETREAT:
The Third Annual Men’s Retreat sponsored by St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church in Marblehead Ohio will be held on March 15-17, 2024. Please see brochure for more information.
THANK YOU!
To Diane Battaglini for her generous donation of $1000 dollars toward church! May God grant her many and blessed years!
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of January 21-27, 2024 there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.
IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO CONFESS ONE’S SINS THAN ONE’S RIGHTEOUSNESS.
EPHREM THE SYRIAN: In the case of that Pharisee who was praying, the things he said were true. Since he was saying them out of pride and the tax collector was telling his sins with humility, the confession of sins of the last was more pleasing to God than the acknowledgment of the almsgiving of the first. It is more difficult to confess one’s sins than one’s righteousness. God looks on the one who carries a heavy burden. The tax collector therefore appeared to him to have had more to bear than the Pharisee had. He went down more justified than the Pharisee did, only because of the fact he was humble. If this Pharisee had been sinful, his prayer would have added iniquity to iniquity, but the Lord purified the tax collector of his iniquity. If just by praying, the Pharisee’s prayer provoked God’s wrath, then as a result of that provocation, the prayer of the tax collector proved all the more potent.
COMMENTARY ON
TATIAN’S DIATESSARON I5.24.
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