LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 3: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
1st All Souls Saturday
For the parishioners
Sun. 4: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday of Meat-Fare
+Mary & +Nicholas Terlecky
From Myron Terlecky
Mon. 5: NO LITURGY
Tues. 6: NO LITURGY
Wed. 7: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 8: NO LITURGY
Fri. 9: NO LITURsGY
Sat. 10: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
All Holy Ascetical Fathers &
Mothers
For the parishioners
Sun. 11: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday of Cheese-Fare
+Mary & +Nicholas Terlecky
From Myron Terlecky
Collection Report
Week of 01/28/2024
$ 501.00 Offertory
$ 13.00 Holy Day
$ 8.00 Initial Offering
$ 10.00 Renovations
$ 40.40 Gas royalties
$ 105.00 Candles
$ 677.40 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 23
Sunday: 17
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 $122,674.10 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.
LENTEN ETHNIC FOOD SALE:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church in Hermitage is having a Lenten Ethnic Food & Bake sale on March 6th from 2:00-5:00 pm. Pre-orders only-all food is homemade and pierohi is frozen. Pierohi (potato &cheese, sauerkraut, prune & cabbage are $10/dozen and haluski (1 quart) is $9.00. Call Bill @ 724-962-4618 or Christine @ 724-866-0058 to place an order.
HRAMOTY:
We are still taking Hramoty requests for All-Souls Saturdays during Lent. Please fill out the Hramoty envelope that you received with your monthly envelopes and place in the collection baskets.
REGULATIONS FOR THE GREAT FAST:
The Great Lent begins NEXT MONDAY February 12th, the following are Lenten restrictions:
STRICT ABSTINENCE: (fast) is to observed on Pure Monday, February 12th-the 1st day of the Great Fast & on Great & Holy Friday, March 29th. This includes no use or consumption of all meats, eggs and dairy products.
SIMPLE ABSTINENCE: Thisforbids the use of meat on all Wednesdays & Fridays during the Great fast but allows eggs and dairy products.
LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:
This year, following all Wednesday Pre-Sanctified liturgies at Infant Jesus of Prague, there will be again, a Lenten adult education class. All parishioners, family and friends are welcomed to learn about our Byzantine faith. Classes begin Wednesday, February 14th.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of February 4-10, 2024 the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Nicholas Terlecky from his son Myron Terlecky. The left sanctuary candle is for the special intentions of Barb Benedict.
Inherit the Kingdom.
Chrysostom: He commended them for doing what was right. He reveals how great is his bond of love for them and has been from the beginning. “Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.'” To what other blessedness could this blessedness be compared? To be blessed of the Father! Why were they counted worthy of such a great honor? “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink.” What honor! What blessedness!
He did not say “take” but “inherit” as one’s own, as your Father’s, as yours, as due to you from the first. “For before you were,” he says, “these things had been prepared and made ready for you, because I knew you would be such as you are.” the gospel of Matthew, homily 79.2.
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