LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 8: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 9: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Mon. 10: NO LITURGY
Tues. 11: NO LITURGY
Wed. 12: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 13: NO LITURGY
Fri. 14: NO LITURGY
Sat. 15: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 16: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
4th Sunday after Pentecost
Father’s Day
For the parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 06/02/2024
$ 519.00 Offering
$ 95.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 5.00 Holy Day
$ 88.00 Candles
$ 707.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 20
Sunday: 14
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Volsko- Briarfield Manor, 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 $124,718.90 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.
SIMPLY SLAVIC:
Simply Slavic Heritage Festival will be held in downtown Youngstown on Friday-June 14th from 5:00pm-11:00 pm and Saturday, June 15th from 12:00 (noon)-11:00 pm. Admission is $5.00. Children under 12 years old and younger are free. The event will include live music, homemade ethnic food, folk dance performances and more. This year also has the pivski, a European outdoor beer garden. Come and celebrate Youngstown’s Slavic community.
SACRED HEART SWOCIETY:
June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!
Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2024. Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:
Treasurer Mary Jane Backus @
5645 Clingan Road, Unit 23-A
Struthers, Ohio 44471
New members are always welcome!!
Jesus, I trust in you!!!!!
KENYWOOD DAY:
The 2024 GCU Kennywood Day will be held on Thursday, July 25th. Tickets are $27 for ages 4+, ages 3 and under are free. Deadline to order tickets is Wednesday, July 10th, Go to GCUusa.com for tickets.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 9-15 the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Lisa Ferenchak Currao from the Graneto family. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.
Matthew 6:24 God and Mammon
SERVING Two MASTERS:
CHRYSOSTOM: Now Jesus calls mammon here “a master,” not because of its own nature but on account of the wretchedness of those who bow themselves beneath it.1 (According to a line of reasoning daring back to Clement of Alexandria, Chrysostom explains that riches are not evil in their very nature but in the evil use to which they are put, which causes humankind so much unhappiness.) So also he calls the stomach a god, (Phil 3:19.)
not from the dignity of such a mistress but from the wretchedness of those enslaved. To have mammon for your master is already worse itself than any later punishment and enough retribution before the punishment for any one trapped in it. For what condemned criminals can be so wretched as the providence of God, even where we seem to be active, that finally accompanies everything. In the light of God’s providence, none of our cares, anxieties, toils or any other such things will ever come to anything, but all will utterly pass away. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 21.3.
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