LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 15: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For all Fathers of our Parishes
Sun. 16: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
4th Sunday after Pentecost
Father’s Day
For the parishioners
Mon. 17: NO LITURGY
Tues. 18: NO LITURGY
Wed. 19: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 20: NO LITURGY
Fri. 21: NO LITURGY
Sat. 22: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 23: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
5th Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 06/09/2024
$ 832.00 Offering
$ 15.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 10.00 Sanctuary candles
$ 25.00 Garage rental
$ 3.00 Children
$ 141.00 Candles
$ 1036.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 19
Sunday: 25
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 $137,138.90 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.
OUT OF TOWN:
Father Michael will be out of town June 17-21. For an emergency, please contact him on his cell phone @ 412-722-4670
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.
CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:
The annual Celebration of Marriage will be held on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at St. Elias Church. All parishioners who are celebrating their wedding anniversaries of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiple of 5 during this year of 2024 will be honoured. If you are unable to attend, certificates will be sent. Please notify Paula Slemons or Fr. Michael by July14th to relay your information to the Chancery.
LITURGICAL REQUESTS:
We have not been receiving liturgical requests in the past years. Please send your liturgical request envelopes into the collection basket or call Paula Slemons for a specific date of your intention.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY:
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 16-22 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Edward Vrabel from the Graneto & Vrabel families. Right sanctuary candle – All our Fathers.
FATHER’S DAY
By St. Clement of Alexandria – The Teacher, I, 9 (PG8, 340)
The Word that Hurts but Heals
The word of Wisdom exhorts us thus: ‘Have you sons? Discipline them and break them in from their earliest years. Have you daughters? See that they are chaste, and do not be too lenient with them.’ [Ecclus. 7:23-24] It is true that we love our own children very much, more than anything else. But those who speak only gentle words to them are in fact loving the children they are afraid of hurting only a little. On the other hand, those who correct them strictly are hurting them today but doing them good for the future. Our Lord did not seek what is comfortable today for us. Rather he sought for us a good future. So let us follow his educational method inspired by love. This admonition is a loving reproof that enlightens the mind. Christ our teacher had recourse to it when, for example, he said: ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!’ [Matt. 23:37] Reproof may be made with contempt. Reproof may be made with vehemence, as a violent censure. But reproof may be made to lay bare sins. This is the kind of correction the Lord is constrained to use because in so many people faith has evaporated. Reproof and correction hurt the soul that they heal of its faults. But they keep the death of the soul at bay.
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