LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 19: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Paula Angelo from Tyler &
Arica Hardgrove
Sun. 20: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Mon. 21: NO LITURGY
Tues. 22: NO LITURGY
Wed. 23: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 24: NO LITURGY
Fri. 25: NO LITURGY
Sat. 26: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 27: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 10/13/2024
$ 930.00 Offering
$ 25.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 81.00 Garage Rental
$ 123.00 Candles
$ 1159.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday:24
Sunday:19
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Volsko- Briarfield Manor, Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, 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 $138,769.90 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 any requests. Money can be deposited in the weekend collection.
LITURGICAL REQUESTS:
We have not been receiving liturgical requests. Please send your liturgical request envelopes into the collection basket or call Paula Slemons.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of October 20-26, + Nicholas and Mary Dubos
St. Gregory Palamas, Homily Eighteen paragraph. 15, The Homilies Vol. 1; St.
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Matt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion? What good did calling Abraham his father do to that rich man frying in the unquenchable flame for his pitilessness towards Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)? What use was his apparent obedience to the invitation to that man who had failed to acquire through good works a garment fitting for the divine wedding and the bridal chamber of immortality? He was invited and approached because he clearly believed, and he sat down alongside those holy guests, but when he was convicted and put to shame for being clothed in depraved habits and deeds, he was mercilessly bound hand and foot, and cast into hellfire, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 22:11-14).
22nd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
The parables are intended to make us think and reflect. In the one we have just heard, two people lived side by side, a rich man in his great house and a poor man at the gate of the house. Yet, there was a chasm between them; whereas the poor man looked towards the rich man for scraps, the rich man did not look towards the poor man but ignored him. The parable seems to be challenging us not to let a chasm to develop between us and those who, although physically close to us, live in a very different world to the one we inhabit.
“Mr Rich — for he is often called “Divés” (Latin for “Rich”) — lived in his own priveleged world and made no effort to care for or to understand the plight of the beggar at his gate. We can all insulate ourselves in our own little worlds. The Lord challenges us to enter the world of the other and let the other to enter our world. That, in a sense, is what Jesus himself did. He entered our world and invites us to enter his world. We can do the same for each other. When we cross the threshold into the world of the other, into the world of those who are very different from us in all kinds of ways, we may discover that we not only have something to give the other but a great deal to receive as well.
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