LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 26: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 27: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Mon. 28: NO LITURGY
Tues. 29: NO LITURGY
Wed. 30: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 31: NO LITURGY
Fri. 1: 10:00 am @ Infant Jesus
For the Living & Deceased
Members of the Sacred
Heart Society
Sat. 2: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 3: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
24th Sunday after Pentecost
+Charlotte Baiocco from Don
& Kathy Coppola
Collection Report
Week of 10/20/2024
$ 1049.00 Offering
$ 60.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 10.00 Holy Day
$ 72.00 Devotional Candle
$ 75.00 Garage rental
$ 129.00 Candles
$ 1395.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 21
Sunday: 27
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.
RAFFLE TICKETS:
We are selling raffle tickets for the annual St. Nicholas Celebration for the benefit of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril & Methodius. The celebration is planned for Sunday, December 8th. The winning numbers will be based on the PA Lottery Evening Pick 3 drawn on Monday-Wednesday, December 9, 10, & 11, 2024 with cash prizes totalling $2000. Please see Father Michael for tickets.
CHRISTMAS PARTY:
Please mark your calendars-a combined Christmas party with St. Nicholas and Infant Jesus of Prague will be held on Sunday, December 15th at 5:00 pm at the Holiday Inn in Boardman. ALL parishioners are invited. More information will be coming-cost, menu along with a sign-up sheet. Hope to see you there!!!
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of October 27-Nov. 2 the left sanctuary is in memory of +Charlotte Baiocco from Rose Bonamase. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
8:38-39 The Response of the Demoniac
THE DEMONIAC GOES FROM SYNAGOGUE TO CHURCH.
AMBROSE: It says, “The herdsmen saw this and fled.” Neither professors of philosophy nor leaders of the synagogue can offer any cure when people perish. Christ alone takes away the sins of the people, provided they do not refuse to submit to healing. He does not want to cure the unwilling and soon abandon the weak for whom it seems that his presence is a burden, like the peoples of the Gerasene’s. They went out from that country, which appears to be an image of the synagogue, and begged him to depart from them, because they were very afraid…. Why does Christ not accept the healed man but advise him to return home? Perhaps this occurs to avoid a cause of boasting and give an example to unbelievers, although that home may be an inn by nature. Since he received the healing of his mind, Christ commanded him to depart from the tombs and the graves and to return to that spiritual home. He who had in him the grave of the mind became a temple of God. EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 6.50,53
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