Liturgical Schedule
Sat. 28: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 29: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
14th Sunday after Pentecost
Beheading of John the
Baptist
+Edward Halus from Rose
Bonamase
Mon. 30: NO LITURGY
Tues. 31: 8:15 am @ Infant Jesus
Divine Liturgy for peace from
Mrs. Sekerak
Wed. Sept. 1: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 2: 8:15 am @ Infant Jesus
+Millie Klanica from family
Fri. 3: 8:15 am @ Infant Jesus
For an increase in religious vocations from Sacred Heart Society of St. Nicholas
Sat. 4: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Julia Fabian from Maria &
Ed Tirpak
Sun. 5: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
15th Sunday after Pentecost
+Ann Malys from Mary Jane
Backus
Collection Report
Week of 8/22/2021
$ 596.00 Offertory
$ 10.00 Holy Day/Thanksgiving
$ 10.00 Renovation
$ 500.00 Sheely’s Fund
$ 140.00 Candles
$ 1256.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 24
Sunday: 24
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS: Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Anne Planey at Assumption Village, Paul Fabian -Windsor House, Mary and Nicholas Dobus, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd., Mary Jane Guidos at Shepard of the Valley in Liberty, Catherine Ulrich all 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 we have collected is $85,695.77 for the Capital Campaign. We continue to work towards our goal of $200, 000. Thank you for your generous donations and continued support to our Church.
LITURGY REQUEST:
If a liturgy or sanctuary candle is requested for a specific date, please contact Paula Slemons @ (330) 799-5983 to ensure the date. All money can still be deposited into the collection basket. Any question, please feel free to contact Paula.
There will be blessing of the students by Father Michael after each Divine Liturgy for all school age and college students. Let us start the school year with this special blessing.
ECF CLASSES:
ECF classes will begin Tuesday, September 21, 2021 for all school aged children K-12th grade. Classes will remain on-line with short meetings following Sunday liturgies. Please contact Fr. Michael to sign -up. This is a wonderful opportunity for our children to learn the Byzantine faith and meet children of our parish with wonderful teachers Mary Sinowski and Francine Stanko
CHINESE AUCTION:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, Campbell, is having their annual 3-Tier Chinese Auction on Sunday, September 12, 2021 in their church hall on Robinson Road. Admission is $7.00 & includes 25 tier-one tickets & lunch. Doors open at NOON and drawings begin at 2:00 pm. Great prizes, gifts certificates and theme baskets all waiting to be won.
LITURGICAL TIMES:Please note that the WEEKDAY ONLY liturgical times have changed to 8:15 am and will be at Infant Jesus of Prague unless otherwise noted.
MOUNT MACRINA PILGRIMAGE:
Mont Macrina will have its 87th Annual Pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Sunday, September 5, 2021. Pilgrims will be asked to wear masks when entering indoor shrines, as well as buildings such as the Religious Gift Shop, House of Prayer, restroom facilities etc. For more information, please visit sistersofstbasil.org.
LITURGY OFFERING
Suggested Liturgy offering will now be a $20 throughout the Metropolitan Church in Pittsburgh as decided by the Council of Hierarchs.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intention. The right sanctuary candle is for special intentions from Kevin & Karen Vrabel family. This was requested for last week; however, the candles were already taken. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.
Invitation to the feast. Gregory The Great: First we must ask whether this lesson in Matthew is what Luke describes as a dinner, since some details appear inconsistent. Here it is a midday meal, there a dinner; here the one who came to the marriage feast improperly dressed was cast out, and there none of those said to have entered is shown to have been cast out. From Matthew we can infer that in this passage the marriage feast represents the church of the present time, and the dinner in Luke represents the final and eternal banquet. Some who enter the one will leave it, but no one who has once entered the other will later go out. But if anyone argues that it is the same lesson, I think it better to save the faith and yield to another’s interpretation than to give in to strife. Perhaps we can reasonably take it that Luke kept silent about the man Matthew said came without a marriage garment and was thrown out. That one called it a dinner and the other a midday meal does not stand in the way of my interpretation, because when the ancients took their daily midday meal at the ninth hour it was also called a dinner….
A clearer and safer thing to say is that the Father made a marriage feast for his Son by joining the church to him through the mystery of his incarnation, The womb of the Virgin who bore him was the bridal chamber of this bridegroom, and so the psalmist says, “He has set his tent in the sun, and he is like a bridegroom coming forth from his bridal chamber.” He truly came forth like a bridegroom from his bridal chamber who, as God incarnate, left the inviolate womb of the Virgin to unite the church to himself.
And so he sent his servants to invite his friends to the marriage feast. He sent once, and he sent again, because first he made the prophets and later the apostles preachers of the Lord’s incarnation. He sent his servants twice with the invitation, because he said through the prophets that his only Son’s incarnation would come about, and he proclaimed through the apostles that it had.
Because those who were first invited to the marriage banquet refused to come, he said in his second invitation, “See, I have prepared my meal; my oxen and fattened animals have been slain, and everything is ready.” What do we take the oxen and fattened animals to be but the fathers of the Old and New Testaments? forty gospel homilies 38.1.3-4.
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