Today we celebrate the 28^th Sunday in Ordinary Time and the feast of the Christian Family. Our daily lives are always around Family. For more people the family is at the first place in the life. The ideal of the Family is the Christian Family and we have to find the way for it if we want to have perfect family. The big Christian Family is simply the Church who has the own father which is God the Father and own – Mother Blessed Mary and own brothers and sisters where Jesus Christ is our first and perfect brother. For that family we have to make thanks first of all to our parents these on earth and these in heaven, that they introduced us to the Church.

The Eucharist is the thanksgiving to God our Father for all the blessings which he was and is giving to us. We thank for our lives, we thank for our parents, we thank for our children and grandchildren. Every time the Mass is good opportunity to make these thanks, and I encourage you to do this follow the example of the leper from today’s Gospel.

Holy Masses

October 13, 2013 – 28^th Ordinary Sunday

10:00 AM – for + Jo Ann Brukiewa (mother of Melody) from Theresa Repede

October 20, 2013 – 29^th Ordinary Sunday

10:00 AM – for all parishioners, living or dead

October 27, 2013 – 30^th Ordinary Sunday

10:00 AM – for all parishioners, living or dead

Announcements

–  My warmly Thank you to all people (Theresa, Mary, Don, Christine, Byron, Denice, Tom, John, Dawn, Maddie, Chris, Ewa, Anna, Agnieszka, Patryk) who helped us last weekend on the Flea Market and around. We did great job. I think that God helps all people who are praying, working etc. for His Holy Church.

-  Really thank you to Bill and Diane Family for repair the elevator second time and put the new ceiling in men’s room. God bless you.

-  The Polish Dinner is coming. Nov 17 is the date for it. Please make some first note to your relatives, friends and neighbors. We need this year better publicity about it.

-  As the members of our Church we are responsible for our past and future and we will pray and look for new active members of our Community of Holy Cross Church in Baltimore, MD.

-  Do you have anyone of any reason (for example: someone in Hospital) or life event you would like to pray for – Please ask and see Fr. Andrew.

-  On Saturday Oct 26, 2013 at 12:00 PM the Seniorate Meeting will held in Lawrenceville, NJ.

 Welcome Our Visitors

We welcome all our visitors who are present with us for worship this Sunday! Please introduce yourself to the Pastor after Mass. Please write your names in the guest book located in the vestibule of the church. Please remember that you are always welcome to join us in worship at Holy Cross Church.

Reflections

1. The story of the ten lepers raises one question “Why the other nine lepers did not return to give thanks and praise to Jesus?” Try to search in your heart to come up with an answer.
2. Thanksgiving is a dominant note in Jesus’ prayers. You can see the joy in the Samaritan leper and the salvation he has gained. Have you experienced the joy and the salvation whenever you say thanks or praises to the Lord?
3. Glorifying God is a way to say thanks to Him. A Marian gratitude filled with wonder “The Mighty One has done great things for me and Holy His Name” is a good example to follow. How often do you praise God for what He has done for you, including the ones you appreciated and the ones you did not expected to happen?

One Main Point

Glorifying God is a way to say thanks to Him. Gratitude is itself an act of faith. The salvation the Samaritan leper has gained from his act of faith is clearly more than his physical healing.