Today we celebrate the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The Readings from the Ordinary Time lead us to understand the real price of our faith. We are thinking that our efforts are great, but when we look at the first age of the Church, 2000 years ago; we realize that they really struggle for the faith in Jesus Christ. The beatitudes by St. Luke are the focus on the faith which is the very important matter on the world. We hear from Jesus that we will be blessed when we are in the worse part of the society when for the sake of Jesus we are there. We can spend a lot of money and a lot of our forces for the name of Jesus and after that we will have the reward in the heavenly Bank.
The Eucharist is like the viewing of our heavenly account: we see the amount which we can spend for others, we also see the deficit of our good deeds. The beatitudes are the essence of our faith but also the test of it.
Holy Masses
February 17, 2019 – 6th Ordinary Sunday
HC 10:00 AM for ++ Walter & Helen Novak from Theresa Wiatrowski
February 24, 2019 – 7th Ordinary Sunday
HC 10:00 AM for ++William Rachuba from Diane Robertson
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.
Announcements
- The annual meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish will be conducted Sunday, February 24, 2019, right after 10:00AM Mass.
The business of an annual meeting of the Parish shall be to receive reports of the Parish Committee, Committees and Pastor; regulate and confirm the salary of the Pastor and the salaries and wages of its employees, elect Parish Committee members and members of the Parish Tribunal (which election may be conducted prior to the annual meeting); adopt resolutions and make enactments necessary for the welfare and development of the Parish. No resolution or enactment shall be adopted or made which shall be in conflict with the Constitution and Laws of this Church.
(The Constitution and Laws of the Polish National Catholic Church Art. VII D. The Parish Meeting SECTION 2.)
- Evangelization is in no small part about accessibility. Make your parish accessible; make the extra effort. Like the young Samuel, let your first priority be a basic one: Open the temple doors.
- The Incarnation tells us the most important truth about ourselves: we are destined for divinization. The church fathers never tired of repeating this phrase as a sort of summary of Christian belief: God became human so that humans might become God. (Robert Barron – Catholicism)
- My Warmly Thank You to all of the people who remember of me and my family by the presents and the donations. Be sure that you are in my prayers before the Alter.
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