22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Today we celebrate the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the divine economy and our regular economy which we practice every day, we have to select not easy matters but more difficult, not cheap things but more expensive because our master Jesus Christ gave us this kind of example.

Jesus in today’s gospel presents us the divine method of reasoning, when he points at the cross and he rebukes Simon Peter for his human opposition in this matter. Today’s world tells us that we have to live without pain, comfortable and smooth. But we do know that in suffering there is something deeply mysterious, valuable and redemptive.

The Eucharistic liturgy, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, is our willing participation in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is our entrance into sharing together in the life of Jesus Christ, a life that took Him through pain, loss, suffering to death, and then finally to resurrection. God is here in the Mass not to bring us rescue, He is here to bring us resurrection.

“You are thinking not as God does, but as humans do.”

Holy Masses

August 30, 2020 – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

10:00 AM for + Marian Bondyra

September 06, 2020 – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

10:00 AM for God’s blessing upon Patrick and Margaret Feehley

Announcements

  1. As the members of our Church we are responsible for our future and we will pray and look for new active members of our Community of Holy Cross in Baltimore, MD.
  2. 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.
  3. MY MISSION: When I am the disciple of Christ and the member of his Church I realize this and participate in all matters which concern Him. The Sunday’s Masses are not my challenge but my privilege and my eternal hope.

During Holy Mass, I was so enveloped in the great interior fire of God’s love and the desire to save souls that I do not know how to express it. I feel I am all aflame. I shall fight all evil with the weapon of mercy. I am being burned up by the desire to save sols. I traverse the world’s length and breadth and venture as far as its ultimate limits and its wildest lands to save souls. I do this through prayer and sacrifice. I want every soul to glorify the mercy of God, for each one experiences the effects of that mercy on himself. (See Diary #745).

Banns

Shackville M. Matadi & Jamie Lee Drown are going to be married on Monday September 7, 2020

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.

One Main Point

As Jesus’ disciples, we all follow his footsteps of denying ourselves, emptying ourselves to receive the Spirit of love, only then can we accept suffering and the death in accordance to the Father’s plan.

Reflections

  1. It has been said that the road to the hell is paved with good intentions. Can you name some of your outstanding successes and their driving forces? Are the motivations plainly human thinking?
  2. What kind of cross are you carrying? How do you carry it? Is there any way to transform suffering into love, love of God and love of one another?
  3. Are you a cross that others have to bear? Why?
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