Sin – 6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Today we celebrate the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time the last one before the Lent Season. We also celebrate the feast of love – St. Valentine’s day very popular for all the people . Tomorrow we will have the President’s Day. Next Wednesday we will have the Ash Wednesday first very important day of Lent season.

The Ordinary Time is for us the basic spiritual guidance of the daily moments of our lives. This Sunday gives us the example of Jesus who heal the leper – the person who was sick with the disease, which was defined as the sickness of the unclean before the God.

Today we are in the Church for the Eucharist. It is like the first step of the leper toward Jesus. We are unclean before God because we have sinned. And he will clean us from our spiritual diseases. Now we have to regard ourselves as a sinful  person and ask God: “If you wish, you can make me clean.” And response of Christ during today’s Mass will be sure: I do will it. Be made clean.

“Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, …
’Be made clean.’”

Holy Masses

February 14, 2021 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

10:00 AM for +Frank Wiatrowski from Theresa Wiatrowski

February 17, 2021 – Ash Wednesday

6:00PM for all parishioners living or death.

February 21, 2021 – 1st Sunday of Lent

10:00 AM for +James L. Otto from James L. Otto Jr.

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 21, 2021, 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.)

  • After Epiphany Feast will be the Pastoral Visit – KolÄ™da and blessing of the homes. Let me know when will be good time for you.
  • Ash Wednesday Mass will be on Wed. Feb. 17, 2021 at 6:00PM. We will start by that the Lent Season.
  • “For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.” (Thomas Merton – No Man is an Island)

One Main Point

Jesus heals me from my sins and restores me to the community.

Reflections

  1. How does my sin, my uncleanness, cut me off from the human community?
  2. How does Jesus restore sinners like me to the community? How do I experience the joy of rejoining the community?
  3. Do I follow Jesus to His quiet place of prayer? What do I experience there?
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