1st SUNDAY OF LENT

/ From the Pastor, Parish Life / By

Today we celebrate the 1st Sunday of Lent. The Lent Season is the time of joyful preparation for the feast of Easter, which is the anticipation of our own Resurrection.

Therefore, Lent is the time for preparation. During that season we use purple color as a typical color of the penance. We omit the Gloria and the Alleluia word during the Mass /to hear the full Glory and the Joyful Alleluia on Easter Sunday. We don’t have the flowers in the Sanctuary and some other decorations to better concentrate on the essence of our celebration.

the Greek Orthodox Christian Monastery of the Temptation

The Lent is also the time when we concentrate on our own integrity as a person who is both spiritual and physical. By the deeds of Lent which are: fast, almsgiving and prayer we are looking in our inside /to find our communion with God, to find our private sanctuary between us and God.

Each Eucharist is the remembrance of the Paschal Mystery of Easter. Every time when we celebrate the Mass we go in the deepest Secret of our Faith which are the suffering, Death, and Resurrection of our Master Jesus Christ.

“Jesus said… ‘ You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.’”

Holy Masses

March 06, 2022  – 1st Sunday Lent.

HC 10:00 AM for health and God’s blessing upon Jasper Moffitt (5 months old) from Dorothy Marcinko

March 13, 2022  – 2nd Sunday Lent.

HC 10:00 AM for ++ Mary Rybak Groah from Marianna & David Frederick

Announcements

  • We start the Lent. In that season we learn more about the power of fasting, praying and almsgiving. These are three great works of charity which can help us to prepare ourselves for Resurrection of our Lord and our own resurrection.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • One of the most important functions of the life of prayer is to deepen and strengthen and develop our moral conscience. The growth of our psychological conscience, although secondary is not without importance also. The psychological conscience has its place in our prayer, but prayer is not the place for its proper development. (Thomas Merton – No Man is an Island)
  • Thank you to all donors and sponsors for support of our Church. – God bless you.
  • Please check the Blog of our web site: www.holycrosspncc.org

Meditate Station of the Cross this week:

  1. Jesus is Condemned to Death – Jesus, help me to sin no more and to be obedient.

2. Jesus Bears His Cross – Jesus let me suffer for me and sinners in union with You.

One Main Point

Jesus’ victory over the devil. Luke presents Jesus precisely as the kind of person John the Baptizer predicted: the “more powerful one” (3:16)

Reflections

  1. What have you found most helpful in Jesus’ victory over temptation?
  2. If the Devil could identify your three greatest weaknesses, what would they be?
  3. In your prayer, be with Jesus, imagine His physical weakness and His strong determination to obey His Father’s will.
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