Today we celebrate the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time and the feast of the Christian Family in our PNC Church.
Our daily lives are always around the 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 Virgin 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 Samaritan leper from today’s Gospel.
Holy Masses
Oct. 9, 2022 – 28th Ordinary Sunday
10:00 AM for healing of Mary Ann Frank from Timothy Ratajczak
October 16, 2022 – 29th Ordinary Sunday
10:00 AM – for +Peggy Kriegier from Jenny Macek
Announcements
- The Polish Feast is next Sunday Oct. 16. From 12 – 6 pm. Please note it to your relatives, friends and neighbors.
- 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.
- Please check the Blog of our web site: www.holycrosspncc.org
- 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.
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Since all true art lays bare the action of this same law in the depths of our own nature, it makes us alive to the tremendous mystery of being, in which we ourselves, together with all other living and existing things, come forth from the depths of God and return again to Him. An art that does not produce something of this is not worthy of its name.(Thomas Merton – No Man is an Island)
The XXVI General Synod of PNCC will be held October 18-21, 2022 in Scranton, PA. Please pray for participants.
Am I spending time in His presence? Everything depends on this.
(Andrew Murray – Treasures of Wisdom )
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
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.