Today we celebrate the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. In that time, we have a big opportunity to realize in ourselves: what is the sense of our faith; does our prayers, our worships, our coming to the church for mass really work for us and our salvation?
Today’s Gospel gives us the two examples of the people who came to the temple for the prayer: the Pharisee and the tax collector. These two attitudes are mixed in our spiritual life. The good direction for our life is: when the attitudes of the tax collector who is modest, humble and knows his sinfulness win in us. After this we can get the reconciliation and peace in our life.
The Eucharist is the time when we don’t brag about our high status. Simply we come before the alter, we make confession of our sins, we hear the Word of God, we praise God in Liturgy of the Eucharist, and we got the Holy Communion – which is real friendship with Jesus Christ; after this we go to our daily lives and proclaim the Kingdom of God around us.
Holy Masses
Oct. 23, 2022 – 30th Ordinary Sunday
10:00 AM for healing of Rebecca Krieger from Jenny Macek
October 30, 2022 – All Saints and All Souls day celebration
10:00 AM – for all people recommended in the Remembrances 2022
Announcements
- My warmly Thank you to all people who helped us on the Polish Feast and around it. We did great job. The Feast was well done. The all visitors were very glad about the food and warm welcome. They see our Church as a friendly community, and this is nice. I think that God first of all helps all people who are praying and working together for His Holy Church.
- 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
- Anyone, who is wishing to submit the names of departed (All Souls Day Remembrance – “WYPOMINKI“) and to be read and prayed for at our All-Souls Day Services (on 1st and 3rd Sunday of November), there are asked to return the envelope with the names which was sent to your homes or is in the vestibule of our church.
- The Holy Mass for All Saints will be on Sunday Oct. 30, at 10:00 AM as usual. The Procession at our Holy Cross Cemetery at 7110 German Hill Road, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, Oct. 30 at 12:00PM. We pray for The Commemoration Of All The Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
- Like us on Facebook and give hint of it to your relative and friends. Share the Good News about our Church.
- It would be a great mistake to turn the interior life into a psychological experiment and make our prayer the object of psychoanalysis. It it is true and valid prayer, it needs no such analysis. But note that I have said if: for if it is not true prayer, it might very well benefit from analysis..(Thomas Merton – No Man is an Island)
- Thank you for the prayers in intention of the XXVI General Synod of PNCC in Scranton, PA.
O that I would take time daily in His presence to drink in His love.
(Andrew Murray – Treasures of Wisdom )
Welcome Our Visitors
Reflections
- What does “being faithful to the covenant relationship with God” mean for me? Am I faithful to that relationship? What helps? (Consider the liturgy of the Eucharist; the Jesus prayer, “Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me”; prayers before meals; prayers at bed time and at dawn)
- To what extent am I proudly self-sufficient without God? Does my culture encourage this?
- Whom do I think I am superior to? Who is the “tax collector” in my eyes?
One Main Point
Righteousness comes from being faithful to the covenant relationship with God, through which God justifies us.