Today we celebrate the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time and also the Veteran’s Day. We are coming to the end of the liturgical year 2022. The next Sunday 34th will be the last Sunday of that year.
In the liturgical year as in our own life the things are going to the end. The right understanding of those things is the good and comfortable situations for us, because we are not surprised by it on the last day. One matter from those things is the sense of our faith which is the worship of God in the Church. We ask ourselves that these things have really sense for us and eternity. The response is yes if we do it in the Spirit and in the truth.
The Eucharist is that kind of service in Spirit and in truth when we come to that service not as our Sunday obligation but as our visible expression of our daily faith. To that service we don’t need the big cathedral or the nice comfortable church building we need only the group of the people who really love each other
Holy Masses
Nov. 13, 2022 – 33rd Ordinary Time Sunday
10:00 AM – for +Peggy Krieger from Timothy Ratajczak
Nov. 20, 2022 – Christ the King
10:00 AM – for healing for David Macek from Jenny Macek
Announcements
- On Sunday Nov. 20, 2022 we will have the Polish Holiday Food Sale in our Hall from 12pm till 5pm.
- 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.
- 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
- Thank you for your donations to the Cemetery Care Fund and All Souls Day prayer. God bless you.
- Like us on Facebook and give hint of it to your relative and friends. Share the Good News about our Church.
- In fact, it sometimes happens that the whole tone and atmosphere of a person’s life of prayer – a certain emphasis on solitude or on sacrifice or on asceticism or on apostolic radation – is provided by elements in the subconscious mind. For the subconscious mind is a storehouse of images and symbols, I mihgt almost say of “esperiences” which provides us with more than half the material of what we acuually esperience as “life”.(Thomas Merton – No Man is an Island)
Unless I am on my knees I cannot live in His love.
(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
- ur Vietnamese martyrs, to ascertain that God was always with them. When they were tortured and when they were awaiting death, Most of us are very scared when talking of the end of the world. Have you ever thought “the end is indeed ended when you turn you back to God?” Go back to your own world and reflect this question.
- Compare the phrase “…they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name”
with the phrase “It will lead to your giving testimony.”
Have you experienced these challenges? Ask yourself a question on how you can bear witness to God in your daily life.
One Main Point
Persevering in a state of grace to the end in spite of difficulties and persecution leads to eternal salvation.