Today we celebrate the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. This Sunday focuses on problems of divorce and marriage. We meet these problems very often in our lives or in the lives of our friends. We see the difficulty of people’s lives, when they don’t love themselves and their children.
We call the Family the first Church, because it is the first place where we start to praise the Lord our Father, and we put the first steps on the way to our salvation. When this first Church is collapsing by divorce or some other problems our spiritual life starts to fall, and we feel as the ship without a port.
The Eucharist is the background of our personal relations to God and to our neighbors. Here and now we find help for our daily problems in existence of our family, here and now we regenerate ourselves to the real love – the sacrificial one, which we call agape.
“A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Holy Masses
Oct 6, 2024 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM – for +Theresa Wiatrowski from Bieganowski Family
Oct 13, 2024 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM – for +Thimothy Sakowski from Timothy Ratajczak.
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 Diocesan Synod of Central Diocese PNCC will be October 12, 2024 in Zoom. Please pray for participants.
- A funeral service for +Theresa Wiatrowski will be held at the Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc. 7922 Wise Avenue on Monday October 7, 2024 at 10 AM. Friends may visit on Sunday 2-4 & 6-8 PM. Interment Holy Cross Polish-National Catholic Church Cemetery.
- We will have the Holy Mass intention on Sunday Oct. 6, 2024 at 10 am in our Holy Cross Church on Broadway and the Vigil Service in Funeral Home at 7:15 pm.
- 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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- “We begin the day with prayer and with Mass and we end the day with an hour of Adoration before Jesus. To continuously do and to continuously give needs God’s graces – without them it would be impossible for us to live.” (Mother Teresa – A simple path.)
One Main Point
God, who is Love, defines for us–created in His image–what love is. It is the giving up of one’s self, as in a marriage, “so they are no longer two but one body.” It is the trust and hope present in every child’s heart.
Reflections
- What teachings of Christ am I struggling with right now? Can I trust Him enough to follow His way, even if , currently, I lack understanding?
- Reflecting on my childhood, how happily dependent I was on my parents, and how I eagerly awaited their gifts, I ask God to restore that attitude to me. So that with open heart, I trust His teachings; I trust that they will lead me to my true and everlasting happiness.