Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church

Liturgical Schedule

Sat  31: 6:00pm at Infant Jesus

              Health & well-being of

              Thomas Urdea from family

Sun. Sept 1: 12^th Sunday after Pentecost

9:00 am at Infant Jesus  

Living and Deceased members of the Altar Rosary Society

Mon. 2: 8:30 am at Infant Jesus

            No Liturgy

Tues.  3: 8:30am at Infant Jesus

            +Gerald Dutko from Annette & Ken Stanislaw

 Wed. 4: 8:30 am at Infant Jesus

            + Dorothy Slemons from Bob & Stephanie Sheely  

Thurs 5: 8:30am at Infant Jesus                            

          +Janice Salcedo from anonymous             

Fri. 6: 8:30 am at Infant Jesus

           + Sacred Heart Society of St. Nicholas

Sat  7: 6:00pm at Infant Jesus

              For the Parishioners 

Sun. 8: Sunday Before the exaltation of the cross, Birth of the Theotokos

9:00 am at Infant Jesus  

+Thomas Hritzo from anonymous

 

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES

Happy Anniversary to: Rae & Sam Fisher August 3^rd, Paul & Mary Kasper 4^th, Gene & Sharon Mulichak August 17^th, Michael & Kelly Chachko August 22^nd, Ken & Bernie Litwin August 22^nd, Joseph & Mary Ellen Hritz August 28^th.

Happy Birthday to: George Phillabaun August 1st, Mary Ellen Hritz August 4^th, Monica Ripple August 5, Maryna Farynets 8^th, Joan Sutton August 10^th, Francine Stanko August 11^th , Christine Valko August 13^th,  Chris Chachko August 17^th,

Katie Weton 18^th, Sophia Rivera 23^rd, Ray Fisher August 31^st.

Collection Report

Week of 08/25/2019

$          1,579.00               Offertory

$             180.00               Holy day

$               94.00               Candles

$         250.00            Maintenance Fund in Memory of Janice Salcedo

$               90.00                Maintenance fund

$          2,193.00              TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 35

Sunday: 75

ATTENTION PARISHIONERS: All bulletin announcements should be sent to Paula Slemons. Please call (330)799-5983 with any information to be put in the bulletin by Wednesday of that week. Thank you very much.

 

Announcements and information

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

Ken & Bernie Litwin, Richard Kuty, Margaret Arvin, Pearl Tablack and Patricia Flaherty all  at home,  Sophie Cimino at Omni West Assisted Living, Thomas Urdea at Shepard of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd, Louise Macabobby at Hampton Woods, and the rest of our parishioners who are in nursing homes.  May God grant to all the sick of our parish many blessed, happy and healthier years.

ATTENTION:

If any parishioner or family member is ill & would like to be on the pray list, or receive get-well wishes, call Karen or Kathy Kollar @330-726-8597.

ROSARY:

Reminder, that every first Sunday of the month, the Altar Rosary Society prays the rosary at 8:30am before the Divine Liturgy. All parishioners are welcome.  

CARPATHO_RUSYN VATRA:

The Rusyn and Slovak picnic will be held on September 7, 2019 on our church grounds. The kitchen opens at 12:00 pm and will be serving pirohy, stuffed cabbage, cabbage and noodles, Kielbasi & sauerkraut and bacon fry (Slanina).  Admission is free and all are welcomed.

LADY OF FATIMA STATUE:

St. Michael’s Byzantine Catholic church in Campbell, will host the visitation of the famous National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima on October 10. St Michael’s is located at 463 Robinson Road, Campbell, OH. Everyone is invited to see and pray before the statue. Additional details are forthcoming.

CHINESE AUCTION:

St Michael’s Byzantine Catholic Church will hold their 43^rd annual Chinese Auction on Sunday, October 6 at their center-2140 Highland Road, Hermitage, Pa. Doors open at 1:00 pm and drawing is at 2:15 pm. Admission is $5.00 which includes lunch& 1 FREE sheet. Extra tear sheets are 7 for $5.00.

50^th ANNIVERSARY-2020 :

The 50^th Anniversary celebration of Infant Jesus of Prague in 2020 was discussed this past week at the Byzantine Social Club meeting. It has been decided it will be held in June 2020 and that a banquet following Liturgy with Bishop William will be planned. We would love all parishioners to join in and help organize and if anyone has any pictures or information of the history of our church to please see Father Michael or Mickey Vasilchek. Let’s make this a wonderful event!!!!!

BLESSING OF THE STUDENTS:

Blessing of the students will be held next weekend following g each liturgy. All students, preschool through college, are invited to receive a blessing for this coming school year.

MAINTENANCE UPDATE:  

J C M contracting has completed the update of changing our septic system and connecting to the sewer system. The total cost is $22,647.00. Again, we thank all parishioners for their contributions to the maintenance fund which helped defray this cost.

SANCTUARY CANDLES:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. Both Sanctuary candles this week are in memory of +Janice Salcedo from her family. (We miss you Jan!)