Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 12: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

             2^nd All Souls Saturday

             For the parishioners          

Sun. 13: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

             2^nd Sunday of the Great Fast

             + Don Chachko from Tillie

             Chachko & family

Mon. 14: NO LITURGY

Tues. 15: NO LITURGY

Wed. 16: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

             Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

             Lenten Education Class to

             follow

Thurs. 17: NO LITURGY

 Fri. 18: 6:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

             Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

 Sat. 19: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

             3rd All Souls Saturday

             For the parishioners          

Sun. 20: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

             3^rd Sunday of the Great Fast

             Venerations of the Cross

             + Joseph Kollar from Karen

             & Kathy Kollar

Collection Report

Week of 3/6/2022

$               2331.00          Offertory

$                   50.00          Easter

$                 332.00          Maintenance Fund

$                 385.00          Memory-Olin Sheely

$                 158.51          Utility Offerings

$                 132.00          BCW

$                 520.00          Ukraine Fund

$                   65.00          Easter Flowers

$                 100.00          Candles

$               4073.51          TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 40

Sunday: 65

On Line: 9

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

Richard Kuty, Pearl Tablack, & Patricia Flaherty, & Bernie Litwin all at home. Mary Rotunno at Assumption, Dolores Schurko & 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 @330-272-1857.

50^th ANNIVERSARY BOOK:

As we are continuing to work on the 50^th anniversary book, we are asking for more pictures from 1971 to present of events of Infant Jesus of Prague. Please bring to Father Michael so we can complete and have the book available as soon as possible.

THANK YOU:

A special thank you to Bob& Stephanie Sheely and family for the generous donation of $ 385.00 to the maintenance fund in memory of Bob’s father Olin Sheely.

LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:

This year, following all Wednesday liturgies there will be a Lenten adult education class. All parishioners, family and friends are welcomed to learn about our Byzantine faith.

RUMMAGE SALE:
St. Michael’s Byzantine Catholic Church, Hermitage, Pa is holding a rummage sale on Thursday, March 31^st from 4:00-7:00pm,Friday, April 1^st from 9;00 am-2:00pm and Saturday , April 2^nd from 9:00 am-noon. $ 2.00/bag and bake sale included.

HEARTFELT THANK YOU!

We humbled and grateful for a huge support for Ukraine in a light of recent war with Russia. So far, we received $3310.00 of generous donations from both parishes. From behalf of all people who suffers from war in Ukraine we would like to thank you for your support and prayers!

SANCTUARY CANDLES:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of March 13-19 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Helen & +Joseph Pavlov Jr. from Mary Beth Hayer and Janice & David Hartzell. There is no request from the right sanctuary candle.

Gregory Palamas

The scion of a noble Anatolian family, St. Gregory was born, probably at Constantinople, c. 1296. After his father’s death, he became a monk, as did several members of his family. He entered a monastery on Mt. Athos and followed the rule of St. Basil. He lived on Athos in solitude for most of the following twenty years. In the 1330’s, he began to defend the practice of hesychasm against the attacks of people like Barlaam of Calabria, who denied, among other things, that the light of Tabor which hesychasts experience is the uncreated light. Athough the 1341 council of Constantinople upheld Gregory’s teachings about theosis, he was excommunicated in 1344. Three years later, he was consecrated bishop of Thessaloniki. Because hesychasm had come to have political as well as theological associations, the choice was not popular, and he entered his see with the aid of the Byzantine emperor. The Turks captured Gregory in 1354 and kept him captive for a year. He died in 1359.

Gregory believes that although God is ultimately unknowable, man can experience his energies through the sacraments and mystical experience, which are possible because of the Incarnation of Christ. The practice of the Jesus prayer opens one to God’s energies.