March 19, 2023 Bulletin
LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 18: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
4th All Souls Saturday
+Paul Edward Swantek
From Lori Swantek
Sun. 19: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
4th Sunday of the Great Fast
St. John Climacus
+ Leonard Slemons from
Marge & Mike Secora
Mon. 20: NO LITURGY
Tues. 21: NO LITURGY
Wed. 22: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Lenten Education Class to
Follow
Thurs. 23: 10AM at Infant Jesus
Canon of Andrew of Crete
Fri. 24: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Eve of Annuciation of the Theotokos
H&W of Joe Sinowski and Family
Sat. 25: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Annunciation of the Theotokos
+Mary Lynn Smerchansky
From family
Sun. 26: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
5th Sunday of the Great Fast
Synaxis of the Archangel
Gabriel
+Mary Lou Kasper from
Karen & Kathy Kollar
Collection Report
Week of 03/12/2023
$ 2068.00 Offertory
$ 15.00 BCW
$ 25.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 20.00 Holiday Flowers
$ 46.00 Candles
$ 2174.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday:31
Sunday: 50
ON LINE: 7
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Richard Kuty, Pearl Tablack, Nina Zavatsky, Bernie Litwin & Joe Mistovich all at home. Dolores Schurko & Louise Macabobby at Hampton Wood 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.
ROSARY:
The Altar & Rosary Society will be praying the rosary on Sunday, April 2nd at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.
CHILDREN’S EASTER EGG HUNT:
On April 2nd, Palm Sunday, the Altar and Rosary Society is sponsoring the children’s Easter Egg Hunt following 9:00 am Liturgy. All children 14 and under are welcomed to participate. Please sign up on the sheet in the vestibule.
LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:
This year, following all Wednesday Pre-Sanctified liturgies there will be again, a Lenten adult education class. All parishioners, family and friends are welcomed to learn about our Byzantine faith.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS:
The Knights of Columbus are selling charity (raffle) tickets. Tickets are $5.00/ticket with total winnings over $108,000. 100% of all profits will be used for their council’s charities. Please see Fr. Michael for tickets.
SPAGHETTI DINNER:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 405 Robinson Road in Campbell, is having a Dine-In or Take-Out Spaghetti Dinner on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023 from 12:00 (noon)-2:30 pm. Tickets are $12.00 per dinner and children under 10 are $6.00. Please call (330) 770-9213 for guaranteed dinner tickets, walk-ins are also available.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of March 19-25, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Robert & +Donna Vrabel from son Robert. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT
Collegeville Bible Commentary
9:14-29 “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” The healing of the possessed boy is one of the longest miracle stories in Mark’s Gospel (only the expulsion of the demons in 5:1-20 is longer). It is also one of the more detailed stories, becoming a bit complicated in the repetition of some of those details (e.g., in v. 22 the father of the boy tells Jesus what he has already told him in v. 18; the crowd gathers twice within the same story in vv. 15 and 25). Despite its length and detail, there is a very clear and simple message that Mark wishes to convey: Anything is possible to one who trusts (v. 23), and trust is deepened by prayer (v. 29)! Although Jesus is the one who heals the boy (vv. 25-27), it is the father’s profession of faith that Mark holds up for his readers to imitate. Even in the most desperate moments, when prayer and trust seem useless, Jesus invites his followers to go one step further and pray like the boy’s father: “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” (v. 24). Perhaps the alert reader of the Gospel will hear the echoes of Jesus’ message all along (e.g., “Do not be afraid; just have faith” in 5:36; “Please, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps” in 7:28), calling for a persistent and ever more radical trust in him. The same theme will carry over into the following passages, in which the total trust of little children becomes the model of what is needed to take part in the kingdom of God (9:35-37 and 10:13-16).
Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church 