April 30, 2023 Bulletin
LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 29: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
+Michael Hritz Jr. from
John Hritz
Sun. 30: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Sunday of the Paralytic Man
+Peter Kasper from family
Mon. 1: NO LITURGY
Tues. 2: NO LITURGY
Wed. 3: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 4: NO LITURGY
Fri. 5: 8:30 am @ Infant Jesus
For the Living & Deceased
Members of the Sacred Heart
Society of St. Nicholas
Sat. 6: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
+Marian Dzurak from family
Sun. 7: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Sunday of the Samaritan
Woman
Living & Deceased Members
Of the Altar & Rosary Society
Of Infant Jesus of Prague
Collection Report
Week of 04/23/2023
$ 1385.00 Offertory
$ 200.00 Easter
$ 105.00 Holy Day
$ 23.00 Votive Candles
$ 15.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 1728.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 23
Sunday: 92
ON LINE: 6
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.
ANNIVERSARY BOOKS:
Our 50th Anniversary are available to purchase for $15-please see Fr. Michael to purchase. Those who generously donated and receive a free book, please see Fr. Michael or Paula Slemons.
ROSARY:
The Altar & Rosary Society will be praying the rosary THIS Sunday, May 7th at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.
RUMMAGE SALE:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 2140 Highland Road, Hermitage is having a Rummage & Bake Sale. The event will be held on Thursday, May 4th from 4:00pm-7:00 pm; Friday, May 5th from 9:00 am-2:00 pm and Saturday, May 6th from 9:00 am-1:00 pm. Household items, clothing, toys, books, furniture and more are available.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of April 30-May 6 there are no intentions.
THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE PARALYTIC,
CHRYSOSTOM: The perseverance of the paralytic was astonishing. He was thirty-eight years old, and each year he hoped to be freed from his disease. He lay there waiting, never giving up. If he had not persevered as much as he did, wouldn’t his future prospects, let alone the past, have been enough to discourage him from staying around that place? Consider how alert the other sick people there would be, since no one knew for sure when the waters would be troubled. The lame and the limping could observe it, but how would a blind man? Maybe he learned it from the clamor that arose. Let us be ashamed then, beloved, let us be ashamed and groan over our excessive laziness. That man had been waiting thirty-eight years without obtaining what he desired, and he still did not withdraw. And he failed, not through any carelessness of his own but through being oppressed and suffering violence from others. And still he did not give up. We … might persist in prayer for something for ten days or so, and if we have not obtained it, we are too lazy afterwards to employ the same energy [as he did]. And yet, we will wait forever on our fellow human beings, fighting and enduring hardships, performing menial labor, all for the chance of something that in the end fails to meet our expectations. But when it comes to our Master, from whom we are sure to obtain a reward greater than our labors … we exercise no such diligence in waiting on him…. For even if we receive nothing from him, isn’t the very fact that we are able to converse with him continually the cause often thousand blessings? HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 36.1-2.16
CHRIST IS RISEN!
INDEED HE IS RISEN!
CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!
VOISTINU VOSKRESE!
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