Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 10: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

           +Clement Smreck from

           Goddaughter Elaine Chachko

Sun. 11: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

           2^nd Sunday of Pentecost

           Health, happiness & many

           Blessed years Jennifer

           Vasilchek from Mickey

           Vasilchek

 Mon. 12: NO LITURGY

Tues. 13: NO LITURGY

Wed. 14: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 15: NO LITURGY

Fri. 16: NO LITURGY

Sat. 17: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

           +Marian Dzurnak from the

           Boughner family

Sun. 18: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

           3^rd Sunday after Pentecost

           Father’s Day

           +Clement Smreck from

           Margaret Swansiger

Collection Report

Week of 06/4/2023

$                1634.00    Offertory

$                  535.00    Maintenance Fund

$                    30.00    Holy Days

$                    66.61    Utility Offerings

$                  186.00    Knights of Columbus

$                    55.00    Votive Candles

$                    20.00    Peter’s Pence

$                2576.61    TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 29

Sunday: 72

ON LINE: 7-Saturday; N/A-Sunday

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, please notify Fr. Michael or Paula.

ANNIVERSARY BOOKS:

Our 50^th 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 Sunday, July 2 at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

The Simply Slavic Heritage Fest will be Friday, June 16^th from 5:00pm- 11:00pm and Saturday, June 17^th from 12:00 (noon) – 11:00pm on Federal Plaza east in downtown Youngstown. Admission is $5.00 and children 12 years old and younger are free.  The event will include live music, folk dance performers, homemade ethic food, ethnic vendors and much more.

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

SANCTUARY CANDLES:

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

For the week of June 11-17, the left sanctuary candle for the health & well-being of Ryan Merrill and the right sanctuary candle is for the health & well-being of Laurie Burd. Both candles are given by Joyce & Tom Lesko.

How Jesus called His first disciples.

Chrysostom: “And they left their nets, and fol­lowed him.” And yet John (the Evangelist) says that they were called in a different way. From this it is evident that this was a second call. One may conclude this from several evidences. For there it is said that they came to him when “John had not yet been thrown into prison” but here it says after he was in confinement. And there Andrew calls Peter, but here Jesus calls both. On the one hand, John says, “Jesus saw Simon com­ing and said, ‘You are Simon, the Son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas, which is translated Peter.'”On the other hand, Matthew says that he was already called by that name, for he says,

“Seeing Simon who was called Peter.” … In the other instance, Andrew is seen coming into his house and hearing many things. But here, having heard one brief call, they both followed immediately. When they earlier had seen that John was in prison and that Jesus was withdrawing, it would not have been unnatural for them to return again to their own craft, fishing, having followed him at the beginning and then later having left him to fish. Accordingly, you now see that Jesus finds them actively fishing. But he neither resisted them at first when they desired to withdraw from him, nor having withdrawn themselves, did he let them go altogether. He gave way when they moved aside from him and came again to win them back. This, after all, is exactly what fishing is all about. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 14.M