Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 23: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

             Saturday before Christmas

+Marian Dzurnak from Robert Democko

Sun. 24: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

           Sunday before Christmas-of

           The Ancestors

           Health & well-being of Nancy

           Stanko from Mary & Jerry

           Novak

           7:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

           Christmas Eve

          +Bernadette (Bernie) Litwin

           From Greg & Paula Slemons

Mon. 25: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

          Christmas- Birth of Our Lord

          For the parishioners

Tues. 26: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

           Synaxis of the Theotokos

           For the parishioners

Wed. 27: 10:00 am @ St. Nicholas

           Stephen Protomartyr

           For the parishioners

Sat. 30: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

             Saturday after Christmas

           +Eileen DeNiro from Laura

Sun. 31: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

           Sunday after Christmas-

           David, Joseph and James

           +Mary Lou Kasper from

           Paul & Mary Kasper

Collection Report

Week of 12/17/2023

$                 2288.00   Offertory

$                     25.00   Christmas Flowers

$                   130.00   Holy Day

$                   170.00   Christmas

$                     25.00   Christmas Vigil Lights

$                     65.00   Maintenance Fund

$                     84.00   Candles

$                 2787.00   TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 37

Sunday: 68

ON LINE: 5

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

Pearl Tablack, Nina Zavatsky & Joe Markovitch 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.

ROSARY:

The Altar & Rosary Society will be praying the rosary Sunday, January 7 at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.

READERS & COLLECTORS:

If any parishioner is interested in collecting/counting or reading the epistle please see Father Michael or call Paula Slemons for more information.

CALENDARS:

Our yearly church calendars are available on the glass table in the vestibule. Please feel free to take one for your home.

CHRITMAS FLOWERS:

We greatly appreciate all who donated towards our Christmas flowers in memory of their loved ones. There is a list on the bulletin board in the vestibule.

CHRISTMAS DINNER:

Thank you to Bob & Stephanie Sheely and Gene & Sharon Mulichak for organizing the parish Christmas dinner last Sunday. It was a wonderful evening celebrating the season.

SANCTUARY CANDLE 2024:

The sanctuary candle sheet and envelopes for 2024 are on the vestibule table. Cost for each candle remains $10. As usual, request and money may be put in the collection basket.

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Father Michael, Marina, Andriy, Emma and Nica wish all parishioners, families and friends a very Merry Christmas and all of Gods blessings this holiday season.

SANCTUARY CANDLES:

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

For the week of December 24-30, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Irene & +Joseph Kollar from Karen & Kathy Kollar. The right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mary Mehley from Maureen Krendel.

Mt. 1, 21. And she shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins.

ST. AUGUSTIN. But shall we therefore say that the Holy Spirit is the Father of the man Christ, that as God the Father begot the Word, so the Holy Spirit begot the man? This is such an absurdity, that the ears of the faithful cannot bear it. How then do we say that Christ was born by the Holy Spirit, if the Holy Spirit did not beget Him? Did He create Him? For so far as He is man He was created, as the Apostle speaks; He was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. For though God made the world, yet is it not right to say that it is the Son of God, or born by Him, but that it was made, or created, or formed by Him. But seeing that we confess Christ to have been born by the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, how is He not the Son of the Holy Spirit, and is the Son of the Virgin? It does not follow that whatever is born by anything is therefore to be called the son of that thing; for, not to say that of man is born in one sense a son, in another a hair, or vermin, or a worm, none of which are his son, certainly those that are born of water and the Spirit none would call sons of water, but sons of God their Father, and their Mother the Church. Thus Christ was born of the Holy Spirit, and yet is the Son of God the Father, not of the Holy Spirit.

CHRIST IS BORN!

GLORIFY HIM!

KHRYSTOS RAZHDAYETSA!

SLAVITE YEHO!