Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church

        LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 17: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

          +Paul Jonda from the Walsh

          Family              

Sun. 18: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

          13^th Sunday after Pentecost

          For the parishioners

Mon. 19: NO LITURGY

Tues.20: NO LITURGY

Wed. 21: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 22: NO LITURGY

Fri. 23: NO LITURGY

Sat. 24: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

          For the parishioners

Sun. 25: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

          14^th Sunday after Pentecost

          +Mary Lou Kasper from

          Family

Collection Report

Week of 08/11/2024

$                1723.00   Offering

$                  220.00   Maintenance Fund

$                  175.00   Holy Day

$                    66.00   Candles

$                 2184.00  TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 30

Sunday: 79

On –Line: 4

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

Nina Zavatsky & Joe Markovitch 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 again on Sunday, September 1^st at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.

SISTERS OF ST. BASIL PILGRIMAGE:

Sisters of the Order of St. Basil 90^th Annual Pilgrimage will be held Labor Day Weekend (August 31-Septeber 2) at Mount Macrina in Uniontown, Pa. Seeker of the Lost is this year’s pilgrimage. Please visit their website www.sistersofstbasil.org. for the schedule.

BLESSING OF STUDENTS & TEACHERS:

As the beginning of the school quickly approaching, Fr. Michael will be blessing all students (pre-school-college) and teachers this weekend (August 17-18) after liturgies for those students and teachers who have not been blessed.

BYZANTINE SOCIAL CLUB:

The Byzantine Social Club will be hosting a cookout on Wednesday, August 28^th @ 6:00pm in the church pavilion. Hot dogs, hamburgers and drinks will be provided. Please bring your favorite side dish or dessert to share. ALL PARISHIONERS ARE INVITED. There is a sign-up sheet in the vestibule. Group A is in charge.

100^th ANNIVERSARY OF OUR

BYZANTINE EXACHATE:

The Jubilee Celebration will be held October12-13, 2024 in Washington DC-Annandale, VA More information can be found @ www.byzantine100.com/

CANDLES:

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

For the week of August 18-24, the right sanctuary candle is for the health & well-being of Katie O’Neil and the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Bill Loftus. Both candles are given by Sandy O’Neil.

Mt. 21:42 The Lord’s Doing Is Marvelous

Christ THE great stone.

 Incomplete work on Matthew: Christ is called a stone for two reasons. First, because his foundation is solid and no one who stands upon him will fall victim to deceitful charms or be moved by the storms of persecution. Second, Christ is called a stone because in him is the ultimate destruction of the wicked, for just as everything which col­lides with a stone is shattered while the stone itself remains intact, so also everyone who opposes the Christian faith will himself be ruined, but Christianity will remain untouched. This is the sense in which Christ is the great stone. “Whoever falls on it will be broken to pieces, but it will crush those upon whom it falls.”¹⁷ It is one thing to be broken but some­thing else again to be crushed, for sizeable pieces of whatever is broken remain, but whatever gets crushed is reduced to dust and utterly elimi­nated. The stone does not break those who fall upon it, but they break themselves who fall on the stone. Their destruction therefore is not attributable to the stone’s strength but to the violence with which they fall upon it. homily 40.