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Holy Cross Mission Bulletin January 31/10
Glory be to Jesus Christ!
Just a few things:
1. Great Vespers: Saturday 5:00 p.m., Divine Liturgy: Sunday 10:00 a.m., hearing of Confessions and the reading of the Hours 9:30 a.m.
2. Please bring your clothing donations for our Winter Clothing drive to Liturgy this Sunday. We will be making our donation this coming week.
3. Holy Cross will be donating it’s January 31 collection to relief efforts for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Whatever you can give helps. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:35-40
4. If you wish to have your home blessed, Fr. Evan will be still doing them this week. Please contact him and arrange a time. He is housebroken and promises not to leave dents in the ceiling like he did at the Koop house. (I feel really, really bad about that) You don’t have to feed me or anything although, if you have strudel…
5. Holy Cross is taking perogie orders again. Please contact Sylvia Kitzul and get your orders in. Holy Cross is also looking for donations of flour as well.
6. Want to share something I came across in regards to this Sunday of the Prodigal Son: It is from an article written by John Kapsalis:
The Christian life is an endless sea sawing between redemption and downfall: between being ‘beloved’ and ‘unforgiven.’ Christ calls us to a perfection that seems so elusive. We know of God’s promises, but we still seem to go through life filled with anxiety and discouraged at the futility of it all. God’s joy only momentarily and occasionally breaks our dark moments. Our transformation to the person we want to be, and ought to be, is at best a dream to read about. Though we are often a shelter for the wounded, we can be, at times, so sheltered from the world’s suffering that our callousness becomes a stumbling block to others. And so we drift, and sometimes run away, from the One who is running to embrace us.
Henri Nouwen describes our human condition quite accurately and writes: “Yet over and over again I have left home. I have fled the hands of blessing and run off to faraway places searching for love! This is the great tragedy of my life and of the lives of so many I meet on my journey. Somehow I have become deaf to the voice that calls me the ‘Beloved,’ have left the only place where I can hear that voice, and have gone off desperately hoping that I would find somewhere else what I could no longer find at home.”
God waits for us, His ‘beloved.’ He wants to love us and care for us. He wants to make His home with us. God’s forgiveness clears the path for us to be with Him, to know Him and to be known by Him. But God expects our forgiveness of others to clear the path for them to know Him too. If God forgives us, shall we also not forgive? If God accepts us, even though we are sinners, shall we also not accept those who we consider sinners?
Answer to last week’s question:
To whom did Jesus say, “…with God all things are possible”? His disciples.
This week’s question:
Lazarus had two sisters. Martha was one sister. Who was the other?
See you in church,
Fr. Evan
The Way of the Cross – January 31, 2010 – PDF File
Feb 2010 Calendar
