Ash Wednesday Service

February 22, 2012

7:00 P.M.

The service will include the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist and

the traditional imposition of Ashes.

…for dust you are and to dust you will return…

Gen 3:19

There is the invitation to The Annual Meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish - you will be very welcomed when you are the active member or you like to join Our Parish.

The date for it is February 26, 2012, right after 10:00AM Holy Mass.

You can be more involved in your spiritual life by governing your Own Church.

Sincerly Fr. Andrew – Pastor with Parish Committee

Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Holy Family, the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mother of God and also the feast of the Humble Shepherds. The feast of the Holy Family is very meaningful for us today. We see the crisis of the Families today and we need a new power of love for our own Families. This is the reason that the Church offers us the good example of the Holy Family, where the obedience and the love is the priority.

From the other hand the feast of the Humble Shepherds concentrate our caution on our mission – to be the apostles of Jesus Christ our Savior in our modern world.

The Eucharist is like the meeting of the shepherds with the Baby Jesus, His Mother and Joseph. Here and now we get the wisdom of our heavenly Childhood.

Holy Masses

January 01, 2012 – Holy Family

10:00 AM for +James L. Otto & Helen A. Otto from James L. Otto Jr.

January 08, 2012 – Epiphany of the Lord

10:00 AM for +Eirwen Wisniewski

January 15, 2012 – 2^nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

10:00 AM for +Thelma Hutson from Michael Rachuba

January 22, 2012 – 3^rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

10:00 AM for ++Piwinski Family from Frank Piwinski

 Announcements

¨      Really thank you to everyone who was involved in the Christmas Caroling through Fells Point.

¨      Thank you for your donation on Christmas and for the flowers for our Church.

¨      After Epiphany Feast will be the Pastoral Visit – Kolęda and blessing of the home. Please think over it.

 Welcome Our Visitors

- We welcome all our visitors who are present with us for worship this Sunday! Please introduce yourself to the Pastor after Mass. Please write your names in the guest book located in the vestibule of the church. Please remember that you are always welcome to join us in worship at Holy Cross Church.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.

In the Ordinary Time we realize that all we are brothers and sisters and our every day rule is to love each other. Love is the consequence of the looking on others by our own perspective. We need the help in our time of existence. Christ Jesus came into the world to save us and others too. And this is the Good News for all of us. Because we can find ourselves in the group of people whom Jesus loves and saves.

The Eucharist is the special meeting with Jesus for all who are brothers and sisters. We come to Jesus to praise him and to become holy by his grace. This is the simple aim of our every Sunday coming to the Church. To remember about it is our task for daily life. To encourage others to praise God and to be better by the loving power of Jesus is our privilege and we have to do this because we are the disciples of Christ.

Holy Masses

September 11, 2011 – 24^th Ordinary Sunday

10:00 AM for all parishioners living or dead

September 18, 2011 – 25^th  Ordinary Sunday

10:00 AM for all parishioners living or dead

September 25, 2011 – 26^th  Ordinary Sunday

10:00 AM for God’s blessing upon Bieganowski’s Family

Announcements

¨       We now start organized the Flea Market before our Church – at Fells Point Festival (first weekend of October). If you have some things for it please bring it to the second floor of Parish Hall. Really thank you for it. Everyone is welcomed for the work and the help for this reason.

¨       HC – is accepting donations for the Fells Point Fun Festival Expenses. Thank you for your generosity. God bless you.

¨       38^th Annual Slavic American Festival Sun, Sep 11, 2011 – Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church 3410 Woodburn Rd. Annandale, VA 22003 – more info www.epiphanyofourlord.org or 703-573-3986.

¨       MY MISSION: When I am the disciple of Christ and the member of his Church I realize this and participate in all matters which concern Him. The Sunday’s Masses are not my challenges are my privilege

¨       On Sunday Sep. 18, at 9:15 AM we will have the first Catechism Classes and SOCL for all kids. Please inform all of them and bring them to the hall. Please support this program of education by your prayer.

Welcome Our Visitors

- We welcome all our visitors who are present with us for worship this Sunday! Please introduce yourself to the Pastor afterMass.Please write your names in the guest book located in the vestibule of the church. Please remember that you are always welcome to join us in worship atHolyCrossChurch.