Today we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. This is the Solemnity when God reveals His deity to us and to the whole World.

We see this incredible scene in the picture of three wise men – Magi or Kings who were seek God and they found him in the form of the small baby in the manger in Bethlehem.

This behavior of that three wise men which in the polish tradition we call them Kacper, Melchior and Baltasar is very close to every person who wants to find Jesus Christ in his or her own life.

Therefore in the polish tradition we mark the door of our home with their names to remember that every step is for the finding our Lord Jesus Christ on the way through our own lives.

The Eucharist which we now celebrate is like the bus stop on our Journey to haven where we see our goal – Jesus Christ and after Holy Mass we try to bring him into effect by the commandment of the love to each of our neighbors.

Holy Masses

January 6, 2013 – Epiphany

HC 10:00 AM for +Mary Rybak Groah & Cecelia Rybak Multa from Marianna & David Frederick

January 13, 2013 – Baptism of the Lord

HC 10:00 AM for ++ Edwina Skleres Macko and Helen & Edward Macko with much love from Stefany Skleres Goffredi

January 20, 2013 – 2^nd Ordinary Sunday

HC 10:00 AM for + Lucilla Dickerson from William Rachuba

January 27, 2013 – 3^rd Ordinary Sunday

HC 10:00 AM for ++ Sophie & Frank Koger, for Helen & Ted Purcell from Pam and Bob Koger

Announcements

¨       My Warmly Thank You to all of the people who remember of me and my family by the presents and the donations. Be sure that you are in my prayers before the alter.

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

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

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

¨       Do you have anyone of any reason (for example: someone in Hospital) or life event you would like to pray for – Please ask and see Fr. Andrew.

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 HolyCrossChurch.

Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Holy Family 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. The holy family illustrates also a healthy balance between obedience and freedom, but pain comes when that freedom seems to be abused.

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 and His Holy Family. Here and now we get the wisdom of our heavenly Childhood

Holy Masses

December 30, 2012 – Holy Family

HC 10:00 AM for ++Adam and Anna Wasilewski from Denice Funk

January 6, 2013 – Epiphany

HC 10:00 AM for +Mary Rybak Groah & Cecelia Rybak Multa from Marianna & David Frederick

January 13, 2013 – Baptism of the Lord

HC 10:00 AM for ++ Edwina Skleres Macko and Helen & Edward Macko with much love from Stefany Skleres Goffredi

 Announcements

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

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

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

¨       Do you have anyone of any reason (for example: someone in Hospital) or life event you would like to pray for – Please ask and see Fr. Andrew.

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 HolyCrossChurch.

Today we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. This is the Solemnity when God reveals His deity to us and to the whole World.

We see this incredible scene in the picture of three wise men – Magi or Kings who were seek God and they found him in the form of the small baby in the manger in Bethlehem.

This behavior of that three wise men, which in the polish tradition we call them Kacper, Melchior and Baltasar, is very close to every person who wants to find Jesus Christ in his or her own life.

Therefore in the polish tradition we mark the door of our home with their names to remember that every step is for the finding our Lord Jesus Christ on the way through our own lives. (The mark for the door: +K+M+B+2012+)

The Eucharist which we now celebrate is like the bus stop on our way to haven where we see our goal – Jesus Christ and after Holy Mass we try to bring him into effect by the commandment of the love to each of our neighbors.

Holy Masses

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

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.

Announcements

¨      Really thank you to everyone who was involved in the Christmas Caroling through Fells Point (Also thank you for the cookies.) and in Christmas Luncheon.

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

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

One Main Point

THE REVELATION OF GOD TO THE WORLD.
The Magi from around the world search for Jesus and pay him homage, while Herod only pretends to do so. At the beginning of the Gospel, these Gentile Astrologers point to the conclusion of the Gospel, when the disciples pay Jesus homage, and Jesus told them to “make disciples of all the Gentiles.” (28:17-20)

Reflections

1. By what signs do I recognize Jesus? How do I feel when I recognize these signs? Then what do I do?

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.

I extend to you and your families our very best greetings.  I wish you a most blessed, happy and fulfilling Christmas experience.  May the Child Jesus, the Eternal Son of God Who was born at Bethlehem grant you His peace, love and joy. 

Merry Christmas!

Fr. Andrzej and Holy Cross Community

Christmas is finally here. During all four weeks of Advent we have been waiting and praying for the coming blessings of Christmas. And Christmas is present here and now, in our Family, in our Church, in our Community and in our hearts.

In this Holy Mass which we now celebrate, Christ two times is born within us: He will be born in the Liturgy of the Word as the everlasting Word of God and he will be born in the Liturgy of the Eucharist as a bread of the life. These two comings of our Lord we celebrate in each Holy Mass, therefore it is the time to understand that THE word CHRISTMAS is the combination of Christ and the Mass, therefore we are here to celebrate the Mass of Christ.

Holy Masses

December 24, 2011 – Christmas Eve

8:00 PM – for all parishioners living and death, also that who are not today with us, for ill parishioners

December 25, 2011 – Christmas Day  

11:00 AM – for all parishioners living and death and for all Donors and Sponsors

January 01, 2012 – Holy Family

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

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.

¨      The Christmas Lunch will be on Christmas Day December 25 after Holy Mass at 11:00AM. Please provide for it some dishes – this is the lunch in the form of Potluck. Talk to Ewa.

Welcome Our Visitors – You will be loved at Holy Cross Church

Saturday –

December 24, 2011

8:00PM  Christmas Eve

Sunday –

December 25, 2011

11:00AM  Christmas Day

My Dearly Beloved in Christ,

“In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways…
In these last days, ha has spoken to us through the Son.” — Hebrews 1:1-2

With deep joy and gratitude, I extend to you my prayerful best wishes for a holy and blessed     

Christmas. During this Advent Season, it has been my prayer that each of you would find opportunities to reflect on your own faith and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church. Whatever it is that our hearts and souls desire, whether we realize it or not, our ultimate desire is Jesus Himself, for this reason, we are filled with joy and consolation at Christmas to know that all that we hoped for has been fulfilled in the person of the Christ Child.

Several years ago I received a Christmas card with this message: “This Christmas, I wish you Jesus.” On the inside it read: “Isn’t nice to have everything!”

In the midst of all our current challenges and concerns, the love of God the Father is made manifest to us in the wonderful gift of His Son, Jesus. With the angels in Bethlehem, our faith moves us to sing: “Glory to God in the highest and peace to His people on earth!” We recognize that true peace on earth flows from our recognition and praise of God in our lives.

Christmas has a way of bringing to Church individuals and families who, for various reasons, have not been to Mass or the Sacraments for months or years.  What a wonderful and grace-filled opportunity to put aside past differences and old habits and begin anew that prayerful relationship with the Lord and His Church community. I extend to all of you an open, grateful heart of welcome. Together, may we grow in strength and grace to know and celebrate together God’s presence in our lives and His dominion over all things of this world.

May our Lord Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, bless you, your families and loved ones at this blessed time of hope and grace. May Mary, the Mother of the Child Jesus and our Mother, watch over you and our beloved Holy Cross Parish always.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I hope to meet each of you in the Church. May Christ abide in your hearts always!

Fr. Andrzej Bieganowski

PS. The Christmas Luncheon will be on Saturday Dec. 25, 2010 after the Christmas Day Mass at 11:00AM in Hall of Holy Cross Church in Baltimore (This year will be not Christmas Vigil Supper). By Christmas Luncheon we will celebrate our community of the Church. It will be in the course of potluck lunch – everyone will bring something to eat to build that community. Please ask Ewa what kind of dish to bring (301-439-8877). Please inform us also how many children we should expected on that event to be willing prepare some surprises for them. Thank you for you cooperation. God bless you!