February 18th, 2012 § § permalink
The Ordinary Time is for us the simple guidance of the daily moments of our lives.
This Sunday gives us the example of being simply the good friend to our brothers and sisters in Christ. It is very easy to be the anonymous brother or sister to someone. It is very difficult to be the real friend, because the best friend is the person who knows you and helps you in the time of need.
Today we are going to Church for the Eucharist to meet Jesus who heals our body and soul. But we need the real friends who will introduce us to Jesus and who will carry us before his face. Because we are sick before God /as a paralyzed man from today’s gospel – we have sinned. And we need someone who will carry us to Jesus and who will surmount (przezwyciezac) great obstacles on our way to Jesus. We need the healing grace of God like air for life. And this is the main function of the community of the Church to bring us to Jesus. We can help each other in this duty very well…but we only have to want.
Holy Masses
February 19, 2012 – 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for + Garfield Gorski
February 22, 2012 – Ash Wednesday
7:00PM for +Clara Wille
February 26, 2012 – 1st Sunday of Lent
10:00 AM for + Charlotte Turkos from Richard Guba
March 4, 2012 – 2nd Sunday of Lent
10:00 AM for +Clara M. Wille from the family of Eleanor Valenti
Announcements
- Ash Wednesday Mass will be on Wed. Feb 22, 2012 at 7:00PM. We will start by that the Lent Season.
- The Stations of the Cross – the devotion which is a very good reminder of the last moments of Jesus Christ on earth. It will take place on Saturdays – 5:00 PM (March 10, and March 31) and on Good Friday 6:30PM.
- The annual meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish will be conducted Sunday, February 26, 2012, right after 10:00AM Mass.
The business of an annual meeting of the Parish shall be to receive reports of the Parish Committee, Committees and Pastor; regulate and confirm the salary of the Pastor and the salaries and wages of its employees, elect Parish Committee members and members of the Parish Tribunal (which election may be conducted prior to the annual meeting); adopt resolutions and make enactments necessary for the welfare and development of the Parish. No resolution or enactment shall be adopted or made which shall be in conflict with the Constitution and Laws of this Church.
(The Constitution and Laws of the Polish National Catholic Church Art. VII D. The Parish Meeting SECTION 2.)
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.
February 11th, 2012 § § permalink
The Ordinary Time is for us the simple guidance of the daily moments of our lives.
Next Tuesday we will celebrate the feast of love – St. Valentine’s day; we will send cards and give presents to the persons whom we love.
This Sunday gives us the example of difficult behavior of Jesus to the very sick person. He met the leper – the person who was sick with the disease, which was defined as the sickness of the unclean before the God and he cured this person with love and he sent him to the priest to prove his cleanliness.
Today we are going to Church for the Eucharist. It is like the first step of the leper toward Jesus. We are unclean before God because, we have sinned. And he will clean us from our spiritual diseases. Now we have to regard ourselves as a sin person and ask God: “If you wish, you can make me clean.” And response of Christ during today’s Mass will be: “I do will it. Be made clean”.
Holy Masses
February 12, 2012 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Frank Wiatrowski from Theresa Wiatrowski
February 19, 2012 – 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Clara M. Wille from the family of Eleanor Valenti
February 22, 2012 – Ash Wednesday
7:00PM for +Clara Wille
February 26, 2012 – 1st Sunday of Lent
10:00 AM for + Charlotte Turkos from Richard Guba
Announcements
- After Epiphany Feast will be the Pastoral Visit – Kolęda and blessing of the home.
- Ash Wednesday Mass will be on Wed. Feb 22, 2012 at 7:00PM. We will start by that the Lent Season.
- The annual meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish will be conducted Sunday, February 26, 2012, right after 10:00AM Mass.
The business of an annual meeting of the Parish shall be to receive reports of the Parish Committee, Committees and Pastor; regulate and confirm the salary of the Pastor and the salaries and wages of its employees, elect Parish Committee members and members of the Parish Tribunal (which election may be conducted prior to the annual meeting); adopt resolutions and make enactments necessary for the welfare and development of the Parish. No resolution or enactment shall be adopted or made which shall be in conflict with the Constitution and Laws of this Church.
(The Constitution and Laws of the Polish National Catholic Church Art. VII D. The Parish Meeting SECTION 2.)
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.
February 4th, 2012 § § permalink
The Ordinary Time which is our time in the salvation history of the Church gives us the short lessons of our Christian daily lives. Our example for being the good Christian is simply our master Jesus Christ. And we have to understand his mission and his duties; to do the same in our daily lives. Jesus proclaimed the Good News of the Kingdom of God, he healed the physical diseases and spiritual illnesses and first of all he prayed.
The Eucharist is the proclamation of the Gospel, it is the great healing of our illnesses, it is also the communion with Christ and it is first of all the biggest prayer. The Eucharist is the daily life of Christ in the pill and also it is the Christian life in the same pill, but we have to remember that this life is not finish only on the weekly Mass. The Christian life is the daily duties of Christ in the areas of our activity. We have to be the real Christ in our life around us and we have to prove our life simply by the participation in the Eucharist.
Holy Masses
February 5, 2012 – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for ++Piwinski Family from Frank Piwinski
February 12, 2012 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Frank Wiatrowski from Theresa Wiatrowski
Announcements
- After Epiphany Feast will be the Pastoral Visit – Kolęda and blessing of the home.
- The annual meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish will be conducted Sunday, February 26, 2012, right after 10:00AM Mass.
The business of an annual meeting of the Parish shall be to receive reports of the Parish Committee, Committees and Pastor; regulate and confirm the salary of the Pastor and the salaries and wages of its employees, elect Parish Committee members and members of the Parish Tribunal (which election may be conducted prior to the annual meeting); adopt resolutions and make enactments necessary for the welfare and development of the Parish. No resolution or enactment shall be adopted or made which shall be in conflict with the Constitution and Laws of this Church.
(The Constitution and Laws of the Polish National Catholic Church Art. VII D. The Parish Meeting SECTION 2.)
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.
January 28th, 2012 § § permalink
In the ordinary period of our lives we have to remember about the main source and the author of our existence and look more closely on Jesus Christ as our Super Star. We really worship him in the Mass, we praise Him in every our prayer and we see Him doing the marvelous things when we practice the commandment of love in our daily lives. Jesus astonishes us when we will hear Him, because He has the authority and the power above everything – because He is God. He is changing our lives for good when we give Him our own permission to do that.
The Eucharist is the time when we hear the Gospel of Jesus and we participate in the biggest miracle on the world – changing the bread in the body of Christ, and changing the wine in his blood, and after this we go on to our own homes, jobs and rest areas to proclaim the Good News with the authority of the divine teacher.
Holy Masses
January 29, 2012 – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Daniel Calvin Funk from Denice Funk
February 5, 2012 – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for ++Piwinski Family from Frank Piwinski
February 12, 2012 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Frank Wiatrowski from Theresa Wiatrowski
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.
¨ 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.
¨ After Epiphany Feast will be the Pastoral Visit – Kolęda and blessing of the home.
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.
Reflections
What are some of my evil spots that Jesus needs to heal with his words and deeds?
January 21st, 2012 § § permalink
On this Sunday Christ proclaims that we have to repent to enter the Kingdom of God.
And from the other side the Sunday scripture readings are talking about radical discipleship. And by radical discipleship I mean something much more than just following Jesus in a pedestrian sort of way. I mean something much more than only talking about Christ; more doing his holy will.
All of us experience the call of Christ to be his disciples; if we didn’t then not one of us would be here in this Church today. For many of us this call of Christ was mediated through our families and teachers; we were brought up in a believing family and absorbed the faith along with our mother’s milk.
The Eucharist is like the “big charging” of “our inner battery” of Christian life. Here and now we have the explanation of the word of God and we have the tangible food for our spirit – the Holy Communion.
Holy Masses
January 22, 2012 – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for ++Piwinski Family from Frank Piwinski & +Rev. Louis Victor from Denice Funk
January 29, 2012 – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Daniel Calvin Funk from Denice Funk
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.
¨ 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.
¨ After Epiphany Feast will be the Pastoral Visit – Kolęda and blessing of the home.
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.
One Main Point
A new world (the Kingdom of God) has arrived. That new world comes in the person of Jesus. We are asked to respond by changing our way of life, and to follow Him.
January 13th, 2012 § § permalink
We start once again the Ordinary Time which is the special period when we receive teaching concerning ourselves, because Ordinary Time is our time in the whole History of Salvation. Today we have a call like Andrew and the other disciple, John. We need to recognize and to realize this call as the voice of God who speaks directly to us. We have to go and make disciples for God, make our relatives and friends the company of Jesus Christ – this is the simple task of the Church as a community of believers.
The Eucharist, which we now celebrate is our help: from one side there is the explanation of the word of God and from the other the real meal to help us to do the will of God in our own lives.
Holy Masses
January 15, 2012 – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Thelma Hutson from Michael Rachuba
January 22, 2012 – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for ++Piwinski Family from Frank Piwinski
January 29, 2012 – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
10:00 AM for +Daniel Calvin Funk from Denice Funk
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.
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.
One Main Point
John the Baptizer came “so that all might believe through him.” (1:7b) Through him, the first believers came to Christ.
November 22nd, 2011 § § permalink
We hope that you have a happy Thanksgiving with your family and friends. One of the things we are most grateful for is having wonderful parishioners and sympatizers like you. God bless you!
Fr. Andrew
November 19th, 2011 § § permalink
So as we come to the end of Ordinary Time and the end of the Church Year, we can ask God to form us ever more in His own image. May we find ways to love one another not because we are afraid of hell but because we want to love the Lord. Thanks to this we are the people of faith. The faith needs our deeds of charity to be the real consequence of our personal belief in Christ Jesus.
The Eucharist is the special place where we have the chance to experience our faith. We stand before Jesus Christ who is our King and we have charity’s examination before our final judgment to repair our life once again. We can change our life just under the influence of this Eucharist, which is our great Thanksgiving to God for the opportunity of our salvation.
Holy Masses
November 20, 2011 – 34thSunday in Ordinary Time
HC 10:00 AM for all people recommended in the Remembrances 2011
November 27, 2011 – 1st Sunday of Advent
HC 10:00 AM for ++Eugene Przybylowicz, Alvira Przybylowicz, Stephen West, Antonetta West from Eugene & Elvira Przybylowicz
December 04, 2011 – 2nd Sunday of Advent
HC 10:00 AM for God’s blessing upon Zender, Jack, Quinn, Dexter Kaczorowski (grandsons) from Marianna & David Frederick
December 11, 2011 – 3rd Sunday of Advent
HC 10:00 AM for + Clara & George Wille from Mike & Vicky Dodson
Announcements
¨ My warmly Thank you to all people who helped us on the Polish Dinner and around it. We did great job. The Dinner was well done. The all visitors were very glad about the dinner. They see our Church as a friendly community and this is nice. I think that God first of all helps all people who are praying and working together for His Holy Church.
¨ The November was the month of the prayer and remembrance for our departed brothers and sisters. My Thank You to all of the people who remember of the deceased from your Family and Friends in the Remembrances (Wypominki) 2011 and for all your donations. The prayer is the big help for them. Also the reminder for us that we are not alone in the cosmos. God bless you.
¨ My source of power in prayeris the Vine. If I am the branches abiding in Christ, He will supply the power. (Andrew Murray – Treasures of Wisdom)
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.
November 12th, 2011 § § permalink
When we come to the end of the Ordinary Time we are in the most important things of our faith. We think and discuss of our salvation – what it means for us and how to catch it. Today we have the lesson about our courage in faith. We need to remember that everything in our life depend on us, first of all our own salvation. If we will not have the desire of salvation we will loose it. Therefore we need some courage or some risk to invest in our eternal future.
The Eucharist is some kind of risk which we invest in the eternal future. Coming to Mass, especially when it is not convenient, requires a risk, a risk that must be made in order to increase our own spiritual productivity which is productive of good fruit in the lives of those around us – our relatives and friends.
Holy Masses
November 13, 2011 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
HC 10:00 AM for all sponsors and donors to Holy Cross
November 20, 2011 – 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time
HC 10:00 AM for all people recommended in the Remembrances 2011
Announcements
¨ My warmly Thank you to all people who helped on Sat. Nov. 5, to clean and prepare the hall for the Polish Dinner. We did great job.
¨ HC – The 9th Polish Dinner is coming. Nov 13 is the date for it. Please invite your relatives, friends and neighbors for it.
¨ We will pray for our departed (All Souls Day Remembrance – “WYPOMINKI”) and to be read and prayed for at our All Souls Day Services (still on 3rd Sunday of November)
¨ The raffle tickets for the ‘50/50’ are available. Each one is donation of one dollar for Holy Cross Parish. If you like play to participate in it, please fill out the coupon and return it to Don Pointer.
¨ We need cakes for the Desert on Polish Dinner and some good alcohols & things - if you are able to provide it please let Ewa know.
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.
November 5th, 2011 § § permalink
Our spiritual life in Christ is like the wedding party which is simply for us the Eucharist. We have the choice to be on it or not, this is our opportunity. For to be on it we need first of all the desire to meet the Son of God – the bridegroom. The rest things are very easy, we wear some good clothes, we start the engine of our car and we ride to the Church on time. Today Jesus tells us to be wise virgin, to be ready Christian, to be prepared for theKingdomofGod. We don’t need super intelligence for it; we need only the simply choice to seek Jesus by our good deeds.
Holy Masses
November 6, 2011 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
HC 10:00 AM for all people recommended in the Remembrances 2011
November 13, 2011 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
HC 10:00 AM for all sponsors and donors to Holy Cross
November 20, 2011 – 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time
HC 10:00 AM for all people recommended in the Remembrances 2011
Announcements
¨ My warmly Thank you to all people who helped on Sat. Nov. 5, to clean and prepare the hall for the Polish Dinner. We did great job.
¨ HC – The 9th Polish Dinner is coming. Nov 13 is the date for it. Please make some first note to your relatives, friends and neighbors.
¨ We will pray for our departed (All Souls Day Remembrance – “WYPOMINKI”) and to be read and prayed for at our All Souls Day Services (on 1st and 3rd Sunday of November)
¨ The Holy Mass for All Saints will be on Sunday Oct. 30, at 10:00 AMas usual. The Procession at ourHolyCrossCemetery at7110 German Hill Road,Baltimore,MD, on Sunday, Oct. 30 at12:00PM. We pray for The Commemoration Of All The Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
¨ The raffle tickets for the ‘50/50’ are available. Each one is donation of one dollar for Holy Cross Parish. If you like play to participate in it, please fill out the coupon and return it to Don Pointer.
¨ We need cakes for the Desert on Polish Dinner and some good alcohols & things - if you are able to provide it please let Ewa know.
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.
