Today we celebrate the 1st Sunday of Lent. The Lent Season is the time of joyful preparation for the feast of Easter, the anticipation of our own Resurrection. The Lent is the time when we concentrate on our own integrity as a person who is both spiritual and physical. By the deeds of Lent which are: fast, almsgiving and prayer we are looking in our inside to find our communion with God, to find our private sanctuary between us and God.
Each Eucharist is the remembrance of the Easter. Every time when we celebrate the Mass we go on in the deepest Mystery of our Faith which are the suffering, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Therefore Lent is the time for preparation. During that season we use purple color as a typical color of the penance. We omit the Gloria and the Alleluia word during the Mass to hear the full Glory and the Joyful Alleluia on Easter Sunday. The Lent season is like the examination of the conscience during the Mass, and is good to do it.
Holy Masses
February 17, 2013 – 1st Sunday of Lent
HC 10:00 AM for +Walter and Helen Novak from Theresa Wiatrowski
February 24, 2013 – 2nd Sunday of Lent
HC 10:00 AM for +Nagrabski Family from Michael Nagrabski
March 3, 2013 – 3rd Sunday of Lent
HC 10:00 AM for  Charlotte Turkos for Richard Guba
March 10, 2013 – 4th Sunday of Lent
HC 10:00 AM for ++Helen & James Otto from James L. Otto Jr.
 Announcements
¨      We start the Lent. In that season we learn about the power of fasting, praying and almsgiving. These are three great works which can help us to prepare ourselves for Resurrection of our Lord and our own resurrection.
¨      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 Saturday – 5:00 PM (March 16) and on Good Friday 6:30PM.
¨      The annual meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish will be conducted Sunday, February 17, 2013, 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.)
¨     As the members of our Church we are responsible for our future and we will pray and look for new active members of our Community of Holy Cross in Baltimore, MD.
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