Today we celebrate the Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time and Pre-Lent quinquagesima Sunday. Usually, Lent would have begun by now, but this year it is late.
We need to be careful, in how we pass judgment, and how we respond to the present crisis in Ukraine. In the Gospels of the last two weekends, Jesus insisted that we “love our enemies”. He wasn’t joking!
In today’s Gospel passage, taken again from the Sermon on the Plain given in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus condemns our careless and rash judgments /about the behavior, motives, or actions of others by using the funny examples of one blind man leading another blind man and one man with a log stuck in his eye, trying to remove a tiny speck from another’s eye.
This Wednesday Lent begins. I need this Lent. Perhaps you do too. Lent is a time for us to grow in our faith life, let the Holy Spirit guide us. Lent is a time for us to look into ourselves.
Holy Masses
February 27, 2022 – 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
HC 10:00 AM for +Walter Marcinko from Dorothy Marcinko
March 02, 2022 – Ash Wednesday
HC 7:00 PM – for all parishioners living or death
March 06, 2022 – 1st Sunday Lent.
HC 10:00 AM for ++ Mary Rybak Groah from Marianna & David Frederick
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
- Ash Wednesday Mass will be on Wed. Mar 2, 2022, at 7:00PM. We will start by that the Lent Season.
- Thank you for your participation in the annual meeting of the members of Holy Cross parish. Your commitment is crucial to the spiritual and material life of our Church. God bless you.
- 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.
One of the most important functions of the life of prayer is to deepen and strengthen and develop our moral conscience. The growth of our psychological conscience, although secondary is not without importance also. The psychological conscience has its place in our prayer, but prayer is not the place for its proper development.
(Thomas Merton – No Man is an Island)
- Thank you to all donors and sponsors for support of our Church. – God bless you.
- Please check the Blog of our web site: www.holycrosspncc.org
May every sight of those in need help urge me to cry to God who alone can help.
(Andrew Murray – Treasures of Wisdom)