Today we celebrate the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are coming to the end of the liturgical year 2025. The next Sunday 34th will be the last Sunday of that year. In the liturgical year as in our own life the things are going to the end. The right understanding of those things is the good and comfortable situations for us, because we are not surprised by it on the last day. One matter from those things is the sense of our faith which is the worship of God in the Church. We ask ourselves that these things have really sense for us and eternity. The response is yes if we do it in the Spirit and in the truth.
The Eucharist is that kind of service in Spirit and in truth when we come to that service not as our Sunday obligation but as our visible expression of our daily faith. To that service we don’t need the big cathedral or the nice comfortable church building we need only the group of the people who really love each other.
„The days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.”
Holy Masses
Nov. 16, 2025 – 33rd Ordinary Time Sunday
10:00 AM – for ++ Greg Aldrich, Mary Gale &Shrikant Bembelkar, Sandy &Wayne Dohl, David Anthony Reid, Jonathan James Reid Sr.Józef Wojtaszek, Joseph Giangrosso, Deniece Adsit from The Aldrich Family
Nov. 23, 2025 – Christ the King
10:00 AM – for ++Benedykt, Julianna I Franciszek Kaczmarek; Magdalena Jan, Janek Masztalerz, Bronia Kolonko-Masztalerz, Piotruś Moczko, Zenon Waszkiewicz from Kasia i Rysio Kaczmarek
Announcements
- Thank you for your donations on All Souls Day prayer. God bless you.
- On Sat. Nov. 22, 2025 at 12pm – 6 pm and Sunday Nov. 23, 2025 at 12pm – 3pm we will have the Polish Holiday Food Sale in our Hall.
- 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.
- Please check the Blog of our web site: www.holycrosspncc.org
- 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.
- Thank you to all donors and sponsors for support of our Holy Cross Church. – God bless you.
- Anyone, who is wishing to submit the names of the departed of your family or friends (All Souls Day Remembrance – “WYPOMINKI”) and to be read and pray for at our All Souls Services (All Souls day and on 2nd and 4th Sunday of November), there are ask to return the envelope with the names which will be send to your homes.
- The Procession at our Holy Cross Cemetery at 7110 German Hill Road, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 12:00PM. We pray for The Commemoration Of All The Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
- Like us on Facebook and give hint of it to your relative and friends. Share the Good News about our Church.
- “It is good to study and read the works of the saints and other holy people (one of my favorite books is Seeds of the Desert by Charles de Foucauld), but we find that God teaches us all we need to learn through our actions and our work.” (Mother Teresa – A simple path.)
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.
Reflections
- Vietnamese martyrs, to ascertain that God was always with them. When they were tortured and when they were awaiting death, Most of us are very scared when talking of the end of the world. Have you ever thought “the end is indeed ended when you turn you back to God?” Go back to your own world and reflect this question.
- Compare the phrase “…they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name”
with the phrase “It will lead to your giving testimony.”
Have you experienced these challenges? Ask yourself a question on how you can bear witness to God in your daily life.
One Main Point
Persevering in a state of grace to the end in spite of difficulties and persecution leads to eternal salvation.