SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Saturday, September 23 – 4:00 PM
✞Annetta Rudeski – Dave, Carol & Ann Stull
Sunday, September 24– 8:30AM
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
God’s Blessings and Good Health for all Parishioners
Baptism of Talia Lada
Wednesday, September 27 – 9:30 AM
✞Charles Drazba – The Drazba Family
Friday, September 29 – 10:00 AM
✞Mary Ann Youells
PROTECTION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Saturday, September 30 – 4:00 PM
✞Michael Kowalick – Hanover Twp. Lions Club
Anointing with Holy Oil (Myrovania)
Sunday, October 1 – 8:30AM
Anointing with Holy Oil (Myrovania)
NINTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
God’s Blessings and Good Health for all Parishioners
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TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD
Saturday – 6:00 PM Sunday 10:30 AM
THE CONCEPTION OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
September 23rd
Among all the saints whom the Church venerates, St. John the Baptist holds a unique place. There are three people in the Church whom has a feast honoring their Conception, Nativity and Death, John the Baptist, Mary the Theotokos (God-Bearer) and Jesus. The great esteem he enjoys in the Eastern Church is evident from the fact that during the Church Year as many as six feasts are celebrated in his honor: The feasts of his Conception, Nativity, Beheading (death), the First, Second, Third and Fourth Finding of his Head, and the Synaxis following the feast of the Theophany.
Among all holy persons of the Old Testament, St. John the Baptist is especially outstanding, because he stands on the border of two testaments: the Old and the New. He is the lastprophet and opens the door to the Apostles. He is prophet and the Forerunner of Christ, a Baptizer and a martyr.
Before he was born, an angel of the Lord informed his father Zachary, “He shall be great before the Lord.” (Luke 1,15) And indeed, he was great for his holy life, authentic teaching, and heroic death. Jesus Christ himself acclaimed him as, ”a burning and shining light.” (John 5,35).
The life of John the Baptist was an unbroken chain of sacrifice and penance. He preached to the people what they needed to hear: a Baptism of Repentance, the Nearness of the Kingdom of God, the Presence among them of Jesus, Their Messiah and Savior. John baptized Jesus in the river Jordan, pointing Him out as the “Lamb of God.” (John 1,36)
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