July 12, 2026
Saturday, July 11 SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
4:00 PM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Sunday, July 12 SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
8:30 AM Jewel Johnstone- Niznik Family
Monday, July 13
9:00 AM John Ostrum(40th Day)- Niznik Family
Saturday, July 18 EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
4:00 PM God’s Blessings & Good Health for the Colbe Family
Blessing of Chariots
Sunday, July 19 EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
8:30 AM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Blessing of Chariots
Monday, July 20 ELIJAH- GREAT PROPHET- No Liturgy
Originally published in The Way on February 1, 1941
What is a great life? In answer to this question there are many definitions. One of them claims that a great life “is a thought in youth carved out in ripened years.”
Yes, there is a joy in making dreams come true, but whether your life is great or not after they have come true, depends upon the dreams. Young people whose rule of life is to avoid what is difficult and go through with those projects only which appeal to their sense of ease are the raw material from which the failures of life are formed.
Much of our success, our achievement depends upon whether in performing our task our eyes are upon the minimum or upon the maximum. People who look to the minimum are all too common. They expend a great amount of energy thinking of plans to do as little as possible and yet “get away with as much as possible,” or else they justify themselves by thinking of the amount of effort others would put into it.
Whenever the minimum is given, the effects are always the same. The undertaking is done with the minimum of satisfaction. This minimum is always done with the hope that luck or circumstances will come along to provide a brilliant result and high commendation for the small effort. Sometimes this happens, but that is not the path to a great life. You can fool some people all the time, some people some of the time, but certainly not all the people all the time, and certainly you, yourself, are not fooled. You know the truth.
Usually, people with their eye on the minimum are dull for such action cuts the roots of enthusiasm, enfeebles the will, and clogs the brain. Pre-occupied with the minimum means they are not thinking of the undertaking, but of themselves, and that indicates an undertaking which is perfunctorily done and a self which is clouded and dissatisfied.
A person with his eyes on the maximum is invigorating. He is an inspiration, for his high aim not only holds his will to the higher performance, but inspires his faculties to make the highest possible. It not only makes his own work better, but also improves the work of those around him. Such a person is not thinking of “how to get by”, but how to improve and that makes life great.
Yes, our reach is no higher than our aim; our success no greater than our effort. Our life is what we make it! With our eyes on the highest ideals possible, our minds on the finest achievement within the power of man, we can achieve excellence, and our life can be great.
PRAYERS: Please remember in your prayers all who are in need of God’s help. Remember those in the nursing facilities, hospital and at home, all the sick and the suffering. Please say a special prayer for all of our nation’s soldiers and their families at home and abroad, our Ukrainian soldiers and their families and for all of our priests at home and abroad.
There is no Altar Candle donation or request for the month of July.
The sanctuary light for this week is requested by John M. Ostrum IMO his father John J Ostrum
FINANCIAL REPORT: Last week’s financial report will be included in next week’s bulletin.
WOMEN’S SOCIETY CLOTHES & BOOK SALE: The Women’s Society will be holding a Clothes and Book sale on Friday July 31st from 9-4 and Saturday Aug 1st from 9-2. If you know of a business that can display this announcement, please take a flyer from in the back of the church. Your help in getting this information out to the public is greatly appreciated.
WEEDING HELP: Help is needed to weed around the church grounds on Wednesday, July 15th at 9AM.
MEMORIAL DONATIONS: We gratfully acknowledge the $1,000 donation to our church by Helene Skopek-Krygier in memory of her mother Helene Sirak and the $500 donation in memory of her brother in law John Ostrum. Our appreciation to Gordon Krut, Monica Bergin and Marie Dalessandro for their monetary donations to our church IMO John Ostrum.
LABOR DAY FOOD FESTIVAL:
Transfiguration of Our Lord Church is holding a one day Food Festival on Saturday, September 5th from 11-4pm. Homemade Pyrohy, Haluski, Potato Pancakes, Clam Chowder, and Sausage sandwitches. Can you hear the polka music playing!! Save the date.
PRAYER BEFORE COMMENCING WORK
O Lord, Jesus Christ, only begotten Son of Thine eternal Father, Thou hast said with Thy holy lips: “Without Me you can do nothing.” My Lord, I embrace Thy words with my heart and soul, and bow before Thy goodness and say: Help me, Thy unworthy servant, to complete this my present undertaking in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Ask Father a Question? Father, I was on the internet and there was an article that was titled “Ten things that are thought to be in the Bible, but are not’” I clicked on this article and the first item was the Trinity. The article stated that the Trinity was not specifically named in the Bible. Is this true? In short, God as a Triune God is in the Holy Scriptures (i.e. The Bible). The game that someone is playing is that the “word” is not in the Bible, therefore the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity is wrong. Some places in the Bible that you will find God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit is in Matthew Chapter 28 Verse 19. The first time in the Holy Scriptures that there is an indication that God in His Oneness, is Plural, is in Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 26, when God told Moses to write these words, “Let Us create man in Our Own Image and Likeness.” The scribes were incredibly careful not to make any errors in transcribing a new copy of the Holy Scriptures. Even the scribes who knew God to be One, clearly used the Plural, Us; even though they did not understand at the time what that meant. From New Advent (Catholic Encyclopedia) –“In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word trias (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180. He speaks of “the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word [the Son] and His Wisdom (To Autolycus II.15). The term may, of course, have been in use before his time. Afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian (On Pudicity 21). In the next century the word is in general use. It is found in many passages of Origen– a Church Father (“In Ps. xvii”, 15). The first creed in which it appears is that of Origen’s pupil, Gregory Thaumaturgus. In his Ekthesis tes pisteos composed between 260 and 270, he writes: There is therefore nothing created, nothing subject to another in the Trinity: nor is there anything that has been added as though it once had not existed, but had entered afterwards: therefore the Father has never been without the Son, nor the Son without the Spirit: and this same Trinity is immutable and unalterable forever (P.G., X, 986).” In Matthew Chapter 3, at the Baptism of Jesus, we see the Holy Trinity. The Voice of the Father is heard from Heaven, the Spirit of God descends like a dove, while Jesus, the Son, submits Himself to Baptism by John. In addition, there are many times when Jesus teaches the Apostles about God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, while of course, talking about Himself as the Son of God. In short, Trinity is in the Bible.
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