Welcome To All
We wish to welcome our visitors who are celebrating
The Divine Liturgy with us this morning.  Please sign the quest book in the
 vestibule of the Church.  Also, please stop down after the Liturgy and join us
 in the Banquet Room for coffee and donuts.

Sacraments of the Church
Baptism/Chrismation/ Eucharist:  These mysteries are usually celebrated when the child is
1-2 months old. 
Please call Fr. Bob stash for details and further regulations

Holy Matrimony:  Arrangements must be made with Fr. Bob Stash at least six months in advance.

Holy Anointing:  Please make use of this great sacrament of healing before any
surgery or when seriously ill.  This is a gift to us from Christ for the healing of the soul and body.

Reconciliation:  Every practicing Catholic must receive sacramental absolution
at least once a year.  Please call me if you have any questions on how to make a worthy confession.

Visitation of the Sick:  Please let me know if you or a family member is in the hospital.

Visitation of the Homebound:  Fr Bob will be visiting the homebound once a month.

 

Sunday. February 3, 2008
   Reader: Lee Panco
   Candle Bearer: Bob Habas & Robert Watts
   Ushers: J.Dornack,G. Opalenik
Sunday February 10, 2008
  Reader: Ted Utlak
  Candle Bearer: Maria Kisha
  Ushers: M. Cenker, M.A. Cenker
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 BINGO BAKERS
 Feb. 7: Joan Clapsadle ,Marge Alexsonshk, Emily Anderson
 Feb. 14: Nickie Dornack, Dina Dornack, Lee Panco
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 COVERED DISH DINNER TODAY!
TODAY, there will be a cover dish dinner after the Divine Liturgy. 
Please come down and share this meal with us. 
Father Bob will have Forgiveness Vespers immediately following the
dinner.

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   GIVE THROUGH THE HEART
GCU Lodge 644 is again sponsoring the "Give Through the Heart"
Canned and Non-Perishable food drive during the month of February.
Please be generous during these difficult times. Donations are directed
to the Akron Canton Food Bank and Good Samaritan Food Center.
Donation box is located in the hallway just outside the church.
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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HONORS
BYZANTINE CATHOLIC BISHOP

The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem
has accorded the title of “Righteous among the
Nations” to Blessed Pavol Gojdic, a Byzantine
bishop who served in Slovakia from 1926 to 1960.

The rabbi of Kosice, Slovakia, Jossi Steiner, and a
Jewish woman whose life was saved by Bishop
Gojdic initiated the process to grant the honorary
title to the Catholic prelate, who was beatified by
Pope John Paul II in 2001.

The honor granted to Bishop Gojdic, who suffered
imprisonment under the Communist regime, has
special significance as Jewish people have
sometimes accused Catholics in Slovakia of
actively assisting the Holocaust.
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MONASTERY BREAD AND SOUP SALE
Last winter, as the cold chilly winds forced our
heating bills beyond imagining, the Nuns here are
Sancta Clara Monastery knew it was time to
become creative about paying our heating bills.  A
friend of the monastery suggested selling Wedding
Soup and breadsticks.  We though this was a great
idea!  In the month of March, 2005, we
courageously launched our first monastery bread
and soup sale.  Besides breadsticks, our endeavor
grew into loaves of delicious white bread and
walnut raisin wheat bread.  The heat was on!  Even
during our sizzling hot summer, lines of hungry
folks flocked to bring home soup and bread. 
“We Knead the Dough”.
Wedding Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup,
Tomato Soup, Lentil (contains no meat)
 Soup Quart w/2 bread sticks $7.00
 Pint w/1 bread stick                 $3.50
 Angus Dei Bread                     $5.00
Raisin-Walnut Bread               $4.00
Italian Parmesan Bread          $4.00
Ginger Bread                             $4.00
Cinnamon Rolls                       $2.00

Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration
Sancta Clara Monastery
4200 Market Avenue, North
Canton, Ohio  44714-1236
Phone: 330-492 1171
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FISH FRY AT ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH
Every Friday during Lent, St. Nicholas Church in
Barberton will be having their Fish Fry, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. 
Pollock dinners priced at $7.00 for adults and $4.00 for children.
They also have Salmon dinners for $8.50.
 

FORGIVENESS SUNDAY
(Cheesefare)

“The Lord my Creator took me as dust from the earth and formed me
into a living creature, breathing into me the breath of life, and giving
me a soul … But Satan the deceiver enticed me by food,
using the serpent as his instrument, and separated me from the
glory of God, and by death delivered me to the earth.  O Master,
in Your compassion, call me back to You!”
Vespers for Cheesefare Sunday

Today we stand at the threshold of the Holy Great Fast, ready to enter with faith and joy.  
We also sit at the threshold of paradise with Adam and lament what we have lost. 
Today we again hear our story: the story of our creation at the hands of God; the story
of life that is breathed into us by the very breath of God.  This is our dignity; this is
our nobility; this is why we respect life.  For life is a gift from God.

Now Satan enters the scene and sets his snare. He tricks Adam and Eve into
disobedience by promising them far greater things than what they already have.  He
promises them equality with God!

But this is the trick!  This is the insidious part of the whole scheme!  They already
share a deep communion with God; however, by following Satan’s deceitful design to
gain something even greater, they lose what they already have.  This is the deceptive
guise of sin.  It promises us something that seems so beneficial; but when we say yes
to it, suddenly it tears off its mask and reveals its ugly face to us.  Then, in a moment,
we know in the depths of our being that we have been duped.  We have been tricked! 
We all know the queasy feeling in the pit of our stomach when we face this
realization.

Then together with Adam, we sit and lament.  We too by our sin have given up our
God-woven robes; we have lost the delights of Paradise.  We too now live not in
communion but in brokenness.

The final elements necessary for repentance are presented today: fasting and
forgiveness.  We seek to regain our communion with God, and Christ is our Way. 
We come to join the New Adam and undo what we have done with the Old Adam. 
Adam failed to fast from the tree and thus lost Paradise; we therefore fast in order to
regain it.  But even more than fasting, even more than almsgiving and prayer, the
Gospels give us another way to enter into communion with God.  This is through
forgiveness.  As our holy father Saint John Chrysostom says: “Nothing makes us so
like God as being ready to forgive the wicked and wrong-doers.” Only when we have
crossed this threshold are we ready to enter the Fast in the proper spirit and seek
forgiveness from our heavenly Father.

Taken from “Journey through the Great Fast”