Our St. Stephen Day Picnic was held on August 20., 2023. The day began with Mass of the feast day of St. Stephen. After the church service, the traditional blessing of the new bread opened the festivities followed by a greeting from Mr. Tamás Molnár, the Commercial and Economic Attaché of the Consulate General of […]
The Corpus Christi procession celebrating the body of Christ was held at Cleveland’s St. Emeric Church on June 11, 2023. Since the apostolic times, the Sacred Host has been lifted up at some point in the sacred liturgy. In those ancient times, the elevation happened as an act of veneration, immediately before receiving Holy Communion. […]
It was a day of celebrations on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at St. Emeric Church! Some of the youngest girls and boys of the parish participated in the entrance procession and May Crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary statue at the beginning of Mass. First Communion was also held on this day. At the end […]
During their weekend retreat, 21 members of the Cleveland Hungarian Scout Folk Ensemble, to everyone’s delight, attended the Mass at St. Emeric Church in Hungarian folk costumes on Sunday, Mar. 5, 2023.
The Foundation for Hungarians in Cleveland and the Hungarian Scout Folk Ensemble in Cleveland jointly organized the winter funeral, carnival funeral or, in other words, the expulsion of mardi gras, according to Hungarian traditions. On February 19, 2023, after the St. Emeric Church Mass on Sunday, the event took place in the circular parking lot […]
The Cleveland Hungarian Boy and Girl Scout Troops celebrated with a Christmas show Friday night, December 16, 2022, in St. Emeric Church, in anticipation of the birth of the baby Jesus. The program, which lasted about an hour, included Christmas music, songs, recitation of poems, nativity play and caroling. The pictures follow the program booklet […]
Sunday Mass on December 4, 2022 was followed by a celebration of the feast of St. Nicholas, who happened to be in the area and visited with the children. Afterwards, all were welcome to stay for an agapé in the St. Emeric Hall for some fellowship, food and refreshments where we also celebrated Fr. Bona’s […]
Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, we celebrated the feast day of St. Emeric. A special welcome was given to Fr. Peter Boksay, who was our homilist at the Mass. He is a Byzantine Catholic priest of the Archeparchy (archdiocese) of Hajdúdorog and since February he has been serving in the Eparchy of Parma as the administrator […]
Hungary’s President, Katalin Novák, visited Cleveland on Sept. 27, 2022. Among many programs, she visited St. Emeric Church and welcomed the local Hungarians living in the Hungarian diaspora in her speech in the ceremonial hall of the church, where the Hungarian Scout Folk Ensemble of Cleveland also performed. Pictures below. Before her visit to the […]
Saint Stephen Day festivities were celebrated at St. Emeric Church on Sunday, August 21, 2022, in honor of Hungary’s first king and patron saint. Following the solemn Mass, a picnic was held in the church’s main hall due to the inclement, rainy weather. Dr. Csaba Krasznai, honorary consul for the Hungarian government in Cleveland and […]
