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RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!
TODAY’S MASS INTENTIONS:
9:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Emeric Parish
11:00 AM: Ildikó Krompecher, by László Krompecher
MASS SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS FOR THE COMING WEEK:
| October | 18 | Friday | 9:00 AM | János Sedensky, by Orsolya Sedensky |
| October | 19 | Saturday | 5:00 PM | Poor Souls In Purgatory |
| October | 20 | Sunday | 9:00 AM | Parishioners of St. Emeric Parish |
| October | 20 | Sunday | 11:00 AM | Living & Deceased Members of Girl Scout Troop 33. |
FROM THE DESK OF FR. BONA: (1) I feel like a broken record, when I come to you again with the phrase, I will be away this week. Hopefully, this is the last time for quite some time. This time it is a canon law conference. Because of this, we will not have morning Masses Monday through Thursday.
(2) Today I would like to finish the ongoing series on the saints from the Roman Canon. Felicity: Another half of a pair of martyrs—and the first woman to appear in the Canon after the Blessed Virgin Mary—Felicity was a pregnant slave-girl who was thrown to the lions and then dispatched by the sword in 202 along with…Perpetua: A noble woman of high rank in Carthage who would not go back on her faith, she shows, with St. Felicity, that any person, whether of high or low estate, male or female, can win the martyr’s crown.
Agatha: A Sicilian noble, Agatha, according to the official martyrology, “after beatings and imprisonment, racking, the twisting of her limbs, the cutting off of her breasts, and torture by being rolled upon shards and burning coals, at last died while in prayer to God.” According to tradition, it took two attempts to kill her (like St. Cecilia below, and St. Sebastian whose name does not appear) since St. Peter himself healed her in a vision. The year was 254.
Lucy: You’ve seen her famous statue: she with the chalice with two eyeballs in it. Like saint Agatha, she was of Sicilian nobility. Her name meaning “light” despite the fact that she’d been blinded, pulled by oxen, covered in pitch and resin and boiling oil, and finally had her throat slit under the emperor Diocletian’s persecution. Another famous female martyr of the early Church.
Agnes: Of all the women martyrs, perhaps the most famous, and certainly the youngest (about 12 years of age), her name means “lamb,” though she had the heart and faith of a lion. Along with Lawrence, one of the most famous early Roman saints.
Cecilia: Patron saint of musicians (we have her depicted in the choir loft), her passion is well-known. Though the date of her martyrdom is unknown (as is much of the history surrounding her), it is thought to have occurred in Rome in the early part of the fourth century.
Anastasia: Her commemoration falls on Christmas Day, which shows the regard in which her cult was held. Along with her husband Publius she was tortured and eventually killed with 270 other men and women. Like St. Cecilia, it’s difficult to determine fact from legend in Anastasia’s life and death, but she seems to have been martyred about 304 (source: National Catholic Register).
COMMEMORATION OF THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION: The October 23 commemoration will be held on October 20 at 3PM, at St. Emeric church hall. Since we will be hosting the event, we ask support from our parishioners by way of bringing pastries, or other finger foods for the reception afterwards. Please let Marika Zsula (216-676-5863) know the type of food you will be bringing so that we can coordinate and finalize the offering. Thank you.
OUR PATRONAL FEAST will be celebrated on November 3 and Bp. Kornél Fábry, auxiliary bishop of Esztergom-Budapest, will be our main celebrant. Following the Mass, we will have a sit down meal. More information next week.
LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTION: Sunday Collection: $2,158; maintenance: $450. In loving memory of Aladár Fricke: $100; in loving memory of Zsuzsanna Hunyadi: $75. May God reward your generosity in supporting the church. Thank you for sending in your donations by mail or using our website https://stemeric.com/donations/.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK, especially for Bev Kimar, Teréz Kalász, Lajos Boday, Márta Takács, Kathy Szabó, Dorothy Fromhercz, Alex Szaday, Virginia Kachmar, Margaret Falk, Mária Hokky, Stephen Palko, Imre Karetka and Éva Fricke.
THIS SUNDAY the 11:00 AM Mass from St. Emeric church will be livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/saintemeric/ and https://stemeric.com/
LET US PRAY THREE HAIL MARYS FOR OUR PARISH EVERY DAY!
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