Palm Sunday at Holy Ghost Parish
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March 2010
Holy Week and Easter in Poland
Traditional Easter celebrations in Poland are as old and elaborate as Christmas celebrations and they involve a lot of preparations. One week before Palm Sunday, housewives stopped baking bread through the fear that the bread they baked throughout the rest of the year would spoil. Not until the Holy Week did they start baking. In
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Holy Week in the Christian world
Holy Week is the last week of Lent, the week immediately preceding Easter or Resurrection Sunday. It is observed in many Christian Churches as a time to commemorate and enact the suffering (Passion) and death of Jesus through various observances and services of worship. While some church traditions focus specifically on the events of the
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Palm Sunday – VI Sunday of Lent – Cycle “Câ€, March 28, 2010
There is a dramatic change between Jesus’ popularity on Palm Sunday and His stark loneliness on the cross; and a change too between the declared loyalty of His disciples and their cowardly desertion of Him. Perhaps the greatest change is in the people. The cries of “Hosanna†have gone and they now clamor for His
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Parish Flea Market Photos
On Saturday, March 20, 2010 our parish organized a Flea Market from 8:00AM – 2:00PM. Thank you to Parishioners who were involved with this project: Mr. Jacob Komara, Mrs. Anne Andruscavage, Ms. Amy Andruscavage, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Petrusky, Mrs. Violet Cegielski, Mrs. Claire Mallick, Mrs. Mary Ann Hoppes, Mrs. Kellie Solnoki. A special “thanksâ€
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From an Easter Letter by St. Athanasius of Alexandria, Bishop
When we celebrate the feast in our own day, what path we are to take? As we draw near to this feast, who is to be our guide? Beloved, it must be none other that the one whom you will address with me as our Lord Jesus Christ. He says: I am the way. As
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Passion Sunday – V Sunday of Lent – Cycle “Câ€, March 21, 2010
Today’s Gospel asks us to examine our own lives. Are we a people who happily throw stones at other people? Do we regard ourselves as righteous, and others as rubbish? Do we deal in oppression? Do we demand that others dance to our tune? Or can we tolerate difference? Can we cope with others’ failings?
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Flea Market, Saturday, March 20th
The Holy Ghost Polish National Catholic Church will hold a flea market, craft and bake sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the church hall, Lloyd and Chestnut streets. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 570-462-3230. Thank you.
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On the Solemnity of the Institution of the PNCC
On Sunday, March 14, 2010, as we celebrated the 113th Anniversary of the Organizing the PNCC, our beloved Catholic Church that is also democratic, our Parish Committee Members and the officers of the Blessed Sacrament Society took their oaths of office.
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Solemnity – Institution of the PNCC – IV Sunday of Lent – Cycle “Câ€, March 14, 2010
“This year we are commemorating the 113th Anniversary of the organization of the Polish National Catholic Church. All of the celebrations will reflect upon the fact that on March 14, 1897 Father Francis Hodur accepted the call of the Polish immigrants of the newly constructed St. Stanislaus Church on the South Side of Scranton, PA