January, 2019 HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you in our Central Diocesan family, and welcome to the Year of Discipleshipin our holy Church! In the words of our national PNCC Future Direction Sub-Committee recently given to us..…..As our Lord said to His disciples “Follow Me†for His public ministry, He continues to call us to follow […]
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To the Very Reverend, Reverend Fathers and the Reverend Messrs., and my dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord: ¡Viva el mes de junio! That’s Spanish for “Long live June,†“Hurray for June.†Hurray, indeed! And welcome to the month of vocations in the Polish National Catholic Church: June is Sacred Vocations month
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Our parish will be hosting the annual Mohawk Valley Seniorate Retreat Day which will take place on April 1st. It will start at 10 a.m. Lent is a special time when we try to renew our love and dedication to our Lord Jesus Christ, His church and our brethren. We encourage everyone to take this
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Every Friday during the Lenten season there will be Stations of the Cross at. 6.15 p.m.
Jesus promises his disciples that, although he will soon be leaving them, he will not leave them ‘desolate’ — or ‘as orphans’, as another version puts it. He will send them his Spirit who will be with them always. In his mortal humanity, Jesus could only be in one place at a time and could
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Jesus knew his disciples were unhappy at the prospect of his leaving them. To alleviate their sorrow, he told them: ‘Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.‘ Like the disciples, we often live troubled lives. We are so absorbed by everything we have to do or cope with that
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Today’s Gospel reading contains one of the verses in the Bible that every Christian should know. John 10:10 sums up the essence of the Christian life and why Jesus came: ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.‘ But what does this mean? It means that we should be
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The story of the encounter on the road to Emmaus is unique to Luke’s Gospel. In fact, it contains the fullest post-resurrection account of Jesus’ encounter with the disciples of all four Gospels. For Luke faith is a form of sight: seeing with fresh spiritual eyes (cf. Luke 9:45). This gift of new sight reaches
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We walk by faith and not by sight, and we can only perceive God as in a mirror, dimly (see 1 Cornthians 13:11) — in biblical times mirrors were made of polished metal, which yielded a somewhat distorted image. Even though faith brings light to our minds and hearts, we often live it out in
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John presents us with a very moving story. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find the humanity and human love of Jesus illustrated more than here: His concern for his friends in their bereavement; His response to the emotional and sensitive Mary; His words of encouragement to the more practical Martha. What is truly touching
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