6.XII.15 THE SHRINE CHURCH OF SAINT STANISLAUS BISHOP & MARTYR Sanktuarium św. Stanisława, Biskupa i Męczennika 3649 EAST 65TH STREET CLEVELAND, OHIO 44105 The historic church in the heart of Slavic Village founded in 1873 Icon of Saint Stanislaus and Saint John Paul II
REMEMBER: THIS TUESDAY, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a HOLYDAY OF OBLIGATION DECEMBER 6 GRUDNIA IV. THE MESSAGE OF EACH CREATURE IN THE HARMONY OF CREATION 84. Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks of God s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God. The history of our friendship with God is always linked to particular places which take on an intensely personal meaning; we all remember places, and revisiting those memories does us much good. Anyone who has grown up in the hills or used to sit by the spring to drink, or played outdoors in the neighborhood square; going back to these places is a chance to recover something of their true selves. 85. God has written a precious book, whose letters are the multitude of created things present in the universe.[54] The Canadian bishops rightly pointed out that no creature is excluded from this manifestation of God: From panoramic vistas to the tiniest living form, nature is a constant source of wonder and awe. It is also a continuing revelation of the divine.[55] The bishops of Japan, for their part, made a thoughtprovoking observation: To sense each creature singing the hymn of its existence is to live joyfully in God s love and hope.[56] This contemplation of creation allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us, since for the believer, to contemplate creation is to hear a message, to listen to a paradoxical and silent voice.[57] We can say that alongside revelation properly so-called, contained in sacred Scripture, there is a divine manifestation in the blaze of the sun and the fall of night.[58] Paying attention to this manifestation, we learn to see ourselves in relation to all other creatures: I express myself in expressing the world; in my effort to decipher the sacredness of the world, I explore my own.[59] 86. The universe as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the inexhaustible riches of God. Saint Thomas Aquinas wisely noted that multiplicity and variety come from the intention of the first agent who willed that what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another,[60] inasmuch as God s goodness could not be represented fittingly by any one creature.[61] Hence we need to grasp the variety of things in their multiple relationships.[62] We understand better the importance and meaning of each creature if we contemplate it within the entirety of God s plan. As the Catechism teaches: God wills the interdependence of creatures. The sun and the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the spectacle of their countless diversities and inequalities tells us that no creature is self-sufficient. Creatures exist only in dependence on each other, to complete each other, in the service of each other.[63]
Christmas Cookie Sale We are holding our 4 th Annual St. Stanislaus Church Christmas Cookie Sale on Saturday December 12 th from 2pm until after the 5:00 Mass. We will be in the Social Center and cookies will be available to purchase by the pound, you pick what you like! We again call on all of our AMAZING bakers in this parish to help make this a success. Please consider donating a few batches of your best homemade Christmas cookie. We ask that it be something that does not need to be refrigerated, and will hold up for a few days. What does not sell to parishioners during the few hours of the sale will be boxed up and sold at the City Music Concert that evening. The concert goers were SO excited to be able to buy bakery and help support the church last year, that we are again pairing the two events. If you are willing to donate cookies or to help work the sale, please call or e- mail Christy Bartley to let her know (jandcbartley@yahoo.com or 216-313 -2027). THANK YOU!!! Please drop off all bakery on FRIDAY, Dec.11 th at the rectory until 3pm, or at the Social Center early Saturday. Included at this sale will be the Christmas wafer (oplatki), both large and small for mailing varieties, as well as PIEROGI which you might want for your Christmas Eve Dinner or simply for snacks or gifts to friends who you know would appreciate this delicacy. We also have some pickles and coffees remaining, so get down to the Sale and get the goods before they are all gone! Thanks to everyone who plucked off one or more of the giving tree tags to provide some gifts for our schoolchildren. We did request the gifts to be returned by this weekend, but if you have yet to do so, we will extend that deadline slightly further as the gifts WILL be distributed on Dec. 17th. Please try your best to return your gifts to the church as soon as possible (otherwise we need to go out and buy items to replace those of which we might be short. Let s start off the Jubilee Year of Mercy with a bang, not a whimper! Celebrate with St. Nicholas Sunday, Dec. 6, 12:30 1:00 p.m. Good Shepherd Classroom, 2nd Floor, Social Center Take a few minutes to enjoy the story of St. Nicholas as presented by the Bartley Family Puppeteers. In addition to the short play, St. Nicholas himself will talk to the children about his life, and parents can take photos of their children with Bishop Nicholas. All parents and grandparents are invited to bring their children to this event. If any questions, please contact jane.bobula@att.net.
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