Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost traditionally honored as a great opportunity to do August 14, penance.2016 Sunday August 14 Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost 9:00 am Henry Hamid Req. by: Carol Hamid 11:00 am For World Peace Dear Parishioners and Friends:Req. by: Clergy This week we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Monday August 15 Feast of the Assumption (Holy Day ofPentecost Obligation) and the Feast of Saint Peter and Paul. 10:00 am For the Parishioners The Feast of SaintsReq. Peterby: Clergy and Paul, or as the Roman Catholic Church refers to it as the Solemnity Tuesday August 16 Saint Roch (Rocco) - Martyr of Peter and Paul, is a liturgical feast in honor of the NO LITURGY martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which is observed on 29 June annually. Wednesday August 17 This celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected NO LITURGY being the anniversary of their death or of the translation of their relics. Thursday August 18 By referring to this Feast as a Solemnity, tells NO LITURGY us that it is a first-class feast. Similar to the Feasts of Mary's Assumption and Immaculate Conception. For Friday August 19 Saint Luke of Baalbek - Martyr us as Maronites it is a Holy Day of Obligation, as it is NO LITURGY in the Roman Church. However, Individual conferences of bishops can suppress the obligation. In Saturday August 20 Saint Bernard, Doctor of the Churchour - Confessor case it has not been suppressed. NO LITURGY The two icons on the altar wall of our Sanctuary are adorned with the two great Apostles, Sunday August 21 Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost reminding us to witness as they did to the Gospel of 9:00 am For those going back to schoolJesus Christ. May they intercedeReq. by: Clergyon our behalf. 11:00 am For Vocations Req. by: Clergy ****************Please note that we will resume with Devotions toAboona Saint SharbelJames in September*************** 200 Club We will have the last drawing for this year at Weekly Offering the Coffee Hour today.Readings We wish to thank all those who helped us in purchasing or selling the tickets for Collection: $ 1,393 .00 this very helpful fund raiser. In the very near future Candles: $ 219 .00 Debt Reduction: $ 90.00 Augustwe will14, 2016 send out the registrationsFourteenth Sunday for the of Pentecost200 Club for Dividends: $ 45.88 2014 - 2015. Again, many thanks! Donations: $ 100.00 Reading: I Thessalonians 2: 1 - 13 Rent: $ 18,180.00 SecondGospel: Collection Peter'sLuke Pence 10: 38 - 42 Lectors:Today we willRaymond take Gillup - 9:00the amannual Peter's Total: $ 20,027.88 Lydia Gordon - English Pence collection. ThisZahia collection Abi- Habib is sent - Arabic entirely to the Yearly Budget – 2016 Holy See to assist the Holy Father with emergency Annual Operating Budget: $ 330,000.00 Augustfinancial 15, 2016 assistance toFeast aid theof the most Assumption needy throughout Collections to Date: $ 89,478.00 the world. Please be as generous. as possible. Candles to Date: $ 4,180.00 Reading: Romans 12: 9 - 15 Donations to Date: $ 12,855.00 SummerGospel: Liturgy Luke 1: 46 - 55 or Cathedral Stipends to Date: $ 4,800.00 As usual we willLuke hold 10: 38 Sunday - 42 Liturgies in the Memorials to Date: $ 4,650.00 SocialLector: Hall for the monthsEd Manassah of July and August. Even Dividends to Date: $ 1,981.71 though we are not in the Cathedral proper, proper Rentals to Date: $ 166,695.00 Augustattire 21, is 2016 demanded. SeeFifteenth the weekly Sunday letter of August from Aboona Fund Raising/Advertising: $ 15,585.02 James. Thank you. Debt Reduction to Date: $ 2,907.00 Reading: I Thessalonians 1:1 - 10 EasterDear /Christmas Parishioners Flowers: and Friends:$ 2,192.00 Gospel: Luke 7: 36 - 50 Bishop’s AppealThis to Dat weeke: we begin$ our 3,470.00 Lenten Journeys of SummerLectors: Vacation Raymond Gill - 9:00 am Altar Faith.Bread/Wine/Lamps: Lent is, throughout the$ Church, 275.00 a special time Next week allSubdeacon of the NorbertClergy - Englishwill be at the Subdeacon Peter - Arabic Bequests:of fasting and abstinence $designed 5,000.00 to lead us to NAM convention. We will cancel all weekday Refund: $ 2,689.00 Liturgies. personal and communal conversion. It has been Total: $314,650.73 (-15,349.27) Each Quarter we must generate $82,500.00 in revenue to keep the Cathedral on budget. Dear Parishioners and Friends: Banns of Marriage Saint Roch (Rocco)a.k.a. Roukoz was born in We announce the Third Banns of Marriage Montpellier, France, around 1295. His father was the between Lara Abi-Habib and Paul Georges. Anyone governor of that city. At birth Roch is said to have been knowing why they should not be joined in the bonds of miraculously marked on the breast with a red cross. Sacred Marriage must make it known to the priest. Deprived of his parents when he was twenty years old, he distributed his fortune among the poor, handed over Religious Education to his uncle the government of Montpellier at that time We will begin registration for Religious and in disguise of a mendicant pilgrim, set out for Italy. Education the first week of August. Religious But he stopped at Aquapendente, which was stricken by Education will taker place every Sunday from now on. the plague, and devoted himself to the plague-stricken, All children should be registereed in our program curing them with the sign of the cross. He next visited even if they attend Catholic or parochial schools. Cesena and other neighboring cities and then Rome. additional iformation to follow. Everywhere the terrible scourge disappeared before his miraculous power. He visited Mantua, Modena, Parma Confraternity and Knights Retreat and other cities with the same results. At Piacenza, he Enclosed in the bulletin this week is the flyer himself was stricken with the plague. He withdrew to a for our Men and Womens Retreat slated for hut in the neighboring forest, where his wants were September 16 and 17, 2016. All of the information is supplied by a gentleman name Gothard, who by a on the flyer. If you have any questions please contact miracle learned the place of his retreat. It is said that a either one of the Officers of the Knights or the dog, who refused to eat, would bring him bread from a Confraternity. Thank you nearby castle. Statues and pictures of Saint Roch always depict him with the open would on his leg and the dog Catechists Meeting who saved his life. this is also seen on the gated to our There will be a meeting of the Catechists on Baptistry in the Cathedral. After his recovery, Roch Sunday, August 21, 2016 immediately following the returned to France. Arriving at Montpellier and 11:00 am Divine Liturgy in the Rectory. Please be refusing to disclose his identity, he was taken for a spy available for this meeting. We have much work ahead in the disguise of a pilgrim, and cast into prison by order of us. Thank you. of the governor, his own uncle, where five years later, in the year 1327, he died. The miraculous cross on his Mega Raffle breast as well as a document found in his possession The Finance Council will once again sponsor revealed his identity. When his uncle found out who he the Mega raffle for 2017. The tickets are done and was, he wept and asked for forgiveness. Saint Roch was ready for sale. this year we are asking $100.00 accordingly given a public funeral. His uncle built a donation for the tickets. We are also giving out church in his memory. Numerous miracles attested his $10,000.00 in prize money. the first drawing will be on sanctity. May his prayers be with us. Sunday, jamuary 1, 2017 for $1`00.00 and continue for the following 20 Sundays, ending on May 14, 2017 with the 20 weekly drawings. Then on Sunday, May Aboona James 21, 2017 we will have the Grand drawing with first prize receiving $3,000.00, seconf prize receiving $2,000.00 third and fourth prizes receiving $1,000.00 each and fifth and sixth prizes receiving $500.00 each. News Around the Eparchy Many chances to win up to $10,000.00 in Saint Anthony of Padua Maronite Church in prizes. Help the Cathedral by upporting this annual Danbury will hold their annual "Mahrajan" on drawing. for tickets and additional information either Friday and Saturday, August 19 - 20, 2016 on the contact the Cathedral Office or see Eva Boumoussa. Church grounds. There will be Lebanese foods, games good luck to all! and attractions for the children as well as live Lebanese music. 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