GIVING TREE

Our Holy Name Society is again sponsoring a Giving Tree to assist families in our own Parish who are in need of “a little help” at Christmas. This year, the items on the ornaments are various gift and food cards in denominations of $10 and $25.  Simply choose the ornaments you want, purchase the gift cards, and return them either in the collection basket, at the Rectory or give them to any member of the Holy Name Society by December 11^th. They will be distributed to the families before Christmas.

LITHUANIAN LINENS

The Altar Society decorates the church for various occasions. We have a very small number of Lithuanian linens and would like to have a bigger inventory. If anyone has such linens collecting dust in a drawer, Society members would be happy to accept them and use them as needed in decorating the church.

COFFEE SCHEDULE

The 2017 10:00 Mass Coffee Schedule is being prepared. We invite all organizations and parish families to host these coffee socials.We are always looking for new people to serve as hosts. The parish provides the coffee and supplies; you need only to bring the baked goods, put on the coffee, be a good host and clean up afterward. To volunteer contact Dalia Armonas (jarmonas@sbcglobal.net) Loretta Gudenas (lgudenas@yahoo.com /216-481-0465) or Ingrid Civinskas (icivinsk@yahoo.com / 440-838-0652).

PARISH WEBSITE

We encourage you to visit our website several times during the week for the latest news about what is going on in the parish.  We are now listing funerals and other important news. We thank Amanda Muliolis for all her work on our website. Visit us at: www.saintcasimirparish.org

PHOTO-ARCHIVE:

We continue to build the photo archive of our parish since its beginning in October, 2009. Submit your photos electronically to: stcasimircleveland archive@gmail.com , write them on a CD and submit them to the Rectory, or send in your photos for us to scan into the system. Our archive can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/svkazimierostcasimircleveland/ We thank Danute Belzinskiene for her work on this project. We are interested to hear your comments and suggestions. Send your comments to Father Bacevice at the Rectory.

     Thursday of this week is Thanksgiving Day, the holiday set aside each year for us to pause and give thanks to God for all that we have. Too many times we allow ourselves to become critics and complainers. It seems that we can always find things to criticize in our society and in our Church.

     On Thanksgiving Day, we are reminded to look beyond the problems and difficulties and look at what we do have. Even our poorest people have a place to live and food to eat. We have access to health care and we have a voice in our government. As people of faith, we have much for which we are thankful. We are free to practice our faith and we have a loving God who watches over us.

     On this Thanksgiving Day, let us all take time to offer a prayer of thanks to God for all the gifts we have received. Let us also remember those who have less than we do. Let us renew our efforts to help everyone improve their lives so we can continue to grow as people and as a society of justice, of peace and of love.

     One of the best ways we can offer thanks is to worship together as a community. On Thanksgiving day, I invite everyone in the parish to gather together for the celebration of Mass at 9:00 am and to give thanks.
 

God Bless!   Fr. Joe Bacevice

REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

Remember in your prayers the soul of Theresia Banyai  who died last week and was buried from our Parish. May she have eternal rest in the peace of God’s Kingdom.

OFFICES CLOSED:

Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. Because of the holiday, our offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week

 PASTORAL COUNCIL NEWS

With this bulletin, we have a Pastoral Council insert which describes their work during the past year. Our Pastoral Council is always looking for ideas, suggestions and comments regarding our parish. Please feel free to contact any member of our Pastoral Council.

THANK YOU

We thank all who came down to our lower hall to enjoy the pancake breakfast held last Sunday. There were 110 who purchased breakfasts. After expenses, $561 was raised for the parish. Special thanks to those who set up, cleaned up, and cooked for this fund raiser. God Bless all of you.

CHRISTMAS FLOWER DONATIONS

The Altar Society decorates the church each Christmas with live flowers. Your current envelope packet has an envelope marked “Christmas Flowers.” Please help decorate the Church by making a donation for Christmas flowers.