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Some customers couldn’t make it to last Saturday’s bake sale because of the snow/sleet/rain weather.  So we’ve extended the sale to Saturday December 21, 2013 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

So on the 21st you can still come and decorate your own cookies – a great activity for children and the kids in all of us.
Both sugar and ginger cookies are available to decorate yourself. You also have an option to decorate sugar & ginger cookies made with gluten free flour – until supplies last.
If you call in advance you may be able to purchase our cookies and baked goods during the week. Call 317-632-4157 to arrange a pick-up.
We’ve already had one customer buy a second 16″ party tray of cookies after the first one, bought 2 days earlier, was such a success. These make great gifts and many people have taken them to work parties.
Thank you for your patronage.

Christmas Cookie & More Bake Sale – December 21, 2013Read More

— Updated 12/9/2013
Friends and parishioners have been working hard to make Christmas cookies for your Christmas holiday season. If you need help with your hectic holiday baking we’ve done the work for you.

The sale is being held in the parish hall (just behind the rectory) on Saturday, 12/14/2013, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. You’re invited. Children will be able to decorate their own cookie(s) in the hall during the event. Each cookie to be decorated is only $1. More pictures are coming soon.
We’re already selling plates, bags, 1 dozen trays and 72 piece trays of cookies at the church and at the Carmel and Binford markets. You can still pick up baked goods at the church any day from 9:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. – just call ahead to make sure someone will be here to help you.
These are the colorful and tasty cookies made so far: Peanut Butter Blossoms, Mexican Wedding Cakes, Haystacks, Santa Whiskers, Chocolate-dipped Apricots, Kolachy (apricot, walnut, poppy seed, raspberry, lekvar, cherry, lemon), Sugar cookies, Chocolate Chip cookies (some with sugar and others made with Splenda), Chocolate Carmel Buttons (with either M&M, pecan or walnut topping), gingerbread cookies, decorated chocolate-covered pretzel sticks. Also made with gluten free flour: Almond Cresents, No-bake cookie dough dipped in chocolate, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, and Mint Wafers. Please note that we are not a gluten free facility. Wheat flour is used in our kitchen. We try to keep one mixer and trays set aside for gluten free products but if your super sensitive to gluten then you should not use our cookies. We still encourage you to buy our cookies for someone else who doesn’t have gluten intolerance. They make great colorful, eye-popping gifts. (You can see them grinning from ear-to-ear already, can’t you?)
Our absolutely yummy pumpkin rolls are made with 2013 harvested pumpkins that we’ve pureed ourselves. Made with only 10 ingredients – unlike the grocery store version with close to 30 ingredients with all those preservatives. That’s why someone commented that our pumpkin logs were the “Cadillac of pumpkin rolls.” In late November we made some pumpkin logs with Splenda for those watching their calories. Over Thanksgiving weekend they were given a hearty “Thumbs-Up” by families in Ohio and Indiana. So we’re making more for our customers.
We encourage you to pre-order Christmas cookies and baked goods prior to Wednesday December 11th to be assured your selections aren’t already sold or give us a chance to make more. Call 317-632-4157. Oh, BTW, our other baked goods of nut & poppy seed potica rolls (and other flavors), kolachy, biscotti, pizzelles, pumpkin rolls, herbal bread and “Wonderful Waffles” will also be available until we run out.
Here is our 2013 Christmas cookie flyer. Thanks for dropping by.

Christmas Cookie and Bakery Sale – December 14, 2013Read More

Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
Tonight is the 4th Wednesday of the month. At 7 p.m. we are celebrating the Ancient Healing Service with the Paraklesis followed by the Mystery of Anointing with Holy Oil. Then those who wish to come forward can have Father and other members lay hands on them for their own healing or sitting in proxy for another.
In preparation for the service we’d like to suggest you quiet yourself, ask the Holy Spirit to give you wisdom and understanding then contemplate these passages in the Bible:

Healing Service tonight – October 23, 2013Read More

This is the flyer promoting:

• tonight’s 7 p.m. prayer service for victims of abortion and
• Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. first session on Living the Liturgy  by Very Rev. Protopresbyter Bryan R. Eyman. D. Min. D. Phil.

Feel free to print & pass it on to others. FYI: the flyer was distributed Tuesday evening at Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic parish’s presentation on “Texts of the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus the Christ” by Fr. Frank Bryan.

Moleben for the Unborn – October 16, 2013Read More

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The Theotokos had her son, Jesus Christ, provide all the bishops, priests, deacons, sisters, pilgrims and workers with great weather (despite some humidity and a short drizzle on Sunday) for the 79th Annual Pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The event is held at Mount St. Macrina in Uniontown, PA. on Labor Day Weekend (Aug 31- Sept 1.) This year’s theme was “Theotokos, Steadfast Foundation of Faith.” It was a prayerful event for those who participated in many of the liturgies and received the Holy Mysteries of Repentance, Holy Anointing and Holy Eucharist.
The Sisters of St. Basil the Great of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Province host clergy, grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles, nieces & nephews who continue the tradition of gathering together, some from thousands of miles away, to be with one another worshiping God and asking Mary for her intercession. Everyone also experiences the beautiful grounds of Mount Macrina and enjoy one another’s company eating at Light Lunch, the Racetrack or many of the restaurants that have sprung up along Main St. over the past few decades.
In my experience it’s like a religious gymnasium. There’s plenty of prayerful services to participate in and there’s rolling hills to negotiate between each altar, shrine or other venue. It’s also a family reunion. During the weekend I visit immediate family (including lots of cousins & their children) and many others I know from: multiple parishes I’ve visited, clergy from all four eparchies in the USA & one eparchy in Canada and friends I’ve met at past Otpusts. Since I have grandparents, a godparent, aunts & uncles buried in the cemetery there, our family and some friends have our own Panachida for the deceased at the individual grave sites. We say the rosary too.
After Saturday and Sunday evening candle light processions on the Mount we go back to the hotel. Family and friends bring in food and play cards while looking through old & new family pictures, reminiscing and catching up with one another’s lives.
Pilgrims leave the Mount refreshed with uplifted spirits.  Sister Seraphim Olsafsky, provincial of the Sisters of St. Basil, at the end of Sunday’s 4 p.m. Divine Liturgy said, “Your presence lights up this mount, and the shadow casts a peaceful glow over Mount St. Macrina throughout the year.” That sentiment is a 2-way street. Thank you, Sisters of St. Basil.
On the way home, and at the following Sunday’s church social at St. Athanasius the Great parish, I enjoy the medovniki (honey cakes) purchased at the pilgrimage. According to their flyer the medovniki is “shared with those who were not able to attend.” So I bring medovniki back to Indianapolis every year. (Note: our parish bakers also make a version of these honey cookies at the church at other times of the year. It’s not the Sisters’ recipe, which is a highly guarded secret, but ours are really good too. I will concede that the Sisters and their volunteer bakers really know how to decorate the cookies.)
The pilgrimage started in 1935.  Next year will be the 80th. Put this on your to-do list for 2014. I plan to return and hope to see you there.
… John Danovich

2013 Pilgrimage to Mount Macrina Uniontown PA – Labor Day 2013Read More

There will be a memorial Mass for Melvin Loidolt, of blessed memory, on Saturday June 29th at St. Andrew’s the Apostle Catholic Church in Indianapolis at 10:30 AM with luncheon to follow.

Melvin J. Loidolt, 84

Melvin J. Loidolt, a resident of Indianapolis, Ind., formerly of Pierz, MN passed away Monday, June 10, 2013, at St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little Falls, MN.
Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday, June 14, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Pierz, with Father Kenneth Popp officiating. Burial took place in Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Melvin J. Loidolt was born Nov. 5, 1928, on a farm near Pierz, to Frank and Josephine (Happke) Loidolt. Mel was the sixth child in the family of nine children. Richard, Dorene, Elmer, Laura and Cora have passed away. Patricia (Dick) Bujalski of Pierz, Ron (Bonnie) Loidolt of Fort Ripley and Sharilyn Busta of Peru, Ind., survive. Mel has two grandchildren: Jordan and Kaleigh. Mel has 32 nieces and nephews.
Mel’s military service was in the United States Army in Germany. He continued his elementary teacher’s education at Bemidji University in Bemidji, graduating in August 1954. In all, he taught 41 years in the states and overseas. In Germany, he taught in the American Dependent School in Mainz and Heidelberg where he met Kathryn Sullivan. They were married Aug. 16, 1958, in Corning, Iowa. The couple returned to Heidelberg, Germany. Their daughter, Mary, was born June 24, 1961, but lived only 11 hours. They transferred to Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa, one year; to Seoul, Korea, one year; Camp Zama, Japan, three years, serving 10 years of teaching American children of military families. Their son, Marcus Jon, was born in the military hospital in Camp Zama, Japan. Mel and Kay returned to the United States and settled in Indianapolis, Ind., where their daughter, Kim, was born. Mel taught in Warren Township at Eastridge Elementary School for 24 years. He received his master’s degree at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. Mel retired from teaching school in 1990. During his retirement, he was active in St. Andrew’s Catholic Church on a variety of projects. He served as president on the St. Vincent de Paul Society for 18 years and was recently honored with their “Top Hat” award for his dedication to the organization. He was a member of the Secular Franciscans, Knights of Columbus #5290 and American Legion and also enjoyed being an usher for Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) for many years.

Mel will long be remembered for the kindness and compassion he bestowed on so many and the abundance of joy he brought to his family and friends.

In blessed repose, grant, O Lord, eternal rest to the soul of Your servant, Melvin Loidolt,  and remember him forever. Vičnaja jemu pamjať.

Melvin Joseph Loidolt memorial Mass – June 29, 2013Read More

Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
We thank you Lord that the Holy Spirit has inspired the conclave of cardinals to elect our new pope in such a short time. May the entire Catholic Church, other Christians, religious and the laity welcome Pope Francis (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) with open arms.
We pray for Pope Francis that he follows the will of God in bringing the Gospel to the entire world. May the peoples of the world seek God’s message and embrace God’s will for all to love Him and love one another. May we work to give dignity to all of God’s creations, strive to live in peace and diligently seek to follow the example of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
May God grant your humble servant, newly-elected Pope Francis, many happy and blessed years. Mnohaya i blahaya lita! (Church Slavonic)

New Holy Father – Pope Francis – March 13, 2013Read More

Weekly Schedule

Sunday, Mar. 3, 2013	3rd Sunday of the Great Fast *   Veneration of the Cross
10 am	Divine Liturgy                             + Florence Lucia
Following liturgy	Fellowship in St. Mary’s Hall – everyone is invited
Noon – 2 pm	Pysanky class – visitors & parishioners are invited
Monday, Mar. 4, 2013
6 pm	Paraklesis
Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2013
	No activities
Wed., Mar. 6, 2013	Mid-Lent
noon	Office of Hours
Thursday, Mar. 7, 2013
9 am – 6 pm	Baking in St. Mary’s Hall
Friday, Mar. 8, 2013
7 pm	Presanctified Liturgy including praying   for 4th All Souls Saturday
Saturday, Mar. 9, 2013	40 Martyrs of Sebaste
5 pm	Vigil Divine Liturgy for Sunday   +Paul Eshleman
Sunday, Mar. 10, 2013	4th Sunday of the Great Fast – John Climacus*
10 am	Divine Liturgy                           +Dorothy DeMaio
Following liturgy	Fellowship in St. Mary’s Hall – everyone is invited
	Note: * designates obligation to attend liturgy

Announcements

Events Calendar

• The first class on decorating pysanky (Easter eggs) is today, March 3^rd from noon until 2 p.m. Come and learn this colorful tradition. A modest fee of $5 will help pay for the supplies.
• This Friday, March 8^th, All Souls Saturday is being celebrated as a vigil following Friday’s Presanctified Liturgy at 7 p.m. Please attend both services with a single trip to church and stay for a dinner. An educational video can be shown with the meal if the attendees wish.
• The 1^st Ancient Healing Service this month is Wednesday, March 13. Please plan to join us.
• The next Knights of Columbus brunch will include hosting members of the Knights from Muncie on Sunday, March 17^th. 

 

 

The Great Fast: Cross-Veneration Week signals the mid-point of our journey into Light. As a child, did you ever run up a see-saw and try walking to the center, struggling to keep your balance? You know that once you reach its mid-point, you need a foot planted on either side of the center to maintain your balance. … You decide to jump off, or you maintain a steady, balanced position and descend the other side of the board.

   Like children eagerly anticipating the challenge of the see-saw, we begin our greatfast journey with joy-filled hearts, determined to find our particular pattern of balance to carry us through this season of repentance. … We have reached the midpoint of our penitential journey to Holy Pascha. Are we ready to give in to the temptation to terminate the journey?

   … The Holy Cross reminds us that if we wish to demonstrate our own love as Jesus did, then we must suffer the pangs of the journey …  The entire article is here.

 

We’re in the news!: James Glass, a historic preservation and heritage consultant, has published an article on our church building and community. The article is inserted in today’s bulletin.

Weekly Bulletin – March 3, 2013Read More