VESTNIK 2022 | VESTNIK 2022 | 67 VESTNIK 2022 | 69 VESTNIK 2022 | 71 8. NEDELJA MED LETOM 8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SLOVENSKA ŽUPNIJA SV. GREGORIJA VELIKEGA | ST. GREGORY THE GREAT SLOVENIAN CHURCH 9/58 Številka - Number / Leto - Year 27.2. 2022 Fr. Drago Gacnik, SDB ŽUPNIK - PASTOR NASLOV - ADDRESS 125 Centennial Pkwy N. Hamilton, ON L8E 1H8 PHONE: 905-561-5971 CELL: 905-520-2014 E-MAIL gregory_sdb@ stgregoryhamilton.ca WEB PAGE www.carantha.com HALL RENTALS CELL: 905-518-6159 E-MAIL hallrental@ stgregoryhamilton.ca VESTNIK Evangelist sv. Luka, tako imenovani evangelist Kristu-sovega usmiljenja, nam v šestem poglavju posreduje tudi zelo konkretne Jezusove besede, kako naj v življenju živimo odrešeno, blaženo. Stvar, ki nedvomno mocno bremeni medsebojne odnose v obcestvih, družinah in skupnostih, je go-tovo obsojanje. Lahko bi rekli, da je slehernemu izmed nas prirojen ne-kak sodniški nagon, podoben skriti kameri na cestnem križišcu, ki ob storjeni napaki poslika. Vendar je v življenju še kaj pomembnejšega, kot pa vecno prežati na napake drugih. Kristus si je s svojim naukom prizadeval razbiti v nas prikrito sodni-ško kamero na tisoc koscev. »Ne sodite, da ne boste sojeni!« (Mt 7,1) Neizprosno trdovraten clovek nas nehote spomni na stroj, ki neusmi-ljeno rije v teren in izravnava pred seboj vse, kar pride predenj. Kar je prispodoba za nekoga, ki ne pozna slabosti negotovosti, dvoma, kratke-ga obotavljanja in še manj razumevanja ali velikodušnosti; na nekoga, ki nenehno obtožuje, obsoja, obdolžuje, sumnici. Takšnega cloveka v bistvu navdihuje nespoštovanje do socloveka in zato prezirljivo vedenje. Vsak njegov stavek je obsodba; vsak njegov pogovor predstavitev obto-žencev; vsak njegov obtoženec pa kriminalec brez olajševalnih okolišcin. Obsojevalnemu vedenju pogosto botruje tudi globoka domišljavost ali napuh. V svoji kratkovidnosti se clovek lahko spozabi in pomisli, da bi bil sposoben presoje globokih osebnih skrivnosti, v katere lahko pro-dre izkljucno On, ki mu je lastno, da »preiskuje srce in obisti«. Tako po-staja podoben nevednemu otroku, ki bi z žepno baterijo hotel napraviti rentgenski posnetek. Že v najstarejših casih kršcanstva so izkušeni voditelji duhovnega življenja radi ponavljali: »Nic ni slabšega kot obsojanje.« V spisih menihov iz sirske pušcave beremo o redovniku, ki je imel navado obsojati sobrata, cim je pri njem opazil spodrsljaj. Njegov voditelj ga je zato trdo prijel v roke in posvaril: »Moj brat, goto-vo se motiš in pogubljaš svojo dušo, kajti nihce ne pozna cloveka, razen duh, ki v njem prebiva. Zato ne sme nihce obsojati drugega, ceprav se mu zdi, da ocitno greši. En sam je sodnik, Sin božji. Vsak clovek, ki obsoja, pa je tako rekoc nasprotnik Boga - pred Kristusom, saj si s svojim dejanjem prisvaja moc, ki jo je Oce izrocil samo Kristusu.« Clovek evangelija ob stvareh, ki ne gredo do-bro, skuša pretresti najprej svojo plat odgovorno-sti in krivde in ne pokaže s prstom najprej na dru-gega. Prirojeni obtoževalni gon preusmeri najprej na sebe samega. In tako obremenjen s svojim dele-žem krivde pade pred Gospoda odpušcanja in usmiljenja; Gospoda, ki ga ne obsoja vec, saj se je že sam obsodil. Njegova molitev postaja molitev skesanega Davida: »Usmili se me, Bog, po svoji milosrcnosti; po obilnosti svojega usmiljenja izbri-ši mojo pregreho!« (Ps 51,3) Današnji evangeljski odlomek že na zacetku omenja dva slepca. Šestkrat govori o bolnem oce-su, dvakrat o srcu, enkrat o ustih. Tudi pripoved o dobrem sadu je povezana z zdravstvom, saj je do-ber tisti sad, ki daje moc in zdravje. Tudi ce Luka prej ni bil zdravnik, je to postal, ko je sprejel kr-šcansko vero. Postal je namrec zdravnik duš. Da so duhovne bolezni hujše od telesnih, je vedel že prej. Ko se Luka sklicuje na staro modrost, ki pravi, da v primeru, ko slepec vodi slepca, oba padeta v jamo, nas opozarja, naj se ne damo voditi komur-koli, ampak le tistemu, ki ima zdrave duhovne oci. Ce pa smo mi voditelji, naj skrbimo, da bodo naši pogledi zdravi. Isto misel nadaljuje, ko govori o drevesu. Njegove vrednosti ne presoja po lesu, de-blu, listju ali po cem drugem, ampak po sadovih. Bruno in iver v ocesu sta izrazita primera vzhodnjaške govorice, ki ljubi slikovitost in preti-ravanje. Luka nas hoce ozdraviti tiste duhovne zaslepljenosti, ki lastnih napak ne vidi, tuje pa cez mero povecuje. Skupnost je toliko zdrava, kolikor so zdravi posamezniki. - (Prim. L. Bratina in F. Cerar) Jezus nas poucuje 66 | VESTNIK 2022 68 | VESTNIK 2022 70 | VESTNIK 2022 72 | VESTNIK 2022 8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Response: Lord, it is good to give thanks to you . First Reading Ecclesiasticus 27:4-7 What we say reveals who we truly are. Second Reading 1 Corinthians 15:54-58 Physical death does not have the last word, thanks to the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gospel Luke 6:39-45 Jesus warns us against thinking that we might be better people than we actually are. “For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.” Illustration There is an interesting story about St Francis de Sales and his imaginative approach to the giv-ing of penances as part of the sacrament of rec-onciliation. A certain person came to Francis and confessed to the sin of gossiping about their neighbour. Francis told the person to take a bag of feathers, maybe a pillow, up to the top of the church tower and to scatter the contents into the air; then the person was to report back. The peni-tent dutifully carried out the confessor’s instruc-tions. When the person then returned, Francis told them to go out, collect all the feathers and put them back into the bag. Somewhat stunned, the individual concerned pleaded that this was impossible, that the wind would have carried the feathers far and wide. The saint then said that this is what had happened to all the things the person had said about others: whether the re-marks were true or not did not matter; the dam- age to the other person could never be undone, because words cannot be taken back once they are spoken. We can apologise, say that we did not really mean what we said and claim that we have been misunderstood, but we can never fully retract the words as if we had never uttered them. It is perhaps worth bearing in mind that, if we enjoy listening to gossip about other people, the person telling us the fascinating details is likely to be talking about us to others in turn. Gospel Teaching The Wisdom writing in the Bible deals not so much with what we would call doctrine as with hu-man life. Today’s reading from Ecclesiasticus, which forms the backdrop to today’s Gospel extract, con-centrates on how a person’s speech reveals what sort of character that person really is. Luke presents us with a series of statements of Jesus that warn his hearers to be careful in their judgement of other people. The example of the plank and the splinter is an instance of exaggeration or hyperbole to make the point: being concerned about a minor short-coming in someone else can blind us to our own, probably greater failings. The second section uses the idea that we can most easily recognise what type of tree we are look-ing at if we see what kind of fruit it bears. We might not be sure from the plant’s shape or its leaves, but its fruit leaves no room for doubt. Jesus, the Wisdom teacher, makes his point by using his hearers’ powers of observation in regard to the natural world to make his point. Just as the fruit infallibly reveals the spe-cies of the tree, so a person’s speech identifies what that person’s inner self is really like. This is borne out in modern psychology, for example, when someone “accidentally” makes a mistake and uses the wrong word, such as, perhaps, reading out during the Psalm at Mass, instead of “Before whom shall I shrink?” the words “Before whom shall I drink?” This is what we commonly refer to as a “Freudian slip”. Application The Gospel message is all about conversion, about change. In the light of today’s reading, it is not about changing the way we behave, or the way we talk, but about changing the way we think. This is what humility is all about: being right-sized. It means having a proper appreciation of who we really are, with our good and strong points as well as our short-comings. There is a poster that urges its readers to “Watch your thoughts, they become your words… your actions… your habits… your character… your destiny.” That expresses well the influence that our thoughts can have on our very selves. In the Christian context, we might remember that one of the important elements in our celebration of the Eucharist is table-fellowship, which forms part of the background to Jesus’ meals with other people. This often landed him in so much trouble with those religious people who were, in Jesus’ view, overly concerned with what we might call respectability, and who went and muttered, or gossiped among themselves, about him and his behaviour. And we should all remember that the last words we say be-fore receiving Holy Communion are, “Lord, I am not worthy…” Cilj naše kampanje je v treh letih zbrati vsoto $200,000.00 za našo župni-jo. Nekateri še vedno ne razumejo, da vse, kar boste darovali preko te kampa-nje, bo prejela naša župnija in še 10% iz skupnega sklada. Škofijski uradi pa bo-do vodili vse racunovodske zadeve, tako, da nam ne bo potrebno tega dela urejati. V Vestniku objavimo koliko ste »obljubili« da boste darovali za kampa-njo za našo župnijo preko škofijskega racuna in koliko je že dejansko »vplacanega«. Iz škofije so nam sedaj poslali kodo, da lahko sami pogledamo tekoce stanje na našem racunu. Na racunu »Eno Srce, Ena Duša« za našo slovensko župnijo sv. Gregorija Velikega je: $124,843. - Pledged - Feb 14, 2022 $99,478. - Paid - Feb 14, 2022 Hvala vsem, ki ste že prispevali. Smo že krepko cez polovico zastav-ljenega cilja. Tokrat so se številke kar dvignile. 40 DAYS FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN 40 Days for Life is HERE! A first for Hamilton! We invite YOU (young and old) to participate in a PEACEFUL prayer vigil across the street from McMaster Children's Hospital, happening each day (March 2 - April 10) from 7am to 7pm. We will send a message of love to the communi-ty, to those who work for abortion, and those who may be seeking an abortion; showing them that there are other options. SIGN UP ONLINE: https://bit.ly/40dayshamilton OR CALL 905-962-2864 (Volunteer hours to High School Students can be offered). MAŠA V LONDONU Slovenska skupnost v Londonu se je, v nedeljo 20. februarja, v lepem številu, okrog 35, zbrala pri sveti maši v angleški cerkvi St. John the Divine. Lepo je vsaj ob taki priložno-sti videti prijatelje in izmenjati besedo ali dve. Curbside Food and Wine Sale Saturday, March 5, 2022 Goulash & Polenta Dinner with Coleslaw - $23 Goulash & Pasta Dinner with Coleslaw - $23 Meatloaf & Barley Pilaf Dinner with Coleslaw - $20 Apple Strudel (unbaked, frozen), 24” length - $20 Slovenian Wine, $25 per bottle: Janževec (white, 1L, sugar code 0) Ranina (white, 750 ml, sugar code 1) Modra Frankinja (red, 750 ml) (Must be 19 years or older to purchase beer or wine) Pre-Orders only from February 28th to March 2nd By email only: info@lipapark.ca Please specify the name of the person who will be picking up the order. You will receive a confirmation email after ordering with your pick-up time, and total cost. Please bring cheque or exact change on pick-up day. We will also be accepting your 2022 Lipa Park Membership dues. (Please have food and membership money separate.) Thank you for your support! OBVESTILA - ANNOUNCEMENTS CIŠCENJE CERKVE - CLEANING OF THE CHURCH March 5th Jožica Vegelj and team March 12th Gosgnach team March 19th Groznik, Erzar, Lukežic March 26th Lojska Novak team POSTNI CAS - PEPELNICA S pepelnicno sredo zacenjamo 40 dnevni postni cas, to so 40-dnevne duhovne vaje za vse kristjane. Cerkev nas v tem casu vabi, da bi se notranje pripravili na praznovanje Velike noci. Tudi vse oblike pokore in dobrih del, ki nam jih ta cas priporoca in nalaga imajo na-men pomagati, da zares stopimo na pot spre-obrnjenja in poboljšanja. Na pepelnicno sredo, letos je to 2. marca, bo pri vecerni maši tudi pepelje-nje. Duhovnik verniku na glavo simbolicno posuje blagoslovljen pepel, s cimer se navzven pokaže notranja razpoložljivost vernika za spreobrnjenje oziroma poboljšanje življenja. Duhovniki in ostali bogoslužni sodelavci v postnem casu nosijo bogoslužna oblacila v vijolicni barvi. V postnem casu ne pojemo Aleluje. Kot ste verjetno že slišali, je papež vse po-vabil naj bi na pepelnicno sredo naše molitve in post namenili za mir na svetu, posebej za mir v Ukrajini. Postna postava: Ob zacetku in koncu postnega casa (Pepelnica in Veliki petek) za vse (od 18. do 60. leta) velja STROGI POST, ko ne uživamo mesa in se le enkrat na dan lahko do sitega najemo. Tudi na vse POSTNE PETKE velja odpoved mesnim jedem, k cemur smo sicer spodbujeni skozi vse leto. Seveda pa smo v postnem casu povabljeni tudi k vsem drugim oblikam spokornosti in razlicnim odpovedim. Povab-ljeni smo, da zmanjšamo ali ukinemo vse nadstandardne priboljške. Za otroke je to lah-ko 40 dni brez sladkarij, cokola-de, slanarij, … Vsaka odpoved naj za seboj potegne odlocitev! Ce zmanjšam gledanje televizije za eno uro na dan, imam eno uro casa, ki ga lahko posvetim ostalim družinskim clanom, osamljenim prijateljem in znancem, … Lahko tudi vec molim. Ko se odpovedujem razlicnim prehranskim priboljškom, lahko na ta nacin privarcevani denar namenim ubogim. Postni cas nas torej vabi in izziva, da bi po-stali boljši, da bi v sebi odkrili tisto, kar nas oddaljuje od Boga in drugih in to iznicili. Ne izpustimo te cudovite priložnosti! KRIŽEV POT Križev pot bomo v naši cerkvi molili oz. pre-mišljevali, vsak petek pol ure pred vecerno sveto mašo, t.j. ob 6:30 p.m. Vabljeni, da skupaj premišljujejo in molimo ob Jezusovem trpljenju. PRVI PETEK - FIRST FRIDAY Ta teden je pri petek v mesecu marcu. Ker imamo ob pol sedmih zvecer križev pot, bo priložnost za sveto spoved že ob pol šestih - 5:30 p.m. VECNA LUC Vecna luc bo v mesecu marcu gorela za pokojnega Joe Hanc, po namenu žene Olge in družine. Biblical Walk Through The Mass All are welcome to a 6 week Lenten program each Tuesday in Lent beginning March 8th at St. Charles Garnier Parish. Two sessions to choose from each day, 10:00 am or 6:00 pm. Cost $30.00. Call 905-528-0074 to register. We look forward to seeing you there! POGREB - FUNERAL V petek je Bog poklical k sebi našo faranko Hil-do Žigon. Pokojna bo ležala v Markey Dermody Funeral Home v ponedeljek med 4. in 7. uro zvecer, molitev bo ob 4h popoldne. Pogrebna masa bo v naši cerkvi v torek, 1. marca ob 10h dopoldne. Iskreno sožalje možu in vsej družini, pokojni Hildi pa vecni mir in pokoj. INCOME TAX POTRDILA V veži imate Income Tax potrdila. Ce se je pri-kradla kakšna napaka, mi prosim sporocite, da jo popravim. Kar ne boste vzeli ta vikend, bomo v ponedeljek poslali po pošti. SVETE MAŠE - MASS TIMES: Monday to Friday: 7:00 P.M., Saturday: 5:30 P.M. (Slovenian-Sunday Mass); Sunday: 10:00 A.M. (Slovenian-English - For the time of Covid-19 it is only one Mass on Sundays) - KRSTI / BAPTISMS: For an appointment, call one month before. POROKE / MARRIAGE: For an appointment, call one year before the wedding date. SPOVED / CONFES-SIONS: First Friday of the month 6 -7:00 P.M. (or by appointment) BOLNIKI - Sporocite, ce je kdo bolan ali v bolnišnici, da ga obišcemo. You are welcome to call for a personal conversation with your priest – please call for an appointment. Tel: 905-561-5971. DON BOSCO V tem tednu so naslednje obletnice smrti faranov, ki so zapisani v naših knjigah: HEART TO HEART - BISHOP OF HAMILTON POPE FRANCIS HAS CALLED FOR MARCH 2nd, ASH WEDNESDAY, to be a day of prayer and fast-ing for Ukraine. Because it is Ash Wednesday, we already follow the practice of prayer, fasting, and abstinence. So the Pope’s call can be met with a strong response from Catholic’s world-wide. Here in our Diocese, with churches able to welcome worshippers at full capacity for the first time in two years, we, and all people of good will, are encouraged to heed the Pope’s call. If you are unable or reticent to return “in per-son”, many Parishes will be “live-streaming” their services. As well, our Diocesan website has a pre-taped Liturgy of the Word for Ash Wednes-day, with Bishop Wayne Lobsinger presiding at St. Ann Parish, Ancaster. Let us pray fervently for our suffering sisters and brothers in Ukraine. IN A MEMO FROM OUR DIOCESAN CHANCEL-LOR Monsignor Murray Kroetsch announced the long-awaited news that the Ontario Government has made major changes to COVID-19 protocols. These affect our Parishes effective March 1st! Churches may open to full capacity (including parish halls and meeting rooms). Ropes can be removed. Masks continue to be required by all who attend Mass, two-years old and older. Social distancing mandates are no longer in place. All liturgical ministries may re-sume – vaccination is not required. Congregational singing is permitted and choirs may resume – wearing masks. Cantors may be unmasked, maintaining 3-meter dis-tance from others. Read the entire letter here. We have waited a long time for these protocols to be relaxed. Thank you to all for your compliance. Kovic Vinko February 28, 2013 Pavlic Maks February 28, 2020 Tompa Eufemija March 5, 1993 Virant Sophia March 5, 2014 Gonza Štefan March 5, 2015 Tompa Joyce Helen March 5, 2020 Hocevar Anton March 6, 2004 SVETE MAŠE - MASSES 27. 2. 2022 - 6. 3. 2022 8. NEDELJA MED LETOM 8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 27. FEBRUAR GABRIJEL ŽALOSTNE MATE-RE BOŽJE, REDOVNIK †† † † †† † † † Za žive in rajne župljane Jožef in Emilija Balažic Anton Vengar Tilka Vengar Pokojni sorodniki in prijatelji Irma Dorencec Janez Stanko Franc Virag 10:00 A.M. ------------- Hci z družino Rose Marie in Tony Vengar z dru. Rose Marie in Tony Vengar z dru. Rose Marie in Tony Vengar z dru. Ignac in Gabriella Robacer Janez Lovrencec Janez Lovrencec PONEDELJEK - MONDAY 28. FEBRUAR Roman, opat † † † Ignac Horvat Maks Pavlic, obl. Vinko Kovic, obl. 7:00 P.M. Rozina Horvat Žena Milka z družino Stojanka Zecevic TOREK - TUESDAY 1. MAREC Albin, škof - PUST † † Hilda Žigon Po namenu Eileen MacKenzie 10:00 A.M. 7:00 P.M. Pogrebna maša Ana Tadic N.N. SREDA - WEDNESDAY 2. MAREC PEPELNICA † Po namenu Zoltan Gergyek 7:00 P.M. CWL - KŽZ Sonja Langenfus CETRTEK - THURSDAY 3. MAREC Kunigunda, cesarica † † Milka Skale Brat Štefan 7:00 P.M. Tatjana in Zvone Zaletel Ivan in Rozina Doma PRVI PETEK - FIRST FRIDAY 4. MAREC Kazimir, kralj † † Križev pot - Stations of the Cross Terezija Gönc Viktor Glavac Po namenu 6:30 P.M. 7:00 P.M. Olga Glavac z družino Žena Olga z družino Ivka Pašalic SOBOTA - SATURDAY 5. MAREC Hadrijan, mucenec Olivija, mucenka †† † † † †† † Verona, Matej in Frank Curic Adolf Košir Štefan Gabor, obl. Marija Bukvic Jožef in Eufemija (obl.) Tompa Štefan Gonza, obl. 5:30 P.M. Marija in Jože Magdic z družino Marija Košir Hci Angela in Ivan Antolin z druž. Anton Bukvic z družino Agata in Alojz Sarjaš z družino Žena Vera z družino 1. POSTNA NEDELJA 1ST SUNDAY OF LENT 6. MAREC FRIDOLIN (MIROSLAV), OPAT † † †† †† † † † Za žive in rajne župljane Jože Razpotnik, Sr. Joe Hanc Frank in Matthew Curic Ida in Jože Fticar Marija Dominko Ida Fticar Rado Kokalj, 30. dan (Argentina) 10:00 A.M. ------------- Anica Blas Žena Olga z družino Olga Hanc z družino Ana Gergyek Milka Pavlic Marjan in Elizabeth Hozjan Demšar, Scarcelli in Prudon Fam.