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Parish Committee Installation Service – 2018

About us, Frackville, PNCC /

Our newly constituted Parish Committee was installed on Sunday, March 11th. This years officers and trustees are:

  • Chairperson – Mrs. Ann Marie Wycheck
  • Vice-Chair – Mrs. Marjorie Dean
  • Recording Secretary – Mr. Lance Nelson
  • Treasurer – Mr. James Abicunas
  • Financial Secretary – Mrs. Sandra Elsavage
  • Directors: Mrs. Elaine Antalosky, Mrs. Barbara David, Mrs. Judith Touchinsky, Mrs. Betty Brazausky, Mrs. Jean Keim, Ms. Angela Elsavage, Mr. John Plaxa, Mr. George Tokarczyk, Mr. George Wycheck.

Congratulations and May God Bless You All!

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Heritage Sunday (“C”) – October 16, 2016

From the Pastor, PNCC /

8 Tips to Help Your Children Appreciate Their Heritage:

  1. Cook traditional foods and make mealtime something important. Eating while all sitting at the table will make the foods more meaningful.
  2. Don’t forget your home country’s holidays; it will definitely be fun for your kids to have more holidays and celebration.
  3. If you live in a community where there is no representation from your culture, become one. Plan activities for your kids where you can show them more about your culture, invite your children’s friends.
  4. Involve your children in issues relevant to your culture (depending on their age). Make them aware of cultural events, news or needs of the community.
  5. Play traditional music in your home. You can create fun games about who dances better, who knows the lyrics and such.
  6. Keep in touch with family members abroad. Let your children talk to cousins, aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas. This will make them feel part of that group as well.
  7. Teach them basic history, the flag and basic geography of your country. They won’t know as much as a child that is being raised there, but they should know more than a child with a different background.
  8. Speak to them in your own language. It’s one of the basics for your kids to get immersed in the culture, being able to communicate with relatives who don’t speak English.

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Christian Family (“C”) – October 9, 2016

From the Pastor, PNCC /

We are inclined to dismiss the possibility that our families can be like the Holy Family. We forget that Jesus’ family was holy because they lived united to God. Every family is far from the ideal because every family is made of unique individuals with their positive qualities and their negative quirks. If you think your family is strange, you’re right. Your family is strange, but so are you. And my family is strange, and so am I. All families have their positive and negative aspects.

Being a holy Christian family means being a family separate for the Lord. To be holy means to be set distinct from all that is not holy. So for our families to be holy we have to choose that which is often contrary to the choices made by other families. For example, we keep immoral material, shows, etc. out of our houses because we ask God to dwell there. At the same time we have to be very careful of where your children are visiting or staying overnight because other families might allow immorality into their homes, or, simply, not supervise their own children.

Being a holy Christian family demands that our homes be places of prayer. The Church, at least our country, is still suffering from the misconception that worship takes place only on Sundays and in the churches and the religious instruction is the exclusive realm of parish programs. We come to Church on Sundays to be united to Christ in Word and Sacrament so that we can strengthen the union that takes place in our home.

The heart of the universal church is not the Vatican or Scranton. The heart of the church is the family. We pray today that all our families might be holy families.

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