St. John The Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark NJ

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• CHEESEFARE SUNDAY (Forgiveness Sunday)
• “True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred and banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betrayal of vows” -St. Basil the Great.

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• SUNDAY OF MEATFARE Commemoration of the Last Judgment)
• “Ukraine can only change itself. The key to transforming Ukraine lies within itself. We may find it difficult to change external circumstances, but it is within our power to change ourselves” (Venerable Metropolitan Andrey).

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• Sunday of the prodigal son
• “Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” (1 John 4,7-9).

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• Leave-taking of the Encounter Sunday of the publican & pharisee
• “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud” (Proverbs 16, 18-19).