We celebrate Mother's Day!
We will solemnly celebrate it at the 9:30 Mass.

On May 17, during the Holy Mass at 9:00 AM in our parish, we celebrate First Holy Communion.
There will be no Mass at 9:30, while the other Masses will be celebrated according to the usual schedule.

Next Sunday is First Holy Communion; Holy Mass is at 9:00 AM, and we ask the First Communicants to arrive half an hour earlier.

The Rogation Days begin on Monday!
The liturgy of the Rogation Days (rogationes) is traditionally a prayer service held before the Ascension of the Lord. Originally established as days of supplication and prayer for protection from hardships, throughout history these days developed into spring prayer processions for success in agricultural work. Therefore, in rural farming communities they remain pastorally meaningful even today, while in urban areas they can be a good opportunity for a Christian appreciation of human labor and for developing solidarity with brothers and sisters in hardship. Wherever possible and pastorally appropriate, the liturgy is observed during the three days preceding the Ascension (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday), while only Wednesday is obligatory. This is an opportunity to especially value human work and develop solidarity with brothers and sisters in hardship, so let us do something concrete.

On Wednesday at 8:00 PM, in the hall of the Old Printing House, there will be a meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council, so I invite all members – both old and new – to attend!

On the Solemnity of the Ascension, Holy Masses and confessions will be held according to the weekday schedule, as will the parish office hours.

A one-day educational seminar on the fertility of women and men and on natural family planning for married couples, engaged couples, young women, and young men will be held on Saturday, May 23, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Institute in Zagreb, Kaptol 29A.
More information and registration details are available on the poster!

From May 15 to 17, the Croatian Catholic Medical Society is organizing a Symposium on Conscientious Objection in Marija Bistrica.
The first day is also Bishop Valentin Pozaić Day, with a Requiem Mass at 6:00 PM presided over by Mons. Vlado Razum, Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb.
More details are available on the posters.

Religious education takes place according to the following schedule:

The liturgy is the official prayer of the Church, the official prayer of the Bride of Christ, a dialogue between the Bride and the Divine Bridegroom. Therefore, it is necessary that we come to know the sacred liturgy as thoroughly as possible and benefit from it as much as possible. Here is what is most important.
The greatest reality existing in the world is the Holy Church; the greatest reality in the Church is the Mass, and in the Mass, the consecration. And just as Christ during His earthly life directed all His thoughts toward Golgotha, so too the Bride of Christ, the Church, directs all her gaze toward the altar. Therefore, what takes place on the altar is the greatest event happening in the world.
Let us be modern Catholics and become, through Holy Communion, participants in the infinite life of the Word of God. In that act, where your body and soul are united with divinity itself, must be the summit of your life; in that act is also the summit of the entire sacred liturgy.
Through liturgical meditation every Catholic becomes great and universal. He sets aside his personal interests and begins to feel what the Church herself feels, that magnificent reflection of the immeasurable Christ Himself. On the foundation of the liturgy every individual soul is formed. It can be said that the liturgy is pedagogy in the truest sense of the word, because through it the believer relives in his soul all the stages of Christ’s eternal life. Through the Catholic liturgy, all people throughout the world meditate on the same truths on the same day, and in this way awareness of the Catholic unity of all nations is strengthened. Finally, through the liturgy man gives to God, in the most perfect way, the honor due to Him. The believer who prays liturgically joins the choirs of angels who ceaselessly praise the Creator, and in this way man already begins on this earth to prepare himself for that service which he will perform with joy and exaltation for all eternity.