Bulletin: August 30, 2020

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JMJ

+ Parish Schedule for the Week August 30, 2020+

Sunday, August 30 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + Deceased Members of the Wilt Family 

 10:30 am + Duane Broadwater – int. Joe & Barbara Kucenski

Monday, August 31: 

    8:00 am + Helen S. Yarmac – int. Sojka Family

Tuesday, September 1 [Novenas St. Camillus & St. Peregrine]:

   5:30 pm – Health and Blessings for Michael Bailey – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

Wednesday, September 2 [Novena St. Jude]:

   5:30 pm + Helen S. Yarmac – int. Joe & Barbara Kucenski

Thursday, September 3 [St. Gregory the Great, Pope]:

    5:30 pm + Florence C. Sojka – int. John & Ted Sojka Families

FIRST FRIDAY, September 4:  

   5:30 pm – Health & Blessings Lindsay and Michael Bibeau

FIRST SATURDAY, September 5 [St. Teresa of Calcutta]

   8:00 am – Health & Blessings Eileen Ford – int. Claire Hughes

   4:00 pm + Joseph Kosewicz – int. Dorothy Kosewicz

   6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. for our Parish and Parishioners

Sunday, September 6 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + Ernie Moran – int. Tatiana Mileski 

 10:30 am + Helen S. Yarmac – int. Dorothy Kosewicz

+ CHRISTUS VINCIT! CHRISTUS REGNAT! CHRISTUS IMPERAT! + 

SEPTEMBER 1^st MARKS THE 1939 invasion of Poland by the Nazis and the beginning of a reign of terror during which over three million Polish Jews and six million Polish Catholics were methodically and cruelly put to death in an effort by Hitler to exterminate both the Jewish and Polish races.  Much of the anti-Polish feelings generated by Hitler in his effort to genocide are continued even today in anti-Polish jokes which were part of Hitler’s propaganda effort against the Polish race.

THE WEEKLY ST. JUDE NOVENA will be offered at the 5:30 p.m. Mass on Wednesday, September 2^ND.  All are welcome to come and pray for the intercession of this saint who is the patron of hopeless and impossible cases.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3^rd is the Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great who is noted for his Liturgical reform in the Church and in Church music.  He sent missionaries to England and wrote on many moral and theological subjects.  He is one of the four great Doctors of the Latin Church.  He called himself “The Servant of the Servants of God”, a title which all of the Popes have continued to use to this day.  He will be remembered in the Mass at 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th IS THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH in honor of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The Mass will be offered at 5:30 p.m. followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the Litany to the Sacred Heart and All-Night Vigil of Reparation. The Vigil will begin with Exposition of the BlessedSacrament, and continue all night until the 8:00 a.m. Mass.

THE PRO-LIFE NOVENA will continue on Saturday, September 5th before the 8:00 a.m. Mass.  All are welcome to pray in supplication for an end to the violence of abortion and in reparation for our lack of love which makes abortion acceptable in our nation

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FIRST SATURDAY IS SEPTEMBER 5^th and also is the Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta.  She was the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity and worked tirelessly for the poor in Calcutta and eventually throughout the world establishing orphanages, AIDS hospices, hospitals, and homes for the aged and the dying.  Her charity and life of prayer made her an outstanding witness to Christ and human dignity in our day and age.  She will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 am where we will also have First Saturday Devotions.

FROM AUGUST 15^th THROUGH THE AUTUMN SEASON countless harvest festivals are held by Polish people around the world.  These celebrations are called Dożynki – after the wreath or crown of wheat and flowers which is the symbol of the harvest.  Often the celebrations were held at the manor house of a large estate.  They were rich in tradition, foods, music and fun.

    On a beautiful sunny fall afternoon, after the crops had been gathered, the villages in their best colorful folk costumes gather in procession playing violins and folk instruments and walk to the church.  The groups carry great wreaths of all kinds of grain, flowers and fruit, holy icons, banners, flags, candles and a large loaf of bread freshly made from the newly harvested grain and beautifully wrapped in embroidered napkins.  After a solemn Mass in which the harvest wreaths – the Dożynki and bread are blessed, the people process with joyful songs and music to the Manor house where the party begins first with a formal greeting and blessing with the bread and wreath and then dancing and banqueting, singing and good food, games and competitions make for a festive occasion.

PRAY FOR VOCATIONS to the Priesthood from our Parish and for our Parish so that we might always have a Priest here to celebrate the Mass and administer the Holy Sacraments!  Please join in the Divine Mercy Chaplet to pray for vocations to the priesthood every Friday beginning at 4:45 p.m.

HELP AND SACRAMENTS AVAILABLE FOR SICK AND HOMEBOUND – If you know of anyone who is sick or homebound in need of the Sacraments or who needs assistance with errands, please notify the rectory at 413-863-4748.

OUR LADY’S HOLY ICON will visit the home of Terry Dempsey for a week of prayer and petition for the needs of our Parish.  We thank you for this holy work of power and love.

FREE PEW MISSALS!  Pick up a current Pew Missal in the front vestibule and you can bring it back and forth to Masses.  Please do not leave it behind, but keep it for your own, (write your name in it) for personal use at Masses for the remainder of this liturgical year.

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TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

PROPER OF THE MASS

ENTRANCE CHANT (INTROIT)

8:00

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long.  O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you.

(Ps. 85:3-5; Graduale Romanum/Roman Missal, Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel Weber, O.S.B.)

10:30

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto Thee daily.  For Thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive: and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.

(Ps. 85:3-5; Graduale Romanum, Introits and Graduals for the Church Year, Healey Willan)

GRADUAL

10:30 (Replaces the Responsorial Psalm)

R/.  The nations shall revere your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory. V/. For the Lord has rebuilt Zion, and he shall appear in his glory. R/. The nations…glory.

(Ps. 101:16-17; Graduale Romanum, Complete English Propers, Rev. Paul Arbogast)

OFFERTORY

8:00 & 10:30

Look down, O Lord, to help me; let them be counfounded and ashamed who seek after my soul to take it away; Look down, O Lord, to help me.

(Ps. 39:14-15; Graduale Romanum, Proper of the Mass, Fr. Samuel Weber, O.S.B.)

COMMUNION

8:00

How great is the goodness, Lord, that you keep for those who fear you.

(Ps. 30: 20; Roman Missal, Proper of the Mass, Fr. Samuel Weber, O.S.B.)

4:00 & 10:30 

Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

(Mt. 16:24; Graduale Romanum, Lumen Christi Simple Gradual, Adam Bartlett)

THE Propers of the Mass for this Sunday (the 22^nd Sunday in Ordinary Time) focus on the mercy and goodness shown by God to those who have recourse to Him.  This theme is begun with the Introit, taken from Psalm 85 (86 in the Mediaeval Rabinnical numbering), which forms the very first prayer of the Mass, which continues on this theme.  The Introit is in the 8^th Mode, which for Mediaeval and Renaissance music theorists reflected the gift of Wisdom and with peace of soul.  Bridging the gap between music and Mediaeval Medicine, this Mode was also considered Phlegmatic, that is, relaxed, peaceful, quiet and easy-going.  Though the language of “crying out” to the Lord might invoke in us an image of distress, in Mediaeval Latin the verb clamavi (from clamo) came to mean “to address” or “to call by name”, and it is perhaps this less-imperative meaning of the Latin which caused this chant to be set in the peaceful 8^th Mode.

Turning to the Gradual (sung only at the 10:30 Mass), we have a passage from Psalm 101(102), which is a direct response to the First Reading : Whereas the reading from Jeremiah is rather harsh, and treats of those who turn away from the Lord, the Gradual shows the hope of the Lord rebuilding Jerusalem (i.e., the Church) after all nations and kings revere the Lord.  This chant is in the 2^nd Mode, which is often used for triumphant texts, and texts about worship (e.g. the Introits for the Midnight Mass of Christmas and for Epiphany), and is also linked with Fear of the Lord—a direct reflection of the text being set.

The Offertory is from Psalm 39(40), asking the Lord to look upon us and that those who seek the destruction of our souls be put to confusion, a theme reminiscent of the Collect (opening prayer) of today’s Mass.  Set in the 6^th Mode, this chant, as all chants in the 6^th Mode, is soothing, but also introspective and Melancholic (c.f. the Introit for funerals: Requiem aeternam), it is connected with the gift of Counsel.  The optional verses (again from Ps. 39), again, like the Introit, use the verb clamo, clamavi to denote a “crying out” to the Lord.

There are two options for the Communion.

    The Communion from the Missal is from Psalm 30(31), and is set in the 4^th Mode, which is connected with the gift of Knowledge, and also with spiritual elevation, it is connected with Choleric dispositions.  Textually, it is linked with the Introit.  The optional verses are also from Ps. 30.

    The option for the Communion for Sunday 22, Year A in the Roman Gradual, is taken verbatim from the Gospel of today’s Mass, Matthew 16:24.  It is set in the 1^st Mode, which is often connected to praise and rejoicing (the Introit for All Saints: Let us Rejoice), but also with strength and the Kingship or Messiah-ship of Christ (the Communions for the 4^th Sunday of Advent and Vigil of Christmas—which speak of the coming of the Messiah—are also in the 1^st Mode), which of course is linked to the Cross.

    Interestingly, while the other Chants for today’s Mass are in the so-called Plagal Modes (Modes 2, 4, 6, & 8), which focus on the lower end of the vocal range, this optional Communion Chant is in an Authentic Mode (Modes 1, 3, 5, & 7), which focuses on the higher end of the vocal range, which is fitting for the one chant that does not speak of the Lord coming to help man (descent), but of man taking up his Cross and following the Lord (ascent).  The optional Psalm-verses are taken from Psalm 33(34), the “Eucharistic Psalm”, which, like the Introit, Gradual, Offertory, and the Orations (Collect, etc.), also speaks of the Lord hearing those who “call to Him”.

This Sunday’s Mass Propers, from both the Missal and Gradual, form a united suite focusing on prayer and petition, God’s mercy and goodness, and through the Modality of the Chants, the gifts of  Wisdom, Counsel, Knowledge, and the Fear of the Lord, as well as peace, and the Kingship of Christ.

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t the 10:30 Mass, the Ordinary cycle will be Du Mont’s Messe Royale du 1re Ton.  Henri Du Mont (1610-1684) was the Maître de Chapelle (Choir Master) at the Chapel Royal of Versailles from 1663 until 1683.  He composed five Messes en Plein-Chant Musical (Plainchant Masses), which because of his connexion with the Chapel Royal, became known as the Messes Royales (Royal Masses).  The Mass in the First Mode remains the most popular, and is still used in France and Canada.  Utilizing the characteristics of the 1^st Mode (Dorian), namely, rejoicing, Kingship, etc., this particular Mass of Du Mont deserves the name Royal.  It is because of this Royal connexion that it has been chosen for the 10:30 Mass this Sunday, for the Mass for the Odpust Procession in honor of our Patron: Our Lady of Częstochowa, the Queen of Poland.

Henry Gaida, Director of Music,

August 22^nd, 2020 ©

The Seven Sorrows of Mary and the Promises to Those Who Meditate Upon Them Daily

Mary’s Seven Sorrows, as presented in Scripture:

1) The Prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2: 34-35)

2) The Flight into Egypt (Matthew 2: 13-21)

3) The Loss of Jesus for Three Days (Luke 2: 41-50)

4) The Carrying of the Cross (John 19: 17)

5) The Crucifixion of Jesus (John 19: 18-30)

6) Jesus Taken Down from the Cross (John 19: 39-40)

7) Jesus Laid in the Tomb (John 19: 39-42)

St. Alphonsus Liguori revealed in his book, The Glories of Mary, that Jesus has four promises for those who devote themselves to Mary’s seven sorrows:

1) “That those who invoke the divine mother by her sorrows, before death will merit to obtain true repentance of all their sins.”

2) “That he will protect such in their tribulations, especially at the hour of death.”

3) “That he will impress upon them the memory of his passion, and that they shall have their reward for it in heaven.”

4) “That he will commit such devout servants to the hands of Mary that she may dispose of them according to her pleasure, and obtain for them all the graces she desires.”

The Virgin Mary also presented her own promises to St. Bridget of Sweden for those who devote themselves to her sorrowful heart. Mary asks that the devotee prays one Hail Mary in honor of each of her sorrows.

Mary’s Seven Promises:

1) “I will grant peace to their families.”

2) “They will be enlightened about the divine Mysteries.”

3) “I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.”

4) “I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of My divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.”

5) “I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.”

6) “I will visibly help them at the moment of their death — they will see the face of their Mother.”

7) “I have obtained this grace from My divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to My tears and sorrows will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness, since all their sins will be forgiven and My Son will be their eternal consolation and joy.”

THE FOLLOWING MASS INTENTIONS have been sent to various Missionaries.  They will be offered as follows and you may unite your prayers to the Missionaries who offer the Masses in their churches:

Sun., august 30: 8:00 – Health & Blessings Helen Vilga – int. Sister

Sun, August 30: 10:30 + In Loving Memory Ciocia Josie Rudinski –int. Mary 

Monday, August 31: 8:00 + Bernie Kobera – int. Mary

Tuesday, September 1: 5:30 – Grace & Blessings for Kobera & Simkus Families

Wednesday, September 2: 5:30 

Thursday, September 3:  5:30 

Friday, September 4:  5:30 + T. Robert Aitken – int. Terri Aitken

Saturday, September 5: 8:00  

Saturday, September 5: 4:00 

PLEASE NOTE:  The above Masses not only assist the souls for whom they are offered, but they also help you and the Missionaries who often times receive very little help. 

Bóg wam zapłać

GROCERIES ARE PROVIDED by our parish for those who often come to the Rectory for help and we are running a little low on some essentials.  Please help us to help the poor by leaving some of the following in the church vestibule:  stew, soup, ravioli, crackers, baked beans, cereal, canned vegetables, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, and jam.  All donated goods must be such as requiring no refrigeration and can be stored for a period of time.  Please help those who cannot help themselves!  Bóg wam wielki zapłać!

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Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord,

And Let Your Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them.

Jean Waryas 8/30/1934

Valentine Rudnicki 8/30/1943

Joseph Kyczior 8/30/1954

Apolonia Koscinski 8/30/1987

Anna M. Kurkulonis 8/30/2008

Joseph Sobolewski 8/31/1949

John J. Szymanski 8/31/1984

Anna S. Juskiewicz 8/31/1987

Alice J. Maslanka 8/31/2015

John Cislo 9/1/1926

Mary Marszalek 9/1/1970

Mary A. Margola 9/1/1997

Walter C. Kuzontkoski 9/1/2007

Magdalena Jurgielewicz 9/2/1924

Philip J. Kostecki 9/2/2008

Alexander Aptacy 9/3/1924

Josephine Samorajski 9/3/1968

John S. Woznakewicz 9/3/1975

Florence C. Sojka 9/3/2007

Stella A. Konsevich 9/3/2009

Casimier Maciekowski 9/4/1927

John Bocon 9/4/1957

Peter Olchowski 9/5/1942

Joseph Kosewicz 9/5/1983

Blanche Sopatka 9/5

PLEASE NOTE that every day of the month is set aside to pray for a specific priest or deacon of the Franklin County Deanery.  Please join in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen designated in our calendar.  The intentions for this week are:

FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, and in memory of Catherine Baranowski, donations have been made to our Parish Renovation Fund by Rick and Jan Clark.  Bóg zapłać!

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Fr. Roux	Deacon Culliton	Fr. Reardon	Fr. Campoli	Fr. O’Connor	Fr. DiMascola	Fr. O’Mannion

THIS BULLETIN is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus and St. Kazimierz Societies.
+KRÓLOWO POLSKI MÓDL SIĘ ZA NAMI+

Bulletin: August 23, 2020

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JMJ

+ Parish Schedule for the Week August 23, 2020+

Sunday, August 23 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + John Meehan – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

 10:30 am + Carl Wilt – int. Ron & Monica Scherman

Monday, August 24 [Saint Bartholomew, Apostle]: 

    8:00 am + Judy Byk – int. Barbara Kucenski

Tuesday, August 25[Saint Louis, Saint Joseph Calasanz, Priest] [Novenas St. Camillus & 

                                                                                                             St. Peregrine]:

   5:30 pm + 34^th Anniversary Cecelia Gloski – int. Family

Wednesday, August 26 [OUR LADY OF CZĘSTOCHOWA] [Novena St. Jude]:

   5:30 pm + Eleanor Newcombe – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

Thursday, August 27 [St. Monica]

    5:30 pm + Mrs. Martha Casano – int. Marlene Kostka

Friday, August 28 [St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church]:  

   5:30 pm – Health & Blessings for Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa – int. Ron & Monica Scherman

Saturday, August 29 [The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Martyr]

   8:00 am + Ernest Newcombe – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

   4:00 pm + Louise M. Kernan – int. Joyce and Tina Phillips

   6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. for our Parish and Parishioners

Sunday, August 30 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + Deceased Members of the Wilt Family 

 10:30 am + Duane Broadwater – int. Joe & Barbara Kucenski

+ KRÓLOWO POLSKI MÓDL SIĘ ZA NAMI +

MONDAY, AUGUST 24th is the Feast of St. Bartholomew, identified in the Bible with Nathaniel the Apostle in whom Jesus said “there is no guile.”  St. Bartholomew preached the Gospel in Armenia and India where according to tradition he was flayed alive.  He will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 a.m.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25^th is the feast of St. Louis.  Louis was born in 1214 and became King of France when he was only twenty-two years old.  He married and became the father of eleven children who received from him careful instruction for a Christian life.  He excelled in penance and prayer and in his love for the poor. While ruling his kingdom, he had regard not only for peace among peoples and for the temporal good of his subjects but also for their spiritual welfare.  He undertook the Crusades to recover the tomb of Christ and died near Carthage in 1270.  St. Louis will be remembered in the Mass at 5:30 p.m.

THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF CZĘSTOCHOWA, the patroness of our parish, is Wednesday, August 26^th.  The Mass in her honor will be offered at 5:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27^th is the Memorial of St. Monica.  She was born of a Christian family at Tagaste in Africa in 331.  While still a young maiden she was married to Patricius.  They had children, among whom was Augustine.  She poured forth many tears and prayers to God for his conversion.  A model of the virtuous mother, she nourished the faith by her prayers and witnessed to it by her deeds.  She died in Ostia in 287.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28^th is the Feast of St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church.  He was born in Tagaste in Africa in 354.  He was unsettled and restlessly searched for the truth until he was converted to the Faith at Milan and Baptized by Ambrose.  Returning to his homeland, he embraced an ascetic life and subsequently was elected Bishop of Hippo.  For thirty-four years he guided his flock, instructing it was sermons

THE PRO-LIFE NOVENA will continue on Saturday, August 29^th before the 8:00 a.m. Mass.  All are welcome to pray in supplication for an end to the violence of abortion and in reparation for our lack of love which makes abortion acceptable in our nation.

LET US PRAY FOR A GOOD AND HOLY BISHOP – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and has named our Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts, as his successor.  Archbishop Rozanski will be installed during an Aug. 25 Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.  Let us pray ardently to the Holy Spirit for a good and holy Bishop for our Diocese of Springfield!

HELP AND SACRAMENTS AVAILABLE FOR SICK AND HOMEBOUND – If you know of anyone who is sick or homebound in need of the Sacraments or who needs assistance with errands, please notify the rectory at 413-863-4748.

OUR LADY’S HOLY ICON will visit the home of Nancy Faller for a week of prayer and petition for the needs of our Parish.  We thank you for this holy work of power and love.

FREE PEW MISSALS!  Pick up a current Pew Missal in the front vestibule and you can bring it back and forth to Masses.  Please do not leave it behind, but keep it for your own, (write your name in it) for personal use at Masses for the remainder of this liturgical year.

THE FOLLOWING MASS INTENTIONS have been sent to various Missionaries.  They will be offered as follows and you may unite your prayers to the Missionaries who offer the Masses in their churches:

Sun., august 23: 8:00 + Christopher Gastoutis – int. Dana

Sun, August 23: 10:30 + Shirley Zani – int. Dana

Monday, August 24: 8:00 + Paul Riendeau – int. Dana

Tuesday, August 25: 5:30 + Peggy Becklo – int. SKM

Wednesday, August 26: 5:30 + Sandra Putala – int. SKM

Thursday, August 27:  5:30 + Catherine Baranowski – int. SKM

Friday, August 28:  5:30 + Bernie Magdalewski –int. SKM

Saturday, August 29: 8:00 – 

Saturday, August 29: 4:00 – Birthday Blessings Mathew Kobera – int. Family

PLEASE NOTE:  The above Masses not only assist the souls for whom they are offered, but they also help you and the Missionaries who often times receive very little help. 

Bóg wam zapłać

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Feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa

   

The Feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa, the patroness of our parish, is Wednesday, August 26^th.  We will celebrate the feast at the 10:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, August 29^th with a simple Eucharistic Procession.

    The holy icon of Our Lady in the monastery on Jasna Gora in Częstochowa is the treasure of Poland and the source of innumerable miracles for the past five centuries.  Tradition says the artist was St. Luke who painted the picture, while the Blessed Mother was still alive, on a table top made by St. Joseph and Jesus in their carpentry shop.  The painting was transported from Jerusalem to Constantinople by St. Helena and it was considered as a great relic in the imperial city.  The icon was part of the royal treasury and passed on from Empress to Empress.  As a royal gift it traveled from Constantinople to Russia, to Holicia, to Belzki and finally to Częstochowa where it remains to this day.

    The two scars on the painting were made by heretics in 1430.  There is a third scar, just noticeable, on the throat of the Madonna made by a Tartars arrow.  These wounds the Mother of God desires to remain preserved forever on her sacred icon.  No matter what artists did to repair the damage or the fire damaged blackness, they always reappeared.  It seems as if Our Lady wants to be identified with the sufferings of the Polish people.  The monastery has been the scene of numberless conversions and miracles, and it has always been associated with the history of Poland and the Polish people.  It is and always has been most dear to every Pole in the world.

This Year’s Plan For Our Odpust!*

(*An Odpust is the celebration of the Feast of the patron of the Parish.

The Feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa is August 26^th and we traditionally

celebrate it on the Sunday nearest that date.)

     The word “Odpust” referring to the Feast of the Patron of a parish means “an indulgence” because if we participate in the service celebrating the Parish Feast (August 26^th) we receive a plenary indulgence.  The Enchiridion of Indulgences given by Pope Paul VI after Vatican II states:  “A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful, who devoutly visit the parochial church on the titular feast…  In visiting the church, it is required that one Our Father and the Creed be recited and Sacramental Confession and Holy Communion be received within seven days before or after the Odpust and an Our Father and Hail Mary be offered for our Holy Father the Pope.”

     Our Celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa will take place on Sunday, August 29^th and will begin with a solemn Mass and a Eucharistic procession at 10:30 a.m.  This year’s procession will take place within the church and not involve the carrying of banners and statues.

When Father Joseph Ratzinger Predicted the Future of the Church

Laying it out in a 1969 broadcast on German

radio

He didn’t pretend he could tell the future. No. He was much too wise for that. As a matter of fact, he tempered his initial remarks with this disclaimer:

“Let us, therefore, be cautious in our prognostications. What St. Augustine said is still true: man is an abyss; what will rise out of these depths, no one can see in advance. And whoever believes that the Church is not only determined by the abyss that is man, but reaches down into the greater, infinite abyss that is God, will be the first to hesitate with his predictions, for this naïve desire to know for sure could only be the announcement of his own historical ineptitude.”

But his era, brimming with existential danger, political cynicism and moral waywardness, hungered for an answer. The Catholic Church, a moral beacon in the turbulent waters of its time, had recently experienced certain changes of its own with adherents and dissenters alike wondering, “What will become of the Church in the future?”

10 Pithy and Potent Quotes from Pope Benedict

And so, in a 1969 German radio broadcast, Father Joseph Ratzinger would offer his thoughtfully considered answer. Here are his concluding remarks,

“The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods; nor will it issue from those who take the easier road, who sidestep the passion of faith, declaring false and obsolete, tyrannous and legalistic, all that makes demands upon men, that hurts them and compels them to sacrifice themselves. To put this more positively: The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality. Unselfishness, which makes men free, is attained only through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion, which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by this daily passion and by it alone, a man’s eyes are slowly opened. He sees only to the extent that he has lived and suffered. If today we are scarcely able any longer to become aware of God, that is because we find it so easy to evade ourselves, to flee from the depths of our being by means of the narcotic of some pleasure or other. Thus our own interior depths remain closed to us. If it is true that a man can see only with his heart, then how blind we are! 

“How does all this affect the problem we are examining? It means that the big talk of those who prophesy a Church without God and without faith is all empty chatter. We have no need of a Church that celebrates the cult of action in political prayers. It is utterly superfluous. Therefore, it will destroy itself. What will remain is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church that believes in the God who has become man and promises us life beyond death. The kind of priest who is no more than a social worker can be replaced by the psychotherapist and other specialists; but the priest who is no specialist, who does not stand on the [sidelines], watching the game, giving official advice, but in the name of God places himself at the disposal of man, who is beside them in their sorrows, in their joys, in their hope and in their fear, such a priest will certainly be needed in the future. 

“Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship.

“The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming upon a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek. The process will be all the more arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have to be shed. One may predict that all of this will take time. The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain — to the renewal of the nineteenth century. But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.

“And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.

The Catholic Church will survive in spite of men and women, not necessarily because of them. And yet, we still have our part to do. We must pray for and cultivate unselfishness, self-denial, faithfulness, Sacramental devotion and a life centered on Christ.

In 2009 Ignatius Press released Father Joseph Ratzinger’s speech “What Will the Church Look Like in 2000” in full, in a book entitled Faith and the Future.

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FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, and in memory of Catherine Baranowski, donations have been made to our Parish Renovation Fund by The Greenfield Emblem Club, Dorothy Kosewicz, Marjorie Naida, and Joe & Barbara Kucenski.  Bóg zapłać!

Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord,

And Let Your Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them.

Joseph Gurzan 8/23/1941

John J. Duda, Jr. 8/23/1980

Charles P. Zajac 8/23/1994

Sylvia Hmieleski 8/23/2002

Mary Skowron 8/24/1981

Julia Rydell 8/24/1992

Sophie Sokolowski 8/25/1927

Catherine Waryas 8/25/1942

Helen Golowka 8/25/1953

Piotr Dejnak 8/25/1962

Mary Sacharczewski 8/25/1963

Cecelia M. Gloski 8/25/1986

Marion Waraksa 8/25/1992

Rose M. Brzozowy 8/25/1997

Fidelia A. Kurtyka 8/25/2007

Alice Cislo 8/25/2012

Phyllis L. Tucker 8/25/2016

Vincent Jurgielewicz 8/26/1971

Grace T. Wondoloski 8/26/1989

Stanisław Plona 8/28/1952

Mary Konwelski 8/28/1957

Lawrence A. Krejmas, Jr. 8/28/1990

Francis J. Pervere 8/28/2005

Ludwik Daras 8/29/1966

Helen E. Zak 8/29/1992

PLEASE NOTE that every day of the month is set aside to pray for a specific priest or deacon of the Franklin County Deanery.  Please join in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen designated in our calendar.  The intentions for this week are:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Fr. Bermudez	Bishop McDonnell	Fr. Lisowski	Pope Francis	Fr. Roach	Deacon Bucci	Father O’Connor

THIS BULLETIN is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus and St. Kazimierz Societies.

Bulletin: August 16, 2020

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JMJ

+ Parish Schedule for the Week August 16, 2020+

 

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Sunday, August 16 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + Andrew Kazanowski – int. Constance Van Dine

  10:30 am – Blessings on 54th Wedding Anniversary- Bill & Carol Kostecki

Monday, August 17: 

    8:00 am + Mrs. Martha Casano – int. Marlene Kostka

Tuesday, August 18 [Novenas to St. Camillus & St. Peregrin]:

   5:30 pm + Ed Greene, Jr. – int. Jim and Cyndi Newcombe

Wednesday, August 19 [St. John Eudes, Priest] [Novena St. Jude]:

   5:30 pm – Grace & Blessings Richard Ahearn – int. Fritz Family

Thursday, August 20  [St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbott and Doctor of the Church]:

    5:30 pm + Henry A. Kazanowski – int. Constance VanDine

Friday, August 21 [St. Pius X, Pope]:  

   5:30 pm + Edward F. Greene – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

Saturday, August 22 [The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary]:

   8:00 am – Fr. Bruno and All Living and Deceased Members of the St. Joseph Chapter of 

                   Discalced Carmelites Secular

   4:00 pm + Mrs. Martha Casano – int. Marlene Kostka

   6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. for our Parish and Parishioners

Sunday, August 23 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + John Meehan – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

 10:30 am + Carl Wilt – int. Ron & Monica Scherman

+ KRÓLOWO POLSKI MÓDL SIĘ ZA NAMI +

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 19th is the Feast of St. John Eudes who founded a Congregation for training clergy and for assisting morally endangered women especially prostitutes.  He promoted devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.  St. John Eudes will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 a.m.

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20th is the Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.  A spiritual author and reformer, St. Bernard founded 65 Monasteries.  He is noted for his work against injustice and his work for peace as well as his great spirituality and charity.  He will be remembered in the Mass at 5:30 p.m.

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21st is the Feast of Pope St. Pius X whose motto “to renew all things in Christ” impelled him to encourage frequent Communion and to encourage children to make their First Communion at an earlier age.  He was noted for many reforms within the Church and Liturgy, his piety and charity and in particular his devotion to the Eucharist. For many centuries, the Eucharist was reserved for adults, but Pius X wanted to change that.

At the very beginning of the Catholic Church, children were welcomed to the Eucharistic table and allowed to share in the reception of Holy Communion. It was common practice to give infants their First Communion along with the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation.

However, over time, the Roman Catholic Church separated the three sacraments of initiation, administering them at different times in a person’s life. Most Eastern Churches, meanwhile, maintained the earlier tradition of allowing infants to receive the Eucharist.

By the early 20th century, emphasizing a desire that those who receive Communion “understand” at least as much as humanly possible the great mystery of the Transfiguration, and Jesus’ transformation of the bread into his body and blood, the Church reserved Communion for teenagers and adults. Younger children were generally banned from approaching the altar.

In 1910, Pope St. Pius X changed that, with his decree Quam Singulari, which decrees that children who have reached the “age of reason” (around seven years old) are permitted to receive the Eucharist.  Pius X explained why he lowered the age, pointing to the Gospel and how Jesus wished to embrace all children.

The pages of the Gospel show clearly how special was that love for children which Christ showed while He was on earth. It was His delight to be in their midst … He embraced them; and He blessed them. At the same time He was not pleased when they would be driven away by the disciples, whom He rebuked gravely with these words: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for of such is the kingdom of God.”

It is clearly seen how highly He held their innocence and the open simplicity of their souls on that occasion when He called a little child to Him and said to the disciples: “Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven … And whoever receives one such little child for my sake, receives me.”

Reinforcing the reality of the children’s innocence and closeness to God, Pius X wrote, “the fact that in ancient times the remaining particles of the Sacred Species were even given to nursing infants seems to indicate that no extraordinary preparation should now be demanded of children who are in the happy state of innocence and purity of soul, and who, amidst so many dangers and seductions of the present time have a special need of this heavenly food.”  St. Pius the X will be remembered in Mass at 5:30 p.m.

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22nd is the feast of the Queenship of Mary. Pope Pius XII established this feast in 1954. But Mary’s queenship has roots in Scripture. At the Annunciation, Gabriel announced that Mary’s Son would receive the throne of David and rule forever. At the Visitation, Elizabeth calls Mary “mother of my Lord.” As in all the mysteries of Mary’s life, she is closely associated with Jesus: Her queenship is a share in Jesus’ kingship. We can also recall that in the Old Testament the mother of the king has great influence in court.  In the fourth century Saint Ephrem called Mary “Lady” and “Queen.” Later Church fathers and doctors continued to use the title. Hymns of the 11th to 13th centuries address Mary as queen: “Hail, Holy Queen,” “Hail, Queen of Heaven,” “Queen of Heaven.” The Dominican rosary and the Franciscan crown as well as numerous invocations in Mary’s litany celebrate her queenship. The feast is a logical follow-up to the Assumption, and is now celebrated on the octave day of that feast. In his 1954 encyclical To the Queen of Heaven, Pius XII points out that Mary deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely associated as the New Eve with Jesus’ redemptive work, because of her preeminent perfection, and because of her intercessory power.  

 

THE IMMACULATE HEART

OF MARY

 

Historically, devotion to the Heart of Mary grew up in parallel, but at a lesser intensity than that of devotion to the Heart of Jesus, only starting to become more prominent during the time of St John Eudes. John Eudes was born in 1601 in Normandy, France. He entered the Congregation of the Oratory of France, founded in 1611 by Cardinal de Berulle and was ordained to the priesthood on December 20, 1625.

St. John brought people to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly about their Heart, the sign of the love God shows for us and the communion to which we are called.

To offer them liturgical worship, he composed Masses and Offices in their honor and had the first Feast of the Holy Heart of Mary celebrated on February 8, 1648, at Autun (France,) and the Feast of the Heart of Jesus celebrated on October 20, 1672.

He died on August 19, 1680 and was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 31, 1925.

Nevertheless, it was not until after the Apparitions at Rue du Bac concerning the “Miraculous Medal” made to Catherine Labouré in 1830, and the establishment of a society dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at the Church of Our Lady of Victories in Paris in 1836, that this particular devotion became really well known.

Since then devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has gradually grown more widespread in the Church, particularly since the apparitions at Fatima.

The main difference between the devotions to the hearts of Jesus and Mary is that the one concerned with Jesus emphasizes his divine heart as being full of love for mankind, but with this love for the most part being ignored or rejected, while devotion to Mary’s heart is essentially concerned with the love that her heart has for Jesus, for God.

Therefore, it is not an end in itself, so the love of her heart is meant to be a model for the way we should love God. The fact that her heart is immaculate, that is sinless, means that she is the only fully human person who is able to really love God in the way that he should be loved.

Honoring Mary’s Immaculate Heart is really just another way of honoring Mary as the person who was chosen to be the Mother of God, recognizing her extraordinary holiness and the immense love she bestowed on Jesus as his mother, the person who was called to share in and co-operate in his redemptive sufferings.

The aim of the devotion is to unite mankind to God through Mary’s heart, and this process involves the ideas of consecration and reparation. A person is consecrated to Mary’s Immaculate Heart as a way of being completely devoted to God. This involves a total gift of self, something only ultimately possible with reference to God; but Mary is our intermediary in this process of consecration.

Because of the strong analogy between Jesus and Mary, the consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart is closely linked to the consecration to Jesus’ Sacred Heart, although it is subordinate and dependent on it. That is, although the act of consecration is ultimately addressed to God, it is an act that is made through Mary.

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CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

O Holy Mother of God, glorious Queen of heaven and earth, I choose thee this day for my mother, and my advocate at the throne of thy Divine Son. Accept the offering I here make of my heart: may it be irrevocable. It never can be out of danger, whilst at my disposal; never secure but in thy hands.

Ye choirs of Angels, witnesses of my oblation, bear me up in the day of judgment, and next to Jesus and Mary, be ye propitious to me, should the enemy of my salvation have any claim upon me. Obtain for me at present the gift of a true repentance, and those graces I may afterwards stand in need of, for the gaining of life everlasting. Amen.

 

LET US PRAY FOR A GOOD AND HOLY BISHOP – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and has named our Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts, as his successor.  Archbishop Rozanski will be installed during an Aug. 25 Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.  Let us pray ardently to the Holy Spirit for a good and holy Bishop for our Diocese of Springfield!

OFFICE OF VOCATIONS: “The harvest is rich but the workers are few: therefore ask the harvest-master to send workers to his harvest.”  Pray for vocations.  Depend on God’s providence. (Luke 10:1-9) If you think God is calling you, please email: vocations@diospringfield.org and/or visit our website: http://www.myvocation.com

FREE PEW MISSALS!  Pick up a current Pew Missal in the front vestibule and you can bring it back and forth to Masses.  Please do not leave it behind, but keep it for your own, (write your name in it) for personal use at Masses for the remainder of this liturgical year.

THE FOLLOWING MASS INTENTIONS have been sent to various Missionaries.  They will be offered as follows and you may unite your prayers to the Missionaries who offer the Masses in their churches:

Sun., August 16: 8:00 – Health & Blessings for Catherine Elliott – int. Katy Guisti

Sun, August 16: 10:30 + Chet Galvis– int. Family

Monday, August 17: 8:00 + Lorraine Crowley – int. Katy Guisti

Tuesday, August 18: 5:30 + Gregory Bennett – int. Katy Guisti

Wednesday, August 19: 5:30 + Phyllis Gerber – int. Katy Guisti

Thursday, August 20:  5:30 + Deceased Members of the Guisti Family –int. Katy Guisti

Friday, August 21:  5:30 + Deceased Members of the Leary Family – int. Katy Guisti

Saturday, August 22: 8:00 – Birthday Blessings for Noah Kobera – int. Family

Saturday, June 22: 4:00 – Healing for Marlene Jarsenpac – int. Uncle Dana

PLEASE NOTE:  The above Masses not only assist the souls for whom they are offered, but they also help you and the Missionaries who often times receive very little help. 

Bóg wam zapłać

 

FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, and in memory of Catherine Baranowski, a donation has been made to our Parish Renovation Fund by Shirley & Ashley Webb and Janet M. Rewa. Bóg zapłać!

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Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord,

And Let Your Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them.

John Zokjnski 8/16/1935

Katherine A. Krejmas 8/16/1979

Elizabeth L. Woitkiewicz 8/16/1994

Walter F. Milewski 8/16/2012

Chester Tela 8/17/1980

Louis Rudinski 8/17/1983

Julius W. Kostecki 8/17/1993

Helen P. Mokrzycki 8/17/1994

Stanley A. Krok, Jr. 8/17/2005

Henry V. Rys 8/17/2005

Edwin G. Banash, Sr. 8/18/1976

Nellie Zak 8/18/1982

Chester J. Kulis 8/18/1984

Frank G. Niedbala 8/18/2001

Walerian Krauz 8/19/1992

Brenda L. Clough 8/19/1999

Katherine Bush 8/20/1971

Frank Putala 8/20/1982

Charles A. Kurtyka 8/20/1991

Joanne Mae Flanagan 8/20/2009

Edward A. Osowski 8/21/1945

Janina Kurtyka 8/21/1964

Wahneta A. Zangri 8/21/1993

Josephine Czernich 8/21/2014

Paul P. Dejnak 8/22/2008

HELP AND SACRAMENTS AVAILABLE FOR SICK AND HOMEBOUND – If you know of anyone who is sick or homebound in need of the Sacraments or who needs assistance with errands, please notify the rectory at 413-863-4748.

OUR LADY’S HOLY ICON will visit the home of Carol Roux for a week of prayer and petition for the needs of our Parish.  We thank you for this holy work of power and love.

PRAY FOR VOCATIONS to the Priesthood from our Parish and for our Parish so that we might always have a Priest here to celebrate the Mass and administer the Holy Sacraments! Please join in the Divine Mercy Chaplet to pray for vocations to the priesthood every Friday beginning at 4:45 p.m. 

 

GROCERIES ARE PROVIDED by our parish for those who often come to the Rectory for help and we are running a little low on some essentials.  Please help us to help the poor by leaving some of the following in the church vestibule:  stew, soup, ravioli, crackers, baked beans, cereal, canned vegetables, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, and jam.  All donated goods must be such as requiring no refrigeration and can be stored for a period of time.  Please help those who cannot help themselves!  Bóg wam wielki zapłać!
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 Type: http://www.Formed.org into your browser

1. Click:  Sign up
2. Click: “I belong to a Parish or Organization”
3. “Create a New Account”:  Type “Our Lady of Czestochowa” into the box and then click on parish name
4. When it asks for your name:  type in your name
5. Type in your email address

 

Your account should be activated once you input the above info. To access again, go to upper right corner and click on “sign-in” to access website.   If you have any problems, please call the Rectory at (413) 863-4748.

PLEASE NOTE that every day of the month is set aside to pray for a specific priest or deacon of the Franklin County Deanery.  Please join in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen designated in our calendar.  The intentions for this week are:

 

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Fr. Bermudez	Bishop McDonnell	Fr. Lisowski	Pope Francis	Fr. Roach	Deacon Bucci	Father O’Connor

THIS BULLETIN is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus and St. Kazimierz Societies.

Bulletin: August 9, 2020

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JMJ

+ Parish Schedule for the Week August 9, 2020+

Sunday, August 9: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + Geraldine Daley – int. Elizabeth, Susannah, Laura

  10:30 am + Mieczyslaw Miezkowski – int. Patricia Sojka & Family 

Monday, August 10 [St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr]: 

    8:00 am + Eva White – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

Tuesday, August 11 [Novenas to St. Camillus & St. Peregrine][St. Clare, Virgin]:

   5:30 pm + Deceased Members of the Ptak and Bourdeau Families – int. Cheryl & Joyce

Wednesday, August 12 [St. Jane Frances de Chantel, Religious[Novena St. Jude]:

   5:30 pm + Parda Family – int. Donald Parda

Thursday, August 13  [St. Pontian, Pope and St. Hippolytus, Priest and Martyr]:

    5:30 pm + Patricia Greene – Jim and Cyndi Newcombe

Friday, August 14 [St. Maximilian Kolbe, Martyr]:  

  *5:30 pm – Health & Blessings Joe Arias – int. Maria Filipi

Saturday, August 15 [The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary*]:

  *8:00 am + Mary Kazanowski – int. Constance Van Dine

   4:00 pm + Helen Christian – int. Jamie & Sherrie Yagodzinski & Family

   6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. for our Parish and Parishioners

Sunday, August 16 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

    8:00 am + Andrew H. Kazanowski – int. Constance Van Dine

  10:30 am – Blessings on 54th Wedding Anniversary- Bill & Carol Kostecki

 

+ KRÓLOWO POLSKI MÓDL SIĘ ZA NAMI +

MONDAY, AUGUST 10th is the Feast of St. Lawrence who was martyred for his Faith by being burned alive on a gridiron.  He was noted for his compassion and charity for the poor and his courage and humor in the face of danger.  He will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 a.m.

THE FEAST OF ST. PHILOMENA is August 10th.  On May 24, 1802, in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nova an inscribed tomb was found, and on the following day it was carefully examined and opened.  The tomb was closed with three tiles, on which was the following inscription in red print:  LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI together with certain symbols, namely, two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower (or torch).  The tomb had to be closed in a hurry, and the tiles were put in a wrong order, again either through hurry or by one who could not read, and that the inscription should read:  Pax tecum Filumena “Peace be with thee, Philumena,” which is obtained by putting the first of the three tiles at the end.  Within the tomb was found the skeleton of a female of from thirteen to fifteen years old, the principal bones entire except the skull, which was much broken.  Embedded in cement was a small glass phial or vase, with vestiges of what was taken to be blood.  This was one of the so-called “blood-ampullae” which when found in conjunction with the palm symbol were accepted as proof of the grave of a martyr.  Accordingly, in accordance with the knowledge of the time and current regulations of the Congregation of Sacred Rites, the remains were taken to be those of a virgin-martyr named Philomena, they were reverently gathered up, and deposited in the custodia generalis of sacred relics.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH is the Feast of St. Clare born at Assisi in 1193.  She followed her fellow citizen, St. Francis, in a life of poverty and became mother and foundress of an order of nuns.  She led a life that was austere, yet rich in works of charity and piety. She died in 1253.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12th is the Feast of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, a wife and mother of six children who after the death of her husband under the direction of St. Francis de Sales founded the Visitation nuns and established 85 Monasteries before her death.  She was noted for her charity and piety and she will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 a.m.

THE WEEKLY ST. JUDE NOVENA will be offered at the 5:30 p.m. Mass on Wednesday, August 12.  All are welcome to come and pray for the intercession of this saint who is the patron of hopeless and impossible cases.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13th is the Feast of Pope St. Pontian and St. Hippolytus, martyrs of the early Church in Rome.  St. Pontian was noted by his compassion and mercy and St. Hippolytus was noted for his writing, discipline and penance.  They were martyred for their Faith and will be remembered in the 5:30 p.m. Mass.

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14th is the Feast of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe who offered his life at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz in exchange for the father of a family.  His slow and tortured death was marked by prayer, love and forgiveness which so unnerved the Nazi madmen that they would not even approach his cell.

THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION of the Blessed Virgin Mary is August 15th.  This day celebrates the Blessed Virgin Mary being taken body and soul into Heaven by her loving Son.  The Masses for the Holy Day will take place on Friday August 14th at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, August 15th at 8:00 a.m. Flowers and herbs will be blessed at these Masses in accord with an old Polish tradition that says when the Apostles came back to the tomb of Mary three days after her death they found it empty except for fragrant herbs and flowers.

AUGUST 15th IS THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION of the Blessed Virgin Mary.   On this feast, sometimes called by the Polish people the celebration of Our Lady of the Harvest, bouquets of herbs, flowers and sometimes even vegetables are brought to the church and blessed by the priest after the Gospel.  The blessing of herbs and flowers is meant to serve as a reminder of the legend that when the Apostles opened the tomb of Our Lady for St. Thomas (who had been away at the time of the Blessed Virgin’s death) they found only sweet smelling flowers and herbs.  This has come to be a symbol of the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven, body and soul.  The blessed flowers are often pressed and used as bookmarks in Bibles and prayer books.  The herbs are dried and used for medicinal purposes or for special meals on Holy Days.  Church and home shrines to Mary are beautifully decorated with greens and fresh flowers on this day and her statues are often crowned with flower wreaths and ribbons.

LET US PRAY FOR A GOOD AND HOLY BISHOP – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and has named our Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts, as his successor.  Archbishop Rozanski will be installed during an Aug. 25 Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.  Let us pray ardently to the Holy Spirit for a good and holy Bishop for our Diocese of Springfield!

NEW CONFESSION SCHEDULE:  

SATURDAY–MONDAY: after 8:00 a.m. Mass

    TUESDAY-FRIDAY:        4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Weather permitting, confessions will be heard under the canopy on the side lawn between the Rectory and the Church.   In the event of rain, they will take place in the Rectory.

THE TERESIANS –Have you considered becoming a Teresian?  As we have said there is NO commitment.  We will notify everyone on the ministry list (via email) when someone is sick and in need of prayer or a visit. We pray for those who are dying and in need of prayer or a visit. We also pray for those who have died and we share the funeral details so we can reach out to the bereaved with condolence cards and prayers.  It will be up to each individual/family to decide how they can minister.  No one is expected to respond to each need. If any parishioner knows of someone in need, please email Nancy Faller (nafaller@aol.com), so we can get the word out

THE FOLLOWING MASS INTENTIONS have been sent to various Missionaries.  They will be offered as follows and you may unite your prayers to the Missionaries who offer the Masses in their churches:

Sun., august 9: 8:00 + Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. Maureen Filiault

Sun, August 9: 10:30 + In Loving Memory of Sharon Kobera – int. Family

Monday, August 10: 8:00 + Bernie Kobera – int Mary Kobera

Tuesday, August 11: 5:30 – Health & Blessings Jane and Henry Shaughnessy – int. Maeve

Wednesday, August 12: 5:30 – For the Election of a good and holy Bishop in the 

                                                      Diocese of Springfield – int. Katy Guisti

Thursday, August 13:  5:30 – Health & Blessings for Elizabeth Kennedy –int. Katy Guisti

Friday, August 14:  5:30 + Leslie Phillips (2nd Anniversary) – int. niece, Tina

Saturday, August 15: 8:00 – Health & Blessings for the Guisti Children – int. Katy Guisti

Saturday, June 15: 4:00 – Health & Blessings for the Ames Children – int. Katy Guisti

 

PLEASE NOTE:  The above Masses not only assist the souls for whom they are offered, but they also help you and the Missionaries who often times receive very little help. 

Bóg wam zapłać

 

FREE Pew Missals!  Pick up a current Pew Missal in the front vestibule and you can bring it back and forth to Masses.  Please do not leave it behind, but keep it for your own, (write your name in it) for personal use at Masses for the remainder of this liturgical year.

Keep close to the Catholic Church at all times, for the Church alone can give you true peace, since she alone possesses Jesus, the true Prince of Peace in the Blessed Sacrament

                                  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

 

True Presence or Real Presence 

In recent years one hears more and more frequently the expression the True Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. The use of the term raises questions, no doubt unintentionally, about the nature of Christ’s presence in the Blessed Sacrament.

As the doctrinal texts below show, the Church is very careful in her use of language with respect to the mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist. Words can say something true, but still be an inadequate expression of the whole truth. That is the case here. True Presence says something accurate, but it is an inadequate term because it doesn’t distinguish the manner in which Christ is present. Christ has a true presence in the Holy Eucharist, but also in His mystical Body, in His Scriptures, in his minister the priest, in the person in the state of grace. However, only in the Blessed Sacrament does His presence pertain to the ontological or metaphysical order, the order of real being.

This is why the Church uses the term Real Presence to uniquely distinguish His Presence in the Blessed Sacrament from His presence in other contexts. Catholics should therefore use the expression canonized by ecclesiastical usage and which alone adequately expresses the truth about the unique manner of Christ’s Presence in the Blessed Sacrament.

Finally, the Church does speak of Christ’s true body and true blood (e.g. Council of Trent, Decree on the Most Holy Eucharist). In such cases, however, the use of the term body as the reality modified by true makes it clearly a metaphysical reference. True Presence lacks such clarity.

Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei (1947):  For by the “transubstantiation” of bread into the body of Christ and of wine into His blood, His body and blood are both really present …

Pope Pius XII, Humani generis (1950):  Some even say that the doctrine of transubstantiation, based on an antiquated philosophic notion of substance, should be so modified that the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist be reduced to a kind of symbolism, whereby the consecrated species would be merely efficacious signs of the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful members of His Mystical Body.

Pope Paul VI, Mysterium fidei (1965):  Nor is it allowable to discuss the mystery of transubstantiation without mentioning what the Council of Trent stated about the marvelous conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood of Christ, speaking rather only of what is called “transignification” and “transfinalization,” …

This presence is called “real”—by which it is not intended to exclude all other types of presence as if they could not be “real” too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, the God-Man, is wholly and entirely present.

Pope John Paul II, Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994):  CCC 1374 The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.” In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” “This presence is called ‘real’ – by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”

Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia (2003):  15. The sacramental re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice, crowned by the resurrection, in the Mass involves a most special presence which—in the words of Paul VI—“is called ‘real’ not as a way of excluding all other types of presence as if they were ‘not real’, but because it is a presence in the fullest sense: a substantial presence whereby Christ, the God-Man, is wholly and entirely present”.                 Answered by Colin B. Donovan, STL – www.ewtn.com

 

Come, Let Us Adore Him!

Every Saturday from 5:00–6:00 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 4:00–5:30 p.m. we have the Blessed Sacrament exposed for adoration.  Please come and spend time with the Lord, who waits for you.

 

What happiness do we not feel in the presence of God, when we find ourselves alone at his feet, before the Blessed Sacrament! … ‘Come, my soul, redouble your ardor! You are here alone to adore your God! His look rests on you alone!’ Ah! if we only had the angels’ eyes! Seeing our Lord Jesus Christ here, on that altar, and looking at us, how we should love him! We should want to stay always at his feet; it would be a foretaste of heaven; everything else would become insipid to us. – Cf. St. John Vianney

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Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord,

And Let Your Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them.

John Sliwa 8/9/1943

Katarzyna A. Wojtasiewicz 8/9/1955

John Juskiewicz 8/9/1967

Alfred R. Brunelle 8/9/1998

Albert J. Zewinski 8/9/2000

Felicia E. Kostek 8/9/2005

Ladusik Grader 8/10/1960

Frank Muszynski 8/10/1967

Edward G. Zewinski 8/10/1989

Mary A. Gmyrek 8/10/2003

Mary Krol 8/11/1924

Josephine M. Rudinski 8/11/1965

Mary Osowski 8/11/1973

Ronald P. Scopa 8/11/1993

Stanley H. Potosek 8/11/2005

Anna Ostrowski 8/12/1961

Josephine Stroble 8/12/1975

Sabina Kowal 8/12/1991

Rose F. Molongoski 8/12/2017

Apolonia Leskiewicz 8/13/1944

Helen F. Mileski 8/13/1996

Nancy A. Stotz 8/13/2004

Paul J. Gmyrek 8/13/2012

Adam Brzozowy 8/14/1928

Waciej Jakielowicz 8/14/1942

John Gumala 8/14/1943

Joseph J. Potosek 8/14/1978

Joseph G. Fedorowski 8/14/1993

Rose J. Gould 8/14/1996

Julia Mackiewicz 8/15/1934

Adolph Siweki 8/15/1939

Frank Molongowski 8/15/1964

Mary Ann Dean 8/15/2015

 

HELP AND SACRAMENTS AVAILABLE FOR THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND  If you know of anyone who is sick or homebound in need of the Sacraments or who needs assistance with errands, please notify the rectory at 413-863-4748.

OUR LADY’S HOLY ICON will visit the home of Kathy Eichorn for a week of prayer and petition for the needs of our Parish.  We thank you for this holy work of power and love.

PRAY FOR VOCATIONS Please join in the Divine Mercy Chaplet to pray for vocations to the priesthood every Friday beginning at 4:45 p.m. 

PLEASE NOTE that every day of the month is set aside to pray for a specific priest or deacon of the Franklin County Deanery.  Please join in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen designated in our calendar.  The intentions for this week are:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Vocations/ Deacon Patten	Deacon Nolan	Msgr Yargeau	Deacon Candidates	Fr. Lunney	Fr. DiMascola	Clergy who are sick

THIS BULLETIN is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus and St. Kazimierz Societies.

Bulletin: August 2, 2020

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JMJ

+ Parish Schedule for the Week August 2, 2020+

Sunday, August 2:Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

     8:00 am + Adrienne Kostecki Toccoro – int. Marlene Kostecki Kostka

   10:30 am + John & Mary Bush Zukowski – int. George Bush

Monday, August 3:

    8:00 am + Barbara Cook – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

Tuesday, August 4 [Novenas to St. Camillus & St. Peregrine][St. John Vianney]:

   5:30 pm + Rosaline St. Hilaire – int. Sandy Misiun

Wednesday, August 5 [Novena St. Jude][Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major]:

   5:30 pm + Dora Bush – int. George Bush

Thursday, August 6  [The Transfiguration of the Lord]:

 5:30 pm + Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. Melissa Wright

Friday, August 7: [FIRST FRIDAY] [St.Sixtus II, Pope and Companions, Martyrs; Saint Cajetan, Priest]: 

    5:30 pm + Anna LaPalme – int. Brenda

Saturday, August 8 [St. Dominic, Priest]:

   8:00 am + Elizabeth Bower – int. Jim & Cyndi Newcombe

   4:00 pm + Paul Seamans – int. Marlene Kostecki Kostka

   6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. for our Parish and Parishioners

Sunday, August 9 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

8:00 am + Geraldine Daley – int. Elizabeth, Susannah, Laura

10:30 am + Mieczyslaw Mieczkowski – int. Patricia Sojka & Family 

+ KRÓLOWO POLSKI MÓDL SIĘ ZA NAMI +

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH is the Feast of St. John Vianney, the patron of Priests. Born May 8, 1786, he died August 4, 1859 in Ars, France and was canonized May 31, 1925.  He was a French priest who was renowned as a confessor and for his supernatural powers. He is the patron saint of parish priests and will be remembered at the 5:30 pm Mass.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5th is the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major and focuses on the divine maternity of Mary defined by the Council of Ephesus in 431.  This Feast will be remembered in the Mass at 5:30 pm.  Because of an ancient legend, this feast is also called Our Lady of the Snows.  According to popular tradition in Rome, during the reign of Pope Liberius in the fourth century, the Blessed Virgin appeared to a patrician named John, declaring that she wished a church to be dedicated to her honor on a spot which she indicated by a miraculous fall of snow in summer which outlined the plan of the church.  John founded and endowed the church in 352, during the reign of the same Pope Liberius (352-366).  Hence, it came to be called the Liberian Basilica.

     Pope Sixtus III enlarged and consecrated it under the title of the Virgin Mary about the year 435.  The principle facade was added in 1741 by Benedict XIV.  It bears the title of St. Mary Major, or the Greater, because it is in dignity, if not in antiquity, the first church in Rome among those dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.  From the fact that the holy crib of Bethlehem is preserved in this church, it also bears the title of Sancta Maria ad Praesepe (at the Crib.)  St. Mary Major is one of the three patriarchal churches in which the Pope officiates on certain occasions, and in which there is an altar, reserved only for him, St. Peter’s and St. John Lateran being the others.

 

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord giving the Apostles a hint of the glory of the Resurrection.  Jesus appeared with Moses and the prophet, Elijah.  This feast will be remembered in the Mass at 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7th IS THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH in honor of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The Mass will be offered at 5:30 p.m. followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the Litany to the Sacred Heart and All-Night Vigil of Reparation. The Vigil will begin with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, and continue all night until the 8:00 a.m. Mass.

 

 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8th is the Feast of St. Dominic, the founder of the Dominicans, whose work was to bring people back to the true teaching and discipline of the Church.  He will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 a.m.

THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION will be bestowed on our Confirmation students this Saturday, August 8th at 10:30 am at Our Lady of Częstochowa Parish by Fr. Seán O’Mannion.  We ask students to arrive with your sponsors for the Confirmation Mass by 10:00 am.  There will be no rehearsal the day before.  Please remember our Confirmandi in your prayers this week.  Veni Creator Spiritus!

SAINT MICHAEL SCHOOL IS ENROLLING FOR THE 20/21 SCHOOL YEAR!

As parents navigate all of the options available to them this coming year for education, we hope you will tell others about our reopening strategy. Every family is different and we might have the perfect environment for your children, or someone else you know!

We are planning to reopen with full time, in-classroom learning. 

Our circumstances are very different from many of the surrounding schools, and we feel we are able to offer this model safely to a small, close-knit community like SMS.

If you would like to learn more about our reopening strategy, please call Lindsay O’Neil at 802.254.6320 or email lindsayoneil@smsvt.info.

Saint Michael School is Hiring! Please help us spread the word!

We are looking for well-qualified, enthusiastic professionals to join our SMS family in the following positions:

* Food Service Director- Daily 8am-3:30pm, 180 day school year

* Extended Care Teacher- Daily from 7-8:30am and 3-5pm

* PE Teacher- Part time, 2 days per week 

* Technology Teacher- Part time, 1 day per week

* Substitute teachers… we can always use great subs!

If you know someone with experience that seems perfect for one of the above positions, please encourage them to email Principal Elaine Beam at elainebeam@smsvt.info with a current resume and 3 references.

HELP AND SACRAMENTS AVAILABLE FOR SICK AND HOMEBOUND – If you know of anyone who is sick or homebound in need of the Sacraments or who needs assistance with errands, please notify the rectory at 413-863-4748.

 

St. John Vianney – Patron of Priests

(1786-1859) 

   Some saints, like Augustine, or Thomas Aquinas, or Alphonsus Liguori, have been intellectually brilliant.  Since ours is a teaching Church, we must have some intellectual leaders.  But other saints, more like the rest of us, have been far from geniuses.  In them, God wants to emphasize that what He most wants from everybody is humility of heart. 

     That is what attracted thousands to seek out the famous 19th century Curé (pastor) of Ars, France, his earthy simplicity of spirit. 

     John Vianney, the future Curé, was the son of a poor farmer in east-central France.  John was devout and wanted to study for the priesthood.  His father couldn’t spare him from the farm work until he was 20.  Then he began his preparatory studies with a nearby parish priest.  A slow learner by nature, John simply couldn’t master Latin; but after a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. John Francis Regis, he at least got over his discouragement. 

     Then came another setback.  Drafted into the Napoleonic Army in 1809, he accidentally missed the departure of his contingent and thus, technically but contrary to his own intention, he became a “draft-dodger”.  The mayor to whom he reported his plight sensibly advised that he go into hiding rather than risk the severe penalties prescribed for deserters.  So under a pseudonym, John remained working on a local farm for the next 14 months.  In 1811, thanks to an amnesty, he was able to return home a free man. 

     Now he resumed his seminary studies.  Latin remained the bugbear, but his bishop realized that Vianney had great common sense and was a model of goodness; so he ordained him a priest in 1812.  Named assistant pastor to the parish of his first priest-instructor, young Father Vianney soon showed particular gifts, as a confessor. 

     In 1818, John-Mary was named pastor of the run-down rural parish of Ars-en-Dombes.  Here he was to spend the rest of his days.  Thanks to his diligent efforts, his own holiness and the miracles that he occasioned, he finally succeeded in winning over his listless congregation to grateful obedience and Christian regularity of life.  It was not an easy success, so far as Vianney was concerned.  He tried three times to run away to a monastery or other more peaceful locale, but he always came back.  He was also under constant assault by the devil, who even threatened him physically.  At the same time he was the object of enmity on the part of some of his fellow priests.  They resented his zeal, which far outstripped their own.  But his bishop fully appreciated him. 

     Jean-Marie Vianney excelled as a confessor.  When people began to come to Ars in droves to consult him, he might spend as many as 16 hours a day in the confessional.  In this important work he was aided by the spiritual gift of reading peoples’ souls.  Sometimes he could remind them to confess old sins that only they knew of.  The saint preached, of course; but preachers, like the writers of today’s medical advice columns, can only discuss “diseases” in general.  For the particular diagnosis and remedies, one must still see one’s own doctor. 

     In the year 1858-1859, over 1,000 pilgrims visited Ars. The Curé, now 73, and worn out, took to bed for the last time on July 18, 1859.  Even then he summoned several persons to kneel beside his bedstead and finish their confessions.  He died on August 5, 1859. 

     Pope Pius XI canonized Vianney in 1925.  Four years later Pius named him the principal patron of all the Catholic parish clergy.  The choice of this gentle, self- sacrificing, unlikely shepherd for that heavenly task could not have been more appropriate. 

—Father Robert F. McNamara,

St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Irondequoit, NY

“When people want to destroy religion, they start by attacking priests, because where there are no priests, there is no sacrifice, and where there is no sacrifice, there is no religion.”

– St. John Vianney

+ PRAYER FOR PRIESTS +

Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord, keep them, for they are Thine – Thy priests whose lives burn out before Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in the world, though from the world apart; when earthly pleasures tempt, allure – shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them in hours of loneliness and pain, when all their lives of sacrifice for souls seems but in van.
Keep them, and O remember, Lord, they have no one but Thee, yet they have only human hearts, with human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host, that daily they caress; their every thoughts and word and deed, Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.  AMEN

 

Catholics Mark Centenary of Poland’s Consecration to the Sacred Heart

CNA Staff, Jul 27, 2020 / 10:30 am MT (CNA).- Catholics marked the 100th anniversary Monday of the consecration of Poland to the Sacred Heart.

The act took place on July 27, 1920, and was followed three weeks later by a resounding Polish victory over the Red Army known as the “Miracle on the Vistula.”

In the summer of 1920, Soviet forces attempted to cross Poland in order to carry out Vladimir Lenin’s plan to provoke communist revolution in Western Europe. Lenin believed that if the Red Army seized Poland then the Soviets could offer direct support to revolutionaries in Germany. 

With the Bolsheviks setting their sights on the Polish capital, Warsaw, Cardinal Edmund Dalbor, the Primate of Poland, joined the country’s bishops at Jasna Góra, the monastery housing an icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa, also known as the Black Madonna. He led an act of consecration of the Polish nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

Weeks later, on August 15, 1920, the Polish army halted the Red Army advance on the outskirts of Warsaw. In the following days General Władysław Sikorski’s 5th Army drove Soviet units away from the city. 

Lenin described the battle, in which the Red Army lost around 15,000 men compared to Polish losses of about 4,500, as “an enormous defeat.”

Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik, spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, said that the act of consecration should not be regarded simply as a historical event. 

In a July 27 press statement, he suggested that the consecration offered “a pastoral program for the next decades for millions of Catholics in our homeland.”

He noted that the act was renewed by the Polish bishops in 1951, 1976, and 2011. It was also renewed on March 25 this year when Polish bishops’ conference president Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki entrusted the Church in Poland to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Rytel-Andrianik recalled that images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus were common in Polish homes, and that retreats and missions promoted the devotion. 

“They led people to trust God and His love in difficult times, and this was very much needed in the 20th century,” he said.

THE FOLLOWING MASS INTENTIONS have been sent to various Missionaries.  They will be offered as follows and you may unite your prayers to the Missionaries who offer the Masses in their churches:

Sun., August 2: 8:00 + In Memory of Richard LaBrecque – int. Maeve Shaughnessy

Sun, August 2: 10:30 + Elaine Bartus – int. The Shaughnessys

Monday, August 3: 8:00 + Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. The Shaughnessys

Tuesday, August 4: 5: + Edward Milewski – int. wife

Wednesday, August 5: 5:30 + Patricia Collins – int. Brendan Collins

Thursday, August 6:  5:30 – Health & Blessings for Bob & Virginia Avery–int. Beverly

Friday, August 7:  5:30 – Special Intention – int. The Shaughnessys

Saturday, August 8: 8:00 + JMB – int. Ethan Everett

Saturday, June 18: 4:00 + Anita Stevens – int. Carol

PLEASE NOTE:  The above Masses not only assist the souls for whom they are offered, but they also help you and the Missionaries who often times receive very little help. 

Bóg wam zapłać

LET US PRAY FOR A GOOD AND HOLY BISHOP – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and has named our Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts, as his successor.  Archbishop Rozanski will be installed during an Aug. 25 Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.  Let us pray ardently to the Holy Spirit for a good and holy Bishop for our Diocese of Springfield!

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Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord,

And Let Your Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them.

Mary Zukowski 8/2/1970

Lena M. Wissmann 8/2/2002

Edward Kabaniec 8/3/1939

Joseph Kurtyka 8/3/1949

Chester Zukowski 8/3/1970

John Niedzwiecki 8/3/1997

Josie Dora Bush 8/3/2005

Mary Ostrowski 8/4/1933

John F. Maziarz 8/4/1973

Paul Czarnecki 8/4/1973

Stella R. Sliwa 8/4/1980

William H. Gaines 8/4/2005

Frances E. Kurtyka 8/4/2010

Jan Zukowski 8/5/1961

Loretta E. Kirk 8/5/1993

Joanna H. Sak 8/6/1958

Louise A. Riel 8/6/1993

Anna Jablonski 8/7/1924

Katarzynia Duda 8/7/1952

Karolina Waryasz 8/7/1954

Zofia Milewski 8/7/1960

John Szczepkowski 8/8/1958

Stephen F. Koscinski 8/8/1999

NEW CONFESSION SCHEDULE:   SATURDAY–MONDAY:    after 8:00 a.m. Mass 

                                                            TUESDAY-FRIDAY:        4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. 

Weather permitting, confessions will be heard under the canopy on the side lawn between the Rectory and the Church.   In the event of rain, they will take place in the Rectory.

PRAY FOR VOCATIONS to the Priesthood from our Parish and for our Parish so that we might always have a Priest here to celebrate the Mass and administer the Holy Sacraments! Please join in the Divine Mercy Chaplet to pray for vocations to the priesthood every Friday beginning at 4:45 p.m. followed by the Rosary, and Mass.

PLEASE NOTE that every day of the month is set aside to pray for a specific priest or deacon of the Franklin County Deanery.  Please join in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen designated in our calendar.  The intentions for this week are:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Fr. Campoli	Deacon Rabbitt	Our Seminarians	Fr. O’Mannion	Bishop Rozanski	Deacon DeCarlo	Fr. Reardon

THIS BULLETIN is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus and St. Kazimierz Societies.