+ Parish Schedule for the Week of June 11, 2023+
Sunday, June 11: [Corpus Christi]
8:00 am – Grace & Blessings for Adeline and Isaiah Mancini – int. Mom and Dad
10:30 am – Grace & Blessings for Jim & Cyndi Newcombe on their 40th Wedding Anniversary – int. Family
Monday, June 12
8:00 am – Health & Blessings for Kelly and Ryan Acres & Family – int. Yves & AnneMarie Jacques
Tuesday, June 13: [St. Anthony of Padua][Novena to St. Peregrine & Camillus]
5:30 pm – Grace & Conversion for Timothy M. Herk – int. Debbie Herk
Wednesday, June 14: [Novena to St. Jude]
5:30 pm + Nathan Hanley – int. Yves & AnneMarie Jacques
Thursday, June 15
5:30 pm – Graces & Blessings for Marie Stanley – int Mom and Dad
Friday, June 16: [Solemnity of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus]
5:30 pm + Wanda Kuzmeskus – int. Fritz Family
Saturday, June 17: [The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
8:00 am + Fr. Bruno & All the Living & Deceased Members of the St. Joseph Community of the Discalced Carmelites Secular
4:00 pm – Father’s Day Novena I
6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. Missa pro populo (for our Parish and Parishioners)
Sunday, June 18: [Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time]
8:00 am – Father’s Day Novena II
10:30 am – Father’s Day Novena III
THE SANCTUARY LAMP
will burn this week in loving memory of
Una Lennon
at the request of Kate Driscoll
FATHER’S DAY NOVENA AND CARDS – The Father’s Day Novena will begin this coming Saturday, June 17th at the 4:00 pm Mass. Cards and envelopes for the novena are currently available for your living and deceased Fathers and loved ones in the front vestibule. Novena envelopes can be dropped in the collection basket or dropped at the Rectory.
Our Annual Giant Tag & Bake Sale is this Saturday-June 17!
The Annual Giant Tag and Bake Sale sponsored by our Parish Council will take place this Saturday, June 17th from 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine! Furniture, house wares, appliances, exercise equipment and other treasures will be at rock bottom prices! Please drop off tag sale items at the rectory garage. PLEASE NO BABY EQUIPMENT, televisions, computers, printers, mattresses, clothing or books. Please do not leave items without first calling Rectory or Shirley Webb at 413-773-7202 to arrange a time to drop off your donations.
WE ARE ASKING PARISHIONERS TO PLEASE DONATE A BAKED GOOD FOR THE BAKE SALE WHICH MAY BE DROPPED OFF IN THE KITCHEN UNDERCROFT ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON OR SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE THE TAG/BAKE SALE ON 6/17.
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 Krol for a week of prayer and petition for the needs of our Parish. We thank you for this holy work of power and love.
THURSDAY, JUNE 15th is the feast of Blessed Jolenta who was one of four sisters who are also honored by the Church with the title of Blessed. She was the wife of Duke Boleslaus of Kalisz and had a happy married life. Both Blessed Jolenta and her husband were noted for their great works of charity and for the founding of a number of monasteries. After the death of her husband she retired to the convent of The Poor Clares in Sandeck. She died a holy death in 1299, known for her piety and charity.
FRIDAY, JUNE 16th is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a devotion with long and historic provenance within Christianity, and in modern times has been established as a Solemnity for the universal Church. Sixteenth century Calvinism and seventeenth century Jansenism preached a distorted Christianity that substituted for God’s love and sacrifice of His Son for all men the fearful idea that a whole section of humanity was inexorably damned. The Church always countered this view with the infinite love of our Savior who died on the cross for all men. The institution of the feast of the Sacred Heart was soon to contribute to the creation among the faithful of a powerful current of devotion which since then has grown steadily stronger. “I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment” (Jesus to St. Margaret Mary).
SATURDAY, JUNE 17TH is the feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior’s Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today’s feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession “peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue”
SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH the Church officially celebrates the Feast of the 108 Polish martyrs who were killed by the Nazis during World War II. Among these martyrs are numerous priests, religious men and women, seminarians, and lay persons. The martyrs were beatified by Pope John Paul II in June, 1999. The martyrs serve as an example to Church of how God’s grace allows us to unify our sufferings to the cross despite the most horrendous of conditions. The martyrs endured cruel beatings, torture, humiliation, starvation, sickness, and hard labor. Despite their many sufferings the martyrs remained an example of Christian virtue, even within the walls of the Nazi concentration camps.
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.
PRAY FOR OUR CLERGY: Please join us in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen designated in our calendar.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| Vocations, Seminarians & Deacon Candidates | Clergy in Purgatory | Fr. O’Connor | Dcn. Rabbitt | Fr. Aksamit | Our Retired Clergy | Clergy who are sick |
Prayer for Priests
O Jesus, Eternal Priest, look down with love upon Thy priests. Fill them with burning zeal for the conversion of sinners. Keep them within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Thy Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips purpled with Thy Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts sealed with the sublime marks of Thy Glorious Priesthood. Let Thy holy love protect them from the world’s contagion. Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom they minister on earth be one day their joy and consolation in Heaven. Amen.
HE WAITS FOR YOU – Please consider spending time with Our Lord in Eucharistic Adoration to make reparation to His Sacred Heart. We have exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Tuesday – Friday and from 5:00 – 6:00 pm on Saturdays.
THE SAINT GREGORY CHOIR sings weekly at the Sunday 8 am Mass. We are in great need of new singers. All ages are welcome. If you can sing, if you love to sing, if you love Palestrina, Byrd, Lassus, and Chant, you are a good candidate. You don’t have to be very proficient at reading music. We need all voices. Please contact Robert Heath.
GROCERIES ARE PROVIDED by our parish for those who often come to the Rectory for help. The following goods may be dropped off in the church vestibule: laundry detergents, diapers (sizes 4 – 6) paper goods, coffee, crackers, canned goods, cereal, pastas, rice, beans, etc. 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!
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:
Sunday, June 11: 8:00 am – Grace & Conversion for Kathleen M. Roberts – int. Debbie Herk
Sunday, June 11: 10:30 am + Mary Anne Murphy – the Shaughnessys
Monday, June 12: 8:00 am + Frederick Speckels – int. Helen Speckels
Tuesday, June 13: 5:30 pm – Krejmas Family – int. Annette Krejmas
Wednesday, June 14: 5:30 – Grace & Conversion for Suzenne Grandinetti – int. Debbie Herk
Thursday, June 15: 5:30 pm – Grace & Conversion for Ryan Herk – int. Debbie Herk
Friday, June 16: 5:30 pm + Chet Galvis – int. Connie
Saturday, June 17: 8:00 am – Health & Blessings for Maureen Killay – int. Shaughnessys
Saturday, June 17: 4:00 pm + Bernie Kobera – int. Mary Kobera
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.
HAVE YOU BROWSED OUR BOOK RACK in the front vestibule? There is an amazing selection of good Catholic reading at reasonable prices; a chance to increase your knowledge in the Faith and to enjoy some good solid Catholic books. Why not pick up a book for your summer vacation. Please note that all books in the bookrack are for sale, not for loan! The sale of books provides financial help for the parish. Please note that this is a self-service book shop and you may place your donation for the books in the coin box on the side of either bookrack.
FREE MINISTRY TO TRAVELING CATHOLICS – For nationwide Mass times and locations: call 1-800-Mass-Times (1-800-627-7846) or visit http://www.Masstimes.org.
MAKING YOUR WILL CAN HELP OUR PARISH. Many people talk about leaving gifts to worthy causes, but don’t have a will, and do not realize it requires a will to do so. The laws of most states make it quite clear that personal property goes automatically, by law, to your nearest relatives, even if they are quite distant ones, unless you have a legal will that says otherwise. If you have no relatives, it goes to the state. More than half of all adult Americans die without having made their wills. Most of them undoubtedly planned to do so, but never got around to it. Some had wills but didn’t keep them current. When you have a will, you should update it every few years as conditions change. Also, always name an executor who will carry out your wishes. Besides money, non-cash possessions can also be used as contributions and various donation plans can be carried out. Consider this: you may leave your stocks, bonds, real estate, art, valuable collections or insurance or even as little as 10% or 5% of your estate, to continue the work of Our Lady of Czestochowa. Your will is the most important way of giving. When you are gone, it is a legacy that is not forgotten. For help in making your will, contact a competent lawyer.
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Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
It’s always the tissue of male heart muscle when the molecular structure of a Eucharistic miracle is examined under a microscope. Jesus had “heart” but, more importantly, He had a heart. The word “heart” is synonymous with grit, soul, intuition, love, strength, generosity, and, in its most total sense, the very center of man. Today’s feast embraces all of those meanings.
Christ’s Sacred Heart teaches us that God loves us as a friend loves a friend, as a parent loves a child, or as a sibling loves his closest brother or sister. That is, Christ loves us in the same way as a person loves us, only more intensely. Our God doesn’t shift the planetary order, redirect the rays of the sun, or create a parallel gravitational field to magnetize His love for mankind. Science fiction requires a fluid imagination.
Understanding God’s love should not, and does not, demand such mental contortionism. Understanding God’s love should be as simple as recalling your little hand in your father’s big hand as you walked next to him at night as a little girl. It requires remembering running into your mother’s soft embrace, cheek to cheek, after skinning your knee. Jesus Christ’s love for man is as human and as clear as a beating heart. Simply put, Jesus loves us from just above His solar plexus, where His heart pulsates with emotion for every sacred creature who harbors a human soul.
The widely loved devotion to the Sacred Heart is not rooted in a feast of ancient pedigree similar to those of Holy Week. No Christian of the first millenium ever gazed into the haunting eyes of Christ as He stared out from a Sacred Heart image enthroned on the family-room wall. It was only in 1856 that Pope Pius IX placed this feast on the Church’s universal calendar. The Pope acted after almost two centuries of devotion to the Sacred Heart, which had grown out of the thinking, preaching, and prayer of the indefatigable Saint John Eudes and out of the visions of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. Both of these saints were indebted, in turn, to the medieval revelations of the Sacred Heart granted to Saint Gertrude the Great.
We love the Heart of Christ because His heart loved us first. We adore the adorer, love the lover, and worship the worshiper. Because God comes first, all of our love for Him is the repayment of a debt. We are not doing God a favor by loving him any more than a hammer does a carpenter a favor by slamming nails into wood. Religion is about raw justice, not doing God favors. That God loves us is not readily apparent from creation itself or from the history of mankind. The gods were many things to many races throughout the ages, but love was not one of them. Christianity had to tell the world that God was love. And Jesus had to attach His arms to a cross and die for that message to be convincing.
The visions of Saint Margaret Mary made God’s love concrete and comprehensible, while the visions of Saint Faustina Kowolska deepened the meaning of this feast still more. In these challenging visions, Christ rips open His heart to Sister Faustina and shows her a calm and deep ocean of mercy waiting to bathe repentant sinners in its saving waters. Three strands—the Sacred Heart, love, and mercy—are now braided in a tight belt of spiritual truth.
True heart is not proven by waving to the crowds from a car in a victory parade or by luxuriating on the beach with friends. Real heart is in the last stretch of the neck over the finish line, in climbing the stage to receive a diploma after years of academic struggle, or in pulling yourself out of bed to go to nocturnal adoration. True heart is synonymous with long suffering, perseverance, and conquering through adversity. True heart is dying on the cross when you didn’t deserve it. A true heart is a Sacred Heart. That’s the heart of our God. No athlete goes to the Olympics to compete for the silver. Jesus reached for the gold from the dais of the cross, slick with his own blood. There’s no need for us to keep on searching for a heart of gold in this world. We know in exactly whose body that heart beats. It’s all gold, it’s all sacredness, and it loves us like Himself.
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YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST PRAYER
Jesus, I believe that you are truly present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist. In you I place my whole family. Heal our wounds and renew us in heart and mind with a greater reverence, devotion and love for you in the Holy Eucharist.
Our Lady, first tabernacle of the Word made flesh, intercede on our behalf to your Son, especially for the Diocese of Springfield and our priests. Through their love for the priesthood and the Eucharist, may they inspire young men to the priesthood that the Mass may continue to be offered so that we may be nourished with your Son’s Body and Blood. Guide especially our youth to your Church so they may thrive by knowing the truth that only comes from Jesus.
Most Holy Trinity, I adore you! My God, I love you in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Amen.
May we dwell long and often in adoration before Christ in the Eucharist. May we sit at the ‘school’ of the Eucharist. Visit the Lord in that ‘heart to heart’ contact that is Eucharistic Adoration. Day after day, you will receive new energy…. Pope St. John Paul II
Eternal rest grant unto them o Lord,
And Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them
Viola Satrowski 6/11/1967
Chester Zachlowski 6/11/1970
Stanley Mieczkowski 6/11/1983
Helen Yarmac 6/11/2020
Agnieszka Baran 6/12/1955
Charles Shattuck 6/12/2021
Joseph Siwik 6/13/1926
Aniela Krapf 6/13/1970
Robert Larabee, Sr. 6/13/1981
Adolph Siwicki 6/14/1947
Peter Laskowski 6/15/1935
Katarzyna Putala 6/15/1964
Anthonia Modola 6/16/1943
Dolphus LaMountain 6/16/1962
Joseph Kolodziej 6/16/1997
Camille N. Zebrowski 6/16/2002
Dorothy E. Niedzwiedz 6/16/2017
Richard Koscinski 6/17/1980
Katherine A. Tomaus 6/17/2006
Jennie Simondiski 6/17/2012
Mary M. Gaida 6//17/2014
Anna Sojka 6/18/194
+ REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR THE HOLY SOULS +
+This Bulletin is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus Society+
Chronicles of Czestochowa 