- PARISH SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26, 2023+
J+M+J
Sunday, November 26: [Our Lord Jesus Christ – King of the Universe]
8:00 am + William Fleming – int. daughter
10:30 am + Edward Olender – int. Helen Speckels
5:00 pm – Vespers
Monday, November 27
8:00 am + 40th Anniversary Charles Gloski – int. Family
Tuesday, November 28: [Novena to St. Peregrine & St. Camillus]
5:30 pm + Bonnie Bean – int. Bob & Kathy Lemoine
Wednesday, November 29:[Novena to St. Jude]
5:30 pm + Irene Olender – int. Helen Speckels
Thursday, November 30: [St. Andrew, Apostle]
5:30 pm + James Brady Bender – int. Becklo Family
First Friday, December 1
5:30 pm + Judith LaPlume – int. Gabriel LaPlume
All Night Vigil of Eucharistic Adoration to follow Mass
First Saturday, December 2
8:00 am + Robert Jarvis – int. Family
4:00 pm + Repose of the Soul of Tara Paccio – int. Gabriel LaPlume
6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. Missa pro populo (for our Parish and Parishioners)
Sunday, December 3: [First Sunday of Advent]
8:00 am + Anna LaPlume – int. Daughter
10:30 am – Health & Blessings for Bishops, Priests & Deacons in our Diocese
5:00 pm – Vespers
THE SANCTUARY LAMP
will burn this week in supplication for
The Rezende Family
at the request of Brian & Luciana Prunier
Today is the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – the feast of a King whose kingdom is not of this world. Our task is to live as citizens of this heavenly kingdom. May we, through this Eucharist, gain strength to proclaim in our lives that Christ is truly our King, and that His kingdom is truly our kingdom. Our response is life lived in the service of justice and peace. Upon this great feast let us be filled with joy for the great Redeemer who has saved us. He is our Lord and Saviour, the only One worthy of our praise and adoration as it is He who gives sense to our very existence. We live in world in which it is ever more difficult to profess our belief that Christ is our King. His is not only our King, but, as this feast reminds us, He is the King of the Universe, history, time and all created things, visible and invisible!
IN ACCORDANCE with the requirements of the Diocesan Synodal Statues (#209:1), following the Sunday 10:30 a.m. Mass of Christ the King we will have Exposition, the Litany of the Sacred Heart, the Act of Consecration and Benediction.
FRIDAY, December 1st IS THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH in honor of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Traditional Latin 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. Please consider signing up for an hour of adoration or just dropping in anytime during Exposition to offer your prayers of reparation for our Parish and Nation. God Bless You!
THE PRO-LIFE NOVENA will continue on Saturday, December 2nd 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.
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.
SACRAMENTAL HOMEBOUND VISITS – Communion calls take place the first week of each month. If you would like to have Father O’Mannion bring you the sacraments, please call the Rectory to be added to the list. (413) 863-4748. Call the Rectory immediately in case of emergencies.
Our Annual
St. Nicholas Day Bazaar
THIS Saturday, December 2nd
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Come for tasty Polish pierogi, delicious baked goods, religious goods, gifts from Poland, marvelous arts and crafts, our amazing gift-basket raffle, and fun and games. Breakfast and lunch will be served on the premises.
BASKET RAFFLE TICKETS ARE BEING SOLD! Don’t forget to check out our 13 beautiful baskets which you can win by purchasing tickets which are on sale today! The drawing will take place at the Christmas Bazaar on December 2nd. Thank you for supporting this important fundraiser for our parish!
RAFFLE TICKETS FOR OUR SUPER St. Nicholas Day raffle are available in the church vestibule. If at all possible, the Parish Council is requesting that each family take at least one book of raffle tickets. First Prize: $100 Cash; Second Prize: $50 Cash; Third Prize: $25 Cash; Fourth Prize: $25 Cash; Fifth Prize: $25 cash; Sixth Prize: $25 cash.
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 |
| Fr. O’Connor | Deacon Bete | Deacon Cullion | Deacon DeCarlo | Fr. O’Mannion | Deacon Nolan | Fr. Campoli |
PRAYER FOR PRIESTS
JESUS, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests, your unfaithful and lukewarm priests, your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields, your tempted priests, your lonely and desolate priests, your young priests, your dying priests, and the souls of your priests in purgatory. But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me, the priests who absolved me from my sins, the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your body and blood in Holy Communion, the priests who taught and instructed me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially….). O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen
Join us on Friday at 4:45 pm to Pray the Divine Mercy Novena for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life.
To celebrate the Feast of St. Andrew on November 30th, there is a novena that begins on November 30th and continues until Christmas Eve. One is supposed to pray the below prayer fifteen times each day in order to obtain the prayer request.
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen.
St. Andrew, while not specifically mentioned often in the Gospels, can teach us how to better love Jesus and to follow Jesus no matter what the cost. Because he followed Jesus before St. Peter and the others, he is called the Protoklete or “First-Called” apostle. A 4th-century account reports his death by crucifixion, and late medieval accretions describe the cross as X-shaped. He is iconographically represented with an X-shaped cross (like that depicted on the Scottish flag). Let us remember St. Andrew’s example as we celebrate his feast day.
St. Andrew is the patron saint of Greece and Russia. Additionally, St. Andrew is the patron saint of singers, spinsters, maidens, fishmongers, fishermen, women wanting to be mothers, gout and sore throats. He is known for his intercession for them, continuing his prayers after death.
The Rectory Open House
All Parishioners and Friends are cordially invited to the Rectory Open House on
Sunday, December 10th
from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. All are welcome to come any time during the day to share in refreshments, good wishes and Holiday Fellowship.
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, November 26: 8:00 am – Private Intention
Sunday, November 26: 10:30 am – Private Intention
Monday, November 27: 8:00 am – Private Intention
Tuesday, November 28: 5:30 pm – Private Intention
Wednesday, November 29: 5:30 pm – Private Intention
Thursday, November 30: 5:30 pm – Private Intention
Friday, December 1: 5:30 pm – Private Intention
Saturday, December 2: 8:00 am + Louise Hoynoski – int. Barbara Krusiewski
Saturday, December 2: 4:00 pm + Frederick Speckels – int. Wife, Helen
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.
Why We Celebrate Christ the King Sunday
Laura Magnifico
Each year the Church celebrates the Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday before Advent, also known as the last Sunday of the liturgical year. As Catholics, we’ve been recognizing Christ as our King for over 2,000 years. Each time we attend Mass, genuflect in front of the altar, or receive a sacrament, we are honoring our King. So why do we have a special day set aside to remember our King? The man who holds the answer is Pope Pius XI who, in 1925, was compelled to institute this feast.
At the time of Pope Pius XI’s papacy, the world was in turmoil. In many regions, people were facing the spread of dictatorships. These dictators had a stronghold on their countries and many people following them, regarded them as mighty, almost idol-like beings. In addition, the threat of secularism, atheism, and agnosticism was running rampant throughout parts of Europe, Russia, and Mexico. Pope Pius XI witnessed with great heartbreak a lack of reverence and belief in Christ. He felt a strong need to put a stop to the anti-Catholic sentiment that was becoming a crisis during the first part of the 20th century. On December 11, 1925, the pontiff presented an encyclical, Quas Primas, establishing the Feast of Christ the King. He stressed that “The manifold evils in the world are due to the fact that the majority of men have thrust Jesus Christ and his holy law out of their lives; that these had no place either in private affairs or in politics…”
“He [Jesus] is the author of happiness and true prosperity for every man and for every nation. A nation is happy when its citizens are happy. What else is a nation but a number of men living in concord? If therefore, the rulers of nations wish to preserve their authority, to promote and increase the prosperity of their countries, they will not neglect the public duty of reverence and obedience to the rule of Christ… With authority derived not from God but from man, the very basis of that authority has been taken away, because the chief reason of the distinction between ruler and subject has been eliminated. The result is that human society is tottering to its fall, because it has no longer a sense and solid foundation.”
When Pope Pius XI speaks of Christ as King, he isn’t speaking about authority or domination, but service. Jesus’ kingship is one that represents salvation, one that annihilates hatred and evil. He doesn’t want to control us, He wants to save us. He speaks of a spiritual kingdom. “My kingdom is not of this world… But now my kingdom is from another place.” (John 18:36) While governments and leaders around the world crumble throughout history, Christ’s reign will never fall.
Today, just as in 1925, our world continues to experience turbulent times. In addition to political unrest and ongoing threats of wars, people are becoming increasingly more secularized and more materialistic. Church attendance throughout the world is also on the decline. Many people are pushing Christ aside as they tend to more “important” matters. Some may not even realize they are doing it. We live in a society where many individuals are caught up in their own lives, with getting their own needs met and focusing on wealth and possessions. The Feast of Christ the King is a wakeup call for all of us, to stop and assess our lives. Are we including our faith in all the decisions we make? Do we only remember to pray when we need something? When we attend Mass do we actively listen to the Scripture readings and reflect on the messages? When we genuflect, do we do it with meaning and awe, or are we only going through the motions?
This year, the Feast of Christ the King is November 26. Let the words of Pope Pius XI resonate with us: “He must reign in our minds, which should assent with perfect submission and firm belief to revealed truths and to the doctrines of Christ. He must reign in our wills, which should obey the laws and precepts of God. He must reign in our hearts, which should spurn natural desires and love God above all things, and cleave to him alone. He must reign in our bodies and in our members, which should serve as instruments for the interior sanctification of our souls. Let us unite with the prayer of the Church to say:
“Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!
The Solemnity of Christ the King:
The XXXIV and Last Sunday in Ordinary Time
Proper of the Mass
Introit (Entrance Chant)
8:00 Mass: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
How worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and divinity, and wisdom and strength and honor. To him belong glory and power for ever and ever.
(Dignus est Agnus, Revelation v: 12, 1, 6; Roman Missal & Graduale Romanum.)
10:30 Mass: By Flowing Waters, Chant for the Liturgy, Dr. Paul F. Ford
The kingdom of Christ is an everlasting kingdom, and all the kings of the earth will be his servants.
(Regnum eius, Daniel vii: 27, Psalm lxxi(lxxii); Grdauale Simplex.)
Gradual Responsory (Responsorium Gradualis)
10:30 Mass: Graduale Romanum, 1974, St. Peter’s Abbey, Solesmes
(Sung in place of the Responsorial Psalm, cf. the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no. 61.)
R/. Dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos orbis terrarum. V/. Et adorabunt eum omnes reges terrae: omnes gentes servient ei. The R/. Dominabitur a mari, &c., may be repeated as far as the V/.
Translation: R/. He shall rule from sea to sea, and form the river unto the ends of the earth. V/. All the
kings of the earth shall adore him; all nations shall adore him.
(Dominabitur, Psalm lxxi(lxxii): 8, 11; Graduale Romanum.)
Offertory
8:00 & 10:30 Mass: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession.
(Postula a me, et tibi dabo, Psalm ii: 8; Graduale Romanum.)
Communion
4:00, 8:00, & 10:30 Mass: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
The Lord sits as King for ever. The Lord will bless his people with peace.
(Sedebit Dominus Rex, Psalm xxviii(xxix): 10–11; Roman Missal, Graduale Rom
OUR FATHER
Pater noster, qui es in caelis,
Sanctificetur Nomen Tuum;
Adveniat Regnum Tuum;
Fiat voluntas Tua,
Sicut in caelo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
Et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
Sed libera nos a Malo. Amen.
Prayer Before Communion
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. O God, cleanse me of my sins and forgive me for I have sinned without number.
Eternal rest grant unto them o Lord,
And Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them.
Joseph Seremeth 11/26/1953
Amelia M. Kozik 11/26/1974
Charles Gloski 11/26/1983
Mary Prohowicz 11/26/1995
Rose M. Bruso 11/26/2005
Theresa A. Ferland 11/26/2017
Janek Caslonzik 11/27/1943
Edward Warchol 11/27/1962
Marcianna Brzozowy 11/27/1969
Vernon C. Murray 11/27/1985
Helen Rudinski 11/27/1987
Martin E. Yarmac 11/27/2011
Nellie F. Kosewicz 11/27/2014
Emilia Osciak 11/27/2018
Peter Orzulak 11/28/1935
Frank G. Pipione, Jr. 11/28/1975
Frank J. Mlecko, Jr. 11/28/1977
Alexander Zywna 11/28/1986
Nellie Dudzinski 11/28/1991
John Skrowron 11/29/1951
Caroline Dlugosz 11/29/1966
Sabina P. Kendrow 11/29/1997
Hermine F. Stafford 11/29/1999
Harold McCormick 11/29/2018
Mary Kuzawa 11/30/1933
Stanley Osowski 11/30/2000
Paul E. Patterson 11/30/2008
Arlene Becklo 11/30/2022
John Watroba 12/1/1952
Paul Siciak 12/1/1964
Anna Kopinto 12/1/1980
Walter Molongoski 12/1/1983
Helen R. Iwanowicz 12/1/1984
Edward J. Holewa 12/1/1994
William F. Tetreault 12/1/1995
Joseph Puchoka 12/2/1933
Frank Bakula 12/2/1966
Peter Sokolowski 12/2/1969
Stanley Krusiewski 12/2/1996
+ Remember to pray for the holy souls+
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