+ Parish Schedule for the Week of March 17, 2024+
Sunday, March 17: [Fifth Sunday of Lent]
8:00 am + Bishop Christopher Weldon
10:30 am – Living & Deceased Members of the Tosto-Wright Families – Melissa Wright
1:30 pm – Gorzkie Żale
Monday, March 18:[St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop & Doctor of the Church]
8:00 am – Graces & Blessings for Maria Victor
Tuesday, March 19:[Solemnity of St. Joseph][Novena to St. Peregrine & St. Camillus]
5:30 pm + Frank Provencal – int. Eichorn Family
Wednesday, March 20:[Novena to St. Jude]
5:30 pm + Edward Siwicki – int. Family
Thursday, March 21
5:30 pm + Alice Mulligan – int. Friends
Friday, March 22 + The Seven Dolors of Our Lady +
5:30 pm + Joseph S. DeVito, Jr. – int. Fritz Family
Stations of the Cross in English after Mass
7:00 pm – Via Crucis (Spanish Stations of the Cross)
Saturday, March 23:[St. Turibus of Mogrovejo, Bishop]
8:00 am – Fr. Bruno & All Living & Deceased Members of the St. Joseph Community of the Discalced Carmelites Secular
9:00 am – Easter Bazaar
4:00 pm – Living & Deceased Members of the Parda Family – int. Donald Parda
6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. Missa pro populo (for our Parish and Parishioners)
Sunday, March 24: [Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord]
8:00 am + Sophie H. Fritz – int. Phyllis Dunn
10:30 am + Walter J. Gochinski, 25th Ann. – int. Evelyn, Debra, Paul, Jonathan, Christopher, Page, Anna, Jack, Ike & Kitty
1:30 pm – Gorzkie Żale
The Sanctuary Lamp
We have current dates available for the Sanctuary Lamp to be lit in memory of someone or for your special intentions. Envelopes are available in the front vestibule and may be dropped into the collection basket on Sunday, or dropped/mailed to the rectory. The names will be published each week in the bulletin. The suggested donation is $20. Bóg wam zapła
GORZKIE ŻALE: As is the custom of our Polish parish, we will have the chanting of Gorzkie Żale on Sundays beginning at 1:30 pm. The complimentary luncheon will be served today after the 10:30 am Mass. All are invited to join your fellow parishioners in the undercroft for a lovely lunch and friendship.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS will be prayed immediately in English following the 5:30 p.m. Mass and at 7:00 pm in Spanish this Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent. This devotion follows the path of love Jesus walked to His crucifixion.
OUR LADY’S HOLY ICON will visit the home of Carol Kobera for a week of prayer and petition for the needs of our Parish. We thank you for this holy work of power and love.
THE FOLLOWING MASS INTENTIONS have been sent to various Missionaries. They will be offered as follows and you may unite your prayers to the foreign Missionaries who offer the Masses
Sunday, March 17: 8:00 am – Deceased Members of the Fleming-Driscoll Families
Sunday, March 17: 10:30 am – Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. Driscolls
Monday, March 18: 8:00 am + Frederick Speckels – int. Helen Speckels
Tuesday, March 19: 5:30 pm – Thomas and John Driscoll – int. Mom
Wednesday, March 20: 5:30 pm – Kayla and Emily Driscoll – int. Mom
Thursday, March 21: 5:30 pm — Liam and Brendan Driscoll – int. Mom
Friday, March 23: 5:30 pm – Graces for Adina Kurkamilis – int. Driscolls
Saturday, March 24: 8:00 am – Health & Blessings for Suzie Cottrill – int. Driscolls
Saturday, March 24: 4:00 pm + Ariela Zalynska – 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.
FIRST CONFESSIONS: Children who are making their First Holy Communion this May are asked to attend and stay after the 8:00 am Mass on Saturday, March 23rd to make their First Confession.
POLISH EASTER BAZAAR
All our little Easter Bunnies are reminded to get ready for our annual Polish Easter Bazaar which will be held on Saturday, March 23rd starting at 9:00 a.m. Please remember to work on those beautiful arts and crafts and tasty culinary delights for which our parish is so famous.
Raffle Tickets for our annual Easter Bazaar are available. There are five big prizes namely: First Prize – $100 cash; Second Prize – $50 cash; and Third Prize through Sixth Prize – $25 cash. The drawing will take place at our bazaar on Saturday, March 23rd. Your donations of $5.00 for a book of 6 tickets or $1.00 per ticket will greatly help our parish.
ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO RENT a table at our Easter Bazaar may call Shirley Webb at 773-7202 for information and to reserve a place.
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 at 4:45 p.m.
PRAY FOR OUR CLERGY: Please join us in dedicating every day to one of the clergymen
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| Deacon Culliton | Fr. O’Mannion | Deacon Bucci | Vocations | Fr. Aufiero | Deacon Patten | Fr. O’Connor |
BASKET RAFFLE TICKETS ARE ON SALE THIS WEEKEND!
We hope you will support our parish once again as we bring you another assortment of 7 BEAUTIFUL gift baskets! Tickets are 1 for $5.00/3 for $10.00 and 8 for $20.00. The drawing will be at the Easter Bazaar, March 23rd. Come check out the display of baskets in the front vestibule. Thank you for your Support!
The Fifth Sunday of Lent
Proper of the Mass
Introit (Entrance Chant)
8:00 Masses: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
Give me justice, O God, and plead my cause against a nation that is faithless. From the deceitful and cunning rescue me, for you, O God, are my strength.
(Judica me, Deus, Psalm xlii (xliii): 1–2; Graduale Romanum, Roman Missal.)
10:30 Mass: By Flowing Waters: Chant for the Liturgy, Dr. Paul F. Ford
O God, my God, rescue me from the hands of the wicked.
(Deus meus, eripe me, Pslam lxx (lxxi): 19; Psalm lxx (lxxi); Graduale Simplex.)
Responsorial Psalm (After the First Reading)
10:30 Mass: By Flowing Waters: Chant for the Liturgy, Dr. Paul F. Ford.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. R/. Lord, listen to my voice. V/. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! R/. Lord, Listen … V/. If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? R/. Lord, listen … V/. But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. R/. Lord, listen … V/. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope. R/. Lord, listen … V/. My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning. R/. Lord, listen … V/. O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. R/. Lord, listen … V/. It ishe who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities. R/. Lord, listen …
(De profundis clamavi, Psalm cxxix (cxxx): (2a), 1–8; Graduale Simplex)
Tract (Before the Gospel)
10:30 Mass: Tonus Peregrinus.
Much have they oppressed me from my youth. Let Israel say: Much have they oppressed me from my youth. V/. Yet they have not prevailed against me; upon my back the plowers plowed. V/. Long did they make their furrows. But the just Lord has severed the cords of the wicked.
(Seape expungaverunt me, Psalm cxxviii (cxxix): 1–4; Graduale Romanum)
Offertory
8:00 & 10:30 Masses: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
I will praise you, O Lord, with an upright heart. Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your words. Enliven me according to your word, O Lord.
(Confitebor tibi, Psalm cxxviii (cxxix): 7, 10, 17, 25; Graduale Romanum.)
Communion
4:00, 8:00, & 10:30 Masses: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
Amen, amen I say to you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
(Amen, amen, dico vobis, John xii: 24; Roman Missal.)
10:30 Mass: Graduale Romanum, 1974, St. Peter Abbey, Solesmes. At the 10:30 Mass, the Communion Antiphon will be sung in Latin, then in English.
Qui mihi ministrat, me sequatur: et ubi ego sum, illic et minister meus erit.
[Translation, If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be.]
(Qui mihi ministrat, John xii: 26; Graduale Romanum.)
LITURGICAL NOTES: This Sunday, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, begins the period of Lent traditionally known as “Passiontide”. While the first Four Weeks of Lent focus on our own disciplines during Lent (fasting, abstinence, alms-giving, etc.), from this Sunday the Church begins to focus more on two other aspects of Lent, namely the preparation for the Baptismal Rites of the Easter Vigil (blessing of the font, etc.) and for the celebration* of the Passion on Good Friday.
The Roman Missal, Third Edition (2010) permits that the old custom of veiling images and crosses throughout the church during Passiontide may be observed. We have attempted to do this in a token way in the past, veiling the crosses and a few of the images in the Sanctuary, because of the lack of veils that we have; however, we have decided this year not to observe this custom, feeling that it would be either better to veil all of the images throughout the church (as the Missal instructs) or none—as someone once said: “If you’re going to have a symbol, have a SYMBOL”—only veiling some of the images (statues and pictures of the saints) in the church deprives this symbol of deep mourning and penance of its profound meaning. We will, however, veil the two Crosses in the church, since these are to veiled for Good Friday, anyway, regardless of whether or not other images are veiled.
The symbolism of the veiling of images during Passiontide is a way in which the Church uses the sense of sight to express to us deep truths. On the most basic level, like the suppression of flowers and the organ during Lent, the veiling of images helps us to focus less on the decoration of the church and more on the fundamental aspects of the faith: e.g., the Altar of Sacrifice, the texts (sung and spoken) of the Liturgy itself, etc.; it should be noted that when the images in the church are veiled, the Stations of the Cross are not. On a more spiritual level, it is during the time leading up to his Passion that Christ ‘hid’ his divinity more and more: a ‘drawing away’ and emptying that reached its fullest on Calvary at his death (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Ps.xxii.), and so the glory of Christ is visually hidden, not just by veiling the Crosses, but by veiling the images of the Saints, the men and women who are themselves reflections of the glory of God.
Regarding this, we have a large number of images in the church: it would be nice if we could veil them all, but doing so would take a lot of work, the first phase of which would be needing to make enough violet veils to cover all of the images that we have. To that end, if anyone would like to volunteer to: (a) help purchase the violet fabric for the veils; (b) help make them; (c) help put them up for next Lent; please let us know!
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.
THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE in Northfield is sponsoring an Open House for High School Seniors March 21 – 24th; High School Senior Parents: March 23rd; High School Juniors: April 11-14. Call the Rectory for more information.
SUNDAY, MARCH 24th IS PALM SUNDAY and commemorates Christ’s triumphal entrance into Jerusalem. For this reason, the Church blesses palms to remind us of the multitude which accompanied Him carrying branches and strewing them in His way, while they chanted: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!” The ceremonies for Palm Sunday and the reading of the Passion Gospel of St. Mark will take place on Saturday, March 23rd at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 6:00 p.m. (Spanish), and Sunday, March 24th at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
THE MASS OF ST. MARY’S EXTRAVAGANCE on Monday, March 25th, at 8:00 a.m. will commemorate the anointing of Jesus by Mary, the sister of Lazarus, as a prelude to the anointing for the burial of Jesus. Following an old Polish tradition, the congregation will be anointed with aromatic oil, blessed at this Mass, in remembrance of “St. Mary’s Extravagant Act of Love.”
THE MASS OF LOVE’S LAST APPEAL on Tuesday, March 26th, at 5:30 p.m. is a remembrance of the last appeal of Jesus to Judas and of the betrayal of Judas.
THE MASS OF THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER on Wednesday, March 27th, at 5:30 p.m. will recall the price of betrayal and of the final days of Jesus.
HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 28th – THE “MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER” at 7:00 p.m. will commemorate the institution of the Holy Eucharist by Jesus at the Last Supper. The bells and organ will play for the last time at the Gloria of the Mass and the Eucharist will be transferred in solemn procession to the “Altar of the Holy Prison” recalling the arrest and imprisonment of Jesus. The Altar of Sacrifice will then be stripped and the tabernacle emptied to underline the grief of the Church. The church will remain open until 9:00 pm for private adoration before the Blessed Sacrament in the Holy Prison Altar. The Mass will be bilingual in English and Spanish. Confessions will be heard before the Mass.
GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 29th – The church will be open all day from 8:00 a.m. for private adoration before the Blessed Sacrament in the Holy Prison Altar.
THE OFFICE OF TENEBRAE will be chanted at 8:00 am. This service, unique to Holy Week, is the combined services of the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer. The service gets its name, which is Latin for “darkness” or “shadows”, from the custom of extinguishing candles during the chanting of each of the Psalms, reflecting the darkness of the world at the death of Christ. Interspersed between the Psalms are readings from Scriptures and the Church Fathers.
THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS will be prayed at 3:00 p.m. on Good Friday, following the path of love Jesus walked to His crucifixion.
VIA CRUCIS – (Stations of the Cross in Spanish) will be prayed at 4:00 pm on Good Friday.
THE GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE OF THE LORD’S PASSION, 7:00 p.m. will commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus on the Cross. The Passion Gospel of St. John will be read followed by the unveiling and veneration of the Cross. The Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified will follow with Holy Communion. The Holy Eucharist will then be transferred to the “Altar of the Garden Tomb” where it will remain until Easter morning. The church will remain open ALL NIGHT for private prayer before the Altar of the Garden Tomb. The service will be bilingual. There will be a sign-up sheet in the front vestibule if you would like to sign up for an hour or adoration at the “Altar of the Garden Tomb”.
HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 30th – The church will remain open all day from 8:00 a.m. for private adoration before the Blessed Sacrament at the Altar of the Garden Tomb.
THE OFFICE OF TENEBRAE FOR HOLY SATURDAY will be chanted at 8:00 am. This service is the combined services of the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for Holy Saturday (please see Tenebrae of Good Friday, above, for more details.
THE TRADITIONAL BLESSING OF EASTER FOOD called the Święconka will take place in the church undercroft on Holy Saturday at 11:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, and 1:00 p.m. All are welcome and encouraged to bring their Easter baskets with their Easter dinner for the beautiful ceremony of the blessing.
THE HOLY SATURDAY MASS OF THE NIGHT WATCH – 8:00 p.m. March 30th, will begin with the blessing of the new fire and the Paschal Candle, the “Remembrance Readings” from the Old and New Testaments, the Blessing of Water, and the Renewal of Baptismal promises. The evening will end with the celebration of the Liturgy of the Eucharist with the ringing of the Gloria Bells sounding the praise of the Resurrection. The Mass will be bilingual.
EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 31st – The “Resurrection Mass of Dawn” will take place at 8:00 a.m. beginning with the Service at the Empty Tomb followed by the Eucharistic Procession of the Risen Lord around the church. The first Mass of Easter will follow.
THE 10:30 a.m. MASS OF EASTER DAY will celebrate the Resurrection with the solemn reading of the Gospel of St. John and the enshrinement of the statue of the Resurrected Christ
Beacon of Faith Campaign Prayer
Heavenly Father,
through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, all things are possible
and without Him we can do nothing.
May we seek Your kingdom above all, knowing that all things
work together for the good of those who love You
and are called according to Your purpose.
Grant us that we, united through Your Son in one faith
and by the strength of the Holy Spirit, may be generous in our support
of the Beacon of Faith Campaign
which seeks to strengthen parish life in the four counties of our diocese.
All this we pray through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Eternal rest grant unto them o Lord,
And Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them
Stanley Rozycki, Sr. 3/10/1998
Stanislaus J. Sojka 3/10/2003
Bernard J. Kobera 3/10/2014
Stanley Cislo 3/10/2022
Beverly Milewski 3/10/2022
Wlodysha Orerzynski 3/11/1936
Frances Szymanski 3/11/1980
Theodore (Jocko) Kortz 3/11/1997
Harvey M. Kellyhouse 3/11/2010
Eunice L. Wysk 3/11/2018
Helen Glazewski 3/11/2020
Peter Bienkunski 3/12/1943
Michael Strysko 3/12/1959
Paul P. Novak 3/12/1974
Aldea M. Dubreuil 3/12/2005
Frank W. Zak 3/12/2012
Patricia E. Yurkunas 3/13/2015
Helen Kawecki 3/13/1926
Edward Szymanski 3/13/1945
Esther O’Hara 1982
Anthony Monkiewicz 3/13/1946
Michael C. Schab 3/13/2009
Peter Dylewski 3/14/1969
Mary Bocon 3/14/1986
Victoria C. Kowalski 3/14/1998
Genevieve P. Pogoda 3/14/2006
Mary Zmuda 3/15/1931
Martin Jarmak 3/15/1934
Caroline Kjolzior 3/15/1940
Katarzina Nicewicz Szczepanska 3/15/1961
Anthony Kopinto 3/15/1971
Janina Krauz 3/15/1973
Felix A. Verrier 3/15/1989
Henry Molongoski 3/15/2000
Edward J. Molongoski 3/15/2004
Michael Gutowski 3/16/1968
Frederick L. Hmieleski 3/16/2002
Creslaus Sokolowski 3/17
John Kowalczyk 3/17/1964
+ Remember to pray for the Holy Souls+
This bulletin is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus Society.
Chronicles of Czestochowa 