+ Parish Schedule for the Week of April 7, 2024+
J+M+J
Sunday, April 7: [Second Sunday of Easter/Divine Mercy Sunday]
8:00 am + Stephen Collins – int. Doug & Mary Lynne Brown
10:30 am + Rosanna & Clavaroche Cherenfant – int. Marie Victor
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Beacon of Faith Capital Campaign Reception
2:00 pm – Deanery Divine Mercy Celebration (Blessed Trinity Church)
Monday, April 8: [The Annunciation of the Lord]
8:00 am + Sophie H. Fritz – int. Phyllis Dunn
Tuesday, April 9: [Novena to St. Peregrine & Camillus]
5:30 pm + For a Forgotten Soul in Purgatory – int. Robert Heath
Wednesday, April 10: [Novena to St. Jude]
5:30 pm + Frank Bush – int. George Bush
Thursday, April 11: [St. Stanislaus, Bishop & Martyr]
5:30 pm + Patricia Collins – int. Doug & Mary Lynne Brown
Friday, April 12
5:30 pm – Living & Deceased Members of the Zamojski & Hanley Families
Saturday, April 13: [St. Martin I, Pope & Martyr]
8:00 am + Sophie H Fritz – int. Kathy Eichorn
4:00 pm – Graces & Blessings for Bishop Nazarene Soosai – int. Betty Fritz
6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. Missa Pro Populo (for our Parish and Parishioners)
Sunday, April 14: [Third Sunday of Easter]
8:00 am – Health & Blessings for Fr. Charles DiMascola – int. Larry & Carol Roux
10:30 am + Sophie H. Fritz – int. Kathy Eichorn
+ Królowo Polski Módl Się za Nami +
THE SANCTUARY LAMP
will burn this week in loving memory of
Francis J. Zak
at the request of his brother, Joz
DEANERY-WIDE DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY CELEBRATION: The Franklin County Deanery will sponsor a Divine Mercy Celebration at Blessed Trinity Church in Greenfield today, Sunday, April 7th at2:00 pm. The service will include Benediction, Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Novena Prayer. All Catholic churches in Franklin County will be participating in this celebration in which great emphasis is being placed on the Eucharist and devotion to our Lord.
“A Plenary Indulgence is granted to all faithful and to each individual faithful under the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer in keeping with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff, with the soul completely removed from attachment to any form of sin), each and every time they participate attentively and piously in a sacred function or a devotional exercise undertaken in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, solemnly exposed and conserved in the tabernacle.”
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, April 7: 8:00 am + Deceased Members of the Driscoll-Fleming Families
Sunday, April 7: 10:30 am + Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. Driscolls
Monday, April 8: 8:00 am – Conversion, Healing & Deliverance for Emily Garmalo – int. Mark
Tuesday, April 9: 5:30 pm + Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. Debbie Herk
Wednesday, April 10: 5:30 pm – Grace & Conversion for Christopher Wallace – int. Debbie Herk
Thursday, April 11: 7:00 pm + Frederick Speckels – int. Helen Speckels
Friday, April 12: 5:30 pm – Grace & Conversion for Megan Wallace – int. Debbie Herk
Saturday, April 13: 8:00 am – Grace & Conversion for Jeffrey Lajoie – int. Debbie Herk
Saturday, April 13: 4:00 pm + John & Anna 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.
OUR LADY’S HOLY ICON will visit the home of Carol Gloski 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 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 |
| Fr. DiMascola | Fr. Lunney | Deacon Rabbitt | Fr. Pierz | Msgr. Yargeau | Deacon Nolan | Fr. Aksamit |
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.
MONDAY, APRIL 8th WILL CELEBRATE THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Normally celebrated on March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord which celebrates the Word made flesh has been moved to April 8th this year because it occurred during Holy Week. This miracle of love when God became man will be remembered in the Mass at 8:00 am. One of the astronauts walking on the moon remarked that his thoughts were, “What a great miracle than man walked on the moon.” He said immediately he was struck by the thought, “No, a greater miracle was when God as a man walked upon the earth.” When the Archangel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would bear a son, the Messiah, the Savior of the world, and she accepted, that is the greatest miracle, the miracle of God’s love for us.
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.
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, and in memory of Francis J. Zak a donation has been made to our Parish Renovation Fund by Joe and Barbara Kucenski. Bóg zapłać!
MEALS TO GO IS ON ITS WAY! The Holy Rosary Society will sponsor their “Meals-To-Go” sale after Masses on Saturday, April 13th and Sunday, April 14th. They appreciate your support, so please pick up a meal and enjoy a night off from cooking!
PARISH COUNCIL – The Parish Council will meet this Wednesday, April 11th after the 5:30 pm Mass. All are welcome to attend!
APRIL IS CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH – In commemoration of this observance, Bishop William Byrne will offer a Mass for child abuse survivors on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 10:00 am at St. Michael’s Cathedral, State Street in Springfield. This special liturgy is open to all survivors of child abuse, as well as for their families and loved ones, and for those who support and advocate for them. A light reception will follow in the Bishop Marshall Center, adjacent to the Cathedral church.
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, and in memory of Robert Zaikowski a donation has been made to our Parish Renovation Fund by Susan and Michael Hastings. Bóg zapłać!
The Saint Hyacinth Pierogi Makers will be making crab rangoon pierogi for the Pierogi Pop Up Event which is on Saturday May 18th. We will be gathering on Thursdays and Saturdays 9AM – 12PM to make these pierogi in the church undercroft. No experience is required as we can teach you how to make these delicious dumplings. You do not have to commit to specific dates or time. Whatever time you are able to come in and help we are grateful for your support.
PIEROGI MAKING DATES:
APRIL 11, 13, 18, 20, 25
MAY 2, 4, 9, 11, 16
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 Second Sunday of Easter:
Quasimodo, or Dominica in Albis Deponendis
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.
LIKE newborn infants you must, alleluia, you must long for the pure, spiritual milk, that in him you may grow to salvation, alleluia, alleluia.
(Quasimodo, I Peter ii: 2; Graduale Romanum, Roman Missal.)
10:30 Mass: Graduale Simplex in Usuam Minorum Ecclesiarum, Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
ALLELUIA. Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus, – Alleluia – exsultemus et lætemur in ea. Alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia. Surrexit Christus, spes mea; – Alleluia – præcedet suos in Galilæam. Alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia. Surrexit de sepulcro – Alleluia – qui pro nobis pependit in ligno. Alleluia, alleluia.
(Trans.: Alleluia. This is the day the Lord has made – Alleluia – let us rejoice and be glad. Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia. Christ my hope has arisen; – Alleluia – he goes before you to Galilee. Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia. He has risen from the grave – Alleluia – who for us hung upon the Cross. Alleluia, alleluia. – HRG)
(Alleluia. Hæc dies, Pslam cxviii (cxvii): 24; Ecclesiastical Text; Graduale Simplex.)
Offertory
8:00 & 10:30 Masses: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
THE Angel of the Lord came down from heaven and said to the women: “The One whom you seek has risen, as he said he would,” alleluia, alleluia.
(Angelus Domini descendit, Matthew xxviii: 2, 5, 6; 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.
BRING your hand and feel the place of the nails, alleluia; and do not be unbelieving but believing, alleluia.
(Mitte manum tuam, John xx: 27; Graduale Romanum, 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.
MITTE manum tuam, et cognosce loca clavorum, alleluia: et noli esse incredulus, sed fidelis, alleluia, alleluia. [Translation, Cf. ut supra.]
(Mitte manum tuam, John xx: 27; Graduale Romanum, Roman Missal.)
LITURGICAL NOTES: The Second Sunday of Easter is the last day of the Octave of Easter—the extended celebration of an important Feast over the following week. While this Sunday has been given the title “Divine Mercy Sunday”, it is important to note that this devotion does not impede on the liturgically character of this Sunday, which is distinctivly Baptismal. This can be seen in the traditional Entrance Chant, Quasimodo geniti infantes (Like newborn infants), which addresses the neophytes (the newly baptised) and bids them to a deeper understanding of the Faith and the life of the Sacraments—indeed, this exhortation from the First Letter of St. Peter is addressed to all of us, since we are all in a state of spiritual infancy in this life. (As an aside, the titular character from Victor Hugo’s popular novel The Huchback of Notre Dame was given the name ‘Quasimodo’ because the Archdeacon of the Cathedral found him on the steps of the Cathedral on this Sunday.)
This Baptismal theme is continued in the Collect of the Mass: God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed; and in the Prayer over the Offerings: Accept, O Lord, we pray, the oblations of your people (and of those you have brought to new birth) that, renewed by confession of your name and by Baptism, they may attain unending happiness. In fact, another traditional name for this day is Dominia in Albis Deponendis (or Dispositis), that is, The Sunday of setting aside the White Garment, referring to the white robes of the newly baptized, which would be worn liturgically from the Easter Vigil until this Sunday.
The Entrance Chant from the Graduale Simplex, sung at the 10:30 Mass (the Introit Quasimodo will be sung as a prelude before the procession at this Mass), is an ancient processional Chant for Paschaltide, to which has been added a verse from Psalm cxviii (cxvii), the traditional Psalm for Eastertide. This chant, which is also used on Easter Sunday in the Graduale Simplex, extends the festal character of Easter Sunday to the Octave Day. The Offertory Chant is taken from the account of the meeting between the women and the angel at the empty tomb, as found in the Gospel of Matthew, which, again, links this day with the previous Sunday’s solemnity, while the Communion Chant is taken directly from today’s Gospel.
While we reflect this day on the Mercy of God (which cannot, by the very nature of Mercy, be divorced from God’s Justice: Mercy without Justice is mere license), we should ponder this truth within the context of the Paschal Mystery—the Passion and Resurrection of Christ—which is celebrated* in every Mass, but especially in Eastertide as we rejoice with the newly baptised, and renew our own baptismal commitment. Let us today give thanks for God’s great Mercy to us in giving us through His Son the Church and the sacraments, since it is through Baptism that we are joined to the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, outside of which salvation is impossible, since a member cut off from the Body can only wither and die; and since it is through the other sacraments that we are given the pure spiritual milk that nourishes our souls that we may grow to salvation (cf. I Peter ii: 2, Entrance Chant, Quasimodo geniti infants). As we celebrate this great mysical Eighth Day of the re-creation and restoration of fallen humanity, a day celebrated on each Sunday of the Liturgical Year, let us always remember: This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it (cf. Psalm cxviii (cxvii): 24, Entrance Chant of the Graduale Simplex).
* In liturgical studies the term celebrate/celebration is a technical term (from the Latin), that has a different connotation than it does in vernacular English. Within the technical-liturgical context, it refers both to the commemoration of a mystery of the faith and also the “carrying out”, the performance and administration of the solemn, public Liturgy of the Church. Some object to this term, being only familiar with its use within vernacular English as a synonym for “party”, but this term has always been used in the Church for the “carrying out” of the Mass: for example, in the 1570 Missale Romanum, the so-called Tridentine Missal, the code of rubrics for the Mass was called Ritus Servandus in Celebratione Missae : The Rites to be Observed in the Celebration of the Mass. So we do indeed celebrate (i.e., commemorate) the Passion on Good Friday; and we do indeed celebrate (officially, and publicly administer and perform) the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; etc. It is unfortunate that the use of this word, directly translated from Latin, has caused such a tremendous deformation of the Sacred Liturgy in the English-speaking world, the result of poor liturgical catechesis among the clergy and others in the Church with responsibility in liturgical matters.
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
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Alvera C. Rys 4/8/1979
Edward S. Skrypek 4/8/1996
Peter Skydzielewski 4/9/1932
Wanda L. Majewski 4/9/1986
Veronica Putala 4/9/1997
Bruce T. Mackie 4/9/2003
Mary Koscinski 4/10/1958
Alfred Mirecki 4/10/2004
Skepania Mlowski 4/11/1923
Joseph Zigmond 4/11/1952
Mary Kurtyka 4/11/1975
Felix Naida 4/11/1995
Victoria Traceski 4/11/2007
Chester J. Schab 4/11/2011
Timothy A. Avery 4/11/2016
Edwin Niedbala 4/11/2019
Natalie Sokoloski 4/11/2020
Joseph J. Zukowski 4/12/1963
Chester M. Pietraszek 4/12/1976
Regina I. Kostecki 4/12/1979
Brian Billiel 4/12/1993
Victoria E. Kulis 4/12/2007
Stanislaus Kurtyka 4/13/1946
Antonina Bocon 4/13/1949
Louis Kozlowski 4/14/1973
Mary C. Baron 4/14/1996
Walter A. Gaines 4/14/1998
+ Remember to pray for the Holy Souls+
This bulletin is sponsored by the St. Stanislaus Society.
Chronicles of Czestochowa 