+ Parish Schedule for the Week of May 26, 2024+
J+M+J
Sunday, May 26: [The Most Holy Trinity]
8:00 am – Living & Deceased Members of the Tosto-Wright Families – int. Melissa Wright
10:30 am – For the Conversion of a Sinner – int. Robert Heath
Monday, May 27: [St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop][Veterans Day]
Mass at Cemetery, weather permitting
9:00 am) – All Veterans & Deceased Members of OLC Parish
Tuesday, May 28: [Novena to St. Peregrine & St. Camillus]
5:30 pm + Grace & Blessings Michael William Ahearn – int. Fritz Family
Wednesday, May 29: [St. Paul VI, Pope] [Novena to St. Jude]
5:30 pm + Claire Zak – int. Page, Jack & Kitty
Wednesday, May 30
5:30 pm – Anna M. Zak – int. Page, Jack & Kitty
Friday, May 31: [The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
5:30 pm + Sophie H. Fritz
First Saturday, June 1: [St. Justin]
8:00 am + Lauren Tela – int. Mom and Dad
4:00 pm + Justin Tela – int. Mom and Dad
6:00 pm – Spanish Mass – int. Missa Pro Populo (for our Parish and Parishioners)
Sunday, June 2: [The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)]
8:00 am – Birthday Blessings for Mikey – int. Gerry & Dick
10:30 am + Joseph M. Kostecki – int.Marlene Kostecki Kostka
3:00 pm – Guard of Honor Holy Hour and Mini-Retreat
+ Królowo Polski Módl Się za Nami +
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
THE ANNUAL MASS FOR VETERANS AND THE DEPARTED of the parish will take place at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, Memorial Day, May, 27th at our Cemetery. All are invited to honor the veterans and our departed friends and relatives. Mass will take place in the church if it is raining. Bring a chair for your convenience and an umbrella if it’s overcast.
MONDAY MORNING CENACLE: Will not meet this Monday in observance of Memorial Day. The Cenacle will meet Tuesday, May 28th at 9:30 am in the Church.
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. Roux | Msgr. Yargeau | Vocations | Fr. O’Connor | Deacon DeCarlo | Our Retired Clergy | Bishop McConnellFr. AufieroFr. Pierz |
HOLY HOUR FOR UNBELIEVERS: Join Deacon John Leary in the Perpetual Adoration Chapel in Greenfield on June 2nd and on the 2nd of every month, from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm to pray for all of our family members and friends who have drifted away from the church. This is an important Spiritual Work of Mercy.
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, May 26: 8:00 am – Health, Healing & Blessings for Jennifer Hayes – int. the Shaughnessys
Sunday, May 26: 10:30 am – Grace & Conversion, Christopher Wallace – int. Debbie Herk
Monday, May 27: 8:00 am – In Thanksgiving, Al & Cathy Becklo – int. Mark
Tuesday, May 28: 5:30 pm + Frederick Speckels – int. Helen Speckels
Wednesday, May 29: 5:30 pm + 1st Anniversary, John Margola – int. James & Jean Koldis
Thursday, May 30: 5:30 pm – In thanksgiving, Charles & Sandy Kosterman – int. Mark
Friday, May 31: 5:30 pm + Holy Souls in Purgatory – int. Dana
Saturday, June 1: 8:00 am – In Thanksgiving, Fr. Sean O’Mannion – int. Mark
Saturday, June 1: 4:00 pm – Grace & Conversion for Megan Wallace – int. Debbie Herk
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 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.
22nd Annual Diocesan-Wide
Eucharistic Rosary Procession
Northampton, MA
Sunday, June 2, 2024 – Feast of Corpus Christi
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Place: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Church, King Street, Northampton
Guest Speaker: Rev. David Aufiero
“COME LET YOUR HEART BE TRANSFORMED!”
Confession, Rosary, Chaplet, Adoration, Reception
Rosary Procession will take place through downtown Northampton (1.8 miles) (Transportation available for those unable to walk in procession)
In Praise of the Most Holy Trinity
Composed by St. Catherine of Siena
“O eternal Trinity, You are a deep sea in which the more I seek the more I find, and the more I find, the more I seek to know You. You fill us insatiably, because the soul, before the abyss which You are, is always famished; and hungering for You, O eternal Trinity, it desires to behold the truth of Your light. As the thirsty heart pants after the fount of living water, so does my soul long to leave this gloomy body and see You as You are, in truth.
“O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself! You are an ever burning Fire; You consume and are not consumed. By your fire, You consume every trace of self-love in the soul. You are a Fire which drives away all coldness and illumines minds with its light, and with this light You have made me know Your truth. This water is transparent and discloses hidden things; and a living faith gives substance of light that the soul almost attains to certitude in what it believes.
You are the supreme and infinite Good, good above all good; good which is joyful, incomprehensible, inestimable, beauty exceeding all other beauty; wisdom surpassing all wisdom, because You are Wisdom itself. Food of the angels, giving yourself with fire of love to men! You are the garment which covers our nakedness; You feed us, hungry as we are, with Your sweetness, because You are all sweetness with no bitterness. Clothe me, O eternal Trinity in true obedience and in the light of the most holy faith with which You have inebriated my soul.”
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
The First Sunday after Pentecost
(Octave Day of Pentecost)
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.
Blessed be God the Father, and the Only-Begotten Son of God, and also the Holy Spirit, for he has shown us his merciful love.
(Benedictus sit Deus Pater, Ecclesiastical Text; cf. Tobit xii: 6; Roman Missal.)
10:30 Mass: By Flowing Waters : Chant for the Liturgy, Dr. Paul F. Weber.
Blessed be the holy Trinity and the undivided Unity.
(Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas, 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.
Blessed be God the Father, and the Only-Begotten Son of God, and also the Holy Spirit, because he has shown us his mercy.
(Benedictus sit Deus Pater, Ecclesiastical Text; cf. Tobit xii: 6; Graduale Romanum, Roman Missal.)
Communion
4:00, 8:00 & 10:30 Masses: The Proper of the Mass for Sundays and Solemnities, Fr. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
Since you are children of God, God has sent into your hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out: Abba, Father. (Quoniam autem estis filii, Galatians iv: 6; 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.
Data est mihi omnes potestas in caelo et in terra, alleluia: euntes, docete omnes gentes, baptizantes eos in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, alleluia, alleluia.
[Translation, All power has been given to me in heaven and on earth, alleluia; go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, alleluia, alleluia.] (Data est mihi, Matthew xxviii: 18, 19; Graduale Romanum.)
LITURGICAL NOTES: Today, on the first post-Pentecostal Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This feast day actually takes its position in the Universal Calendar because it is the Octave Day of Pentecost. As many know, the liturgical calendar in use prior to the issuance of the reformed Roman Missal of Paul VI in 1969 included an Octave of Pentecost.
But what is an Octave? An Octave, from the Latin for eight, is the celebration of a major feast over the following week, ending on the eighth day after the feast itself. The current Missal has two types of Octaves: an Octave of the First Class—the Octave of Easter—which allows no other feast to intervene within the Octave, and an Ocrave of the Second Class—the Octave of Christmas—which does allow certain feasts to intervene within the Octave: in Christmas these are the great Committes Christi (Companions of Christ) feasts of St. Stephen, St. John, and the Holy Innocents. Any days within the Octave that are not given over to another feast are celebrated as festal Days Within the Octave.
In the previous Calendar, there were also Simple Octaves (or Octaves of the III Class), which only celebrated the Feast Day and the Octave Day itself, with all the other days within the Octave treated as days of the Season (unless, of course, another feast day occurred on a given day). Unofficially, the idea of a Simple Octave remains in the current Roman Missal with the positioning of two Feasts on the Calendar: Today’s feast of the Holy Trinity on the “Octave Day of Pentecost” (the Sunday after Pentecost), and the Queenship of Mary, celebrated on the “Octave Day of the Assumption” (August 22).
The loss of the Octave of Pentecost, with its many local customs, especially in Central and Eastern Euruope, was regarded as a great detriment to the Roman Rite at the time its suppression, and is still a sore point in the discussions around the continued use of the so-called “Tridentine” Missal and proposed revisions of the current Missal. There were, however, difficulties with the celebration of the Octave of Pentecost that came up in the discussions surrounding Liturgical Reform in the twentieth century, even before the Second Vatican Council:
First, that the Easter Season should only be fifty days (Pentekoste), yet the Octave of Pentecost created a fifty-six day Easter Season;
Second, though the Octave of Pentecost ended with the celebration of the Holy Trinity the following Sunday, the Easter Season ended with the morning Mass of the Saturday before, with the Octave Day itself being celebrated as a Sundy per annum (i.e., ‘Ordinary Time’), a hold-over of previous usage, which caused a disunity within the liturgical celebration of the Octave itself: many liturgical commentators to make up for this fact even concluded that the Octave of Pentecost began with the Vigil Mass of Pentecost, a conclusion has no basis in the history of the Latin Rite;
Third, the Octave of Pentecost was obviously a late addition to the Calendar, attested to not only by the ancient Sacramentaries of the Latin Church and the Continuous use of the Eastern Churches, but also by the fact that the celebration of the Octave of Pentecost impinged upon the Summer Ember Days (the penitential days marking the four seasons of the year), which obtained their position in the Calendar in the week after Pentecost already by the time of St. Gregory the Great; as a result, the penitential character of these days was overtaken by the festal character of the Pentecost Octave.
Because of these criteria it was decided by the commission for the reform of the Calendar to suppress the Octave of Pentecost: Unfortunately, one of the criteria for the suppression of the Octave, the Summer Ember Days, was also suppressed a few years later, when the Ember Days themselves were removed from the Calendar—a regretable loss of a truly ancient practice that ought to be restored.
Thankfully, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity remains in the Calendar, not only as a vestage of the old Octave, but as a celebration of the fullness of the revelation of God to his people in the life of Christ and the Paschal Mystery, culminating in the outpouring of the Spirit, which is celebrated as a “Weekly Easter” on every Sunday of the Year, and especially in the “pure” Sundays of Ordinary Time, where the Mystery of our Salvation is celebrated* in its fullness and totality, without the necessary focus on certain aspects (the Nativity, the Passion, etc.) provided by the various seasons of the Liturgical Year.
* Celebration in liturgical contexts does not mean ‘party’; it means ‘the cultic memorial of the events of salvation history in the public worship of the Church, and the carrying-out of the Rites themselves’.
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
Mary Zak 5/26/1938
John Hilro 5/26/1942
Anna Stewart 5/26/1973
Frederick Kallins 5/26/1992
Genowefa Chenelewski 5/27/1929
Andrew Grunkowski 5/27/1942
Sebastian Ptak 5/27/19947
Mary C. Ptak 5/27/1990
Jacob Pawlarzek 5/28/1937
Frand Zebert 5/28/1984
Arthur E. Petrin 5/28/1991
Joseph H. Lapinski 5/28/2003
Stephany Putala 5/29/1937
Joseph Zadroga 5/29/1952
Victoria Golec 5/29/1980
Anna B. Okula 5/29/1981
Phyllis J. Hannon 5/30/1996
Joseph P. Zangri 5/30/2018
Paul Cygan 5/31/1952
Myron M. Strysko 5/31/1989
Frank M. Osciak 5/31/2009
Janet Whellehan Sivik 5/31/2015
Josephine Koscinski 6/1/1980
John M. Dunican 6/1/2013
Aniela Mlecko 6/2/1965
+ Remember to pray for the Holy Souls+
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Chronicles of Czestochowa 