We will again be collecting non-perishable food items to be donated to the local food bank for Christmas. The response to our Thanksgiving food collection was nothing short of stupendous! Bóg zapłać for you generosity in this mission outreach of our parish.
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Today’s Feast of Christ the King ends the liturgical year ushering in (next Sunday) the Season of Advent. As the secular market place gears up to get crowds out for the consumerist consumption of what it merely calls “the holiday season”, let us in faith and contemplative expectation of the celebration of the Birth of Our Lord, permeate the Holy Season of Advent.
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Of holy memory/Świętej pamięci:
+Irene Eaton, Bertha & Robert Eaton, John & Mary Koza, Violet & Stanley Marchak, Phillip Marchak, Frances & John Marchak, Frank Marchak, Mildred Marchak, Frances & Paul DePrimo, Theresa Marchak, Sophie Marchak
– By Nancy Eaton & Robert Eaton +
+Charles & Frances Cinkay, Beatrice Kaczmarczyk, Rev. Francis Kaczmarczyk, Andrew Cub, Harry & Helen Nothstein, Florence & Stanley Bulcavage, William Nothstein, Henry Sub, Edward & Wanda Zoladz, John & Mary Stoy, Michael & Honora Ciukaj, Amy Z. Sub +
-By Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A Sub
+Gregory Such ,Joseph Hoffman, Bertha Hoffman, Mary Puka, Stanley Puka, Maryanna Wisniewski, Peter Wisniewski, Stella Twarodzik ,Joseph Wisniewski, Edna Wolski, Joseph Wolski +
-By Loraine Such
+Floryan Ewaskiewicz, Madeline Ewaskiewicz, Joseph Toner, Amelia Toner, Amelia Andersen, Paul Andersen, Patrick Toner, Mary Toner, Elaine Andres, Cheryl Brocking, Kevin Mott, Marty (Martha) Henry +
By Janet Ewaskiewicz
+Peter & Angela Nalepa, James Lithgow, Mark Mechowski +
-By Henry Nalepa
+John Novak, Florence DiLouie, Kevin Kurisko, Sophie Pomykala, Frank Pomykala, Walter Pomykala, Florence Pomykala, Alan Pomykala, Anna Bazzel +
-By Frances Novak
+Victor Stenz, Lillian Stenz, Joseph Szeliga, Carolyn Szeliga +
-By Joe & Pat Szeliga
+Annette Kramer, William Kramer, Arlene Kramer, Kathryn Slavinski, Anthony Slavinski, John & Eleanor Slavinsski, Anges Carthoge
-By Clarie & James Armstrong
+Joesph Kowalik, All Deceased Members of the Pullen Family, All Deceased members of the Kowalik Family +
-By Peggy Kowalik
+ Rev. & Beatrice Kaczmarczyk, Wanda & Edward Zoldaz, Henry Sub, Helen & Harry Nothstein, Andrew & Josephone Sub, John & Mary Kishler, Marie & Andrew Molnar, Edward & Karren Kishler, William & Thomas Kishler, Ada & Barbara Kishler, Lee Bohn, Florence Buleavage, William Nothstein +
-By Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Sub
+All Deceased Members of the Hanaschik, Macuga, Zytczak and McGllone Families +
-By Mrs. Leon Zytczak
+Anthony Mikovsky, Joseph (Father), Mary (Mother) Ewaskiewicz +
-By Loretta Mikovsky
+Boleslaw Ewaskiewicz, Grandson Billy, Laura & Harry Campbell, Mary & Joseph Ewaskiewicz, Mary & Joseph Ewaskiewicz, Gladys Campbell +
-By Laura Ewaskiewicz
+All Deceased members of the Swanson-Waite & Domogala -Mikula Families +
+All Deceased members of Our Saviour Parish +
-By Fr. Gregory Mikula
Our Father…
Hail Mary…
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord
and may the perpetual light shine upon them.
May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace. Amen.
Ojcze nasz…
Zdrowaś Maryjo…
Wieczne odpoczynek racz im dać Panie,
a światłość wiekuista niechaj im świeci.
Niech odpoczywają w pokoju, Amen.
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The annual All Souls blessing of graves will take place at our cemetery on Sunday, November 3rd at 2 P.M. All are invited to attend.
Please refer to our bulletin for our Holy Mass schedule for All Saints and All Souls Day Masses. Tradition dictates that the priest celebrates three (3) Masses for the faithful departed on All Souls (November 2nd). Please try to attend one of them to pray for your deceased loved ones.
All Souls day envelopes for “wypominki” are available in the parish. Please return your intentions to be remembered during the month of November in the collection basket or to Peggy Kowalik.
Our Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive will begin next week starting Sunday, October 27th. All non-perishable food items are welcome. The food is donated to our local food bank. It is important to note that all food banks are experiencing shortages as difficult economic times put more pressure than ever on the needy. So please be generous. The response from our parishioners last year was nothing less than tremendous!
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A full prayer schedule is taking place in our parish church. It is the schedule for a typical weekday (with the exception that one morning Mass is offered during the week instead of three as on Sunday). It is a schedule, which gravitates around the majority of what is known as the Liturgy of the Hours and comprises the basic prayer schedule of a monk or an everyday priest. If we are to persevere as Catholic Christians and as a church… prayer and lots of it is more than ever necessary. Praise God that many of the universal prayer times of the universal church are being publicly observed at our parish.
The Sunday Liturgy of the Hours schedule is as follows:
All are welcome to join in this rhythm of prayer.
As Martha in today’s Gospel, we are often worried about the many things of daily life. Indeed these matters need attention. But let us not forget, that the “better part” of life and the most important matters of life are those of the spiritual life. We need more often and ever more attentively to sit at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ, to learn from His Holy Word and to eat of His Body and Blood in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. After this, all things will find their proper proportion and purpose.
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only ONE thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” (Luke 10:42)
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Dear Parishioners and Friends of Our Saviour, (P.N.C.C.),
Following the Season of Christmas and a very successful Annual Meeting, our parish community is inching towards the celebration of the Easter Triduum. This celebration during Holy Week includes The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday evening (7:00 P.M.) which commemorates the institution of the Holy Eucharist (Mass and Holy Communion) as well as the Institution of the Sacred Priesthood. After this solemn Mass, the Blessed Sacrament is taken in procession to the Altar of Repose which is specially prepared for Adoration by the faithful. Following the transfer of the Blessed Sacrament, the altars of the church are stripped and adoration continues in a spirit of quiet and prayerful reflection before the Altar of Repose.
On Good Friday morning private Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament continues at the Altar of Repose until the Liturgy of the Passion and Death of Our Lord begins at 3:00 PM. This liturgy is not a Mass, but instead commemorates the Suffering of Our Lord following His Scourging and Condemnation at the hands of Pilate and His subsequent Crucifixion. The Holy Communion distributed at this liturgy will be consecrated the night before at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper and is therefore “pre-sanctified”. This liturgy then of Good Friday is often remembered as the “Mass of the Pre-sanctified” and occurs in both the liturgies of the Church in the East and in the West. This liturgy ends as the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Altar of Repose to the specially prepared “tomb” at the opposite, side altar. It is there housed in the tabernacle and exposed in the monstrance for the faithful to adore. The monstrance is covered reverently with a special transparent cloth, a symbol of the shroud which surrounded the crucified body of our Lord as He lay in the tomb. The faithful carry on adoration at the tomb until church closing.
On Holy Saturday morning, adoration continues at the Tomb. At noon Bitter Lamentations (Gorzkie Żale) will be sung after which Easter Foods will be blessed. Following this, the church and its altars are prepared for the celebration of the Easter Vigil which serves in reality as the first Mass of Easter. During this beautiful and ceremonious Mass, a new fire is blessed, the Easter candle, representing the Resurrected Christ is processed into the darkened church and the Exultet or Ancient Easter Proclamation is sung. Readings tracing the liberation of the Jews from their slavery in Egypt are read, prefiguring and relating to our liberation from the slavery of sin and death thanks to the Death and Resurrection of Christ. The Litany of the Saints is sung, new baptismal waters are blessed and baptismal promises renewed. This first Mass of Easter is joyously celebrated, completing the three main services of the Sacred Triduum.
I encourage all families of the parish to sign up for an hour’s adoration time sometime during the Sacred Triduum and to attend the scheduled Masses and services as well.. Sign up sheets will be provided for in the back of the church. These services were well attended last year, especially on Good Friday. I hope this year they will be even better attended.
I would like to thank everyone for the work and efforts they are investing in Our Saviour Parish. Where there is prayer and investment of time and spirit I feel, material and spiritual blessings will follow. Let us entrust ourselves to the workings of the Holy Spirit and pray for the health and growth of our parish.
Wishing you a blessed Lenten Season
And a Holy Easter,
Fr. Gregory Mikula
Our Saviour Parish Committee
PALM SUNDAY – March 24, 2013
HOLY WEDNESDAY – MARCH 27, 2013
HOLY (MAUNDY) THURSDAY – MARCH 28, 2013
GOOD FRIDAY – MARCH 29, 2013
HOLY SATURDAY – MARCH 30, 2013
EASTER SUNDAY – MARCH 31, 2013
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The holy season of GREAT LENT begins with the blessing and imposition of ASHES on Wednesday, February 13th. This gesture of humility and penance echoes Old Testament penitential practices and prepares each one of us to increase our humility and good works during Lent. We remember also that in the PNCC, Wednesdays and Fridays are days of FAST and ABSTINENCE from the consumption of meats and during which two smaller meals are eaten which if combined, would not exceed the amount of the main meal of the day. Serious dietary necessities of a medical nature automatically dispense from the fast, but other offerings of a sacrificial nature, (for example increased works of charity) must then take its place.
Distribution of Ashes will take place at 9am on Wednesday, February 13th and again at Holy Mass at 7:15pm.
Stations of the Cross are offered every Wednesday evening of Great Lent at 7 PM. Please consider joining us for this time-honored Lenten devotion and go the Way of the Cross with Our Lord as He prepared to mount the Cross of Calvary.
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