The Parish Family of St. John Paul II

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1 The Parish Family of St. John Paul II 39 East 22 nd Street, Bayonne, NJ Rectory ; Fax or Religious Education: Web: w Served by: Rev. Zenon Boczek SDS, Pastor Rev. Piotr Hałdaś SDS, Parochial Vicar Rev. Andrzej Kujawa SDS, Parochial Vicar The purpose of the Salvatorian is to strengthen, to defend and to spread the Catholic faith everywhere insofar as this is committed to it by Divine Providence. Therefore, by exercising this ecclesiastical teaching function in word and writing, it intends to achieve the end that all people might know more and more the one true God and Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ. Kerry G. Fryczynski, Zofia Castellon - Trustees Agnes Barowicz, Parish Secretary Debra Czerwienski, Director of Religious Education Blanca Cisneros, Secretary of Religious Education Dayle Vander Sande, Music Minister October 29, 2017 WEEKEND MASSES: Saturday: 4:30 PM at St. Michael s Church; 5:00 PM at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Sunday: 8:15 AM; 9:30 AM; 10:45 AM (Polish) & 12:15 PM; 9:30 AM (Italian) - St. Michael s Church WEEKDAY MASSES: Monday Friday: 7:00 AM (English) & 8:00 AM, (Polish) [except Thursday] Saturday: 7:30 AM (Polish) & 8:30 AM (English) Tuesday 7:00 PM (English), Thursday 7:00 PM (Polish) St. Michael s Church 8:00 AM (English) Monday Friday CONFESSIONS: Daily from Monday to Friday 7:30 AM, Saturday 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM PARISH OFFICE HOURS: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Tuesday: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; 1:00PM to 6:00 PM Friday: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; 1:00PM to 3:00 PM

2 SATURDAY, October 28, :30 PM ++Elvira & Giuseppe Ciraco (Daughter Maria) 5:00 PM +Kenneth Czachorowski (Daughter Terry Rogozenski) SUNDAY, October 29, :15 AM +Waclawa Lapkiewicz (Granddaughter Pat Suckiel) 9:30 AM +Stanislaw Milkowski (Son) 9:30 AM (SM) +Totino Family 10:45 AM +Jan Dąbrowski (Halina Ostaszewski) 12:15 PM +Konczal Family (Irene Bartosiewicz & Family) MONDAY, October 30, :00 AM +Sophie & Julius Spozdzial (Daughter, Helen) 8:00 AM + Grandparents Julia & Andrew Oros (Marion) 8:00 AM (SM) +Carol Tatarowicz (loving husband) TUESDAY, October 31, :00 AM For sick parishioners (Fr. Zenon Boczek SDS) 8:00 AM +Helen & Alexander Mager (Tom & Lorraine) 8:00 AM (SM) + Thaddeus Porawski (Sophie Vanderbeck) 7:00 PM +Steve & Jean Romano WEDNESDAY, November 1, :00 AM +Grazia & Pietro Barberi (son Mario) 8:00 AM +Marta Gromadzka (Marianna &Wacław Chojnowscy) 8:00 AM (SM) +Gregory Rogozenski (Mom) 12:00 PM (EN) + Waclawa Lapkiewicz (Granddaughter Pat Suckiel) 7:00 PM (EN) All Souls 8:00 PM (ITA) All Souls THURSDAY, November 2, :00 AM All Souls 8:00 AM (SM) All Souls 12:00 PM (ENG) All Souls 7:00 PM (PL) All Souls FRIDAY, November 3, :00 AM For Parishioners 8:00 AM + Katarzyna Fryc (niece) 8:00 AM (SM) +Cornelius & Mary Roberta Murphy (son Neil) SATURDAY, November 4, :30 AM (PL) Memorial Mass 8:30 AM + Irene Kochanek (Denis Korin) 4:30 PM ++Elvira & Giuseppe Ciraco (Daughter Maria) 5:00 PM +George Hudak (wife Anna) SUNDAY, November 5, :15 AM +Mary Ann Kiczek (Mt Carmel Lyceum) 9:30 AM ++ Members of Roszkowski & Jakubowski Families (Dave & Eileen) 9:30 AM (SM) +Angelina Traina (daughter Nina, son - in law and family) 10:45 AM + Czesława & Stanisław Pawłowscy (córka Danuta z rodziną) 12:15 PM + Theodore Markowski (J. Miros) Spiritual Offerings October 29 - Nov. 4, 2017 SANCTUARY LAMP Birthday Blessings for Gene Aiello (Barbara) ALTAR BREAD +Marjorie Mierzejewski (Milkowski Family) ALTAR WINE +Marjorie Mierzejewski (Milkowski Family) INFANT OF PRAGUE +Jadwiga Rapp (C. Zawadzka) SACRED HEART +Stanley Duda (Loving Family) DIVINE MERCY CANDLE +Elizabeth Duda (Loving Family) BLESSED MOTHER CANDLE Waclawa Lapkiewicz (granddaughter Pat Sukiel) O.L.OF CZESTOCHOWA CANDLE +Władysław, + Bronisława, & +Jadwiga Łapiński (C. Zawadzka) ST. ANNE CANDLE ST. ANTHONY CANDLE +Jan Zawadzki & Family (C. Zawadzka) ST. JOHN PAUL II CANDLE +Dolores Macon (Cindy) ST. JOSEPH CANDLE With Sincerest Gratitude to Leo of Alex & Terry s (from the residents of East 36th Street) ST. JUDE CANDLE Birthday Blessings for Gene Aiello (children & grand-children) ST. THERESA CANDLE In Thanksgiving Our Grateful Tithe to God: Sunday, October 22, 2017: The collection report from last week will be listed next week. We thank all our parishioners for their generous support of our parish! Bóg Zapłać! Grazie!

3 THIS WEEK Monday, October 30, 2017: Family of Nazareth - 7:00 PM Tuesday, October 31, 2017: Cub Scouts - 7:00 PM Wednesday, November 1, 2017 All Saints Day-Office will be Closed Eucharistic Adoration - 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, St. Michael s Church Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 Boy Scouts Open House 7:30 PM Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 Boy scouts car wash 11AM-3PM Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017 Religious Education Program - 9:15AM - 10:30AM November is the Month of Remembrance and Remembering. We invite you to join us on Sunday, Nov 5, at 3:00 PM at Holy Cross Cemetery, 340 Ridge Rd., North Arlington. We will pray the Rosary for the deceased, in English and in Polish, at Father Robert Pachana s grave in the Mausoleum. Afterwards you are free to visit your relatives graves if you wish. There is no bus organized, we will have to drive our own cars. There is no list. Anyone who wants to come should just come. We will meet in the area next to the cemetery s office at 3:00 PM. Please wait there. If you have questions - please ask Fr. Andrew. Tak jak w roku ubiegłym, zapraszamy wszystkich chętnych do wyjazdu na cmentarz w North Arlington (340 Ridge Road) na modlitwę różańcową za zmarłych w niedzielę, 5 listopada o godzinie 3:00 PM. Spotkamy się przy biurze cmentarza i stamtąd wyruszymy do mauzoleum, do grobu księdza Roberta; tam będziemy modlić się się w języku polskim i angielskim. Potem będzie można odwiedzić groby swoich bliskich. Prosimy o przyjechanie własnymi samochodami. The power of prayer is far greater, infinitely greater than we could ever imagine. Often when we pray we call on the strength of the Almighty One to perform an action beyond our capabilities, but not beyond His. Today we pray that the Lord heals the wounds of all who are not yet ready to enter into the fullness of His presence. May they be healed. May any part of their lives that have been closed to Love be completely open to the Presence of God. So we pray today for our deceased parents, spouses, children, relatives, and friends. We know that they were good people. But we also know that they were people. We want them to be capable of receiving the full blast of God s love; so we pray for them. We celebrate funeral Masses, for that is the prayer of Jesus on the Cross for the deceased, the greatest prayer we could offer. We have additional Masses said for our loved ones throughout the year. We remember them in our daily prayers. And we pray for them particularly on today, All Souls Day, and throughout the month of November. MEMORIAL MASS +Henryk Stasiorek + Andrzej Rutkowski + Dolores Macon +Jan Chodorowski +Czesław Oldakowski +John Woolley + Josephine Suczewski +Max Scholz +Estelle Klimansky +Bryan Vincent Gannon +Geraldine Kmec +Josephine Walichowski +Wanda Brzostek +Cornelius & Mary Roberta Murphy +Leokadia & Antoni Kurpiewski +Mary Peregrin +Halina & Henryk Stasiorek +Helene & Joseph Duda Fall Back!!! Daylight Savings Time began on the second Sunday of March and will end on the first Sunday of November, next weekend. (Saturday night - 3:00 AM Sunday morning). Turn your clocks BACK one hour.

4 November 1 Who wants to be a saint? It seems to me that we very often tend to forget that we are all called to holiness whatever our commitments may be, whatever our vocation, whether to be married, single, consecrated. I can see several reasons explaining such a state of mind: a false idea of holiness, conceived as a kind of spiritual, human, and moral perfection; a false judgment of ourselves; very often we judge ourselves very severely, looking at ourselves only through our weakness and our sins; and our pride: as the best way to avoid failure is by refusing to try. The common point in all these attitudes is the over emphasis on our self : we lean on ourselves instead of leaning first on God. As we hear the Lord s injunctions: be holy as I myself am holy, or as we have heard in the second reading we hall be like him like Christ, we grow scared and discouraged. Let us hear again the Lord s words: Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God s children; and that is what we are. Let us hear Jesus Christ s voice saying, happy are you, the kingdom of heaven is yours. In fact, the Sermon on the Mount says to us that being holy is to enter into the happiness of the kingdom of heaven. So first holiness is a mystery of happiness. Both happiness and kingdom of heaven are connected, happy the poor, the persecuted, theirs is the kingdom. The kingdom is manifested in Christ himself. A bit earlier in the Gospel, starting to preach, Jesus says Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand he means through me, in me. So the reality of the kingdom of heaven is fulfilled through Christ s presence. The poor in spirit, that means the humble, and the persecuted in the cause of right, experience the presence of Christ who humbles himself and suffers his passion for our sake. Consequently we may say that since the Incarnation, since the Second person of the Trinity s coming, the kingdom of heaven is here. But, on the other hand, we may hear in another sense that the kingdom is still to come: happy the gentle, they shall have the earth as their heritage, happy those who mourns, they shall be comforted. The gift of the Kingdom, of Christ is given but we still have to welcome or to integrate it into our life. We have to let the deep reality of Christ s presence invade and transform all our being, mind and body. So being holy is also being patient. Holiness is a mystery of patience that may imply sufferings. There is a gap between Christ and us, a gap that he wants to fill but that we must allow to be filled by him and by nobody else: this is the meaning of Jesus words: happy the pure in heart, that means those whose heart is to him alone, nor shared or divided. That s why to be holy is also to be abandoned. Holiness is a mystery of abandon, that means to accept that our will is to do freely God s will as it is manifested to us through the events of our life. Holiness consists in this secret movement of the heart, which looks up at God as at a beloved father. To be holy is to be a son. Holiness is the mystery of our divine adoption. To be holy is to realize day after day that we are Sons and daughters of God. He is looking at me, he is looking for me, and he is looking after me. Let me conclude by quoting some words written by the blessed John Henry Newman: God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually. He calls me by my name; He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, The Saint John Paul II Society cordially invites all to attend their annual Autumn Harvest Festival Sunday, November 12th, 1:00 PM. OLMC Parish Center. Tickets: $ Full Course Roast Pork Dinner. Super Tricky Tray, Mystery Bags. Proceeds benefit parish youth & vocations. For sale after Sunday Masses or call

5 UROCZYSTOŚĆ WSZYSTKICH ŚWIĘTYCH 1 LISTOPADA Dzisiejsza uroczystość ma charakter bardzo radosny. Wspominamy bowiem dzisiaj wszystkich tych, którzy żyli przed nami i wypełniając w swoim życiu Bożą wolę, osiągnęli wieczne szczęście przebywania z Bogiem w niebie. Kościół wspomina nie tylko oficjalnie uznanych świętych, czyli tych beatyfikowanych i kanonizowanych, ale także wszystkich wiernych zmarłych, którzy już osiągnęli zbawienie i przebywają w niebie. Widzi w nich swoich orędowników u Boga i przykłady do naśladowania. Wstawiennictwa Wszystkich Świętych wzywa się w szczególnie ważnych wydarzeniach życia Kościoła. Śpiewa się wówczas Litanię do Wszystkich Świętych, która należy do najstarszych litanijnych modlitw Kościoła i jako jedyna występuje w księgach liturgicznych. W pierwszych wiekach chrześcijaństwa w Kościele nie wspominano żadnych świętych. Najwcześniej zaczęto oddawać cześć Matce Bożej. Potem kultem otoczono męczenników, nawiedzając ich groby w dniu narodzin dla nieba, czyli w rocznicę śmierci. W IV wieku na Wschodzie obchodzono jednego dnia wspomnienie wszystkich męczenników. Z czasem zaczęto pamiętać o świątobliwych wyznawcach: papieżach, mnichach i dziewicach. Większego znaczenia uroczystość Wszystkich Świętych nabrała za czasów papieża Bonifacego IV (+ 615). Już ok. 800 r. wspomnienie Wszystkich Świętych obchodzone było w Irlandii i Bawarii, ale 1 listopada. W 935 r. Jan XI rozszerzył je na cały Kościół. Jest to uroczystość nakazana, więc tylko choroba lub poważne przeszkody zwalniają z obowiązku uczestnictwa we Mszy Świętej. WSPOMNIENIE WSZYSTKICH WIERNYCH ZMARŁYCH 2 LISTOPADA Kościół wspomina w liturgii wszystkich wierzących w Chrystusa, którzy odeszli już z tego świata, a teraz przebywają w czyśćcu. Przekonanie o istnieniu czyśćca jest jednym z dogmatów naszej wiary. Obchód Dnia Zadusznego zainicjował w 998 r. św. Odilon (+1048). Praktykę tę początkowo przyjęły klasztory benedyktyńskie, ale wkrótce za ich przykładem poszły także inne zakony i diecezje. W XIII w. święto rozpowszechniło się na cały Kościół. W wieku XIV zaczęto urządzać procesję na cmentarz do czterech stacji. Od południa dnia Wszystkich Świętych i przez cały Dzień Zaduszny w kościołach i kaplicach publicznych można uzyskać odpust zupełny za zmarłych, ale tylko jeden raz. Warunki zyskania odpustu są następujące: 1) pobożne nawiedzenie kościoła lub kaplicy, 2) odmówienie "Ojcze nasz" i "Wierzę w Boga" 3) dowolna modlitwa w intencjach Ojca Świętego 4) bycie w stanie łaski uświecającej i Komunia Św. W dniach 1-8 listopada można także pozyskać odpust zupełny za nawiedzenie cmentarza pod wyżej wymienionymi warunkami. La festa, che ha per oggetto la glorificazione di tutti i Santi che sono in cielo: Angeli, Martiri, Confessori, Vergini. La sua origine viene dalla commemorazione di tutti i martiri che fin dal secolo quarto si faceva in alcune chiese particolari. Per quanto sia grande il numero dei Santi di cui la Chiesa celebra la festa nel corso dell'anno, è certo molto più grande il numero di coloro dei quali non conosce il nome, le virtù, i meriti. Quante anime sante di tutte le età, di tutte le condizioni sociali, presso tutti i popoli! Santi nella gerarchia ecclesiastica, nei deserti, nei monasteri, tra i professionisti, tra gli operai, tra le donne di casa, tra i poveri, tra gli ammalati! Quanti servi fedeli di Dio nascosti nell'oscurità di una vita umile e sconosciuta! Quante anime grandi pur tra le occupazioni più basse e più comuni! Santi che Dio ha pienamente ricompensati! Era quindi giusto che la Chiesa li celebrasse ed onorasse, e ciò fece con l'istituzione della presente solennità. La ricorrenza di questo giorno fu stabilita per suffragare le anime dei giusti che si trovano ancora nel Purgatorio. Antichissimo è l'uso della Chiesa di pregare per i defunti, perché vengano liberati dalle loro pene. Tertulliano lo dice di origine apostolica e scrive: «Noi facciamo ogni anno l'anniversario dei morti, secondo le tradizioni dei nostri antenati». Gregorio Nazianzeno, in occasione della morte del fratello San Cesario, promette di inviargli ogni anno i suoi suffragi. S. Agostino dice: «Chi può dubitare che le preghiere, i sacrifici e le elemosine che si fanno per i defunti non siano loro di sollievo?». Pensiamo che forse un giorno ci troveremo anche noi tra quelle fiamme, ed avremo piacere che gli altri si ricordino di noi. Facciamo dunque agli altri quello che vorremmo si faccia a noi. Quelle anime inoltre ricambieranno dal cielo mille e mille volte il nostro atto di carità e non permetteranno che piombiamo nelle pene eterne dell'inferno.