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2 Tabernacle lights KATIA & CASEY PIETRZYK SUNDAY- JAN.8 - THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD. 7:30AM 9:00AM Francesco Petrungaro 10:30AM -MASS IN POLISH Władysław Broda Ryszard Lachut Stanisław Zieliński zmarły w Polsce Marcin Wojtowicz w 8 rocznice śmierci O Bożą Opiekę dla Rafała & Ruty Gadziński z Rodziną Dziękczynna za otrzymane łaski w starym roku i z prośbą o Boże Błogosławieństwo w rozpoczętym Nowym Roku dla Rodziny Wojtowicz 12:00PM Storto Family 2:00PM -MASS IN POLISH Anna Sadowy Rolka W intencji Księży i Sióstr pracujących w parafii Świętego Williama O zdrowie dla Józefa i Ewy Nowak z Synem Marcinem MONDAY - JAN. 9 - THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD. 8:15AM For the Priests & Sisters working at St.William Parish TUESDAY - JAN.10 - WEEKDAY. 8:15AM Enrico & Joseph Castellano Fr.Stan Czarnecki -Good Health WEDNESDAY - JAN WEEKDAY. 8:15AM Maria, Piotr Nosek with Family 7:00PM MASS IN POLISH Marcin Huk THURSDAY - JAN WEEKDAY. 8:15AM Steve, Theresa Banoul FRIDAY - JAN ST. HILARY. 8:15AM Larry O`Donnell The Keating Family 7:00PM - MASS IN POLISH Anna Sadowy Rolka SATURDAY- JAN WEEKDAY. 8:15AM John & Bernardine Janicek Family 4:30PM Florence Wajda Louis Evelio Arias-Death Anniversary From Deacon Ed: We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. 100 TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK The Anniversary Book will be available in spring 2017, so we encourage parishioners to pre-purchase books at the $35 price; Orders placed in 2017 will be at the higher price of $45. We are also in the final months of compiling the contents of the book and welcome any photos, stories, archives, etc. of your heritage with St. William Parish and School. If you have anything to contribute, please do so by January 6 th ; you can information to gfidanzia@gmail.com or drop off the information to the rectory during normal business hours. ST. WILLIAM PARISH 2600 N. SAYRE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL PHONE: FAX: SAINTWILLIAMPARISH.ORG WEEKLY COLLECTIONS : BUDGET FOR WEEKLY COLLECTION.$ WEEKEND COLLECTION(DEC.25, 2016). $ WEEKEND COLLECTION(JAN.1, 2016)... $ SOLEMNITY OF MARY.....$ THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY! PLEASE REMEMBER ST. WILLIAMS IN YOUR WILL 2

3 Leila Bandy Marilyn Berry Amanda Bert Norma Bode Joe & Rose Cernick Pamela Fasel Caleb Fisher Virginia Goggin Maria Hinojosa Natalina Kass Newly Baptized MARLENA ELIZABETH HIGGINS VLADIMIR EMANUEL VAZQUEZ GIOVANNI LORENZO ULLOA OLIVIER PIATEK CLAIRE EILEEN QUIGLEY PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OUR SICK PARISHIONERS, FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES. Carol Marsh Elzbieta Mital Dana Oades Phil Parker Dolores Piccoli Donald Posen Donna Ricchio Jinger Rush Mary Targosz Paul Trucksa Please call the parish office if you would like to add a Parishioner`s name to the sick list. You must be a member of the immediate family. WEEK AT GLANCE SUNDAY - JANUARY 8 10:45-12:30pm RelEd: Library, Tea Lnge, Lobby, Rm.300, 301,303,310, 312 1:00pm-3:00pm Youth Group-Rm.209 MONDAY- JANUARY 9 10:00am-2:00pm Seniors Group-LH TUESDAY - JANUARY 10 7:00pm-8:30pm RCIA -School Library WEDNESDAY - JANUARY 11 6:30pm-8:30pm PPC Meeting -RH 7:00pm-8:30pm Confirmation preparation -School Library THURSDAY - JANUARY 12 7:00pm-8:00pm Girl Scouts-Rm 315 & 316 7:00pm-8:30pm English Bible Study-RH 7:30pm-9:00pm Boy Scouts-LH FRIDAY - JANUARY 13 8:15am-9:15am School Mass 7:30pm-9:00pm Bible Study (Polish)-RH SATURDAY - JANUARY 14 10:00am-2:00pm Polish School -RM 301, 302, 303, 304, LH 3:00pm-4:30pm Cub Scouts-Rm 315 3:00pm-4:30pm Cub Scouts-Rm 316 Please stop by the rectory to fill out a Facility Scheduling Form to reserve a room or a Cancellation/Change Form if you meeting is no longer happening. Room reservations may not be honored if form is not turned in at least 1 week in advance. Please see bulletin for early cut-off dates. ŚWIĄTECZE SPOTKANIE OPŁATKOWE Serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich Parafian, Przyjaciół i Sympatyków na spotkanie Opłatkowe w Parafii św. Williama, które odbędzie się w niedzielę, 22 stycznia Spotkanie rozpoczniemy Mszą Świętą o godz. 2pm, a następnie zapraszamy do sali parafialnej na połamanie się opłatkiem, smaczny obiad oraz wspólne kolędowanie w rodzinnej atmosferze. Bilety w cenie $20 można nabywać w biurze parafialnym bądź po polskich Mszach św. w kościele. OPLATEK MASS, DINNER & CHRISTMAS SONGS Join us for the Polish tradition Oplatek Party on January 22, 2017, at 3:00pm in Liebrich Hall, starting with Mass in church at 2:00pm. After Mass we will celebrate the Christmas season with a traditional Polish dinner and then English and Polish Christmas Carols, songs and fellowship. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the rectory. The Breaking of the Oplatek One of the most beautiful and most revered Polish customs is the "breaking of the oplatek." The use of the Christmas wafer (oplatek) is practiced not only by native Poles in Poland, but by people all over the world whose ancestors came from Poland. The "oplatek" is a thin wafer, made of flour and water. For table use, it is white. In Poland, colored wafers are used to make Christmas tree decorations. On Christmas Eve, the whole family gathers and waits impatiently for the appearance of the first star. With its first gleam, they all approach a table covered with hay and a snow-white table cloth. A vacant chair and a place setting is reserved for the unexpected guest, always provided for in hospitable Polish American homes. The father or eldest member of the family reaches for the wafer, breaks it in half and gives one half to the mother. Then each of them breaks a small part of each other's piece and, after a warm kiss, they wish each other long life, good health, joy and happiness, not only for the holiday season, but for the coming year and for many years to come. 3

4 Come to us & become an Altar Server! We promise you: Deepening of faith Great fun Group meetings Tours Remember!!! It is never too late to be an Altar Server!!!If you want to sign up, please come after Mass and see Fr. Robert, Pastor. QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK Matthew 2:1-12 Why do you think the leadership and the people in Jerusalem were "greatly troubled" at news of "the newborn king of the Jews"? Isaiah 60:1-6 Isaiah announced this prophecy in the aftermath of Israel's seventy-year exile in Babylon, around 500 BC. How do you imagine the Israelites reacted to his vision? Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6 Paul startled many of his Jewish contemporaries with the revelation that the Gentile believers in Christ were "coheirs" and "copartners" in the promises God made to Israel. Who would you consider today outsiders to the faith? SACRAMENTAL LIFE BAPTISM: One Preparation Class is required. The Class will meet on the first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Rectory Hall. Baptism is celebrated on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, attend Noon Mass then Baptism immediately following. MARRIAGES: An appointment should be made with one of the priests or deacons at least six months prior to the wedding. This should be done before a date or banquet hall is reserved. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturday: 3:30 4:15 p.m. You may also call the rectory for an appointment. Please be aware that St. William Parish is often unaware that one of its members may be ill at home, in the nursing home, or in the hospital. We need you to alert us if this applies to you or to anyone in your family. Please contact parish office. We would like to pray for our parishioners, visit with them and bring Communion to them. We want to stay in touch with our sick and elderly and tend to their spiritual needs. PPC THERE WILL BE A MANDATORY PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING ON JANUARY 11TH AT 7PM-RECTORY HALL. JOIN US FOR THE BIBLE STUDY! BIBLE STUDY HAS ALREADY STARTED AT ST. WILLIAM PARISH! WE USUALLY MEET ON 2 ND AND 4 TH THURSDAY OF THE MONTH. OUR NEXT BIBLE STUDY WILL BE ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12TH AT 7:00 P.M. IN THE RECTORY HALL. WE WILL STUDY THE UPCOMING SUNDAY READINGS. Thank You Dziękuje Gracias Giving Tree Gifts On behalf of the Adopt-A-Kid, Women s Center and St. Vincent DePaul Society ministries, we want to Thank everyone who participated in the Giving Tree gift drive. Your sharing and participation has made boys, girls, expectant mothers and families who are less fortunate feel loved and special this Christmas. Thank you also to all the school and parish organizations, school families and parishioners who donated for the food drives and collections during this Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Your generosity and concern for the less fortunate illuminates the Reason for the Season.. reflecting Christ within you to others. May the Christ Child bless you all in this New Year! WELCOME A warm welcome to all who celebrate with us, whether visitors, long-time parishioners, or newly arrived in the parish. If you are not registered at St. William, or are registered and need to make changes, please fill out the form below and place it in the collection basket or mail it to the parish office. (If you are a new parishioner, you will be contacted for additional information.) NAME: PHONE: ADDRESS: CITY/ZIP: ( ) New Parishioner ( ) New Address ( ) New Phone Number ( ) Moving, please remove from parish Do you want donation envelopes (yes) / (no) 4

5 School news THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD Physical Education News Last month, St. William students had fun with obstacle courses, and we had beautiful weather for it! Preschool through 3rd grade kids had fun running through courses that were made for them. Our 4th through 8th graders had the opportunity to design and create their own. On the first day, they were divided into two teams, and each team had to design an obstacle course. On the second day, they had the chance to finetune them. Then they had to run through the opposite team s course while being timed to see which team was the quickest. Our Kindergarteners got a special treat on their second day. The 8th graders designed and built 2 courses especially for their Kindergarten buddies, and they ran through both courses together. Everyone had a blast with this creative and active play! We are very proud of how our students create, work, and play together. "And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the place where the child was." In our day and age, the star of Christmas has become a kind of decorative symbol that adorns manger scenes and Christmas trees. It suggests something good and bright and holy, a visual indicator that the "Light of the world" has appeared. But today, on the feast of the Epiphany, we recall that originally, this star was not just a pretty symbolic ornament. This star was a sign from God that intervened in the operations of the physical universe. The Magi understood that this star was sent from God to indicate where his Son would be born. Of course it should not surprise us in this season of all seasons that God should choose to order the universe according to his purposes. Jesus has just been born of a virgin! God has just taken on human flesh. These events in themselves are extraordinary divine interventions-miracles that defy the standard operation of things. Why shouldn't God choose to send a luminous star where he wants it, when he wants it? Why shouldn't he reveal his plan through the things that he created in the first place? The beauty of today's feast is found, in part, in the fact that the Magi were able to recognize this sign from God. They waited for it, they saw it, and they rejoiced in it: "They were overjoyed at seeing the star." We too should be overjoyed in this season of God's special revelation to us. We may need the eyes to recognize it, but truly we have waited for a Savior, we have seen his appearance at Christmas, and now it is time to celebrate! God is at work in our physical world. He has come here, now to save us. This is cause for rejoicing! WHY DO WE DO THAT? - CATHOLIC TRADITIONS EXPLAINED Question: In our church, on the feast of Epiphany, we write the initials C+M+B over the doorway, what does this stand for or mean? Answer: Epiphany, like Christmas, is celebrated in various ways by different nationalities and cultures. The customs and traditions surrounding these days give them a distinct feel and meaning. In many Slavic traditions, Epiphany is observed by marking the year on the mantle of the entrance to a room or house. In the center of the year are the initials of the traditional names of the three Wise Men: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar. An alternative explanation asserts that the initials stand for the Latin "Christus Mansionem Benedicat," "Christ bless this house." Regardless of the interpretation, the purpose is to ask God's blessing on the home, marking it as though the Wise Men had come and found therein the Christ Child. It also recalls the marking of the doorways in Egypt with the blood of the lamb so that the angel of death would pass over. God's blessing comes to each home as a source of protection and grace. 5

6 MINISTRY SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEKEND OF JANUARY 14 & JANUARY 15 4:30pm 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am 12:00pm 2:00pm Priest Fr. Robert Fr.Jarek Fr.Jarek Fr. Stanisław Fr. Robert Fr. Stanisław Deacon E. Simola J. Ponce de Leon Lectors Polska Szkoła O. & E. Kawa (T. Supergan) Eucharistic Ministers Altar Servers S. Chora C. Jurczyk R. Cornejo A. Aguirre D. Padua L. Ruiz L. Ruiz T. Vaccaro M. Gallagher A. Perez A. Burgos A. Valdivia L. Cao J. Pawlikowski D. Gal D. Gal A. Steppan M. Fernandez J. Sanchez C. Sanchez K. Landowski B. Landowski B. Wozny Corrie,czyli Cornelia ten Boom,pochodziła z Haarlemu-miasta położonego na zachód od Amsterdamu.W czasie II wojny światowej wraz z ojcem i kilkoma innymi członkami rodziny ukrywała wielu Żydów.Ostatecznie ze swoją siostrą dostała się do obozu w Ravensbruck.Jej siostra Betsie zginęła tam,ją natomiast uwolniły wojska amerykańskie.gdy Corrie opuszczała obóz,postanowiła,że już nigdy nie wróci do Niemiec. Minęły długie lata,a Corrie została znaną w Niderlandach pisarką.pewnego razu do jej drzwi zapukał listonosz.uniwersytet w Heidelbergu zaprosił ją z odczytem.długo się wahała,ale ponieważ od wojny minęło dużo czasu,zdecydowała się pojechać.po je wykładzie podszedł do niej starszy człowiek i powiedział,że był jednym z oprawców w obozie,w którym zginęła jej siostra.wyciągnął do niej rękę.we wzruszącej książce:"bezpieczna kryjówka" wydanej po raz pierwszy w 1971 r,corrie opisuje,że w jednej sekundzie różne uczucia zawładnęły jej sercem:nienawiść,złość,krzyk rozpaczy.podjęła jednak decyzję-ich dłonie spotkały się.wtedy cała fala nienawiści opadła,poczuła tylko jedno-litość i współczucie dla tego starego już człowieka.podjęła decyzję o przebaczeniu wbrew swoim emocjom,uczucia zaczęły zmieniać się póżniej..w ten sposób nauczyła się,że przebaczenie jest decyzją,a nie uczuciem Świeta Rita była żoną, wdową ( zamordowano jej męża), matką ( straciła dwóch synów), osobą samotną, w końcu - zakonnicą. Jak nikt poznał wszystkie problemy trapiące ludzi, a zwłaszcza te, które dotykają rodzin. Dlatego od czasu wyniesienia do chwały świetych cieszy się wielką popularnością jako patronka rodzin, spraw trudnych, spraw beznadziejnych, patronka małżeństw, które przeżywaja różnego rodzaju problemy. Serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich czcicieli Świętej Rity i nie tylko, zapraszamy całą Polonie na specjalną msze świętą i nabożeństwo przez jej wstawiennictwo 21 stycznia 2017 roku o godzinie 7 mej wieczorem do parafii Świętego Williama. II SOBOTA STYCZNIA Arcybractwo Straży Honorowej Najświętszych Serc Jezusa i Maryi zaprasza na nabożeństwo wynagradzające Drugie Soboty każdego Miesiąca za grzechy osobiste, nasze, naszych Rodzin, Polonii i narodu polskiego Ojczyzny Polski. Czuwanie rozpoczyna się o godzinie 7:00 wieczorem. W programie czuwania jest wspólna i prywatna modlitwa, spowiedź święta, różaniec i koronka do Bożego Miłosierdzia. Czuwanie kończy się mszą świętą o godzinie 9:15 PM. Wszystko to odbywa się w Kościele pod wezwaniem Św. Williama w każdą 2-gą Sobotę Miesiąca. Parafia znajduje się pod adresem 2600 N. Sayre Ave, Chicago. Numer do parafii jest Zapraszamy naszych parafian na to czuwanie 14 stycznia 2017 roku. ZAPRASZAMY NA ROZWAŻANIE SŁOWA BOŻEGO W JĘZYKU 6 POLSKIM. SPOTKANIE ODBĘDZIE SIĘ W DNIU 13 STYCZNIA O GODZINIE 7:30 PM NA PLEBANII. ZAPRASZAMY!

7 POLSKA SZKOŁA IM. ŚW. BRATA ALBERTA CHMIELOWSKIEGO PRZY PARAFII ŚW. WILLIAMA ZAPRASZA NA BAL KAR- W KRAINIE ŚNIEGU NIEDZIELA -15 STYCZNIA 2017 OD GODZINY 3PM 6PM KARNAWAŁ ROZPOCZYNA MSZA ŚW. O GODZ. 2PM. BILETY MOŻNA ZAKUPIĆ W KAZDA SOBOTE PODCZAS TRWANIA ZAJEC LEKCYJNYCH W SZKOLE ORAZ 18 GRUDNIA I 8 STYCZNIA PO MSZY ŚW.- 10:30 CENA BILETU OD DZIECKA- $15 DOROŚLI WSTĘP WOLNY! W PROGRAMIE M.IN. KONKURSY I ATRAKCJE DLA NAJMŁODSZYCH; CENNE NAGRODY ZAPRASZAMY CZŁONKÓW RADY PARAFIALNEJ NA OBOWIĄZKOWE SPOTKANIE RADY PARAFIALNEJ, KTÓRE ODBĘDZIE SIĘ W DNIU 11 STYCZNIA O GODZINIE 7 PM NA PLEBANII. 7