The Parish Family of St. John Paul II 39 East 22 nd Street, Bayonne, NJ 07002-3753 Rectory 201-339-2070; Fax 201-339-3676 Email: stjp2church@gmail.com or staff@olmcparish.com Religious Education: reledstjp2@gmail.com Web: www.johnpaul2parish.com w Served by: Rev. Zenon Boczek SDS, Pastor Rev. Paul Dolinski SDS, Parochial Vicar Rev. Andrew 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 February 26 2017 WEEKEND MASSES: Saturday: 4:30 PM at St. Michael s Church; 5:00 PM at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Sunday: 7:00 AM (Polish); 8:15 AM; 9:30 AM; 10:45 AM (Polish) & 12:15 PM; 9:30 AM (Italian) - St. Michael s Church WEEKDAY MASSES: Monday Saturday: 7:00 AM (English) & 8:00 AM, (Polish) [except Thursday] Tuesday 7:00 PM (English), Thursday 7:00 PM (Polish) St. Michael s Church 8:00 AM (English) Monday Saturday CONFESSIONS: Daily 7:30 AM, Saturday 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
SATURDAY, February 25, 2017 4:30 PM +John & Michael Gaynor (Carol) 5:00 PM +John P. Durak (wife Clara, Children and grandchildren) SUNDAY, February 26, 2017 7:00 AM +Tadeusz Kasztelan 10th anniversary in Heaven (Wanda i Sławek Zambrowski) 8:15 AM +Leontyna Olowiak (Zosia Szustak) 9:30 AM +Michael John Hudak (Grandmother) 9:30 AM (SM) +Michele Sorbaia (wife & family) 10:45 AM +Katarzyna Fołtyńska i zmarli z rodziny (rodzina) 12:15 PM + Anthony Quintela (Carmen Klick) MONDAY, February 27, 2017 7:00 AM For parishioners 8:00 AM + Franciszka Komosińska (Mirosław & Bogusława Szypkowski and family) 8:00 AM (SM) Birthday blessings for Monika Misiuta (Agnes and Dariusz Serwach) TUESDAY, February 28, 2017 7:00 AM +Ann Colucci (Karen & Joe Makowski) 8:00 AM +Jim Nadolski (wife & son) 8:00 AM (SM) Thanksgiving Mass (Agnes) 7:00 PM +Jennifer Galloway anniversary (Loving Mom, Dad & family) WEDNESDAY, March 1, 2017 (Ash Wednesday) 7:00 AM + Florence Florczak (J. Szydlowski) 8:00 AM + Franciszka Komosińska (Szieszynski) 8:00 AM (SM) + Msgr. Edward Matash (McCurnin & Ruane families) 12 PM for benefactors of St John Paul II Parish 5:00 PM (ENG) - For parishioners 7:00 PM (PL) +Zenobia Gastol (Hanna Babecka) THURSDAY, March 2, 2017 7:00 AM +Florence Florczak (Rosary Society) 8:00 AM (SM) +Julie Usarzewicz (Chris Durak & family) 7:00 PM + Helena Slicner (córka) FRIDAY, March 3, 2017 7:00 AM + Rev. Robert A. Pachana (Marek) 8:00 AM +Franciszka Komosińska (Grażyna & Stefan Alabrudzinski) 8:00 AM (SM) + Umberto Ciraco (family) SATURDAY, March 4, 2017 7:00 AM +Juliana Usarzewicz (Joan Papcun) 8:00 AM + Memorial Mass (see page 4) 8:00 AM (SM) +Joseph & Mary Merkovsky (Andrew J. Merkovsky) 4:30 PM +Margaret & George Knoop (Audrey Knoop) 5:00 PM +Helen & Joseph Makowski (Joe & Karen Makowski) SUNDAY, March 5, 2017 7:00 AM O zdrowie dla chorych i cierpiących, oraz w poleconych intencjach. Z podziękowaniem za Boże łaski B. i K. Ołdakowski. 8:15 AM +Rev. Robert A. Pachana (Pat Suckiel) 9:30 AM +Leontyna Olowiak (Dorothy Lewio) 9:30 AM (SM) +Pino Traina (Sister Nina & family) 10:45 AM ++Zbigniew & Paweł (Redyk family) 12:15 PM +George Machnowski (wife & children) Eight Sunday in Ordinary Time February 26, 2017 Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. Isaiah 49:15 Spiritual Offerings, Feb. 26 Mar. 4 2017 SANCTUARY LAMP +Edward Olszewski (Daughters in-law, Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren) SACRED HEART CANDLE Special Intentions BLESSED MOTHER CANDLE +Catherine Erskine (Marge Mierzejewski) O. L. OF CZESTOCHOWA +Jan Plicharz (son Joseph) ST. ANNE CANDLE Catherine Erskine (Denis Leonard, Lucas, Liam & Lily Ann ST. FRANCIS CANDLE Special Intentions of the Oranchak, Miskura & Baldassarre Families ST. JOSEPH Birthday blessings for Joelle Rehberg (Mom & Dad) ST. JUDE CANDLE Special Intention ST. MICHAEL S CHURCH Sanctuary Lamp and Bread & Wine +Joseph & Mary Merkovsky (Andrew J. Merkovsky) Our Grateful Tithe to God: Regular: February 19, 2017: Regular: $7,497.00 We thank all our parishioners for their generous support of our parish! Bóg Zapłać! Grazie!
This Week Monday, February 27, 2017: Family of Nazareth - 7:00 PM Tuesday, February 28, 2017: Cub Scouts - 7:00 PM Seniors 12 Noon Wednesday, March 1, 2017: Ash Wednesday Collection Eucharistic Adoration - 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, St. Michael s Church Thursday, March 2, 2017: Boy Scouts - 7:30 PM Saturday-Sunday, March 4-5, 2017: Utility Fund Monday, March 6, 2017: Family of Nazareth - 7:00 PM Mt. Carmel Guild - 7:00 PM Lenten Stations of the Cross English Language: Tuesdays after the 7:00 PM Mass -OLMC Church Polish Language: Fridays at 7:00 PM OLMC Church Italian Language: Fridays at 8:00 PM OLMC Church Fast & Abstinence Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence. For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards. Lent began on Wednesday, March. 1st. The Lenten season is the traditional time to pay Parish Dues. You will soon be receiving an envelope in the mail with the sign Parish Dues Please use this envelope to pay dues. It will be more convenient for the office to register your payment in the Parish system. If you already paid, disregard your envelope this year. Dues remain at: $15 for a family, $10 for an individual, and $5 for Seniors (65+) & Young Adults (19-25). This week flowers have been offered in loving memory of +Estelle Klimansky The Cub Scout Pack 19 will be holding their annual Beefsteak Dinner Fundraiser on Saturday, March 11, 2017, at the Parish Center. Cost $45 per person. Seminarian Mass and Dinner The Annual Seminarian Mass & Dinner is sponsored by the Hudson County Serra Society. Mass will be celebrated on Wed., March 29th at St. Vincent Church at 6PM by Msgr. Gregory Studerus, Episcopal Vicar of Hudson County. Dinner will follow at The Chandelier Restaurant. This year the Serra Society will honor outgoing President of the Hudson County Serra Society Kevin Adamson, Deacon Stephen Lipski and Ingrid Alfred. Tickets are $60.00 per person with proceeds going to the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Newark. For more information please call rectory office. Raffle for Shop-Rite Gift Certificates As a Springtime Fundraiser, the St. John Paul II Society members will be selling $5.00 raffle tickets at the front doors of OLMC and St. Michael s the weekends of March 4-5 & March 11-12. First, Second, and Third Prizes are Shop Rite Gift Certificates for $300, $150 and $100. Winners will be drawn on March 15th right in time for Easter grocery shopping. We appreciate and need your support for our mission to help the Youth of our parish through scholarships, etc. Thank you!
Are the Ashes we are about to place on our foreheads a direct contradiction of the Gospel? In a fundamentalist sense, obviously yes; but if we read the Gospels as a whole, we realize that what is forbidden is not this or that action, but the attitude of acting only in order to attract attention, of giving the appearance of devotion and uprightness. Instead, we impose ashes on each other in order to support and encourage each other in our attempts at conversion: It is easier to abstain from meat and to fast today, when we know that Catholics and other Christians are also trying to do the same; throughout the six Sundays and forty fast days of Lent we know that others are making similar efforts at penance and conversion as we are. Together, we encourage each other to be drawn forward in turning our hearts to Christ, to conforming ourselves to his image already present in us. We know from past experience, however, that we are likely to struggle to maintain the penance we have chosen for ourselves. If we fail, temporarily, it doesn t make our Lenten penances pointless, like the New Year Resolutions abandoned some weeks ago. During Lent, our efforts show us how far we can strive to reform and renew our lives and also show us the limits of what we are able to achieve ourselves. Our efforts take us to a new space in which we can receive the Lord s gift of himself at Easter, which takes us far beyond what we can do for ourselves. However, unless we make some efforts ourselves, unless we reach out our hand to Christ s forgiving and healing hand, we cannot be lifted up by him at Easter. Unless we do our part to make ourselves ready to receive him, we may not notice him as he passes by. At the same time, we need to keep an open ear and a watchful eye, to notice the moment of his approach; if we are trying too hard to be ready for him, focusing too much on ourselves, we might also miss him as he passes by. The three Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, highlighted by the Gospel, interact in our lives to make us watchful and attentive to how he is coming to meet us each day of Lent. When we stumble in our efforts, we will feel his hand lifting us up, whispering in our ear, encouraging us to keep going and not to worry, we will be opened up to experience his healing, forgiveness and reconciliation. Once we have experienced it, we will, in our turn, become ambassadors of Reconciliation to others, when they stumble, encouraging them to get up and keep going, not to worry, but instead to trust in his mercy and in his healing. Lingua Inglese: Martedi dopo la Messa delle 7:00 PM - Chiesa di Monte Carmelo Lingua Polacca: Venerdi alle 7:00 PM - Chiesa di Monte Carmelo Lingua Italiana: Venerdi alle 8:00 PM - Chiesa di Monte Carmelo Digiuno e Astinenza Il Mercoledì delle Ceneri e il Venerdì Santo sono giorni obbligatori di digiuno ed astinenza per i cattolici. Inoltre, i venerdì durante la Quaresima sono giorni obbligatori di astinenza. Per i membri della Chiesa cattolica latina, le norme sul digiuno sono obbligatori da 18 anni fino all'età di 59 anni. Con il digiuno, una persona è permessa di mangiare un pasto completo, come anche due pasti più piccoli che insieme siano uguali a un pasto completo. Le norme in materia di astinenza dalla carne sono vincolanti per i membri della Chiesa Cattolica Latina da 14 anni in poi. + Henryk Stasiorek + Helen Sharp + Frances Zubel + Helene Duda + Andrzej Rutkowski + Dolores Macon +Jan Chodorowski +Czesław Oldakowski +Max Scholz +Estelle Klimansky +Bryan Vincent Gannon + Leokadia & Antoni Kurpiewski + Joseph & Hattie Merkovsky + John & Hanni Iwasiuta + Halina & Stanley Karulski +Juan & Oscar Velazquez +Cornelius & Mary Roberta Murphy
NABOŻEŃSTWA PASYJNE OKRESU WIELKIEGO POSTU DROGA KRZYŻOWA Każdy piątek Wielkiego Postu o godzinie 7:00 PM. W języku angielskim w każdy wtorek po Mszy Świętej o 7:00 PM. GORZKIE ŻALE Każda niedziela Wielkiego Postu o 3:00 PM Przepisy postne A. Wstrzemięźliwość od pokarmów mięsnych i post ścisły 1. Wierni, którzy ukończyli 14. rok życia, są zobowiązani do zachowania w ciągu całego życia wstrzemięźliwości od pokarmów mięsnych w następujące dni: a) we wszystkie piątki Wielkiego Postu, b) w Środę Popielcową. Równocześnie ze względu na tradycję tego dnia w Polsce zachęcamy wiernych do zachowania wstrzemięźliwości od pokarmów mięsnych w Wigilię Bożego Narodzenia. Wstrzemięźliwość od pokarmów mięsnych nie obowiązuje, jeżeli zgodnie z przepisami liturgicznymi, w piątek przypada uroczystość. 2. Wierni, którzy ukończyli 18. rok życia, aż do rozpoczęcia 60. roku życia, oprócz wstrzemięźliwości od pokarmów mięsnych są zobowiązani do zachowania postu ścisłego w następujące dni: a) w Środę Popielcową, b) w Wielki Piątek. Post ścisły pozwala na jednorazowy posiłek do syta oraz na dwa skromne posiłki w ciągu dnia. 3. Wierni, którzy nie mają możliwości wyboru pokarmów i muszą spożywać to, co zostanie im podane, mogą korzystać z dyspensy od obowiązku wstrzymania się od potraw mięsnych w piątki Wielkiego Postu. Taka dyspensa nie istnieje w Środę Popielcową i Wielki Piątek. Niemożliwość zachowania wstrzemięźliwości od pokarmów mięsnych w piątek zakłada jednak podjęcie innych form pokuty, takich jak: modlitwa, jałmużna, uczynki pobożności i miłości, wierniejsze spełnianie obowiązków. Wielki Post - czas duchowego przygotowania do świąt wielkanocnych W Środę Popielcową, rozpoczyna się w Kościele czterdziestodniowy czas Wielkiego Postu. Głόwne przesłanie tego okresu koncentruje się na duchowym przygotowaniu chrześcijan do godnego przeżywania świąt Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego, największych świąt chrześcijaństwa związanych z wydarzeniami męki śmierci i zmartwychwstania (Paschy) Chrystusa; wydarzeniami, ktόre stanowią fundament Kościoła i naszej wiary. Ponieważ są to najważniejsze święta (zwane też paschalnymi), dlatego domagają się specjalnego przygotowania, by mόc je należycie przeżyć; stąd też ich nazwa: Wielkiego Postu, a nie jakiegoś tam zwykłego postu. REJESTRACJA PARAFIALNA Okres Wielkiego Postu jest tradycyjnym czasem regulowania opłat para ialnych. Opłatę para ialną będzie moz na uregulowac w kopercie para ialnej, kto rą niedlugo otrzymacie. Ten sposo b powinien ułatwic wpłaty I rejestracje Roczna składka wynosi: rodzina: $15.00 osoba stanu wolnego: $10.00 seniorzy (65+), młodzi ludzie (18-25): $5.00 WIELKOPOSTNA REFLEKSJA W Środę Popielcową, w trakcie posypywania głów popiołem, kapłan wypowiada słowa z Pisma Świętego. Ma do wyboru dwa zdania: Prochem jesteś i w proch się obrócisz lub Nawracajcie się i wierzcie w Ewangelię!. Może zastanawiamy się, co mają wspólnego ze sobą te dwa fragmenty? Ich wspólnym mianownikiem jest zaufanie Bogu. Tylko On może nadać sens naszej codzienności. Jeśli uzmysłowimy sobie bezradność wobec śmierci i grzechu, jesteśmy na dobrej drodze. Pozostaje do wykonania tylko jeden krok - w stronę Boga. Mamy go czynić każdego dnia, nie tylko w tę jedną środę w roku. Popielec to ani nie ósmy sakrament, ani tradycja ojców. To autentyczny znak oddania się Bogu - oddania Mu naszego życia i grzesz-