Saint Albert the Great Parish 8000 south Linder avenue, BURBANK ILLINOIS 60459

Saint Albert the Great Parish 8000 south Linder avenue, BURBANK ILLINOIS 60459

MASS INTENTIONS Monday, January 23, 2017 6:30 am - For All Parishioners - Blessing 7:30 am - For All Parishioners - Blessing 8:30 am + Sr. Mary Linus Mearna Rsm. Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:30 am - Parish Purgatorial Society 7:30 am + For Parishioners 8:30 am + Souls in the Purgatory, + Stanley & Veronica Layman Wednesday, January 25, 2017 6:30 am + For Parishioners 7:30 am + For Parishioners 8:30 am + Merino, Flanagan & Kinzie Families Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:30 am + Maximilian Borkowski 7:30 am + For Parishioners 8:30 am + Edward Silder 7:00 pm - PARISH HOLY HOUR (in the Adoration Chapel) Friday, January 27, 2017 6:30 am - Connie Mayers - Blessing 7:30 am + Andrzej & Jan Gromski 8:30 am + Marianne Viverito Saturday, January 28, 2017 7:30 am + Stanislaw Wysocki 8:30 am - For All Parishioners - Blessing 5:00 pm + Vincente Garcia 2 Death Anniv. + Salvatore Imbarrato 6:30 pm - Philipino Mass Sunday, January 29, 2017 6:15 am + Stanislaw & Ludwina Lukanus + Jan & Maria Obrochta 7:30 am + Ercole & Innocenza Sturino, + Max & Alice Gajos 9:00 am + Deceased Members of the Roche Family + Jack Lawlor 10:30 am + Jan Strama, + Janusz Olszewski 1 month after death 12:00 pm - For All Parishioners - Blessing + Carl & Josephine Adamow 1:30 pm + Maria Kuternoga Death Anniv. 5:00 pm - For All Parishioners - Blessing 6:30 pm - For All Parishioners - Blessing SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children; St. Vincent; St. Marianne Cope Tuesday: St. Francis de Sales Wednesday: The Conversion of St. Paul; Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends Thursday: Ss. Timothy and Titus Friday: St. Angela Merici Saturday: St. Thomas Aquinas; Chinese New Year 4715 Page 2 From the St. Albert Parish Pro Life Group Today is the 44 th Anniversary of the Supreme Court s ruling which legalized abortion. Special Prayer Cards can be found in the pews (and on the table in the back of the church) asking you to spiritually adopt an unborn child in danger of being aborted. This practice was started by the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Every year 325,000 babies are killed in the womb even though the duty of government is to protect innocent human life, not destroy it. Cards in Polish and Spanish are also available on the table in the back of the church. LIBERATION AND REFORM While you might have to reach for an atlas to determine that Isaiah is speaking about Galilee, today s first reading (part of which was read at Christmas) is prophetic of Jesus future ministry in that province. The light that brings salvation and rejoicing is, ultimately, Christ. Liberation is the theme: liberation from both ignorance ( darkness ) and sin (the yoke ). As Isaiah identifies a place, so Paul describes an attitude: the attitude that develops, even among good people, of equating their own will with the common good. This always brings dissension, and so it has done in Corinth. Paul will not allow this; we are all members of Christ s party. The gospel is not to divide us. Matthew quotes from Isaiah in today s Gospel, presenting Jesus as the fulfillment of Isaiah s prophecies. The theme is Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 4:17). To spread this message, Jesus begins to select disciples, four of whom we meet today: Peter, Andrew, James, and John. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Let Us Pray for the Sick Leo Weber, Mike & Debbie O Hara, Ken Shipman, Frank Hernandez, Karen LoRusso, Denise Marek, Denise & Rich Jandura, Imelda Gomez, Serena Loyola, Alice Dulce, Shirley McVane, Carl Demma, Mary Owens, Margaret Geinosky, Bernice Hylaszek, Theresa Stanislawek, Joshua Szymanek, Karen Hock, Lefteri Prvett, Linca Mazgaj, Bartel Amato, Tom Grogan, Smykowski, Sally Busee, Daniel Gabala, Bernadine Hainswoth - Miller, Sarah Busse, Dorothy Rapacz, Flora Mortell, Rubio, Rev. Thomas Mescall, Nancy & Wayne Kinzie, Marie King Doyle, Johanna Pusateri, Marilyn Buchalski, Bernice Ciszek, Diane and Robert Juris, Salvatore Bottari, Theresa Lonski, Alex Silverman, Hedderman Family, Cheryl Korosa, Mary Ann Riccio, Marcel Pineda, Rosemarie Flanagan. For the Deceased: Marianne Viverito, Melanie Wadas, Jose Alvarado, Evelyn Finnegan, Longina Morowski, Donna Chlebek, Anna Mietus.

Dear Friends! From the Pastor s Desk Here is the list of the upcoming events in our parish community: "Soup and Salad" January 21 st, 28th and February 4 th in Rogers Hall from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Beginning Sunday January 29th through February 5th we will celebrate throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago the Catholic Schools Week. On this occasion, we cordially invite parents with children to visit the St. Albert the Great school during an Open House on Thursday, February 2 nd 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and on Sunday, February 5th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. February 4 th and 5 th we will have a sale of the world's best cream pies. Father Ignacy Posadzy Polish school will hold a Valentines Dance on February 11 th. February 25 th and 26 th (Saturday and Sunday) we will have for you delicious (poonchkey) donuts. I ask all of you to participate in these important parish events. Please invite all your families, friends and neighbors to our church. Please, remember that the doors of our church and school are always wide open; so always make yourself feel at home. My dearly beloved! Next week I will write to you about plans to accomplish our New Years resolution to beautify our church and the parish grounds. I will also let you know about important projects for the St. Albert the Great Catholic School. Finally, I would like to share with you some wonderful news. Your Special Christmas Offering to St. Albert the Great Church was $54,910,00. This is a new record for our church. This amount does not include donations collected during other Holy Days and the New Year Day Masses. I am very proud of each one of you and embrace you with my zealous and kind prayers. I wish a peaceful and a blessed week, filled with love and joy, to every parishioner and person praying in our church. Jesus, I trust in You! Fr. Mariusz SOUP AND SALAD SATURDAY IS BACK! Sponsored by St. Albert the Great Holy Name Society JANUARY 28 & FEBRUARY 4, 2017 4:00-7:00 pm in Rogers Hall Come join us for a delicious, hearty bowl of soup and fresh salad with all the fixin's including a bake potato! Guaranteed to warm the heart and sooth the soul. SOUPS FOR JANUARY 28, 2017 Cream of Broccoli by Chucks Southern Comfort Café, Spit Pea by Chef Marty Kriel, Hearty Chicken Noodle by The SATG Kitchen Chefs, Pasta e Fagioli by The President ALL FOR ONLY $6.00 St. Albert the Great B I N G O is held every Tuesday night Doors open at 4:00 PM, Games begin at 6:45 PM. Full restaurant style kitchen. J o i n u s f o r a n e v e n i n g o f f u n. Tuesday 1/24/2017 Play Bingo every Tuesday Night. Door open at 4:00 p.m. Books only $11.00. Come Hungry! We have a full kitchen! Wednesday 1/25/2017 Bible Study in the Administration Building St. Joseph Room 10:00 a.m. Page 3 Saturday 1/28/2017 St. Albert the Great Prayer Group meets every Saturday in the Administration Building St. Joseph Room at 1:30 p.m. Second Collection January 29, 2017 we will take up a Second Collection for the Church in Latin America. May Our Good Lord reward Your concern and support.

St. Albert the Great School One Faith, One Family, One Future! St. Albert the Great Catholic School is looking for their Alumni. If you are an Alumni of SATG please email us at satgprincipal@gmail.com or kkrolsatg@gmail.com with your name, address and the year of your Graduation. Let s reconnect! JOIN US FOR OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5th 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM SCHEDULE A TOUR We invite you to learn more about St. Albert the Great. Come experience the energy and excitement of faith based academic excellence. Schedule your tour by calling the School office at 708-424-7757 or fill out a request on our website. PARENT UNIVERSITY All School families and Parishioners are invited to attend a Parent University meeting on Thursday, January 26th at 7 PM, to learn more about the State of the School report and Personalized Learning, which is a new imitative our school will be using in the upcoming school year. www.stalbertthegreatschool.com * Twitter: @SATG_School * Facebook: StAlbertTheGreatCatholicSchool TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION It s still months away, but parish ministers, especially if they are involved in the catechumenate, have their eyes on Lent and the Easter Triduum. Until fairly recent times, the last few days before Easter were shaped by an awareness of the Passion, but the faithful were left to their own devices about how to engage with these mysteries. A thousand years ago, the Easter Vigil as a solemn and central moment of initiation had vanished. By the early 1950s it was a minor moment in parish life, celebrated on Holy Saturday morning, usually with only the priests and a handful of invited guests. Most people understood it as necessary only for blessing the paschal candle and preparing the Easter water. People who were children during World War II sometimes remember that the weekly noontime test of the air-raid sirens on Holy Saturday signaled the end of Lent. Today, of course, we see Holy Saturday as entirely within the paschal fast, and hardly the time for children to be tearing through the plastic grass looking for jelly beans and chocolate eggs. These memories point to a total collapse of the once-central liturgies of the Christian year. This impoverishment of the liturgy was mostly an accident of history. The root cause was the loss of Lent as a time focused on the final formation of catechumens for the Easter sacraments. By 1880, scholars began to piece together a vision of what once had been, and slowly, at first in a handful of monasteries in Europe, pieces of the tradition were rediscovered and celebrated. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. Save the Date For the Fish Fry Fridays March 3rd to April 7th Our Weekly Offering JANUARY 15, 2017 $15,513.00 5:00PM $2,309.00 6:15AM $ 738.00 7:30AM $1,255.00 9:00AM $2,338.00 10:30AM $2,443.00 12:00PM $1,607.00 1:30PM $2,661.00 5:00PM $1,033.00 6:30PM $ 735.00 Children Envelopes $ 314.00 Mail In $ 80.00 Parish Needs $5,255.00 Thank you to all who support our parish! Page 4

Drodzy Parafianie! Z biurka Ks. Proboszcza Co przed nami w naszej wspólnocie parafialnej? Otóż: Zupa i sałata 21 i 28 stycznia oraz 4 lutego od godz. 4 popołudniu do 7 wieczorem w sali pod kościołem. Od niedzieli 29 stycznia do 5 lutego przeżywać będziemy Tydzień Szkół Katolickich w naszej Diecezji Chicago. Serdecznie zapraszam rodziców wraz z dziećmi na tzw. Open House w naszej szkole 2 lutego tj. w czwartek od godz. 6 do 8 wieczorem oraz 5 lutego w niedzielę od 9 rano do 3 popołudniu. 4 i 5 lutego będziemy mogli po każdej Mszy Świętej zakupić najlepsze na świecie kremówki św. Alberta. 11 lutego zapraszamy do sali pod kościołem na Zabawę Walentynkową organizowaną przez Polską Szkołę im. księdza Ignacego Posadzego. 25 i 26 lutego (sobota i niedziela) będziemy mogli także zakupić bardzo smaczne pączki. Proszę was bądźcie z nami w czasie tych parafialnych ważnych wydarzeń w naszym kościele. Zapraszajcie do naszego kościoła waszych krewnych, znajomych, przyjaciół i sąsiadów. Pamietajcie, że drzwi naszego kościoła i szkoły są dla was zawsze szeroko otwarte. Czujcie się tutaj jak u siebie w domu! Moi Kochani! Za tydzień napiszę wam więcej szczegółów na temat naszych noworocznych planów związanych z upiększeniem wewnątrz naszego kościoła jak również z upiększeniem terenów wokół budynku kościoła. Podam także więcej informacji na temat planów i projektów dotyczących naszej Katolickiej Szkoły. I na koniec pragnę się z wami podzielić wspaniałą informacją. Specjalny świąteczny Bożonarodzeniowy dar dla naszego kościoła św. Alberta Wielkiego wyniósł 54,910.00 $. Jest to nowy rekord specjalnego świątecznego daru dla naszego koscioła. Ta kwota oczywiście nie obejmuje innych składek zbieranych w inne świąteczne i noworoczne dni. Jestem z was bardzo, bardzo dumny i każdego z was ogarniam życzliwą i gorliwą modlitwą. Wszystkim parafianom i modlącym sie w naszym kościele życzę spokojnego i błogosławionego tygodnia, życzę pokoju, miłości i radości w sercu oraz w codziennym życiu. Jezu, ufam Tobie! Ks. Mariusz. W niedzielę 29 stycznia na Mszy Świętej o godz. 1:30 po południu gościć bedziemy Polonijną Orkiestrę Ludową, która swoją muzyką ubogaci naszą niedzielną liturgię. Po Mszy Świętej będziemy mogli złożyć dowolną ofiarę na zakup specjalnych strojów dla członków orkiestry. Osoby, które chciałyby dołączyć do członków orkiestry prosimy o kontakt z dyrygentem lub p. Rafałem naszym organistą. Już dziś informujemy, że w Święto Ofiarowania Pańskiego (Matki Bożej Gromnicznej) 2 lutego tj. w czwartek w naszym kościele będziemy celebrować 3 Msze Święte w języku polskim o godz. 7:30 rano oraz o 12 w południe i o godz. 7 wieczorem. W tym też dniu będziemy mogli zakupić specjalne maryjne świece. Serdecznie was zapraszamy w tym dniu do naszego kościoła! Samotni Ale Nie Sami (SANS)! Zapraszają na spotkanie co 2-gi czwartek o 6:00 pm w parafii Św. Alberta w Sali Św. Tereski od Dzieciątka Jezus (8000 Linder). Po więcej informacji dzwoń do Elżbiety 708-979-6279 Page 5

Saint Albert the Great Parish REV. MARIUSZ NAWALANIEC, PASTOR, REV. JAMES BEATH, ASSOCIATE PASTOR, REV. LESLAW PREBENDOWSKI SCh., ASSOCIATE PASTOR REV. WOJCIECH OLEKSY, ASSOCIATE PASTOR, IRVIN A. BRYCE, JR., PERMANENT DEACON RAYMUNDO DIAZ DE LEON, PERMANENT DEACON, MISSIONARY SISTERS OF CHRIST THE KING: SR. WERONIKA ILNICKA, SR. MARIA NIWA, SR. AGNIESZKA KORTIAK PARISH OFFICE....(708)423-0321 BIURO PARAFIALNEpo polsku....(708)423-0321 For Sacraments of Baptism, Marriage, parish registration, convert instruction, prolonged illness at home. PARISH WEBSITE www.stalbertgreat.com E-MAIL stalbert@archchicago.org PARISH BOUNDARIES North-75th St. East-Cicero, West-Narragansett South-87th St. (Cicero to Austin) 83rd St. (Austin to Narragansett) MINISTRY OF CARE. (708)423-0321 Deacon Irvin A. Bryce Jr. PRAYER NETWORK...(708)966-4068 Mrs. Marlene Rybicki ST. ALBERT THE GREAT SCHOOL.(708)424-7757 5535 West State Road Mrs. Jodi McLawhorn, Principal www.stalbertthegreatschool.com ST. ALBERT THE GREAT LANGUAGE PROGRAM FR. IGNACY POSADZY.(708) 423-5714 www.szkolaksignacego.com E-MAIL polska@szkolaksignacego.com CCD OFFICE...(708)636-0406 5535 West State Road, Burbank, Il. Spotkanie Opłatkowe Róż Żywego Różańca Niedziela, 15-go stycznia 2017 MASSES SATURDAY 5:00 PM Sunday Obligation (English) SUNDAY 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 12:00 PM (English) 10:30 AM (English-Polish) 6:15 AM, 1:30 PM and 5:00 PM (Polish), 6:30 PM (Spanish) WEEKDAY MASSES (Monday-Friday) 6:30 AM, 8:30 AM (English), 7:30 AM (Polish) SATURDAY MASS 7:30 AM ( Polish) 8:30 AM (English) SACRED HEART ADORATION CHAPEL Open 7 day a week from 8:30AM to 8:30 PM FIRST FRIDAY Bilingual Confessions 4:30-6:00PM, 6:00 PM Mass (Polish) HOLY DAYS Please refer to schedules printed in the bulletin prior to the Holiday. Vigil Mass - 7:00 PM (evening before Holy Day) SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 4:00-4:45 PM SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM 1st, 2nd, 3rd Sundays at 3:15 PM Baptismal Preparation Class Last Monday of month at 7:00 PM Parish registration and attendance at the Baptismal Preparation Class are required prior to Baptism. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE All wedding arrangements must be made with a parish priest at least 6 months prior to scheduled date. Times of marriages are as follows: Saturday 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM, Sunday - no weddings ST. ALBERT S RECYCLES There are four bins in the carnival parking lot behind the school for people to place paper in for recycling. Please use them to discard your unwanted newspapers and magazines. We are still collecting used printer cartridges, and copier cartridges (not the powder toner). TREE OF LIFE is located in the back of the church at our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine. You can establish a beautiful memorial to a loved one by inscribing a leaf with his or her name. The donation for a leaf is $300.00. Donation for a larger memorial leaf is $1,000.00. The money collected is used for the maintenance of the church property. More information and order forms are available in the parish office.