St. Hedwig s Church One Depan Avenue Floral Park New York 11001 Website: http://sthedwigfloralpark.org E-mail: contact@sthedwigfloralpark.org TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 25, 2013 RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Tel. (516) 354-0042 Fax: (516) 327-2458 Mon. - Fri. (secretary) 9 AM - 12 PM, 12.30pm 2.45pm, 3.15pm 5.00pm 5-7 PM (priest on duty) Sat. (secretary) 1.30pm 5.00pm 9 AM - 12 PM (priest on duty) Sun. No Sunday Evening Hours MASS SCHEDULE DAILY MASSES: 9:00 AM (English) SATURDAY EVENING MASSES: 5:00 & 7:00 PM (English) SUNDAY MASSES: 9:30 AM (English) 11:00 AM (Polish) 12:30 PM (English) 6:30 PM (English) EVE OF HOLY DAYS: 7:00 PM (English) HOLY DAYS: 9:00 AM (English) 5:00 PM (English) 7:30 PM (Polish) NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP: Saturdays after 8:00 AM Mass (Polish). Wednesday at 3:00 PM, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Immediately after, Novena to Divine Mercy followed by Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in English. NOVENA TO GOD THE FATHER: Every first Sunday of the month after 12:30 PM Mass. CONFESSIONS: Saturdays: 4:00-5:00 PM and 6:30-7:00 PM. Holy Days: Confessions before every Mass. FIRST FRIDAY: 9:00 AM Mass in English and 7:30 PM Mass in Polish to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Exposition, Adoration & Blessing. Confessions 8:30 AM and 7:00 PM. BAPTISMS: Make arrangements at least 6 weeks ahead of time. Baptisms are held every Sunday at 11:00 AM (Polish) and 12:30 PM (English). MARRIAGES: Arrangements to be made at least 6 months prior to the wedding date. No Marriages on Sunday after 5:00 PM & on Saturdays after 3:15 PM. SICK CALLS: Any time - Day or Night. Call the Rectory. CHURCH SUPPORT ENVELOPES: All permanent parishioners are urged to use our Church Support Envelopes. ADMINISTRATOR/PASTOR: Rev. Piotr Rozek cell (516) 776-5486 PASTOR EMERITUS: Rev. Msgr. Edward Wawerski cell (516) 984-9716 SECRETARY: MORNING Barbara Schaefering (516) 354-0042 SECRETARY: AFTERNOON Magda Rosada (516) 354-0042 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DIRECTOR: Peggy Woltering (516) 578-5164 EUCHARISTIC MINISTRY: Daniel Mahony (718) 831-1949 LECTORS MINISTRY: Carol Peise (718) 347-7970 BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY: Danielle Auguste (516) 437-2472 ORGANIST and CANTOR: Ted Gerwatowski (516) 998-5086 POLISH SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Dorota Kaczmarzyk (516) 851-0523 CYO: Richard Teleski TODAY S READINGS (516) 328-1334 TODAY READINGS
TODAY S READINGS First Reading Brothers and sisters of every race and language will be brought to Jerusalem (Isiah 66:18-21). Psalm Go out to all the world and tell the Good News (Psalm 117). Second Reading Strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees (Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13). Gospel People from east and west, north and south recline at table in the kingdom of God (Luke 13:22-30). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Mt 23:13-22 Tuesday: 1 Thes 2:1-8; Ps 139:1-6; Mt 23: 23-26 Wednesday: 1 Thes 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-12ab; Mt 23:27-32 Thursday: 1Thes 3:7-13; Pa 71:1-4a, 5-6ab, 15ab,17; Mk 6:17-29 Friday: 1 Thes 4:1-8; Ps 97:1, 2b, 5-6, 10-12; Mt 25:1-13 Saturday: 1 Thes 4:9-11; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Mt 25-14-30 Sunday: Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Ps 68:4-7, 10-11; Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a; Lk 14:1, 7-14 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVENCES Sunday: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Tuesday: St. Monica Wednesday: St. Augustine Thursday: The Passion of St. John the Baptist Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary MONICA Monica was the mother of Saint Augustine, the eldest of three children she bore to her dissolute husband Patricius. In the year 371, at the age of forty, she was widowed. Augustine was then eighteen years old. What distressed her most of all was the life of her elder son. He had taken a mistress, chosen (as he himself wrote) for no special reason save that my restless passions had alighted on her though he remained faithful to her and came to love the child she bore him. Monica was also saddened that Augustine dabbled in other philosophies and for many years was not a Christian. She wept for him (again Augustine wrote) shedding more tears for my spiritual death than other mothers shed for the bodily death of a son. Around this time she was comforted by an unnamed bishop with the words, The son of so many tears cannot possibly be lost. In 383 Augustine set out for Italy. Boldly Monica left her native Africa and followed her son. In Milan, she became a faithful disciple of Saint Ambrose, the bishop. Augustine too sat at Ambrose s feet and was gradually won over to Christianity. She was greatly devoted to Ambrose above all because he showed her son the way of salvation. Augustine adds the his heart too warmed to Monica because of her truly pious way of life, her zeal in good works and her faithfulness in worship. Often when he saw me he would break out in praise of her, congratulating me on having such a mother. ( He little knew what sort of a son she had, Augustine wryly notes.) Four years later she and Augustine sat looking out of a window at Ostia, talking of heaven. Monica said: What I am still to do, or why I still linger in this world, I do not know. There was one reason, one alone, for which I wished to tarry a little longer: that I might see you a Catholic Christian before I died. God has granted this boon, and more, for I see you his servant, spurning all earthly happiness. What is left for me to do in this life? About five days later she fell ill, and in nine days she had died. MASS INTENTIONS CONGRATULATIONS The Catholic Church and the Family of God welcome the newly Baptized Christian Joseph Rudowski. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2013 05:00 pm +Fiore Ciavattella by Brother 07:00 pm +Imelda Mendoza by Elizabeth Niedbala SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013 07:00 am To the Infant of Prague by Mary Constant 08:00 am +Zofia i Bogdan Stawinski od Rodziny 08:00 am +Krystyna Sawa od Dzieci 09:30 am +Betty Sheedy (Anniversary) by Virginia Ferlazzo 11:00 am +Zofia i Jozef Surdyka od Rodziny Sloma 11:00 am +Anita Grocka-Haggarty od Rodziny Laszewscy 12:30 pm +Eugene Bigda (Anniversary) by Daughter, Barbara 06:30 PM +Anne & Michael Murphy by Son, John MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 Souls in Purgatory 08:00 am +Kazimierz Frankowski od Siostry i Brata 09:00 am +Emile Auguste by Family 08:00 pm Italian Mass TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 Mary & Daniel Mahony by Son, Dan
08:00 am Maria Raniszewska od A. Nowacka 09:00 am +John Stapleton & Family by Matt Kelly 07:30 pm +Memorial Mass Tommaso Vellucci WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013 07:00 am For Parishioners 08:00 am +Czeslaw Walczak od Syna z Rodzina 09:00 am +Souls in Purgatory by Matt Kelly THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013 08:00 am +Jaroslaw Soldak od Jozefy Senetela 09:00 am Intention of Danielle Auguste FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 Agnes Ksiazek by Daughter, Linda 08:00 am +Ks. Jan Siebor od Rodziny Niedbala 09:00 am +Souls in Purgatory by Matt Kelly SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013 08:00 am +Katarzyna i Jozef Rogalski i Weronika Zalewska od Corki Franciszka Nikiel 09:00 am +Walter Tomecki (Anniversary) by Wife & Family 05:00 pm +Steve Chmielewski by Wife & Family 07:00 pm +Henry Paczkowski (Anniversary) by Son & Family SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 08:00 am +Zofia i Stefan Brzozowski od Corki z Rodzina 09:30 am +Imelda Mendoza by Rennie & Donna Razal & Family 11:00 am +Anna Bogun od Rodziny Sloma 12:30 pm +Sadie & Samuel Bifalco by Family 06:30 pm +Ted & Ruth Penfield by Family DOMINICAL PARISH LITURGICAL SERVICES August 24 Saturday 05:00 pm Lector: D. Mahony Eucharistic Ministry: A. & J. Collins D. Mahony 07:00 pm Lector: V. Stevenson Eucharistic Ministry: G. Harrison August 25 Sunday 07:00 am Lector: A. DiMarco Eucharistic Ministry: P. Hildebrandt 08:00 am Lector: K. Cacharani 09:30 am Lector: D. Spina Eucharistic Ministry: C. Dziomba B. Luger 11:00 am Lector: I. Kosiorek 12:30 pm Lector: C. Peise Eucharistic Ministry: R. McBride 06:30 pm Lector: M. Villegas Eucharistic Ministry: COMMUNITY INFORMATION Sacrificial Giving for the weeks of August 11, 2013 $2,412.00 Air Conditioning $1,567.00 SICK LIST: Fr. Francis Filmanski, Maria Latopolski, Dolores Collins, Nolan Andrew Keegel, Michalek Kownacki, Angel Martinez, Bronislawa Potocka, Suzanne Shea, Edward Szumega, Bogdan Pawula, Helen Zalewski, Bozena Zurawska, Peter Dowd, Jadwiga Zasada, Walter Kalinoski, Sean Brady, Anthony Garcia, Donna Dziomba Ragan, Sandra Romano, Marion Brzozowski, Jennifer Smyth, Barbara Bigda, Jane Zwilling, Anthony James Murphy, James Christopher Burzynski, Olga Colon, Andrew Hildebrandt, David Tavakoli, Irene Stachecki, Dina Hoffmann, Michael Watts, Amy Garcia, Caroline Schneider & Baby Joel Window. If anyone wishes to put names on the sick list or delete names, please call the rectory and speak with Barbara or one of the priests. Eternal rest grant unto Kazimierz Trojanowski, Lucille Nowakowski, Frances Ostro and Joyce L. Kiernan, O Lord, and may Thy perpetual light shine upon them forever and ever. Amen. Atlantic City bus trips on the second Wednesday of the month. Bus will leave at 8:00am from Linden Avenue. Call Santy Pallisco at 354-4616 for information and reservations. VIRTUS TRAINING Virtus Training is required by the Diocese for all salaried and volunteers of the parish. For those in our parish who have not taken this training,
there will be a session in our Parish Hall on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 7:30pm. Please make every effort to attend. PLEASE JOIN US! As part of the celebration of this YEAR of FAITH, please consider participating in the Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. The date of the pilgrimage is Saturday, September 28, 2013. Cost is $20. Please contact Magda at (516) 354-0042 or by email at contact@sthedwigfloralpark.org for more information on this wonderful event and to reserve a seat on the bus. Please join us. FOR YOUR INFORMATON: Due to the fact that we have only two priests in our parish, the following is Father Piotr s schedule: Monday, Father is available by appointment. Tuesday, his day off. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10:00 to 11:00am and 6:00 to 7:00pm. We encourage you to call for an appointment at these times. WAŻNE INFORMACJE. Jak dobrze wiemy, mamy tylko dwóch księży w naszej parafii. Podajemy godziny w których Ks. Piotr będzie w biurze parafialnym: poniedziałek tylko po wcześniejszym umówieniu się; wtorek dzień wolny; środa, czwartek, piątek 10:00-11:00 oraz 6:00-7:00pm. Proszę ustalać godziny spotkań w tym czasie. FROM OUR PASTOR My heartfelt Thank You to God s Magnificent Children for a donation of $2.000 to St. Hedwig s Church. Money was collected during God the Father Feast Day Celebration on August 4 th. From the bottom of my heart I thank everyone that made this celebration possible. Funds will be used for many needs of our parish. Fr.Piotr Rozek Z całego serca dziękuje grupie religijnej God s Magnificent Children za donację w wysokości 2,000 dolarów dla Kościoła Św. Jadwigi. Pieniądze zebrano podczas Święta God the Father 4go sierpnia i będą wykorzystane na potrzeby naszej parafii. Ks.Piotr Rożek ROSARY ALTAR SPECIAL MEETING: The St. Hedwig Rosary Altar Society will hold a special meeting about the upcoming Grandma s Attic on Monday, September 16 th at 7:00pm in the Parish Hall. All Rosarians are encouraged to attend. PIELGRZYMKA DO ZIEMI ŚWIĘTEJ Kościół Św. Jadwigi zaprasza do udziału w pielgrzymce do Ziemi Świętej, która odbędzie się 12 Listopada 2014 roku. W programie dziewięciodniowej wycieczki jest m.in. Tel Aviv, Cezarea, Nazaret, Jerozolima, Cana, Morze Galilejskie, Betlejem, Góra Oliwna, Msze Św w Kościołach: zbudowanym w miejscu narodzenia Jezusa i Jana Chrzciciela oraz w miejscu ukrzyżowania Jezusa. Specjalna cena dla naszych parafian to $3.299 na osobę gdy zarezerwuje się 2 bilety, $3.269 gdy zarezerwuje sie 3 lub 3.899 za pojedynczy bilet. W imieniu Ks. Piotra serdecznie zapraszamy do udziału w pielgrzymce. THANK YOU We would like to thank TD Bank s Affinity Program for their generous donation of 3.753.37 to St. Hedwig s Church. TD Bank has supported our parish for a few years now. Each time our parishioner opens an account at TD Bank and mentions St. Hedwig s Church our parish receives a donation. We would like to encourage everyone to support this cooperation between TD Bank and our parish. On behalf of Pastor Piotr Rozek God Bless for your support. DZIEKUJEMY Chcielibyśmy podziękować TD Bank Affinity Program za hojny dar w wysokości 3.753.37 dla kościoła Św. Jadwigi. TD Bank wspiera naszą parafię już od kilku lat. Za każdym razem, kiedy parafianin otwiera konto w TD Bank i wspomni Kościół Św. Jadwigi nasza parafia otrzymuje dotację. Chcielibyśmy zachęcić wszystkich do wspierania tej współpracy pomiędzy TD Bank i naszym kościołem. W imieniu Pastora Piotra Rozka Niech Was Bóg Błogosławi za wsparcie. GRACE AND STRUGGLE The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase. -St. Rose of Lima ACTS OF THE APOSTLES I never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts. -Horace Mann
Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa 26 sierpnia Kościół katolicki obchodzi święto Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej. W Polsce to jedno z najważniejszych świąt Maryjnych. Na ten dzień na Jasną Górę, do Czarnej Madonny, zmierzają pielgrzymi z całej Polski, najczęściej w pieszych pielgrzymkach. Obraz ma długą i dramatyczną historię i jest nierozłącznie związany z dziejami Polski. Według podania, powstał na desce ze stołu, przy którym posiłki jadała Święta Rodzina. Obraz namalowano prawdopodobnie między VII a XIII wiekiem. Nieznany jest jego autor. Do Polski przywiózł wizerunek Madonny książę Władysław Opolczyk. Jak mówi podanie, książę Władysław chciał przewieźć obraz do Opola, ale gdy zatrzymał się w Częstochowie, konie nie chciały ruszyć z miejsca. Uznając to za znak Boży, książę zostawił ikonę w klasztorze paulinów. W 1430 r. sanktuarium zostało napadnięte przez grupę przestępców dowodzonych przez polską szlachtę. Wówczas jak podaje Długosz obraz został zniszczony i sprofanowany. Według innych podań, ślady na twarzy Madonny pochodzą z czasu, który obraz był na zamku Bełzy. Gdy na zamek napadli Tatarzy, jeden z nich przestrzelił obraz strzałą i do dziś widać dwie rysy na twarzy Matki Bożej. Obraz od początku pobytu na Jasnej Górze otaczany był szczególną czcią, o czym świadczą choćby liczne wota przywożone dla Czarnej Madonny. Wielką sławę i cześć w całej Polsce obraz zyskał po odparciu oblężenia Jasnej Góry przez Szwedów w 1655 r. Obrońcy modlili się wówczas do Czarnej Madonny, a w 1656 r. Jan Kazimierz ślubował we Lwowie Matce Bożej i ogłosił ją Królową Korony Polskiej. Po odparciu najazdu szwedzkiego to Matce Bożej Jasnogórskiej składał podziękowania za obronę Narodu Polskiego. Na uroczystość Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej z całej Polski zmierza dziś tysiące pielgrzymów, Jej zawierzając swoje troski i dziękując za otrzymane od Niej łaski. In Poland, it s one of the most important Marian Feasts. On this day, August 26 th at Jasna Gora, the Black Madonna, is visited by Polish mostly walking pilgrims. Image has a long and dramatic history, and is linked to the history of Poland. According to tradition, picture was made on the board of the table where ate the Holy Family. Picture was painted probably between VII and XIII centuries. Its author is unknown. Prince Ladislaus of Opole brought the image of the Madonna to Poland. As legend says, Prince Ladislaus would carry the image to Opole, but when he stopped in Czestochowa, the horses did not want to move. Recognizing this as a sign of God, the Prince left icon in the Pauline monastery. In 1430, the sanctuary was attacked by a group of criminals led by the Polish nobility. Then - according to Dlugosz - the image was destroyed and desecrated. According to other applications, marks on the face of Madonna come from the time that the image was in the castle of Belz. When the castle was attacked by Tatars, one of them threw arrow at image and now we can still see two scratches on the face of the Virgin Mary. Great fame and honor image gained in Poland after repelling the siege of Jasna Gora by the Swedes in 1655, John Casimir proclaimed Madonna the Queen of the Polish Crown. On the feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa thousands of pilgrims visit Madonna to entrust themselves in Her care and say thanks for graces received from Her.