independence at the end of World War I. It highlights the SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION MASS INTENSIONS AND DEVOTIONS ST. CASIMIR’S PARISH country’s great faith in God’s protection that have th 156 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto, ON M6R 2L4 5 Sunday of We encourage you to take advantage of the reception of nd Tel: (416) 532-2822 experienced and continue to experience through Mary’s Sunday, May 2 8:00 1. For the members of the Holy Rosary Society [email protected] intercession. The worship of Mary as the Queen of in Holy Communion at a time when we cannot is very old. An example of it is Bogurodzica, the oldest attend the Holy Mass. 2. In thanksgiving asking for God’s blessing, health & Pastor: Fr. Janusz Blazejak OMI care of Mother of God for Bartosz on his 27th birthday – Assistant: Fr.Kazimierz Kozicki OMI Polish religious song. It played the role of the country’s Holy Communion is available every Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the church. parents Assistant: Fr. Ludwik Stryczek OMI national anthem for many centuries. 9:30 For + parents Antonina & Bronislaw Hyc, Karol &

Resident: Fr. Jan Sadowski OMI MARRIAGE JUBILEES Maria Iglar, Danuta & Wladyslaw Majka - children CLOSING OF CHURCHES 11:00 For parishioners Sr. Weronika Maronska MChR 13:00 For + Walenty & Anna Koltas – Stefania with family On Friday, April 16, the Ontario government introduced Celebration of Marriage Jubilees will take place on May 2, 2021 MONDAY, May 3rd – Solemnity of Our Lady Queen of new, much tougher restrictions on Covid-19 disease. As a Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Mass. Couples who Poland Fifth Sunday of Easter consequence, Cardinal Collins had to conform to the wish to take part in this celebration are asked to contact 8:00 1. For + Stanislaw Glica – wife & daughter published guidelines of the government. Thus, from the parish office. 2. For + Irena Lesniak - sister Sunday Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday, April 19, churches in the Archdiocese of Toronto 19:00 For Lectors & Extraordinary Ministers of the Holy For Polish Masses, see Mass Intention schedule. are closed to the celebration of the Mass and church THANKS AND GRATITUDE… Communion TUESDAY, May 4th – Blessed Marie-Leonie Paradis, religious services. Participation in Holy Masses and church services We would like to thank you for all the donations made in 8:00 1. For + Slawomir Bobel – colleague PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED is available only online, via parish television. Holy Masses the past weeks. We remind you, especially now that the 2. For deceased from Staszewski family - Bronislawa Danuta RATAJCZAK in our church, without the participation of the faithful, are 19:00 For + Julian Skowronek – wife with family churches are closed again, that we make Sunday offerings Eternal rest grant her, Lord celebrated according to a regular schedule, except for the WEDNESDAY, May 5th in the treasury at the back of the church or at the pulpit on Sunday evening Mass at 7:00 pm, which is canceled while 8:00 1. In thanksgiving asking for health & God’s blessing on MONTH OF MAY Sunday, when we receive Holy Communion. We may also the churches are closed. The intention has been transferred the birthday - own make offerings by tossing envelopes in the mailbox at the 2. In thanksgiving asking for care of Our Mother Mary For many people, May is the most beautiful month of the to 8:00 am Mass on Sunday. office, bringing them to the office, or mailing them to the & gifts of the Holy Spirit for children, grandchildren & year. In the Church, it is a month dedicated to Mary. THE MASSES & DEVOTIONS THROUGH THE parish address. May good God reward with His blessing great grandchildren – mother & grandmother Especially in Poland and among Polish immigrants, we your generosity and responsibility for the maintenance of 19:00 Multiple Intensions Mass PARISH TV th gather in churches in the evenings to sing the Loreto the parish. THURSDAY, May 6 – St. Francois de Montmorency Laval, Litany. In Poland, the May Devotion is known to have The Masses at the St. Casimir’s Parish are celebrated bishop 8:00 1. For + husband Marian, parents Emilia & Wladyslaw – taken place in the mid-nineteenth century. However, its daily at 8 am and 7 pm; on Sundays 9:30 am in English & MASS INTENSIONS origin is much earlier than is commonly believed. The wife & daughter 11 am, 1 pm and 7 pm in Polish through the Parish TV Mass intentions may be requested in the parish office. We 2. For + Maria & Tadeusz Zalucki - children Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary – also known as the www.kazimierz.org and YouTube. 19:00 For + Leokadia & Tadeusz Osiecki – son Ryszard remind all parishioners tchat each family may request up Loreto Litany – was composed during the Middle Ages. FRIDAY, May 7th The place of honor it now holds in the life of the Church DEVOTIONS to four Mass intentions per year, of which only one can be celebrated on a Sunday. Intensions can be requested in 8:00 1. For + Zofia & Zygmunt Debler – Zofia Rogalska is due to its faithful use at the shrine of the Holy House at 2. For + Stefania & Henry Litwin & deceased from the This week is the first Thursday and Friday of the person only at the parish office. Loreto. It was approved by Sixtus V in 1587, and all other Litwin family – daughter Anastazja with family Marian litanies were suppressed, at least for public use. Its month. The first Thursday - we pray for a vocation to We inform you about possibility of ordering Mass 19:00 In thanksgiving asking for God’s blessing & care of the titles and invocations set before us Mary's exalted priesthood and religious life; the first Friday - occasion to Mary Immaculate on the birthday - Bozena intentions at the Oblate Missions in the parish office. th privileges, her holiness of life, her amiability and power, go to confession from 6pm to 7pm in the parish hall. SATURDAY, May 8 – St. Stanislaus, bishop, martyr 8:00 1. For + Stanislawa Pawlowska (33rd anniversary) – her motherly spirit and queenly majesty. There are 49 We thank you for ordering the Gregorian Masses. The month of May is dedicated to Mary, the Mother of husband & children invocations in total; 50 in its Polish version, as it includes Anyone who wants to order Gregorian Mass is asked to God. Join us as we pray the Litany of the Blessed Virgin contact the parish office. 2. In thanksgiving asking for God’s blessing for Bozena “Queen of Poland”, a title added after the Second World th Mary (Loreto Litany) from Monday to Saturday at 6:30 & Jacek on their 39 wedding anniversary – own War. p.m. and on Sunday after the 11 a.m. Mass. 19:00 1. For + parents Jozefa & Stanislaw Majewski, brother- MASS INTENSIONS AT THE OBLATE MSSIONS in-law Zbigniew Takiel & sister Aurelia – daughter SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION For + husband Jozef & son Marek Tuzel – wife & mother 2. For + Stanislawa, Jarek, Marianna & Stanislaw QUEEN OF POLAND Modlinski - family with family Despite the closed churches for public Masses, we are 6th Sunday of Easter rd For + Leonard & Jan Kirejczyk – Monika Tuzel th May 3 , the in Poland celebrates the with you and we feel your presence in the church. During Sunday, May 9 solemnity of Our Lady Queen of Poland. This day is For + God’s blessing & care of Mother Mary for grandson 8:00 1. For the members of the Holy Name of Jesus this time of great trial of our faith, we invite you every day Krystian & daughter-in-law Evet – grandmother’ 2. For + parents Stanislaw & Katarzyna Jankowski & closely tied to a number of important events in the history to our church for the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of Poland: the defense of Jasna Góra against the Swedes For + Jozef Romaniec Antoni & Barbara Pierog – Wieslawa &Wieslaw to pray for the end of the pandemic, from 3pm to 6pm from Jankowski in 1655, the ascension to the throne by Jan Kazimierz and Monday to Saturday. We must remember that only 10 GREGORIAN MASS 9:30 For + Jan Todorski – sons, grandchildren & family his subsequent entrusting of the kingdom to the protection people can be in the church. If we see that there are 10 11:00 For parishioners of the Virgin Mary, and the adoption of the Constitution people, we have to wait or come later. 01.04 - 30.04 For + Helena Wojciechowska – Irena with 13:00 In thanksgiving asking for God’s blessing & gifts of the of May 3, 1791. The solemnity was established at the family Holy Spirit for Lucyna, Jozef, Piotr, Andrzej & Edyta - request of the Polish bishops after Poland regained its own 15.04 - 15.05 For + Tadeusz Swierzbinski - wife