19 lipca 2020 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 19, 2020

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC

Parafia Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa

IN POLONIA

7375 Church Street • Custer, Wisconsin • 54423 • Tel: 715-592-4221 [email protected] • www.sacredheartpolonia.com

Pastor Ksiądz Proboszcz Liturgical Schedule Msze Święte Father Alan M. Guanella, JCL • Office: 715-592-4221 Email: [email protected] In case of emergency only, please call 715-629-9952 Monday, July 20 – St. Apollinaris

Parish Office Biuro Parafialna Tuesday, June 21– St.  Until further notice, the parish office isCLOSED to the public 8:15am Mass— due to the coronavirus situation. You may still telephone us. †Bob Karch by Bob & Germaine Zoromski Parish Staff Pracownicy Parafii Wednesday, July 22 – St. 8:15am Mass—St. Mary’s Business Administrator...... Veronica Bruske †Dorothy Gavin by Al Gavin Administrative Assistant ...... Susanna Lepak School Principal ...... Thomas McCann (715-592-4902) Thursday, July 23 – St. Bridget of Sweden Director of Sacred Music ...... Anna Kozikowski 8:15am Mass—Sacred Heart Maintenance ...... Pat Domaszek †Fred Skibba by John & Betty Kowalski Custodian ...... Cerise Pezewski Friday, July 24 – St. Sharbel Makhlῡf Sacristan ...... Sr. Hyacintha Ahamuefula, MSDI 8:15am Mass—St. Mary’s CCD Coordinator ...... Becky Skibba (715-340-5361) †Butch Gagas by St. Mary’s Altar Society ...... [email protected] Saturday, July 25 – St. James the Greater Confession Spowiedź Święte 8:15am Mass—Sacred Heart †Edwin Gagas by Family Confessions are heard through the east rectory screen door at 2:45pm Confessions—Sacred Heart Sacred Heart on Saturdays from 2:45pm to 3:45pm. 4:00pm Anticipatory Mass—Sacred Heart †Jean Lemanczyk-Heavner by Family Adoration Adoracja Eucharystyczna Sunday, July 26 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time First Friday of the Month is held from 8:00am Mass—St. Mary’s 10:00am to 3:00pm at Mary’s in Custer. St. Mary’s & Sacred Heart Parish Families Baptism Preparation Chrzest 10:00am Mass—Sacred Heart Please note †Nick & Alvina Kurszewski by Roger & Loretta Klesmit Please contact the parish to schedule a baptism class and changes Followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a procession to the request a date for the celebration of the Sacrament of Baptism. St. Anne Grotto with devotional prayers and Eucharistic Benediction. Parents are encouraged to attend before the birth of their child. Mass Readings Czytania Liturgiczne Marriage Preparation Małżeństwo Mass Readings for the Week of July 19th: Couples who want to request the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage should contact the parish at the time of formal Sunday: Wis. 12:13–19; Ps. 86; Rom. 8:26–27; Mt. 13:24–43 engagement or at least six months prior to the anticipated date Monday: Mi. 6:1–8; Ps. 50; Mt. 12:38–42 of marriage. Tuesday: Mi. 7:14–20; Ps. 85; Mt. 12:46–50 Wednesday: Sgs. 3:1–4; Ps. 63; Jn. 20:1–2, 11–18 Bulletin Submission Deadline Termin Biuletynu Thursday: Jer. 2:1–13; Ps. 36; Mt. 13:10–17 Friday: Jer. 3:14–17; Jer. 31:10–13; Mt. 13:18–23 Please submit information to [email protected] Saturday: 2 Cor. 4:7–15; Ps. 126; Mt. 20:20–28 by noon on Tuesday. Dziękuję! Sunday: 1 Kgs. 3:5–12; Ps. 119; Rom. 8:28–30; Mt. 13:44–52

Diocesan Year of • 2020–2021 A Parish of the Diocese of La Crosse • www.diolc.org A Word from Father Słowo od Pastora Last Week’s Parish Support Darowizny

Dear Friends in Christ, Adult Envelopes: $4,629 Do not neglect to do good and to Offertory: $112 share what you have for such Total: $4,741 sacrifices are pleasing to God. Last week I wrote about the First Friday Hebrews 13:16 Devotion. Today I want to write about the Vigil Lights: $15 First Saturday Devotion. The Benedictine Special Needs: $30 monk Alcuin of York (735–804) began the Sanctuary Lamp: $100 practice of honoring the Blessed Non-Parishioners: $120 July to Date: $10,842 Mary on Saturday. In 1899 in Rovigo in Silent Picnic: $2,275 northeast Italy, a laywoman (and later a Servite religious sister) named Maria Inglese began the practice of receiving Holy Communion on Last Week’s Scrip Sales: $2,015 the First Saturday of each month in reparation to the Scrip Profit: $ 66 . St. Pius X approved this devotion in 1905. Automated Giving Program: Parishioners have the option to However, it wasn’t until Sister Lúcia Santos, one of the enroll in Direct Payments (ACH debits) as a means of sharing your financial gifts. Additional details are on the Authorization Agreement form available Portuguese witnesses of the Marian apparition of Our Lady on our website: www.sacredheartpolonia.com. of Fátima, reported that on December 10, 1925, the Virgin Mary appeared to her at the convent in Pontevedra, Spain, and requested the institution of the devotion of the five First Liturgical Ministers Posługi Liturgiczne Saturdays in reparation to her Immaculate Heart that the Altar Servers: devotion became widespread. July 25: 4:00 pm Reopening Servers The requirements for the First Saturday Devotion are, for July 26: 8:00 am Dominic Giese five consecutive First Saturdays: (1) Go to confession within eight days before or after the First Saturday with the Hospitality: intention in your heart of making reparation and consoling July 25: 4:00 pm Reopening Ushers our Blessed Mother; (2) Receive Holy Communion on the July 26: 8:00 am Reopening Ushers First Saturday in a spirit of reparation; (3) Pray five decades of the Holy with the intention of making reparation Readers: July 25: 4:00 pm Donna Zaborowski for offenses made against the Immaculate Heart of Mary; July 26: 8:00 am Gary Ross and (4) Keep Mary company by meditating for fifteen minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary. This meditation Wellington Place: Suspended until further notice entails thinking or reading meditatively in order to dwell on one or more of the mysteries in Our Lady’s life. The fifteen- minute meditation and the praying of the Holy Rosary are to No one is obligated to attend Mass at this time. If you be performed separately. choose to stay at home, you can use these following The five consecutive First Saturdays of reparation were resources to help in your Sunday prayer: requested by Our Lady of Fátima to atone for the five ways Daily Mass readings online at: www.usccb.org/bible/readings in which people offend her Immaculate Heart: Offenses or Daily Mass from the Cathedral at: www.diolc.org/live blasphemies (1) Against her ; (2) Sunday Mass online at 11AM at: www.nationalshrine.org/mass Against her perpetual virginity; (3) Against her divine Watch Sunday Mass on TV on Public Access Cable Channel 984 maternity; (4) Those who implant in children’s hearts, at Noon and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. EWTN also broadcasts indifference, contempt and even hatred against our Mass daily and online at video.ewtn.com/daily-mass Immaculate Mother; and (5) Those who insult her directly in Relevant Radio broadcasts Mass at 7:30PM every day and also her sacred images. at 9:00AM on Sundays. Our Lady promised to assist all those who practice the  Visit the parish website for a direct link to all these resources. First Saturday Devotion on five consecutive months with the graces necessary for salvation at the hour of their death. It would be a serious mistake to think that those who practice the devotion on five consecutive First Saturdays are Prayer Requests Prośby Modlitewne guaranteed passage into Heaven when the moment of their Let us remember the following in our daily prayers: death arrives. Our cooperation with grace is always required. Robert Rozek, Emily Ramczyk, Colleen Kluck, Cristy Wiza, Theresa Our regular practice of the First Saturdays is a sign of our Prondzinski, Cecilia Rozek, Mlodik, Austin James, Jerry devotion to the Immaculate Heart and a desire on our part Kontney, Anthony Brzezinski, Lorraine Pionkowski, Dominic to make reparation for the blasphemies against her. Kaminski, Brittany Olivia, Ernie Kurszewski, J.Woyak, Theresa Arnsdorff, Vince Herek, Drew Glavin, Theresa Pliska, —Fr. Guanella Leonard Schulist, JD Wysocki, Anthony Ostrowski, Sr. Barbara, Jeanette Wiza, Dave Grawey, Roger Wrycza, Elsie Fliss, Devon Kowalski, Bacon Family, Elaine Dombrowski, Peter Hagen, Loyce Kluck, K. Trzebiatowski, The Newton Family, Dan Kluck, Carol Weinfurtner, Cliff Patoka, Bernedette Glodowski, Vanessa  Read Fr. Guanella’s previous Lawson, Bob Zoromski, Msgr. Steve Kachel, Fr. Marcin, Lorraine columns on the parish website at Tuskowski, Loretta Klesmit, Dan Sekerka, Christine Zinda, Ray www.sacredheartpolonia.com/father Sommers, Gifty Robert, Larry Robert, Anthony Dombrowski,

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The History of the Feast of St. Anne: St. Joseph’s Powerful Intercession In On Sunday, July 26, 1880, the feast of Saint this diocesan Year of St. Joseph, it is Anne, as the people were attending Mass, a inspiring to note that St. Teresa of Avila was fierce storm swept over the Polonia area. With miraculously healed through his the wind and torrential rain came hailstones the intercession, and she had this to say: “To size of baseballs, destroying all grains, potatoes, other , the Lord seems to have given hay, and gardens for miles around. As the people grace to help us in some of our necessities. returned to their homes, they gazed in utter disbelief But my experience is that St. Joseph helps us at the matted fields and banks of damage inflicting ice. They in them all … I only request, for the love of felt desolate, and for good reason. With the ruin of their God, whoever will not believe me will test the truth of what I crops went their year’s income. This destruction prompted say, for he will see by experience how great a blessing it is to several families of the parish to establish a devotion in honor recommend oneself to this glorious patriarch and to be of St. Anne each year on July 26th. Since then the Mass has devoted to him.” been celebrated asking God through St. Anne to protect us and the whole community from storms and disasters. US Bishops Urge the Faithful to Make their Voices Heard. The US Bishops encourage the faithful to St. Anne’s Feast Day will be celebrated on Sunday, July contact Congress on a number of important matters, including 26th. Mass will be at 10:00am rather than 8:00am. A help for Catholic Schools in this time of economic hardship, Eucharistic procession to the St. Anne Grotto will follow development of a COVID19 vaccine that does not use cell lines Mass with devotions to St. Anne and Eucharistic Benediction. from aborted babies, opposition to the so called Equal Rights New holy cards of St. Anne are available at the entrances of Amendment, which would do harm to women and unborn the church. Consider praying the prayer to St. Anne daily in children, and other issues. Visit votervoice.net/USCCB/home preparation of her feast day on Sunday, July 26th. to see how you can make your voice heard.

Silent Picnic. Please consider what you might have donated to the picnic and what you might have spent at the Sanctuary Lamp Wieczna Lampka picnic itself. If you are able, please consider donating that amount to the parish as your “silent picnic” offering. Any There are many openings for donations to have the sanctuary offering, no matter how small, is appreciated and will help lamp burn in memory of a departed family member or the parish make up from the lost income from the picnic. You members. By offering a $100 donation to have the lamp burn may drop off your offering at the parish office (in the drop each week, the presence of Christ in the tabernacle will be box on the rectory porch), send it via post, or drop it in the indicated, the love and affection of the faithful for Christ will collection boxes in church. Please mark “silent picnic” on the be professed, and the offering and prayers of the donor will be envelope or memo line of your check. ~ Thank you kept in mind. The name(s) of the deceased will be printed in the bulletin. Please call the parish office to donate. Parish Office. Please know that you can reach out to the Parish Office for essential services by phone or by email between the hours of 9:00am and 3:00pm, but the office is School News Wiadomości Szkolne closed to the public. Substitute Teachers. If you are interested in being added to our pool of substitute teachers at Sacred Heart School Reminder. W eekday Masses are being held at 25% during the upcoming school year, please contact the parish capacity. The pews will continue to be sanitized. To minimize office for further information. Substitute teachers are called to the cleaning required, we ask that during the weekday assist in the classrooms on an ‘as needed’ basis. Masses that people sit in the front section pews before the walkthrough. Also, there is no need to register/signup to attend a weekday Mass. CCD News Aktualności Katechizmu

 Since weekend Masses cannot exceed 25% capacity and First Communion. Families should have received an seating is limited, please remember to call the parish office email from Father Guanella to schedule their child’s First every week during regular business hours to sign-up to Holy Communion Mass. Please go to the link in the email for attend the weekend Masses. We do not want to have to turn the sign-up schedule. Also, if your child has not made the anyone away because there is no room. ~ Thank you Sacrament of Reconciliation they will need to do so before their First Holy Communion. Please email Father Guanella at The dispensation from the obligation of attending Sunday [email protected] to schedule a time for Mass remains in effect for those who are vulnerable and your child’s First Reconciliation. You may also attend have concerns returning to a publicly celebrated Mass. Saturday confessions from 2:45–3:45pm at the lower (east) rectory porch. If you have any questions or you need a sign-up schedule, please contact the parish office. ~ Thank you Anointing of the Sick Namaszczenie Chrych A reminder to all CCD families. Please return the Those who are seriously ill or have been sick for a long registration forms for 2020–2021 CCD program to the parish period of time should receive the Anointing of the Sick. office as soon as possible. You can send the forms in the mail Please call the parish office to make arrangements or to or drop them off at the parish office drop box. If your child is schedule a non-emergency visit for those who are sick or new to the program or you need a registration form sent to homebound. Special pandemic procedures are in place. you please contact the parish office. ~ Thank you SPIRITUAL RESOURCES • ZASOBY DUCHOWE

The Wheat Will Always Triumph (continued from previous column) © Liturgical Publications, Inc. (LPi) A tiny amount of yeast, when added to flour, becomes invisible Grace and sin, belief and unbelief, good and evil all exist until it begins to make the whole dough rise, doubling or tripling together. While we wrestle with these two dimensions of reality its volume, and becoming bread in the oven's heat. inwardly, they are also witnessed in the actions and words of Let us not judge what we see, but trust that God's work in the others. Many, all too often, beat themselves up because of their world is gentle and quiet, the results known only in the final sin. We are also all too quick to pass judgment on others whom chapter. We seek, in humility, to watch for the Spirit working in we perceive to be in error and walking down a wrong path. God the ordinary activities of our lives. does not make rash judgments, nor should we. Patience is the order of the day as is an understanding that God is ultimately the The Wheat and the Weeds caller of the shots. A Homily by St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Our faith tells us that while God allows the wheat and the weeds to coexist, the wheat will always triumph. As long as we “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who can cultivate even a little faith and a small measure of desire for sowed good seed in his field, but when all were asleep his enemy God, He can produce abundant blessings and good things. Even came and sowed darnel [weeds] among the wheat.” when the weeds seem to have triumphed, there still may be a Now as the Lord himself explains, the darnel weed is the small measure of faith remaining that can be cultivated and offspring of the evil one. They bear his mark because they behave grown. It doesn’t take much! Unless a person totally allows the the way he does: they are seeds of his sowing, and his children by weeds to reign, there is always to be found at least a small adoption. Harvest time will be the end of the world, for although measure of faith, good, light, and love. With even this small it began long since and continues now through death, only then portion, God can produce abundant growth. will all things come to an end. Admittedly, it is easy to give into the weeds, and they grow The reapers are the angels, for they are, and will be especially very quickly. Any gardener knows this to be true. Sometimes, the at that time, the servants of the King of heaven. As Scripture weeds even seem more attractive and vibrant. Dealing with says: “Just as the darnel is collected and burnt in the fire, so it weeds can quickly become a losing battle, and they can look will be at the end of the world. The Son of Man, who is also the healthier and grow faster than the very plants we are trying to Son of the Father Most High, will send his angels, and they will protect. It’s easy to give into them and let them win. While God gather out of his kingdom all evildoers and every cause of sin.” will deal with all things in due time, we are responsible for And so the Lord’s servants, the angels of God, seeing the keeping things in check in the short term. It is our task to keep darnel in the field, that is, wicked and impious folk living among our eyes fixed on God’s presence and mercy. We are asked to good people, and that even within the Church, said to the Lord: avoid judgment. And, it is not our responsibility to deal with the “Do you wish us to go and gather it up?” In other words, “Shall weeds in someone else’s garden, only our own. One garden is we kill them, to remove them from the earth?” But the Lord’s enough responsibility for anyone. reply was: “No, for fear that in collecting the darnel you may also Weeds have power. We have to realize this. While they can uproot the wheat.” appear attractive and healthy, they can quickly choke us off from How then would the wheat, the good people, be uprooted as God’s presence. Our task is one of maintenance and cultivating a well if the angels gathered up the darnel, cutting off the wicked desire for God. Even the smallest kernel of faith can grow into by death to separate them from the just? The fact is that many something wonderful. In God’s time, the eternal harvest will godless sinners who live among people who are upright and come, and we will no longer have to worry about the weeds. devout repent in time and are converted, and by learning new habits of piety and virtue they cease to be darnel and become Small Yet Powerful wheat. © 2007 by World Library Publications (WLP) And so some wheat would be uprooted in the gathering of the darnel if the angels snatched the wicked away before they speaks in several parables today about the reign of God, repented. Moreover, many while living evil lives produce including images from several groups of people in order to make children of good disposition, or they may have other rightly his message clear to all who hear. The kingdom of God is like a disposed descendants. man who sows good seed. The kingdom of God is like a person This is why he who sees everything before it comes into being who plants a mustard seed. The kingdom of God is like a woman would not permit the darnel to be uprooted until the appointed who adds yeast to her flour. All of these very human activities time. But he says: At harvest time I will say to the reapers: “First bring home the fact that the reign of God is already among us, collect the darnel and bind it in bundles to be burnt, but gather working in small ways to bring about mysterious but very great the wheat into my barn.” results. Those therefore who wish to be saved from eternal Good and evil are allowed to grow together until the end, lest punishment and to inherit the everlasting kingdom of God must the good be destroyed with the evil. There is a lesson for us here. be not darnel but wheat. They must avoid saying or doing It is not that we shouldn't oppose evil when we see it, but that in anything evil or useless, and practice the opposite virtues, thus our zeal to make our world perfect by human force, we must be bringing forth the fruits of repentance. careful not to destroy the work that God is doing. It is not for us, In this way they will become worthy of the heavenly granary; but for God to judge what is to be kept and what destroyed, and they will be called children of the Father Most High, and as heirs even though we think we know the difference, we must be will enter his kingdom rejoicing, resplendent with divine glory. cautious not to disturb God's carefully planted goodness in To this may we all attain through the grace and loving others. Violence can never be the means of justice. kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with his eternal Likewise, the reign of God is like something very small, Father and the most holy, good, and life-giving Spirit belongs almost unnoticeable until we begin to see the results. The tiny glory now and always and for endless ages. Amen. mustard seed, which can be planted by any person (even a child), grows to be a large tree, amazing to all. (continued in next column)

Pray for us, O Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, and gain for our nation and world, and for all our families and loved ones, the protection of your holy angels, that we may be spared the worst of this illness. In this time of trial and testing, teach all of us in the Church to love one another and to be patient and kind. Help us to bring the peace of Jesus to our land and to our hearts. Amen.