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Sacred Heart Catholic Church 19 lipca 2020 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 19, 2020 SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH 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. Lawrence of Brindisi Until further notice, the parish office isCLOSED to the public 8:15am Mass—Sacred Heart due to the coronavirus situation. You may still telephone us. †Bob Karch by Bob & Germaine Zoromski Parish Staff Pracownicy Parafii Wednesday, July 22 – St. Mary Magdalene 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 8:15am Mass—Sacred Heart Confession Spowiedź Święte †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 Eucharistic Adoration is held from 8:00am Mass—St. Mary’s 10:00am to 3:00pm at Saint Mary’s in Custer. St. Mary’s & Sacred Heart Parish Families 10:00am Mass—Sacred Heart Baptism Preparation Chrzest 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 Saint Joseph • 2020–2021 A Roman Catholic 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 Virgin 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 Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pope 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 Rosary 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 resources to help in your Sunday prayer: The five consecutive First Saturdays of reparation were 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 Immaculate Conception; (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, Isaac 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, Michael 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, David 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, Please contact the parish office to add or remove a person from the prayer list. SACRED HEART NEWS • OGŁOSZENIA PARAFIALNE 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 saints, 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.
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