Rev. Jacek Marchewka Pastor Weekend Assistants Salesians of Don Bosco Tim Malone Parish Catechetical Leader Elaine Kownacki Office Manager Mary McCarrick Confirmation Coordinator Szymon Gil Director of Music Ministry Helen Soboleski, Lauren D’Imperio Dianne Scott Cantors Arthur Yankowski Parish Council Chair Sal Tralongo Safe Environment Coordinator Mary Molinelli, John Sulikowski Trustees SACRAMENTS Baptism Last Sunday of each month. Reconciliation After all daily Masses and Saturday, 4pm to 4:45pm, or by appointment. Marriage Arrangements should be made one year in advance. Contact Rectory for appointment. Annointing of the Sick Contact Rectory for appointment for home bound or infirmed. MASS SCHEDULE Weekdays and Saturday: 8am Saturday Vigil: 5pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9am (Polish), 10:30am, 12 Noon and 6pm Youth Mass C Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Community 47 Island Road Mahwah, NJ 07430 Rectory Phone: 201- 529-3517 Parish Website: www.ihmcmahwah.org Parish Email: [email protected]Parish Office Hours Monday – Friday: 9am to 4pm Weekends: Emergency calls only Sunday, March 26, 2017 Fourth Sunday of Lent
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Rev. Jacek Marchewka Pastor
Weekend Assistants
Salesians of Don Bosco
Tim Malone Parish Catechetical Leader
Elaine Kownacki Office Manager
Mary McCarrick
Confirmation Coordinator
Szymon Gil Director of Music Ministry
Helen Soboleski, Lauren D’Imperio
Dianne Scott Cantors
Arthur Yankowski
Parish Council Chair
Sal Tralongo Safe Environment Coordinator
Mary Molinelli, John Sulikowski
Trustees
SACRAMENTS Baptism
Last Sunday of each month.
Reconciliation After all daily Masses and Saturday, 4pm to 4:45pm, or by appointment.
Marriage
Arrangements should be made one year in advance. Contact Rectory for appointment.
Annointing of the Sick
Contact Rectory for appointment for home bound or infirmed.
MASS SCHEDULE
Weekdays and Saturday: 8am Saturday Vigil: 5pm
Sunday: 7:30am, 9am (Polish), 10:30am, 12 Noon and 6pm Youth Mass
CChurch of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Roman Catholic Community
47 Island Road Mahwah, NJ 07430 Rectory Phone: 201- 529-3517
Monday – Friday: 9am to 4pm Weekends: Emergency calls only
Sunday, March 26, 2017 Fourth Sunday of Lent
WORSHIP MASS INTENTIONS
Saturday, March 25 5pm +Henry Baker by Anne Suleski +Nicholas Lauerwald by Nadia & Robert Berkley +John Dispoto by Doug & Kate D’Angelo Sunday, March 26 7:30am +James C. Coty by Susan Coty 9am +Paulina Swiecicki by Dad Krzysztof & Family 10:30am +Rev. Floyd Rotunno by Cookie Rutella +Charles Such by daughter Judy +William A. Fox by Karol Mayer 12pm +Lucille Poplawski by Frances Backus 6pm Youth Mass +Sr. Mary Ann Samol, SSSF Monday, March 27 8am +Ann Gerling by the Family Tuesday, March 28 8am +Pauline Lerch by husband Joseph Wednesday, March 29 8am +Anthony, John & William Ostrowski by Anne Ostrowski Thursday, March 30 8am +Philpp Lerch by Joseph Lerch Friday, March 31 8am +Stella Prokop by daughter Sophie Saturday, April 1 8am +Lottie & Stanley Sowa & sons Ted & Ed by Elaine 5pm +Rev. Joseph P. Sokol by the Sokol Family
+Deceased Members of the Kielbasa & Matrejek Families by John & Maryann Matrejek
+Sadie & Stephen Federico by daughter Nancy & Lou Giuliano Sunday, April 2 7:30am Living & +Deceased members Mahwah Fire Co #2 9am +The Wargacki Family by Sophie Losak +Irena Ceglinska by son Marcin & Family +Michal Pietruszka by daughter Stanislawa 10:30am +Kenneth Thorp by Eileen Johnson +Raymond Lutz by Carrie Bader +Robert & Rita Wright by Nancy Beattie 12pm +Robert E. Weglicki by Dee Mulhearn 6pm Youth Mass +Salvatore T. Cinque
MEMORIAL CANDLES
Blessed Mother (Sanctuary Candle) In memory of John & Agnes Froland from daughter Virginia Sochulak & Family
Saint Joseph (Sanctuary Candle) In memory of Stephen Sochulak, Jr. from Kenneth Sochulak & Family
Sacred Heart (Alcove) In memory of Cynthia my loving wife from husband Ed Plicinski
Blessed Mother (Alcove) Blessings for the Gerling Family
DEVOTIONS
Stations of the Cross during Lent 7:30 pm: Wednesdays – English; Fridays – Polish Immaculate Heart of Mary Novena Every Monday following the 8am Mass Chaplet of Divine Mercy Every Friday at 3pm Rosary Every Saturday following the 8am Mass Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Saturdays, thru April 8, 4:30pm, before 5pm Mass
PRAYERS FOR PARISHIONERS
For those who are ill: Christine Sanese-Brett, Joan Malone, Stella Moran, Nora Dempsey, Peter Rice, Maryann Titko, John LaPlaca, Ed Pretko, Frances Konior, James & Barbara Straut, Nancy Mayer, Dave Conklin, Fred Bader, Carol Zarcone, Betty Mihok. For the recently deceased: James Coty, Lucille Poplawski, Henry Baker, Rev. Floyd Rotunno, Teresa Maretzo, Anna Sudal, Patricia Radesky Brennan, Stanley Strysko, Nicholas Lauerwald, Margaret Borish, Paul F. Walter, Michael Cardinale, Alfred Kozakiewicz, John Giza, Teresa Jarzebowska, Robert E. Weglicki, John Link, Patricia Sorgine, Sylvia Kuzmik, Yolanda Kotos, Zofia Morsztyn, Peg Mariani.
March 26, 2017
Message from the Pastor:
Traditionally, the Fourth Sunday of Lent marks a joyful relief amidst the seriousness and somberness of the many weeks of preparation for Easter. Today is called Laetare Sunday, a name that comes from the Entrance Antiphon for this Mass: “Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her. Be joyful, all who were in mourning; exult and be satisfied at her consoling breast.” (Is. 66:10-11). Even in Lent, a time of fasting and repentance, we rejoice, because we know that God is love, and our loving God will provide for all our needs.
In today’s Gospel of John, the contrast of darkness and light underscores both the healing of the blind man and the teaching of Jesus about who is spiritually blind and who can truly see. The encounter between Jesus and the man born blind confronts the religious thinking of the crowds and the leaders. It becomes a vehicle for Jesus to expose them to the intervention of God in human affairs and to see if their faith is ready to accept him. When the man regains his sight, he professes his belief in the “Son of Man”; like the Samaritan woman, he becomes the bearer of Good News, if only others can see it.
In making clay from his own saliva and smearing it on the blind man’s eyes, Jesus re-creates the man by transferring something of his own being to the man. The man is anointed by Jesus as “I am” and comes to be a faithful, believing disciple. Not even the powerful Pharisees can sway him from his testimony to the work of Jesus in him. In Baptism, we too, encounter Jesus and become a new creation in him. Are we as faithful and believing as the blind man? How many times as we go older do we say to ourselves “if I only had this knowledge and wisdom when I was young… I wouldn’t have made the mistakes I have in my life….” During our youth, we flip-flop about who we are. Only time and experience grant us the wisdom of knowing with sureness who we have grown to become. This sureness enables us to be committed in our values and beliefs. If we listen to the words of the Gospel and open our minds and hearts to hear and feel the everlasting love of our Heavenly Father He will guide us and be with us all the days of our life.
I hope to see you all at our Parish Lenten Retreats – in English, beginning next weekend at all the Masses, including the 5:30pm Mass on Saturday, through Monday and Tuesday, Apr. 3rd & 4th at 7pm; in Polish, on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 31 and Apr. 1, at 7pm, and concluding with the 9am Mass on Sunday, Apr. 2nd. Additionally, next Saturday, Apr. 1st, beginning with the 8am Mass, we will have our Women’s Morning of Reflection with Sister Maria Regina from the Sisters of Life, in Suffern, NY, as our guest speaker. All women of the Parish are encouraged to attend for this very special spiritual morning of reflection. And don’t forget, WPU’s Break Ministry’s late afternoon of Praise and Worship on Sunday, Apr. 2nd at 4pm, followed by the 6pm Mass. Our Lenten Pardon & Peace Reconciliation Service will be held on Tuesday, Apr. 4th at 8pm, with outside priests available for private confessions. All these events will help us prepare for the coming our Risen Lord on Easter Day!
Have a safe and wonderful week! Praise be to God - Spring is officially here! God Bless you all. Fr. Jacek
FAITH FORMATION
“The Holy Spirit helps us to view others with fresh eyes, seeing them always as brothers and sisters in Jesus, to be respected and loved.” Pope Francis on Twitter, May 13, 2013 In today’s Gospel of John, Jesus gives sight to a man who was born blind. As the man repeatedly tells the story of how Jesus healed him physically, there is a gradual change in the man’s understanding of who Jesus is. He see Jesus first as a man, and then as a prophet, and then as someone who came from God. Finally, he falls to his knees and worships Jesus as the Lord. This man went from being blind to receiving physical sight to seeing through the eyes of faith. FOR REFLECTION
� How have you experienced spiritual sight? � Are there things in your life that make you
spiritually blind? � What can you do during Lent to follow more
closely in the footsteps of Christ?
FAMILY TIME
Help your children understand that many children are less fortunate. Light a candle at church this week with them for children who are sick or hungry. Take the kids grocery shopping and bring the food to your parish pantry or a local food bank. Pick a Catholic mission and decide as a family how you can help by sending money or donating used clothing. LENTEN PRAYER
Our prayer this week is a reflection from St. Teresa of Avila: “Christ has no body now on earth but yours; no hands but yours; no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ must look out on the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which He is to bless his people.” (The above excerpts are highlights from the Our Sunday Visitor – “Proclaiming Christ” insert in today’s Bulletin.)
LENTEN ACTIVITIES AT OUR PARISH – SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
DISCOVER THE RICHES OF THE MASS Tuesdays, Mar. 28, Ap. 11; 7:15-8:30pm A Biblical Walk Through the Mass Parish Center
PARISH LENTEN RETREATS Fri., Sat., Sun., March 31 thru April 2 – Polish Speaker: Fr. Lukasz Szweda Sun., Mon. & Tues., April 2 thru April 4 – English Speaker: Fr. William Dowd
WOMEN’S MORNING OF REFLECTION Saturday, April 1, beginning with 8am Mass Speaker: Sister Maria Regina, Sisters of Life
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY’S – BREAK MINISTRY Sunday, April 2 - 4-6pm A unique experience – lively, contemporary Catholic music, prayer, witnessing and reflections on Scripture.
LENT PARDON & PEACE Tuesday, April 4 – 8pm Reconciliation Prayer Service followed by confessions.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS 7:30 pm: Wednesdays – English; Fridays – Polish
FATIMA ROSARY Saturdays thru April 8, 4:30pm, before 5pm Mass
BIBLE STUDY Tuesdays, 8:30am & 7pm The Book of Revelation Rectory Basement Meeting Rooms
FAITH FORMATION
WOMEN’S MORNING OF REFLECTION Saturday, April 1, 8-11am
STANDING BY THE CROSS: LENT WITH OUR LADY
All women are invited for a morning of Prayer, Reflection and Friendship. Bring a friend for this special time of spirituality and enlightenment on your personal journey with Mary as well as fellowship during this Lenten season.
Sister Maria Regina from the Sisters of Life in Suffern, NY, will be our Guest Speaker and lead the Reflection.
8:00am Mass in Church followed by the Rosary
8:45am Coffee/Tea, Pastries in the Parish Center 9:15am Reflection Talk in the Parish Center
Please RSVP by Monday, March 27th to Eileen Matarazzo 201-669-1982 or [email protected] .
PARISH LENTEN RETREATS Beginning with 5pm Mass on Saturday, Apr.1
and all Sunday Masses on Apr. 2, and Monday & Tuesday, Apr. 3 & 4 – 7pm
English
Fr. William Dowd, Chaplain, NY Giants, Retired Pastor, Hospital Chaplain, and Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries, will lead us in Retreat.
Friday & Saturday, Mar. 31st & Apr. 1st - 7pm and ending with 9am Mass – Sunday, Apr. 2nd
Polish
Fr. Lukasz Szweda, Pastor, Sacred Heart Church, Seaford Town, Jamaica, will lead us in Retreat.
LENT PARDON & PEACE:
A SERVICE OF RECONCILIATION
We invite you come together as a community
to seek Pardon and Peace from God.
Tuesday, April 4 – 8pm (Immediately after Lenten Retreat, Tues. Apr. 4, 7pm)
This service of communal reconciliation will include song, scripture, time for examination of conscience, and prayer around the cross. We will pray together for forgiveness of our sins and a deeper conversion to Christ. At the end of the service, there will be an opportunity for you to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance in individual confession. To help us get in the right frame of mind let us reflect on a section of the Apostolic Letter “Misericordia et misera” of Pope Francis in November, 2016: “The celebration of mercy takes place in a very particular way in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. Here we feel the embrace of the Father, who comes forth to meet us and grant us the grace of being once more his sons and daughters. We are sinners and we bear the burden of contradiction between what we wish to do and what we do in fact (cf. Rom 7:14-21). Yet grace always precedes us and takes on the face of the mercy that effects our reconciliation and pardon. God makes us understand his great love for us precisely when we recognize that we are sinners. Grace is stronger than sin: it overcomes every possible form of resistance, because love conquers all (cf. 1 Cor 13:7). In the sacrament of Forgiveness God shows us the way to turn back to him and invites us to experience his closeness anew. This pardon can be obtained by beginning, first of all, to live in charity. The Apostle Peter tells us this when he writes that ‘love covers a multitude of sins’ (1 Pet 4:8). Only God forgives sins, but he asks that we be ready to forgive others even as he forgives us: ‘Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us’ (Mt 6:12). How sad it is when our hearts are closed and unable to forgive! Resentment, anger and revenge gain the upper hand, making our lives miserable and blocking a joyful commitment to mercy.”
Whether you celebrate this sacrament regularly, or if it’s been a while since you’ve celebrated it, this Pardon and Peace Lenten Penance will help us all to come closer to the Lord and his infinite mercy!
FAITH FORMATION
HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS, YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS!
COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING
OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP FOLLOWED BY 6pm MASS
Sunday, April 2, 4pm
“Even when my strength is lost I will praise you.”
High School and College students, Youth and Young Adults! We will be having live Music by Catholic Worship Band, Break Ministry. It will be an amazing evening filled with music, fun, laughter, and Jesus! Break Ministry is a Worship group that travels to different parishes and schools and leads Worship evenings for all audiences so please bring your families, friends, and everyone you know! Break is very excited to lead Worship for us so please be there to be a part of the Christ-filled experience! Break Ministry is a movement designed to reach out to high school and college students from different college campuses and high schools all throughout New Jersey and other parts of the East Coast. We aim to travel around different campuses and church parishes and host different events, specifically large worship nights that are complete with live music, contemporary Praise and Worship, Authentic Adoration, and prayer. It is designed to form a bond between students from different areas and to give them the opportunity to unite as one, to serve God, praise God, and most of all, to live with God. Please join us for this wonderful evening. See you all there! For more information email Tim Malone at [email protected] or facebook.com/breakministry/.
ALL ARE INVITED!
CHRISM MASS AT THE CATHEDRAL! Monday of Holy Week, April 10, 8pm
This important liturgical celebration takes place at the beginning of Holy Week in the Cathedral in Newark. At the Chrism Mass, Cardinal Tobin, bishops, priests, deacons and lay faithful gather from throughout the Archdiocese to celebrate Mass at which the Holy Oils are presented and blessed by Cardinal Tobin. During the Mass priests in attendance will be asked to stand following the homily and renew the promises they made on their ordination day. There are three Holy Oils used in anointing. The Sacred Chrism is used in the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders and in the dedication of a church. Sacred Chrism is consecrated (as opposed to the other oils which are blessed) and only a bishop may do so. It is olive oil mixed with balsam. During the consecration, the bishop breathes on the oil symbolizing the consecration by the Holy Spirit. In addition to the Sacred Chrism the bishop blesses the Oil of the Sick and the Oil of the Catechumens. Both oils are olive oil, but, unlike the Sacred Chrism, there is nothing added. In the early Church, the Oil of the Catechumens was referred to as the Oil of Exorcism. In the Baptism of an infant, the child is anointed on the chest and the priest anoints the child in the name of Christ asking that he will strengthen the child against the power of Satan. For adults, the anointing with the Oil of Catechumens, which may occur before Baptism, is to grant the individual the strength to persevere in their journey and to overcome bonds of the past and the opposition of Satan. After the Mass, the oils are distributed to each parish representative and presented in each parish at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday evening. The Chrism Mass is very special; so, if you have not been to one, please mark your calendars and try to attend. If you need transportation information, please email Fr. Jacek at [email protected]. This Mass really prepares oneself for the beginning of the Holiest Week of the Church year!
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As Catholics, we are called to serve our neighbors with compassion and humility. The Sharing God’s Blessings Annual Appeal offers each of us the opportunity to share in the troubles endured by our brothers and sisters in Christ by funding ministries and programs which provide social, educational and spiritual support to thousands of people each year. It is important for us to support the Annual Appeal simply because we have been so blessed as a family. But only you can decide what gift is right for you in light of your circumstances and in light of the blessings God has given you. Every family is asked to make a pledge which will benefit both our parish and the Archdiocese.
Our Parish goal is $32,800. Our Pledge total to date is $13,450.
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