Our Mother of Sorrows

St. Casimir   St. Ann     Holy Family

August  1st, 2010

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Mass Intentions

Saturday, July 31st - Vigil Masses for Sunday

4:00(SA) Confessions

4:30(SA) Stanley & Helen Wodecki by the Family

4:00(SC) Confessions

4:30(SC) Alex Ceckowski by Joseph & Christine Visosky

Sunday, August 1st - Eighteenth Ordinary Sunday

8:00(SC) Helen M. Ropelewski by Diane & Mike Rzodkiewicz

8:30(HF) Mildred Merski by husband Bob Merski Sr.

9:30(SA) Anna Kowalski, Anniversary by the Family

10:30 (HF) Marie Yurcan by daughter Diane Morgan

11:00(SA) Robert Dietz by the Family

12:00(HF) Parents, Brothers, and Sisters of Mr. Frank Walczak                     

Monday, August 2nd   St. Eusebius of Vercelli

 7:30 (HF) Henry Golembiewski by Daniel Richard Wisinski

8:00(SC) Kulig, Habas, and Laszewski Families by the Rose Kulig Estate

 12:05 (SA) Sophie T. Upton and Family by Mary Lou Wieczorek and Family

 Tuesday, August 3rd - Weekday Masses

  7:30 (HF) In Thanksgiving for the blessings and graces of  the St. Ann Novena by a Parishioner

8:00(SC) Frank Palkovic by Stanley and Jane Lipinski

12:05(SA) Special Intentions of Dr. Greg Prylinski by Jeff and Emily Evans

Wednesday, August 4th - St. John Mary Vianney

7:30 (HF) Carol Dolak (daughter-in-law) by Helen Dolak

8:00(SC) Helen Vogt by Stanley and Jane Lipinski

12:05 (SA) For all Parishioners, Living and Deceased

Thursday, August 5th - Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome

7:30 (HF) Julia Cabaday by the Cabaday Family

8:00(SC) Thomas G. Berdis Sr. by Audrey Draszkiewicz

12:05 (SA) Donald and Helen Dougherty by the Family

Friday, August 6th - The Transfiguration of the Lord/First Friday

7:30(HF) Tom Majersky by Family and Friends

7:30(SC) Confessions

  8:00(SC) Ed and Sadie Sulewski, Anniversary by daughter                          Kathy

12:00 (SA) Anna L. Ritter, Anniversary by Mary Lou Wieczorek and Family

Noon Mass is followed by All-Day Adoration

of the Blessed Sacrament.

7:00PM (SA) Confessions

7:30PM (SA) Living and Deceased Members, Benefactors, and Friends of the Divine Mercy Apostolate

 Saturday, August 7th - First Saturday/Vigil Masses for Sunday

8:00(SA) Confessions

9:00(SA) Living and Deceased Members, Benefactors, and Friends of the Divine Mercy Apostolate

4:00(SA) Confessions

4:30(SA) Michalina Kurty by the Family

4:00(SC) Confessions                                  

4:30(SC) Zigmund Hoderny by Adella Batkiewicz

Sunday, August 8th - Nineteenth Ordinary Sunday

8:00(SC) John Ropelewski by Sisters and Brother

8:30(HF) Frank Palkovic by Jerry and Mary Ann Anuszkiewicz

9:30(SA) Intention of Holy Mary by Don and Patti Trapp

10:30 (HF) Marie Yurcan by Gary and Karen Turbaczewski

11:00(SA) Frank Wierzbicki by Mark Kutz

12:00(HF) Joseph Barabas by wife Margaret

The Sanctuary Lights  

 Holy Family

1.Frank Palkovic by Jerry & Mary Ann Anuszkiewicz

2.Mildred Merski by husband Mr. Bob Merski Sr.

 Saint Ann

1.  Improved Health and Healing for Sandy O’Hara by the Family

2. Donald & Helen Dougherty by daughter Karen Dougherty & Family

 Saint Casimir

1.Ben Olszewski by Jamie, Donnie, and Joseph

2. Lou Rzodkiewicz by wife Helen, son Ray and daughter-in-law Diane

Blessed Mother’s Altar at Saint Casimir is offered forLou Rzodkiewicz by wife Helen, son Ray and daughter-in-law Diane

St. Joseph’s Altar at St. Casimir is offered for Continued Improved Health and Healing for Fr. Joseph Gregorek

Sorrowful Mother at Holy Family is offered for Mildred Berdis Merski by her husband Mr. Bob Merski Sr.

From the bishop’s desk - Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On the weekend of August 7-8 this year, the Diocese of Erie will take up the annual Collection for the Church in Latin America. Once again this collection will benefit the Erie Diocese’s own mission outreach program Mission of Friendship in Yucatan, Mexico as well as other critical needs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.  … As always the proceeds from this collection will be distributed to dioceses, parishes, religious congregations, seminaries, and other Catholic Institutions.  These essential funds will help in the formation of priests, lay ministers, religious , missionaries, catechists, and youth ministers.  I am grateful for your past participation and I ask that you once again be as generous as possible.  Sincerely, Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie.

REGISTER FOR HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL: There is still time to register for Holy Family School for the fall. There are  openings in the Pre-School through Grade 8. Call Sr. Kevin Berdis, the principal, 452-4720, this week for more information or to register. New students register each week.  Some financial aid may still be available so call soon for more information. New students are always welcome! Present school families who bring new students to enroll for the 2010-2011 school year receive a $500.00 scholarship for recommending the new family, some details apply, please contact Helen Gangemi, 452-4832 for more information. Be sure to tell your family, friends, and neighbors about our wonderful little school!

 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Congratulations and Best Wishes to the following couples celebrating their 60th or 50th Wedding Anniversaries this year: Happy 60th Anniversary to Dorothy and Felix Federowicz of St. Casimir; Happy 50th Anniversary to Patricia and Eugene Maciak of St. Ann's and Marlene and Michael Lucas of Holy Family and Gerald and Patricia Jerioski also of Holy Family. The diocese will honor all of you next Sunday, August 8th, at St. George Church in Erie.  If you cannot attend, the Bishop’s greetings and scroll will be sent in the mail.  We are proud of all of you! May God bless and keep you and reward you for all the good you do! Peace be with you!

HOLY FAMILY STUDENTS still collect Campbell labels (entire label), Prego Sauce UPC bar, General Mills box tops, newspapers, aluminum beverage cans only please, bags, etc. You may bring the labels, box tops, and paper bags to church. Please take the newspapers and cans directly to the school. We are grateful to all who help our school.

 

Readings for the Week August 1st, 2010

 If you want the readings for a particular day, just click on the day, (Sunday) . If you want to read the specific reading to see what context with in the bible of the reading will give you a better understanding of all the aspects of the scripture so just click on the reading itself (Acts 3-13-15, 17-19). Either one will take you to the appropriate Web site.

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/index. htm

Sunday

  

Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23/Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17/Col 3:1-5, 9-11/Mt 14:1-12
Monday  

Jer 28:1-17/ Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102/ Mt 14:13-21
Tuesday  

Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22/Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23/Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14

Wednesday

  

Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22/Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23/Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14

Thursday

  

Jer 31:31-34/Ps. 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19/Mt 16:13-23

Friday

  

Dn 7:9-10, 13-14/Ps. 97:1-2, 5-6, 92 /Pt 1:16-19/Lk 9:28b-36

Saturday

  

Hb 1:12—2:4/Ps 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13/Mt 17:14-20

Sunday

  

Wis 18:6-9/Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22/Lk 12:32-48 or 12:35-40

August 1st, 2010

Holy Family (452-4873) & St. Ann (453-4681) & St. Casimir (459-7361)

SATURDAY

July 31st, 2010

Offices are open 10AM-4PM. Vigil Masses at 4:30 PM (SA and SC

Confessions one half hour before both Masses!

 

SUNDAY

AUGUST 1ST 2010

Masses at 8:00 (SC), 8:30, 10:30 & Noon (HF) and 9:30 & 11:00 AM (SA).

 

MONDAY

august 2nd, 2010

Masses at 7:30 (HF), 8:00 (SC), 12:05 (SA)

Offices are open from 10 to Noon

 

TUESDAY

august 3rd, 2010

Masses at 7:30 (HF), 8:00 (SC), and 12:05 PM(SA)

Offices are open from 10 to Noon and 4-7PM!

Perpetual Novena to St. Ann at 7:30 AM and 12:05 PM Mass.

 

WEDNESDAY

AUGUST 4th, 2010

Masses at 7:30 (HF), 8:00 (SC), and 12:05 PM(SA)

Offices are open 2-5PM

St. Ann’s Ladies' meeting at 7:00 PM at St. Ann’s.

 

THURSDAY

AUGUST 5th, 2010

Masses at 7:30 (HF), 8:00 (SC), and 12:05 PM(SA)

Offices are closed!

 

First Friday

AUGUST 6th, 2010

Masses at 7:30 (HF), 8:00 (SC), and 12:05  and 7:30 PM(SA)

Office are open 10:30-Noon.

All-Day Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament follows the Noon Mass until 7:30 PM Mass.

 

 

First SATURDAY

AUGUST 7th, 2010

Offices are open 10AM-4PM. First Saturday Schedule: 8 AM Confession and 9AM Mass (SA).

Vigil Masses at 4:30 PM (SA and SC)

Confessions at 4PM (SA & SC)

Collection for the Church in Latin America

  

SUNDAY

AUGUST 8th, 2010

Sunday Masses at 8:00 (SC), 8:30, 10:30 & Noon (HF) and 9:30, and 11:00 AM (SA)

Collection for the Church in Latin America at all Masses

Anniversary Mass at St. George Church

 

 

Pray for Our Men and Women in the Military

Nicole & Jamie Keller and Kevin Buczynski (in Iraq), David Hawkins, Dave Buczynski,  and Nick Torres (in Afghanistan), Bryan Spadaccio (in Korea), Jennifer Smolinsky, David Dombkowski, Gregory Merski, Matthew Deniziak, Thomas Kaiser, Daniel Kidd, David Kraut  (Please call-in with names to be added or removed from this list. Thank you!)

OUR FINANCIAL REPORT

July 17th and 18th

Holy Family (59 envelopes) $1,485.52; St. Ann (55 envelopes) $1,203.00, St. Casimir (58 envelopes) $1,763.00, Gift (SC) $500.00, Total (172 envelopes) $4,951.52

July 25th and 26th

Holy Family (77 envelopes) $2,191.45; St. Ann (60 envelopes) $1,061.00, St. Casimir (59 envelopes) $773.00, St. Ann Novena $2,948.85, Total (196 envelopes) $6,974.30

Thank you for your many sacrifices and generosity!

Thank you for helping us keep the home fires burning!

Catholic Services Appeal 2010

Report as of July 27, 2010

Our Goal: $30,000.00    Pledged: $48,042.00  Paid $44,267.00

THANK YOU for your continued generosity!

All funds now remain in our parish to take care of special needs, repairs, and improvements during these summer months.

May God reward you for your care and concern!

 

Please offer your prayers for those who have entered in to the presence of the Father.

Sally Pomorski, Service Men and Women, Parishioners, Friends and Benefactors

 

Welcome to “Our Mother of Sorrows Parish” this  weekend as we begin the summer month of August! £ Welcome to all visitors with us today! It's always good to have you with us and we hope you know you are always welcome!

£ Father Paul Bryan, our Redemptorist Missionary, did a magnificent job with the annual St. Ann Novena. All who attended gave him high marks. This was his first time at St. Ann’s and his first time in Erie. Everyone liked him and I hope that we can have him back sometime in the future. He is a wonderful holy priest!

£  As many of you know I spent most of the novena in the hospital but I did get home in time for the closing. I’m deeply grateful to all who worked so hard and kept the novena going during my absence. I must make special mention of Mary Wierzbicki who really coordinated everything and took care of all the details. Mary was there morning, noon, and night to oversee everything before, during, and after the novena. We are all deeply grateful to Mary Wierzbicki! I also must thank Dave Blum and Leon Slivinski and the members of the Divine Mercy Apostolate for all of their support and faithful attendance at all of the services again this year.  And a special thank you to the officers and members of St. Ann’s Ladies’ Society not only for the reception for Father Paul following the closing but also for their day by day assistance in everyway possible. I am grateful to my brother priests who assisted and filled-in for me in so many differents ways. Special thanks to Father Paul Bryan, our Redemptorist Missionary, Father Jerry Priscaro (who was present for all the novena Masses), Father Dan Prez, Father Stan Widomski, Father Rom Gmerek, Father Joe Gregorek, and Msgr. Jerry Koos, I am grateful to all! Thanks also to all of our lay ministers, our ushers, servers, organists, choir members, all who helped decorate inside and out, those who clean, prepare and setup and pack away! And to all who came everyday and prayed and sang and helped in anyway...I thank you, bless you, and I pray, “Good St. Ann, pray to her (Mary) for us and obtain our request!”...Same Time NextYear?”

£  Holy Family School will open for the 2010-2011 school year on Monday, August 30, 2010. The parent’s meeting will be on Thursday, August 26th. Please call Sister Kevin Berdis with any questions. Remember school lottery tickets are available in the business office or in the back of all three of our churches. What a great way to help reduce your monthly tuition bill!

£ Our next Food Pantry will be held on Friday, August 13th, at 9:30AM at St. Ann’s.

£  Faithlife, the diocesan bulletin is always available in all three churches. Take a copy home with you this weekend.

£ You are invited to hear the Warsaw Cathedral’s Men’s and Boy’s Choir perform at St. Peter Cathedral on Monday, August 16th, at 7:30 PM. The group is on an American Tour and will be in Erie for the day and overnight (if you would enjoy housing one or two of the choir members for the evening please contact Helen Gangemi for complete details. You will need to give them a place to sleep, and provide breakfast in the morning) on their way to Buffalo. They will sing in Latin, English, and Polish. Admission is free and the public is welcome to attend. Call Helen Gangemi at 453-6677, ext. 8 for more information.

£ John Paul Kuzma is now officially Brother John Paul Kuzma, OFM Cap. He is now in Pittsburgh to begin one year as a novice before taking his vows. Please continue to remember Brother John Paul in your daily prayers.

£ Fr. Stan Widomski, OFM is still in town and doing well. He will offer the 8AM Mass on Sunday morning and hear Polish Confessions. He will fly back to his mission in Japan on August 4th. He hopes to retire in less than a year! Thank you Fr. Stan for everything and we will pray for your happy retirement! £ £ Congratulations to Ed and Gerry Gorecki who celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary today! May Gods richest blessings come upon them and Jess and Josh too!

£ A special welcome to Lucia Rovnak and Matus Rovnak who are visiting the Rovnak Family. Both young people are from Slovakia and visiting the USA for the first time. We are honored to have them visit our parish!

£ I am so happy to be back with you! It’s always so good to see all of you! Thank you for all of the prayers, cards, candles, good wishes, good thoughts and everything!

Good St. Ann Pray for all of us!

Fr. James O'Hara

Pray for Our Sick and Shut-ins

Fr. Joseph Gregorek, Fr. Robert Levis, Msgr. Andrew Karg, Regina Merski, Helen Dolak, Helen Mazzone, Eileen Fulton, Jane Singleton, Victor Roman, Ellen O’Hara Vahey, Charles Chase, Frances Kierzek, Virginia Duska, Nancy Dowd, Eloise Conley, Evelyn Olszewski, Audrey Lubak, Fred Wachter Jr., Wanda Benczkowski, Marion Kowalczyk, Lorraine Oster, Eleanor Klugiewicz, Esther Klugiewicz, The Clara Jong Family, Irene Lojewski,  Cheryl Vargo Popescu, Edwin Weckerly, Kevin Hart, Thomas Lucas, Janice Wager, Rose Kowalski, Brent and Brandon Jones, Ann Adamczyk, Theresa Merski, Mary Gerlock, Patricia Pellegrino, Marie Schreiber, Bertha Kaliszewski, Dorothy Federowicz, Martha Duska, Dorothy Palkovic, Florence Szabo, Mary Lou Wieczorek, Jim Bobrowicz, Rosemarie Dzialo, Ardys Moniot, Ann Hart, Mark McMahon, Betty Zukowski, Lillian Kolbas, Dee Palkovic, Dorothy Baginski Lamison, Denise Santi, Helen Rzodkiewicz, Sally Klan, Theresa Hart, Joyce Mueck, Stanley and Jane Lipinski, Ed Rzodkiewicz, Tina Wienczkowski, Veronica Lukasiewicz, Carol Reynolds-Wolfe, Leokadia Bajek, Frank & Juliana Walczak, John Zielinski, Sandy O’Hara, Patrick Savelli, Julie Royer, John Glance, Walter Zaborowski, Jerry Prylinski, Dorothy Gathers, Earl Lane, Louise and Frank Grolemund, Anne Marie Ropelewski, Bob Roehn, Margaret Barabas, Dannielle Bizzarro, Ronald Turbaczewski, Rose Grandalski, Betty Warda, Marlene Lucas, Joseph Visnosky, Martin  Pomorski, Irene Olszewski, Ed Hart, Joan Balczon, Ann Menosky, Gladys Bloesser, Frances Elliot, Pauline Konieczki, Bob Purczyki, Hank and Dorothy Oldach, Mary Galla, Hubert Buckel, Gerry Hadden, Lydia Kowalski, Brad Chapin, Helen Bendig, Charlie Wozniak, Sister Mary Carmel Skeabeck, Sister Anna Mae Kuzma, Sister Grace Cermak, and all others in need of our prayers. Pray for all of them! (Please call with names that should be added to this list and names that should be removed. Thank you.)

 

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