Archdiocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy Parish Served by the Society of Christ Fathers

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1 Archdiocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy Parish Served by the Society of Christ Fathers Our church is Baltimore s Premier Polish-American Roman Catholic parish and has become the center of Polish religious, cultural, and social life. Our parish is a place where Polish values are proclaimed and upheld and also a place where Poles and non-poles can fullu express their fidelity to God. We are not in any sense a closed community. We welcome all Americans and all ethnic groups in our church. A key Polish value is openness to the universal mission of the Church, and thus we try to make our church which is also the Archdiocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy a place in which our friends and neighbors of non-polish background can feel comfortable practicing their Catholic faith. Staff Fr. Ryszard Czerniak, SChr Pastor Fr. Zdzislaw Nawrocki, SChr In Residence (Mission Apostolate) Parish Corporators: Christine Obrebski-Grabowski Dariusz Bogacki Finance: Edward Staniewicz Accountant: Robin Novak Parish Secretary: Helena DeAngelis Organists: Jim Hemling Joseph Surowiec Christine Wells Polish School Principal Mariola Sadowska Weekend Masses in the Church Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm (English) Sunday 8:30 am (English), 12:30 pm (English) 10:30 am (Polish) Weekday Masses in the Church Monday through Thursday 6:30 pm (English) Friday 3:00 pm (English) Friday 7:00 pm (Polish) Saturday 8:30 am (Polish) Eucharistic Adoration Friday 3:30 pm - 7:00 pm in Church Sacrament of Reconciliation 1/2 Hour Prior to Every Mass Devotions Divine Mercy Novena and Chaplet: Friday 3:00 pm (English), 7:00 pm (Polish) Rosary & Novena to Perpetual Help: Wednesday 6:00 pm (English) Godzinki & Novena to Perpetual Help: Saturday 8:00 am (Polish) Parish Office Address 408 S. Chester Street Baltimore, MD Parish Office Hours Monday-Thursday: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Friday: 9:30 am - 2:30 pm Closed Saturday & Sunday Closed Fridays June 23 - Sept. 1st Tel: Fax: holyrosarybalto@comcast.net Website: Gift Shop Hours Sundays: 9:30 am - 2 pm Closed July 1 - Reopen September 3 Holy Rosary Cemetery 7305 German Hill Road Dundalk, MD Cemetery Office Tel:

2 June 17 - (sobota) - Saturday - Weekday 8:30 am ++Maria & Wacław Gradus (Dzieci) 5:00 pm +Woodrow Gutowski June 18 - (niedziela) - MOST HOLY BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST (CORPUS CHRISTI) 8:30 am For All Fathers living & deceased 10:30 am Thanksgiving on 44 anniversary in priesthood- Dziękczynna z okazji 44 rocznicy kapłaństwa Ks. Zdzisława Nawrockiego 12:30 pm +John Blaskis June 19 - (poniedz.) - Mon - (11th Wk in Ordinary Time) June 20 - (wtorek ) - Tuesday - Weekday June 21 - (środa) - Wednesday - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious Memorial June 22 - (czwartek) - Thursday - Weekday June 23 - (piątek) - Friday - The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Solemnity 3:00 pm For All Fathers living & deceased 7:00 pm For all Parishioners June 24 - (sobota) - Sat - THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST Solemnity 8:30 am For All Fathers living & deceased 5:00 pm +Woodrow Gutowski June 25 - (niedziela) - Sun 12th Week in Ordinary Time 8:30 am For All Fathers living & deceased 10:30 am ++Ksawery & Helena Gołębiescy ++Ignacy & Józefa Krajewscy (Halina Szyjka) 12:30 pm + Mirosław Balcerek (wife & daughter) POLISH MASS Sunday - Alina Cymek & Karolina Pioro Next Sunday - Piotr Ryzner & Zuzanna Mamcarz ENGLISH MASS Saturday 5:00 pm - Timothy Nadrowski Sunday 8:30 am - Edward Marcinko Sunday 12:30 pm - Kathleen Jamitis & Concetta Glaspell Rectory & Gift Shop Summer Hours As of June 23rd, the Rectory Office will be closed on Fridays until school starts in September... As of July 1st, the Gift Shop will be closed for the summer until 1st Sunday in September... This Sunday after Holy Communion the second collection is for Heating and Utility. Thank you and may God Bless you for your generousity. 6/11 ATTENDANCE First Collection $ 1,709 Cemetery Chapel $ 645 New Roof Fund $ 936 Building Fund $ 92 Parish Hall Rental $ 350 Candles $ 136 Gift Shop $ 45 Poor Box $ 86 Donations Total $ 3,999

3 Bouquet of flowers in the Divine Mercy Shrine were donated by Karina Kasztelnik. God s Blessing. Flowers for Our Lady of Fatima were donated last week by Diane Susan Keller. God s Blessing. Maria Styka A Memorial Service celebrated for Maria Styka on Saturday - June 17 at 2:00 pm May her soul rest in God s loving arms POLISH FALL FESTIVAL Father s Day Masses Starting today Sunday, June 18th Holy Rosary will say 9 novena Masses to remember our fathers living and deceased. Please place your Father s Day Remembrance envelopes into the collection basket or drop off to the parish office. Additional envelopes can be found in each pew. The envelopes will be placed on the altar in remembrance. A limited number of greeting cards are available for Father s Day Spiritual Bouquet on the table in the back of the church. Please feel free to take a card to share with your father. SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER NOON - 10 PM SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER NOON - 6 PM Zapraszamy do Galerii w kazda niedziele. Galeria otwarta od godz. 10-ej do 2-ej. Obrazy, rzezby, "biale kruki" oraz dokumenty z dzialalnosci Polonii Amerykanskiej beda do nabycia. Dochod na dach kosciola. Rowniez, dziekujemy za dary i poparcie. Szczesc Boze! PRAYER WALK WITH BISHOP MADDEN BISHOP MADDEN invites everyone to join him for his next prayer walk on Tuesday, June 20 at St. Edward Parish (901 Popular Grove Street). The evening will begin with a light meal at 5:30 pm and end before 7:30 pm. During the walk, prayers will be said at specific locations that have been affected by violence and for all those individuals who have been so terrible affected by violence, and for a change of heart in those given to violence. All are invited to join to continue to step out in faith to reclaim our city for Christ. Parish phone: HALL RENTAL Need a special place to host that ultimate party! Try our church hall. Ideal for birthdays, graduations, bridal/baby shower, anniversaries, mother-daughter tea parties, employee service appreciation dinners, or even a small wedding. For more information and rates please contact Christine at or Helen at SPECIAL SECOND COLLECTION the weekend of June 24/25 for Holy Father Pope Francis (Peter s Pence). Kindly use your envelopes from your packet and give as your means allows. Holy Rosary is reaching out to our parishionsers for food donations for the food Pantry. Before Mass, we are asking if you could please donate a bag of food and leave in the church vestibule. I know many parishionsers go on vacation during the summer, but hunger for the poor continues and does not take off for vacation. The Food PANTRY is DEPLETED AND in urgent need of all food donations. We need canned fish and canned meats, rice, cereals, noodles, pasta and pasta sauces, snacks, peanut butter, crackers, jelly, legumes, canned pork and beans, flour, apple sauce, canned fruit. Beverages such as tea, coffee, dry milk, fruit juices are also needed. To those parishioners who dropped off the 5 bags of food donations last weekend. God s blessing for helping those less fortunate.

4 "HE WHO EATS THIS BREAD WILL LIVE FOREVER" Scripture: John 6:51-58 "I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53 So Jesus said to them, ", truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; 54 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever." Meditation: What is the bread of life which Jesus offers to all who believe in him? It is first of all the life of God himself - life which sustains us not only now in this age but also in the age to come. The Rabbis said that the generation in the wilderness have no part in the life to come. In the Book of Numbers it is recorded that the people who refused to brave the dangers of the promised land were condemned to wander in the wilderness until they died. The Rabbis believed that the father who missed the promised land also missed the life to come. God sustained the Israelites in the wilderness with manna from heaven. This bread foreshadowed the true heavenly bread which Jesus would offer his followers. Jesus is the "bread of life" Jesus makes a claim only God can make: He is the true bread of heaven that can satisfy the deepest hunger we experience. The manna from heaven prefigured the superabundance of the unique bread of the Eucharist or Lord's Supper which Jesus gave to his disciples on the eve of his sacrifice. The manna in the wilderness sustained the Israelites on their journey to the Promised Land. It could not produce eternal life for the Israelites. The bread which Jesus offers his disciples sustains us not only on our journey to the heavenly paradise, it gives us the abundant supernatural life of God which sustains us for all eternity. The food that makes us live forever Jesus chose the time of the Jewish Feast of Passover to fulfill what he had announced at Capernaum - giving his disciples his body and his blood as the true bread of heaven. Jesus' passing over to his Father by his death and resurrection - the new passover - is anticipated in the Last Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the church in the glory of God's kingdom. When the Lord Jesus commands his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood, he invites us to take his life into the very center of our being. That life which he offers is the very life of God himself. Do you hunger for the "bread of life"? Jesus offers us the abundant supernatural life of heaven itself - but we can miss it or even refuse it. To refuse Jesus is to refuse eternal life, unending life with the Heavenly Father. To accept Jesus as the bread of heaven is not only life and spiritual nourishment for this world but glory in the world to come. When we receive from the Lord's table we unite ourselves to Jesus Christ, who makes us sharers in his body and blood and partakers of his divine life. Ignatius of Antioch ( A.D.) calls it the "one bread that provides the medicine of immortality, the antidote for death, and the food that makes us live for ever in Jesus Christ" (Ad Eph. 20,2). This supernatural food is healing for both body and soul and strength for our journey heavenward. When you approach the Table of the Lord, what do you expect to receive? Healing, pardon, comfort, and rest for your soul? The Lord has much more for us, more than we can ask or imagine. The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist or Lord's Supper is an intimate union with Christ. As bodily nourishment restores lost strength, so the Eucharist strengthens us in charity and enables us to break with disordered attachments to creatures and to be more firmly rooted in the love of Christ. Do you hunger for the "bread of life"? "Lord Jesus, you nourish and sustain us with your very own presence and life-giving word. You are the bread of life - the heavenly food that sustains us now and that produces everlasting life within us. May I always hunger for you and be satisfied in you alone." June 18, 2017 Procession with Blessed Sacrament at Bank St., Collington Ave., Gough St., and Chester St. Procession we start after 10:30 am Mass. All are invited to join the procession. Procesja z Najświętszym Sakramentem ulicami miasta Baltimore po Mszy Świętej o 10:30. Procesja uda się ulicami Banks St., Collington Ave, Gough & Chester St. Serdecznie zapraszam. The large Votive Lamps on the Main Altar & in the Divine Mercy Shrine are lit for your special intentions on Friday night and continue to burn the following week. Envelopes for lighting a Votive Lamp are in the back of the pews and on table in back of the church. This week candles are burning for: 1. Personal intention of Karina Kasztelnik 2. Special intention of Gerard Cegielski 3. Za uwolnienie mojego brata Tomasza z nałogu (Agnieszka)

5 Donations for New Roof Fund IN MEMORY OF: Mary Kozlowski $30,000 Konstanty Horodowicz $590 Jolanta M. Obrębska $10,000 Stanley & Alvina Jozwiak $500 Edward & Maria Jankowski $1,000 Czaczka Family $500 Józef i Stanisława Krajewski $1,000 Phyllis Rostek $300 Anthony & Marie Monczewski $1,000 Lucjan Ferenc $300 Ida (Jadwiga) Sindler $1,000 Zygmunt Paciorkiewicz $100 Aniela Wozniak $850 Milton Mazan, Sr $100 DONORS: Gietka, Catherine & family $100,000 Krajewski, Zdzisław & Donuta $1,120 Mary s Fund $10,000 Ridrigs, Gregory $1,100 Aggarao, Potenciano L. Jr. $6,700* Bednarek, Richard & Maria $1,000 Polish Family Organization $5,176,26 Jamroz, Zbigniew & Jadwiga $1,000 Grabowski, Mirosław & Christine $5,000* Krajewski, Milton & Agnieszka $1,000 Bogacki, Izabela & Dariusz $5,000* Król, William & Jeannette $1,000 Polish School Organization $3,335 Michalak, Bożena & Damian $1,000 Gorski, Zbigniew & Ewa $3,000* Marcinko, Jr. & Sr., Edward A. $1,000 Polish Culture Organization $2,000 Sardin, Jean-Paul & Justyna $1,000 Obrębski, Krzysztof & Jolanta $2,000 Sobiecki Family $1,000 Krajewski, Chester & Alicja $1,200 Vongkasemsiri, Pisut & Wendie $1,000 Fital, Marian & Beata $1,120 *Pledged Amount We strongly encourage those who participate regularly in the life of our Faith Community to register with us and to use their envelopes. For those who wish to make Holy Rosary their parish family with future plans to celebrate a baptism, a wedding or to obtain a letter to be a godparent or sponsor, the Church requires parishioners to be formally registered and actively participating on a regular basis for at least three months. Registration forms are in the rectory office or on the website. CATHOLIC REVIEW The Catholic Review is available to registered parishioners for 8 months. The other 4 months Holy Rosary pays for the Catholic Review to be sent to your home. If any parishioner does not read or does not want to receive future copies of the Catholic Review, kindly let the rectory office know.

6 Donations for New Roof Fund DONORS CONTINUED... DeVault, Kenneth &Magdalena $940 Krajewski Kaz & Gretchen $250 Friends of Div Mercy Apostolate Group $915 Minor, Andrzej & Jolanta $205 Gajec, Paul & Lidia & Gajec $900 Anonymous $200 Gift Shop $800 Bednarek, Marian & Janina $200 Fossett, William (Bill) $750 Berencz, Richard & Maria $200 Dr. Jagielski, Melvin /Patricia (deceased) $600 Blotny, Gregorz J. & Kristyna $200 Staniewicz, Edward & Barbara $600 Gegala, Zbigniew & Elżbieta $200 Surowiec, Józef & Ewa $550 Grzywinski, Władysław & Wanda $200 Bednarek, Janina $500 Kasztelnik, Karina M. $200 Bednarek, John & Aniela $500 Korolczuk, Henryk & Bożena $200 Keller, Diane Susan $500 Lipinski, Kazimierz & Irena $200 Little, Mary $500 Lubek, Jagoda $200 Poremski, Richard P. $500 Macek, Edward & Genevieve $200 Rostek, Eve $500 Masłowska, Władysława $200 Sdanowich, Florence & Stanley $500 Obrębska, Halina $200 Stueber, Yvette A. $500 Twarowski, Magdalena $500 Redyk, Daniel A. $200 Anonymous $400 Rostek, Stefan & Krystyna $200 Szyjka, Halina $400 Rzepka, Jan $200 Warenda, Stanisław & Zofia $400 Sadowska, Mariola $200 Berencz, Barbara $300 Sawera, Zbigniew & Maria $200 Ciereszko, Robert $300 Sobel, Sabina $200 Kalafut, Joseph & Elaine $300 Weber, Timothy & Rosemarie $200 Kotula, Stephen & Louise $300 Zlotkowski, Tony $200 Mamczarz, Jacek & Krystyna $300 Anonymous $175 Martinattis, Robert & Christine $300 Anonymous $173 Santo, Irene Bednarek $300 Marciszewski, Daniel, Connie & David $150 Smolen, Bogumila & Jerzy $300 King, Harry $135 Wononkowicz, Sławomir & Danuta $300 Andrzej Trzeciak $120

7 Allen, Michael New Roof Fund Donations Donations of $100 Miklewska, Halina Banach, Jadwiga Mikulski, Dolores E. Belanger, Emily Frances Marroney, Phyllis Blachewicz, Janina Brock, Delores L (Johnson, Donald) Cegielski, Gerard Czech-Kladna, Irena Dabrowski, Andrzej & Grażyna Edwards, Eugene & Christine Mrowiec, Andrew & Katarzyna Obrębski, Lucyna Pedzich, Christopher Piotrowski, Zbigniew & Ewa Pniewski, Milton & family Filip, Henryka Pniewski, Adela Filip, Krzysztof & Honorata Potoniec, Anna Gluth, Edward & Rita Poyer III, John J. & Christine A. Gmytrasiewicz, George & Elizabeth Horodowicz, Alicja & Mikołaj Karr, Theresa Richards, Adam & Sarah Rolinska-Gozdzik, Anna Rostkowski, Barbara Kolacz, Wanda & Stanisław Ruszala, Margareta A. Kurgan, Christine Rybak, Irena & Zbigniew Laszczynski, Lorraine Litrenta, Leonarda R. Lubek, Jagoda Macek, Edward & Genevieve Mahoney, Janet M. Malecki, Halina & Edward Maragos, Marios & Margaret Marcisz, Roman & Ewa Rybczynski, Edward & Eleanor Ryzner, Grażyna & Ryszard Siemek, Frances Siemek, Frances Sinquefield, Donna & James Soltys, Jacek & Bogusława Wisniewski family TALK RADIO Tune your radio to WVTO 92.7, Baltimore s Station for Talk Radio for Catholic Life via the Relevant Radio network, prayers, devotions, and more. Broadcasting from the bell tower of St. Benedict Church in Southwest Baltimore from 2 am to 10 am daily. Signal reaches from two to six miles from the church. More info at or wvtoradio@gmail.com