St. Frances de Chantal R. C. Church

1273 58th Street Phone: 718-436-6407 Brooklyn, NY 11219 Email: stfrancesrectory@gmail.com Fax: 718-854-2761

Website: www.francesdechantal.org

Baptisms: First Sunday of the month: Marriages: Arrangements should be made during 11:00 AM Mass in Polish at least six months in advance and participation Third Sunday of the month: in a Pre - Cana program is required. during 12:30 PM Mass in English W innym czasie: po uprzednim uzgodnieniu. Prior registration is necessary. Sick and Homebound: The priests are available to bring Holy Communion to those unable to come to Mass. In the event of serious illness please request the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Parish Registration: All parishioners are asked to register so that we may know you and also be able to serve you with reference letters.

February 21, 2021 ● First Sunday of Lent

PASTOR

Rev. Canon Andrzej Kurowski, SAC

Parochial Vicars Rev. Anthony Zemula, SAC

Weekend Masses Saturday 5:00 PM (English)

6:30 PM (Polish) Sunday 8:00AM (Polish)

9:30 AM (English) 11:00 AM (Polish)

6:30 PM (Polish)

Weekday Masses: Monday to Friday: 7:30 AM (Polish), 7:00 PM (Polish) Holy Hour on First Friday / Godzina Święta: 6:00 PM Sacrament of Reconciliation/ Spowiedź: Saturday - 6:00 - 6:30 PM Sunday 6:00 - 6:30 PM Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 9:00-12:00, 3:00-5:00 Night 7:00-8:00 by appointment only Saturday: 9:00-12:00

Page Two St. Frances De Chantal Church February 21, 2021 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

Your ways, O LORD,

make known to me; teach me your paths.

— Psalm 25:4

REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL Lent is the time of year we devote to scrutinizing our lives in the light of our baptism into the death and resurrection of Jesus. Today’s readings are a nice shorthand catechism of what our baptized lives mean. As Noah passed through the waters of the flood to a covenant with God, so did we enter into a covenant, a promised relationship with God through our baptism. Peter’s letter gives an explicit explanation of what our bap-tism means: it is an appeal we make to God for a clear con-science. How do we obtain this clear conscience? The words proclaimed by Jesus immediately following his temptation show us the way: “Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). It might be a good spiritual exercise to keep these readings before us throughout the entire season of Lent, a means to help us return to a life lived by our baptismal promises.

FEAST OF FAITH Today is the First Sunday of Lent. During this season of preparation for Easter, our churches look stark and simple—no flowers at the altar, no festive banners or decorations. And our liturgies feel different, too. The organ is quiet ex-cept to accompany the singing of the assembly. The Gloria, our Sunday song of rejoicing, is not heard except on solem-nities, and we will not sing the Alleluia, our joyful acclama-tion of praise, until the Easter Vigil. “Alleluia cannot al-ways / Be our song while here below,” says an eleventh-century hymn. “Alleluia our transgressions / Make us for a while forego; / For the solemn time is coming / When our tears for sins must flow” (Alleluia dulce carmen, J. M. Neale, trans.). These changes in the liturgy will catch our attention, and make us eager for the festive outpouring of joy that will re-turn with Easter. This year, may the stripped-away liturgies of Lent remind us to strip away what is not essential in our lives to make space for the crucified and risen One, and thus to be ready to sing “Alleluia” once again when Easter re-turns.

THANK YOU We would like to sincerely thank our parishioners that in this difficult time for all of us, the time of the pandemic, they thought about helping the parish by raising the contribution, thus ensuring its financial liquidity and the possibility of further existence. God bless you for each donation.

MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday / Sobota – February 20 5:00 +Bogumiła Kupiec (1 rocznica śmierci) 6:30 +Zofia +Stefan Maćkowscy Sunday / Niedziela – February 21 8:00 +Jerzy Klemendorf +Kazimierz +Genowefa Grzyb 9:30 +Fred Scopas by Anita Honovich 11:00 +Henryk +Katarzyna +Jan +Katarzyna oraz o

szczęśliwą podróż do Polski 6:30 +Antonina +Antoni Czarnota +Otylia +Jan Wcisło Monday / Poniedziałek – February 22 8:30 Za Parafian / Parishioners 7:00 +Jan Mnich +Jadwiga Mnich Tuesday / Wtorek – February 23 8:30 +ks. Tadeusz 7:00 +Anatol Potrawski Wednesday / Środa – February 24 8:30 +Józef 7:00 +Anna Łukasik Thursday / Czwartek – February 25 8:30 +Helena 7:00 +Jan (2 rocznica śmierci) +Józef oraz dusze w czyśćcu cierpiące Friday / Piątek – February 26 8:30 +Ruth Del Negro 7:00 +Józef +Helena Saturday / Sobota – February 27 5:00 +Giuseppe +Pasqualina Lopardo by Maria 6:30 O zdrowie, Boże błogosławieństwo,

potrzebne łaski dla Piotra z okazji urodzin Sunday / Niedziela – February 28 8:00 +Robert Makar 9:30 +Kazimiera Grudnik (3 rocznica śmierci) 11:00 O Boże błogosławieństwo, opiekę Maryi,

dary Ducha Świętego, potrzebne łaski, przymnożenie wiary dla P. Heleny Muchy z okazji imienin i za całą jej rodzinę

6:30 Dziękczynna za otrzymane łaski i prośba o dalsze łaski dla rodziny

Page Three St. Frances De Chantal Church February 21, 2021 ZACHĘTA

Czas Wielkiego Postu jest czasem powrotu do Pana Boga. Mimo panującej pandemii wkorzystajmy ten czas na ponowne spotkanie z Panem Bogiem, nie bójmy się przyjść do kościoła tak jak nie boimy się pójść do sklepu. Nie zmarnujmy możliwości odwzajemnienia Bożej miłości poprzez uczestnictwo we mszy świętej i modlitwie.

REGULACJE WIELKOPOSTNE We wszystkie piątki Wielkiego Postu obowiązuje wstrzemięźliwość od pokarmów mięsnych wszystkich, którzy ukończyli 14 rok życia. W Wielki Piątek obowiązuje post ścisły (można jeść trzy razy dziennie, w tym tylko raz do syta) i abstynencja od pokarmów mięsnych. Post ścisły obowiązuje katolików od 18 do 60 roku życia. Nie przestrzeganie zasad wielkiego postu i abstynencji jest poważnym wykroczeniem. W Poście Katolik powinien także powstrzymać się od udziału w zabawach i dyskotekach.

D R O G A K R Z Y Ż O W A

W każdy piątek Wielkiego Postu zapraszamy na nabożeństwa Drogi Krzyżowej.

Po polsku o godz. 7:00 PM a po niej Msza Św.

G O R Z K I E Ż A L E

W każdą Niedzielę Wielkiego Postu o godz. 6:00 PM zapraszamy na nabożeństwo pasyjne, połączone z wystawieniem Najświętszego Sakramentu.

PODZIĘKOWANIE Chcielibyśmy serdecznie podziękować naszym parafianom, że w tym trudnym dla nas wszystkich czasie, czasie pandemii, pomyśleli o tym żeby pomóc parafii podnosząc ofiary, zapewniając w ten sposób jej płynność finansową i możliwość dalszego istnienia . Bóg zapłać za każdą ofiarę. Niech Wam Pan Bóg błogosławi.

KOPERTY NA KWIATY Z tyłu i po bokach kościoła umieszczone są koperty na kwiaty. Tak jak każdego roku chcielibyśmy przy pomocy naszych parafian pięknie udekorować naszą świątynie na Święta Wielkanocne.

LENTEN REGULATIONS ABSTINENCE – All the faithful who have reached 14 years of age are required to abstain totally from meat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent.

FASTING – All the faithful between the ages of 18 and 59 inclusive are bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. This practice involves limiting oneself to a single full meal and avoiding food between meals. Light sustenance may also be taken on two other occasions during the day.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION By the First Sunday of Lent, many people have given up on “giving up.” Yet experiencing hunger for favorite things is a sign of a desire to face our deepest hungers. We do not embrace fasting as individuals, but rather as the communi-ty’s way of life in this season. Sometimes it helps to see Sunday as an oasis in the Lenten desert, a place where fast-ing is not as strictly observed. If we count the days of the Lenten calendar, starting backward from the end of Lent on Holy Thursday, it is difficult to measure the forty days. Many are surprised to learn that the Sundays are counted as part of Lent, but are not counted in tallying the forty days of the Lenten fast. For that, we count the fast backward into last week, beginning on Ash Wednesday. So, until to-day we have been in the Lenten fast, days that function as a kind of overture to a symphony of conversion. Today Lent solemnly begins, marked in many places by the sending of catechumens and candidates to the bishop for the call to the Easter sacraments. Tomorrow with them, we embrace the Lenten fast again. Today we are exactly forty days from the opening of the Paschal Triduum on Holy Thursday. *************************************

PIERWSZA NIEDZIELA WIELKIEGO POSTU

„Chrystus przez Post wzywa do odnowienia chrzcielnego przymierza — usłuchajmy Jego

wezwania” Jako wspólnota wierzących gromadzimy się w imię Jezusa Chrystusa, który poprzez swą Mękę, Śmierć i Zmartwychwstanie zawarł wiekuiste przymierze między nami a swoim Ojcem. Nasze uczestnictwo w tym przymierzu stało się możliwe dzięki obmyciu w wodzie chrztu świętego. Jego odnowienie

dokona się w czasie bezkrwawej ofiary eucharystycznej, podczas której będziemy składać dzięki miłsiernemu Bogu za to, iż przez krew Swego Syna oczyścił nas z wszelkiego grzechu

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