1. religion and spirituality
2. christianity
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MASSES FOR THE WEEK
SATURDAY, December 27, 2014
7:30AM + Charles Vachras (Mrs. Angela Errico)
5:00PM + Thomas Sherry (Wife, Frances and Family)
SUNDAY, December 28, 2014
6:30AM - For Parishioners
8:00AM(Polish) + Lucyna & Edward Plonski (Daughter and Family)
9:30AM + Alice Krysciewicz (Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Scerbinski)
10:30AM(Polish) - For Health and God’s Blessings for the Wierzbicki Family
11:45 AM + John & William Hickey (Sister)
MONDAY, December 29, 2014
7:30AM - For Marta and our Business
TUESDAY, December 30, 2014
7:30AM + Frank Korczak
WEDNESDAY, December 31, 2014
7:30AM + For Deceased Members of the Joseph and Joan Barra Family (Joan Barra)
5:00PM + Eleanor Zebrowski (Jean Zak)
THURSDAY, January 1, 2015
8:00AM (Polish) - For Health & God’s Blessings for the Hawryluk Family (Fr. Janusz)
9:30AM + For Deceased Members of the Kazimierz Pyclik Family (Kazimierz Pyclik)
10:30AM (Polish) + Fr. Stanley Kondeja (OLP)
11:45 AM - For Health & God’s Blessings for the McDonagh Family (Elaine McDonagh)
FRIDAY, January 2, 2015
7:30AM + Frank Dull (Mr. & Mrs. Terence Lynch)
7:00PM(Polish) + Waclaw Wilczynski (Daughter, Elzbieta)
SATURDAY, January 3, 2015
7:30AM + Frank, Joe and Ron Ekster (Edward Sawicki)
5:00PM + Joseph Barra, Marie, Victor, Eugene, Marianna, Elam Heinemen and Hauser Family (Joseph and Joan Barra)
SUNDAY, January 4, 2015
6:30AM + Frank Dull (David Dull)
8:00AM(Polish) - For Health & God’s Blessings for the Skibko Family
9:30AM + Eleanor & John Zebrowski (Jean Zak)
10:30AM(Polish) + Elenora Marat (Walentyna Plonska)
11:45 AM + Edward Slodki (Walter Penski)
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
December 28, 2014
My eyes have seen your salvation,
which you have prepared
in the sight of all the peoples.
— Luke 2:30-31
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READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96:1-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22-35
1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96:7-10; Lk 2:36-40
1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn 1:1-18
Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7;
Lk 2:16-21
1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28
1 Jn 2:29 — 3:6; Ps 98:1, 3cd-6; Jn 1:29-34
Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13;
Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday:
Monday:
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Fifth Day within the Octave of the Nativity
of the Lord; St. Thomas Becket
Tuesday:
Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity
of the Lord
Wednesday: Seventh Day within the Octave of the
Nativity of the Lord; St. Sylvester I;
New Year’s Eve
Thursday: The Octave of the Nativity of the Lord;
Mary, the Holy Mother of God;
World Day of Prayer for Peace;
New Year’s Day
Friday:
Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen;
First Friday
Saturday: The Most Holy Name of Jesus; First
Saturday
SUNDAY COLLECTION
December 14th Collection: $2,255.00
Immaculate Conception Collection: $466.00
Additional Christmas Flowers: $475.00
Due to holiday deadlines, the collection totals for
last weekend (December 20th & 21st) and for
Christmas Masses will be published in the next
week’s bulletin.
This weekend, there will be only one collection.
Next weekend, January 3rd & 4th, the second
collection will be for our subsidy to the school.
CHURCH CLEANERS
Mr. & Mrs. Czeslaw Rus, December 26
Mr. Grzegorz Hogendorf, January 2
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Talik, January 9
ALTAR DUTY, JANUARY
Christine Marcincuk. Thank you, Chris!
DIVINE MERCY
There is recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet at
7:15AM before the 7:30AM daily mass Monday
through Saturday. You are invited to join us.
SOLEMNITY OF MARY THE MOTHER OF GOD
Thursday, January 1st is the 8th day of the Octave of
Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God,
the beginning of the new civil year. This is a day of
prayer for peace. It is a Holy Day of obligation.
New Year’s Masses
Wednesday, December 31st
5:00 PM
Thursday, January 1st
8:00AM (Polish), 9:30 AM,
10:30AM (Polish), 11:45 AM
No 6:30AM or 5:00 PM Mass on Thursday
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Fr. Janusz, Msgr. Gill, Fr. Paul Dahm, Fr. Gural, and
Deacon Jim Ashe wish all parishioners, friends and
guests a happy and blessed New Year
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION & DEVOTION
Please join us this Friday, January 2nd and on the
first Friday of each month at 7:30AM in English and
at 7:00PM in Polish for the Devotion to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus with Exposition of the Most Holy
Sacrament and Adoration and on this Saturday,
January 3rd and the first Saturday of each month
after the 7:30AM mass for the Devotion to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary with Exposition of the
Most Holy Sacrament and Adoration.
FROM OUR PASTOR
Dear Parishioners,
I would like to once again bless the homes of
parishioners beginning December 28, 2014 through the
end of January 2015. I would like to get to know all of
our parishioners so if I have not blessed your home in the
past, hopefully I will be able to this year. If I have
previously blessed your home, I would be honored to
return this year.
If you would like to have your home blessed by
me, please fill out the form below and return to the
rectory or give to me after mass by January 31, 2015, or
you can email your name, address and telephone number
to olpchurch@optonline.net. I will then contact you to
schedule the blessing. Additional forms are available in
the back of the church.
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
Father Janusz Lipski
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Father, you are welcome to come and bless our home.
Name: _________________________________
Address: _______________________________
Telephone: ______________________________
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SCHOOL NEWS
The school community of Our Lady of the
Hamptons takes this opportunity to wish the
members of our parishes a blessed Christmas and a
Happy New Year!
The annual Bucks for Books campaign to support
the programs at OLH has had an early start. The
raffle, with ten prizes ranging from $500 to $20,000
to be determined on January 31, 2015. Tickets are
available at the school now.
While actual registration for the 2015-16 school year
is not done until February, parents of prospective
kindergarten students (must be 5 years old prior to
November 30, 2015) will be welcomed to visit the
new kindergarten facilities at the main campus 160
N Main Street, Southampton and to arrange an
interview at this time.
We invite parishioners and friends to learn more
about Our Lady of the Hamptons by visiting the
website www.olh.org. Tours can be arranged at any
time, by calling 283-9140
“SYLVESTER DANCE”
The parent committee at the M Kolbe Polish school
in Riverhead is hosting a “Sylvester Dance” on
December 31, 2014 from 8PM to 2AM at the Polish
Hall, 214 Marcy Ave, Riverhead. Tickets are $100
per person, includes open bar, dinner, champagne at
midnight & dancing with DJ Janusz. Call either 7271262, 369-8305 or 591-1632 for reservations before
December 20, 2014. All are welcome.
PRAY FOR THE SICK
Please pray for the sick, suffering and lonely people
in our parish, and amongst all our families and
friends, especially:
Piotr Plonski
Zofia Mrozik
Janina Soltys
Robert Casse
Henry
Jozefa Gaworska
Emily Kolenda
Patricia Kahl
Richard Vinski
John Hagen (little boy)
Bob Cerf
John Lenon
Sister Virginia
Jerry Connolly
Bogdan Ciorun
Randall Feinberg
Agnes Bautisa
Stacia Michaels
Barbara Siebida
Paulina Kwiatkowska
Geraldine Connolly Samantha Kinney
Sam Price
Elizabeth Dobrzycka-Grela
Joanne Pierson
John Gorman
FROM OUR BISHOP
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
This past year I found myself twice in the Holy Land,
first in my role as a member of the Board of Catholic
Near East Welfare and second as part of a Pilgrimage of
Prayer for Peace by eighteen United States bishops. Both
visits brought home to me in a vivid way what all of us
see and hear in the media: the land made holy by the
birth, life, death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior
is anything but a land of peace, joy and fraternal love. If
we were to stop there it would be very difficult to be
hopeful.
Yet we know that the Feast we celebrate on December
25th is the very reason why the worrisome facts of today’s
world are not the end of the story. They are the context
into which the Lord enters in order to reverse the spiral of
violence and death and to found a new order, “the new
heaven and the new earth” that are the fruit of the Son of
God Who came into the world to reveal God’s plan of
salvation.
He is the true history of humanity because He alone is the
Word through whom the world and human life are
created. And that Word, the eternal Son of the Father,
becomes flesh so that we might be saved from all the
darknesses that lie hidden in human hearts. He is the true
light that dispels the darkness. He is the one sure hope of
the world. And He comes to become part of the human
condition so that He and He alone can reverse the destiny
of humankind by giving us a new destiny, life in Him, life
in the Spirit which is the gift of God’s love.
This Christmas I greet you all in the light of that love that
came into the world that first Christmas in a Bethlehem
stable. This Christmas I invite you all to join with me in
a pilgrimage of the heart to that very place where Mary
brought forth Jesus into a world that so needs the gift of
divine life that He is and so yearns for the peace that only
He can give.
My prayer for each of you and all of you is that we might
let Him transform any of the darknesses that control our
lives and endow us with the newness of life that His birth
has made possible. May the light of His life shine on us
all, without exception. May the example of Mary and
Joseph be the model for all our families. And may we be
found with the shepherds adoring the Prince of Peace
while angels sing and all the world rejoice for Unto us a
Son is given, unto us a child is born and He is Savior,
Mighty God, Prince of Peace.
Faithfully yours in Christ,
Bishop of Rockville Centre
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CHRISTMAS FLOWER DONORS
+Antilety & Gosiewski Families-M/M Mark Antiliety
+ Richard J.Armusewicz, Anita M. Falco, Mary Jane
Curry-Mrs. Patricia Armusewicz
+Arnold Arnister-Mrs. Elizabeth Arnister
+Leokadia Burzycka-M/M Josef Talik
+Dolores Buttonow-Cornelia Buttonow
+Alfreda Choromanski, Trudy Zmudinovich Martin
& Zmudinovich Family –M/M Thomas Vita
+Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Clair - Raymond B. Clair
+Dolores Corwin-M/M Leslie Corwin III
+John Degen – Mrs. John Degen
+Frank Dull Family-Juliana Adamczeski
+M/M Joseph Fanning, M/M Walter P.
Marcincuk-M/M Robert E. Marcincuk
+Fay Family-Anne & Bill Fay
+Augustina Forte & Marijke Wilson-Victor Forte
+Terence Garland & Edward Herz -Ms. P. Garland
+Gaworski Family-Barbara Gaworska
+Joseph Gosiewski-Mrs. Jos Gosiewski
+Deceased Members of the Graboski Family-M/M
Benny Graboski
+Deceased Members of the Grodski & Rewinski
Families-Mrs. Louise Grodski
+Noni Hines -Mr. Vincent Hines
+Dolly Johnson - Robert C. Iovino
+Agatha & Stanley Janik –Marie (Janik) Jackson
+John Kazlauskas-Ms.Karen Morro
+Deceased members of the Kellis & Fanning Families
Joseph Fanning Jr
+Kimberly, Marion, Gloria, Annie & BunnyM/M Joseph Gagliardo
+Stanley & Celia Knight– Celia M. Czelatka
+Fr.Stanislaw Kondeja-M/M Patryk Talik
+Frank Korczak-Mrs. Jadwiga Korczak
+Krasowski & Wierzbicki Family-Mrs. Marzena
Wierzbicka
+Henry Kraszewski Sr - Mrs. Betty B. Kraszewski
+Mitchell Kruszyna– Janice Kruszyna
+Mary Kumicz-Mr. E. Kumicz
+Deceased members of the Bogdanowicz &
Kwiatkowski Family-M/M Kwiatkowski
+Stanislaw Lelakowski-Maria Lelakowski
+Leo J. Lukowski & Daniel Lukowski- Carol Lee
Secari– Griffin
+Marciniak & Siegert Families & Eleonora & Julia
Marat-M/M Dariusz Siegert
+Joseph Marcincuk Family- Chris Marcincuk
+Mayer-Schmitt Family-Mary Anne Cronin
+McMenamy Family-M/M John McMenamy
+Amelia Montello -M/M Joseph Amodeo
+Parents-M/M John Gorman
+Pinkus & Tanguay Family-Mrs. Marie Pinkus
+Plonski and Zajkowski Family-M/M J. Plonski
+Grzegorz Poplawski-M/M Marek Poplawski
+Raffel Family-Dorothy Stachecki
+Sammarco & Scerbinski FamiliesM/M Vincent Scerbinski
+The Family of Helen & John Sherry &
+The Family of Frank J. & Sophia Sherry &
+Genevieve Szczapankowski - Susan Sherry Clark
+Theodore Siedlecki-Mrs. Martha Siedlecki
+Chester & Alice Sikorski-Miss Irene Sikorski
+Czeslaw Skowyra –Ireneusz Skowyra
+Teresa & Witold Sokolowski and Piotr SzychowskiM/M Adam Szychowski
+Krzysztof Sopolinski-M/M Leszek Sopolinski
+Frank A. Stachecki-M/M Terry Lynch
+John & Cecil Vinski-Helen Vinski
+Kazimiera & Piotr Walczak -M/M Czeslaw Rus
+Frances & Theresa Williams-Barbara Gray
+Stanley and Lottie Yastrzemski-Mr. Stanley
Yastrzemski, Jr.
+William Zaluski, Jr, William & Harriet Zaluski,
Eloise Warner, Barabara Zaluski Corwith,
Susan Spinzia-Joan Zaluski
+Alexander Zelinski & Benjamin Marcune M/M Daniel Zelinski
In thanksgiving:
- M/M Tadeusz Baginski
- M/M Bob Cerf
- M/M P. DeLalio Jr
- Mr. David Dull
- M/M Gerard Gagliardo
- Mrs. Catherine Garland
- M/M James Hanley and Family
- M/M Jozef Jaworski
- M/M Knapik
- M/M Janusz Kozuchowski
- Helen Martino
- Molly K. McDonald
- M/M Zenon Nowicki
- M/M William D. Petty
- Mrs. D. Pillsworth
- Mrs. Ruth Plock
- M/M Jan Skibko
- Mrs. Rose Strand
- Mrs. Elaine Szczepanik
- M/M Mieczyslaw Trawicki
- Mrs. M. Weinhardt
For God’s Blessings for:
- Grace McCauley-M/M Richard McCauley
- Mark & Patrycja Siegert-M/M Dariusz Siegert
- Anna & Ben Farber Family-Mrs. Barbara Unierzyski
Additional donations will be listed in next week’s bulletin