Parafia p.w. Narodzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny
ST. MARY’S POLISH PARISH
21 Wesley St., Sydney, NS, B1N 2M5
Tel.: (902) 564-4847
www.stmaryspolishparish.ca
Witamy wszystkich! Welcome to all!
St. Mary’s Polish Church is a heritage landmark designated by the Province of Nova Scotia
We are pleased to share our faith and rich traditions with the whole community.
Established in 1913. Church rebuilt in 2015-2016. Our second century of faith and service

PROBOSZCZ/PASTOR:  Father Dennis Lamey 902-564-4222; sttheresasydney@gmail.com

MSZY/MASSES: Sunday at 9:30am, Wednesday at 6:30pm
Novena to Our Lady of Częstochowa following the Wednesday evening Mass

SPOWIEDŹ:  Godzina do uzgodnienia z księdzem.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Anytime upon request to the priest.

SAKRAMENT CHRZTU ŚWIĘTEGO:  Prosimy o kontakt z księdzem conajmniej na 1 miesiąc przed planowaną datę.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Please contact the priest at least one month in advance.

SAKRAMENT MAŁZEŃSTWA:   Zapowiedzi powinny być ogłoszone conajmniej na 6 miesięcy przed planowaną datę.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: Intentions must be announced at least six months in advance.

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Dwudziesta Druga Niedziela Zwykła / Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

TODAY’S MASS INTENTION (9:30 am Mass) is for the soul of Earl Barrington

Eucharistic Minister for today: Janet Hawthorne
Ushers for collection today: Toni LaRusic, Tony Gniewek

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NASTĘPNY TYDZIEŃ / THE WEEK AHEAD

Wednesday, September 5, 6:30pm The Mass intention will be for Theresa Kehoe offered by Shirley Ardelli (praying of the Rosary will precede Mass) 7:00pm Novena to Our Lady of Czestochowa

Sunday, September 9, 9:30am: The Mass intention will be for Raymond Kiley offered by Patsy Kiley
Lectors: Stephanie Black, Andrzej Cebula
Eucharistic Minister: Marilyn Gillis
Altar Servers: Caleigh Pellerine, Frankie Chislett, Kristofer Starzomski-Wilson Anthony Melski
Ushers: Joe Gillis, Robert Melski Jr.
Greeters: Toni LaRusic, Janina MacCormack
Altar Society designated volunteers for September: Evelyn Wójcik, Janet Hawthorne
Property Committee designated member for the coming week: Bernie Paruch (567-2677)
Care Committee: to visit or send a card, please call Catherine Tucker (902-567-0146) or Vicki Aucoin (562-7142)

Collection receipts for Sunday, August 26: $1902.81 (broken down as follows: $1000.25 general collection, $341.33 Community Kitchen, $ votive candles, $ loose, $561.23 rebuilding fund). Thank you very much for your generous support of St. Mary's Polish Parish. Dziekujemy bardzo.

MASS INTENTIONS / VIGIL CANDLE: To reserve Mass Intentions / Vigil Candle, please contact Fr. Dennis directly at 902-564-4222.

IN MEMORIAM DONATION: In Memoriam donations will be acknowledged in the bulletin. Building Fund contributions will go toward the new church. To contribute to the Rebuilding Fund, if you do not have an envelope, you can write on your regular envelope or cheque “Designated to the Rebuilding of St. Mary’s Polish Church.”

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OGŁOSZENIA / ANNOUNCEMENTS

RECENT IN MEMORY OF ("IMO") CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REBUILDING FUND:
IMO Aggie Stephenson from John and Deanie Morykot, Rosanne Paruch, Shirley Ardelli and family, Shauna McKay, Shari McKay, Frania McKay, Anna Wesolkowska, Peggy Ryba, Andrew and Marie Paruch Young, Vuletich family, Kay and Walter Ingraham, Marilyn and Joe Gillis, Stella Paruch, Beverley McGee, Clara Goyetche, Janet Gillis(McConnell Library)
IMO Julia and Anthony Nowak from Mary Ryan
IMO Johnny and Kenny Paruch from Stella Paruch
IMO Mike Pierrynowski from Shirley Ardelli, Carolyn Kiley
IMO Michael Ardelli and Dawn Marie Wadden from Shirley Ardelli and family

LUNCH AFTER MASS NEXT SUNDAY – OUR PARISH’S FEAST DAY – 105th ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARISH: Everyone is welcome. Please invite family and friends. We are grateful to God that we are still together as a welcoming and generous community of faith and service, having come through a lot of adversity together. The following is a list of parishioners scheduled this month to please bring a dish. Many thanks! Dziekujemy!: Marjorie Ardelli, Carolyn Ardelli-Kiley, Stephanie Black, Anne Marie and Jimmie Campbell, Evelyn Wojcik, Janet Hawthorne, Jola and Andrzej Cebula, Delores and Frank Starzomski, Deanie and John Morykot, Jerry Pocius, Judi and Peter McCarron, Ursula and Michael Melski, Magda and Edmund Rudiuk, Tom Urbaniak.

LOAVES AND FISHES: If you can, please bring an item for Loaves and Fishes to the lunch next Sunday.

COMMUNITY KITCHEN:Start date Wednesday, September 26, 11:30am to 1:00pm. – free meals or pay what you can. Other faith communities as well as CBU and NSCC are working with us on this. It’s a service previously offered at Trinity United Church before Trinity closed. We recently put out a call for anyone wishing to consider sponsoring one week (for $250) or a contribution of any amount. Donation cheques, gratefully received, can be made payable to “Whitney Pier Polish Kitchen Society”. If you would like a charitable tax receipt, cheques can be made to St. Mary’s Polish Parish – but on the memo line please indicate that it’s intended for the Community Kitchen Project. Dziękujemy i Bóg zapłać! Also, to volunteer on one or more weeks and to be assigned a role, please contact Norm Hubbert at 902-577-0723; normhubbert@yahoo.ca. Thank you so much!

COMMUNITY KITCHEN STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: Tuesday at 4:00pm

ST. MICHAEL'S POLISH BENEFIT SOCIETY: Meeting next Sunday, Sept 9 (a week from today) at 7:00pm

UPCOMING EVENTS FOR SEPTEMBER:
Sunday, September 9: The Sunday closest to our parish feast day (Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary). We will have a lunch after Mass and celebrate the 105th anniversary of our parish.
Sunday, September 16, Pier 21, Halifax, 11:00am: Some of our parishioners are involved in the unveiling of a monument to honour Polish emigration to Nova Scotia. Everyone is welcome.
Sunday, September 30: Lunch and workshop/Launch at our church of the Atlantic Canada district of the Canadian Polish Congress (with visitors). Community walk to follow.

TRANSLATION OF TODAY'S FIRST READING FROM DEUTERONOMY: Moses said to the people:"Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. In your observance of the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I enjoin upon you, you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it. Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, 'This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.' For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the Lord, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him? Or what great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?"

TRANSLATION OF TODAY’S SECOND READING FROM JAMES 1: Dearest brothers and sisters:All good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

PRAYING FOR PEACE: Yesterday, we marked the 79th anniversary of the invasion of Poland and the start of World War II. Let us pray for an end to wars, invasions, genocide, and hatred. Let us pray for peace.

PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH FOR WORKERS (on Labour Day): Teach me to work as you did, with patience and perseverance, for God and for those whom God has given me to support. Teach me to see in my fellow workers the Christ who desires to be in them, that I may always be charitable and forbearing towards all.

“May the Holy Spirit grant us the grace of conversion and the interior anointing needed to express before these crimes of abuse our compunction and our resolve courageously to combat them." -- from Pope Francis’s letter to the people of God

IN MEMORIAM / BUILDING FUND ENVELOPES / REBUILDING FUND ENVELOPES are at the back of the church. Many thanks for your support.

TO CONTRIBUTE ON-LINE TO OUR REBUILDING, PLEASE GO TO OUR PARISH WEB HOME PAGE (www.stmaryspolishparish.ca) and please click the link to our Canada Helps donation page. It’s a secure system and you’ll receive your charitable tax receipt promptly. Thanks for your support! Please spread the word.

REBUILDING FUND CONTRIBUTIONS: Building Fund contributions will go toward the new church. To contribute to the rebuilding if you do not have an envelope, you can also write on your regular envelope or cheque “Designated to the Rebuilding of St. Mary’s Polish Church.”.Donations can also be made by regular mail: St. Mary's Polish Parish 21 Wesley St. , Sydney, N.S. B1N 2M5. Thank you so much for your support.

THE RENOVATED AND REFURBISHED POLISH VILLAGE HALL is a comfortable, well appointed, modernized venue for events large and small. Please consider renting the hall for your events.The beautifully renovated downstairs is now available again for rentals for holiday parties or other occasions Please call 564-8494;

PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR ON-LINE “VIRTUAL TOUR” AND AN 8.5 MINUTE PARISH WELCOME VIDEO ON OUR WEBSITE:  www.stmaryspolishparish.ca

Życzenia na błogosławionego tygodnia / Wishing you a blessed week!

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TODAY’S HYMNS: 9:30 am Mass
Entrance: Pod Twą obronę (Under Thy Protection)
Psalm: Prawy zamieszka w domu Twoim, Panie (The one who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.)  Pronunciation: Pra-vi / za-me-ESH-ka / v / doh-moo / Tf-oy-eem / Pa-nee-e
Offertory:Bądźże pozdrowiona (Be Praised)
Communion: Już przyszedł Jezus (Jesus Has Arrived)
Post-Communion: Jezu,bądź ze mną (Jesus, Be With Me)
Recessional: Marii chwałę śpiewać będziem (Mary’s Praises I Will Sing)