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SACRAMENTS: Reconciliation: 1/2 hour before & after mass on Thursday Friday & Saturday

Baptism: See Fr. Boguslaw before mass on weekends. Instructions required.

Marriage: Contact Office not less than eight months before desired date. Instruction required.

Children’s Sacraments: Contact office or Fr. Boguslaw.

Communion to Hospital or home for Sick & Shut-ins Contact Parish Office.

* REFLECTION *

“Lord, you are just, and the judgements you make are right. Show mercy when you judge me, your servant”. We profess a just God whose judgements are right. We ask that He show his mercy according to His great goodness. Our request is humble. A believing person is a humble per-son, clean and modest. Humility – helps to place our matters before God and then after with other people. Humility helps us to know how we stand. Humility helps us to recognize our vocation and goal. Humility helps us to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and God step by step, and to follow Him in everything. In the end humility helps us to look for and find true wisdom, for “God gives grace to the humble.” For without this grace, “who has learned your counsel unless you have given wisdom and sent your Spirit from on high? And thus…people were taught, what pleases you and were saved by wisdom” that is Jesus Christ, who is the Wisdom of God. This is why wis-dom recommends us to pray: teach us to count our days, that we attain the wisdom of the heart, blessed by Your grace and convinced, that you support the work of our hand that we through our days would rejoice and be glad. In the second reading from the letter of St. Paul to Phile-mon despite its private character, throws light on the peda-gogical -(profession of teaching), methods of the Apostle and on the relations predominant in the early Church. The ad-dressee of this letter is Philemon, a wealthy Colossian, grate-ful to St. Paul, for his conversion. This entitles St. Paul to express a request for forgiveness for the escaped prisoner called Onesimus. (It must be remembered that an escape at this time was severely punished by Roman law, which de-manded the burning of a brand with the letter “F”- (Fugitives) on the forehead of the runaway, and putting around his neck an iron ring to be worn until death). Paul intercedes for Onesimus, because he is already a Christian, also converted by St. Paul, in prison, from where he sent this letter. By sending the fugitive with the letter of recommen-dation, St. Paul is confident of a successful result of his inter-cession, confident in the magnanimity of Philemon. It is evi-dent how Christianity slowly changed the disgraceful insti-tute of slavery instilling for the faithful the basis of the new brotherhood in the Lord. “Welcome him as you would me.”

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

September 8th, 2019 YEAR C

For emergency contact: Fr. Boguslaw @ 705-253-5523

WEEKEND

MASSES

Sat. - 8:30am - Bilingual - 4:00pm - English Sun. - 9:30am - English - 11:00am - Polish

WEEKDAY MASSES: See Announced Masses

Pastor - Rev. Boguslaw Jaroszek Deacon - Rev. Mr. Larry Comte Wake Service Minister ~ Sr. Norma Zorzi Pastoral Leadership Team - Deacon Larry Comte, Ed Briglio Parish Pastoral Council Krystyna Ferguson, Chair C.W.L.-Contact: Marg Hammond 256-5512 K. of C. - Ernie Console, G.K. Prayer Line - Mary Hunt 759-1689 Circle of Rosary - M. Zelek & D. Labay Kitchen Manager - J. Lukacena

Secretary - Marion Leach Office Hours: Tues. Wed. Thurs.

9:00am to 1:00pm. Office: 705-253-5523 Fax: 705-253-7560 Email: holyfamilysecretary@shaw.ca Website: www.holyfamilyparishssm.ca

208 Prentice Ave. Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6C 4P9

Mark your calendar— the next Life Chain will be

on Sunday, October 6th, 2019 from 2:00 - 3:00

JOIN A MINISTRY Be a part of the church community. Contact one of the leaders listed below.

Counters: Marg - 256-5512 Choir: Marcella - 942-3811 Eucharist: Ed - 779-3552

Lector: Dora - 759-2477 Offertory: Office - 253-5523 Welcomers: Office - 253-5523

Polish Ministries: See Rom after the Polish Mass

Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, Anderson Lake, Espanola THE PASCAL MYSTERY Weekend October 25-27, 2019

Facilitated by Sr. Pat Carter, csj, & Tara Hurford Regular Cost: Adults $160.00 Students $55.00 Early Bird Cost: Adults $140.00 Students $50.00

Contact: Doreen Merkas, 110-35 Spruce St., Garson, ON P3L 1N7 Phone 705-693-0424 or email zagorja@sympatico.ca

Includes registration, six meals and two nights lodging.

ROSARY RALLY—Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 at 3:00pm, Paris St. Sudbury, at the Katherine Bell Gazebo, Bell Park. We as Catholics are trying to promote, say and spread the practice of praying the Rosary with families, children, and youth in a public forum.

AN URGENCY OF PRAYER: We need to counter the dark principalities that are at work in our country. There was news recently of a satanic public event in Ottawa only blocks from the Notre Dame Cathedral.

(If you cannot attend in Sudbury, then a private rosary would be an alternative to combat evil forces that plague our country and our world.) Bishop Damphousse encourages your participation.

"They will both be one body" - but only when they have a holy, inseparable relationship with God: the sac-rament of marriage. This conjugal bodily union is their privilege, created and planned by God. Hardly anyone realizing this union remembers that it is God's plan for man and for humanity. This is how human love is to be realized and this is how human life and family are to be created. It is an action for love and life, and therefore a fact demanding the highest respect - and yet how-that today is humiliated and stripped of proper content. The mystery of human love, or the proper meaning of the marriage act, lies in spiritual love union. A marriage act is a mutual gift. "Gift," "accepting a gift," are expressions that often appear in the statements of John Paul II. The gift of man for man - what gift could be greater here on earth? But this great dimension of marital reality is not noticed - its greatness disappears, obscured by bodily sensation. The marriage act should be a great holy day, a special moment in the life of the two, their intimate secret - a unique fact. They are united - like nobody and ever. The sanctity of this act does not appear automatically, but certain conditions must be met: the spouses must be in a state of grace, they must have the right to act, and thus be bound by the sacrament; it must be free, under-taken with the consent of both, not imposed by force or forced; it must be intimate, so it must be a secret hid-den from people, and only revealed to God - so it cannot be shown or photographed; and is to be open to life, so he cannot be artificially inseminated in any way, although of course he cannot always be fertile. The agreement between the spouses in the act must be full. United in body and soul, they are to be full of grati-tude to each other and to the Creator who created them in this way. The full and proper understanding of the marriage act raises admiration and respect. The modern world humiliates all values, so spouses who believe in God have the task of restoring what is denied by the world - dignity and holiness.

Daily Readings ~ Year C I

Sep 9 1st Reading: Colossians 1.24-2.3 Gospel: Luke 6.6-11

Sep 10 1st Reading: Colossians 2.6-15 Gospel: Luke 6.12-19

Sep 11 1st Reading: Colossians 3.1-11 Gospel: Luke 6.20-26

Sep 12 1st Reading: Colossians 3.12-17 Gospel: Luke 6.27-38

Sep 13 1st Reading: 1 Timothy 1.1-2, 12-14 Gospel: Luke 6.39-42

Sep 14 1st Reading: Numbers 21.4-9 Gospel: John3.13-17

Sep 15

1st Rdg: Exodus 32.7-11, 13-14 2nd Reading:1 Timothy 1.12-17 Gospel: Luke 15.1-32

Pray for the sick in our parish: Frank, Theo, Edith, Patti Anne,

Marilyn, Elda, Melissa, Mercedes, Richard, Janina, Vince, Darlene, Julia, Joan, Claudette, Pauline, Eno, Deacon Larry, Patti,

Judy, Jennifer, Donelda, Norma, Gerry, Daniel, Louis, Stella, Helen, Rosemary, Ted,

Dorothy, Alice, Giselle, Moe & Marcella.

* REFLECTION * c o n t i n u e d …

English Ministers Sept. 14th & 15th ExtraOrdinary Ministers of Holy Communion:

4:00pm 9:30am

M. Czop, E. Briglio M. Caputo, M. Chiarello

Lectors: 4:00pm 9:30am

S. Charron K. Hemsworth

Welcomers 4:00pm 9:30am

A. Robibaro, T. Robibaro J. McLeod & Welcomers

Polish Ministers Sept. 15th Lektorzy: Czytanie Modlitwy

11:00am G. Rogaczewski H. Kwolek

Dary: 11:00am M. & S. Lukacena

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right; treat your servant in accord

with your merciful love. ...Psalm 118, 137, 124

Announced Weekly Masses Mon Sep 9

St. Peter Claver, Priest NO MASS

Tues Sep 10 NO MASS

Wed Sep 11

9:30am

7:00pm

Józefa Krukar w r. śm. zam. J. Krukar

Thurs Sep 12

9:30am

THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY

Fri Sep 13

3:00pm

St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Doctor

At the Hour of God’s Mercy for atonement for our sins and for the sins of the whole world.

~ Sat Sep 14

8:30am

4:00pm

THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

George Spahis by Alvaro & Teresa Robibaro Fr. Gerry Yadivisiak by Ina & Jim Dear Alecta Rousell by Phyllis & Shirley

Sun Sep 15

9:30am

11:00am

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME OUR LADY OF SORROWS

~ For all parishioners

FROM THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH & PARISH 1. Bóg uczynił nas swoimi przybranymi dziećmi, dlatego prosimy: postąp z nami według Twej wielkiej

dobroci. Dziś wyznajemy: Panie Ty zawsze byłeś nam ucieczką. Mądrość Boża znajduje radość przy synach ludzkich. Dar wiary zobowiązuje nas do rozpoznania w niewolniku Onezymie, dziec -ka Bożego, a jeśli chcemy być uczniami Pana Jezusa, to musimy zostawić za sobą to, kim byliśmy i żyć jak na dzieci Boże przystało. Mądrością jest rozpoznać w bliźnich synów Bożych, umiłowane dzieci Boże.

2. September 12, Most Holy Name of Mary. This feast honouring the name of Mary was instituted by Pope Innocent XI in 17th century. God the Father is glorified by the exalted role in salvation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thus, her name is one of honour, a holy name, a maternal name and a name responsive to the needs of the Church.

3. September 15, Our Lady of Sorrows. Pius VII extended the feast to the whole Church in commemoration of the suffering he had endured during his captivity in France. The seven sorrows are: Simeon’s prophecy at the temple, the flight into Egypt, the disappearance of the boy Jesus in Jerusalem, the road to Calvary, the crucifixion, the removal from the cross and the entombment.

On the New School Year 2019 - 2020 For the new school year; Dear Parents, Teachers and Dear Children. First, let us thank God for the holi-days and ask for blessing and God's protection in the New School Year. We are asking for prosperity for our families, children & teachers. Please help us solve the difficult educational problems. Let Schools prepare students well for social life.

Let us pray, Almighty God, form us in the school of Your Gospel that we may feed on Your Word

and Your Body and search for the Truth and testify through the works of love. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Reminder C.W.L. meeting;

This Monday Sept.9th @ 7:00pm

The acclamation for the Alleluia is a plea from the psalmist. “Let your face shine upon your servant and teach me your laws”. Today the Church, which is the servant of the Lord, picks up this plea. The Church is a brotherly community of sons and daughters, united in faith, different members, creating one Body, whose head is Christ, the Servant of the Lord”. “He who does not deny everyone cannot be a follower of Jesus” Whoever does not carry his own cross cannot be my disciple. A follower of Christ must first of all sit down, contemplate, can I manage, be brave to those who approaches him? This is that Wisdom which the Lord Jesus teaches a Christian even now, that he cannot manage, but with the Lord and for the Lord, everything is possible. This is why the Church cares that our participation in the Eucharist strengthens our unity, our brotherhood in the Lord. The Communion antiphon expresses this well: “Like a deer that longs for running streams, my soul longs for you, my God”. “My soul is thirsting for the living God” (ps42) Humility helps us to recognize the way, the Truth, and the Life. As well it helps us to follow Jesus step by step our Lord, and God and to follow Him in every thought. In the end humility helps us to look for and to find true wisdom. “God gives grace to the humble”. Without this grace, who can search them out, or had given wisdom and sent your Holy Spirit from on high? And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight that is Jesus Christ. He is the wisdom of God, Our resurrection and our life. (There are 3 conditions for us to belong to Christ. First one must renounce all things. This is to be our choice. A readiness to lose all for Christ. God gives us a mother and father to love but even before our parents - God must be first. Second, we must creatively use the life that God has given us. Raise our children, guarantee the necessities of life. The third we must see whether we can conquer the evil in our life completely or whether we can defeat it by diplomatic means. This is like the wheat and weeds growing until harvest time. To hate in the Jewish tongue is to love someone less… Jesus calls us to sit down think over, figure out whether we can bear his cross.

The beauty of music and art: St. John Paul II points beautifully to the source of all creative inspiration—the Holy Spirit, the breath of the Author and Creator of the universe.

“The divine breath of the Creator Spirit reaches out to human genius and stirs its creative power. He touches it with a kind of inner illumination which brings together the sense of the good & the beautiful, and he awakens energies of mind and heart which enable it to conceive an idea and give it form in a work of art.”

As St. John Paul II puts it, “Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future.” What a thought! To think of the stirring power of beauty, and its ability to captivate the human heart and move it to higher aspirations!