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Sunday Vigil
Mass Saturday: 4:30 PM
Sunday 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 11:30 AM
(Polish) and 5:30 PM
Weekdays
Monday: Novena with Mass at 7:00 PM
Tuesday: Morning Mass at 7:00 AM in
English
Wednesday: Novena with Mass at 7:00
PM in Polish
Thursday: Morning Mass at 7:00 AM in
English
Friday: Morning Mass at 7:00 AM in
English
Saturday: Morning Mass at 8:00 AM in
English

First Friday: 7:00 AM Mass in English followed by the Litany to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
7:00 PM Mass with Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Every Monday (Rosary at 6:45 PM) in English.
7:00 PM Mass with Novena to our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Every Wednesday (Rosary at 6:45 PM) in Polish.
Divine Mercy Devotions: Every third Sunday at 3:00 PM – Be sure to check the  bulletin for more information.

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Confession is heard before Weekday Mass and on Saturdays at 3:30 PM

CELEBRATION OF THE MASS – Live Stream Schedule

We are now everywhere you are!  
Join us, virtually, as we Celebrate Mass:
Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 4:30PM – Live Streamed
Note that all Live Streamed Masses are available afterwards so you can view them at your convenience)

Also, we are recording the Mass in tandem with the Live Stream so that if anything goes wrong with the Live Stream we can switch out the Live Stream version with the recorded version.  That will be done as soon as humanly possible.

The Masses will be live streamed on Facebook.  Please stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates.

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Dedicated at St. Michael's Church, Sunday, September 18, 2016

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"God's Holy Mountain We Ascend," is today's special hymn. I have had a great time researching these hymns and today is no exception. What I am finding fascinating is that not all the music is from hundreds of years ago. in yesterday's hymn and today's hymn we find they are quite recent!

Here is the story of today's hymn.

Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one.

Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms.

Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985.(1)
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Good Monday Morning! Today's special hymn selection is "Gather Us In."

Composer Marty Haugen (b. 1950), is a prolific liturgical composer with many songs included in hymnals across the liturgical spectrum of North American hymnals and beyond, with many songs translated into different languages. He was raised in the American Lutheran Church, received a BA in psychology from Luther College, yet found his first position as a church musician in a Roman Catholic parish at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was undergoing profound liturgical and musical changes after Vatican II. Finding a vocation in that parish to provide accessible songs for worship, he continued to compose and to study, receiving an MA in pastoral studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota.


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Thank you to everyone who has been sending in their envelopes and thank you to everyone for your donations.

CALENDAR SEPTEMBER
Sun., Sept. 27 – 2nd collection for HOPES
(Elementary Schools in the Diocese. Our Parish School retains 25%).
Sundays, Sept. 13, 20, & 27 – your free will offering for the Holy Land can be made any of those weeks.
Sun., Sept. 27 – 5:30pm Mass - Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion closing.
Sun., Oct. 4 – 2nd collection-parish school.
Sun., Oct. 5 - Friday Oct. 9 NO MASSES or NOVENA – PRIESTS’ RETREAT
Sun. Oct. 18 – Divine Mercy Devotion 3pm
Sun. Oct. 18 – 2nd collection-World
Mission Sunday
Sun., Oct. 25 – 2nd collection – heating
ALL SOULS INTENTION ENVELOPES MAY BE PUT INTO ANY COLLECTION BASKET OR RECEIVED AT THE RECTORY THROUGH OCTOBER 25. ALL INTENTIONS WILL BE PRAYED FOR DURING THE NINE-DAY ALL SOULS NOVENA WHICH BEGINS ON NOVEMBER 2ND. If you do not have a Novena for All Souls envelope you may submit your intention on a plain envelope.

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Rev. Jan Szylar, CM
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