November 16, 2025 Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
 

November 15, 2025 - Saturday
    4:00 PM sp. Julie and Edwin Kopec from Family
        sp. Helen Buczek from Ann Marie and Rosemary Buczek
        sp. Maryellen and Michael Sweeney from Marcia and Michael Crowley
        sp. Walter Doyle from Doyle Family

November 16, 2025 - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
    9:00 AM sp. Kevin Sharkey (Second Anniversary) from Brothers and Sisters
        sp. Msgr. Stanley Kempa
        sp. Andrzej Ciuksa
        sp. Stanisława, Stanisław, and Krzysztof from Maria
    10:30 AM Congregation of Saint Athanasius Mass

November 22, 2025 - Saturday
    4:00 PM sp. Alexander and Theresa Ogonowski from Family
        sp. Angela "Nellie" Koniowka from Jack and Debbie
        sp. Deceased Pierogi Workers
        sp. Joseph Zebniak from Walter nd Diana Szafran

November 23, 2025 - Our Lord, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
    9:00 AM sp. Stanley and Dorothy Bocko from Christine Hologa
        sp. Jerzy Kasprzak from Zofia and Tadeusz
        sp. Msgr. Stanley Kempa sp. Andrzej Ciuksa
    10:30 AM Congregation of Saint Athanasius

Monday - Friday 12 Noon Mass at Saints Campus Chapel

Please pray for all our parishioners and their families and for those who minister to us - Fr. Sannella, Fr. Janusz, Fr. Healey, Fr. Raju and Deacon Steve.

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Elaine Wrobel.

Offertory:
    Weekly Collection $1442
    Monthly Maintenance Collection $1321
Thank you.

Next weekend's second collection is the Archdiocesan Collection for the Retired Religious Sisters. Since 1988, the collection has provided needed financial support for religious communities who have served the Archdiocese of Boston as educators and health care and social service providers. Please give generously in recognition of the Sisters' years of dedicated service. The Felician Sisters are among those who benefit from this collection.

Exploring the Word
.... Of course, it's not "life" that's contained in our material possessions or even our idea of home. Yet it feels that way because we're incarnate beings for whom the tangible world is the most real one.
Cups and dishes, clothes and furniture, mementos of the years and adventures behind us: There may be little monetary value attached to these things, yet still they're precious, irreplaceable. ... Our attachment to possessions isn't a moral issue until we make it one —until we cross the line where the things we own, own us back. We know we've reached that point when our decisions are based on things rather than people, values, and goals. Will we turn down the right job because it won't support our lifestyle? Do we not help a stranger because we don't want to muss our clothes? Do we withhold the check for disaster relief because of exaggerated car payments? Are our possessions making our choices for us?
As the church year slides predictably into Armageddon again, we're reminded that the stuff claiming our time and attention today will be gone in short order. Lo, the day is coming, the prophet warns once more, when the world we know is going into the dumpster. As we cling to every book we'll never read on every shelf of every room, we need to keep this phrase in mind: Lo, the day is coming, no kidding.
As the disciples followed Jesus fatefully into Jerusalem, the backwater folks around him struggled against the magnetic pull of material wealth. They were slack-jawed at the monumental scale of Herodian walls and buildings: Some stones weighed many tons and were in place at the expense of human lives. Perhaps they felt small and ignorant in the face of such grand things. They were also surely swept up in amazement that Rome and its loyal clients could command such resources. How could Jerusalem's greatness be disputed and the powers-that-be not seem attractive, worthy of honor, perhaps even allegiance? Jesus meanwhile sniffs at these wonders as if at a bad odor. Where the disciples see magnificent walls, Jesus already sees ruins. And indeed, most of the great cities of the ancient world are reduced to ruins today: artful, historically significant, and gone, baby, gone. If we plant our hearts there, we follow our treasure into the rubble.
Reprinted with permission from Prepare the Word (©2025), www.PrepareTheWord.com.

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