Saint John Paul II Parish

39 East 22nd Street, Bayonne, NJ 07002-3753 Rectory 201-339-2070; Fax 201-339-3676

Email: stjp2church@gmail.com Web: www.johnpaul2parish.com

Served by: Rev. Zenon Boczek SDS, Pastor

Rev. Pawel Dolinski SDS, Parochial Vicar Rev. Lukasz Kleczka SDS, Parochial Vicar

The purpose of the Salvatorian is to strengthen, to defend and to spread the Catholic faith everywhere insofar as this is committed to it by Divine Providence. Therefore, by exercising this ecclesiastical teaching function in word and writing, it intends to achieve the end that all people might know more and more the one true God and Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ.

Kenneth Woolley, Zofia Castellon - Trustees Agnes Barowicz, Parish Secretary

Blanca Cisneros, Director of Religious Education Dayle Vander Sande, Music Minister

WEEKEND MASSES: Saturday:

4:30 PM at St. Michael’s Church; 5:00 PM at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

Sunday: 8:15 AM; 9:30 AM; 10:45 AM (Polish) & 12:15 PM;

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church 9:30 AM (Italian) - St. Michael’s Church

WEEKDAY MASSES: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church

Monday – Friday: 7:00 AM (English) & 8:00 AM, (Polish) [except Thursday] Saturday: 7:30 AM (Polish) & 8:30 AM (English)

Tuesday 7:00 PM (English), Thursday 7:00 PM (Polish)

St. Michael’s Church 9:00 AM (English) Monday – Friday

CONFESSIONS: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church

Daily from Monday to Friday 7:30 AM, Saturday 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM

PARISH OFFICE HOURS: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Tuesday: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; 1:00PM to 6:00 PM Friday: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; 1:00PM to 3:00 PM

September 8, 2019

Spiritual Offering September 8-14, 2019

ALTAR BREAD AND WINE

+Loretta Szaro (Clare Krzkowski)

SACRED HEART CANDLE + Ethel Skowronski (Daughter Barbara)

DIVINE MERCY CANDLE + Irene Fisher (Barbara & Gene)

BLESSED MOTHER + Josephine Kleczynski (Daughter Helen & Margie)

OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA CANDLE Blessings for Teachers, Parents and Students of Polish

School

ST. ANNE CANDLE Happy Birthday in Heaven & Anniversary for +Ann

Malkowski (Barbara, Denise, Lucas, Liam & Lily Ann)

ST. ANTHONY CANDLE Blessings for STJPII Parish Priests-Pastor Zenon, Fr.

Pawel & Fr. Lukas (Polish School)

ST. FRANCIS CANDLE + Together forever Maryann Kiczek

(with love husband Walter)

ST. JOHN PAUL II CANDLE + Kenneth Tarantino (Mom)

ST. JUDE CANDLE All Victims living & deceased of W.T.C. attack

(Pat Suckiel)

ST. STANISLAUS CANDLE Special Intentions

ST. THERESA CANDLE Blessings for John Godfrey (Chris, Rob & Ted Durak)

OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CANDLE Blessings for Hernandez, Tejeda & Roman Families

SATURDAY, September 7 2019 4:30 PM (SM) ++ Steven, Marion & Robert Margetak (Daughter in-law) 5:00 PM + Lidia Posluszny (Kolakowski Family) SUNDAY, September 8, 2019 8:15 AM + Albert Stabulis ( Greg & Debby Czerwienski) 9:30 AM + Maryann Kiczek (Husband Walter) 9:30 AM (SM) ++ Giuseppe & Lucresia Demasi (Rosa & Gerace) 10:45 AM 4th Birthday Blessings for Adam (Mom & Dad) 12:15 PM + Ann Malkowski - in memory of her 103 birthday and 7th Anniversary in Heaven (Lee, Richie, Barbara & Families) MONDAY, September 9, 2019 7:00 AM ++ Marion & Steven Lukas & Family (Niece Dolores) 8:00 AM + George Kolakowski (Brother & Family) 9:00 AM (SM) For Parishioners TUESDAY, September 10, 2019 7:00 AM + Luca Piscitelli (Vicky Hajduk) 8:00 AM + Zafia Mackow (Genia Wieczorek) 9:00 AM (SM) + Anthony Costantino (Mom & Dad) 7:00 PM + Zofia Mackow (J. Obolewicz) WEDNESDAY, September 11, 2019 7:00 AM + Luca Piscitelli (David & Eileen Ascough) 8:00 AM + Mary Ann Kiczek (Husband Walter) 9:00 AM (SM) + Elizabeth Norton THURSDAY, September 12, 2019 7:00 AM + Mary Czachnowski (Daughter Terry Rogozenski) 9:00 AM (SM) + Janina Malik (Maryann & Vincent Angrosina) 7:00 PM (Pl.) ++ Anna, Marceli & Kazimierz Gosiewski (Irena Gosiewska) FRIDAY, September 13, 2019 7:00 AM + Anthony Rosciszewski (sister in-law Dorothy) 8:00 AM + Maryann Kiczek (Husband Walter) 9:00 AM (SM) ++ Clara & Vincent P. Posluszny (Revelt Family) SATURDAY, September 14, 2019 7:30 AM ++ Alexander & Wladayslawa Szydlowski (rodzina) 8:30 AM + Michael Slepak (Andrew J. Merkowsky) 4:30 PM (SM) + Sophie Vanderleck (Joe Olesky) 5:00 PM + Anna Stanislawski (family) SUNDAY, September 15, 2019 8:15 AM + Stephen Mages (Children & Grandchildren) 9:30 AM + Dr. Ulderico Calizo (Friends) 9:30 AM (SM) ++ Gabriele & Michalina Megale (Frank & Annina Sette) 10:45 AM ++ Anna & Stefan Swierzbinski (Renata & Mariusz) 12:15 PM + Marianna Chojnowska ( Krystyna & Boleslaw Jagoda)

Our Grateful Tithe to God:

September 1, 2019 Regular: $5,592.00

Maintenance Collection: $2,674.00

We thank all our parishioners for their generous support of our parish! Bóg Zapłać! Grazie!

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 8, 2019

“Everyone of you who does not renounce all his

possessions cannot be my disciple” Luke 14:33

Saturday -Sunday, September 7-8, 2019 Catholic University of America Collection Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Seniors-12:00 noon Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Eucharistic Adoration - 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, St. Michael’s Church Saturday - Sunday, September 14-15, 2019 Assessment Collection

Reserve your seat for Our Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to the

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC,

scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2019. For reservation please call our office

at 201-339-2070.Details to be announced.

Don’t Delay, Register today!

PRE– K & KINDERGARTEN

1st grade.-8th grade First Communion

Confirmation RCIA

Religious Education Classes will start on

Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:30 AM. Family Mass is at 9:30 AM

Call the office at 201-339-2070 ext. 10

SAVE THE DATE! St. Pope John Paul II

Society Harvest Festival

Please mark your calendars and plan on attending the St. Pope John Paul II Society’s

Annual Harvest Festival on October 13th. Enjoy a full-course delicious dinner, super tricky tray prizes,

mystery bags, and more. Proceeds benefit parish youth and vocations. A full announcement, provid-

ing details of the event, will be made as we draw closer to the date.

Rosary Society News New Members, both men and women, are welcome to join our Rosary Society. September 29 will be the investiture of new members and blessing of lifetime members at the 9:30 am Mass at Mt. Carmel Church. Afterwards we will proceed to the Parish center for a

light breakfast and our meeting. If you have any questions, please call Mary Ann Decha

at 732-887-5946.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA DEVOTION

We invite you to our monthly devotion to Our Lady of Fati-

ma with procession and Rosary (in three languages) on Friday, September 13 after Holy Mass

at 7:00 PM.

NABOŻEŃSTWO DO MATKI BOŻEJ

FATIMSKIEJ

Zapraszamy wszystkich na to nabożeństwo popłączone

z procesją i różańcem (w trzech językach)

W piątek 13 września po wieczornej Mszy św. o godz. 7:00.

DEVOZIONE ALLA MADONNA DI

FATIMA

Ti invitiamo al nostra devozione mensile del-la Madonna di Fatima e al Rosario (a tre lingue)

Venerdi 13 Settembre dopo

Flowers for Blessed Mother’s Altar

September 8, 2019

Were offered in the intentions:

In Loving Memory of the Rajkowski Family

Reserve your seat for a trip to:

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sight and Sound Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 8:30 AM

Bus will leave from St. John Paul II Church, cost $140 per person, which

includes: transportation, lunch and show. To reserve your seat please call:

Elisabetta 201-858-2069, Rachel 201-310-6607 or Lucia 201-858-8582

Azione Cattolica Italiana is having a Dinner/Tricky Tray on Sunday September 22 at

1 PM at Villa Maria. We are asking for donations, any new gift items.

We are gladly accept donations of any gifts certificate of retail store or restaurant.

Any questions please call Rachel 201-310-6607.

St. Ann’s Society

is having their 85th Annual Fundraiser luncheon at the Chandelier on October 20, 2019 at Noon.

Tickets are$35.00 and selling fast. Please call Rachel at 201-243-0678.

St. Henry Parish will hold a Bereavement Minis-try Group beginning September 9th for 5

weeks for those who are grieving from the loss of a loved one. Call St. Henry Rectory at 201-436-

0857 to register and for more information.

The Italian Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Newark on behalf of the coordinator,

Msgr. Joseph Ambrosio will be sponsoring a bus ride to the National Shrine of St. Padre Pio in

Barto, PA. The details are as follows: Saturday October 5, 2019 bus leaves at 9:00am sharp, returns at 5:00pm from the parking lot of Our

Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Newark. Tickets are $30.00 per person. Please bring your

own lunch, there is a cafe' on site which sells light refreshments and beverages. There will be

ample time for visiting the grounds, exhibits, and various shrines.

For more information call Eric Lavin at 201-566-8862

September 14th The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Early in the fourth century, Saint Helena, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, went to Jerusalem in search of the holy places of Christ’s life. She razed the second-century Temple of Aph-rodite, which tradition held was built over the Sav-ior’s tomb, and her son built the Basilica of the Ho-ly Sepulcher on that spot. During the excavation, workers found three crosses. Legend has it that the one on which Jesus died was identified when its touch healed a dying woman. The cross immediately became an object of veneration. At a Good Friday celebration in Jerusa-lem toward the end of the fourth century, according to an eyewitness, the wood was taken out of its sil-ver container and placed on a table together with the inscription Pilate ordered placed above Jesus’ head: Then “all the people pass through one by one; all of them bow down, touching the cross and the inscription, first with their foreheads, then with their eyes; and, after kissing the cross, they move on.” To this day, the Eastern Churches, Catholic and Orthodox alike, celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on the September anniversary of the ba-silica’s dedication. The feast entered the Western calendar in the seventh century after Emperor Hera-clius recovered the cross from the Persians, who had carried it off in 614, 15 years earlier. According to the story, the emperor intended to carry the cross back into Jerusalem himself, but was unable to move forward until he took off his imperial garb and became a barefoot pilgrim. Reflection The cross is today the universal image of Christian belief. Countless generations of artists have turned it into a thing of beauty to be carried in procession or worn as jewelry. To the eyes of the first Christians, it had no beauty. It stood outside too many city walls, decorated only with decaying corpses, as a threat to anyone who defied Rome’s authority—including Christians who refused sacri-fice to Roman gods. Although believers spoke of the cross as the instrument of salvation, it seldom appeared in Christian art unless disguised as an an-chor or the Chi-Rho until after Constantine’s edict of toleration.

Salvatoriane z Verony zapraszają na rekolekcje Lectio Divina

prowadzone przez ks. Joahima Stecel, SDS. 4-6 października, 2019.

Posiłek, przekąski i napoje zapewnione. Po rezerwację i dodatkowe informacje prosimy

dzwonić 201-220-1949. 23 Crestmont Rd. Verona, NJ.

Rekolekcje dla osób po doświadczeniu aborcji

Jeśli znasz osobę, która cierpi w wyniku doświadczenia aborcji - zaproś ją na uzdrawiające REKOLEKCJE, prowadzone w języku polskim.

Rekolekcje odbędą się w Amerykańskiej Częstochowie w dniach 20-22 września 2019r.

Informacje i zapisy: 201-754-8201 (można dzwo-nić lub tekstować),e-mail

Dear Parishioners I would like to thank you for your

support and donation to the new A.C. system in the church and to the cleaning

of our parish grounds in regards to the congested soil .

God bless you!

Due to remediation work our annual parish picnic has been canceled. We will have a Tricky Tray in February 2020. Thank you for the donations you made to the picnic. We can use it for a new cooling system, for Tricky Tray or

we can return it. Please contact Rectory Office regarding your donations

at 201-339-2070

Altar Flower for this week were offered

in the intention: Blessings for Teachers, Parents and Students of

Polish School

Święto Podwyższenia Krzyża -14 września

Wiąże się ono z odnalezieniem drzewa krzyża, na któ-rym umarł Jezus Chrystus a także wyraża głęboki sens krzyża w życiu chrześcijanina. Istotą święta jest uka-zanie tajemnicy Krzyża jako ceny zbawienia człowie-ka. Początki święta związane są z odnalezieniem przez św. Helenę relikwii krzyża na początku IV wieku i poświęceniem w Jerozolimie bazyliki ku jego czci w 335 r. Na pamiątkę, tego wydarzenia, ostatecznie 14 września, w Kościele obchodzi się uroczystość Pod-wyższenia Krzyża świętego. Znak krzyża był obecny w chrześcijaństwie od śmier-ci Jezusa.W początkach Kościoła nieraz przyjmował formę kotwicy albo trójzębu. Jako przedmiot kultu upowszechnił się i nabrał znaczenia po roku 313. W tym bowiem roku, według przekazu, cesarz Konstan-tyn Wielki, przed bitwą z uzurpatorem Maksencju-szem, zobaczył na tle słońca znak krzyża i słowa"w tym znaku zwyciężysz". Poza tym tenże cesarz zniósł karę śmierci przez ukrzyżowanie. Do VI w. na krzyżu nie umieszczano postaci Chrystu-sa. Także później nie ukazywano Jezusa umęczonego lecz chwalebnego: jako Króla z diademem zamiast cierniowej korony na głowie, albo jako Arcykapłana, albo jako Dobrego Pasterza. Od wieku XII pojawia się motyw cierpienia. Od tego czasu aż do dziś w Kościele łacińskim zwykle używa-ny jest krzyż gotycki, pasyjny, który wskazuje na mę-kę i śmierć Chrystusa jako cenę zbawienia. W tradycji prawosławnej do dziś używany jest krzyż chwalebny.

Od czasów Konstantyna, kiedy to chrześcijanie uzy-skali wolność wyznawania swojej wiary krzyż stał się znakiem rozpoznawczym chrześcijan. Od tego czasu jest bardzo często używany w liturgii i uświęca całe życie chrześcijańskie: zaczyna i kończy modlitwę, dzień i każdą ważniejszą czynność, uświęca prze-strzeń i jest używany przy wszelkich błogosławień-stwach.

Ojcowie Kościoła podkreślali, że krzyż jest symbo-lem, w którym streszczają się najistotniejsze prawdy wiary chrześcijańskiej. Św. Jan Damasceński pisze: "Krzyż Pana naszego Jezusa Chrystusa, a nie cokol-wiek innego, zwyciężył śmierć, zgładził grzech praoj-ca, pokonał piekło, darował nam zmartwychwstanie, udzielił siły do wzniesienia się ponad doczesność i ponad samą śmierć, zgotował powrót do dawnej szczęśliwości, otworzył bramy raju, umieścił naturę naszą po prawicy Boga, uczynił nas Jego dziećmi i dziedzicami".