Saint Albert the Great

5555 West STATE ROAD BURBANK

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT - FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Parish

ILLINOIS 60459

Welcome
All are In this House of God
REV. MICHAEL L. ZOUFAL, PASTOR REV. JOSEPH P. LYNCH, PASTOR EMERITUS REV. RYSZARD CZERNIAK, SCh. ASSOCIATE PASTOR IRVIN A. BRYCE, JR., PERMANENT DEACON
MASSES SATURDAY 5:00 PM (Sunday Obligation) SUNDAY 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (English-Polish) - 12:00 PM 6:15 AM, 1:30 PM and 5:00 PM Polish Masses 6:30 PM Spanish Mass WEEKDAY MASSES (Monday-Friday) 6:30 AM, 7:30 AM (Polish), 8:30 AM SATURDAY MASS 7:30 AM ( Polish) 8:30 AM HOLY DAYS Please refer to schedules printed in the bulletin prior to the Holiday. Vigil Mass - 7:00 PM (evening before Holy Day) SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 4:00-4:45 PM SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays at 3:15 PM Baptismal Preparation Class Last Monday of month at 7:00 PM Parish registration and attendance at the Baptismal Preparation Class are required prior to Baptism. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE All wedding arrangements must be made with a parish priest at least 5 months prior to scheduled date. All couples are required to participate in a marriage preparation program. Parish registration is a requirement. Times of marriages are as follows: Saturday 12:00 PM and 2:30 PM

Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; teach me your paths.

Psalm 25:4

RECTORY ...(708)423-0321 PLEBANIA (po polsku)...(708)423-0321 For Sacraments of Baptism, Marriage, parish registration, convert instruction, prolonged illness at home. PARISH WEBSITE www.stalbertgreat.com E-MAIL StAlbert@archchicago.org PARISH BOUNDARIES North-75th St. East-Cicero, West-Narragansett, South-87th St. Cicero to Austin) 83rd St. (Austin to Narragansett) MINISTRY OF CARE.(708)423-0321 Deacon Irvin A. Bryce Jr. PRAYER NETWORK....(708)966-4068 Mrs. Marlene Rybicki SCHOOL..(708)424-7757 Mrs. Marilyn Kurowski, Principal 5535 West State Road http;//home.comcast.net/~st.alberts/ CCD OFFICE...(708)636-0406 Mr. Kevin Wiseman, Coordinator 5535 West State Road

MASS INTENTIONS
Monday, February 27, 2012 6:30 7:30 - Jan Jagoda 8:30 - Special Intention 1:30PM - STATIONS OF THE CROSS (School) Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:30 7:30 8:30 - Patrick Olet Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:30 7:30 8:30 - Emily Sekan Thursday, March 1, 2012 6:30 - Isabela Resurreccion 7:30 - Jozef & Elzbieta 9th Wedding Anniversary 8:30 - Michael Walker, Edward Skrzyszowski 7:00PM - PARISH HOLY HOUR First Friday, March 2, 2012 6:30 - Purgatorial Society 7:30 8:30 - Margaret Weber - Birthday Remembrance - Harry Lott 5:30PM - STATIONS OF THE CROSS (in English) 6:00PM - Michael Drozdowski 6:30PM - STATIONS OF THE CROSS (in Polish) 8:00PM - STATIONS OF THE CROSS (in Spanish) Saturday, March 3, 2012 7:30 8:30 - Florence Orr, Thomas ODea 5:00PM - Daniel & Bonnie Marszalek 23rd Wedding Anniversary - Rosella E. Nealis Sunday, March 4, 2012 Second Sunday of Lent 6:15 - Michal & Wiktoria Szuba - Antonina & Kazimierz Dlugopolski 7:30 - For the Parishioners, Laverne Kupiec 9:00 10:30 - Janina Skobel & Jan Skobel - Cecylia & Jan Modlak 12:00PM - Leon Latocha & Sophie Latocha - Anna Cyrwus, Egan & McKearney Families 1:30PM - Jan Budz, Stanislaw Tylka - Jozef Zarebczan 5:00PM 6:30PM - Juan Pablo Landeros

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Please join us for the Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent at the following times:

5:30 p.m. (in English), 6:30 p.m. (in Polish) 8:00 p.m. (in Spanish)
St. Albert the Great School
Our students will attend Stations of the Cross in church every Monday at 1:30 p.m.
You are welcome to join them.

LAMENTATIONS - GORZKIE ALE

Every Sunday of Lent 4:30 p.m. (in Polish)

ROSARY Every Day after 6:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m. Mass (in English)

Memorial Blue Candles Available You can establish a beautiful memorial to a loved one by inscribing a candle with his or her name. This candle will be lit and placed under the statue of our Blessed Mother. The donation is 150 per year. The year starts on February 1st and continues to January 31st. Since February is just about gone the donation will be $137.50. The money collected is used for maintenance of our church. If you are interested in having a candle lit for a loved one please contact the rectory 708 423-0321.
LET US PRAY
For the sick: Michael Mazurek, Pat Fischer, Jeffrey Andrews, Barbara Pavlich, Adam Bartosik Bill & Ruth Eichnamm, Diane & Robert Juris, Mary Ellen Conley, Therese West, Dorothy Reid, Erin DeValek, Anna Iacovetti, Francis Sessino, Salvatore Bottari, Theresa Lonski, Alex Silverman, Pat Williams,Daniel Stopka, Harriet Madey, Richard Polancyk, Timothy Polancyak, Andrea Pellicano, Christina Gazda, Sister Patricia Labuda, Cooper Grant, Carol Berghuis, Johana Pusateri, Janelle Demski, Walter Anderson, Denis Hedderman & Family, Loretta Paulus, Shirley McVane, Catherine, Katie & Lucy Hedderman, Richard & Marilyn Buchalski, Don Kupiec, Cheryl Korosa, Carol Mariano, Penny Prokop, Mary Ann Riccio. For the deceased: Tadeusz Pikul.

Happy Wedding Anniversary

9 years - Jozef & Elzbieta

23 years - Daniel & Bonnie Marszalek

A NOT E FROM OU R PASTOR

M y g o o d Pe o p le o f St . A l b e r t t h e G re a t:
In November of 2011, I received a letter from the Office of the Mayor of Burbank, banning all carnivals in the City of Burbank. This came to me as a surprise, because I found our parish carnival to be a great community-building event. I felt that it helped to strengthen our community, as well as provide much-needed funds for our parish school. After a brief conversation with the Mayor in December, he assured me he would not change his mind on this subject. He felt that the carnival workers endangered the community. I brought the issue before our carnival committee to see what other community building events we might have and expressed my concerns about the financial loss for the school. We began to look at other fundraising events, as well as, the possibility of moving our carnival to another location. Two weeks ago, I and a few members of the carnival committee had the opportunity to meet with the mayor of Bridgeview, senator Landek, to see if the City of Bridgeview would be able to accommodate our carnival. Senator Landek was very kind and offered us a location in Bridgeview (79th Street & Harlem Ave.). Our carnival committee readily accepted this offer. I am grateful for Senator Landeks kindness and support of our parish and school. Though the carnival will lose some of the community-building atmosphere that we always sought to built, it will still bring our parish together to work for and support our catholic school. Concerning our convent building, we are still in the process of working with the insurance company in regards to the repairs needed. I believe the convent will be closed for use until the middle of May. I have not heard any results yet from the police investigation. When further information is available, I will certainly inform you. I ask you to pray for the success of our parish carnival and please pray for those who severely damaged our convent. Respectfully,

Fr. Zoufal

For I was hungrywhatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.
This years theme for Catholic Relief Services Operation Rice Bowl, For I was hungry, reminds us that when we serve our brothers and sisters in need, we also serve Jesus. This Lent, we answer the call to serve the least of our brothers and sisters through Catholic Relief Services Operation Rice Bowl. Since 1975, Operation Rice Bowl has offered Catholics in the United States a way to connect with our brothers and sisters around the world. This Lenten season, CRS invites Catholics to pray with their families and faith communities; fast in solidarity with those who hunger; learn about our global community and the challenges of poverty overseas; and give sacrificial contributions to those in need. More information is available at our website: http://orb.crs.org

Group Guadalupano
Saturday, February 25 6:00 pm-7:00 pm Sunday, February 26 9:00 am3:00 pm
in Rogers Hall

Invites all parishioners to the sale of

TAMALES

Dont miss out on these delicious homemade tamales

Thank You for Your Support.

Please Join Us for Great Food & Family Fun! St. Albert the Great Parish

FISH DINNER $9.00 SHRIMP DINNER $11.00 LASAGNA DINNER $7.00 PASTA DINNER $6.00 FISH SANDWICH $5.00 KIDS DINNER $4.00 FRIES $2.00

FRIDAYS DURING LENT

MARCH 02, 09, 16, 23 AND 30 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM IN ROGERS HALL
All our volunteers are ready to serve you the best fish, shrimp, and pasta dinners. Dinner includes choice of baked potato or fries, or mac/cheese, also roll and butter, dessert, coffee/juice

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION The 2012 Mass Book is Open By the First Sunday of Lent, many people have Please, stop at the rectory given up on giving up. Yet experiencing hunger for if you would like to reserve favorite things is a sign of a desire to face our deepest hungers. We do not embrace fasting as individuMasses for your loved ones. als, but rather as the communitys way of life in this Rectory is open: season. Sometimes it helps to see Sunday as an oasis Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 8:30 pm in the Lenten desert, a place where fasting is not as Saturday 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Sunday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm strictly observed. If we count the days of the Lenten calendar, starting backward from the end of Lent on Holy Thursday, it is difficult to measure the forty FIRST FRIDAY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION MARCH 2ND, 2012 - ALL DAY days. Many are surprised to learn that the Sundays are counted as part of Lent, but are not counted in It is as close as you can come in this tallying the forty days of the Lenten fast. For that, we life talking with God face to face. count the fast backward into last week, beginning on You are important to the Lord. Ash Wednesday. So, until today we have been in the Come when you are hurting, you have fear, anxiety, pain and sufferLenten fast, days that function as a kind of overture ing of any kind. Come and spend to a symphony of conversion. time with Jesus Christ Today Lent solemnly begins, marked in many places by the sending of catechumens and candidates REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL to the bishop for the call to the Easter sacraments. Lent is the time of year we devote to Tomorrow with them, we embrace the Lenten fast again. Today we are exactly forty days from the scrutinizing our lives in the light of our baptism into the death and resurrection of Jesus. opening of the Paschal Triduum on Holy Thursday. Todays readings are a nice shorthand cateF i r s t S u nd a y S e c on d C o ll e c t i o n On the weekend of March 3/4 2012 we will take up chism of what our baptized lives mean. As Second Collection for the Parish Needs. Your contri- Noah passed through the waters of the flood to bution will support the growing costs of maintenance a covenant with God, so did we enter into a of the church, school, convent and the parish covenant, a promised relationship with God grounds. We appreciate your generosity. through our baptism. Peters letter gives an explicit explanaFeb. 27 - March 3 at St. Alberts tion of what our baptism means: it is an appeal Monday, February 27 we make to God for a clear conscience. How do we obtain this clear conscience? The words 7:00 pm Baptismal Prep Class proclaimed by Jesus immediately following his Tuesday, February 28 temptation show us the way: Repent, and be7:00 pm Bingo lieve in the gospel (Mark 1:15). It might be a 5:00 pm Choir Practice good spiritual exercise to keep these readings Wednesday, February 29 before us throughout the entire season of Lent, a means to help us return to a life lived by our 6:00 pm Boy Scouts baptismal promises. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. 7:00 pm CCD Thursday, March 1 OUR WEEKLY OFFERING 7:00 pm Parish Holy Hour/Adoration WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 18/19, 2012 Friday, March 2 $15,733.00 6:00 pm Cub Scouts THANK YOU VERY MUCH Saturday, March 3 FOR YOUR SUPPORT 9:00 am CCD

Z birka ks. Proboszcza

M o i D r o dz y Pa ra f i a n i e
W listopadzie 2011 r. otrzymaem list z biura Majora Burbank informujacy o zakazie zabaw karnawaowych w miasteczku Burbank. Byo to dla mnie du niespodziank poniewa wiem e karnawa zawsze by pozytywnym, budujcym wsplnot wydarzeniem. Pomaga on wzmacnia nasz wsplnot i dostarcza tak bardzo potrzebnych funduszy dla naszej szkoy. Poczas krtkiej rozmowy w grudniu, Major zapweni mnie e nie zmieni zdania co do podjtej decyzji. Owiadczy on, e pracownicy karnawau stanowi niebezpieczestwo dla spoeczestwa. Przedstawiem t spraw naszemu Komitetowi Karnawaowemu i poddalem myl o znalezieniu innego rodzaju rozwizania, aby wspomc szko i zapobiec stratom finansowym wynikajcym z zamknicia naszego karnawau. Rozmawialimy take o nowym miejscu na karnawa. Dwa tygodnie temu razem z kilkoma czonkami Komitetu mielimy okazj spotka si z Majorem Bridgeview, Senatorem Landek, aby dowiedzie si czy miasteczko Bridgeview byoby w stanie udostpni nam miejsce na karnawa. Senator Lindek by bardzo uprzejmy i zaoferowa nam miejsce w Bridgeview przy ulicach Harlem i 79-tej. Nasz Komitet chtnie przyj t ofert. Jestem wdziczny Majorowi za jego yczliwo i wsparcie naszej parafii oraz szkoy. Atmosfera naszego karnawau zawsze bya budujca, chcc j utrzyma pragniemy kontynuowa to wydarzenie ktre jednoczyo nasz wsplnot parafialn poprzez wspln prac dla dobra katolickiej szkoy im. w. Alberta Wielkiego. Jeeli chodzi o konwent, w dalszym cigu pracujemy z firm ubezpieczeniow nad ustaleniem skali napraw. Wyglda na to, e konwent nie bdzie oddany do uytku a do poowy maja. Nie znamy rezultatu dochodzenia ktre prowadzi policja. Zapewniam, e powiadomi was jak tylko informacje bd udostpnione. Prosz was o modlitw za sukces naszego karnawau parafialnego oraz za tych, ktrzy zniszczyli nasz konwent, aby Chrystus uksztatowal ich sumienia by w przyszoci dokonywali jedynie susznych i dobrych wyborw. Z powaaniem, Ks. Zoufal

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