BULLETIN

 

Parish Staff

 Rector  Rev. Msgr. Peter W. Gleba
 Parish Vicars  Rev. Stanley Dudkiewicz - Rev. Stanislaw Matula
 Deacons  James Morse - Joseph Daniszewski - Frank Timson
 Parochial Assistants  Sister M. Melanie Jaworski, CSSF- Sister M. Michele Mazur, CSSF
 Director of Religious Education  Sister M. Melanie Jaworski, D.R.E.
 Organist  Martin Uczen; Asst. Organist Francis Schultz
 Trustees  Honorary - Julian Stanczyk Sr., Thomas Marzynski, Dorothy G. Jachim
 Ushers  Jack Sokolowski
 Nursing Homes  Frances Gocek
 Lectors & Eucharistic Ministers  Mary Ann Daniszewski
 Bereavement  Deacon Frank T. Timson
 Pastoral Council Pres.  Andrea Schultz
 R.C.I.A.  Deacon James Morse
 Greeters  Paul Wrobel
 Food Pantry  Linda Brooks
 Historian  Theresa Kociencki

Pastor's Corner

My Dear People,
People always ask is Hell real and who goes there?
During his weekly general audience last July 28, the pope said that hell "is not a punishment imposed externally by God but a development of premises already set by people in this lifeit is the ultimate consequence of sin itself, which turns against the person who committed it.  It is the state of those who defiantly reject the Father's mercy, even at the last moment of their life.
"The images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted.  They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God.
"Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitely separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joyThe thought of hell - and even less the improper use of all biblical images ­ must not create anxiety or despair, but is necessary and healthy reminder of freedom within the proclamation that the risen Jesus has conquered Satan, giving us the Spirit of God who makes us cry 'Abba, Father!'  (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6)."
Sometimes what the pope says (hell is real but more than the biblical images used to describe it) can become so drastically compressed in a news report (hell is a state of mind) that the summary distorts or even reverses the original message.
The text of the pope's weekly audience can be found at: www.vatican.va             
God Bless
                                                    Msgr. Peter W. Gleba