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Christmas Liturgical Schedule

Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, 2018

• 10:00 PM The Traditional Shepherds’ Mass – Pasterka

Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25, 2018 – Nativity of our Lord

• 9:30 AM Christmas Mass

Solemnities – Holy Family and Humble Shepherds – Sunday, December 30, 2018

• 9:30 AM Holy Mass

New Year – 2019

Solemnity – Circumcision of our Lord, Tuesday, January 1, 2019 

• 9:30 AM Holy Mass

Solemnity – Epiphany of our Lord, Sunday, January 6, 2019

• 9:30 AM Holy Mass with the blessing of incense, charcoal & chalk

Solemnity – Baptism of our Lord, Sunday, January 13, 2019

• 9:30 AM Holy Mass

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Saturday Flea Market, Holy Mass and Picnic on Sunday

On Sunday let us meet together as Parish Family. Join us with your family members and friends for prayer, for good food and for fun. All are welcome.

Saturday, September 15th
8 AM – 4 PM – Flea market. Refreshments available. Polish Food (pierogi, golabki, kielbasa, potato pancakes, hot dogs, soda, juice).

Sunday, September 16th

12 Noon – Holy Mass (at cemetery)
1 PM – Parish Picnic. Delicious Polish homemade food.

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Bishop Bernard’s Pastoral Letter on Vocations

To the Very Reverend, Reverend Fathers and the Reverend Messrs., and my dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord:

¡Viva el mes de junio! That’s Spanish for “Long live June,” “Hurray for June.” Hurray, indeed! And welcome to the month of vocations in the Polish National Catholic Church: June is Sacred Vocations month for us. June is the month we focus on our great need for priests, and on the need for significant donations throughout the PNCC to be made to the Clergy Pension Plan.

Our need of priests is dire and critical, but I am nonetheless hopeful and optimistic. Even though no Polish National Catholic families have sacrificed even one of their men, young or old, to our altars in the past twelve years, (and it doesn’t look like any family will in the near future), I remain optimistic. Even though our seminary has been empty for that period of time, except for the occasional priest from another Church orienting himself there to work as a priest in the PNCC, I have good reason to hope because I have experienced God’s providence. Our parish in Denver was declining but was pulled back from the brink of closure by an Hispanic priest from Mexico and 90 people of Mexican heritage who now comprise the great majority of that parish. St Francis, Denver, is growing, and is enthusiastically PNCC, and is flying 18 young people and 6 adults to Convo 2018 here next month.

Because Father Alfonso Castillo needs pastoral help there, I enthusiastically agreed to review applications from priest friends of his in Mexico to provide assistance to him, and subsequently serve our American parishes desperate for priests. In our Diocese, two priests, in fine parishes, are retiring next year. I have no one to fill them. A priest in our Diocese is on three parishes in Jersey. Three priests are on two parishes each. And there are ailing and aging priests all over the place! And yet I am hopeful. So I say, ¡Viva México!

With the increase in aging clergy comes the need for our Clergy Pension Plan to support them all. We collect for this vital entitlement throughout the year and especially in the month of June. We need more capital to invest, the interest from which the pension payments are made. From age 70, a PNCC priest can look forward to a monthly check in the amount of $600; and his widow, a check in the amount of $300. Please be generous in this drive. And so I say, in my optimism, ¡Viva el Plan de Pensión del Clero! (Hurray for our Clergy Pension plan!)

I believe God is showing us a potential direction for the future of our Church; and that pathway seems to be presenting itself from south of the border. For the Methodist Church, that pathway is from South Korea, and for the Roman Catholic Church, from India among other sources. In light of all of this, Bishop Hodur has indeed blessed us with a most optimistic motto for our Church when he penned: A través de la Verdad, el Trabajo y las Dificultades ¡Venceremos!

Yours in Christ,

Bishop Bernard

To read the original version as a PDF file.

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Flea Market & Polish Food Festival

St. Valentine’s PNCC Flea Market & Polish Food Festival on Saturday, June 9th, 9 AM until 5 PM. One day only!

WHAT CAN YOU BUY?

  • We have hundreds of items for sale.
  • Everything must go.
  • Very low prices!
  • All your donations support our church.
  • Treasures for all.

WHAT CAN YOU EAT?

  • 100% homemade, 100% Polish, highest quality pierogies
  • homemade delicious golabki (stuffed cabbage) with homemade tomato sauce
  • freshly made potato pancakes with sour cream or apple sauce
  • delicious Polish kielbasa and sauerkraut sandwich
  • ice cream
  • coffee, soda & water

WHAT CAN YOU GET?

  • Fun for free!
  • Possibility of being together with other people from the same neighborhood.
  • Our appreciation and our prayers for you.

Call 215-535-4978 or E-mail us for more information.

Additional parking available in the corner between Milnor St. and E Stiles St. (one block before church on Margaret St.)

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Christmas Dinner at St. Valentine’s

Dear Parishioners and Friends!

Please don’t forget about our traditional Parish Christmas Dinner, December 17th. Holy Mass at 9:30 AM, Dinner begins at 10:30 AM.

Everything on the menu is homemade.

Mushroom soup (made by Vickie),
Sauerkraut and mushrooms pierogi (made by Izabela),
Potato and cheese pierogi (made by Fr. Mariusz),
Sauerkraut pierogi (made by Izabela),
Fried flounder (made by Dawn & Chris),
Backed fish (made by Trish),
Green beans (made by Vickie),
Breaded mushrooms (made by Kathy),
Egg, mushroom, green onion salad (made by Fr. Mariusz),
Parsley potatoes (made by Joyce),
Apple pie (made by Izabela),
Poppy seed roll
Cake (donated by Joyce)
Soda
Coffee
Tea

Tickets available at the door.

Please join us.

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Welcome Fr. Mariusz Mularczyk

This Sunday, January 15th, we will have the opportunity to warmly welcome Father Mariusz Mularczyk as our new Priest-Administrator. Our Bishop, Rt. Rev. Bernard Nowicki will also be with us to celebrate 9:30am Holy Mass with Fr. Mularczyk. Following Holy Mass there will be fellowship hour in the Parish hall, everyone is invited. Cake and refreshments will be provided. Please come and share this special welcome and show your love and support for St. Valentine’s Parish.

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Blessings for Happy Father’s Day and an Invitation

Dear Parishioners and Friends, Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

A Father’s Day message of Love and Forgiveness comes from the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

We are wishing all of our Parishioners a happy and blessed Father’s Day. A good father emulates the love of God our heavenly Father. He guides us, protects us and teaches us. Let us love one another as God the Father in heaven has loved us. Brothers and sisters immediately forgive a wrong done to you. Fathers, wives and children do not hold grudges or harbor resentment to those who have trespassed against you. Be the first to forgive.

How little Our Father in Heaven asks of us. God the father loved us so much that he gave His only begotten son to suffer and die to pay the price for our sins so that we may have eternal life with him. Can we not forgive one another?

Brothers and sisters immediately forgive a wrong done to you. Do not hold grudges or harbor resentment to those who have trespassed against you.

Please meditate on the prayer of St. Francis.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

Please trust the Lord and pray daily. Church of St Valentine Parish is our home where we meet as Christian Family with Lord Jesus Christ to Celebrate His Resurrection, to be forgiven, and to receive Jesus’s Body and Blood in the Sacrament of Holy Communion.

Please come and join us as Community of Faith for Sunday Holy Mass every week! Feel always welcomed and at home in our Church!

We are all called to follow Jesus, to be his disciples, to pray, to work together and to support our Parish!

We are grateful and send our heartfelt thanks to everyone who gives precious Time, Talents and Treasure of their prayers and donations to our Church and Parish.

God’s Blessings to you all, for your FAITH and labor of love in taking care, repairing and restoring out Parish Church and spreading Gospel of Salvation!.

In the last year and a half, together we have done a tremendous amount of work: New Church roof; fixed Church ceiling and repainted whole interior and Sanctuary, repaired and painted Church windows, repaired Church entrance bulletin board, fixed Parish Hall roof, repainted Parish Hall, Parish Hall entrance and bathroom, fixed roof over rectory, repaired and painted rectory interior, new fence at the cemetery, landscaping at the Cemetery and Pulaski Park, repaired caretaker house at the Cemetery, repaired heating pump and furnace at the Parish Hall, purchased new professional zero turn grass cutting mower and new 6ft wide pull behind tractor mower, prepared Fellowship dinners, brunches, bake sales, etc, etc…

May God bless you all for your wonderful work!!!

Fathers’ Day Brunch We are inviting all the Fathers and their families for the special Brunch at our Fellowship Parish Hall. Let us get together as our Parish Family and celebrate all the fathers!

St Valentine PNCC Parish and Fr Andrew Bilinski

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Upcoming Events

Saturday April 2, 2016, Saturday of Bright Week
9:00 – let us join together in the Church for Easter cleaning after recent interior renovations, we invite everyone to join us, lunch will be provided at the Parish Hall, God bless for your help!

Sunday– April 3, 2016, 2nd Sunday of Easter
9:30 – High Holy Mass. Following Mass: Catechism for Children and Fellowship Hour at the Parish Hall with refreshments provided, everyone invited.

Sunday– April 10, 2016, 3rd Sunday of Easter
11:00 – High Holy Mass – Bishop Bernard Nowicki, Bishop of our Diocese will Celebrate Holy Mass for the Parishiners and meet with our Congregation for Fellowship at the Hall. Following Mass: Catechism for Children and Fellowship Hour at the Parish Hall with refreshments provided, everyone invited.

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