Pre-Lent Booklet has been emailed to you. Please print it and keep for your daily using. If you are not on our emailing list you can download it from our webpage www.stvalentinespncc.org, go to the tab “Bulletin” and search for date Feb 5 (direct link –> HERE).
The BOOKLET is 11 sheets of paper (22 sides) to print on both sides and flip on the short edge.
The celebration of this season is a preparation for Holy Lent. The three Sundays of Pre-Lent come seventy, sixty and fifty days before Easter. The liturgical color of this season which prepares us to anticipate the spiritual rigors of the Lenten Season is rose. Lent then takes on the somber hue of purple signifying the seven-week period of penitence and introspection and our conversion of heart.
During Pre-Lent the Alleluia heard before the proclamation of the Gospel is eliminated from the Mass and will continue to be so through Lent until Easter morning. In place of the Alleluias, we will hear only a mournful chant called the Tract. Also begun in Pre-Lent is the elimination of the singing of the Gloria which will remain silenced through the Lenten season until the Resurrection of Jesus is proclaimed on Easter.
Floral adornments of the high altar are still appropriate through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, though such adornment may be abandoned if so desired.
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Thursday, December 24, 2020 * Christmas Eve
Friday, December 25, 2020 * Christmas Day – Nativity of the Lord
Saturday, December 26, 2020 Feast – St. Stephen
Sunday, December 27, 2020 * Solemnity – Humble Shepherds
Monday, December 28, 2020 Feast – Holy Innocents
Thursday, December 31, 2020 New Year’s Eve
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Friday, January 1, 2021 * Solemnity – Circumcision of our Lord
Saturday, January 2, 2021 Solemnity – Holy Name of Jesus
Sunday, January 3, 2021 * Solemnity – Holy Family
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021 * Solemnity – Epiphany of the Lord
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Sunday, January 10, 2021 * Solemnity – Baptism of the Lord
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* – holy day of obligation
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In your hands, O Lord,
we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters.
In this life you embraced them with your tender love;
deliver them now from every evil
and give them eternal rest.
The old order has passed away:
welcome them into paradise,
where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain,
but fullness of peace and joy
with your Son and the Holy Spirit
forever and ever. Amen.
Sunday, November 1, 2020 All Saints Day
Monday, November 2, 2020 All Souls Day
Dear Parishioners and Friends,
On Monday, November 2nd, we celebrate the feast of All Souls. On the day after All Saints, the Church reminds us of those who have passed on. This feast is an opportunity for us to pray in unity for our relatives and friends and also for those who have no one to pray for them.
As Catholics, we are obliged to attend Mass on All Saints Day, November 1.
Day after, November 2nd, All Souls Day is not a holy day in obligation, however, we are obliged to say a prayer for our departed relatives, and if possible, to visit their graveside.
Our departed family, friends and acquaintances will be remembered in the All Saints Day and the All Souls Day Masses.
I hope that you will let us include your deceased loved ones in these Masses at St. Valentine’s Church. Please download and use this form to list the loved ones you wish to be included in these Masses.
May God Bless You
Fr. Mariusz Mularczyk
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†Edward Krystofolski, 97, passed away. The Funeral Prayer Service will be on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 11:00 AM at Slabinski Funeral Home, 2614 Orthodox St, Philadelphia, PA 19137. Interment – St. Valentine’s Cemetery.
†Beverly Wunderlich, Father Senior Donald Wunderlich’s wife passed away on Saturday, Jan 18 in Reading, PA. Arrangements are in the process of being made at this time. We will inform you of the details when they are available. Please check our webpage. Please pray for Fr. Donald and his daughter, Danielle, in their grief and sorrow.
Eternal rest, grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
November is coming, and as always on Nov 1 and Nov 2, as well as the whole first week of November, our thoughts are toward those whom God called to himself. Please remember about your beloved Dead, your Family, your Friends, your fellow Parishioners. Always the best prayer you can offer for them is the Holy Mass in their intention. In addition, please try to visit their grave side and offer your prayer right there.
At St. Valentine’s Church, our departed family, friends and acquaintances will be remembered in the special Memorial Masses for the Dead.
Friday, November 1, 2019 All Saints Day
7:00 PM Holy Mass for our beloved Dead with Wypominki
Saturday, November 2, 2019 All Souls Day
11:00 AM Holy Mass for our beloved Dead with Wypominki
Sunday, November 3, 2019
9:30 AM Memorial Mass for our beloved Dead with Wypominki
2:00 PM Procession and Prayers for the Dead at the Cemetery
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śp. Alfreda Day passed away. She was buried from our church on Saturday, February 23rd.
Åš+P Alfreda Day (nee Napierkowski) on February 16, 2019 age 84.
Beloved wife of the late Albert F. Day. Devoted mother of Lorraine Capcino (Gregory) and Vincent Day (Kim). Loving grandmom of Gregory Jr. (Kate), Dominic (Lindsey), Michael and Angelina Mangram (Christopher) great grandmom of Gregory III and Lola. Dear sister of Estelle McKee and Alan Knapp (Mary Ellen). Also suvrived by her nieces and nephews.
Please keep śp. Alfreda and her family in your prayers.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Wieczny odpoczynek racz jej dać, Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj jej świeci.
Niech jej dusza i dusze wszystkich wiernych zmarłych, przez miłosierdzie Boże odpoczywają w pokoju. Amen.
NOVACK Stella M. (nee Sklodowski) passed away on August 1, 2018 at the age of 88. Beloved mother of Frederick Hartman, Gary F. Novack (Marilyn) and Richard Novack. Dear Babci of Brandon, Michael, Gary Jr., and Dana (Carl). Great grandmom of Gracelynn, Gary III, Ryan and Justin. Sister of the late Anthony Sklodowski, Edward Slade, Josephine Lubaczewski and Eleanor Rybarczyk. Relatives and friends are invited to her viewing Friday August 3 from 7:30PM-9PM at the Slabinski Sucharski Funeral Home, 2614 Orthodox St., 19137. Services will be held Saturday, August 4 at 9AM at St. Valentine’s Polish National Catholic Church. Internment at St. Valentine’s Cemetery, Andalusia.
Wieczny odpoczynek racz jej dacz, Panie.
Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord.
Åš+P Stella Novack Read More »
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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