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ASH WEDNSDAY Wednesday February 14th is Ash Wednesday.  Ashes will be distributed after all masses that day. Masses will be celebrated in English at 6:00AM, 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM.  Masses in Polish will be celebrated at 7:00 AM...

WORLD DAY OF THE SICK Sunday Feb. 11 is World Day of the Sick, an observation introduced by Pope John Paul II as a way for believers to offer prayers for those suffering from illnesses. The day coincides with...

Catechetical Sundays – Conclusion Over the past several months we have been preparing ourselves for our upcoming anniversary in 2019; our 125th.  We have spent the last Sunday of the month looking more closely at the importance and a...

Christmas Mass Schedule Świąteczny rozkład Mszy Świętych   SATURDAY – December 23 /SOBOTA – 23 grudnia 6:00 am Mass in English / Msza po angielsku 7:00 am Mass in Polish / Msza po polsku 8:00 am Mass in English...

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is a Holy Day of Obligation. Masses in our Basilica will be at: 6:00 am in English, 7:00 am in Polish, 8:00 am in English, 5:30 pm in English and 7:00 pm in Polish....

This year we as a nation celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Thursday November 23.   As always we will celebrate a Thanksgiving Mass at 10:30 am followed by a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.  Please contact the Parish office if you plan on...

Ninth and Tenth Commandments   In today’s Gospel Jesus tells us “to love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and to love our neighbor as ourselves”. For the times when we didn’t...

How do we pray with Sacred Scripture?  Spiritual reading of Sacred Scripture, especially the Gospels, is an important form of meditation. This spiritual reading is traditionally called lectio divina or divine reading. Lectio divina is prayer over the Scriptures. The first element of this type...

A sacramental is a sacred sign that signifies effects obtained through the Church’s intercession. While all of the seven Sacraments are Christ-instituted and always do exactly what they signify ex opere operato  (“from the deed done”), sacramentals are usually Church-instituted (though...

Jesus Christ gave witness to who He is himself. One thing he spoke about was his relationship with the truth. He said, “For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to bear witness to...

November 1 is All Saints Day Solemnity. It is a Holy Day of Obligation and Masses in our basilica in English will be at 6:00 am,  8:00 am and 5:30 pm, and in Polish at 7:00 am, 12:30 pm and 7:00 pm. November 2...