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10:00 AM | Sunday 
9:00 AM | Weekdays 
 (Except Monday)

St. Casimir's Parish 

Polish National Catholic Church

268 Lakeview Avenue - Lowell, Massachusetts 01850 USA

Your prayers are requested
for the sick, shut ins and those serving in our military. ​


James Obara,  Esther & Mary Riopelle, Carol Martin, Lisa Prince, Gloria Bergman, Carol Mason, Father Gus Sicard, Richard Ferus Proctor, Arlene Strazzulla, Jeanne Franzn, Nona Bilionis, Cathy Kirschbaum, Marcy Szczepanik, Bp. John Mack, Katherine Gnat, Harrison McKinstry, James Strazzulla, Harry Cullinan, Helen Rogers, Eugene Leczynski, Stanley Sepiol,  Father Adam Czarnecki, Father Senior Joseph Soltysiak, Nate Rosario, Carol McNiff, Jennifer Sheehan, Kayla Tanguay, Joshua Bakx, Danny Roberts, Barbara Chappel and Brittany Larkham, William Kucharski, Janice Daviault, Ben Marek, Rosalynn Owens, Brett Kraz, Gina Pellegrino, Alessandra Ventura, Dolly Normand, Kevin Frawley, Marilyn Folcik, Ann Platt, Corinne Berube, Flora Radziunas, Peter Willis, Krissy Toth, Ted Kostzewski, Janet Dadoly, Colton Bouchillon, Jack Kirschbaum, Diane Becchetti, Judy McNeil Anita Tuozza, Maureen Carabino, John Gibson, Jonasz Tenus, Richard Salach, David Cyr Sr., David Cyr Jr., Brock Borton, Joyce Normand, Arlene Swantek, Beata Mazur, Beth Koules, Doug Capsilors, Marie Griffin, Judy McNeill, Sharon Rittuci, Kerrie Garvey, Dr. Bert Quirbach, Bp. Paul Sobiechowski, Celia Menzia, Sophie Kosidlo.

 




5 Sunday of Lent - Passion Sunday


Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 5:7-9; Gospel: John 12:20-33

All the readings point in their different ways towards the passion and death of Christ. Jeremiah tells a shattered Jewish people, going into exile as a punishment for breaking the old covenant, that God will not forsake them. He foresees a time when God will form a new relationship with the people of Israel, based on love and personal respect. God will put a new heart and a new spirit into his people. This focuses our attention on the first Holy Thursday evening, the night before Christ died, when, raising the cup, Christ introduced the new covenant in his blood, to be shed for the forgiveness of sin.
 The second reading tells us that because Jesus suffered and prayed with tears to be saved from death, he can sympathize with our sufferings and help us grow rather than b crushed by them. Jesus knows our plight, is touched by our anguish and distress and pleads with God the Father on our behalf. In the gospel Christ speaks his thoughts out loud and expresses repugnance for the terrible ordeal before him. His soul is troubled at the prospect of Calvary and he is tempted to pray the deliverance from it. However he cannot ask to be spared his agony as God's kingdom will only come through crucifixion and death. His moment of greatest influence will be when he is lifted up on the cross with arms outstretched to embrace all the world. Christ on the cross shows us the depth of evil of which we humans are capable and the heights of love to which we are called. Every Christian is called to live out the passion of Jesus Christ in his own life. No one is excused or spared its agony. There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers on earth. Following Christ means traveling the same road, laying down our lives, and leaving everything completely in the hands of God the Father.
To drive home this point, Jesus takes an example from the world of nature. Our lives, like Christ's, must resemble the grain of wheat that goes down into the ground to produce new life. The grain of wheat dying in the earth indicates how we must die to our selfishness before we can start living the life of Christ. One comes to a greater life only after dying to a lesser one. Never forget that we are God's grain of wheat, part of his eternal harvest. When Jesus calls he bids us come and die and put to death within ourselves what is opposed to true life. Christ shows that life and death have a place in God's plan for us. To be buried in the earth means avoiding sin, accepting suffering and living for others. In every place and in every heart that struggle between evil and good is still with us. The way of the cross begins at our own doorstep and we are challenged to follow its path. As Passion tide approaches we should renew our efforts to remove the layers of human sinfulness through which Satan and the power of evil have made inroads into our lives. 


Come, Worship With Us on Sunday


    
You are invited to join us at 10:00 on any Sunday morning to attend Mass at our church. No matter your background, ethnicity, or denomination, we don't look at that. Just people with good will looking for some place to fill out their souls. If you need comfort, a place to pray, this is the place. We do not judge—it's not up to us to judge.  All are welcome.
     The Mass liturgy is celebrated in English and booklets are available for you to  follow the service in comfort. Please come and worship along side the  friendly people of St. Casimir’s.

A Special Announcement...

     We are very thankful for the response we have received from our websie readers! In the very short period of time since we created our site, we have received many messages from you via the Contact Us page with comments and questions about our activities, and requests for information about our church, our cemetery and the PNCC in general.  How wonderful that is! Thank you very much.

      We would like to apologize, however, for our failure to keep the site current.  We have a lot going on at St. Casimir's and our volunteer parishioners are really very busy.  We are working on a plan to maintain the website on a more current schedule and ask your indulgence. In order to make the site even more interesting, we are in the process of redesigning it as yu will see in the coming weeks....please send us your comments as we progress.

Rev. Andrzej Tenus

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