After the diligent selection process facilitated by the scholarship committee, I am happy to announce that the Scholarship recipients of St John Paul the Great for the upcoming academic year have been selected.

On Sunday, May 31st at 1:00pm, I will celebrate a solemn Mass in remembrance of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of St. John Paul the Great. Since we cannot all be together, you are invited to view the streamed Mass. The link will be on the Liga website, 15 minutes before Mass, at www.catholicleaguepolonia.org. I will announce the winners at the Mass. The actual award ceremony will be held at a later date, once such events are possible.

I offer my prayers and blessing to the scholarship recipients, their families and to the benefactors that make the St. John Paul the Great Scholarship possible. You and your families as well as your friends are invited to participate in this celebration. Please, in the spirit of solidarity, inform others and invite them to participate in these festivities.

+Bishop Andrew P. Wypych
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago
Executive Director
Catholic League for Religious Assistance to Poland and Polonia

We can compare ourselves to these palms. We come on Ash Wednesday before the Lord to remind ourselves and acknowledge that we became “brown, shriveled, and unpleasant” over the past year and need to be “burned up” to become renewed. So then we start the Lenten journey of repentance and returning to the Lord and believing in the Gospel. At the beginning of Holy Week, we come to celebrate Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection as “renewed, fresh, and vibrant” people that were touched by God’s Grace and Mercy and start again.

Looking at these palms in this way, we can see a reflection of ourselves. I liked this image. It puts into perspective the fact of why Jesus had to suffer, die, and resurrect. It is so that we can keep coming back every year to be renewed by His Love during this Holy Season of Lent.

Have a Blessed and Fruitful Lent!

Marta Sniezko

Since its creation in 1943, the Catholic League for Religious Assistance to Poland and Polonia has been helping the Church in Poland. In addition to that commitment, the League is reaching out to the Polish-American communities across the U.S. where Polonia is present.
The League’s mission proclaims: “Keeping in mind the future of our Polish-American heritage, we cultivate the gift of unity with the Roman Catholic Church of Poland and we promote a transformed Polonia – informed, united, involved, and active.”
Bishop Andrew Wypych, the National Executive Director, encourages you to join the many generous people who support the Catholic League for Religious Assistance to Poland and Polonia during the annual campaign. The collection takes place on a weekend close to August 26, the feast day of Our Lady of Czestochowa, the patroness of the League.
We ask for the intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa and our beloved St. John Paul the Great. May They, bless the work that is done and beseech Our Lord to bless all who support the Catholic League for Religious Assistance to Poland and Polonia. Thank you and Bóg Zapłać! + Andrew P. Wypych

Please send your donation to:
Catholic League for Religious Assistance to Poland and Polonia
2330 W 118th St
Chicago, IL 60643