WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH
 

Jan 6th to Jan 13th, 2008

"With the Lord there is PLENTIFUL REDEMPTION!"
Psalm 130: 7

  INDEX

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Weekly Mass Intentions and Schedule

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Announcements

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Prayer Lists

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Pastor's Corner

MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK

 

SATURDAY         JANUARY              5, 2008

 4:00  PM     +Imene Bazelais

SUNDAY           JANUARY              6

 9:00  AM     +Manuel Del Valle, Jr.

11:00 AM     +Rosin Alagrin

                     +Angel Feliciano 6th anniversary

12:30 PM     +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

                     +Hallissey Family

 6:30  PM       Purgatorian Society

MONDAY           JANUARY             7

  7:00 AM     +Martin Lynch, Jr.

12:10 PM     +Linda & Najeb Deccache

TUESDAY          JANUARY             8

7:00   AM     +Virginia Saffran

12:10 PM       OLPH-Bastien

WEDNESDAY   JANUARY              9

7:00   AM     +Wil Brown and Ben

12:10 PM     +Mary Loughran

THURSDAY      JANUARY              10

 7:00 AM      +R. Michael Yaras

12:10 PM       Rony Theodore

FRIDAY              JANUARY             11

 7:00 AM         Special Intention

12:10PM       +William J. and Rose Taylor

SATURDAY      JANUARY              12     

8:00 AM        +M. Jozelle Dominique

                        4th anniversary

12:10 PM        Patricia Eng

                        Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

                        1545 Club Donors

4:00 PM        +Thomas Lovett and son

                     +Patrick Lovett

SUNDAY           JANUARY              13

 9:00 AM      +Bernard O’Connor

11:00 AM     +Luis Sanchez

                     +Evelia Lopera

12:30 PM     +Catherine Mulvey 20th anniversary

  6:30 PM       Purgatorian Society

 

 

The Rosary is prayed after the 9 AM Mass every Wednesday

**REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH IN YOUR WILL**

ANNOUNCEMENTS...

 

BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS

Please call the Rectory Office for dates and information about Baptism.

 

FEAST OF THE THREE KINGS

The feast of The Three Kings commemorates their visit to the newborn babe in Bethlehem with offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  In our present day, we can make valuable offerings also, through thoughtful gifts of kindness, generosity and meditation– generosity in the form of sharing our worldly goods; kindness in helping those in need; meditation for personal and world peace. 

       

TAIZÈ PRAYER

Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered on Thursday, January 17th at 7 PM in the Rectory Chapel. The prayer service is offered every third Thursday of each month.  For more details contact Fr. Matt Allman,CSSR at (617) 445-2600 or  email him at mattcssr@yahoo.com

 

RCIA

Are you an adult who has never been Confirmed?  Are you a Christian from another community who is now interested in becoming a Roman Catholic?  Are you un- baptized and seeking to join the Church?  Please join us for a meeting of our parish RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.  We meet on Sunday’s following the 9 AM Mass in the  Rectory.  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call Fr. Bennett or Fr. Allman. 

 

HEALING SERVICE

At our Healing Services we pray the Holy Spirit will come down with healing and strengthening graces. The next healing service here in the Basilica will be next

Sunday, January 27th at 2PM.

2nd collection : Fuel

Next week-end is Church Restoration

 

       NOVENA IN HONOR OF

OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP

NOVENA SERVICES (Masses)

Wednesday:7:00 AM and 12:10 PM

NOVENA BENEDICTIONS

Wednesday:  5:30 PM

TV NOVENA  (Channel 45)

Sunday: 11:00 PM

Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00PM 

Thursday 11:30 PM         

 

THANK YOU

Thank you to all who gave so generously to the Christmas Flower envelopes and also to the Christmas Novena Cards.  Your generous support helps us to be able to afford the flowers, wreaths and decorations that add to the beauty of the Basilica.

 

 MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP PRAYER GROUP

Open Charismatic Prayer Group meets every Monday night at 6:30 PM in the

Parish Center led by Fr. Robert Lennon at (617) 445- 2600. 

 

HOLY NAME  / HOLY FAMILY

The next meeting will be next Sunday, January 13th immediately following the 9 AM Mass. The meetings are held in the Rectory. All are welcome to attend.

 

REMEMBER THOSE IN THE MILITARY

Pvt. Christopher Butler, SPC. Brian Carey, Stephen Casey, Pvt. Steve Cotter, Pvt. 1st Class Gilbert De La Rosa, USMC, CPO. Matt Fanara, Cpr. Michael Hines, Lt. Col. Daniel Knight, Spc. Michael Lovett, Pvt. Daniel Molina, Pvt. Sean Rivera, CPL. Peter Smyth-Hammond, USMC and Juan Carlos Trejos

 

 

           BILLS THIS WEEK

 

 Payroll  $ 12, 134.75

 

            SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

December 23rd at the week-end Masses was: $ 3, 542.00

1st collection (Loose)   $  1, 656.00

1st collection (Env.)      $      858.00

 2nd collection               $  1, 028.00

 

 

PRAYER LISTS   Fr .Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr Lawrence Buckley, CSSR, Maureen Adams, Matthew Agard, David Bell, Charlie Capodanno, Kay Carrigan, James Carroll, Egerton Chang, Diane Chute, Robert Clanton, John Cooper, Cleo Crayton, Marion Coutts, Amanda Daly, Bernadette  DeGrandis, Marguerite DeJoie, Katie Dimanto, Kara Dingell, Clare Doherty, Joseph Doughtery, Mary Dowd, Mary Doyle, Patricia Eng, Jennifer Ferentzy, Tom & Kathy Finn, Theresa Flaherty, John Galvin, Jack Gibbons, Steve Gleason, Gisela Gonzales, Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman, Edward Hegarty, Sr. Eleanor Hegarty, SSND, John  Hegarty, Mary Horgan, Joan Hurlburt, Philip Laing, Jessica Laing, Cindy Luberto, Mary Jewell, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton, James & Catherine Lynch, John& Margaret Lynch, Patsy MacDougall, Jackie McLaughlin, Mary McMahon, Susan (Jewell) Merner, Mickey Monahan, Michael Nardone, M. Louise O’Brien, Sr. Evangelus O’Brien, SSND, Daniel O’Donnell, Mary O’Donnell, Dolores O’Halloran, Billy O’Hara, Margaret O’Hara, Caitlin Marie O’Sullivan, Theresa Poirer, Fran  Powers, Kay Reilly, James and Mary Scannell, Mary M. Sheehan, Helen St.Cyr, Emily Sullivan, Rita Sullivan, Mary & Don Tice, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Nana Walsh PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,   What a blessing it is to have a Catholic school as part of our parish!  Once again, I  am deeply grateful to Ms. Maura Bradley, Sister Theresa Prior, Sr. Diane McHugh, Sr. Donna McHugh, Mr. Jack Currivan, and the staff who prepared our children so very well to participate in the annual Christmas pageant this past season.  It warms my heart to know that we have the “challenge” of trying to involve more and more children each year.  We have added so many “animals” to the stable that we are sure we gave Noah some stiff competition.  The smallest of our Christmas pageant participants were the “sheep”.  I love to see our well-trained shepherds bringing forth the “sheep”, sometimes having a “lamb” in tow with one in each hand.  Our readers rehearsed their parts and they shone as brightly as the brilliant star that the wise men followed that first blessed Christmas.    As we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany we are reminded of how the three kings came to  pay homage to the King and Messiah.  They laid at his feet gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  In that same tradition, may our school children, our parishioners, our families, and our friends continue to lay their gifts, their time, and their talent at the feet of the Savior.  Let us all present our very self- our whole life - as a gift in His service.   This season of celebration is also a time to open the door for hospitality, a time to make our homes glitter with the exuberance and the mystery of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  It is a time when Christian tradition practices the blessing of a family’s home.   One can use chalk to write above the inside doorway: 20 + C + M + B + 08.  The four crosses represent the four seasons. C, M, and B are the initials of the magi:  Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar.  The current year encloses their initials.  That is how we mark our doorways to welcome all guests as Christ.  That is how we bless our homes in this new year.              HAPPY NEW YEAR!                                Fr. Richard Bennett, CSSR   PRAY THE ROSARY THE CRANES AND THE ABBESS FROM ORFORDAcross the river from Orford, I saw a flock of cranes arise. With straightened necks and legs like stilts rising before my eyes. The cranes came in the Springtime but did not long bide. They would make their nests on some distant stretch along the riverside. The town of Orford like other towns is a restless place at best. Young folks leave as the cranes left for a final place of rest. One day, a young girl from Orford set out at break of day And drove to a hill near St. Botolph's town. A score of miles away, She joined nuns working in a field, praising God night and day, She left all things behind her, even the clothes she wore, And clothed herself with rough Trappist robes to wear forevermore.  The cranes came in their season as long as they could fly, But the years roll on and it may be their coming has long gone by. The young girl is now abbess like abbesses of old, Chosen to rule with mother love and not with power or gold. The Orford folk love the abbess though she left for the cloistered hill, They know that she prays for them night and day and so is with them still.  The abbess prays for the young folk seeking a place of rest, That they find their own road to the heart of God and that will be the best. - John E. Doherty, C.Ss.R.