WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
 

Jan 20th to Jan 27th, 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              19, 2008

 4:00  PM     +Patricia Harrington

                      12th anniversary

SUNDAY           JANUARY              20

 9:00  AM     +Zion Freedom Pierre

11:00 AM     +Felix Luis Arroyo

                     +Anna Luisa De Leon

                     +Evelia Lopera

12:30 PM     +Paul Ebai

 6:30  PM       Purgatorian Society

MONDAY           JANUARY              21

              MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

  9:00 AM     +David Sullivan

TUESDAY          JANUARY              22

7:00   AM       Ronald Silveno

12:10 PM     +Julita Cudo

WEDNESDAY   JANUARY               23

7:00   AM     +Joseph & Rita McCormack

12:10 PM     +Ellen Sullivan

THURSDAY      JANUARY               24

 7:00 AM      +Teresa Walsh (Month’s Mind)

12:10 PM     +Mercedes Moralidad

FRIDAY              JANUARY              25

 7:00 AM        Norvin’s Family

12:10PM      +Cornelius Sheehan

SATURDAY      JANUARY               26

8:00 AM         Patricia Eng

12:10 PM     +Fran & June O’Brien

                     +Wil Brown and Ben

                       Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

                       Restoration Fund Donors

4:00 PM       +Francis Mahan

SUNDAY          JANUARY               27

 9:00 AM      +Fr. Joseph Adamec, CSSR

11:00 AM     +Nicolas Cintron Ortiz

                     +Ezequiela Cintron Padilla

                     +Angel Gabriel Aviles

12:30 PM     +Marlene Ossondo

  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.

 

       A NOTE FROM THE PROVINCIAL

I want to thank you so very much for your generous contributions  that you have made to the Redemptorists at the second collection on the week-end of November 10 and 11.  Your donation of $2, 582 is most helpful in assisting us in the missionary work of the Congregation, in Catholic School tuition assistance, to inner-city school children, in the care of the elderly confreres at the John Neumann Residence, in the promotion of devotion to Our Mother of Perpetual Help and in the formation of our seminarians.  We are most grateful for your kindness to us.  Through the intercession of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, may the Lord bless the parishioners of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.  In the Redeemer, V. Rev. Patrick Woods, C.Ss.R.

 

 

    REEMPTORIST VOCATION OFFICE  

       COME AND SEE WEEKEND 

             FEBRUARY 14-17

   COLLEGE AGE MEN AND OLDER

“Come and see” weekend has three major components to it: communal, spiritual and academic.  You will have the opportunity to meet the entire community and become better acquainted with the life we live by participating in daily prayer, the Eucharist and devotion to Mary.  You will participate in work, recreation and meals.  You will also attend class with our seminarians at St. John’s University on Friday.  You will visit a Redemptorist parish in NYC and see where we first began our ministry to the most abandoned.  And you will have an opportunity to meet with the Vocation Directors and the Directors of the formation program.  If interested please call  Fr. Philip Dabney, CSSR at (718) 321-1394 by Wednesday, January 23rd .

        

            TAIZÈ PRAYER

Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered on Thursday, February 21st 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

 

       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

 

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, 6:30 PM (Spanish)

TV NOVENA  (Channel 45)

Sunday: 11:00 PM

Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00PM 

Thursday 11:30 PM         

 

 

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Due to the holiday, Monday, January 21st, the Rectory Office will be closed for the day.  There will be only ONE Mass, it will be at 9 AM.

 

  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. 

 

   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

 

            PENNIES FOR HEAVEN

Pennies for heaven will be collected today, Sunday,     January 20th in the back of the church. 

 

 

 

The Hispanic Social Committee would like to thank everyone who attended the Christmas Party, bought raffle tickets or gave a donation.  The group raised $2, 865.00 for the Church. 

 

2nd collection : Pink Sunday

Next week-end : Church in Latin America

 

BILLS THIS WEEK

Payroll  $ 12, 897.73

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

January 13th at the week-end Masses            was: $ 3, 718.00

1st collection (Loose)   $  1, 743.00

1st collection (Env.)      $      607.00

2nd collection                $  1, 368.00

 

PRAYER LISTS   Fr .Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr Lawrence Buckley, CSSR,, Maureen Adams,  Matthew Agard, David Bell, Eleanor M. Boyle, Charlie Capodanno, Kay Carrigan, James Carroll, Egerton Chang, Diane Chute, Robert Clanton, John     Cooper, Cleo Crayton, 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,      Mildred Howard,Joan  Hurlburt, Philip Laing, Mary Jewell, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton, James and Catherine Lynch, John& Margaret Lynch, Diane MacNeil, Jackie McLaughlin, Mary McMahon, Susan (Jewell) Merner, Mickey Monahan, Daniel F. Murphy, Michael Nardone, M. Louise O’Brien, Sr. Evangelus O’Brien, SSND, Daniel O’Donnell, Mary O’Donnell, Dolores O’Halloran, Margaret O’Hara, Caitlin Marie O’Sullivan, Theresa Poirer, James and Mary Scannell, Mary M. Sheehan, Helen St.Cyr, Rita Sullivan, Mary & Don Tice, Jaiden Tlapa, Eileen and Jim Tosney, Jorge Trejos, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Nana Walsh     In Loving Memory: CARMELA BRISE   PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,   This coming Monday we will commemorate the significant contributions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther  King, Jr., in advancing the civil rights movement in this country.  One of the most visible advocates of  non-violence and direct action – as methods of social change – is Dr. King.    He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929, and was the grandson of a famous Southern Baptist pastor and founder of Atlanta’s NAACP chapter.  Reverend King attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, then did his      seminary training in theology in Pennsylvania and finally came to Boston where he studied at Boston University.  While here in the northeast, he deepened his understanding of theological scholarship and explored the teachings and methodology of Gandhi’s non-violence strategy for social change.   Reverend King would go on to receive his doctorate in systematic theology in 1955, just after Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, where Dr. King had just been named pastor.  In many ways, Dr. King’s rise to prominence was due in part to his God-given blessings and being at the right place at the right time.  In Alabama Dr. King was able to integrate his theological training, Christian tradition, and the lived experience of a suffering and segregated South with Gandhi’s teachings.    World peace through non-violent means is neither absurd nor unattainable.  All other methods have failed.  Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point.  Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion.  We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.                                Martin Luther King, Jr., December 1964   According to the Martin Luther King, Jr., Institute at Stanford University, Dr. King and the SCLC  (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), in the        spring of 1963, led mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known for their violent opposition to         integration.  Clashes between unarmed black demonstrators and police armed with dogs and fire hoses generated newspaper headlines throughout the world.  President Kennedy responded to the Birmingham protests by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.   Rev. King’s renown continued to grow as he became Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1963 and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.  In 1968, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, he delivered his final address, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”  The next day, April 4, 1968,   Rev. King was assassinated.                              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.