WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
 

Jan 27th to Feb 3rd, 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              26, 2008

 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     +Fr. Daniel Donovan

MONDAY           JANUARY             28

  7:00 AM     +Mary K. and Dennis Sheehan

12:10 PM     +Catherine J. Kiely 1st anniversary

TUESDAY          JANUARY              29

7:00   AM     +Rev. Joseph Adamec, CSSR

12:10 PM     +Martin Murphy

WEDNESDAY   JANUARY              30

7:00   AM     +Joseph Arno

12:10 PM     +Fr. Joseph Adamec, CSSR

THURSDAY      JANUARY              31

 7:00 AM      +James J. Dowd

12:10 PM     +Shane and Kaleigh Lambert

FRIDAY             FEBRUARY              1

 7:00 AM      +Fr. Joseph Adamec, CSSR

12:10PM      +Klebert Jean-Paul

                    +Baptiste Family

SATURDAY      FEBRUARY              2

8:00 AM         Patricia Eng

12:10 PM     +Wil Brown and Ben

                       Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

                       1545 Club Donors

4:00 PM        +Lovett Family

                     +Mary Moore

SUNDAY          FEBRUARY                3

                 FEAST OF ST. BLASE

 9:00 AM       Patricia Eng

11:00 AM    +Felix Marrero

                      Our Lady of Perpetual Help

12:30 PM    +Eileen T. Gibbons

                      16th anniversary

  6:30 PM       Purgatorian Society

 

 

The Rosary is prayed after the 9 AM Mass every Wednesday

**REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH IN YOUR WILL**

ANNOUNCEMENTS...

 

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK                                                                                               

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK 

Catholic School Week, the annual celebration of Catholic schools and their contribution to their communities and the nation, is set for Jan. 27 through Feb. 2, 2008.  For more than three decades, the nation’s Catholic schools have spent the last week of January recalling what makes Catholic education special.

 

The 2008 Theme is “Catholic Schools Light the Way”, which highlights the mission of Catholic schools to provide a faith-based education that supports the whole child academically and spiritually and prepares students for future success.

 

“As a result of the excellent, multifaceted education they are receiving today, our students will light the way to a brighter future through their leadership in our communities, government, businesses and families,” said Dr. Karen M. Ristau, president of the National Catholic Educational Association.

 

“With their emphasis on academic excellence and moral values, Catholic schools enjoy high satisfaction among students and parents and high achievement rates, including high school graduation rates of more than 99 percent,” said Marie Powell, executive director of Catholic Education at the united States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  “This is a message we want to share with our nation’s leaders.”

                     

Maura Bradley

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Mission Grammar School

Unity in Diversity, Excellence in Education,

Since 1889

94 Saint Alphonsus Street Roxbury, MA 02120

www.missiongrammar.org

Open House : Tuesday February 5th, 2008

9:00-11:00 AM and 3:00-6:00 PM

Register for the 2008-2009 School Year

Limited Seats Available

 

BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS

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

 

FEAST OF ST. BLASÉ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 3RD

The feast of St. Blase is Sunday, February 3^rd, Blessing of the throats will take place following all the week-end Masses.

 

ASH WEDNESDAY

Ash Wednesday is February 6th, it is a day of fast and abstinence.  All Fridays in lent are days of abstinence. Ashes will be distributed at the Masses 7 AM, 9 AM,12:10 PM and after the 5:30 and 6:30 (Spanish) novena.

 

 

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

 

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 today, 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 (Spanish)

TV NOVENA  (Channel 45)

Sunday: 11:00 PM

Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00PM 

Thursday: 11:30 PM         

 

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. 

 

COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS

Coffee and donuts are served in the Music Room every Sunday following the 9 AM, 11 AM and 12:30 PM Masses.    

 

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

 

2nd collection : Church in Latin America

Next week-end : Fuel Offering

 

BILLS THIS WEEK

 Payroll  $ 12, 897.73  (bi-weekly)

 

 SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

January 20th at the week-end Masses            was: $ 3, 530.00

1st collection (Loose)   $  1, 505.00

1st collection (Env.)      $  1, 028.00 

2nd collection                $      997.00

 

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.