WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

 

 

 

 

 

Forth Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Jan 28th to Feb 4th, 2007

"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     27, 2007 
 4:00 PM      +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey
                   +Hallissey Family
SUNDAY            JANUARY     28
9:00   AM     +Catherine Mulvey
                      19th anniversary
11:00 AM    +Angel Fonseca
12:30 PM     +Eileen T. Gibbons
                      15th anniversary
6: 30  PM       Purgatorian Society
MONDAY          JANUARY      29
 7:00 AM     +Lupita Ovalle (Month's Mind)
12:10 PM      Julie Sophie Reynold
TUESDAY         JANUARY      30
 7.:00 AM       Eng Family
12:10 PM     +Helga A. O'Connor
WEDNESDAY    JANUARY     31
  7:00 AM     +James J. Dowd 
12:10 PM      +H. Irene & Gerard Golden
THURSDAY      FEBRUARY     1
 7:00  AM        Eng Family
12:10 PM        Jeffrey Jean-Jacques  
FRIDAY            FEBRUARY       2         
 7:00 AM         Eng Family
12:10 PM        Mary O'Connell 
SATURDAY      FEBRUARY     3
 8:00  AM        Wil Brown
12:10 PM      +Bernadette O'Malley
4:00   PM      +Thomas & Mary Lovett & Family
SUNDAY          FEBRUARY      4
 9:00 AM       +James M. Hickey
11:00 AM      +Eddie Rivera and Family
12:30 PM      +Nieves Montesinos "Nena"
6:30 PM          Purgatorian Society
 

 

BILLS PAID THIS WEEK
Payroll                             $ 6, 713.73
Music Ministry                $ 1, 200.00  
Phone Service                $     148.95
 
SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 
The total collection taken up Sunday, 
January 21st at the weekend Masses was: $ 3, 455.60
1st collection (Loose)          $ 1, 836.60
1st collection (Env.)             $     744.00  
2nd collection                      $     875.00


 


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

The Rosary is prayed after the 9 AM Mass every Wednesday

**REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH IN YOUR WILL**


ANNOUNCEMENTS...

MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP – PRAYER GROUP

Open Charistmatic Prayer Group meets every Monday evening at 6:30 PM in the Parish Center.  Call Fr. Robert Lennon at (617) 445-2600

HEALING SERVICE

At our Healing Services we pray the Holy     Spirit will come down with healing and strengthening graces. Fr. Edward McDonough will lead us in a Healing Service on Sunday, January 28th at 2 PM.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Registration is now taking place for our Fall Program.  Please pick up a form at the Rectory Office.  The fee for Children ages 3-5 is $10.00, children 6-17 is $25.00.
We need volunteers for the Religious Education program if you would like to share your time and talents please call Alyson Perry at (617) 516-0380.

 

2006 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL

Our appreciation goes out to all parishioners who have made a pledge to the 2006 Appeal. For more information please contact Roger Lovejoy our chairperson at (617) 445-2600.

WHAT IS R. C. I. A.?


1. It is the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
2. It is a process for welcoming adult newcomers into the Roman Catholic Church.
3. It is an opportunity to grow in faith - also a chance to learn more about God in the Roman Catholic tradition.
4. It reaches out to people who were never baptized, to people baptized in a different denomination; to people who were baptized in the Catholic Church but never made their First Holy Communion or Confirmation.

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 unbaptized 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 the rectory and talk to Fr. Bennett or Fr. Allman.

 

BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS
Please call the Rectory Office for dates and information regarding baptizing your child.  

 

REMEMBER THOSE IN THE MILITARY
Pvt. Christopher Butler, SPC. Brian Carey, Pvt. Steve Cotter, CPO. Matt Fanara, Cpr. Michael Hines, Spc. Michael Lovett, Pvt. Daniel Molina and CPL Peter Smyth-Hammond, USMC

 

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP


NOVENA SERVICES (Masses)
Wednesday: 7:00 AM, 12:10 PM
NOVENA BENEDICTION
Wednesday: 5:30 PM
RADIO NOVENA (Station WROL • 950 on the dial)
Sunday: 12:30 PM
TV NOVENA (Channel 45)
Wednesday 12 Noon and 10 PM; Sunday at 11:00 PM
SPANISH NOVENA (Channel 45) Thursday 11:30 PM

TAIZE PRAYER

Taize prayer, a form of contemplative  prayer which includes simple sung  prayer and shared silence, will be offered Thursday, February 15th at 7 PM in the      Rectory Chapel.  The prayer service is offered every third Thursday of eachmonth.  For more information contact Fr.  Matt Allman, CSSR at (617) 445-2600 or  email him at mattcssr@yahoo.com.   


PRAYER LISTS

Please pray for our sick: Fr. Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr. Lawrence Buckley, CSSR,     Maureen Adams, Nancy Ago, David Bell,   Charlie Capodanno, Egerton Chang, Clare Burke, Liz Conroy, Ann Corley, William  Martin Corr, Cleo Crayton, Amanda Daly,   Bernadette DeGrandis, Marguerite DeJoie, Katie     Dimanto, Joseph Doughtery, Mary Dowd, Mary Doyle, Patricia Eng, Tom & Kathy Finn, John Geary,  Jack Gibbons,Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman, Daniel Harrington,    John Hegarty, Mary Horgan, Joan Hurlburt, Mary     Jewell,  Joan Joseph, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton,   John & Margaret Lynch, Mary McMahon, Susan  (Jewell)Merner, Taryn Miller, Mickey Monahan, Helen  Moreau, Michael Nardone, M. Louise O’Brien,  Patrick A. O’Brien, Sr. Evangelus O’Brien,SSND,  Daniel O’Donnell, Mary O’Donnell, Dolores  O’Halloran, Billy O’Hara, Maria Piemonte, Theresa   Poirer, Caitlin Marie O’Sullivan, Barbara Power,       Margie Reed, Mary M. Sheehan,  Al St. Cyr, Helen St. Cyr, Rita Sullivan, Michael Very, Joseph &  Brenda  Waible and Tommy Walsh 

 

Please pray for our deceased:Marie D'Entremont, Luis     Gerena, Theresa Gleeson     and Andrea Murphy
 


PASTOR'S CORNER


Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.

 

From the Principal's Desk


I vividly remember my "Grampi" walking my sister and me to our first day of school at Sacred Hearts in Bradford, Massachusetts.  I   fondly remember the feeling of my new shoes,  bought once a year by 'Grammie', and my crisply ironed uniform handed down fromfamily friends (the same plaid as Mission Grammar School!)  I remember walking into Sister Jane's first grade classroom to a warm  hug.  I smile when I think of the school which  later became our home away from home.
For my parents, a nurse and a psychology professor, Catholic school was the foundation  for our childhood.  School was a true  extension of our family where every teacher knew and cared about every child.  I am forever  thankful for that experience.
As we launch Catholic Schools Week (January 28, February 3), I would like to thank every    family member of our Mission Grammar School  family for choosing a Catholic Education.  Let  us together celebrate Catholic  Schools: Your Hope, Our Passion, Their Future. Please  log on to www.catholicschoolsboston.org to read more about Catholic education in the   Archdiocese of Boston.
We would like to invite all parishioners to join us in these activities of Catholic Schools Week:
Thursday, February 1st : Open House      9:00-11:00 a.m.;  5:00-7:00 p.m.
Talent Show:   7:00 p.m. in the Parish     Center following open house.
Friday, February 2 Mass " 9:00 a.m." led by the Student Council

 
                 Ms. Maura M. Bradley
                           Principal
               Mission Grammar School
                       (617) 442-2660

 

 


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.

 

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