WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

 

 

 

 

 

Sixth Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Feb 10th to Feb 17th, 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      FEBRUARY    10, 2007 
 4:00 PM        Benefactors of
                      Mission Grammar School
SUNDAY             FEBRUARY    11
9:00   AM     +Louis J. Sanson
                     +Catherine Ciccarello
11:00 AM    +Felix Marrero
12:30 PM     +Mary O’Connell
6: 30  PM       Purgatorian Society
MONDAY          FEBRUARY     12
 7:00 AM       Wil Brown
12:10 PM     +Shirley Perry (Month’s Mind)
TUESDAY         FEBRUARY     13
 7.:00 AM      +Paul & Marie D’Entremont
12:10 PM      +Martha Kreckler
WEDNESDAY    FEBRUARY    14
  7:00 AM      +Mary Francis
12:10 PM         Moise V. Noel
THURSDAY      FEBRUARY      15
 7:00  AM         Shrine Members Liv / Dec.
12:10 PM         Lourdes Manalo
FRIDAY            FEBRUARY       16     
 7:00 AM          Eng Family
12:10 PM       +Jean-Jacques and Andrče
SATURDAY      FEBRUARY      17
 8:00  AM         Wil Brown
12:10 PM          Rybnik Family
                         Adam, Marcin & Anna
4:00   PM        +Vy Maria Vu
SUNDAY          FEBRUARY       18
 9:00 AM        +Annie Volz
11:00 AM       +Felix Marrero
12:30 PM         Delfina Fernandez
6:30 PM           Purgatorian Society     
 
 MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL
NEXT Sunday, February 18th at 1:30 PM in St. Gerard’s Parish Center.   Please bring food, desserts, flags, posters, banners, native costumes, music and photos to share with your fellow parishioners. 
 

 

 BILLS PAID THIS WEEK
Payroll                           $ 6, 726.46
Church Bells                 $ 1, 332.00 
Roofing                         $      925.00
Mass Cards                   $     992.16

      SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 
The total collection taken up Sunday  February 4th at the weekend Masses was: $3,238.00
1st collection (Loose)     $1, 770.00
1st collection (Env.)        $    600.00 
2nd collection                 $    868.00


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...

TAIZČ PRAYER
Taizč prayer, a form of contemplative prayer  which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered THIS Thursday, February 15th at 7 PM in the Rectory Chapel.  The prayer service is offered every third Thursday of each month.  For more information contact Fr.  Matt  Allman, CSSR  at (617) 445-2600 or email him at mattcssr@yahoo.com.   
       
               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 prayer Sunday, February 25th at 2.

Next meeting today, February 11th following the 9 AM Mass.  All are invited to join.

 

SENIOR CROSSROAD RETREAT
MARCH 16-18th
If you are college age or older, come spend the weekend at Our Lady of Perpetual  Help Retreat House, Venice, Florida.  Our week-end  theme: Mary, Our Refuge and Our Hope.  We focus  on Mary as a vital “tool” in discerning God’s will in our lives.  For more information please call Fr. Philip Dabney, CSSR at (728) 321-1394.

 

  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       

                  
2ND Collection :Church Restoration
Next Week-end : Pink Sunday

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


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, Wil Brown, Charlie Capodanno, Egerton Chang, Clare Burke, Diane Chute, Liz Conroy, Ann Corley, William Martin Corr, Cleo Crayton, Amanda Daly, Bernadette DeGrandis, Marguerite DeJoie, Katie Dimanto, Clare Doherty, Joseph Doughtery, Mary Dowd, Mary Doyle, Patricia Eng, Jennifer Ferentzy, Tom & Kathy Finn, Theresa  Flaherty, John Geary, Jack Gibbons, Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman, Daniel        Harrington,Sr. Eleanor Hegarty, SSND,John Hegarty, Mary Horgan, Joan Hurlburt, Mary Jewell, Joan Joseph, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton, John & Margaret Lynch, Jackie McLaughlin, 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, Margie  Reed,  Mary M. Sheehan, Al St. Cyr, Helen St. Cyr, Rita  Sullivan, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda  Waible and Tommy Walsh 
 


PASTOR'S CORNER


Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.

 

THE VICAR’S COLUMN
    
Since 1992 the Catholic Church has been celebrating the World Day of the Sick on February  11th, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.  The celebration has three basic themes.  It reminds the  faithful to pray intensely and sincerely for those   who are sick and elderly, it invites Christians to reflect on and respond to human suffering, and it  recognizes and honors all persons who work in health care and serve as caregivers.  We at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help wish to join  our prayers today to those of the universal Church,  and we remember in particular all those representatives of the Church, the sick, and their   caregivers who are gathered for the Vatican sponsored international conference for the World  Day of the Sick in Seoul, Korea.
 
What follows is an excerpt from Pope Benedict  XVI’s message to that conference.

“I now turn to you, my dear brothers and sisters suffering from incurable and terminal diseases. I   encourage you to contemplate the sufferings of Christ crucified, and, in union with him, to turn to  the Father with complete trust that all life, and your  lives in particular, are in his hands. Trust that your  sufferings, united to those of Christ, will prove      fruitful for the needs of the Church and the world.  I ask the Lord to strengthen your faith in his love,  especially during these trials that you are experiencing. It is my hope that, wherever you are,  you will always find the spiritual encouragement and strength needed to nourish your faith and bring you closer to the Father of Life. Through her  priests and pastoral workers, the Church wishes to  assist you and stand at your side, helping you in your hour of need, and thus making present Christ’s own loving mercy towards those who suffer.”
 

Fr. Matthew Allman, 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.

 

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