WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

 

 

 

 

 

Seventh Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Feb 17th to Feb 24th, 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    17, 2007 

 4:00 PM       +Vy Maria Vu

SUNDAY             FEBRUARY    18

9:00   AM     +Annie Volz

11:00 AM    +Felix Marrero

12:30 PM       Beatriz Diaz

6: 30  PM       Purgatorian Society

MONDAY          FEBRUARY     19

  PRESIDENT’S DAY

 9:00 AM         Wil Brown

TUESDAY         FEBRUARY     20

 7.:00 AM       +Albert J. St. Cyr

12:10 PM       +Mary O’Connell

WEDNESDAY    FEBRUARY    21

  7:00 AM      +Catherine Murphy

12:10 PM         Special Intentions

THURSDAY      FEBRUARY     22

 7:00  AM         Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

12:10 PM        +Mary Francis

FRIDAY            FEBRUARY      23    

 7:00 AM         Shrine Members Liv/ Dec.

12:10 PM       +Antoinette Jean-Louis

SATURDAY      FEBRUARY     24

 8:00  AM         Wil Brown

12:10 PM       +Dorothy Joyce O’Connor

                      +Bernard O’Connor

4:00   PM         Eng Family

SUNDAY          FEBRUARY       25

 9:00 AM        +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

                      +Hallissey Family

11:00 AM       +Angel Fonseca

12:30 PM       +Vy Maria Vu

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...

PRESIDENT'S DAY

There will be One Mass only on Monday, February 19th due to the holiday. It will be at 9 AM. The Church will close for the day following the Mass. The Rectory Office will be closed for the day.
 

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 : Pink Sunday
Next Week-end : Peter's Pence

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

 

 

This year, in an effort to more fully respect both our local tradition of the weekly Novena in Honor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the universal Church’s celebration of Ash Wednesday, we are going to transfer the parish’s celebration of the Novena from Wednesday, February 21'st to Tuesday, February 20th. This transfer of the Novena from Wednesday to Tuesday will only last for one week after which we will return to our regular schedule. The Mass and Novena schedules are as follows:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH

7:00 am Mass with Novena Service followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

11: 50 AM Confessions

12:10 PM Mass with Novena Service

5:30 PM Novena Service

6:30 PM Spanish Mass with Novena Service

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST

7:00 AM Mass with distribution of blessed ashes

11:50 Confessions

12:10 PM Mass with the distribution of blessed ashes

5:30 PM Liturgy of the Word with the distribution of blessed ashes

6:30 PM Spanish Mass with distribution of blessed ashes.

MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL


TODAY, 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.

 


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.

 

Dear Parishioners,

This Wednesday, February 21, 2007, is Ash Wednesday, the day on which we begin the observance of the holy season of Lent.

Below are the basic Lenten guidelines from Archdiocese of Boston :

Catholics over 14 years of age are bound to the obligation of abstinence. Abstinence is to be observed on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent. On days of abstinence, meat may not be used at all.

Catholics over 18 and up to the beginning of their sixtieth year are bound to the obligation of fasting. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are the days of fasting. On these days, only one full meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one’s needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted, but liquids, including milk and fruit juices are allowed.

Lent is a period of special penitential observance. Following the instructions of the Holy See, the Bishops of the United States have declared that the obligation to fast and abstain from meat still binds on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. In this matter, the faithful enjoy freedom in conscience to excuse themselves, but, as the Bishops state, “no Catholic Christian will lightly excuse himself/herself from so hallowed an obligation” on these days. In addition, the tradition of abstinence from meat on the other Fridays of Lent is preserved. Again, the Bishops express their confidence that “no Catholic Christian will lightly hold himself/herself excused from this penitential practice.”

“Let us witness to our love and imitation of Christ by special solicitude for the sick, the poor,the underprivileged,the imprisoned,the bed-ridden, the discouraged, the stranger, the lonely, and persons of other colors, nationalities, or backgrounds than our own. A catalogue of not merely suggested but required good works under these headings is provided by our Blessed Lord Himself in His description of the Last Judgment." (Matthew 25, 24-40). “This salutary word of the Lord is necessary for all the year, but still heeded with double care during Lent.” (Bishops’ Statement)

Fr. Richard S. Bennett, C.Ss.R.
 


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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