WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

 

 

 

 

 

Ninth Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Mar 3rd to Mar 10th, 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      MARCH            3,  2007 
 4:00 PM       +Jeremiah Harris 7th anniversary
SUNDAY             MARCH            4
9:00   AM     +Elizabeth Brill
11:00 AM    +Eddie Rivera and Family
                    +Santos Laboy
12:30 PM     +Ann McDonough Dolan
6: 30  PM       Purgatorian Society
MONDAY          MARCH             5
 7:00 AM     +Margaret Ross and Family
12:10 PM        Fr. Gerard J. Szymkowiak, CSSR
TUESDAY            MARCH                 6
 7.:00 AM     +Souls in Purgatory
12:10 PM     +Catherine J. Kiely (Months Mind)
WEDNESDAY    MARCH            7
  7:00 AM     +Br. Austin McClellan, CSSR
12:10 PM       Gabriel Girgih
THURSDAY      MARCH            8
 7:00  AM       Marthe Samedi
12:10 PM      +Margaret & Fred Smith
FRIDAY            MARCH            9  
 7:00 AM       +R. Michael Yaras
12:10 PM        Mary O'Connell
SATURDAY      MARCH           10
 8:00  AM        Wil Brown
12:10 PM         Eng Family
                      +Eileen O'Gorman
                       Shrine Members Liv / Dec.
 4:00   PM       Our Lady of Perpetual Help
SUNDAY          MARCH           11
 9:00 AM        +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey
                       +Hallissey Family
11:00 AM       +Ismael Perez 4th anniversary
12:30 PM       +Vy Maria Vu
6:30 PM           Purgatorian Society     

             
 

BILLS PAID THIS WEEK
Payroll                            $6, 545.25
Printing                          $    675.00   
Mass Cards                   $    736.60
      
SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 
The total collection taken up Sunday February 25th at the weekend Masses was: $3,005.70
1st collection (Loose)     $1, 901.70
1st collection (Env.)        $    650.00
2nd collection                $    454.00
 



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...

 

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT 

There will be stations of the cross every Friday at 7 PM in the Church during lent.
 

TAIZČ PRAYER
Taizč prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung  prayer and shared silence, will be offered Thursday, March 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 2PM.

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  
  
There will be stations of the cross every Friday at 7 PM in the Church during lent.

       

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




MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Thanks to all who volunteered their time and helped with the set-up and clean-up of the Parish Center.  A big thank-you to all those who brought in dinner, deserts etc. to represent their countries.

   BOSTON CATHOLIC MEN/ WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
Tickets are available in the Rectory Office.  The men’s conference is March 17th and the women’s is March 18th. They will be held at the Boston Convention Center.  Tickets are $25.00 each. 

 

   PETER’S PENCE COLLECTION
This week-end February 24-25th, our parish participates in the 2007 Peter’s Pence Collection for the Works of the Holy Father.  Please help Pope Benedict XVI provide immediate disaster relief and emergency aid to those suffering the effects of war, natural disaster, or oppression throughout the world.  In doing so, we join one billion Catholic brothers and sisters in acting to share God’s love in the world.  Thank You.
    

          EASTER NOVENA OF MASSES        
At Mission Church we remember our connection to God through our loved ones with a special Novena of Masses beginning on Easter Sunday. We are inviting you to enroll your loved ones, living or deceased, in a Novena of Masses to be celebrated in the Basilica beginning on Easter Sunday. Flowers and candy are fine, but long after they are gone, the fruits of the Mass will remain.  If your loved ones have gone on to God, you cannot reach them with any gift but the spiritual.  Enroll them in the Easter Novena.    
          

   EASTER FLOWERS
We have envelopes in the back of church and in the Parish Office for those who may wish to help with this year's Easter decorations. 
 

  HOLY NAME/ HOLY FAMILY
There will be a meeting of Holy Name / Holy Family members next Sunday, March 11thimmediately following the 9 AM Mass.  All are welcome to join.

            

 PENNIES FOR HEAVEN
Pennies for heaven will be collected on Sunday, March 18th.  Please call the Rectory Office if you have pennies that are too heavy for you to carry.

 


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, Jessica Laing,  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, 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 past Sunday two catechumens (preparing to receive Baptism, Eucharist, and Confirmation) and one  candidate (already baptized and preparing for  Eucharist and Confirmation) traveled to the Cathedral  of the Holy Cross where His Eminence, Sean Cardinal    O'Malley, celebrated the Rite of Election.  Our newest members of the Catholic faith were joined by hundreds  of others throughout the Archdiocese who enrolled their names in the book of the elect.  
After reflecting on the word of God, the cardinal  archbishop called the catechumens forward to declare their intention.  Based on the witness of sponsors, godparents, and members of the community, the cardinal archbishop invited the catechumens to sign the book of the elect.  He then proclaimed: "now declare you to be members of the elect, to be initiated   into the sacred mysteries at the next Easter Vigil."
The rite of election brings to an end the period of thecatechumenate and inaugurates the period of  purification.  The act of election by the cardinal archbishop "the proclamation of admission for reception of sacraments" is a significant turning point in the catechumenate process.  It celebrates the  transition in the life of the catechumen from one who    is seeking to one who is ready to stand firm in a commitment (while remaining a seeker).   The election   is the announcement that the community has  discerned the catechumen is indeed ready to celebrate  the Easter sacraments.  This transitional rite is usually  celebrated on the First Sunday of Lent.  Please pray during this holy season for the members enrolled in our R.C.I.A. process who will be received into the Church this Easter Vigil.

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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