WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Fifth Sunday of Lent
 

Mar 9th to Mar 16th, 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               MARCH               8, 2008

 4:00  PM     +Mary A. Ward 9th anniversary

SUNDAY                MARCH                9

 9:00  AM     +Jack Malone

11:00 AM     +Luis Sanchez

                    +Nano Valdez Santos

                    +Evelia Lopera

12:30 PM       Patricia Eng

 6:30  PM       Purgatorian Society

MONDAY              MARCH                10

 7:00 AM      +R. Michael Yaras

12:10 PM     +Joseph & Rita McCormack

TUESDAY              MARCH                 11

7:00   AM     +Maria Ruberto

12:10 PM     +Fr. Edward J. McDonough, C.Ss.R.

                      (Months Mind)

WEDNESDAY        MARCH                 12

7:00   AM       Libera & John Sinisi

12:10 PM     +Matine Chanel

THURSDAY           MARCH                 13

 7:00 AM       +Mary Manning 50th anniversary

12:10 PM      +Gerard Theodat

FRIDAY                 MARCH                  14

 7:00 AM        The Norvin’s Family

12:10PM      +Leo A. Avakian, Sr. 

                      1st anniversary

SATURDAY          MARCH                  15

8:00 AM       +Martha Kreckler 5th anniversary

12:10 PM     +Martha Kreckler 5th anniversary

                       Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

                      +Wil Brown and Ben

4:00 PM        +Ellen Cotrone

SUNDAY               MARCH                  16

 9:00 AM       Patricia Eng

11:00 AM    +Manuel Aponte

                    +Luis Vega Baez

                    +Angel Luis Lopes

12:30 PM    +Patricia Britton

  6:30 PM      Purgatorian Society

 

 

The Rosary is prayed after the 9 AM Mass every Wednesday

**REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH IN YOUR WILL**

ANNOUNCEMENTS...

 

The Lenten Weekday Mass is as follows: 7 AM and 12:10 PM.

 

Stations of the cross will be every Friday night during lent at 7 PM.

 

BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS

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

 

 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 Sunday, March 30th at 2PM.

          

MOTHER OF PERPETUAL 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. 

 

                            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. 

 

          HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL-CATHOLIC  STUDENT ORGANIZATION

Serving students, faculty and staff of   Harvard Longwood schools, (HMS, HSDM, HSPH,DMS) and affiliated hospitals (MGH, BWH, BIDMC, DFCC and Children’s.)  To join the email list or for more information, please contact hms.cso@gmail.com http://groups.google.com/group/hms-cso.       

 

Rosa Estevez, Anna Mae George , Joseph Lennon, and John Joseph Mahoney,

 

2nd collection :  Church Restoration

Next week-end : Pink Sunday

 

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

TV NOVENA  (Channel 45)

Sunday: 11:00 PM

Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00PM 

Thursday 11:30 PM         

 

PALM SUNDAY

In ancient times, in a city under siege, the   people would wave palm branches as a sign of accepting a new general or a new king.  This is what is happens on Palm Sunday, the people are proclaiming Jesus  as King: they are    surrendering to his reign.  No wonder the Pharisees were worried.  Palms will be distributed at all Sunday Masses next weekend.    

                      

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.

 

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

 

 

     

 

 

BILLS THIS WEEK

Payroll  (bi-weekly)   $ 11, 208.34 

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

March 2nd at  the week-end Masses            was: $  4, 943.00

1st collection (Loose)   $ 2, 086.00

1st collection (Env.)      $  1, 774.00

2nd collection                $  1, 083.

 

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, 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, Domenic Puglielli, Gerald Scannell, James, and Mary Scannell, Mary M. Sheehan, Helen St.Cyr, Rita Sullivan, Jaiden Tlapa, Eileen and Jim Tosney, Jorge Trejos, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Nana Walsh       PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,   I was absolutely delighted to see the terrific response that we received from our  people on Saturday, March 1st, for the first annual BIG meeting.  I hope that the information shared with regard to the personnel shortage among the Redemptorists of the Baltimore province (East Coast), the challenges of meeting present and future pastoral needs of our parish, and, thirdly, the tremendous financial need to increase weekly giving in support of this beautiful Romanesque basilica and its Catholic school.   After the lunch break, opportunities were given for people to sign up for various ministries in the life of our parish.  This was a marvelous beginning, however, we still have much work to do.   As our accountant pointed out in her financial report, the amount of the Sunday collection is greatly insufficient in terms of meeting the operating expenses of the parish. Therefore, the parish pastoral council and my financial advisors have strongly encouraged me to work this year at increasing the number of people who give through the monthly automated parish collection system known as ParishPay.   For the next several months there will be announcements made at the end of Mass, inserts in weekly bulletins, and letters going out to our parishioners helping to explain the process, the benefits the individual and the parish will receive, and supplying information about how to easily enroll as a member of  the ParishPay program.  As a general rule, parishioners should set a minimum contribution of $8.00 per week for the support of their church.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires that we, as a church, pay our employees a minimum wage of $8.00 per hour.   Weekly contributions less than this amount impede our ability to meet the state’s mandate and provide the type of pastoral ministry and service that parishioners want and expect.  One could easily say that the information shared with the 110 participants at the BIG meeting on Saturday, March 1st, could be summarized in one single statement:  This is the present cost of doing ministry within the Catholic Church in 2008. I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation to all those who signed up to be trained for the various ministries that make up our parish outreach.  The pastoral staff will inform you of the upcoming training sessions and begin to schedule you for active ministry.  The relationship with our God and our Church, like all relationships, is characterized by both giving and receiving.  I thank you for all your kindness and generosity in years past and I ask you to work with me and the pastoral staff to forge a bright and promising future for this Basilica, a future full of hope that will ensure our ministerial and financial stability.                              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.