WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Third Sunday
of Easter

Apr 22nd to Apr 29st, 2007

"With the Lord there is PLENTIFUL REDEMPTION!"
Psalm 130: 7

INDEX

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 APRIL 21, 2007

8:00 AM +Wil Brown

12:10 PM Eng Family

Restoration Fund Donors

+Mary O'Connell

+Judy Sullivan 1^st anniversary

+George Boucher 2^nd anniversary

4:00 PM Therese & James Monahan

38^th Wedding Anniversary

SUNDAY APRIL 22

9:00 AM +Wil Brown

11:00 AM +Angel Fonseca

+Ramon Medina

12:30 PM +Margaret Shearns

6:30 PM Purgatorian Society

MONDAY APRIL 23

7:00 AM Stanley Joshua Pierre Louis

12:10 PM Joseph and Cadet Families

Linse and Belcombe Families

TUESDAY APRIL 24

7.:00 AM +Joseph Cotrone

12:10 PM Mary O'Connell

WEDNESDAY APRIL 25

7:00 AM Michael Ruberto

12:10 PM +Malcolm J. Morrison

THURSDAY APRIL 26

7:00 AM Michael Ruberto

12:10 PM Altagracia Maria Cordero Castillo

FRIDAY APRIL 27

7:00 AM Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

12:10PM OLPH- Mary Polycarp

SATURDAY APRIL 28

8:00 AM +Frank & Elsie Kreckler

12:10 PM Eng Family

+Frank Burke 1^st anniversary

+Wil Brown

Bro. Steve, CSSR

4:00 PM Joseph LoRusso

SUNDAY APRIL 29

9:00 AM +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

+Hallissey Family

11:00 AM +Basilisa Rivera

+Felix Rodriguez12:30 PM +Frances Campbell

7^th anniversary

6:30 PM Purgatorian Society

BILLS PAID THIS WEEK

Payroll $ 6, 983.03

Advertising $ 210.00

Office $ 283.15

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS

The total collection taken up Sunday April 15^th at the weekend Masses was:

$ 3, 210.00

1^st collection (Loose) $1, 655.00

1^st collection (Env.) $ 721.00

2nd collection $ 834.00

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...



WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
This coming Sunday, April 29th, 2007 the Church throughout the world celebrates World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Pope Benedict XVI is inviting Catholics all over the globe to participate by praying to our heavenly Father that he send vocations for the service of the Church as communion. For the Holy Father's letter on this occasion see www.vocationsboston.org

   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. Fr. Edward McDonough will lead us in prayer TODAY, Sunday, March 25th at 2 PM.

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

                  TAIZÈ PRAYER
Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative  prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered Thursday, April 19th 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 Charismatic Prayer Group meets every Monday night at 6:30 PM in the Parish Center. Call Fr. Robert Lennon at (617) 445- 2600.

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

ESPOUSAL RETREAT CENTER

How trouble & temptation can transform us to be our better self: Saturday, May 5^th, from 10 AM - 5 PM, Presenter Joseph Coyle, Christian Psychologist. The day will include teaching, inner healing prayer, Mass, reflection time and small group.

  PILGRIMAGE
Pilgrimage with Cardinal Sean and Greek Orthodox to Rome and Constantinople, including an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. Join Catholics and Greek Orthodox led by the Cardinal and the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan September 16- 23, 2007 to experience together the holy sites of Rome and Constantinople (Istanbul) with optional extension to St. Petersburg, Russia. Registration Deadline is approaching. For information email vnicastro@earthlink.net or call Dr. Vito Nicastro at 617-435-0019.

APRIL 29^TH MISSION CELEBRATION 2007

Mission Celebration to benefit Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Mission) Grammar School. There will be a Mass at 12:30 PM in the Basilica followed by a reception at the Lantana in Randolph: 2:30 PM Social hour, followed by dinner at 3:30 PM. Tickets are still available at the Rectory Office for $75.00 each.

2ND Collection : Fuel
Next Week-end : Current Expenses

         NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
NOVENA SERVICES (Masses)         Wednesday: 7:00 AM and 12:10 PM
NOVENA BENEDICTIONS
Wednesday: 5:30 PM
RADIO NOVENA (WROL• 950 on the dial)
Sunday: 1 2:30 PM
TV NOVENA (Channel 45)
Sunday: 11:00 PM
Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00 PM
SPANISH NOVENA (Channel 45)

Thursday 11:30 PM

Masses are at 7 AM and 12:10 PM daily, Monday through Friday and 8 and 12:10 on Saturdays during Lent.

   APRIL 29TH MISSION CELEBRATION 2007
Mission Celebration to benefit Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Mission) Grammar School. There will be a Mass at 12:30 PM in the Basilica followed by a reception at the Lantana in Randolph.: 2:30 PM Social hour, followed by dinner at 3:30 PM. Tickets are available at the Rectory Office for $75.00 each.


     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.

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, Kay Carrigan, Egerton Chang, Clare Burke, Diane Chute, Mary Clifford, 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, James & Catherne Lynch, 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, Marina Trejos, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Tommy Walsh

DEATHS: Wil Brown

PASTOR'S CORNER

Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.

Dear Parishioners,
First, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our Redemptorist brother, Father Thomas G. Sullivan, C.Ss.R., who will be joining our religious community and its ministries at the Basilica. Father Sullivan was born on Hillside Street, Mission Hill, and attended Mission Grammar School. Father was ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1972 in Mount St. Alphonsus, Esopus, New York. In 1973 he began his priestly ministry at Sacred Heart parish in
Baltimore, Maryland. From 1978 to 1981, he taught British literature at the Redemptorist minor seminary in Northeast, Pennsylvania. In 1982 Father Sullivan was hospital chaplain at New England Baptist. He taught British literature from 1983 to 2004 at Suffield and Enfield, Connecticut. He returned to Sacred Heart parish in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2005. Once again, Father Sullivan has returned to his native homeland where he will be close to his family and childhood parish once more.

Secondly, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to the faculty and staff of Mission
Grammar School who joined volunteer students from Emerson College this past Saturday, April 14th, to help create a space of beauty for all our school children and parishioners to enjoy in the Basilica garden. I want to personally acknowledge and thank all those who coordinated and/or participated in this Peace Games service project: President
Jacqueline Liebergott of Emerson College for a donation of $500.00 to purchase flowers, mulch, and materials for the project; Maureen Capillo, Peace Games Program Specialist; Jennifer Greer, Coordinator of Service Learning and Community Action of Emerson College; Jessica Binder, Liaison to Peace Games; and the faculty and staff of Mission Grammar
School. A little bit of beauty goes a long way!

Lastly, I encourage all of our parishioners to remember in prayer the victims and families of those who lost their lives in the senseless shooting this past Monday on the campus of Virginia Tech University. We pray that the Lord will help us to be attentive and caring to those who suffer around us although it pains us that we cannot completely take away the hurt and pain. O Lord, help us in this dark hour not to run from what distresses and disturbs when suffering invades our sense of peace and happiness but give us the courage to dare to be a light of Christ in midst of the darkness.

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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