WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Sixth Sunday of Easter
 

Apr 27th to May 4th, 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             APRIL                26, 2008

4:00 PM       +Wil Brown and Ben

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SUNDAY                APRIL                 27

 9:00  AM     +Marie & Arthur Gildea

11:00 AM     +Luis Manuel Vega Baez

                     +Paula Pellicier, +Joj Yoel Nunez

12:30 PM     +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

                     +Hallissey Family

 6:30  PM       Purgatorian Society

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MONDAY              APRIL                  28

 7:00 AM       +Robert Carbone

12:10 PM        Evelyn Louis

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TUESDAY               APRIL                  29

7:00   AM       +Benjamin & Ellen Phillipo

12:10 PM       +Joanne Roche 6th anniversary

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WEDNESDAY        APRIL                   30

 7:00  AM       +William R. Bottary

12:10 PM       +Catalina Manalo

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THURSDAY             MAY                      1

                ASCENSION THURSDAY

  7:00 AM         Larry & Mary Jess

 12:10 PM      +Thomas Mahoney

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FRIDAY                    MAY                       2

  7:00 AM       +Benjamin Sano

12:10 PM       +Fr. Edward McDonough, CSSR

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SATURDAY            MAY                      3

  8:00 AM          Patricia Eng

12:10 PM        +Wil Brown and Ben                      

                         Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

                         1545 Club Donors

                       +Abraham Fevier St. Goudin

  4:00 PM       +Sr. Helen Galvin, SSND

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SUNDAY                    MAY                     4

  9:00 AM       +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

                       +Hallissey Family

 11:00 AM      +Roberto Colon, +Luis Sanchez

                       +Angel Luis Lopes

12:30 PM        +Francis Campbell

  6:30 PM          Purgatorian Society

 

The Rosary is prayed after the 9 AM Mass every Wednesday

**REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH IN YOUR WILL**

ANNOUNCEMENTS...

 

         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. Robert Lennon will lead us in prayer at the healing service next Sunday, April 27th at 2PM.

                        

 PROTECTING GOD’S CHILDREN

There will be 3 final sessions of the Protecting God’s children Program this May.  If you have not attended tone of these sessions yet this year, this is your last chance.  They will not be offered again till next fall.  Any volunteer that has not completed the training course after May will not be permitted to perform their ministry throughout the summer! Call or sign up at the Rectory Office for a session. The last three sessions are May 3rd at 9 AM, May 4th at 2 PM and May 7th at 6:30 PM.

       

 

 

 

 

MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP 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.

     

            CATHOLIC APPEAL

Stewardship reminds us to count our blessings, acknowledge God's gifts to us and express thanks to Him.  We do this by a proportionate giving of our time, talent and treasure.  We sincerely thank the households in our parish who as good stewards have made a gift to the Catholic Appeal.  You are helping many people with many needs.  God calls us to share what we have to help others.  If you have not yet made your pledge, envelopes are available at the back of the church.  Or for more information please visit www.BostonCatholicAppeal.com or call 617-779-3700.  Every gift matters. Thank You!  

 

                 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.

 

 

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         

 

               TAIZÈ PRAYER

Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered   Thursday, May 22nd at 7 PM in the Rectory Chapel. The prayer service is  offered every third Thursday of each month.  For more details contact Fr. Matt Allman, CSSR at (617) 445-2600 or  email him at mattcssr@yahoo.com

 

              ALTAR SERVERS

All current and new altar servers are invited to attend  a pizza lunch and training session at the Parish Center on May 3rd.  Please sign up at the Rectory Office.  If you have any questions please call Fr. Matthew Allman at (617) 445-2600.

 

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY!

Christopher Butler, SPC. Brian Carey, Stephen Casey, Pvt. Steve Cotter, LC. Gilbert De La Rosa, USMC, CPO. Matt Fanara, Cpr. Michael Hines, Lt. Col. Daniel Knight, Spc. Michael Lovett, Lt. Alan Todd Meskil, Pvt. Daniel Molina, Pvt. Sean Rivera, CPLPeter Smyth-Hammond, USMC and Juan Trejos        

                                                                                                                                                   

 

            BILLS THIS WEEK

 Payroll (bi-weekly) $ 11, 041.96

 

       SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

April 20th at  the week-end Masses was: $ 3, 740.50

1st collection (Loose)   $   2, 794.50

1st collection (Env.)      $       946.00

 

 

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   In memoriam: Our parish mourns the loss of two dedicated Redemptorist    Fathers this past week.  Please pray for the repose of the souls of Fr. John Ryan, CSSR and Fr. Richard Bonner, CSSR.               PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,   The Ascension of Our Lord, which occurred 40 days after Jesus Christ rose from the dead on Easter Sunday, is the final act of our redemption that Christ began on Good Friday. On this day, the risen Christ, in the sight of His apostles, ascended bodily into Heaven (Luke 24:51; Mark 16:19; Acts 1:9-11). The reality of the Ascension is so important that the creeds (the basic statements of belief) of Christianity all affirm, in the words of the Apostles' Creed,  that "He ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead."  Christ's bodily Ascension foreshadows our own entrance into Heaven not simply as souls, after our death, but as glorified bodies, after the resurrection of the dead at the Final Judgment.  The Feast of the Ascension marks the beginning of the first novena, or nine days of prayer. Before His Ascension, Christ promised to send the Holy Spirit to His apostles. Their prayer for the coming of the Holy Spirit, which began on Ascension Thursday, ended with the descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday.                                                Mass Schedule on          Ascension Thursday                   7:00 AM                 12:10 PM                  5:30  PM   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.