WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Pentecost Sunday
 

May 11th to May 18th, 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                 MAY               10, 2008

4:00 PM       +Margaret H. Gil

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SUNDAY                   MAY                 11

 9:00  AM     +Ellen Cotrone

11:00 AM     +Candita Santaigo, +Ramona Mejia

                     +Luis Gerena-Jiminian

12:30 PM     +Helen McGonagle 3rd anniversary

 6:30  PM       Purgatorian Society

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MONDAY                  MAY                 12

 7:00 AM        Mother’s Day Novena Names

12:10 PM      +Robert Carbone

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TUESDAY                   MAY                13

7:00   AM        Mother’s Day Novena Names

12:10 PM        Bobby Dingell

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WEDNESDAY             MAY               14

 7:00  AM        Mother’s Day Novena Names

12:10 PM       +Evelyn Guzman

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THURSDAY                MAY                 15    

  7:00 AM       +Kathleen Dello Russo

 12:10 PM        Mother’s Day Novena Names   

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FRIDAY                        MAY                 16

  7:00 AM       +Mary Lo Russo

12:10 PM         Mother’s Day Novena Names

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SATURDAY              MAY                 17

  8:00 AM         Patricia Eng                    

12:10 PM         Mother’s Day Novena Names

                         Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

                       +M. John Ryan 5th anniversary

  4:00 PM       +Wil Brown and Ben

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SUNDAY                      MAY                 18

                   MOST HOLY TRINITY

  9:00 AM        American Legion Post #327

                        62nd anniversary

 11:00 AM     +Felipe Bonilla, +Dolores Colon

                        Hilda Rivera

12:30 PM        Mother’s Day Novena Names

  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.

 

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Happy Mother’s Day from the Redemptorist Fathers and the staff of the Basilica.  Lord, protect and guide mothers everywhere to look out for their children. Help them teach and love their children as You love and teach us. Mothers are very important and always help them do their vocation in a loving way. Amen.

 

 

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 Sunday, May 25th at 2 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. All

 

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         

 

TAIZE PRAYER

Taize Prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered Thursday, May 15^TH 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

 

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR 2008-2009

Registration for next year has begun.  The fee is $25.00 before July 1st, 2008 after July 1st , it will be $30.00.  Please note after August 10th, your child may be put on a waiting list.  Forms are available at the Rectory Office.

 

HOLY NAME/HOLY FAMILY

The next meeting will be today, Sunday, May 11th following the 9 AM Mass.  We meet at the Rectory, all are invited to join.    

 

PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE IN THE 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, CPL. Peter Smyth-Hammond, USMC and Juan Trejos

BILLS THIS WEEK

 Payroll (bi-weekly) $ 11, 041.96

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS

The total collection taken up Sunday, May 4th at the week-end Masses was:                         $ 11, 041.96

1st collection (Loose)   $ 3, 722.00

1st collection (Env.)      $     851.00

 

 

PRAYER LISTS   Fr.Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr Lawrence Buckley, CSSR, Maureen Adams, Matthew Agard, David Bell, Eleanor Boyle, Charlie Capodanno, Kay Carrigan, James Carroll, Egerton Chang, Diane Chute, Robert Clanton,Cleo Crayton, Bernadette DeGrandis, Marguerite DeJoie, Katie Dimanto, Kara Dingell, Clare Doherty, Joseph Doughtery, Mary Dowd, Mary Doyle, Patricia Eng, Frances Esterhill, Jennifer Ferentzy, Tom & Kathy Finn, Theresa Flaherty, Bernie & Kathy Flynn, John Galvin, Mildred Garland, Jack Gibbons, Steve Gleason,  Michael Gray, Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman, Edward Hegarty, Sr. Eleanor Hegarty, SSND, Mildred Howard, Joan Hurlburt, Mary Jewell, Daniel Kelly, Philip Laing, Francis Lavery, Esmi Littleton, James and Catherine Lynch, Diane MacNeil, Josephine Maimone, Mary McCabe, Jackie McLaughlin, Mary McMahon, Susan Merner, Mickey Monahan, Daniel Murphy, Michael Nardone, M. Louise O’Brien, Sr. Evangelus O’Brien, SSND, Daniel O’ Donnell, Mary O’Donnell, Caitlin O’Sullivan, Theresa Poirer, Domenic Puglielli, Ann Saveriano, James & Mary Scannell, Mary Sheehan, Helen St.Cyr, Rita Sullivan, Chico Torres, Eileen & Jim Tosney, Joseph Veglia, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible, Nana Walsh and Louisa Whitman       PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,   Happy Mother’s Day!   On behalf of all the Redemptorist fathers and brothers here at the Basilica we want to wish every mother a day of rest - filled with peace, joy, and God’s blessings.  This should be a day when we are grateful for the gift of our own mother in our lives.  From the pains of childbirth to changing our diapers, helping us with our homework, wiping the tear from our eye,  kissing the wound and making it better, overlooking the vegetables swept under the napkin or fed to the dog, being our chauffeur, giving us our allowance, staying up until we are home safe,  attending our graduation and transitions in life, a mother’s love and support is constant.  It is that mother’s love that led the Blessed Virgin to the foot of the cross and where she stayed faithfully until they took down her son’s body and laid it in the tomb.  The Acts of the Apostles tell us that Mary was filled with an inner strength and hope and spirit that helped to encourage and inspire the scattered and anxious apostles after the suffering, death, and resurrection of their Redeemer.  Mary would be counted among their number and listed as one who was in their presence as a constant loving support.  Isn’t that the nature of motherhood?  And how blessed are we to have such a gift!  May I suggest that you spend time today praying for your mother, thanking her in word or in print for all she has given you.  May you spend quality time with her today or speak with her on the phone if she is across the miles.  And for those who have gone on before us, may we converse in prayer with our mother and ask her to continue to love us and pray for us.  As Mary herself was filled with the Spirit, may the Advocate fill us with His Spirit and divine life this Pentecost and may we generously share that faith-filled Spirit with our families and friends.  A blessed feast of Pentecost! Father 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.