WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Seventh Sunday
of Easter

May 13th to May 20th, 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 MAY 19, 2007

8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena Names

12:10 PM +Wil Brown, Eng Family

Bro. Steve, CSSR

Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

4:00 PM Benefactors of

Mission Grammar School

SUNDAY MAY 20

9:00 AM Mother's Day Novena Names

Mission Hill Post 327

American Legion Post

61^st anniversary

11:00 AM Angel Fonseca, +Santos Laboy

+Luis Sanchez

12:30 PM +Albert L. Stewart

6:30 PM Purgatorian Society

MONDAY MAY 21

7:00 AM Mother's Day Novena Names

12:10 PM +Marie Stuart Noel

TUESDAY MAY 22

7.:00 AM Mother's Day Novena Names

12:10 PM Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

WEDNESDAY MAY 23

7:00 AM +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

+Hallissey Family

12:10 PM +Charles & Elizabeth Morrison

THURSDAY MAY 24

7:00 AM +Gladys Jean-Louis

12:10 PM Padre Pio

FRIDAY MAY 25

7:00 AM Padre Pio

12:10PM +Manuel Del Valle

SATURDAY MAY 26

8:00 AM +Wil Brown

12:10 PM Altagracia Maria Cordero Castillo

Eng Family

Brother Steve, CSSR

4:00 PM +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey

+Hallissey Family

SUNDAY MAY 27

9:00 AM +Donald Currivan

+Edward Songin

11:00 AM +Juanita Vega

+Luis Gerera-Jiminian

12:30 PM +William Jewell 17^th anniversary
6:30 PM Purgatorian Society

 

2^nd collection this week: Pink Sunday

2^nd collection next weekend: Seminarians

 

BILLS PAID THIS WEEK

Payroll $ 7, 514.31

Office Supplies $ 378.85

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS

The total collection taken up Sunday May13th at the weekend Masses was: 3, 529.00

1^st collection (Loose) $ 1, 720.00

1^st collection (Env.) $ 800.00

2nd collection $ 1, 009.00

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...

                              

2007 CATHOLIC APPEAL

Next week-end May 5-6 will be Catholic Appeal weekend here at Mission Church. God calls each of us to share our gifts with others for the building up of his kingdom. Cardinal Sean is asking every Catholic household to participate in this year's Catholic Appeal, which funds the many programs and services of our Archdiocese of Boston. The Catholic Appeal is to our Archdiocese what the Offertory is to our parish - so your participation and support are critical. On Catholic Appeal Weekend, we will be showing a video message from Cardinal Sean and asking every Catholic household to make a pledge.

              
   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, May 27th 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, May 17th 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  
 

  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.

         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

 

MEMORIAL DAY

Monday, May 28^th is Memorial Day. There will be ONE Mass only, it is at 9:00 AM. The Church will close for the day following the Mass. The Rectory Office will be closed for the day.

CRIME COMMITTEE

Next meeting is Thursday, May 31^st at 7:00PM in the Music Room. Everyone is welcome. Coffee and donuts are served in the Music Room every Sunday following the 9 AM ,11 AM and 12:30 PM Masses.

 

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

    

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, Phil Millie, 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 PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners, This summer it will be my pleasure to welcome to our parish community one of our Redemptorist seminarians who has just completed his second year of theological study in Washington, D.C. Brother Tom Berndt, C.Ss.R., hails from the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, area. Tom will be doing a summer pastoral internship with us during the months of June and July. The month of August will be his vacation before returning to a full course of study beginning in September. Tom will meet with me for weekly supervision and will have pastoral exposure to the following areas of parish life and activity:  Leading Baptismal preparation classes and assisting at the actual baptisms, Pastoral visits and Communion calls to homebound and shut-ins, Hospital visits, Serving as lector and Eucharistic minister at liturgies in the Basilica, Every Tuesday will be spent as an intern at the Metropolitan Tribunal of the archdiocese of Boston (annulments and canonical proceedings), Assisting in marriage preparation and wedding ceremonies, Attending diocesan and neighborhood community meetings, Learning/participating in the OLPH novena services (TV and radio), Participating in youth and young adult ministry, Attending annual Mass and banquet on July 11th, Saratoga Springs, Assisting in the organization and execution of jubilee celebrations for Fathers Phil Cabasino and Robert Lennon - (master of ceremonies)  Lastly, I wish to congratulate Father Manuel Thomas, a Redemptorist priest from the Philippines, who has been studying for the past nine months to be certified in spiritual direction. Father Thomas graduated this past week from the Center for Religious Development in Cambridge and will be returning to the Philippines to teach our Redemptorist seminarians the art and practice of spiritual direction. We wish him well!   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.