WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Tenth Sunday
of Easter

Jun 3rd to Jun 10th, 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         JUNE              2,  2007

  8:00 AM      Restoration Fund Donors
12:10 PM      Marguerite Jannino
                      Eng Family
                    +John Chimeno, Jr.
                      Bro. Steve, CSSR
                    +Lillian LeBlanc
 4:00  PM    +Wesley Cosby 18th anniversary
                   +Charles O’Leary 9th anniversary
SUNDAY                 JUNE           3
 9:00  AM       Frederick Jannino, Jr.
11:00 AM    +Eddie Rivera & Family
                    +Santos Laboy
                    +Luis Sanchez
12:30 PM     +Mary & Dougal McEachen
  6:30 PM       Purgatorian Society
MONDAY              JUNE          4
7:00   AM      Mary Frances Platt
12:10 PM     +Lillian and Emma Lovejoy
TUESDAY               JUNE             5
 7.:00 AM       Lee Trevisone
12:10 PM     +John Chimeno
                    +Catherine McCann
WEDNESDAY        JUNE          6
 7:00 AM        Immaculate Conception -San Isidor
12:10 PM     +Helen & Daniel Kelly
THURSDAY          JUNE               7
 7:00 AM       Shrine Members Liv / Dec.
12:10 PM       Seragine Lubine
FRIDAY                JUNE             8
 7:00 AM        Virginia Manalo
                       Catalino Manalo
12:10PM         Mary O’Connell
SATURDAY          JUNE              9
 8:00 AM         Eng Family
12:10 PM      +Wil Brown
                        Farid Tannous
                        Bro. Steve, CSSR     
4:00 PM        +James F. Clifford
SUNDAY               JUNE           10
 9:00 AM       +Wil Brown
11:00 AM      +Trinidad Hernandez 2nd anniv.
                     +Andres Alagrin
12:30 PM      +Timothy & Josephine Hallissey
                     +Hallissey Family
 6:30 PM         Purgatorian Society    

 

2nd collection this week: Fuel
next weekend: Church Restoration

 

BILLS PAID THIS WEEK

Payroll                 $  6, 171.99
Phone Service            145.39          

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 
The total collection taken up Sunday May 27th  at the weekend Masses was: 3, 304.00
1st collection (Loose)     $1, 781.00
1st collection (Env.)        $ 379.00
2nd collection                $ 164.00
2nd Collection: Seminaries (total) 980.00
1st collection Loose $822.00 and Envelope 158.00
 

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

 

MISSION GRAMMAR GRADUATION
Congratulations to our 8th graders.  They will graduate on Friday, June 8that 10 AM.  Please keep these young men and women in your prayers as they continue their education at various high schools.  A  special thank you to Maura Bradley, the Principal and to the teachers of Mission Grammar School for the excellent work they do for the children.

 CONFIRMATION
Congratulations to the young adults of our parish whom this past Friday, June 1st were administered the Sacrament of Confirmation in Saint Thomas Aquinas Church in Jamaica Plain. Please keep these young people in your prayers.             

FIRST COMMUNION
Congratulations to our young people!!  On Sunday, June 10th at 9 AM, Mission Grammar School children will receive the Eucharist for the first time.  Our children in the Religious Education Program will receive at the 11 AM and 12:30 PM   Masses.  All parishioners are most welcome to attend.  Our thanks to all who helped prepare them for this special day.

 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 Sunday the Church celebrates Trinity Sunday. Throughout our history there have been many attempts  to try to grasp one of the central mysteries of our faith, that is, the Holy Trinity, three persons in one God. St.Patrick, the great missionary to Ireland, would take advantage of the green hills covered in shamrocks to help  the people better understand the Christian notion of a triune God.  This relationship has always been the center  of the Christian faith. St. Patrick used the shamrock a an illustration of how three separate leaves could be seen  individually in one and at the same time connected to a single stem. Their connectivity to each other does not take away from the distinctive quality of each leaf.  Another attempt to instruct children in the faith was initiated by German monks.  Monasteries have always had the burden of supporting themselves through the sale of goods.  Many of these German monks would bake  bread to be sold and would use the leftover scraps of dough by rolling them into what we have now come to know as a pretzel.  They created a design that had three  sections and a twist in the middle, the three sections symbolizing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  The salted treats were used in both catechetical instruction and as rewards for children who learned their prayers.  In our modern scientific age others have used chemical       formulas such as H20 to better illustrate the theological   concept of the Holy Trinity.  For example, H20 can be found in a solid state (ice), a liquid state (water), or in gas form such as steam that you may find as a source of  heat or produced in a common household iron.  In the New Testament, Christ reveals himself to us as the long-awaited Messiah and God’s only begotten Son.  Christ refers to himself as having been sent by the Father and   that the Father lives in him and he in the Father.  God the  Holy Spirit is made manifest in the form of a dove at Christ’s baptism and as tongues of fire on the feast of Pentecost.   In this triangular relationship, God the Father,  Son, and Spirit reign as one without the loss of their unique identities. Ultimately, the Holy Trinity is all about  a relationship. The Christian community - friends, families, and loved ones – is called to reflect the love of  God and the unity of God in and through our relationships.  On this solemn feast my prayer is that our  faith community here at the Basilica will be characterized  by the love and unity that is mirrored in the mystery of the  Sacred Trinity.    May God bless you and your families.   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.