WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Seventeenth Sunday

in Ordinary Time
 

Jul 29th to Aug 5th, 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 JULY 28, 2007

4:00 PM Abraham & Evangeline Girgih

(Wedding Anniversary)

SUNDAY JULY 29

9:00 AM +Kenneth A. MacDonald

5^th anniversary

11:00 AM + Sonia Amaro

+Juana Maria Rente

12:30 PM +Gertrude Norton Hamilton

13^th anniversary

6:30 PM Purgatorian Society Liv / Dec.

MONDAY JULY 30

7:00 AM Br. Steve, CSSR

12:10 PM Nicholas Duda

TUESDAY JULY 31

7:00 AM Shrine Members Living / Deceased

12:10 PM Patrick Whelan

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1

7:00 AM Eng Family

12:10 PM Mary O'Connell

THURSDAY AUGUST 2

7:00 AM +Pamela Morgan

Eileen Reid

12:10 PM +James Mulvey 13^th anniversary

FRIDAY AUGUST 3

7:00 AM Father, Son, Holy Spirit and Mary

12:10PM +Walter Farquharson

(Birthday Memorial)

SATURDAY AUGUST 4

8:00 AM Restoration Fund Donors

12:10 PM +William and Dominic Davulis

First anniversary

+Wil Brown

Bro. Steve, CSSR

4:00 PM +Sr. Mary Agnes Hallissey,SSND

SUNDAY AUGUST 5

9:00 AM +Elizabeth A. Heneghan

34^th anniversary

11:00 AM +Nieves Montesinos "Nena"

+Felix Rodriguez

+Jose G. Vasquez-Sabater

12:30 PM +Wil Brown

6:30 PM Purgatorian Society Liv / Dec.
 

 

BILLS THIS WEEK

Payroll $ 8, 211.79

Equipment Repair $ 290.00

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS

The total collection taken up Sunday, July 15^TH at the weekend Masses was:

$2, 842.00

1^st collection (Loose) $ 1, 284.00

1^st collection (Env.) $ 622.00

2nd collection $ 936.00

 

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...

 

BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS

Please call the Rectory Office for dates and information about Baptism.

Welcome to the Mission Church. If you are new to the parish or just stopping by for a visit, please feel free to stop at the Rectory Office for a brochure of the history of the Church and some postcards of the Church.

BENJAMIN HEALTH CARE CENTER
Volunteers are needed to provide supportive care to hospice patients and their care- givers. A comprehensive training program will begin on August 27^th at 120 Fisher Ave. Roxbury, Mass. Please call Heather DePalma at 866-991-0049 or hdepalma@hospiceservicesofma.com.

 

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

 

 

HEALING SERVICE

At our Healing Services we pray the Holy Spirit will come down with healing and strengthening graces. The next healing service here in the Basilica will be Sunday, July 29th at 2 PM.

 

 

TAIZÈ PRAYER

Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered this Thursday, August 16th 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
 

 

 

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.

 

Coffee and donuts are served in the Music Room every Sunday following the 9 AM, 11 AM and 12:30 PM Masses.
 

2^nd collection this week : Church in Eastern Europe

Next weekend is for : Church Restoration
 

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: 12:30 PM

TV NOVENA (Channel 45)

Sunday: 11:00 PM

Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00PM Thursday 11:30 PM
 

Arthritic's Prayer to Saint Alphonsus Liguori

St. Alphonsus, preacher, confessor, founder, bishop, doctor of prayer and friend of the poor, you are also the special patron of all who suffer from arthritis and the pains of many years. When our fingers twist with pain, keep us focused on the hands of Christ pierced with ugly nails. When our knees knob with endless aches, allow us to see the knees of Jesus smashing to the street under the heavy cross. When our backs stiffen with soreness, let us remember the back of Christ thrown across the cold, rough wood of the cross. When our joints, hips, arms, legs and knuckles hurt so much that tears well up in our eyes, help us to recall the tears, the sweat and the blood that flowed from our crucified Jesus who suffered so much more for each of us. St. Alphonsus, afflicted with curvature of the spine and nailed to a wheelchair cross in your final years, teach us to unite all our pains with the dreadful sufferings of Jesus on the cross. We ask you to ease our pains but more so to enable us to be one with Jesus in his great act of dying and rising. Amen.
 

 

Fr. Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr. Lawrence Buckley, CSSR, Maureen Adams, NCharlie Capodanno, Kay Carrigan, Egerton Chang, Diane Chute, Robert Clanton, Mary Clifford, Liz Conroy, John Cooper, Ann Corley, William Martin Corr, Cleo Crayton, Amanda Daly, 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, John Geary, Jack Gibbons, Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman, Daniel Harrington, Edward Hegarty, Sr. Eleanor Hegarty, SSND, John Hegarty, Mary Horgan, Philip, Mildred and Jessica Laing, Joan Hurlburt, Mary Jewell, Joan Joseph, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton, James & Catherne Lynch, John & Margaret Lynch, Patsy MacDougall, Jackie McLaughlin, Mary McMahon, Susan (Jewell) Merner,Taryn Miller, Mickey Monahan, 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, Theresa Poirer, Caitlin Marie O’Sullivan,James and Mary Scannell, Mary M. Sheehan, Helen St. Cyr, Rita Sullivan, Marina Trejos, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Nana Walsh

 

REMEMBER THOSE IN THE MILITARY

Pvt. Christopher Butler, SPC. Brian Carey, Pvt. Steve Cotter, Rct. Gilbert De La Rosa, USMC, CPO. Matt Fanara, Cpr. Michael Hines, Lt. Col. Daniel Knight, Spc. Michael Lovett, Pvt. Daniel Molina and CPL Peter Smyth- Hammond, USMC

 

PRAYER LISTS   PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Fr. Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr. Lawrence Buckley, CSSR, Maureen Adams, David Bell, Charlie Capodanno, Kay Carrigan, Egerton Chang, Diane Chute, Robert Clanton, Ruth Collins, Liz Conroy, John Cooper, William Martin Corr, Cleo Crayton, Marion & Sonny Coutts, Amanda Daly, 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, Cathy Gately Jack Gibbons, Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman,Daniel Harrington, Edward Hegarty, Sr. Eleanor Hegarty, SSND, John Hegarty, Mary Horgan, Philip, Mildred and Jessica Laing, Joan Hurlburt, Mary Jewell, Joan Joseph, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton, James & Catherne Lynch, John & Margaret Lynch, Patsy MacDougall, Jackie McLaughlin, Mary McMahon, Susan (Jewell) Merner,Taryn Miller, Mickey Monahan, 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, Theresa Poirer, Caitlin Marie O'Sullivan, James and Mary Scannell, Mary M. Sheehan, Helen St. Cyr, Paul Sullivan, Rita Sullivan, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Nana Walsh   PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,   St. Alphonsus was born in the village of Marianella near Naples, Italy, September 27, 1696. At a tender age his pious mother inspired him with the deepest sentiments of piety. The education he received under the auspices of his father, aided by his own intellect, produced in him such results that at the early age of sixteen, he graduated in law. Shortly after, he was admitted to the Neopolitan bar. In 723, he lost a case, and God made use of his disappointment to wean his heart from the world. In spite of all opposition he now entered the ecclesiastical state. In 1726, he was ordained a priest. He exercised the ministry at various places with great fruit, zealously laboring for his own sanctification. In 1732, God called him to found the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, with the object of laboring for the salvation of the most abandoned souls. Amid untold difficulties and innumerable trials, St. Alphonsus succeeded in establishing his Congregation, which became his glory and crown, but also his cross. The holy founder labored incessantly at the work of the missions until, about 1756, he was appointed Bishop of St. Agatha, a diocese he governed until 1775, when broken by age and infirmity, he resigned this office to retire to his convent where he died. Few saints have labored as much, either by word or writing, as St. Alphonsus. He was a prolific and popular author. The utility of those works will never cease. His last years were characterized by intense suffering, which he bore with resignation, adding voluntary mortifications to his other pains. His happy death occurred at Nocera de Pagani, August 1, 1787. His feast day is August 1st. St. Alphonsus’ devotional writings were most successful, especially his "Glories of Mary". 1999-2000 Catholic Online.   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.