WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Nineteenth Sunday

in Ordinary Time
 

Aug 12th to Aug 19th, 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

 

SUNDAY AUGUST 12

9:00 AM +Wil Brown

11:00 AM Cathy Esparza 1^st Birthday

+Laura Feliciano 2^nd anniversary

+Jose G. Vasquez-Sabater

+Yasmine and Dennis Burgos

12:30 PM +Fr. Joseph Hallissey, CSSR

6:30 PM Purgatorian Society Liv / Dec.

MONDAY AUGUST 13

7:00 AM Cathy Verenice Esparza (1^st Birthday)

12:10 PM Mary O'Connell

TUESDAY AUGUST 14

7:00 AM +Ruth Mildred Wall

12:10 PM +Marie & Arthur Gildea

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15

ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

7:00 AM +James Nardone

12:10 PM +John McCarthy, Sr.

+John McCarthy, Jr.

THURSDAY AUGUST 16

7:00 AM +Kenneth P. Galvin

12:10 PM OLPH

FRIDAY AUGUST 17

7:00 AM Fernande Mathieu

Montezuma Mathieu

12:10PM +Timothy O'Sullivan

SATURDAY AUGUST 18

8:00 AM Eng Family

12:10 PM Br. Steve, CSSR

Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

Purgatorian Society Liv / Dec.

4:00 PM Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Mary

SUNDAY AUGUST 19

9:00 AM +Mary Casey 1^st anniversary

11:00 AM +Angel Fonseca

+Hilda Rivera

+Luis Sanchez

12:30 PM +Joseph Power 5^th anniversary

+Mary Power 6^th anniversary

+Christine Condon 5^th anniversary

6:30 PM Benefactors of Mission Grammar
 

 

BILLS THIS WEEK

Payroll $ 5, 273.90

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS

The total collection taken up Sunday, August 5^TH at the weekend Masses was: $3, 062.00 1^st collection (Loose) $ 1, 293.00

1^st collection (Env.) $ 897.00

2nd collection $ 872.00

 

 

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.

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, August 26th 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 Restoration

Next weekend : Catholic Home Mission Appeal

 

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

 

GERONTOLOGY CLASSES AT U MASS

The University of Massachusetts is accepting applications for its Manning Certificate Program in Gerontology, which prepares students to work with the elderly. The program is designed to give students skills and resources needed to plan for an aging society, work in the aging network and advocate for the elders. Daytime classes are on Wednesdays beginning September 5 for two semesters. There is also a Monday evening program available. The program is financial aid approved. For more information please call Mary St. Jean at (617) 287-7330.

 

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,   These are reflections of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in their Document. Behold Your Mother: Woman of Faith THE ASSUMPTION Another aspect of Our Lady's holiness is brought out in her oldest liturgical feast, the Assumption. The meaning of this doctrine is that Mary is one with the risen Christ in the fullness of her personality, or as we commonly say, "in body and soul." Pope Pius XII solemnly proclaimed on November 1, 1950: "The Immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever-virgin, after her life on earth, was assumed, body and soul, into heavenly glory." As early as the 5th century, Christians celebrated a "Memorial of Mary," patterned on the "birthday into heaven" of the marty's anniversaries. By this they gave prayer form to their belief in the resurrection of the body and in the special bond between holy Mary and Jesus, the risen Savior. This primitive "Memorial of Mary," sometimes observed on August 15, evolved into the feast of the Dormition (the "falling asleep") of the Virgin. As early as the 6th century, homilies on the Assumption appear, which bring out the abiding and perfect conformity of the Mother of Jesus with "her Son, the Lord of Lords, and the Conqueror of sin and death." An 8th century prayer, originally an announcement of a procession on August 15, has survived as an entrance prayer in some Western liturgies (e.g., the Carmelite rite until recently): "On this day the holy Mother of God suffered temporal death, but could not be held fast by the bonds of death, who gave birth to our Lord made flesh. United to the victorious Christ in heaven, Mary is "the image and first-flowering of the Church as she is to be perfected in the world to come." She shines forth "as a sign of sure hope and solace for the pilgrim People of God." In her Assumption, Mary manifests the fullness of redemption, and appears as the "spotless image" of the Church responding in joy to the invitation of the Bridegroom Christ, himself the "first fruits of those who have fallen asleep." Christ has risen from the dead; we need no further assurance of our faith. "Mary assumed into heaven" serves rather as a gracious reminder to the Church that our Lord wishes all whom the Father has given him to be raised with him. In Mary taken to glory, to union with Christ, the Church sees herself answering the invitation of the heavenly Bridegroom. There is a tender note here that is at the same time profoundly doctrinal, for it is based on the real humanity of the risen Jesus. Archbishop Philip Pocock of Toronto expresses it this way: "Jesus does not wish to be alone, but face-to-face with another in love. Our Lady sharing in the glory of her Son strengthens our hope in the destiny of the entire Church. This was the vision of St. John, when, contemplating the age to come, he saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made read as a bride adorned for her husband." The Mother of Jesus stands facing the risen Savior, her Son, a joyful sign to the Church of the answer to its constant prayer, Come, Lord Jesus."     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.