WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

First Sunday

of Advent
 

Dec 2nd to Dec 9th, 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     DECEMBER              1, 2007

4:00  PM      +Meheghan Family

SUNDAY        DECEMBER              2

 9:00  AM     + Bernard Andrews

11:00 AM     +Eddie Rivera and Family

                     +Santos Laboy

                       Ana Luisa Rodriguez

12:30 PM     +Joseph D and Helen F. Cree

 6:30  PM        Purgatorian Society

MONDAY        DECEMBER             3

700 AM            Shrine Members Liv / Dec.

12:10 PM        Paul T. O’Sullivan

                        70th anniversary

TUESDAY        DECEMBER            4

7:00   AM      +Paul Vincent Casey

                        4th anniversary

12:10 PM        Mary O’Connell

WEDNESDAY  DECEMBER            5

7:00   AM        Eng Family

12:10 PM      +Patrick Louishdon

THURSDAY    DECEMBER             6

 7:00 AM         Frederick Jannino, Jr.

12:10 PM      +Margaret H. Gill

FRIDAY            DECEMBER            7

 7:00 AM         Immaculate Conception

                        St. Isidor

12:10PM       +Mary O’Connell

SATURDAY     DECEMBER            8

 8:00 AM       +Rose Holland 17th anniversary

12:10 PM      +Anna Marie Chimeno

                      +Wil Brown

                        Bro. Steve, CSSR

                      +Bernadette M. Torpey

                        1st anniversary

4:00 PM        +John T. O’Donnell

SUNDAY           DECEMBER           9

 9:00 AM       +Sarah & James Holmes

11:00 AM      +Francisco Martinez

                      +Jesus Acevedo 24th anniversary

2:30 PM        +Virginia Hojlo Salah

 6:30 PM       +Frank and Dorothy Miranda

                      +Miranda Family

 

 

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.

 

  MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOLIDAY CALENDAR RAFFLE SALE

Mission Grammar School is having a calendar raffle for the month of December.  The cost is $10.00.  Winning tickets will be returned to the ticket barrel, making you eligible to win more than once. The calendars can be purchased at the Rectory Office.  They make great gifts or stocking stuffers for the upcoming holidays.

 

    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. 

                  

 

 

      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, December 30th at 2PM.

 

   HOLY NAME / HOLY FAMIILY

The next meeting is Sunday, December 9th immediately following the 9AM Mass.

New members are welcome to join.

 

2nd collection this week-end : Fuel

Next week-end is for: Church Restoration

 

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

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         

 

SENIOR CITIZENS

 AGE 65 AND OLDER

 DAY OF RECOLLECTION

Please join us on Saturday, December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Parish Center from 10:00 AM –2:00 PM.  We will have prayer, a healing Mass, hymns and blessings.

 

FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Saturday, December 8th is the feast of the Immaculate Conception.  It is a holy day of obligation.  Please join us for Mass at 8 AM or 12:10 PM

 

TAIZÈ PRAYER

Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered on Thursday, December 20th 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

 

 REMEMBER THOSE IN THE MILITARY

Pvt. Christopher Butler, SPC. Brian Carey, Stephen Casey, Pvt. Steve  Cotter, Pvt. 1st Class Gilbert De La Rosa, USMC, CPO. Matt Fanara, Cpr. Michael Hines, Lt. Col. Daniel Knight, Spc. Michael Lovett, Pvt. Daniel Molina, Pvt. Sean Rivera, CPL. Peter Smyth-Hammond, USMC and Juan Carlos Trejos

       

 

 

BILLS THIS WEEK

 

 Payroll  $  13, 448.55

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

November 25h at the week-end Masses            was: $  3, 735.00

1st collection (Loose)   $  1, 670.00

1st collection (Env.)      $      899.00

2nd collection                $  1, 166.00   

 

 

 

PRAYER LISTS   Fr .Vincent Kelly, CSSR, Fr. Leo Dunn, CSSR, Fr Lawrence Buckley, CSSR, Maureen Adams, Matthew Agard, David Bell, Charlie Capodanno, Kay Carrigan, James Carroll, Egerton Chang, Diane Chute, Robert Clanton, John Cooper, Cleo Crayton, Marion 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, Jack Gibbons, Steve Gleason, Gisela Gonzales, Susan Gury, Helen Hallissey, Nowell Hanibalsz, Thomas Hardiman, Edward Hegarty, Sr. Eleanor Hegarty, SSND, John  Hegarty, Mary Horgan, Joan Hurlburt, Philip Laing, Jessica Laing, Cindy Luberto, Mary Jewell, Daniel Kelly, Esmi Littleton, James & Catherine Lynch, John& Margaret Lynch, Patsy MacDougall, Jackie McLaughlin, Mary McMahon, Susan (Jewell) Merner, Mickey Monahan, Michael Nardone, M. Louise O’Brien, Sr. Evangelus O’Brien, SSND, Daniel O’Donnell, Mary O’Donnell, Dolores O’Halloran, Billy O’Hara, Margaret O’Hara, Caitlin Marie O’Sullivan, Theresa Poirer, Fran  Powers, Kay Reilly, James and Mary Scannell, Mary M. Sheehan, Helen St.Cyr, Emily Sullivan, Rita Sullivan, Mary & Don Tice, Lee Trevisone, Michael Very, Joseph & Brenda Waible and Nana Walsh In Memory: Clara Gonzalez   PASTOR'S CORNER Fr. Richard Bennett, C.SS.R.   Dear Parishioners,         In years past we have had our traditional Advent giving tree.  This seasonal evergreen would typically be filled with four different types of envelopes that supported four charities that one could donate to at Christmas time.  Most of us have been made keenly aware within the past several years that only a portion of our cash/check donations went to the direct service of the recipients.  Many of those who gave funds to help the victims of the deadly hurricane Katrina in August 2005 were surprised to discover that, in some cases, as much as 70% of their donations may have been consumed by administrative costs, fuel costs, transportation costs, and supervisory managerial costs.  Therefore, we had decided last year to continue the tradition of Advent giving here at the Basilica by giving it a new focus.  Again, this year for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks of Advent, we will be collecting articles for the homeless of the city of Boston.  Our desire is to promote direct care to the people who are most in need in our area.  We recognize that the vast majority of homeless living on the streets are men.  As a result, there will be boxes placed around the Advent giving tree so that parishioners may donate men’s socks, briefs, toothpaste, toothbrushes, hand lotion, Chap Stick, 15 oz. of mouthwash and deodorant.  Many of the folks who wander the streets and are without shelter can also use hats, gloves, and the “ever-requested” hoodie sweatshirts.  During this season of selfless giving, we are reminded in chapter 25 of Matthew’s gospel, verse 40: “I tell you solemnly, insofar as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it unto me.”       I would kindly ask that all parishioners make a concerted effort to remember those less fortunate than ourselves during the solemn and sacred season of Advent. 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.