WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN

Fourth Sunday

of Advent
 

Dec 23rd to Dec 30th, 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               22, 2007

 4:00  PM       Eng Family

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SUNDAY       DECEMBER               23

 9:00  AM     +Taku’s family

11:00 AM     +Fr. Joseph Adamec, CSSR

                     +Jose G. Vasquez—Sabater

12:30 PM     +Mary Francis and Mary Hourihan

 6:30  PM       Purgatorian Society

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MONDAY       DECEMBER               24

                    CHRISTMAS EVE

 4:00 PM   CHILDREN’S CHRISMAS PAGEANT

                  +Joseph & Ellen Cotrone  

11:30 PM   HYMNS BY THE CHOIR

12:00 AM   MIDNIGHT MASS

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                    CHRISTMAS DAY

TUESDAY      DECEMBER               25

9:00   AM       Christmas Novena Names

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WEDNESDAY  DECEMBER             26

7:00   AM       Christmas Novena Names

12:10 PM       Altagracia Maria Cordero-Castillo

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THURSDAY    DECEMBER              27

 7:00 AM        Christmas Novena Names

12:10 PM     +Laura Kisor

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FRIDAY           DECEMBER              28

 7:00 AM        Christmas Novena Names

12:10PM      +Nicolo Gaetan Laudicina

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SATURDAY    DECEMBER              29

 8:00 AM      +Elizabeth Almeida 3rd anniversary

12:10 PM     +Delores Jannino

                     +Shrine Members Living / Deceased

                       Br. Steve, CSSR

                       Christmas Novena Names

4:00 PM       +Wil Brown

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SUNDAY         DECEMBER               30

 9:00 AM     +Belin Rodriguez

11:00 AM    +Cruz Martinez

                    +Juana Maria Rente

12:30 PM     +Esparza and Martinez families

 6:30 PM        Purgatorian Society

                      Christmas Novena Names

 

 

The Rosary is prayed after the 9 AM Mass every Wednesday

**REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH IN YOUR WILL**

ANNOUNCEMENTS...

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2007

Merry Christmas to all our parishioners  and friends from the Redemptorist Fathers and Staff of the Mission Church.  We wish you a very Happy, Blessed and Holy Christmas and a Very Happy and Healthy New Year in 2008.

 

  BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS

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

 

             TAIZÈ PRAYER

Taizè prayer, a form of contemplative prayer which includes simple sung prayer and shared silence, will be offered on Thursday, January 17th 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

 

                     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 next

Sunday, December 30th at 2PM.

 

2nd collection today is for : Current Expenses

Next week-end : New Year ‘s

 

       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

TV  NOVENA  (Channel 45)

Sunday: 11:00 PM

Wednesday 12 Noon and 10:00PM 

Thursday 11:30 PM         

 

CHRISTMAS OFFERING

The Christmas collection on Christmas Day is for the Clergy Benefit Trust Fund which helps to take care of the retired priests.   

 

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.

 

            CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

Flower envelopes are available in the Church and also in the Rectory Office if you would like to help with the cost of flowers to decorate the Church and altars for this holiday  season.  Donations can be made for in memory of your loved one  living or deceased.

 

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  $ 12, 650.84

 

SUNDAY COLLECTIONS 

The total collection taken up Sunday,

December16th at the week-end Masses  was: $ 1, 893.00

1st collection (Loose)   $  789.00

1st collection (Env.)      $  660.00

2nd collection                $   444.00

 

 

 

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,        Christmas is a time for the family to come together, united in the bonds of faith and love.  In the same way, the brothers and sisters in Christ are united in both love and faith as members of God’s family.  I would like to take this time to invite you and your family to join us as we celebrate the joy of this holy season.         Perhaps your thoughts are drawn to the beauty and innocence of God’s Son as the infant Jesus lays resting  in a manger.  The children of our Grammar School will lead us in a memorable Christmas Pageant where we recall the gift the world received on that blessed Christmas day.  Our faculty and staff are diligently working with the children and trying to get them to follow their direction.  They tell me how cute it is to watch the little ones who walk down the aisle with their head in the clouds...following the star, where the attention of all good shepherds should be!        The choir is rehearsing to reflect the majesty of the traditional Midnight Mass.  There will be harmony with flutes and French horns and the candle lit ambiance of soft light shining amid the darkness of early morning.  Poinsettias will blossom in brilliant crimson color as we celebrate the birth of Christ our Savior.  Most importantly, we will break open the Scriptures, tell our salvation story, and share Eucharist as one family in Christ.   Come join us….         CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE        SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24TH   4:00 PM  Mass (Children’s Pageant) 11:30 PM  Hymns by the Choir 12:00 AM  Midnight Mass       SUNDAY, CHRISTMAS DAY   9:00, 11:00 AM (Spanish) and 12:30 PM                  In Christ the Redeemer,              Fr. Richard S. Bennett, CSSR     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.