St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish

Transcription

1 November 23, Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Pastor - Rev. Kevin J. Martin Parish Central Office Cell - (207) Pritham Ave. P.O. Box 457 kevin.martin@portlanddiocese.org Greenville, ME (207) Admin. Assistant - Bette DiAngelo Bookkeeper - Lorraine Auclair bette.diangelo@portlanddiocese.org lorraine.auclair@portlanddiocese.org Holy Family Church - Greenville 4pm Saturday and 8:00am Sunday Weekend Mass Schedule St. Faustina Church - Jackman 11:00am and 5:00pm on Sunday Each of our parishes have Facebook Pages - Like us on Facebook to keep up with parish events, and other information regarding our Catholic Faith! Spread the word to your family and friends! Holy Family Parish St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish 370 Main St. - Jackman Sunday Masses at 11:00am and 5:00pm Confession by appointment Sacraments of Initiation and Healing Baptism Call the office at least 6 months in advance of the birth of your first child. Confirmation Call the parish office for more information. Eucharist See Mass schedule. For a homebound or sick call, please contact the office or Fr. Kevin. Reconciliation - Saturday from 3:00-3:45pm at Holy Family ; at St. Faustina and anytime by appointment call Fr. Kevin at Anointing of the Sick - If you or a loved one would like a visit, call Fr. Kevin at Sacraments of Vocation Marriage - Contact Fr. Kevin at least one year prior to intended date of wedding. Holy Orders - Nov. 23, 2014 I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink. How are you How are you called to use your talents? Is Christ calling you to serve Him in others as a sister, brother, deacon or priest? call Father Seamus Griesbach at (207) or write: vocations@portlanddiocese.org For inquiries about the consecrated life contact: Sr. Rita Mae Bissonnette at (207) RitaMae.Bissonnette@portlanddiocese.org Holy Family Parish 145 Pritham Ave. - Greenville Saturday Mass at 4pm - Sunday Mass at 8:00am Confession Sat. at 3:00pm or by appointment St. Joseph Mission 4140 Rockwood Rd. - Rockwood

2 From Father Kevin s Desk As we look ahead to this coming week of Thanksgiving, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you for your prayers, your dedication and commitment to our parish communities. We have much to be grateful for, and I give thanks to the Lord for the opportunity to be with you as your pastor. In recent homilies I have expressed my gratitude for sharing your abilities, time and talents to become the living stones of the Church, the Body of Christ. May we all be given the grace and strength to continue to use our gifts at the service of one another to build up the Body of Christ, the Church. Please pray for the repose of the souls of Robert Fountaine and Violet Elaine Russo and for the consolation of their family and friends. + Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen I will be joining my family in Northern Maine for Thanksgiving next week, so there will not be any Masses on Wednesday thru Friday this coming week. Have a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving. Note - November 29th Mass will be at 5:00pm Next Saturday - Nov. 29th Mass at Holy Family will be at 5:00pm due to the Deck the Halls parade on Pritham Ave. at 4:00pm Greenville Backpack Program - Help Feed Needy Families - Food can be dropped off in the box located in the entrance of Holy Family Church. Thank you! This week s food item is: Canned fruits and vegetables approximately 14 oz. size FMI, contact Cecile Shields at Thank you! A Thanksgiving Table Prayer O Gracious God, we give you thanks for your overflowing generosity to us. Thank you for the blessings of the food we eat and especially for this feast today. Thank you for our home and family and friends, especially for the presence of those gathered here. Thank you for our health, our work and our play. Please send help to those who are hungry, alone, sick and suffering war and violence. Open our hearts to your love. We ask your blessing through Jesus Christ your Son, our Lord. Amen From Bette s Desk Office Hours I am happy to assist you with different needs. My office hours are Monday, Thursday and Friday from 9:00am -12:00noon. You can reach me at or via bette.diangelo@portlanddiocese.org. The Parish office will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 27th and 28th in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. If you know of anyone who would like to prepare for the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, or Eucharist, please notify Fr. Kevin or Bette in the parish office as soon as possible so that we can meet with them and share the process with them. If you know of anyone who would like to explore the Catholic Faith or prepare for Baptism, Full Communion into the Catholic Church, or other sacraments, please contact Fr. Kevin at We also have people at each of our parishes who are willing to journey with you. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays - Holy Family Ladies Guild Meeting- The next meeting will be on Tuesday, December 2nd at 2pm in the Chapel. All ladies are welcome. FMI, contact Joyce Lessard. Tuesdays at 1:30 PM - St. Faustina Ladies Prayer Group meets to pray the Miraculous Medal Novena, the Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary, Stations of the Cross or a Chaplet. We offer the prayers for family, friends or anyone who is in need of prayer. Please let us know if there is a special person that you would like us to add to our prayer basket. All ladies of the parish are welcome to join us even if you can't come every week. Jackman Cursillo Reunion - We are looking for all women who have completed their Cursillo to join us in monthly gettogethers. Our next gathering is at Isabelle's home 12/4/14 6:30pm. Please join us. DE COLORES Christmas Cookie Time - All kids come and decorate some cookies. We are planning on having gingerbread and sugar cookie dough with lots of fun ideas. Please join us Saturday Dec. 1pm in the Church Hall. The Rosary is recited 20 minutes before every Sat. and Sunday Mass at Holy Family. We can trace the beginnings of the Rosary to the 12th century when the people who could not read or write would count their payers on a string of beads. A Plenary Indulgence may be gained when the Rosary is prayed in church, in a family group or in a religious community. A Partial Indulgence may be gained for praying the Rosary in whole or part in other circumstances. Please join us before Masses to say the Rosary.

3 Weekly Offertory Collection Each parish needs an average of $1, weekly to meet our budget needs. If you are away a particular weekend, please remember to mail in or bring your weekly offering to our parish. Thank you for your support! Holy Family St. Anthony November 15 and 16 $ 1, $ 1, St. Faustina Building Fund $ 1, Thank you for your contributions to the Collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development! Your generous gifts will help CCHD end poverty in the United States through better education, improved housing, and economic development. Through CCHD and its beneficiaries, we help keep Catholic social teaching alive and carry out Jesus mission to bring glad tidings to the poor... to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free (Lk 4:18). Sanctuary Candles for November 23 thru November 29 Holy Family - In Memory of Ovila Maheux by his family St. Faustina - For All Parishioners Candles are $7.00 per week and will burn near our church tabernacle for one week. Candles may be offered for one s personal intentions, or in memory of a loved one or friend. FMI, call Bette at Mass Intentions - To offer a Mass for a deceased relative or friend, use an envelope at the entrance of the church, make $10.00 check payable to the parish, in the memo line indicate whom the Mass Intention if being offered for. Pending availability, Masses will be offered either on a weekday or at one of our weekend celebrations. Kindly remember in prayer : Elizabeth Zeller, Pauline Bruchmann, Robert Godin, Jeannine Pinette, Lloyd Ferland, Crystal Levesque, Doris Martin, Ruth Brown, Linley Brown, Jr., Denise Tibbetts, Amanda Favreau, Rosemarie Paradise, Rena Parent, Jim & Sue Johnston, Omer Servant, Lionel and Theresa Breau, Dorothy Ragan; Richard Falardeau; Joe Guglielmo; Christine Fox Frauenheim; Father Eddy Morin; France Larochelle McAllister; Jeannette Morrill; Linda Kronholm; Audrey Schmitz; Rita Lampinen; Lauren Trigge; Gemma Tanguay; Arthur Giroux; Louise Mason; Lucy Fay; & Alice DeWyze. Weekly Prayer For Priests Nov. 23: Rev. Clement Thibodeau & Rev. David Affleck Nov. 24: Rev. Daniel Greenleaf & Rev. Myles Cyr OMI Nov. 25: Rev. James Nadeau & Rev. Samuel Madza SMA Nov. 26: Rev. John O Hara & Rev. Reginald Brissette Nov. 27: Rev. Paul Pare & Rev. Albert Roux Nov. 28: Rev. Bruce Siket & Rev. Frank Murray Nov. 29: Rev. Aurelijus Gricius OFM & V.Rev. Joseph Daniels Readings for the Week of November 23, 2014 Nov. 23: Ezekiel 34:11-12,15-17/ 1 Corinthians 15:20-26,, 28/ Matthew 25:31-46 Nov. 24: Revelation 14:1-3,4b-5 / Luke 21:1-4 Nov. 25: Revelation 14:14-19/ Luke 21:5-11 Nov. 26: Revelation 15:1-4 /Luke 21:12-19 Nov. 27: Revelation 18:1-2,21-23;19:1-3,9a/Luke 21:20-28 Nov. 28: Revelation 20:1-4,11-21:2 / Luke 21:29-33 Nov. 29: Revelation 22:1-7 /Luke 21:34-36 Mass Schedule - November 22 thru November 30 DAY DATE TIME PLACE MASS INTENTION SAT. Nov. 22 4:00pm Holy Family Church Frances Pouliot by Ken & Carole Pouliot SUN. Nov. 23 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. Nov :00am St. Faustina Church Pauline Plante 1st Anniversary by Her Family SUN. Nov. 23 5:00pm St. Faustina Church Father Rob Reagan by Father Kevin MON. Nov. 24 8:30am St. Faustina Church Leandre Achey by Lena Achey and Gail and Robert King TUES. Nov. 25 8:30am St. Faustina Church Louisette Poulin by Andre Chretian and friends WED. Nov. 26 NO MASS NO MASS THU. Nov. 27 NO MASS NO MASS FRI. Nov. 28 NO MASS NO MASS SAT. Nov. 29 5:00pm Holy Family Church Jules Bilodeau by Steve and Leslie Bilodeau SUN. Nov. 30 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. Nov :00am St. Faustina Church Kid & Eileen Morency by John and Edward Morency SUN. Nov. 30 5:00pm St. Faustina Church Father Chanel Cyr by Father Kevin

4 Pope Francis - Homily Actions speak louder than words, particularly in transmitting the faith to children and young people today, the so-called digital natives. If we want to help them experience truth and love then we adults must lead by example, said Pope Francis at morning Mass. It was a very special celebration in the Santa Marta Chapel Friday, with the pews filled with children from a local Roman parish. After an initial awkwardness, the children overcame their shyness to engage in a lively question and answer session with the Holy Father. Looking out over them he said that it was like looking at a promise, looking at the world to come. Then Pope Francis asked the question: what will we leave our future?. "Do we teach them what we heard in the First Reading: to walk in love and truth? Or do we teach them with words, and then allow our lives to go in another direction? But it is our responsibility to look out for these children! A Christian has to take care of children, little ones and pass on the faith, pass on what he lives, what is in his heart. We cannot ignore the little plants that grow". Pope Francis said that everything depends on our having the right attitude towards children. What is my attitude? he asked, is it the attitude of brother, father, mother, sister, that helps them to grow or is it a detached [distant], "they grow up, I have my own life...?". "We all have a responsibility to give our very best and the very best that we have is our faith: give it to them, but give it by example! Words are pointless.in today s world [obsessed with] images, where everyone has these cell phones words are pointless... Example! Example! What should I give them?. At this point of his homily, Pope Francis began asking the children why they were at Mass, giving rise to a spontaneous conversation. It took some time before one child took courage and admitted: To see you to which Pope Francis replied "I also like to see you all". He then began questioning the children as to who had already received First Holy Communion, Confirmation, while pointing out to all of them that it is the Sacrament of Baptism that "opens the door to Christian life" and immediately after which the journey of a lifetime begins. The same journey described by the passage from the letter of St. John read out in the First Reading: "Walking in truth and love". Later in that journey, he said, other Sacraments arrive such as marriage. But Pope Francis repeated, "it is important to know how to live this journey, to know how to live it like Jesus": "In these Sacraments let me ask you a question - is prayer a sacrament?... Out loud now!... No! That s right it is not! Prayer is not a sacrament, but we must pray. Do you know that you need to pray? Good, good... Yes! Pray to the Lord, pray to Jesus, pray to Our Lady, to help us in this journey of truth and love. Do you understand? You have come to see me, who said that? You. But also to see Jesus. Right? Or do we just leave Jesus out? (the children respond, 'No!'). Now, Jesus is on the altar. And we will see Him, all of us! Jesus! Right now we have to ask Jesus to teach us to walk in truth and love. Will we all say it together? (all together) 'Walking in truth and love ".

5 St. Faustina Church Update - Our new Divine Mercy Stained Glass window was installed on Nov. 10, 2014 The new window is a gift from Mr. Francis Steele of Lewiston. Thank you Frank for your generous gift! Our artist, James Nutting from Maine Art Glass Studio did a wonderful job and will commence work now on the second window of St. Faustina. Expenses to date: $684, Includes all completed work plus payments on our mortgage to date Revenue to date: $482, $192, Pledges receivable for Capital Campaign $263, Building Fund Memorial Donations 621 gifts from 397 families and organizations $25, St. Anthony Parish Fundraisers St. Faustina Building Mortgage ($200,000.00) - This week, we were able to make a $20, payment toward our principal and our loan has been re-amortized - our new payment schedule is: $1, per month (4% variable for 15 years). Current mortgage balance as of $175, Total payments made on our mortgage thus far: Interest = $6, / Principal = $25, Remainder of Project to Finish: Rectory Property - still on the market, price reduced to $95, FMI, contact Glenn Levesque St. Faustina Window will commence soon Improve the lighting in our church worship area (along the side walls and statues) Create a housing for a bell and provide a foundation for a bronze statue of St. Anthony (near church entrance) Construct a 24 x 32 foot long-term storage building or parish items and equipment and garage (rear of church property) Pay off mortgage in future Thank you for your support for our recent raffles. We will be drawing the raffle for the quilt, candle holder, stereo and afghan this Sunday. For this raffle, we raised over $1, for the Building Fund. Our next fundraiser for St. Faustina Building Fund will be a December Calendar Raffle. To date, we have raised $ A different item will be drawn each day during the month of December. Tickets will be sent to each household and if you would like to help us sell tickets, please see Isabelle St. Faustina Memorial Building Fund - We continue to accept memorial donations and any assistance is greatly appreciated. Suggestions - consider remembering a loved one or friend, honor someone for a birthday or Christmas. Drop donation in the collection basket or mail to: St. Faustina Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 457, Greenville, ME The funds will help us to pay for some of our final projects we hope to complete as well as the $1, monthly mortgage payment. Thank you for your support!!