St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish

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1 November 1, Solemnity of All Saints Pastor - Rev. Aaron Damboise Parish Central Office Cell - (207) Pritham Ave. P.O. Box 457 Aaron.Damboise@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 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 Mass at 11:00am Confession Sunday at 10:15-10:45am or 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. Aaron. Reconciliation - Saturday from 3:00-3:45pm at Holy Family ; Sunday from 10:15-10:45 at St. Faustina and anytime by appointment call Fr. Aaron at Anointing of the Sick - If you or a loved one would like a visit, call Fr. Aaron at Holy Family Parish 145 Pritham Ave. - Greenville Sacraments of Vocation Marriage - Contact Fr. Aaron at least one year prior to intended date of wedding. Holy Orders - November 1, 2015 He is able for all time to save those who approach God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. This is National Vocation Awareness Week. Are you being called to help others approach the mercy of God as a priest, deacon or in the consecrated life? Call Father Seamus Griesbach at (207) , vocations@portlanddiocese.org or like us on facebook: VocationsME. FMI about consecrated life contact: Sr. Rita Mae Bissonnette at (207) RitaMae.Bissonnette@portlanddiocese.org Saturday Mass at 4pm - Sunday Mass at 8:00am Confession Sat. at 3:00-3:45 pm or by appointment St. Joseph Mission 4140 Rockwood Rd. - Rockwood

2 Parish Office hours: Monday, Thursday and Friday from 9:00am-12:00noon. You can reach me at or via Faith Formation schedule for St. Anthony K-5: Classes will be held at St. Anthony every Sunday Morning from 9:30 to 10:30. November: 8th,15th,22nd and 29th December: 6th and 13th January: 10th and 24th February: 7th, 28th March: 6th,13th,20th and 27th April: 10th May: 1st,8th,15th and 22nd June: 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th Holy Family Parish will be holding an ongoing bottle drive fundraiser. You may bring your returnable bottles and cans to the church or drop them off at Greenville Redemption Center and ask them to donate to Holy Family Parish Account. Proceeds will benefit the Holy Family Building Fund. St. Anthony Parish needs your help! If you might be able to spare some time to help clean, please contact Bette at the office at Thank you for your support! If you have something you would like to include in our bulletin, please get the information to the office by Friday morning to be included in the following week. Knights of Columbus Jackman Council 2392 Monthly meetings are held the first Monday of the month at 6pm in St Faustina Church Hall. The next meeting is November 2nd. We will host a Rene Morin Senior Luncheon the 3rd Wednesday each month at 11:30am in St Faustina Church Hall and the doors will open at 11am. We would like to thank all of you that participated in the 2015 Rosary Rally in Greenville at the Holy Family Catholic Church. We were one of 654 Rallies that were held in Maine. Internationally there were rallies. Rallies are still uploading pictures. Go to to see our rally photo along with many other reporting groups or see the picture in the lobby of the church. Thanks for your support of Our Lady Loves Fatima Campaign. Charlie and Debi Baker If you are able to send something to share or help with the reception following the First Responders Prayer Service at Holy Family on November 10th., please call Bette at the office or Debi or more information. Thank you!

3 Weekly Offertory Collection Holy Family St. Anthony October 24 and 25 $ $ 1, Cemetery Upkeep $ Each parish has options for electronic giving: For Holy Family: portlanddioceseholyfamily.weshareonline.org For St. Anthony: portlandtlanddiocesestanthonyweshareonline.org Thank you for your regular, faithful support! Weekly Prayer For Priests November 1: Our Holy Father November 2: All Deceased Priests November 3: Rev. Gerald Levesque & Rev. Armand Bill November 4: Rev. Ernest L Heureux & Rev. Gregory Dube November 5: Rev. James Knox & Rev. Jack Fagan SJ November 6: V. Rev. Claude Gendreau & Rev. John Skehan November 7: Rev. Joseph Manship & Rev. James Albert Mass Intentions - To schedule, use the Mass Intention envelope and please make $10.00 check payable to the parish, in the memo line indicate whom the Mass Intention if being offered for. Please leave your name and phone number so if we need to contact you we can. Pending availability, Masses will be offered either on a weekday or a weekend celebration. Sanctuary Candles for November 1 to November 7 Holy Family Church - Sean Melvidas by Suzanne & family St. Faustina Church - 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 Holy Family and St. Anthony Parishes FY 2015 year end financials have been completed and are available to parishioners. Please contact the office for more information. Holy Family and St. Anthony Parish Offertory envelopes for 2016 have been ordered and will have a new format that we believe will add more convenience to envelope giving. Readings for the Week of November 1, 2015 November 1: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 / 1 John 3:1-3 /Matthew 5:1-12a November 2: Wisdom 3:1-9 / Romans 5:5-11 November 3: Romans 12:5-16b / Luke 14:15-24 November 4: Romans 13:8-10 / Luke 14:25-33 November 5: Romans 14:7-12 / Luke 15:1-10 November 6: Romans 15:14-21 / Luke 16:1-8 November 7: Romans 16:3-9, 16, / Luke 16:9-15 Kindly remember in prayer : Gerard Falardeau, Jennifer Matlack-Bolin, Leon Graham, Tibbetts Family, Dottie Gagne, Bernice Mullins, Doug Worster, Ramona Varney, Cathy Mullins, Gene Paquet, Huguette Morin, Keith & Frances Davis, Sean Melvidas, Christine Havenaar, Dee Caswell, Jeannine Pinette, Lloyd Ferland, Crystal Levesque, Linley Brown, Jr., Rosemarie Paradise, Rena Parent, Jim & Sue Johnston, Omer Servant, Lionel and Theresa Breau, Dorothy Ragan; Richard Falardeau; Joe Guglielmo; Christine Fox Frauenheim; France Larochelle McAllister; Jeannette Morrill; Linda Kronholm; Rita Lampinen; Lauren Trigge; Gemma Tanguay; Arthur Giroux; Louise Mason; Bill and Lucy Fay; & Alice DeWyze. Mass Schedule - October 31 thru November 8 DAY DATE TIME PLACE MASS INTENTION SAT. October 31 4:00pm Holy Family Church Ovila Maheux by Kendall, Chantal and family SUN. November 1 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. November 1 11:00am St. Faustina Church All Parishioners MON. November 2 NO MASS NO MASS TUES. November 3 NO MASS NO MASS WED. November 4 NO MASS NO MASS THU. November 5 NO MASS NO MASS FRI. November 6 NO MASS NO MASS SAT. November 7 4:00pm Holy Family Church John F. Mullins, Jr. by Bernice and family SUN. November 8 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. November 8 11:00am St. Faustina Church Ernest Parent by his family

4 Interfaith Talks and Receptions in Bangor: A series of interfaith talks and informal receptions will be held in Bangor on five days in October and November. Speakers, including Fr. Richard Senghas, the director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Diocese of Portland, will offer short presentations about their respective faiths. All are welcome to attend the gatherings. Each talk/reception will start at 7 p.m. Here is the schedule: Tuesday, November 3 Mormon and Judaism All Souls Congregational Church, 10 Broadway Street Tuesday, November 10 Christian Science and Unitarian Universalist Congregation Beth Israel, 144 York Street Tuesday, November 17 Congregational and Pentecostal All Souls Congregational Church, 10 Broadway Street FMI, contact Fr. Senghas at resenghas@yahoo.com. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 2pm in the Chapel- Holy Family Ladies Guild Meeting- 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 2pm in the Chapel- Holy Family Ladies Guild Meeting- At each meeting the rosary is said for the conversion of our country and for our church. Some of our activities include sending cards to our shut-ins and working on fund raisers for the parish. Please call Bette at or Joyce at for more information. Our next meeting is on Nov. 17th (no meeting on Nov. 3rd). 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. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend in Lewiston on December 4-6: Your marriage is not only important to you, but to your family and Church as well. The encounter weekends remain devoted to celebrating the precious gift of marriage, a sacred bond, as it has been received from the Creator. For more information or to apply, visit or contact Bill and Coco Watkin at (207)

5 Moosehead Associates Food Cupboard is in need of financial assistance. For more information contact Belinda Roberts at Please send donations to: Moosehead Associates Food Cupboard P.O. Box 108 Greenville, ME Engaging Parents: Forming Family Faith Workshop in Portland on November 12 A workshop which will offer ways for parish communities to engage parents and help families to grow in faith together, will be held at the Chancery offices in Portland on Thursday, November 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Videoconferencing will also be available in Caribou and Brewer. In July, Pope Francis proclaimed, "How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith!" Won't you join us to learn how you as a parish leader can help parents transmit faith to their children while deepening their own relationship with God? This workshop will give you a better understanding of today's parents and strategies for reaching out to this new breed of parents. It will offer ways to support them in deepening their own faith at home and in the parish, and through service and outreach together. FMI or to register, visit The Presence Radio Network Week of Saturday October 31- November 1 Do you have the new PRESENCE RADIO APP on your smartphone? It lets you hear The Presence anytime, anywhere! The free iphone app and free Android app are available at the App Store. Just search for Presence Radio. No smartphone? Call and listen on your regular cellphone. The Presence Radio Network is your listener-supported Catholic radio FM in Greater Portland, 90.3 FM in Greater Bangor, 89.7 FM Mid- Coast, 89.5 FM in Greater Augusta, 97.5 Fort Kent Affiliate, 1390AM in Northern Maine. It is also available online at