St. Patrick Parish MASSES. 29 Spring St., Nashua, N.H Tel Fax: PARISH STAFF CONFESSIONS OFFICE HOURS

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1 St. Patrick Parish 29 Spring St., Nashua, N.H Tel Fax: Rev. Michael Kerper Pastor Rev. John Healey Priest-in-Residence PARISH STAFF Sr. Elizabeth Castro, HMSP Pastoral Associate Rosemary Daly Office Manager Kelly Lockwood Religious Education Gary MacDonald Music Director Help for Those in Need: St. Vincent de Paul Society Saturday Sunday Daily MASSES 4:00 PM Organ & Cantor 7:00 AM 9:30 AM Organ & Cantor 12:00 Noon Organ & Choir 2nd Sunday - Latin Mass with Choir Latin Mass 12:05 PM Saturday 8:00 AM CONFESSIONS Saturday Sunday Tues. - Fri. 3:00 PM 9:00 AM 11:30 AM 11:30 AM Visit our website at: OFFICE HOURS Parish Monday ~ Thursday: 9:00 AM ~ 3:00 PM Friday: 9:00 AM ~ 12:00 PM Religious Education Office (603) faithformation.st.patrick@gmail.com Cemetery Office (603) Monday ~ Thursday: 9:00 AM~3:00 PM

2 ST. PATRICK LITURGICAL CALENDAR & INTENTIONS Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 ~ Vigil ~ 3rd Sunday in Advent 4:00 PM Elizabeth Giles, 33rd Anniversary Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014 ~ 3rd Sunday in Advent 7:00 AM Jeannette L. Robert, 4th Anniversary By Denis & Lena Robert 9:30 AM Patricia Rockwell 12:00 P M Brian Borromeo Monday, Dec. 15, :05 PM Matt Ennis, Jr. By Caroline Kemezys & Kathy Ennis Tuesday, Dec. 16, :00 PM Charles E. Fifield By Teresa DiPesa Wednesday, Dec. 17, :05 PM Marilyn and Donald McCarty By Luetta Kaminski Thursday, Dec. 18, :05 PM Ronald Lavallee By Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Vaillancourt Friday, Dec. 19, :05 PM Charles E. Fifield By Lorraine Lettre Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014 ~ Vigil ~ 4th Sunday in Advent 4:00 PM Pauline Goy, Gertrude Walsh & Jean Dolan NASHUA, NH Gifts for the Lord s Work Weekend of December 7, 2014 From 190 Envelope Users: $6, From All Others - Checks: $ Cash: $1, Electronic Giving Users (20) $ Total Collection $ Mass Attendance : Retirement for Religious Weeks of 11/23 to 12/7 $1, St. Vincent de Paul Week of Dec. 7 $ Poor Box money is used to assist the needy who approach our parish for meals, gas and groceries. Indirect assistance is provided through funds given to several local charities, including the Corpus Christi Food Pantry and the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter. None of this money is used for parish expenses. Your continuing generosity allows our parish to fulfill the Lord s command to help the least of my brothers and sisters. THANK YOU! Sunday, Dec ~ 4th Sunday in Advent 7:00 AM Roger J. Robert, 8th Anniversary By Denis and Lena Robert 9:30 AM People of the Parish 12:00 P M Norman Hudon, 9th Anniversary By his wife, children & grandchildren Thank you for respecting God s Holy Presence by keeping mobile phones and other electronic devices outside of this Sacred Space. VISIT ST. PATRICK S WEBSITE!

3 THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT DECEMBER 14, 2014 News & Notes for St. Patrick Parish Upcoming Latin Masses 12:00 Noon Sunday, January 11, 2014 Saturday mornings 8:00 AM (Church opens at 7:30 AM) December 20, 2014 Ember Saturday December 27, 2014 St. John LATIN/ENGLISH MISSALS AVAILABLE Roman Catholic Daily Missals (1962 Edition) in Latin and English are available for purchase directly through the publisher. To order your Latin/English Missal, contact Baronius Press Ltd., Tel or visit Missals are $59.95 plus shipping and handling. SISTER ELIZABETH - A HEARTFELT THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE! WE WILL MISS YOU! FAREWELL RECEPTIONS December 13 & 14 after all Masses in the Parish Center Father Kerper invites all parishioners and friends of Sr. Elizabeth to our parish Farewell Receptions. The receptions will be held after each Mass during the weekend of December 13 and 14 in the Parish Center. Light refreshments will be served. If there is anything special that you would like to do during one of the receptions to honor Sr. Elizabeth, or to help, please call Anamaree Redlinger at A box will be available for anyone who wishes to give Sr. Elizabeth a card. Sister cannot accept most gifts, so we are preparing a small album for her. If you have photos that you would like included in the album, please them to jpolaneczky@comcast.net. Christmas Wafers this weekend The Christmas wafers used by Lithuanian and Polish Catholics will be available this weekend. They will be blessed at the 4:00 PM Mass on Saturday and placed in the sanctuary on Sunday. You will find them in front of the Blessed Mother's altar. BAPTIZED IN CHRIST Michael Thomas Lengeiza CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE CHRISTMAS EVE Wednesday, Dec. 24, :00 PM Organ and Cantor 12:00 Midnight Traditional Latin Mass With Traditional Christmas Carols (A Latin-English program will be provided) Church will open at 11:00 PM CHRISTMAS DAY Thursday, Dec. 25, :00 AM Quiet Mass 9:30 AM Organ and Cantor CONFESSIONS Saturday, Dec :00 to 4:00 PM Sunday, Dec. 21-9:00 AM & 11:30 AM Monday, Dec :30 AM to 12:00 PM Tuesday, Dec :30 AM to 12:00 PM Wednesday, Dec. 24-2:00 to 3:00 PM

4 St. Patrick Office Holiday Schedule St. Patrick offices will close at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, December 23rd in observance of Christmas. Offices will reopen on Monday, December 29th at 9:00 AM. Offices will close on Wednesday, December 31st at 12:00 PM and reopen on Friday, January 2nd at 9:00 AM. Wishing you all a very Holy and Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Happy New Year! Readings for the Week of December 14, 2014 Sunday: Is 61:1-2a, 10-11/1 Thes 5:16-24/Jn 1:6-8, Monday: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a/Mt 21:23-27 Tuesday: Zep 3:1-2, 9-13/Mt 21:28-32 Wednesday: Gn 49:2, 8-10/Mt 1:1-17 Thursday: Jer 23:5-8/Mt 1:18-25 Friday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a/Lk 1:5-25 Saturday: Is 7:10-14/Lk 1:26-38 Next Sunday: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16/Rom 16:25-27/Lk 1:26-38 Liturgical Publications Inc KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BUSINESS MEETING The Knights of Columbus will hold their monthly Business Meeting on Tuesday, December 16th in the Parish Center. Please plan to attend. CORPUS CHRISTI CHAPEL ADORATION Monday, Tuesday & Thursday - 12:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM 43 Franklin Street, Nashua, NH Volunteers are needed to commit to one hour of adoration each week. Please contact the St. Aloysius de Gonzague Parish Office at to sign up. Volunteers and visitors are asked to sign in and sign out when attending Adoration. ANOINTING POLICY The Sacrament of the Sick is offered each Friday after the 12:05 PM Mass. All who are in need of the Sacrament of the Sick are welcome to receive it at that time. ST. PATRICK & HOLY CROSS CEMETERIES St. Patrick Parish has two beautiful cemeteries located in Hudson, NH - St. Patrick Cemetery on Derry Road and Holy Cross Cemetery on Ledge Road. For more information on available lots, please contact Margie Gray at Community News CORPUS CHRISTI FOOD PANTRY Corpus Christi Food Pantry is collecting non-perishable items such as canned meat, vegetables, peanut butter, tomato sauce, pasta and rice, and toiletry items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, and deodorant. The need is great, especially at this time of year. Please drop off a donation in the back of the church in the vestibule during Mass times. Thank you for your support! Questions? Call Susan Dignan, Corpus Christi Food Pantry Program Director at Struggling in your marriage? You are not alone! If your marriage is tearing the two of you apart, if there is little or no meaningful communication, if you are considering separation or divorce, we believe Retrouvaille can help. You are NOT alone! Our peer ministry is led by couples who have lived through the honeymoon phase often followed by deep disillusionment before finally finding resurrection in their marriages using the tools taught in this program. The 2014/15 New England Retrouvaille marriage renewal weekends will be held on Jan. 9-11, 2015 and Sept , To register or for more information, call or visit NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS FOR CAMPS FATIMA & BERNADETTE Camp Fatima for boys and Camp Bernadette for girls are now accepting online registrations for the 2015 summer season. The camps, located in the Lakes Region of NH, offer 2-week overnight sessions for children, ages For more information or to request a brochure and DVD, contact Michael Drumm at or mdrumm@campsfatimabernadette.org. You can also visit us at

5 Spiritual Indigestion Wise parents warn their young children against gulping down their food and then hastily leaving the table before others have finished eating. Aside from promoting good manners, such admonitions also foster good health: proper digestion -- the assimilation of food to the human body -- requires time. The same applies to spiritual food -- we need time to digest what we receive. The Church, which Catholic tradition calls Mother, teaches good manners. This happens in and through the directives of the Roman Missal, which calls for a significant amount of silence after partaking of Holy Communion and before the final blessing. At St. Patrick s, we follow this directive at our Masses. Living as we do in a very noisy world, some find this silence interminable, even unbearable to the point of fleeing. Someone recently complained, Yes, but what am I supposed to be doing with that gap of time? Can t we move on? Mass is too long! Recognizing the need for something to do, the Roman Missal actually provides a short, yet rich, prayer to be said by the priest after Holy Communion. Fr. Josef Jungmann, in his master-piece, The Mass of the Roman Rite (1959), recalls that this very ancient prayer was originally meant for the people, not just the priest. Here s the full text: What has passed our lips as food, O Lord, may we possess in purity of heart, that what has been given us in time may be our healing for eternity. This beautiful prayer, easily memorized, encourages us to move beyond the physical/ visible dimension of the Sacrement to the spiritual/invisible dimension. Even in a state of extreme distraction, we always know that something has passed our lips as food. After all, we can feel and taste the Host. That s the easy part. More difficult is the act of recognizing that the Body of Christ must move from one s lips to one s heart, which is the proper resting place of the Lord. In a sense, then, the heart is the place of spiritual digestion. This, of course, requires time and silence. Excessive rushing and the absence of silence produces spiritual indigestion, which makes the Eucharist distasteful because its true meaning is lost. Moreover, habitual indigestion can lead to a loss of genuine faith. Good table manners show respect for parents, who graciously provide the food, and for other family members, who wait for one another patiently and with forbearance. The same is true of Mass. Those who partake of the supper of the Lamb -- the greatest meal of all -- need lots of time to digest the Lamb who travels from the lips to the heart. Fr. Michael Kerper

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