Second Sunday of Easter April 12, 2015 CHURCH & PARISH OFFICES St. Patrick Parish 12 Main St. Pelham, NH 03076 603-635- 3525 (office) 603-635- 3919 (fax number) Website: www.stpatricks- pelham.com Pastor Rev. Volney J. DeRosia Email: fathervon@comcast.net Priest in Residence Rev. John Sledziona, CM Deacons Deacon John Ross Email: ualdrmflt@comcast.net Deacon Tom Lavallee Email: tl3450@gmail.com Faith Life Director & RCIA Sister Terry Gauvin, scim 603-635- 1447 Email: faithlifeformation@comcast.net Business Manager Therese Soucy Email: therese42852@comcast.net Secretary Kathleen Jean Email: kathy7421@comcast.net Saturday Sunday MASS SCHEDULE 4PM 8AM, 10:30AM, 6PM WEEKDAYS MASS SCHEDULE Monday 9am Tuesday through Thursday 8am Friday No Mass First Friday and First Saturday 8am HOLY DAY MASS SCHEDULE Holy Day 8am & 7pm When school is in session 10am Wednesday ADORATION 8:30-9:30am 2:00-8:00pm FIRST FRIDAY ROSARY The Knights and the Women s Guild invite everyone to First Friday Rosary at 6pm in the chapel. The Rosary is followed by the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 6:45 PM. Saturday RECONCILIATION 3pm to 3:30pm or by appointment ANOINTING OF THE SICK & COMMUNION TO THE SICK & HOMEBOUND Please contact the Parish Office for arrangements Music Ministry Stephen Caruso Gary Williams 603-401- 0837 603-635- 7669 St. Patrick Catholic School 16 Main St. Pelham, NH 03076 603-635- 2941 (office) 603-635- 9800 (fax number) Website: www.stpatrickschool.net BAPTISM Please contact the Parish Office to schedule a baptism. Parents are required to meet with the pastor and participate in a baptismal catechetical session prior to the celebration of the sacrament. MARRIAGE Arrangements with the parish must be made at least nine months prior to the wedding. Fulfillment of a Diocesan, pre- marriage program is required. Principal Mr. Henry E. Golec KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Email: hgolec@stpatrickschool.net Care to join the Knights of Columbus? Please Secretary contact Erick Wright at 603-635- 8772 or Carol Blazon erick.wright@myfairpoint.net. More information Email: cblazon@stpatrickschool.net online: http://www.nhknights.org/ 1 Page 956
MASS INTENTIONS Saturday April 11 4pm Lawrence J. Bouchard, 30 th Anniversary, requested by Joan Janos Sunday April 12 8am Robert Hall requested by his family 10:30am Michael J. Taylor Jr., 9 th Anniversary, requested by the Taylor family 6pm Marietta Potter, requested by her family Monday April 13 9am Rose Toubia & Kamil Karam requested by their family Tuesday April 14 8am Linda Bousquet requested by her sister Patty Kennedy Wednesday April 15 8am Rev. Aime Boisselle Thursday April 16 8am In Honor of St. Francis Friday April 17 8am No Mass Saturday April 18 4pm Helen Taylor Birthday Remembrance requested by the Taylor family Sunday April 19 8am James Stadtmiller Jr., requested by his family 10:30am Madeline Saindon, 7 th Anniversary, requested by her family 6pm Noella & Bourgeois Family requested by Albert P. Bourgeois Divine Mercy Novena: April 12 th at 1:30 PM Adoration and Confessions and at 3:00 PM Divine Mercy Celebration SCHOLARSHIPS The St. Patrick Women s Guild will be awarding three $500.00 scholarships to graduating seniors who plan on going to college. Applications are available in the Parish Office, the Sacristy, and the Guidance Office at Pelham High School. The completed application should be returned to the Parish Office or the Guidance Office at Pelham High School by Friday, April 24 th. PARISH COLLECTIONS In order for the parish to meet its regular expenses, our offertory and other designated parish collections must bring in $8,700 per week. Parish Collections for the following week: Offertory 3/29/15 $7,776 Faith Life $1,415 Easter Sunday $14,385 Easter Memorials $2,205 Total funds collected for this week for parish expenses $25,781 Thank you for your continued support ~Fr. Von~ Holy Land collected as of 4/3/15 $1,194 Thank you for your generosity! Capital Improvements collected as of 4/5/15 $1,929 Thank you for your generosity! SECOND ENVELOPES FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEKS Apr. 19 Fuel This collection helps with the cost for the Church, Rectory and Parish Center. Apr. 26 Faith Life Formation This collection helps with expenses for Faith Life. May 3 Capital Improvement This collection helps with projects around the parish. May 10 St. Patrick Catholic School This collection helps with the school assessment from the Diocese. Your contributions toward the support of the parish and its ministries are greatly appreciated. A Special Thank You to all who donated for Steubenville. We had 5 sponsors and our total that we raised was $2,965.50. 2 Page 956
CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sunday, April 12 Coffee & Donuts, 11:30 AM, in the K of C Hall Children of Mary, 11:45 AM, in the meeting room Divine Mercy Celebration, 3:00 PM, in the church Monday, April 13 Praise Band, 7:00 PM, in the church Consoling the Heart of Jesus, 7:00 PM, in the meeting room Tuesday, April 14 Consoling the Heart of Jesus, 9:00 AM, in the meeting room Food Pantry, 6:30 PM Wednesday, April 15 Men s Morning Group, 6:00 AM, in the meeting room Adoration 8:30-9:30 AM and 2:00-8:00 PM Bible Sharing, 9:00 AM, in the meeting room Food Pantry, 1:00 PM RCIA, 6:30 PM, in the meeting room Thursday, April 16 AA, 7:00 PM, in the K of C Hall Choir Practice, 7:30 PM, in the church Saturday, April 18 Men s Club, 7:30 AM, in the parish center ST. PATRICK MEN S CLUB St. Patrick Men s Club will be held on Saturday, April 18 th from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM, for breakfast and fellowship. If any man or young man is interested in attending/joining the Men s Club, please come and join us. All men are welcome! Please welcome into our parish family the following children who were recently baptized here at St. Patrick. They are: Elanor Brooke Coutermarsh, Lillian Grace Coutermarsh, Robert Adam Coutermarsh, Jackson Roland Croteau, Chloe Eleanor Groff, Cameron David Goulet, Mackenzie Rose Montecalvo and Andrew Joseph Russell. Please keep these children and their families in your prayers. Ladies, Help Bring ACTS to St. Patrick s ACTS, an acronym for Adoration, Community, Theology, and Service, is a lay, parish- centered retreat for all Christian men and women. This is your invitation to attend a Women s ACTS retreat, April 16-19, 2015, at the Espousal Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. Please join us for an uplifting weekend, where you will have the opportunity to strengthen your faith, to renew yourself spiritually, to share your life experiences, and to form lasting friendships with other sincere and caring women. Registration forms are available at the church entrance. If you have any questions, or if you need more information, please contact Director, Beth Jacavanco, at bjacavanco@comcast.net or at 978-256- 6642. ST. PATRICK MEN S CLUB RAFFLE St. Patrick Men s Club is selling raffle tickets for Renovation to the Parish Center Bathrooms. The drawing for the prizes will take place on Saturday, May 9 th after the 4:00 PM Mass. The raffle tickets are available at the parish office. Tickets are $10.00 each. 1 st Prize: 150 Mass $5 Scratch Tickets ($750 value) 2 nd Prize: $500 Cash 3 rd Prize: 2 tickets to a Red Sox Game 4 th Prize: 2 Tickets to a Patriots Game 5 th Prize: $100 Cyr Lumber Gift Card Need not to be present to win; if present, winner can choose any remaining prize. 3 SAVE THE DATE VBS This Summer at St. Patrick s Please join us as we experiment with fun and excitement at SonSpark Lab VBS! July 13 th - 17 th 9:00 AM- 12:00 PM For children in grades 1-5 Games, experiments, crafts, Bible stories and snacks galore! For more information, please email Christine Lemieux at christine@lemieux-design.net Page 956
FROM THE PASTOR My dear brothers and sisters, This weekend we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. This always falls on the Sunday after Easter. On this Feast, we remember in a special way God s merciful love. Isn t this what we all need?! Mercy! We fall so easily into our sins and failings. It is so easy to reject God, and choose to follow our own way, seek our own pleasure, become our own god. How many times have people said to me that God must be sick of me already, or I m tired of confessing the same sins over and over. We need to know that even after our greatest sin, in which we freely choose to reject God, we can run into our Father s loving arms, and not be chastised, but embraced! God never grows weary of loving and forgiving us. This Feast is especially important because we often think of the Christian life in the wrong way. We think that if we are to get into Heaven, our good deeds must outweigh our bad or evil deeds. This is not the case at all. In fact, even if we did all of the good deeds of Mother Teresa, and only sinned once in the smallest way, our good deeds would never outweigh our sin for sin is an offense against God. Rather, the route to Heaven is not through our deeds, but through the mercy of God, as we throw ourselves with confidence onto His mercy, and recognize how Christ has done it all! While we need our good deeds in order for us to grow in the spiritual life and our sins really do separate us from God it is reliance on God s mercy that does it all. St. Therese says that our good deeds actually condemn us if we rely on them! So where did this Feast of Divine Mercy come from? In the 1930s, a Polish nun by the name of Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska (aka St. Faustina) had visions of Christ. In these visions, Jesus told her to work to establish a Feast of Divine Mercy. On that day [Divine Mercy Sunday, the Sunday after Easter Sunday] the very depths of My tender mercy are opened. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the Fount of My Mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day all the floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. (Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska [Diary], 699, cf. 300) Did you catch that? Jesus said that He pours out not a drip of His mercy, but an ocean of graces floodgates are opened! when we go to Confession (the Fount of Mercy ) and receive Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday. He longs to do this, to set us free from sin. This is the mystery of the Resurrection, after all, that God does not delight in the death of the sinner, but wants us to have new life. The question is: do we recognize our need for mercy? I know I would rather justify my actions, than have to face them and say I need to change or apologize for my actions. How about you? Yet, this is the path to death, not life. Jesus wants us to come to Him so that we may have life; He wants us to trust His mercy; He wants us to give up our tiny idea that we have to be perfect (as the world understands perfection). He will not reject anyone who humbly comes to Him. He will never turn away anyone who is confident in His mercy. He has given to us this gift of Divine Mercy Sunday that we might know that we can run to Him and be made new! Today (Divine Mercy Sunday), I will be available for Confessions from 1:30 until 2:45. During this time, you will have an opportunity to come into His Eucharistic Presence, as we have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Adoration. At 3:00, we will sing the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and praise God s Mercy. I invite you to come and enter more deeply into God s infinite, unwearied, and fathomless Mercy! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mass to Pray for the Healing of Those Affected by Child Abuse In recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month in April, the Most Reverend Peter A. Libasci, D.D., Bishop of Manchester, and the Diocesan Safe Environment Council cordially invite all the Catholic faithful to a special Mass on Thursday, April 16 th at 6:30 PM. Please join us as we pray for all those who were abused as children, particularly those who were abused by people representing the Catholic Church. The Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary Church of Parish of the Assumption, 25 Third Street, Dover, and will be followed by a brief reception. For more information, please contact Joseph P. Naff, LICSW, Director, Office of Healing and Pastoral Care, at jnaff@rcbm.org or 669-3100 Ext. 110 4 Page 956
FAITH LIFE PROGRAMS: SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL Teen/Confirmation Ministry: April 12 th class in the school cafeteria from 4:00-5:45 PM last class of the year. Rehearsal for Confirmation, Sunday, April 19 th at 4:00 PM. Candidates and Sponsors gather in the church basement. Confirmation with Bishop Peter Libasci, Monday, April 20 th at 7:00 PM Grades 1, 3-6 April 13 th & 14 th with parents in the church from 6:00-7:15 PM. Note: this is the last class Jr. Youth Program: April 12 th no Class April 19 th in the K of C Hall from 4:00-5:45 PM May 17 th Note change of time: 9:45 AM in the K of C Hall followed by the 10:30 AM Mass with May Crowning this is the last class of the year. SCHOLARSHIPS The Friends of the Library in Pelham, (FLIP), is offering 2 scholarships to Pelham residents. One is for an Undergraduate scholarship, open to any high school senior and the other is a Nontraditional scholarship, open to any student 24 or older. The scholarships are for $500.00 each. Applications and more information may be obtained from the Library or the Pelham High School Guidance Office. Deadline for application is May 1, 2015. Spring is finally here and so is the 15 th Annual St. Patrick Catholic School Golf Tournament!!! Please join us on May 12, 2015 for the 15 th annual St. Patrick Catholic School Golf Tournament, to be held at the prestigious Four Oaks Golf Club in Dracut, MA. The event will include a 4 person scramble, dinner and awards. Non- golfers do not feel left out join us for dinner only at 6:30 PM, after the tournament! To register and pay online go to www.stpat s golf.com. If you are interested in being a sponsor or donating an auction item (e.g. Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins tickets, a weekend getaway, etc.) you may also do that by contacting John Keslo at 603-635- 9843 (email: john_keslo@yahoo.com) or Will Thesier at 315-783- 0770 (email: wthesier@verizon.net). ST PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL SUMMER CAMPS 2015 Help them keep their skills sharp this summer, get a jump on the upcoming school year, And have some fun! Are you interested in attending summer camp? We are offering a variety of exciting and educational camps to choose from. All camps run for 5 days. Camp hours, with the exception of the Vacation Bible School, are 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, with morning drop off starting at 7:30 AM. The Vacation Bible School hours are 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. As an added benefit, you may choose aftercare if needed. Aftercare runs until 4:30 PM and all children must be picked up by that time. July 6 th - 10 th Reading/Math Grades 1-5 July 13 th - 17 th VBS Grades K- 5 July 20 th - 24 th Fun, Fitness, Activities camp Grades K- 8 July 27 th - 31 st Puppet Camp Grades K- 6 Aug. 3 rd - 7 th I Am My Own Author! Grades 1-8 Aug. 10 th 14 th Robotics Grades 3-8 Aug. 10 th 14 th Arts and Crafts Grades K- 5 For more information on these camps, with the exception of Vacation Bible School, please Saints Mary and Joseph Parish Invites all to The Anointing of the Sick Catholics who are sick, have a chronic illness, are elderly, experiencing emotional and/or spiritual distress or are going in for surgery are invited and encouraged to receive the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Date: April 19, 2015 Time: 2:00 Please join our friends and families and help us support the members of our community through prayer. There will be a light reception afterwards contact our school office at 603-635- 2941, or Celebrated at Mary Queen of Peace Church Organized www.saintpatrickschool.net. For information and hosted by Confirmation Candidates 200 regarding the Vacation Bible School please call Lawrence Road, Salem, NH. the parish office at 603-635- 3525. 5 Page 956