April 3, 2016 Divine Mercy Sunday Parish Central Office: 145 Pritham Ave., P.O. Box 457, Greenville, ME 04441-0457 (207) 695-2262 Pastor - Rev. Aaron Damboise - Cell - (207) 485-1921 Aaron.Damboise@portlanddiocese.org Deacon Deacon John Guerin - Cell-(207) 294-2294 Admin. Assistant - Bette DiAngelo - bette.diangelo@portlanddiocese.org Bookkeeper - Lorraine Auclair - lorraine.auclair@portlanddiocese.org Weekend Mass Schedule: Holy Family Church - Greenville 4:00pm Saturday and 8:00am Sunday 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 www.facebook.com/holyfamilycatholicchurchgreenvilleme St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish www.facebook.com/stfaustinacatholicchurchjackmanme 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 485-1921 Anointing of the Sick - If you or a loved one would like a visit, call Fr. Aaron at 485-1921. 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 - April 3, 2016 Are you like Thomas? Do you need to see to believe? Pray for faith and trust. If you think God is calling you, call Father Seamus Griesbach at (207) 773-6471, email: vocations@portlanddiocese.org or like us on facebook: VocationsME. FMI about consecrated life contact: Sr. Rita Mae Bissonnette at (207) 773-6471 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
Parish Office hours: Monday, Thursday & Friday from 9:00am-12:00noon. You can reach Bette at 695-2262 or via email: bette.diangelo@portlanddiocese.org Monday and Tuesday from 6:00pm-8:00pm and Saturday from 10:00am-2:00pm You can reach Lorraine at 695-2262 or lorraine.auclair@portlanddiocese.org Father Aaron s Schedule for April 3rd to April 9th Fr. Aaron is available evenings by appointment. Additionally, Father may be reached by telephone at 207-485-1921 or email at aron.damboise@portlanddiocese.org. Please feel free to stop by and visit Father anytime. Sunday, April 3rd Monday, April 4th Tuesday, April 5th Wednesday, April 6th Thursday, April 7th Friday, April 8th Saturday, April 9th Northland Living Center 3:00-4:00pm St. Anthony Office Hours: 9 to 11:30am; 1:30 Mass at Jackman Health Center:; Office hours: 3 to 4:30 pm St. Anthony Office hours: 9:00 to 11:00am OFF Holy Family Office hours: 9:00 to 11:30am; 1:30 to 4:30pm Holy Family Office hours: 9:00 to 11:30am; 1:30pm to 4:30pm Holy Family Office hours 9:00 to noon; 1:30 to 3:30pm Spring Cleaning! If you can lend a helping hand to clean the church, please contact Bette at the office at 695-2262. Many hands makes light work and St. Anthony and Holy Family could use help! Thank you. Holy Family Parishioners are invited to a Sneak Preview of the Next Century of Faith and our New Building project Date: Friday, April 8th Time: 6:30pm Place: Holy Family Church Mercy in the Psalms Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests with Abbot Joel Macul, O.S.B. 10 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 23 St. Peter Church, East Millinocket Friday, June 24 St. Charles Borromeo Church, Brunswick Cost: Free of Charge - Lunch will be provided For more infomation, please contact Rachel Daigle at (207) 773-6471 or rachel.daigle@portlanddiocese.org, Registration Deadline: June 13, 2016 Please plan to join us for a time of fellowship with light refreshments to follow in the Rectory Faith Formation schedule for St. Anthony K-5: Classes will be held Sunday Morning from 9:30 to 10:30 Please join us this spring on the following dates: April: 3rd and10th May: 1st, 8th,15th and 22nd June: 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th
Weekly Offertory Collection Holy Family St. Anthony Good Friday $171.00 NA Easter $574.00 $ 942.00 Clergy Pension/Dio. Needs $ 251.00 $ 202.00 Each Parish Has a Memorial Building Fund Consider remembering a loved one or friend, honor someone for a birthday or anniversary. Drop donation in the collection or mail to: Holy Family or St. Faustina Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 457, Greenville, ME 04441. Thank you for your support! Readings for the Week of April 3, 2016: Sunday: Acts 5:12-16/Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24/ Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19/John 20:19-31 Monday: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10/Psalms 40:7-11/ Hebrews 10:4-10/Luke 1:26-38 Tuesday: Acts 4:32-37/Psalms 93:1-2, 5/John 3:7b-15 Wednesday: Acts 5:17-26/Psalms 34:2-9/John 3:16-21 Thursday: Acts 5:27-33/Psalms 34:2, 9, 17-20/ John 3:31-36 Friday: Acts 5:34-42/Psalms 27:1, 4, 13-14/ John 6:1-15 Saturday: Acts 6:1-7/Psalms 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19/ John 6:16-21 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 is being offered for. Please include 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. 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! Sanctuary Candles for April 3 to 9 Holy Family Church - All Parishioners 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 695-2262. Weekly Prayer For Priests April 3: Our Holy Father April 4: All Priests April 5: Rev. Eddy Morin & Msgr. Paul Stefanko April 6: Rev. Nathan March & Rev. Apolinary Kavishe AJ April 7: Rev. Armand Neault & Rev. Paul Sullivan SJ April 8: Rev. Brad Morin & Rev. John Bacevicius OFM April 9: Rev. Richard Senghas & Rev. Rene Lavoie Kindly remember in prayer : Margie Falardeau, Dot Harmon, Kathy Begin, Leon Graham, Alberie Caron, Carmen Jennison, Gerard Falardeau, Jennifer Matlack-Bolin, Tibbetts Family, Dottie Gagne, Bernice Mullins, Doug Worster, Ramona Varney, Cathy Mullins, Gene Paquet, Huguette Morin, Keith & Frances Davis, Sean Melvidas, Christine Havenaar, Jeannine Pinette, 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 - April 2 to April 10 DAY DATE TIME PLACE MASS INTENTION SAT. April 2 4:00pm Holy Family Church Winnie Sawyer by Mary Tornquist Trigge SUN. April 3 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. April 3 11:00am St. Faustina Church Elizabeth Steele Yeager by St. Faustina Church MON. April 4 1:30pm Jackman Health Center Anthony Palmieri by Francis & Louise Lacasse TUES. April 5 8:30am St. Faustina Church Rudy Fournieu by Lillian Bourque WED. April 6 NO MASS NO MASS THU. April 7 8:30 am Holy Family Church Deceased Members of the Juan Galan Family by Family FRI. April 8 8:30am Holy Family Church Deceased Members of the Bradford Foote Family by Family SAT. April 9 4:00pm Holy Family Church Ovila Maheux by Suzanne and family SUN. April 10 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. April 10 11:00am St. Faustina Church Rene Morin by Ronald and Lisette Leduc
1st & 3rd Mondays of each month at 1 pm in the Rectory - Holy Family Ladies Guild- At each meeting the rosary is said for the conversion of our country, for our church, and for those on our parish prayer list. We are currently engaged in a 10 session scripture study: A Scriptural Journey with Mary - "My Soul Magnifies the Lord". Books may be purchased at the office. Please call Bette at 695-2262 for more information. Tuesdays at 1:00 PM - St. Faustina Ladies Prayer Groupmeets 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. Knights of Columbus Jackman Council 2392 Monthly meetings are held the first Monday of the month at 6:30pm in the St Faustina Church Hall. 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. WORKS OF MERCY Weekly suggestions for the faithful to consider April 3: Take time to learn about global hunger and the work being done by Catholic Relief Services (www.crs.org) around the world. You will see how your donations to CRS Rice Bowl benefit others. If you did not participate, consider making a donation online at http://www.crs.org or through the Diocesan Missions Office, 510 Ocean Avenue, Portland, ME 04103-4936. Please contact Bette at the parish office if you would like a Giving Summary for Holy Family or St. Anthony Parish for your 2015 Taxes. 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: 10 oz. cans of soup or Soup Starters FMI, contact Cecile Shields at 280-0088.
The Pastor s Corner This Sunday is the Sunday of Divine Mercy. This Divine mercy is a great gift from God. How often do we trust in God and in his mercy? The point of seeking reconciliation is not that we send ourselves on a massive quilt trip. Rather it s so that we can truly come think of others more and of ourselves less. Our tendency is to become preoccupied with ourselves. Divine Mercy challenges us to think more of others, and of God. Today s Gospel tells the story of a man who is preoccupied with himself. The risen Jesus appeared to the others but not to him. The man reacted harshly. Unless I see the nail marks and put my finger into them, I will not believe! At least Thomas is an honest skeptic! However, still he is only thinking about himself. In spite of his self-preoccupation, Thomas sticks with the Apostles. That takes some humility! It was after that that Thomas received a great gift: mercy. At that moment, Jesus appeared a second time-this time to him! The Apostle Thomas brought Divine Mercy to distant places. He forgave sins! Today, we celebrate that Divine Mercy, and we pray that we will develop a greater heart of mercy for others. Peace and all Good! Fr. Aaron The Presence Radio Network Week of Sunday, April 3, 2016 Join us in Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet Weekdays at 3:00pm or anytime on our website under Program Lineup Through St. Faustina, the Merciful Savior has given the aching world new channels for the outpouring of His grace. These new channels include: the Image of The Divine Mercy, Divine Mercy Sunday, the Chaplet, the Novena to The Divine Mercy, and prayer at 3 o clock in the afternoon, the Hour of Great Mercy. Although these means of receiving God s mercy are new in form, they all proclaim the timeless message of God s merciful love. They also draw us back to the great Sacrament of Mercy, the Holy Eucharist, where the living Lord, who suffered and died on the Cross and whose Heart was pierced with a lance, pours forth His mercy on all mankind, and grants pardon to all who draw near and honor Him. The Presence Radio Network is your listener-supported Catholic radio. 106.7 FM in Greater Portland, 90.3 FM in Greater Bangor, 89.7 FM Mid- Coast, 89.5 FM in Greater Augusta, 1390AM Northern Maine, 97.5 Fort Kent Affiliate, 105.7FM Springvale Affiliate Listen online at www.presenceradio.org on smartphones by downloading the Presence Radio app, or dial 605-475-8037 and listen on any cell phone or landline with unlimited minutes.