Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 14, 2015
Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish O UR L ADY C O M F O R T E R OF T H E A F F L I C T E D Church: 880 Trapelo Rd, Waltham, MA 02452-4845 www.olca.org Parish Office/Religious Education: 920-R Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA 02452-4845 (781) 894-3481 Fax (781) 894-0021 Our Lady s Academy: 920 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA 02452-4845 (781) 899-0353 www.ourladysacademy.org Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM Academy Office Hours Monday-Friday 7:45AM-2:45PM Waltham/Lexington PARISH STAFF Rev. James M. DiPerri, Pastor Rev. James F. Hawker, Senior Priest Assisting Patrick Fiorillo, Seminarian John Barry, Religious Education Coordinator Miriam Dorovski, Finance Manager Sharon Micco, Parish Office Manager Chandra Minor, School Principal Mary Gotgart, School Office Manager parish@olca.org partrick.fiorillo@sjs.edu religiouseducation@olca.org finance@olca.org parish@olca.org principal@ourladysacademy.org office@ourladysacademy.org MASS Monday, Wednesday, Friday First Friday Mass Saturday (Vigil) Sunday Holy Day BAPTISM 8AM 9AM (only) 4PM 9AM, 11AM As Announced During Mass or on selected Sunday each month at 12:15 PM. Please contact parish office. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements six months-one year in advance by appointment. Please contact the parish office. RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION (RCIA) Anyone interested in journeying in faith to receive the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, please contact the parish office. 2 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION Every Saturday from 3:15-3:45 PM in the Reconciliation Room located just inside the front of the church at the handicap entrance, baptismal font side of church. Other scheduled opportunities throughout the year, as well as by appointment. SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK The Sacrament of The Sick will be administered on the last weekend of each month after the 4PM and 11AM Masses. Who can receive this sacrament? Those who are aged, chronically ill, are having treatments or will be having surgery. We invite you to come receive the Sacrament of the Sick, a source of strength, healing and grace. HOMEBOUND MINISTRY Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion bring Holy Communion to those unable to attend Sunday Mass. Please contact the parish office to make arrangements. For more information on the Catholic Faith visit www.usccb.org
Waltham/Lexington Saturday June 13 4:00 pm Margaret, Charles and Gloria Lombard **Please remember in your prayers the soul of James Sullivan and his sister, Ruth Sullivan** Sunday June 14 9:00 am Salvatore Ferlazzo **All Members of Our Lady s Living and Deceased** 11:00 am Deceased Members of the Caramazza and DiGiacomo Families Monday June 15 8:00 am Margaret Gallagher Memorial Wednesday June 17 8:00 am Armand Gaudet Memorial Friday June 19 9:00 am Michael Mancuso and Lorraine Aucoin Saturday June 20 4:00 pm Rita, Nicholas and William DeProfio Sunday June 21 9:00 am Happy Father s Day **All Members of Our Lady s Living and Deceased** 11:00 am Happy Father s Day COLLECTION INFORMATION June 6/7 : $5,248 Special Monthly: $2,945 UPCOMING COLLECTIONS June 13/14: Regular and Seminarians June 20/21: Regular "WHAT IS THE ALL HEARTS A FIRE PROGRAM Approved as faithful to Catholic teaching, there will be a short PowerPoint presentation introducing this parish-based program after the Masses the weekend of June 13th and 14th in the new conference room just inside the new entrance to school and St. Joseph's chapel. If you have a desire for deeper devotion and holiness, you will want to come to this introduction. GARDENING ANGELS Please join our Gardening Angel group on Wednesdays during the summer at 6:00 pm. We meet at the Our Lady's garden and work to enhance our beautiful church property with planting, watering and light maintenance. No experience needed! Contact Joyce Gianfelice at resolute107@verizon.net with any questions. Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish MEMORIAL CANDLE STANDS There is one candle available to purchase in memory of a loved one or for a special intention for the month of May candles and four available for the November candle stand. The cost is $250 for a year. If interested, contact Sharon in the parish office. PERFECT GIFT 1000 CLUB The perfect gift for that hard to buy for person. Memberships are $55 per year. Our next drawing is THIS Sunday, June 14 at 12:30pm in the school cafeteria. JOIN TODAY!!! Name: Address: Phone: Fill out and return to Sharon in the parish office. UPCOMING SCHOOL MASSES Last day of School Friday, June 19, 9:00am CHARLESTOWN TOUR w/fr. DIPERRI FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2015 Historic Charlestown Tour Catholic and National Heritage Join us on Friday, July 17 for a tour of Charlestown, MA. The bus will depart from Our Lady s parking lot at 8:45am. First stop will be St. Francis Church, then onto the Bunker Hill Monument and Museum, next to St. Mary s Church then off to lunch at the Navy Yard Bistro and our tour will conclude with the USS Constitution Ship and Museum. Cost of the trip is $60 per person. We will return to Our Lady s parking lot roughly 5/5:30pm. Please know that while the bus will drop us at the different locations, as with other tours, there is walking involved. If you would like to join us, please contact Sharon in the parish office at 781-894-3481. Payment is due at the time the reservation is made. June 14, 2015 3
Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish 8TH GRADE TRIP TO WASHINGTON, DC Here are a couple photos from Our Lady s Academy 8th grade trip to Washington, DC. These were taken after Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. What a great trip! CONGRATULATIONS Waltham/Lexington Congratulations to the 8th grade students at Our Lady s Academy who graduated this past Tuesday. We wish them much happiness and success on this next journey of their lives. NORTH WALTHAM SENIORS EVENTS Monday, June 15 Luncheon at the Lexington Elks $20 per person Doors open at 12 noon Contact Isabel Talanian ASAP 781-893-5568. Sunday, Sept. 20 Foxwoods Casino & Lobster Bake or Prime Rib at Narragansett Bay and Captain Jack s Restaurant in Wakefield- $72 per person Bus leaves Our Lady s parking lot at 9:30am. Contact Janet Johnson if interested at 781-899-2392. Reservations are needed to secure bus by June 15. CCD CATECHISTS ARE NEEDED We are in need of CCD teachers for next year, as well as instructional aides. Grades range from grade 1 to grade 8. If interested please contact John Barry, 781-894-3481 x3 or Sharon Micco, 781-894-3481 x2. Registration forms for 2015-2016 have been sent home. Please fill out and return. Ashley Baessler Elizabeth Baptista Nicolas Bartlett Rose Bathol Isabella Belarmino Emily Bell Sabrina Claude Molly DeAcetis Julia DeLuca John Dooley Ryan Farkhondehpour (Scott) Fan Gao Yeongwang Gwon Julia Hourihan Sophia LeBlanc Martin Lentz (Cindy) Qiao Li (Lucy) Xingyao Lu Truman Martin Zachary McCann Brendan Meehan Jamie Mills Jennifer Mills Jordan Mills Grace O Callaghan Alec Pishdochian Sophie Pratt Camila Ramos-Mercado Kenneth Rezendez Isabella Rossi Flavia Talarico Alexander Tracanna (Edward) Ziang Shi Yanni Vrahliotis (Helen) Hongjia Yang (Eric) Junhao Zhang (Anna) Yan Zhu Waltham High Xaverian Brothers Mt. Alvernia Ben Lippen School, SC The Newman School Gould Academy, Bethel, ME Newton High Bishop Fenwick Waltham High Minuteman High School Minuteman High School Waltham High Belmont High Lexington High Concord High International School of MI 4 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Waltham/Lexington OUR LADY S KINDERGARTEN NEWS MOVING ON UP DAY! Congratulations to Our Lady s Kindergarten classes as they celebrated their moving up day this past Tuesday. We wish them a happy summer and look forward to seeing them in first grade next year. Jackson Beebe Alana Cahill Matilde Bellotti Sean Chien Saanvi Chiluveru Jayden Doan Isabel Cronin Emma Gomez Aidan Curry Brendan Hamann Williams Fredericks Corey Han Evan Gollinger Michael Hovsepian Sydney Guzman Lauren Kennedy Daniel Herrera Sophia Lerma Teghan Kalke Maggie Li Navya Karki Miley Lopez Owen Ma Jace Lyons Coleman McKeen Aadith Maganti Elena Merlino Katelyn Mangan Ceana Mureithi Florence Mullen Neer Salman Nick Palazzolo Enzo Santos Yuqi Qian Andrew Smith Aryan Sood Caitlin Staub Grace Toli Harrison Trexler CATHOLIC APPEAL UPDATE Our Lady s is at $23,598.60 which is 52% of the Archdiocesan required goal of $45,557 for Our Lady s Parish. Our donor goal is 165 and we are at 134 which is 81%. Thank you to those who have already contributed to this appeal. If you have not yet made your donation, you have until the end of June to do so. Kindly pick up a pledge form which can be found on any of the tables in church. You also can make a gift or pledge online at www.bostoncatholicappeal.org. No donation is too small to help us reach our goal. Again, thank you. Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish NEW PARISH MUSIC DIRECTOR Patrick Botti It is with great pleasure that I have accepted the position of Director of Music Ministries here at Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish starting September 1st. I am very excited and very happy about it. Our Lady s has been my parish of heart for 23 years. I was its music director, and many of you have known me for a very long time. The parish has evolved and grown since my leaving in 2007. It always was a wonderful and very prayerful parish. Fr. DiPerri and the lay leaders and ministers supporting him have made it an even healthier and vibrant community of faith. Its ministries are active and successful and its school is thriving. Music has always been important at Our Lady s. It is considered fundamental to the liturgical life of the parish. Indeed, we are blessed to have a healthy music ministry already in place. The adult choir is one of the few in the archdiocese to have an extensive repertoire from traditional plainchant to contemporary catholic music and able to sing all liturgies in four part harmony. I absolutely love having our parish youth participating so successfully in our liturgy. I am so impressed by them, the children s choir comprised of elementary school students and the new Schola, a teenage choir created by Kevin Galié, comprised of amazing singers and leaders of song. I believe in a music ministry that is active and participatory and really connected to the parish life. That includes not only in its physical presence but also in the repertoire chosen. It has to strike a careful balance between the fundamental needs for congregational singing and the role of the music as a conduit for prayer and meditation. I wish to meet as many of you as possible. I want to hear your comments and your feedback. In talking and exchanging we can only grow as a faith community. I will be starting on September 1st, but will be around before. If we don t know each other, please introduce yourself. I am so grateful for the opportunity to once again serve our parish, honoring Our Lady, asking her intercession, that we may be provided with many blessings in our life. With my thanks, In peace, Patrick Botti, Director of Music Ministries June 14, 2015 5
Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish The next Monthly Mass for the Sick, sponsored by the Faith-Based Cancer Support Group of Sacred Heart and Our Lady Help of Christians Church, will be on Monday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Our Lady s Church, Newton. Fr. George Fitzsimmons, Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick's in Watertown will celebrate the Mass and Anointing of the Sick. After refreshments, Dr. Aldona Lingertat, Director of the Master of Arts in Ministry program (MAM) at St John's Seminary will be doing a power point presentation "In the Footsteps of Christ" on her travel to the Holy Land. The evening is designed to bring joy, hope, and peace to those who are affected by illness, including family and friends. The Mass and program will both be held downstairs at Our Lady s church, located at 573 Washington Street in Newton. For questions or more information, please contact Arlene Larsen: 781-899-0213 or aflarsen48@gmail.com, or the parish offices. All are welcome! Building the Domestic Church: The Family Fully Alive St John Paul II stated The family has the mission to guard, reveal, and communicate love. In our effort to support families in bringing the blessings of faith into their homes, the Knights of Columbus has launched an initiative entitled: Building the Domestic Church: The Family Fully Alive. Through this program, our families can realize more fully their mission to Love as an authentic domestic church through daily prayer, catechesis and Scripture reading, as well as enjoying time together through monthly activities and projects they can do as a family. For more info on monthly themed "Family Fully Alive" activities leading up to the 2015 World Meeting of Families, check the bulletin and the Family Fully Alive table at main entrance of the church or go to: www.worldmeeting2015.org or www.kofc.org/un/en/domestic-church/monthlythemes For more information, or to be involved in the program, contact the Parish Office or Gar and Tara Rohatgi, 781.891.0696, tara.rohatgi@gmail.com, grohatgi.boston@gmail.com) CATECHISM CORNER THE CREEDS Waltham/Lexington These summaries of faith encompassed in a few words the whole knowledge of the true religion contained in the Old and New Testaments. Such syntheses are called professions of faith since they summarize the faith that Christians profess. They are called creeds on account of what is usually their first word in Latin: Credo (I believe). They are also called symbols of faith. The first profession of faith is made during Baptism. The symbol of faith is first and foremost the baptismal creed. Since Baptism is given in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, the truths of faith professed during Baptism are articulated in terms of their reference to the three persons of the Holy Trinity. And so the Creed is divided into three parts: the first part speaks of the first divine Person and the wonderful work of creation; the next speaks of the second divine Person and the mystery of his redemption of men; the final part speaks of the third divine Person the origin and source of our sanctification. Through the centuries many professions or symbols of faith have been articulated in response to the needs of the different eras. Among the creeds, two occupy a special place in the Church s life: The Apostles Creed so called because it is rightly considered to be a faithful summary of the apostles faith. It is the ancient baptismal symbol of the Church of Rome. Its great authority arises from this fact: it is the Creed of the Roman Church, the See of Peter, the first of the apostles, to which he brought the common faith. The Nicene Creed draws its great authority from the fact that it stems from the first two ecumenical Councils (in 325 and 381). It remains common to all the great Churches of both East and West to this day. To say the Credo with faith is to enter into communion with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and also with the whole Church which transmits the faith to us and in whose midst we believe: The Creed is the spiritual seal, our heart s mediation and ever-present guardian; it is, unquestionably, the treasure of our soul. United Stated Conference of Catholic Bishops at: www.usccb.org/catechism 6 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time