Gate of Heaven Parish

Gate of Heaven Parish Rev. Matthew Schultz, Administrator Michael Johnson, Deacon Main Office Rectory Office Staff ALL SAINTS RECTORY 163 Main St. Lancaster, NH 03584 RECTORY PHONE 603-788-2083 RECTORY FAX 603-788-5553 KATHI MARSHALL Administrative Asst./Cemetery Administrator SANDRA DOOLAN Secretary/Receptionist/Sacramental Records SUSAN TIBBETTS Faith Formation Coordinator/ RCIA Facilitator WEBSITE: www.gateofheavennh.org E-MAIL: gateofheavennh@aol.com The Catholic Communities of ALL SAINTS CHURCH ST. AGNES CHURCH ST. MATTHEW CHURCH 163 Main Street Lancaster, NH 03584 769 Presidential Hgwy Jefferson, NH 03583 9 Jefferson Road Whitefield, NH 03598 Summer Weekend Masses (Memorial Day Weekend through Columbus Day SATURDAY 4:00 P.M. St. Matthew Church SUNDAY 7:15 A.M. St. Patrick Church 9:00 A.M. St. Agnes Church 10:30 A.M. All Saints Church ST. PATRICK CHURCH 65 St. Patrick Church Rd Twin Mountain, NH 03595 OUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS SHRINE 2470 Route 302 East Bretton Woods, NH 03595 Daily Mass Winter Weekend Masses MONDAY 8:30 A.M. All Saints Church THURSDAY 7:00 A.M. All Saints Church TUESDAY & FRIDAY 7:00 A.M. St. Matthew Church SATURDAY 9:00 A.M. Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine (Columbus Day to Memorial Day Weekend) SATURDAY 4:00 P.M. St. Matthew Church SUNDAY 8:00 A.M. St. Matthew Church 10:30 A.M. All Saints Church 5:00 P.M. All Saints Church Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. Romans 15: 7

WELCOME TO GATE OF HEAVEN PARISH To every traveler who comes through our towns and stops to visit in one of our churches we say, Welcome, friend, come and worship with us. You can join us at All Saints Church, Saint Agnes Church, Saint Matthew Church or Saint Patrick Church. We are all one family, and you are welcome at our table. If you plan to move on, we pray you safe travel. If you plan to stay we hope you find peace and fulfillment. Regardless of your situation, we thank you for stopping in to join our hearts with ours as we pray in our Father s House! PARISH MINISTRY PERSONNEL Faith Formation Coordinator Susan Tibbetts 802-892-6170 Youth Ministry Coordinators Daphne Cassady 802-892-6170 Jeannine LaBounty 603-991-9213 Finance Council Chair Tyler Rancourt 603-244-6616 Pastoral Council Chair Bob Rutherford 603-846-9896 The Tabernacle Society Sandra Doolan, President 603-788-3315 Catholic Women s Group Carrie Morrill, President 603-869-3172 Men of Saint Joseph Kurt Hall (Tuesday P.M Group) 603-631-4075 Knights of Columbus Mark Frank, Grand Knight 603-788-4825 RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for adults) Susan Tibbetts, Facilitator 802-892-6170 Boy Scouts Kenneth King, Scout Master 603-636-5150 Cub Scouts Bill Rutherford, Cubmaster 603-837-9895 Parish Bookstore/Gift Shop Ruby Berryman, Manager 603-631-3608 Calvary Cemetery John Brooks, Sexton 603-788-4030 St. Matthew & St. Margaret Cemeteries Don Doolan, Sexton 603-788-3315 SACRAMENTS Reconciliation/Confession Saturdays 2:45 p.m. 3:45 p.m. St. Matthew Church. Mondays 7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. All Saints Church. 1/2 hour before daily Mass. For personal appointment please call the rectory. Baptism/Marriage Please call the rectory to make arrangements. (For weddings, please call at least six months in advance of your planned wedding time.) Communion/Anointing the Sick Due to privacy laws priests must be asked by the family members to visit parishioners in the hospital or nursing home. Please advise us of those in need of the Church s ministry, whether they are homebound or have been hospitalized. We are happy to bring the Eucharist to those who cannot get out to attend Mass. And if someone is ill or declining in health, the pastor is happy to come to their home, anoint them and bring them Holy Communion. Please call the rectory, and we will make the arrangements for you. Cemetery Arrangements Gate of Heaven Parish has four cemeteries Calvary Cemetery, Water Street Cemetery, St. Matthew Cemetery and St. Margaret Cemetery. You are always welcome to make arrangements for your eventual burial in one of these cemeteries, as three of the four have sites to lease. Please call the rectory in order to ask about end-of-life preparations. Parish Bulletin If you, or someone you know, is homebound, please call the rectory and let us know. We d love to send them the weekly bulletin so they can keep up with the goings-on in the parish. Also, if you are a snowbird, and head south or west for the winter, we can also get the bulletin to your winter address. That way you always know what s going on here at home! Please consider remembering our parish in your will.

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time September 16, 2018 This Weekend SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew 24th Sunday Ordinary Time Arthur Bourassa by his daughters SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 7:15 a.m. St. Patrick 24th Sunday Ordinary Time Gate of Heaven parishioners 9:00 a.m. St. Agnes 24th Sunday Ordinary Time Daniel Stiles by Don & Sandra Doolan 10:30 a.m. All Saints 24th Sunday Ordinary Time Charlie Fitch II by Tom & Marilyn Foss Daily Mass MONDAY, SEPT. 17 8:30 a.m. All Saints St. Robert Bellarmine, Deceased members of the Uras family bishop, Doctor of the Church TUESDAY, SEPT. 18 7:00 a.m. St. Matthew Feria Jean Lurvey WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19 7:00 a.m. St. Januarius, bishop & NO MASS martyr THURSDAY, SEPT. 20 7:00 a.m. All Saints St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Beth Sprangel priest & Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and companions, martyrs FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 7:00 a.m. St. Matthew St. Matthew, apostle, Sheila Finlayson by parishioners evangelist & martyr SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 9:00 a.m. OLM Shrine Feria NO MASS 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew 25th Sunday Ordinary Time Arthur Gooden by his mother Rita Gooden SUNDAY, SEPT. 23 7:15 a.m. St. Patrick 25th Sunday Ordinary Time Harry & Patricia Johnson by Deacon Mike and Elise 9:00 a.m. St. Agnes 25th Sunday Ordinary Time Gate of Heaven parishioners 10:30 a.m. All Saints 25th Sunday Ordinary Time Bob & Micky Brennan by their sons Your Weekly Offering Weekend of September 1-2, 2018 OFFERTORY: $3,396.00 E-GIVE: $4,520.00 $7,916.00 FUEL: $2,710.50 Weekend of September 8-9, 2018 OFFERTORY: $2,786.00 E-GIVE: $ 935.00 $3,721.00 (There is no second collection next weekend, Sept. 22-23.) May the good Lord reward your generosity!! Sanctuary Candle During the month of September the sanctuary candle at All Saints Church will burn in loving memory of Vicki Beaton as requested by Patty Gilman. At St. Agnes Church, the sanctuary candle will burn in loving memory of Catherine & Stephen Doty as requested by Bob & Theresa Reynolds. At St. Matthew Church the candle will burn in loving memory of Darcy Hall Spaulding as requested by Jeannette Corrigan.

Dear parishioners, Many, many thanks for your warm welcome which I received at my party last Sunday evening at Colonel Town Community Camp. It was so nice to meet so many of you thank you for coming out on a Labor Day weekend! In truth, however, I wish to thank each and every one of you for making me feel so at home since day #1. At the beginning of August, I spoke with Bishop Libasci s secretary, and she asked me how I liked my new assignment. I told her, The Bishop has spoiled me. In particular I thank Lindsey Foss for organizing our annual Parish Picnic and the Re-dedication of the Shrine party. A good time was had by all! Also a warm thank you to Jeanne Nadeau for organizing my welcome party and her two close associates and assistants, Kim Crane and Margo Cliché. Finally, thank you to the Knights of Columbus for their grillin and cookin skills! May God bless you all and reward you for your generosity! Fr. Schultz Catholic Diocese of Sunyani, Ghana... This weekend is our mission appeal from the Catholic Diocese of Sunyani in Ghana, Africa. Fr. Joseph represents this year s annual Mission Coop the one missionary appeal the diocese sets up for us each year. The Catholic Diocese of Sunyani was established in 1973. Most of it is situated in poor rural areas, where most of the parishioners are peasant farmers. These areas have lagged behind the rest of the country in education, basic infrastructure and health. The faith is relatively young. The faithful are mainly first and second generation Christians. In many areas the Word of God is being preached for the first time. Response to the faith is encouraging. Young people are especially accepting the faith, and there are over 300,000 baptized in the diocese. The Church of Sunyani also tries to provide some basic social development projects in areas of extreme poverty. (The average annual income of the people in this area is five-hundred dollars.) They seek to establish schools at the grade and high school levels, open new parishes, provide portable water by drilling wells, organize vocation rallies to promote vocations to the priesthood and to religious life, and organize workshops on awareness and prevention of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, breast cancer and screening. Through your generosity to this appeal we hope to build up the Church in this diocese and to re-invigorate the missionary spirit. Please be as generous as you can, and we thank you for your kindness toward your brothers and sisters across the globe. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Saint Augustine Wedding Anniversary Mass... Bishop Peter A. Libasci invites all couples celebrating an anniversary of 5, 25 or 50 years to attend the Fall Wedding Anniversary Mass. Couples are encouraged to invite select family members to share in the joyous occasion. This celebration will be held Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 2:00 p.m., at St. Joseph Cathedral in Manchester. To register please contact the rectory (788-2083) by September 18, 2018. Once registration has been completed by the parish office, all registrants will receive an invitation to this special celebration. Couples celebrating other significant anniversaries will be asked to register next year for a spring celebration. To all married couples celebrating 5, 25 or 50 years, congratulations, and we look forward to seeing you at this fall s Wedding Anniversary Mass! The rectory office will need the husband s first and last name, wife s first and last name, home address, e-mail address (if available), anniversary year (years married) and whether or not a low-gluten host will be required. Saturday Mass... There will be no 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning Mass at Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine on September 22. Worldwide Marriage Encounter... Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. Take time for your marriage by attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. The next weekends are December 7-9 in Duxbury, MA and September 28-30 in Oneonta, NY. For more information call Stephen & Michelle O Leary at 800-710-9963 or https://wwmema.org/. All my life I thought air was free... until I bought a bag of chips.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases. St. Rose of Lima We are looking for jewelry... It s time to give some thought to looking through those jewelry boxes and parting with broken pieces of some things that you just don t wear anymore. Our table at the fall sale has been a hit, and it s mostly because of your generosity. Please place your offerings in the baskets at the back of the churches. Thanks for your help, and we hope to see you at the sale! Tabernacle Society... Members of the Tabernacle Society are reminded of their upcoming meeting Tuesday, September 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the church hall at All Saints. We re getting closer to our annual Fall Sale and we hope you will join us to make plans and to prepare. All ladies of the parish are welcome, and we d love to have your help! Knights of Columbus... The Knights of Columbus will hold their monthly meeting this Tuesday, September 18, at 6:00 p.m. in the rectory at St. Matthew. CWG s Yankee Candle Sale... The Catholic Women s Group will be selling Yankee Candles and candies and nuts through next weekend, September 23, before and after the Masses at St. Matthew and St. Patrick churches. These items make wonderful holiday gifts for family and friends, and help the Catholic Women s Group to help others in our parish and in our community. We thank you so much for your support. Scheduled Events SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 9:15 A.M. Faith Formation Grades K-5 (All Saints church hall) 11:30 A.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (All Saints church hall) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 6:30 P.M. Consoling the Heart of Jesus (All Saints church hall) 7:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) 5:30 P.M. TABS Meeting (All Saints church hall) 6:00 P.M. K of C Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) 6:00 P.M. Men of St. Joseph (All Saints Church library) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 11:00 A.M. 5:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (St. Patrick Church) 5:30 P.M. Praying the Rosary (St. Leo s Church, Lunenburg, VT) 6:00 P.M. Cub Scout Den meeting (All Saints church hall) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 6:30 A.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) 1:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church) 5:00 P.M. COMMUNITY DINNER (All Saints church hall) 7:00 P.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) 8:00 P.M. Alcoholics Anonymous (All Saints church hall) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 2:45 P.M.-3:45 p.m. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 11:30 A.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (All Saints church hall) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 6:30 P.M. Consoling the Heart of Jesus (All Saints church hall) 7:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) 6:00 P.M. Men of St. Joseph (All Saints Church library) 6:00 P.M. Catholic Women s Group Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 11:00 A.M. 5:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (St. Patrick Church) 5:30 P.M. Praying the Rosary (St. Leo s Church, Lunenburg, VT) 6:00 P.M. Cub Scout Den Meeting (All Saints church hall) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 6:30 A.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) 1:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church) 3:00 P.M. Cenacle of St. Monica (St. Matthew sacristy) 5:00 P.M. COMMUNITY DINNER (All Saints church hall) 7:00 P.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) 8:00 P.M. Alcoholics Anonymous (All Saints church hall)

Weekly Readings, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 16, 2018 Isaiah 50: 4c-9a / Psalm 116: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 / James 2: 14-18 / Mark 8: 27-35 Who do people say that I am? Jesus poses this question to his disciples on his journey through Caesarea Philippi. It elicits Peter s acknowledgment that Jesus is the Messiah. For centuries Israel had looked forward to God fulfilling his promise to King David by raising up another great leader to restore Israel s kingdom (2 Samuel 7). These hopes had become clouded in political and earthly expectations. Peter s response, in unambiguous terms, You are the Christ (or the Messiah), gives Jesus the opportunity to offer a different understanding. Jesus says that he has come not to establish an earthly kingdom in power, bur rather a spiritual kingdom in weakness. God s Kingdom will be established through Jesus Death and Resurrection. The First Reading, from the third of Isaiah s Servant Songs, belongs to another tradition pointing to the Messiah s coming in humiliation and suffering. Jesus draws upon this tradition in referring to his own ministry of suffering and death on behalf of God s people. Peter fails to take this tradition into account when he tells Jesus not to talk about suffering and death. He is utterly perplexed and alarmed, for Peter believed that the Messiah would come in power and glory. When Jesus says to Peter, Get behind me, Satan, he is referring to Satan in the Book of Job, where Satan, as the name actually means, is God s adversary. Jesus reinforces this by saying that Peter s thought are human ways of thinking, not God s way. A further challenge emerges for Jesus followers from his revelation that he is going to suffer and die. His followers lives will embrace the same path of suffering, Death and Resurrection. As true Christians, our lives too will share in Jesus redemptive suffering. 1. From these readings, how would you explain the meaning of the word Messiah (Christ)? 2. What would be your answer to Jesus question, Who do you say that I am? 3. Have you experienced the reality of Jesus words, Take up your cross and follow me? St. Andrew Dinners... St. Andrew was the first of the Apostles to hear Jesus call to follow him. We would like to invite men in our diocese who are considering a vocation to the priesthood or who would simply like some help hearing the Lord s call for their life, to an evening of prayer, conversation with the Vocations Team and dinner. These evenings will take place for different age groups on Fridays from 6-8 p.m. at the Joseph House (279 Cartier Street) in Manchester. Please RSVP to Becky Vinson online at rvinson@rcbm.org or 663-0153 if you would like to attend. October 5: High School, ages 14-18 October 19: Young Men, ages 19-24 November 2: Older Men, ages 25+ February 8: High School, ages 14-18 February 15: Young Men, ages 19-24 February 22: Older Men, ages 25+ Daily Readings SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 MONDAY: 1 Corinthians 11: 17-26, 33 / Luke 7: 1-10 TUESDAY: 1 Corinthians 12: 12-14, 27-31a / Luke 7: 11-17 WEDNESDAY: 1 Corinthians 12: 31 13:13 / Luke 7: 31-35 THURSDAY: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 / Luke 7: 36-50 FRIDAY: Ephesians 4: 1-7, 11-13 / Matthew 9: 9-13 SATURDAY: 1 Corinthians 15: 35-37, 42-49 / Luke 8: 4-15 SUNDAY: Wisdom 2: 12, 17-20 / James 3: 16 4: 3 / Mark 9: 30-37 Would you like to make your weekly offering automatic? Simply go to the parish website at gateofheavennh.org and press the E-Give logo. Fill in your answers and your donation will be withdrawn from your bank account or charged to your credit card on a schedule you instruct.