Sacred Heart Parish
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, October 3
4:00 PM Lucia and Capodilupo Family
Sunday, October 4
9:00 AM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
11:45 AM Deceased Members of the Guild of St. Francis
Friday, October 9
12:05 PM Suzanne Myette
Saturday, October 10
9:00 AM Sister Barbara Cooper
4:00 PM Mollie and Desmond Mechan
Sunday, October 11
9:00 AM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
11:45 AM Donat Goudreau
CELEBRANTS FOR NEXT WEEKEND’S MASSES
Saturday, October 10
4:00 PM Fr. Imbelli
Sunday, October 11
9:00 AM Fr. Collins
10:30 AM Fr. St. Martin
11:45 AM Fr. Connelly
CONFESSIONS
Saturday, October 10 – 2:00 to 3:30 PM – Fr. Connelly
READINGS FOR THE TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
First Reading: Wisdom 7:7-11
Second Reading: Hebrews 4:12-13
Gospel reading: Mark 10:17-30
2009 CATHOLIC APPEAL
Thank you to all supporters of the 2009 Catholic Appeal. Our parish has raised $40,539 from 122 households, reaching 89.1 percent of our parish goal of $45,500. If you have not pledged, please consider a gift today and help us meet our goal. You can pick up information packets with pledge forms on the tables at the entrances to the church.
HOLLY HARVEST FAIR
Workshops for the Holly Harvest Fair are in full gear. Please think of us as you do your fall cleaning of closets, etc.
Grandma’s Attic is requesting costume jewelry (very popular), some quality junk – re-gifted items, etc.; Religious Table items; Gift Table items; Knit Table items, e.g., baby sweaters and hats, mittens (all ages), blankets, scarves, etc.; Pet Table items and Bake Table, including jams and jellies. Please join us at our workshops on Tuesdays from 7-9 PM in the school building if you can. Thank you.
Barbara Hatem 617-969-2567
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
God has provided us with new teachers for the Sunday and Tuesday Program. Elizabeth Bernhardt and Raymond Caraballo will be co-teaching grade 4 and Zeba Race will be teaching Grade 5 on Sundays. Margarita Urizar will be returning this year to teach Grade 5 in the Tuesday program. We thank God for the gifts of faith, hope and charity that have led them to generously offer their time to our children. The service of all our teachers and aides will deepen their own faith in Christ and His Church. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will fill us all, to be a worthy witness for Christ.
Tonight we will be introducing the Theology of the Body curriculum to parents of second year Confirmation students. This is a new and beautiful program that is based on Pope John Paul II’s landmark and revolutionary teaching that gives a very positive message of the gift of sexuality as good and essential part of love and life. This is not a sex education program. Our parishioners Sabitha and Andrew Salzmann will be teaching this class to our Confirmandi. We will meet today, Sunday, Oct. 4th, from 7-8:30 PM in the Convent.
Michelle Solomon, Director of RE
WOMEN’S DISCUSSION GROUP
BEGINS OCTOBER 4TH
The Women’s Discussion Group was started several years ago and is composed of women of all ages who read and discuss the same book. Books related to faith and spirituality are selected by members of the group. From September to June inclusive, meetings are held on Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to noontime (once or twice a month) in the first floor dining room of the convent. New members are always welcome!! For the first meeting of the year - Sunday, October 4th, read the first three chapters of Two Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston: 1808-2008 by Thomas H. O’Connor, Editor.
ARCHDIOCESAN JUSTICE CONVOCATION
On Saturday, October 17 from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM, join parishes from around the Archdiocese of Boston at Boston College High School, 150 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, to learn more about Catholic Social Teaching, celebrate the work for justice going on, and find concrete ways to connect faith with action in the service of justice. Prayer and Opening Remarks will be given by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Keynote Address by Fr. J. Bryan Hehir. Register online: www.bostoncatholic.org/justiceconvocation. Registration Cost: $5. Space is limited, so please register early and bring your own lunch.
For more information contact Mary Ann McLaughlin or Ann Cussen, Office for Worship and Spiritual Life – 617-779-3640 or email: ariseinchrist@rcab.org.
A REFERENCE TO FAITH AND CULTURE
Reading, writing and arithmetic are back in style for our young people as they return to Newton North and Newton South. However, there is much more to education than what Newton South and Newton North can offer, especially when we think in terms of life in Christ and growth in the new life with which God has enriched us in the sacrament of Baptism.
It is not easy for the catechists in our parish to perform well the tasks which confront them in the Religious Education Program. It’s always a delight to instruct people in gospel ways. The difficulties, therefore, do not come from the faith so much as the culture. Over the course of the next few bulletins perhaps I could make reference to some of these difficulties under the rubrics of Faith and Culture and Faith and Reason.
If I were beginning to teach a course in theology, I would not begin right away with a definition. If I were pressed for a definition, I would then say that theology is faith seeking understanding. This would place me in the distinguished company of St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Anselm of Canterbury and St. Thomas Aquinas. Theology, I would say, is the work of the believer, using his or her head to understand what he or she holds to as the truth of faith. These definitions, however, are not immediately applicable to the catechetical scene here at the parish. One cannot presume that all the students in a given classroom have made acts of Catholic Christian faith. A good part of the task of the catechist is not just evangelization but what we might call pre-evangelization, which sometimes means clearing away the obstacles which the teenage mind experiences and which prevent the teenager from understanding the faith he or she was baptized into when he or she was an infant.
Let me mention just one issue at this time which the catechist should strive to understand. Our young people are starting on the great adventure of human knowledge. It is important for them to understand right from the beginning that there are two different but equally valid ways of coming to true knowledge and of growing in true knowledge. These two ways are what we call reason and faith. Just as God gives birds two wings with which to fly, so God gives us two ways of knowing. One way of knowing rests on the authority of someone who knows and bears witness to the truth of what he or she knows. This is called faith, human faith if the witness is someone human, and divine faith if the witness is God. The other way of knowing is by personal experiential knowledge which we call scientific knowledge, whether it concerns philosophical truth, historical truth, or the truth that comes from the natural sciences. Faith means sharing in the knowledge of the knower. If there is no one who knows, then there can be no knowledge by way of faith. It is important to note, I would think, that most of what we come to know in our lifetime is what we call faith knowledge and not scientific knowledge. In my own case, for example, my education has been highly classical but weak in the sciences. What I know about science, for the most part, is what I have heard scientists say at lectures I have attended or in books I have read. I do not have personally appropriated experiential knowledge. In my case, one would have to say for the most part that I have faith knowledge about matters pertaining to science.
The teacher in the classroom could very well presume that most of the students he or she will face are of the opinion – which is not being equated with truth – that true knowledge means scientific knowledge and that faith leads us off to fairyland.
Father Connelly
INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
General Intention: That Sundays may be lived as the day on which Christians gather to celebrate the Risen Lord in the table of the Eucharist.
Mission Intention: That all the people of God, whom Christ has commanded to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may diligently fulfill their missionary responsibility.
THE MIRACLE WORKER
FREE PERFORMANCE – Sunday, October 11
Join us for this special ASL interpreted event produced by the Roxbury Repertory Theater at the Charles Mosesian Theatre, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown on Sunday, October 11. At 12:30 pm there is a free workshop ASL interpreted by Arlene Velleman; at 2:00 pm the free performance of The Miracle Worker features students from the Perkins School for the Blind. Seating is limited – no advance reservations. For more information call 617-926-2787.
OPEN HOUSES
St. John’s School preschool through Grade 6 is a Community of Shared Values. You are invited to join us for Open House on Tuesday, October 6, 8:00-9:30 a.m. and 6:30-8:00 p.m. We are located at 9 Ledyard Street in Wellesley; please visit us on the web at www.saintjohnschool.net or you may call Principal Kathleen Aldridge at 781-235-0300
Catholic Memorial School, boys, grades 7 to 12, will have an Admissions Open House on Sunday, October 18, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. They are located at 235 Baker Street, West Roxbury. For further information, call 617-469-8019 or visit their website: www.catholicmemorial.org.
SEASON 3 of ARISE STARTS
Sunday, October 4
The first session of ARISE: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST will occur during the week of October 4th. Groups have been formed. Leaders have called participants to notify them of the day and time of their group. The season will run for six weeks and focus on applying the principles of Catholic social teaching.
Let us all pray for the Church of Boston and our parish, as we prepare to begin the new season of the “Arise Together in Christ Program”, focused on the theme of discipleship in the footsteps of Christ, that this may continue to be a time of building community, increasing our love for God, and reaching out in service to others.
17th SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM
“SCENES FROM A PARISH”
(Filmed at St. Patrick’s Parish, Lawrence)
When: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Where: Sacred Heart Parish – Lower Church
1321 Centre Street, Newton Centre, MA
Discussion Margaret LeBlanc
Leader: Sacred Heart Parishioner
Free Admission – Open to the Public
Refreshments to follow in the Lower Church
BOY SCOUTS
The Boy Scouts, who meet at the MacKenzie Center on Monday evenings at 7:30 PM, are seeking new members. To join, boys must be 11 years of age or 10 years old and have completed the 5th Grade. For information, please contact Frank Daly at 617-527-4468.
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE
Thank you for your contributions during the month of September. In October we are asked to provide jars of peanut butter and jelly. Please place your donations in the cart or cartons provided at the Church entrances at any time during the month.
DID YOU GRADUATE FROM ROSARY ACADEMY IN WATERTOWN?
Some members of Rosary Academy in Watertown, Class of 1960, are trying to locate their classmates as well as other alumni for a planned reunion in the Spring of 2010. Alumni from all class years are invited to attend the reunion. Interested graduates should contact Marian McLaughlin Carlson at 781-837-0981 or Theresa Haviland Drummey at 781-769-2746 or Eleanore Walsh Collins at 508-394-9096.
BABY SHOWER
Sacred Heart Parish will once again be collecting items to aid Pregnancy Help. Please donate new baby clothing and other new layette items to this important ministry. Donations may be dropped off at the entrances to the Church throughout the month of October. Thank you for your support.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
The familiar figures of the Knights of Columbus will be seen at all exits of the Church next weekend, October 10th and 11th. They will be soliciting funds for the all-important work of helping those in our midst who are mentally challenged, and helping as well all who work in the field of mental retardation. The symbol of the collection is the all-familiar “tootsie roll” which you may accept or refuse, but don’t fail to help their cause.
Father Connelly
OFFERTORY INCOME
Weekend of September 26/27 $4,438
CALENDAR NOTES
EXTENDED COFFEE HOUR:
Sunday, October 4– 10 AM to 1 PM – Parish Center
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – GRADES 1-5:
Sunday, October 4 – 10:30 to 11:45 AM – Lower Church
WOMEN’S DISCUSSION GROUP:
Sunday, October 4 – 10:30 AM – Convent (Dining Room)
GUILD OF ST. FRANCIS “DAY OF RECOLLECTION”:
Sunday, October 4 – 1 to 3 PM – Parish Center
BOY SCOUTS:
Monday, October 5 – 7:30 PM – Parish Center
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – GRADES 1-5:
Tuesday, October 6 – 4:00 to 5:15 PM – Lower Church
GUILD OF ST. FRANCIS BOARD MEETING AND HOLLY HARVEST WORKSHOP:
Tuesday, October 6 – 7:00 PM – Guild Room
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – GRADES 6-10:
Tuesday, October 6 – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Lower Church
PRAYER GROUP:
Wednesday, October 7 – 7:30PM – Convent (Chapel)
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING:
Thursday, October 8 – 7:30 PM – Convent (Library)
COFFEE HOUR:
Friday, October 9 – Following 9 AM Mass – Parish Center
LITURGY, ADORATION AND THE ROSARY:
Saturday, October 10 – 9 AM to 12:30 PM – Lower Church
EXTENDED COFFEE HOUR:
Sunday, October 11 – 10 AM to 1 PM – Parish Center
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – GRADES 1-5:
Sunday, October 11 – 10:30 to 11:45 AM – Lower Church