Sacred Heart Parish
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Sunday, May 30
9:00 AM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
10:30 AM Celebration of First Communion
11:45 AM Mary and Biagio Morelli
Tuesday, June 1
7:00 AM H. Joseph Myette and Andrea Myette
Friday, June 4
12:05 PM Margaret Doyle and Edward Mulhern
Saturday, June 5
4:00 PM The English Family
Sunday, June 6
9:00 AM Deceased Members of the Guild of St. Francis
11:45 AM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
CONFESSIONS
Saturday, June 5 – 2:00 to 3:30 PM – Fr. Connelly
READINGS FOR THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Gospel Reading: Luke 9:11b-17
HOLIDAY MASS SCHEDULE
On Monday of this week, May 31, we celebrate Memorial Day. Mass will be celebrated at 9:00 AM in the lower Church.
PARISH DIRECTORY PROJECT
The Parish Pastoral Council is currently evaluating the possibility of compiling a parish directory in Fall 2010. The directory would encompass the entire parish, i.e., the hearing and deaf communities. The directory would contain identifying information and pictures of parishioners. We would like to hear from anyone who can share information about completing such a project from their own experience. In addition, we would welcome hearing from anyone who might be interested in working on such a project. Please contact: Joe Franco at the coffee hour (or 617-965-4801 or by e-mail at francofamily@verizon.net)
EXPERIENCED BABYSITTER AVAILABLE
Nursing student, home from college for the summer, is available now for babysitting/child care. If interested, please call Maria Perdomo at 857-636-8377.
OFFERTORY INCOME
Weekend of May 22/23 $3,920
GUILD OF SAINT FRANCIS MASS, COMMUNION BREAKFAST AND GENERAL MEETING
The Mass for the living and deceased members of the Guild of Saint Francis will be celebrated at 9 AM on Sunday, June 6, followed by a Communion Breakfast and Annual Meeting at the parish center. The guest speaker this year is Dr. Maura D. Iversen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at Northeastern University, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She will be speaking on “Exercise and Physical Activity: New ‘Medicine’ for Arthritis”. The cost is $15 per person and reservations must be in by June 2nd. We will not be able to accept guests at the door without a reservation. Please call Sally Daly at 617-527-4468 or Mary English at 617-332-8656 for questions or reservations. All family members are invited. Please send checks made payable to Guild of St. Francis to Sally Daly at 138 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands, MA 02461.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
CCD classes have ended for this year. I would like to take a moment to thank all – our coordinator, teachers, aides and hall monitors – who have given of themselves to our students for the sake of passing on our precious Catholic faith! It was never convenient or effortless to prepare for lessons, help those who were struggling, persevere when sickness or conflicts came up! But your sacrifice has not gone unnoticed in the Kingdom of Heaven! Thank you all and may we see you again next year! Here are our CCD teachers for this year: Lija Joseph, Raymond Caraballo, Christine Sanroma, Lisa Green, James Brennan, Zeba Race, Rosely Shields, Mary Kralis Hoppe, Heather Lesson, Veronica Hutner, Margarita Urizar. Our Sunday Coordinator: Grace Alexander. Our aides and hall monitors: M/M Stadnicki, Mr. Begaro, Frank and Maryann Medlar, Bob Hutner and Jasmine Coste. When you see them, thank them.
Our Confirmation II students will attend an all-day retreat on Saturday, June 19 at St. Mary of the Hills Parish in Milton from 10 am-4:45 pm. All students must attend in order to prepare to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation on October 23, 2010. Please call the Rel. Ed office to confirm that your son/daughter will be attending. We are in need of parents who will help carpool.
Thank you all who donated to the 7th grade Haiti Project in these past 2 weeks. They have been bagged and will be brought soon to an orphanage, school and medical center in Haiti.
Have a restful and enjoyable summer.
Michelle Solomon, Rel. Ed. Director
THE MISSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH
From the dogmatic constitution on the Church of the Second Vatican Council
When the Son completed the work with which the Father had entrusted him on earth, the Holy spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost to sanctify the Church unceasingly, and thus enable believers to have access to the Father through Christ in the one Spirit. He is the Spirit of life, the fountain of water welling up to give eternal life. Through him the Father gives life to men, dead because of sin, until he raises up their mortal bodies in Christ.
The Spirit dwells in the Church and in the hearts of the faithful as in a temple. He prays in them and bears witness in them to their adoption as sons. He leads the Church into all truth and gives it unity in communion and in service. He endows it with different hierarchical and charismatic gifts, directs it by their means, and enriches it with his fruits.
By the power of the Gospel he enables the Church to grow young, perpetually renews it, and leads it to complete union with its Bridegroom. For the Spirit and the Bride say to the Lord Jesus: “Come!”
In this way the Church reveals itself as a people whose unity has its source in the unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The whole company of the faithful, who have an anointing by the Holy Spirit, cannot err in faith. They manifest this distinctive characteristic of theirs in the supernatural instinct (sensus fidei) of the whole people when, from the bishops to the most ordinary lay person among the faithful, they display a universal agreement on matters of faith and morals.
This instinct of faith is awakened and kept in being by the Spirit of truth. Through it the people of God hold indefectibly to the faith once delivered to the saints, penetrate it more deeply by means of right judgment, and apply it more perfectly in their lives. They do all this under the guidance of the sacred teaching office: by faithful obedience to it they receive, not the word of men but in truth the word of God.
Moreover, the Holy Spirit not only sanctifies and guides God’s people by the sacraments and the ministries, and enriches it with virtues, he also distributes special graces among the faithful of every state of life, assigning his gifts to each as he chooses. By means of these special gifts he equips them and makes them eager for various activities and responsibilities that benefit the Church in its renewal or its increase in accordance with the text: To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for a good purpose.
These charisms, the simpler and more widespread as well as the most outstanding, should be accepted with a sense of gratitude and consolation, since in a very special way they answer and serve the needs of the Church.
THIRTEEN VILLAGES .... ONE COMMUNITY
The Newton Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast is a unique experience – What I mean is that I am not aware of other cities sponsoring such a prayer meeting. (You may remember that Mayor Warren had asked for a prayer service prior to his inauguration. This task took place at Boston College and I was privileged to give a brief address.) The Office of the Mayor, the Newton Clergy Association and the Foundation for Racial, Ethnic and Religious Harmony – Harmony is the popular name of the foundation – are the sponsors of the Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast. This year I was asked to give the Invocation. This is difficult because the gathering represents many religious beliefs and many heritages. An invocation given by a Catholic priest cannot be done as though it were some Catholic liturgical service. Some six hundred folks were present. This is how the invocation reads:
Lord, our God – your psalmist says to us – “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the Lord guards the city, in vain does the guard keep watch.”
Each year the Newton citizens who attend the Newton Mayor’s Community Breakfast begin their proceedings by invoking your holy name and by asking for your blessing. Over the past thirty-six years, hundreds of people of all faiths and heritages have joined together at table to celebrate, to reflect and to commit to actions that promote racial, ethnic and religious harmony. Everyone here this morning, no doubt, comes from one of the thirteen villages of Newton in which they live and which they cherish but all together we form one community. Those who are Catholic, to practice the above-mentioned civic virtues, must seek the power from the Spirit that Jesus has given us to live in justice with all peoples.
Lord our God, centuries ago you raised up the philosopher Aristotle who described us humans as thinking animals, as political animals. Political animals have a choice – harmony, I like to call it justice, or barbarism. The question we confront is this – How are we to learn to live differently but together in the polis, that is, in the city? The task is not easy. There are some who call certain things “civil rights” or “human rights” which others call “human wrongs” or “civic wrongs”. If thirteen villages can learn how to live together while differently, if our country can learn to live the motto – E pluribus unum – does not this give us some hope in our warring, terrorist world?
Lord, we ask your blessing in a special way on our new mayor. Although every citizen must keep watch and do the building, in a special way this is our mayor’s task. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build.
Unless the Lord guards the city, in vain does the guard keep watch.”
Father Connelly
SIGNINGS
Who is God the Trinity? The Trinity is the three-in-one God: the three Persons in one God.
God has revealed Himself to be a community of love. The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father and their love is the spiration of the Holy Spirit.
The Son comes from the Father in a way compared to how a boy is from his father. The Spirit comes from them both in a way compared to the way love is produced from two who are in love. The Spirit is the life of that love spiraling out.
The three Persons are One and at the same time they are perfectly distinct. In a sense there is in God the Most Holy Trinity a kind of perfect dependence and satisfaction of that dependence without end.
God is all in all in Himself. He needs nothing outside Himself. He loves Himself in a way which is not selfish for within Himself the otherness of love and loving is eternally complete.
He is Love. Love is dependent on otherness and in God the dependence of love is independent of failure for He is eternally together with and in Himself.
And so we are made like Him. We too are dependant on otherness for love. The Gospel tells us of this dependence we have. We have a need to be united to God and be ever more adopted into His full and satisfied life. We depend on God. We are still drawing closer to Him in the unfolding plan of God as the disciples were when Christ said they had to wait because they could not yet be ready to take in all that He had to give. But this is good. All other dependencies we have fall short and fail.
We have a taste of satisfaction from other people and from things in the world. We depend on food and that satisfies us for a while. We are dependent on our parents’ love as children and then on the love in friendships and the new families we become a part of. These satisfy for a while and are good.
We are satisfied by the Church and the love we gain from the Sacraments and these are good too, but even these are temporary.
The full satisfaction ultimately comes only in God Himself. This is the life of heaven where we will be with the Son, in love with the Father, and with the Holy Spirit in us loving the Father. This is our Hope.
In Christ, Fr. St. Martin
ATTENTION GARDENERS
We all enjoy the lovely plants and flowers in full bloom around our property. Barbara Hatem is our wonderful gardener and keeps the flowers watered and nourished. However, Barbara is asking for help with the watering. If you have the time to help her with this task, will you please call her at 617-969-2567?
NORTHEAST CATHOLIC FAMILY CONFERENCE
Please mark your calendars and join us for the Northeast Catholic Family Conference on June 27th. The theme of the conference is "Called to Greatness." The Northeast Catholic Family Conference will rekindle the Truth in hearts of all ages - that we are "Called to Greatness." It takes place June 27 from 1 pm – 8 pm at St. Mary's Church in Waltham; the day will feature an event with Cardinal Sean, Mass and Adoration, a Marian Procession, workshops for adults, separate teen and children's programs, a family cookout, and inspiring speakers including Leah Darrow, a former contestant on the Reality Television Show, "America's Next Top Model." For more information and registration, please visit www.yHopefamily.org or call Fr. Mike Harrington at 781-956-0548
WASHINGTON BISHOP TO DISCUSS CHURCH AND STATE RELATIONS
The Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, DC will speak at St. Paul’s Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge on Sunday, May 30 at 7:30 PM. His address is entitled “The History of Church-&-State Relations in America, 1620-2010”. Public invited. Reception follows.
PAWTUCKET RED SOX GAME OUTING
Corpus Christi-St. Bernard Church is sponsoring a Paw Sox outing on Sunday, June 13. Bus leaves St. Bernard’s Church at 10:30 AM for the 1:05 PM game vs Louisville Bats. Tickets and Bus, $25 per person. First come, first served. Call Joanne Vosnak at 617-244-1356 and leave a message including your name, phone number and the number of tickets needed. Make check payable to CCSB Parish with Paw Sox in the Notes section.
CALENDAR NOTES
EXTENDED COFFEE HOUR:
Sunday, May 30 – 10 AM to 1 PM – Parish Center
PRAYER GROUP:
Wednesday, June 2– 7:30 PM – Convent Chapel
PANCAKE BREAKFAST:
Friday, June 4 – Following 9 AM Mass – Parish Center
LITURGY, ADORATION AND THE ROSARY:
Saturday, June 5 – 9 AM to 12:30 PM – Lower Church
GUILD OF ST. FRANCIS COMMUNION BREAKFAST:
Sunday, June 6 – 10 AM to 1 PM – Parish Canter