Sacred Heart Parish
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, July 30
4:00 PM Karol Downey
Sunday, July 31
9:00 AM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
11:45 AM Edmund Capodilupo
Wednesday, August 3
7:00 AM Berthe Gaulin Myette, Jacques Myette and William Myette
Saturday, August 6
9:00 AM Maria DiMaeteo
4:00 PM Peter & Raymond Schchilone and Bob Mooney
Sunday, August 7
9:00 AM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
11:45 AM Louis Annunziata Tonelli
CONFESSIONS
Saturday, August 6 – 2:00 to 3:30 PM – Fr. Connelly
READINGS FOR THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
First Reading: 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a
Second Reading: Romans 9:1-5
Gospel Reading: Matthew 14:22-33
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COLLECTION
Next weekend’s special collection is for Catholic Relief Services which support emergency relief, human development, and peace initiatives in 99 countries around the world, where nearly half the population lives on less than $2 a day. This collection funds the ministries of five Catholic Church Organizations. For more information, please visit www.usccb.org/crscollection.
ST. FRANCIS HOUSE
Thank you for your donations during the month of July. The requested items for August are fruit juices. You may bring your contributions at any time during the month and put them in the cart or in the bins by the church entrances.
INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST
General Intention: That World Youth Day in Madrid may encourage young people throughout the world to have their lives rooted and built up in Christ.
Mission Intention: That Western Christians my be open to the action of the Holy Spirit and rediscover the freshness and enthusiasm of their faith.
OFFERTORY INCOME
Weekend of July 30/31 $3,565.00
Catholic University of America $559.00
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
I hope that you find the deep and abiding presence of God in the beauty of the mountains, lakes and oceans of your summer retreats and are renewed in body, mind, and spirit.
See you in the fall and if you are so called, I look forward to your loving response to God's blessing by offering to teach CCD in the coming year. Your response will not go unrewarded.
Michelle Solomon, Director of Religious Education
THE CATHOLIC FAITH COMES HOME
TO YOUR COMPUTER!
Originally designed to encourage fallen away Catholics to come back to the Church, the Catholics Come Home website (www.catholicscomehome.org) is also for those of us who are already home but want to learn and understand more of our Catholic faith. Can you explain to others what the Church really teaches about homosexuality, divorce or annulments? Do you know why Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist? These topics and hundreds more are part of a virtual encyclopedia of Church teachings that any computer novice can use. There is an easy link to find answers to common questions, listen to talks, find books, CD’s and support groups, and parenting resources for whatever your needs or interests are. Now you can find answers to how to learn and grow in the Catholic faith without ever leaving your living room! Check it out today and God bless you on rediscovering the riches of our Catholic faith!
Listen to and support Catholic TV and Radio. They are both wonderful resources for growing in your knowledge of the Catholic faith! www.CatholicTV.com; Comcast channel 268 in New England; Verizon: channel 296 in New England. Catholic Radio: Station of the Cross, WQOM 1060 AM.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul are pleased to announce the continuation of their charitable work in assisting the needy in the parish. Although this apostolate has been active in the parish for many years, we wish to call attention to our services by posting a phone number in the parish bulletin: 617-969-2259. The receptacle for donations of clothing will remain in the church parking lot. We are presently considering placing boxes for cash donations somewhere in the church.
We will be posting additional information in future bulletins.
Paul McGuire Francis Daly
Al Calvo Jane McGuire
Maura Iverson
WHEN DO PARENTS CEASE PARENTING?
Parents are the natural teachers, the first teachers, hopefully the best teachers of their children. This is true in the realm of our Catholic faith. This is true in the realm of civilization and culture. And what a difficult task it must be – to take these handsome and lovely little babies and begin to civilize them. When we say that parents are the natural and best teachers of their children, unless they are doing home schooling, we know that they also appreciate the help of that institution we call the school, whether public or private. They also appreciate that institution we call the Religious Education program in every Catholic parish. These institutions exist to help parents the better to guide their children through the early years of schooling, and that must continue until certainly the 12th grade in high school. At least, that is what I have always thought until I began to read a book which I had been asked to survey. I have not read it as yet but plan to get at it this coming week and if I find it helpful, I plan to share what I discover with those who habitually read this column. (I understand the number is up to 19.) As I began this book I became immediately aware that parenting must continue through the college years even if Johnny or Johanna are boarding far away from home.
Some parents in our parish are looking forward joyfully, hopefully, and with not a little bit of dread, the event of one of their children moving off to college perhaps beyond the Mississippi River. It’s a new experience and one that offers many good things but also some warnings. Of course the young people going off to college are joyful and hopeful, and, if you scratch the surface, are also filled with some dread. Will I do well in my studies? What will my roommate be like in my freshman year? How will I handle a more cosmopolitan group of fellow students whereas up to this time I’ve only known Newtonites? I appreciate all of these issues and can remember a few of them even though I did not board at college but attended college at a nearby Catholic Institution.
What is my concern? As the student undergoes orientation at the college of his or her choice, and this will be a wonderful and exciting experience, is it going to be a disorientation with regard to their Catholic faith? The statistics in this regard are not overly hopeful. There is a danger that the college experience might include a disaffection with ways Catholic. Let me give an example from my own days. I was accepted by both Holy Cross College and Boston College in 1940 as war was breaking out in Europe. Because I won a partial scholarship to Boston College, that is where I enrolled. I liked very much what I saw at Holy Cross College. My friends at Holy Cross College told me on one occasion of just one item that deserves mention in this column. It was the rule of Holy Cross College that daily Mass was as compulsory as philosophy classes, biology classes, and any other kind of classes. Mass on Sunday in terms of Holy Cross was not mandatory except God said it was and the Church said it was; so it was not an unusual practice for some, maybe many, to attend Mass during the week and to sleep in on Sunday morning even though the Church said it was mandatory.
The issue in this book, I gather, can be expressed this way: Our young people are leaving home to go to college; will they also leave the faith? As the authors say: “Many of our young people will fall prey to one or more of the dominant ideologies ingrained in their college education – ideologies that can lead them away from the Church and ultimately their faith in God. Students who are not taught how to think critically or who lack the tools needed to sift through the logic of these positions are easily swayed by the smooth sophistry of the intellectual elite.”
As I read through the description of these ideologies and if I think them to be of interest and value to our parishioners I will mention them in subsequent columns. However, in this column, let me end by answering the question found in the column’s title – When do parents cease parenting? My answer at the moment is: I don’t know – but certainly not while Johnny and Johanna are at college.
Father Connelly
PRAYING THE LITURGY
The Worshiping Assembly at Mass: “In the celebration of Mass the faithful are a holy people, a chosen people, a royal priesthood: they give thanks to God and offer the Victim not only through the hands of the priest but also together with him and learn to offer themselves. They should endeavor to make this clear by their deep sense of reverence for God and their charity toward brothers and sisters who share with them in the celebration (no. 95). They should become one body, whether by hearing the word of God, or joining in prayers and liturgical song, or above all by offering the sacrifice together and sharing together in the Lord’s table (no. 96). (Based upon Roman Missal Formational Materials from Secretariat for the Liturgy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2010).
The Liturgy Committee will be using the bulletin and web site to help parishioners become comfortable with the new translation which goes into effect on the First Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2011. Additional information and resources are available at www.usccb.org/romanmissal; also www.LTP.org; and www.RevisedRomanMissal.org.; website for Boston, www.rcab.org.
ANOTHER UPDATE ON BRIDGE PROJECT
We still need a bed and linens for the mom at Bridge Over Troubled Waters. If you would like to help, please contact Cathy Schneider at cschneider52@comcast.net or 617-964-6876. Checks made out to Sacred Heart can be sent directly to the rectory with a note that they are for the Bridge project.
SIGNINGS
One thing about the food that Jesus speaks to us about in all four Gospels through the highlighted reality of the historical accounting of His feeding of the five thousand is that there are left-overs. This is something that references the past and the future. In the Old Testament, Elisha's miracle also included food left over as the footnote says, “6 [20] The fragments left over: as in Elisha's miracle, food was left over after all had been fed.” The story reminds us of the food that we are fed with at Mass. We all gather and Jesus gives us supernatural food. The fact that there is some left over at Mass continues this miracle into our own day. Like in the time of Elisha, years later at the time of Christ's earthly ministry, and now in the time of the Spirit, God feeds us with heavenly food and we see some is left over.
The left-overs at Mass are the abiding presence of Christ with us. The Eucharist, the food of angels that we are called to eat when properly prepared at least once a year, is something that does not lose its identity when Mass is over. You will notice that we reserve these left-overs with all the signs of worship we can make in the tabernacle. This is because this is no mere blessed bread. This is Jesus. You will also notice that the handling of the remnants or fragments of Christ's body and blood are also handled in a way that shows the truth of what is going on. The ordained minister or the instituted acolyte is the one who “purifies” the sacred chalice and the patent or ciborium that cradles Christ. The middle of the altar has a corporal on it so that the faithful can know after the distribution of communion if the Eucharist is still there or not so they can have a proper reverence. Any remaining Eucharist after the distribution is consumed and or placed in the tabernacle. The vessels once empty are put on a special table called the credence table also with a corporal so that they can be purified. (From the GIRM # 270: “The priest purifies the chalice at the credence table or at the altar. If the chalice is purified at the altar, it may be carried to the credence table by the minister or may again be placed on the altar at the side.”) This happens right away or immediately after Mass. These rules show the Church teaching us about what the Eucharist is. The reverence is not made to the very small particles that might remain after the big parts have been reposed and or consumed but they are handled with respect. Jesus is there even in the small remaining left-overs.
The purification is not a cleaning. It is not to get rid of germs. That is something different. Helpers do that after Mass. The purification is to make sure the body and blood of Jesus are not in the wrong place. It is like blood for example. One's own blood is not dirty. It is clean but it needs to be attended to if it is not in the right place and is coming out. That is something we would "clean up" not because it is dirt but because it is out of where it should be.
In Christ, Fr. St. Martin
The Bible translation that we use in the Mass is called The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE). 11/11/02
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Reading the footnotes of that bible on the USCCB.org website is very helpful.
JESUS IN THE NORTH END
Join with Young Adults at the monthly gathering at St. Leonard’s Church in the North End on Friday, August 5: Holy hour at 7:30 PM, Mass at 9:00 PM, Social at 10:00 PM.
PROJECT RACHEL
Do you know someone who is carrying grief and sorrow over past abortions? Project Rachel is the post-abortion ministry of the Catholic Church to help those dealing with the pain of abortion. Project Rachel will offer four “Come to the Waters” post-abortion healing retreats this fall/winter: September 10, October 22, December 3 and January 21, 2012. For more information and registration for the date of your choice, contact Project Rachel at 508-651-3100 or help@projectrachelboston.com.
BETHANY HEALTH CARE CENTER
Sister Jacquelyn McCarthy, CSJ, CEO/Administrator for Bethany Health Care Center, invites you to join her for Bethany’s 50th Anniversary Celebration to be held at the Newton Marriot on Sept. 22 with reception from 6-7 PM followed by dinner and program. To make a donation /reservation, visit Bethany at www.bethanyhealthcare.org or write to Bethany Health Care Center, 97 Bethany Road, Framingham, MA 01702. For more information, call 508-271-2314 or 508-270-8698.
MARIAN SHRINE PILGRIMAGE – APRIL 2012
Fr. Frank Silva, pastor of Newton’s Corpus Christi-St. Bernard Parish, will serve as spiritual director for a Pilgrimage to the Marian Shrines in Fatima and Lourdes scheduled for April 16-24, 2012. The trip will conclude with a stay in Barcelona, Spain. Cost – $2,779. For a brochure about the trip, call 617-244-0608 or email fsilva@ccsbparish.org.
CALENDAR NOTES
COFFEE HOUR:
Sunday, July 31 – After 10:30 AM ASL Mass – Parish Ctr.
COFFEE HOUR:
Friday, August 5 – Following 9 AM Mass – Parish Center
LITURGY, AD4ORATION AND THE ROSARY:
Saturday, August 6 – 9 AM to 12:30 PM – Lower Church
COFFEE HOUR:
Sunday, August 7 – After 10:30 AM ASL Mass – Parish Ctr.