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Saint James Parish · 7/1/2018 · garage. Thank you! GOSPEL REFLECTION Today's Gospel offers a...
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MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM
Sunday 7:30 & 10:30 AM
Monday-Wednesday 8:00 AM
Pastor:
Rev. Edward J. Hanlon [email protected]
Deacon:
Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Varney…[email protected]
Religious Education:
Patrick O’Donnell [email protected]
Director of Music:
Patricia M. Saviet
Parish Secretary:
Celeste D. Allain [email protected]
Parish office hours: 8:30am-2:00pm M-F
89 Main Street
South Grafton, MA 01560
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Saturday 4:00 PM
Call rectory for appointment
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
Baptism is celebrated on the Third Sunday of the month at
12:00 PM. Call the rectory to make arrangements.
SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
Couples planning for marriage should contact the rectory
one year prior to the wedding date.
CARE FOR THE SICK
Please contact the rectory if you know of anyone who is
hospitalized or confined to home because of age or illness.
WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS
Please introduce yourselves after Mass. We want to know
and serve you. We hope you become active members of
our
parish community.
We are a Stewardship Parish
TIME ◆ TALENT ◆ TREASURE
508 839-5354 • FAX 508 839-5430 • Religious Education Office 508 839-6800 • Web: stjamesgrafton.com
Saint James Parish
SAINT JAMES CHURCH SOUTH GRAFTON
Saturday, June 30
4:30 PM 1st Anniversary, Nancy Marshall by her sister
Walter & Beatrice Brousseau by their daughter
Sunday, July 1
7:30 AM Jane Radzik by the Radzik family
10:30 AM Louie Franco by the Toscano family
Philippe & Rosanna Lavallee
By Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Lavallee
Monday, July 2
8:00 AM Souls in Purgatory
Tuesday, July 3
8:00 AM Souls in Purgatory
Wednesday, July 4
8:00 AM Eva Vellutini by Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Lavallee
Raymond Lojko and Roger Lemoine
By Carol Ziemba
Next Saturday, July 7
4:30 PM Bernice Laferriere
by Lorraine & Howie Marchand
Jeanne E. Mathieu by the family
Jean Allain & Ann LaBaire by their family
Next Sunday, July 8
7:30 AM Scott McKeon, Claudette Lourden and
Dick Bovenzi by Peter & Elaine Wojnar & family
10:30 AM Constance T. Enik by Patrick O’Donnell
Cesarina Procoprio by the Toscano family
June 23 & 24 $4,711.00
Higher Utilities $125.00
Peter’s Pence Collection $745.00
THANK YOU!
MONTH OF JUNE
Budget for June $20,800.00
Total collections for June $18,667.00
Deficit of $2,133.00 STEWARDSHIP REMINDER
We find ourselves in the season of vacation and other
wonderful reasons for travel. Please remember that our
financial commitments as a parish don’t “take a vacation”.
To you who provide your financial support through
electronic giving weekly or monthly, Thank You! To you
who use the envelope system, please remember to
contribute as you do regularly by anticipating or making up
your contributions. Everyone’s participation helps keep us
on track! Thank you!
GOAL….$40,000.
GIFTS/PLEDGES: $28,850.
BALANCE FOR GOAL: $11,150.
112 Gifts received.
Thank you!
Prayer for Freedom
Dear Lord,
so many today misunderstand freedom
believing that it is the ability to do whatever we want.
Help us always to remember that freedom, true freedom,
is being able to do what we ought to do.
That freedom, true freedom,
is not indulging our every want and whim,
but instead is the ability to rise above any desires
that are wrong, disordered, dangerous or excessive.
Give us the grace always to remember
that true freedom makes us the people you wish us to be,
that true freedom brings us closer to you,
and reshapes our world in the likeness of your kingdom.
Amen. © Liturgical Publications Inc
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOME CARE
Catholic Charities Home Care program is looking for
aides to care for elders and handicapped individuals in their
own homes. Aides provide light housekeeping, laundry,
shopping and personal care. Please call for an appointment:
1-800-649-4364.
VETERANS’ MINISTRY
The three Catholic churches in Grafton have an active
Cluster Veterans’ Ministry that can always use new
members. If you are interested, the contact number is at St.
Mary’s –508-839-3993, ext. 17. Please also call if you have
any requests for them, including, but not limited to,
personal item packages for soldiers deployed overseas.
They are ready and willing to help our military and
welcome your calls.
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JULY 1, 2018
FOR NEXT WEEKEND, July 7 & 8
4:30 pm Lectors-Kathy Torrey, Ken Hehir
Eucharistic Ministers-Mary Lynn Spada,
Bob Reed, Carol Schilke
Altar Server-
7:30 am Lectors-Cheryl Trilligan, Bob Cournoyer
Eucharistic Minister-Mary McKeon
Altar Server-
10:30 am Lectors-Letty Atamian, Karen Vincent
Eucharistic Ministers-Deacon Tom,
Cheryl Dujnic, Phil Lavallee
Altar Servers-David Guerad, III, Wayne Guerad,
Andrew Johnson
HELP WANTED We are looking for people to help water the flowers on
the church grounds one day a week during the summer
months. It will take about half an hour. If you are available
to help, please contact Denise Tucker at (508) 839-5829 or
via email at [email protected]. Thank you!
SAINT JAMES HARVEST FAIR
NEEDS YOUR HELP!!! SILENT AUCTION: The Silent Auction table is now
accepting donations--any new items or crafts that can be
bid on, monetary donations or gift certificates may be sent
or brought directly to the rectory.
BUY-A-BASKET needs all kinds of items to go with their
basket themes. If you see small inexpensive items for their
baskets, such as pet supplies, holiday items, sports items,
candles, or what have you, please pick them up!
CRAFT TABLE is looking for any type of craft you’d like
to donate. Some ideas are holiday decorations and
ornaments, knitted and crocheted items, household
decorations, or anything else you “craft”. Please put your
name and suggested selling price on your donated items.
WHITE ELEPHANT TABLE We are now accepting
items for the White Elephant Table. No clothes or shoes, no
exercise equipment, computers or TV’s, please. Small
furniture items are okay. Please bring your items to the
garage. Thank you!
GOSPEL REFLECTION
Today's Gospel offers a rare framework -- a story in a
story. Most of the healing miracles are standalone
encounters. One person approaches Jesus, demonstrates
faith, and is healed. The evangelist tells the next story. This
Gospel, however, is different. Jesus is on his way to heal
one person, a young girl of twelve, and is interrupted on his
journey by "a woman afflicted with hemorrhages." She
bravely approaches Jesus in a crowd, despite being ritually
unclean from her bleeding, and stretches out to touch his
cloak. She is healed! Jesus meets her eye, confirms her
faith, and continues on to resurrect the young girl.
Reading this passage, it might be easier to identify with one
story -- the long-suffering woman or the young, innocent
girl -- and to move past the other. But here they sit side by
side. The girl is twelve. The woman has been suffering for
twelve years. For the Gospel writers, number parallels have
deep symbolic meaning.
Between the woman and the young girl, we are not one
or the other. We are both. None of us had a perfect
childhood, perfect families, or a perfect peer group. As we
endure pain, disappointment, or unmet expectations, it can
feel like a part of our childhood hopes have died. Our
coping mechanisms, social adaptations, and hidden secrets
can make us the "walking wounded" in some respects.
Jesus wants to do more than simply staunch the bleeding.
His healing hand makes dead things come alive. He
awakens the dreams that are asleep. This process requires
prayer, conversations with trusted community and spiritual
mentors, and critical looks at difficult areas of our life.
However, we can believe the words of our Lord. If we
approach Jesus in faith, believing that he wants to heal and
save, we, too, will hear his calming words spoken over the
hurts of our life. "I say to you, arise!" "Go in peace."
Students, parents and catechists would like to thank all
our parishioners for your prayers and support for a week of
education, spiritual practices, and service in the Catholic
faith with the middle school summer program. It was a
blessed week with greater communion with God and
neighbor. We wish you all a blessed, relaxing and carefree
summer!
“…as a matter of equality your abundance at the present
time should supply their want, so that their abundance may
supply your want, that there may be equality.” (2
CORINTHIANS 8:14) We are responsible not only for our
own lives, but for the lives of those around us. It is
important that we not only grow, nurture and share our
gifts; but that we also teach our children and encourage
others to do the same. This is the communal aspect of our
Catholic faith. We are the “Body of Christ”. We are called
to be dependent on each other and not live in isolation.