February 5, 2017 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

St. Mary of the Assumption Parish

St. Ann Church

208 Samoset Ave., Hull MA 02045 | 781.925.0680

Administrator Rev. Mark Derrane

Weekend Associate Very Rev. Edwin Condon, Sr. Priest

Deacon Deacon James Theriault

Outreach Coordinator Claire Theriault

Religious Education Cathy Bowes - Coordinator of Religious Ed

Lisa Harney - Confirmation Coordinator Shirley Callahan - Secretary

Mary Eisenhaure - RCIA

Organist & Choir Director Joseph Scolastico

Office Denise Comeau - Office Manager

Shirley Callahan –Secretary Vicki Dromey - Media Assistant

Email info@stmaryhull.com

Bulletin Email bulletin@stmaryhull.com

Phone / Fax 781.925.0680 - phone

781-925-0685 - fax

Office Hours 9:00am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri

Mass Schedule

Daily Mass 9:00am

Monday-Saturday

Saturday Vigil 4:30pm

Sunday:

7:00am, 9:00am & 11:00am

Rosary: 8:30 am

Monday-Saturday

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Sunday, February 5: 8:00 am Grade 2 Faith Formation

Monday, February 6: 4:00 pm Grade 6 Faith Formation 5:15 pm Grade 7 Faith Formation 6:30 pm Grade 8 Faith Formation 7:30 pm Bell Choir Practice

Tuesday, February 7: 4:15 pm Grade 3 Faith Formation 5:30 pm Grade 4 Faith Formation

Wednesday, February 8: 10:00 am Staff Meeting 4:15 pm Grade 2 Faith Formation 5:30 pm Grade 5 Faith Formation.

Thursday, February 9: 4:15 pm Grade 1 Faith Formation 7:00 pm Choir Practice

Friday, February 10: Saturday, February 11: 9:30 am SVdP Meeting 4:30 pm Dufresnay Video before & after Mass 4:30 pm Anointing of the Sick after Mass

Sunday, February 12: Anointing of the Sick after all Masses Dufresnay Video before & after All Masses 8:00 am Grade 2 Faith Formation 1:00 pm 2nd Grade Parent Meeting

Saturday, February 4: 9:00 am Deceased members of Marascio & Truglia Families 4:30 pm Edna Norton

Sunday, February 5: 7:00 am Catherine & Harold Gould 9:00 am Joseph & Claire Joyce (Children’s Liturgy)

11:00 am People of the Parish

Monday, February 6: 9:00 am John Burke

Tuesday, February 7: 9:00 am

Wednesday, February 8: 9:00 am

Thursday, February 9: 9:00 am

Friday, February 10: 9:00 am Special Intention

Saturday, February 11: 9:00 am 4:30 pm Marie Comeau & Anita Jeffrey Sunday, February 12: 7:00 am People of the Parish 9:00 am Anna McArdle 11:00 am Scott McClenaghan

MASS INTENTIONS PARISH ACTIVITIES

This Week: Monthly Repair Collection

2017

Catholic Appeal

Recently, many of you re-ceived a letter from Cardinal Seán requesting your sup-port of the 2017 Catholic Appeal.

Our parish directly benefits from the 50 ministries sup-ported by the Appeal. If you have not already done so, please prayerfully consider making an early pledge. You may mail your pledge or visit bostoncatholicap-peal.org to give online. Thank you!

Offertory - Weekend Of 1/28- 01/29/2017

Mass Attendees % of

425 Seats Envelopes Loose Total

4:30pm 114 27% $ 634.00 $ 412.89 $ 1,046.89

7:00am 75 18% $ 468.00 $ 379.00 $ 847.00

9:00am 134 32% $ 723.98 $ 341.00 $ 1,064.98

11:00am 105 25% $ 443.00 $ 328.00 $ 771.00

Total 428 All Masses $ 3,729.87

ParishPay $ 1,600.00

TOTAL $ 5,329.87

Weekly Budget $ 6,200.00

Over/(Under) Budget $ (870.13)

YTD Over/(Under) Budget $ (8,077.11)

Special Collection: Latin America $ 479.00

Cursillo is a short course in Christi-

anity, which offers the participants a

vibrant experience of the Christian

Life and a method for living as an

active member of the Church. The

English Cursillo Weekends for the

Archdiocese are being held at the

Campion Center, Weston, Massa-

chusetts. The dates for the Cursillo

Weekends are:

Women’s Weekend March 2-5 Men’s Weekend March 30 – April 2

For information and registration please check the Archdiocesan Cur-sillo, www.bostoncursillo.org or call Mrs. Mary Ann McLaughlin, at the Office of Spiritual Life at 617-779-3640, or email us at: spiritu-al_development@rcab.org.

MEN AND WOMEN’S CURSILLO

Thank you to those who have contribut-ed! To date, we have raised $878!

Checks can kindly be made out to “My Brother’s Keeper”

Drive will end on February 19th. One way Deacon Doyle responded to the call of our church was to simply ask those who could afford it to donate $8.00 for blanket for someone who had none. He likely had no idea the impact that simple ask would have – on donors and on

receivers - nor that it would continue well past his time here.

This month your simple contribution will go to My Brother’s Keeper to purchase blankets for those who have none. My Brother’s Keeper is a

vibrant, welcoming Christian ministry with loca-tions in Easton and Dartmouth, MA which delivers furniture and food to families in need. Their mis-sion is "To bring the Love and Hope of Jesus Christ to those we serve.”

If you are warm today, if you have all you need for today, if you are grateful today, consider donating to the Deacon Doyle Memorial Blanket Drive. The warmth of your love and generosity will make the difference in someone’s life!

DEACON DOYLE BLANKET DRIVE

Anointing of the Sick Weekend of February 11th & 12th

February 11th is World Sick Day. We will have an Anointing of the Sick after all Masses on the weekend of February 11th and 12th.

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Winter Parent

Meetings

To discuss the require-

ments and preparation for

First Eucharist/Communion;

Sunday, Feb. 12th

1:00pm or

Thursday, Feb. 16th 7 :00pm

Attendance is very

important. (Children do not attend

this meeting.)

DUFRESNAY HAITI FOUNDATION 2017 TRIP VIDEO

Dufresnay Haiti Foundation will be showing a video in the gathering space after all Masses

on the weekend of February 11/12th of our latest trip to Haiti in January 2017. Some of

the things we accomplished are:

We repaired 1 house that had been damaged by Hurricane

Matthew.

We provided medical care for an at-risk 16 year old mother

who gave birth to a beautiful baby girl Emily (named after one

of our volunteers). Most certainly a miracle of God.

We took 37 Saint Rock orphans to a day at the beach with a

pizza party. None of these children had ever been in the

ocean.

These are just a sampling of the many things we do with the money that is generously

donated to us. We sincerely appreciate and thank you for all of your support.

God Bless,

Rob Mortel & Doreen Trahan

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS

Children Grade 1 and up

Join Fr. Mark and Mrs. Bowes for a fun intro to singing! We will be learning how to sing some simple songs and see how they help us worship God. Maybe we'll try your favorite ABBA songs as well! Let your words have wings! A great vacation week activity!

Songs and crafts--and lots of laughs! FREE!

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - February 21-22-23 (Vacation Week) 10:00am--12 Noon at St. Mary’s Church, Hull

RSVP: religioused@stmaryhull.com or call 781-925-0680

If you are a parent and wish to help out, please call us at the office. Thank you!

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Our offertory hymn this week is a setting of a poem by St. Theresa of Avila. St. Theresa was from Avila, Spain, and was the founder of the Disclaced Carmelites. Her main work involved the reform of religious life at the time of the Reformation which had become less prayerful and more worldly. At the time, many disagreed with her, in fact, some thought her visions were from the devil. But she persevered. In 1970, Pope Paul VI made her a "doctor" (one who has made major, authoritative contributions to the faith) of the Church, for her contributions to prayer life. She along with St. Catherine of Sienna were the first women saints to be given such a title (Pope Benedict XVI later named another female doctor of the Church, St. Hildegard of Bingen). She is the patron saint of Spain. In the poem, St. Theresa points out that although we ourselves are not Christ, we are the ones who should carry out his work and mission.

Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours,

Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world,

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,

Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours,

Yours are the eyes with which he looks

compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM: 4-week program starting on Tuesday, Febru-ary 7th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Morcone Center, “Music in the Pews….and You!” Join Br. David for an informative and fun-filled series as he presents how the development of music in the Christian church came to express an ancient tradition. These four sessions will cover earliest musical history, how music came to be written down, what those odd symbols mean and how to find your voice in this wondrous tradition. Don’t be afraid. You won’t be asked to solo! No registration required. Suggested donation $20 per session.

FAITH AND FILM: Thursday, February 9th at 6:30 p.m. “A Late Quartet” (2012), R, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christo-pher Walken, and Catherine Keener. Mem-bers of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. Movie starts at 6:30 p.m., with discus-sion afterward. Come early with friends and bring a sandwich! Tea, coffee and snacks will be served. No registration re-quired. Donations gratefully accepted.

WEEKEND RETREAT: February 10-12th, “FEAR – Face Everything and Recover,” with Abbot Thomas. Our life isn’t always a walk in the park. We have periods of re-gret, sorrow, hope and joy which make our life, our life. Fear is the emotion that pre-vents us from moving forward psychologi-cally, emotionally and spiritually. Fear imprisons us and keeps us from celebrating and living to our full potential. This retreat will allow us to examine our fear and shed light on how it prevents us from achieving who God calls us to be. This is the time to walk across the threshold to a new free-dom from fear, leading us to a new life in Christ. Suggested Offering: $190, includes 2-nights’ accommodation and meals. Regis-tration required.*

EVENING MEDITATION: Meditation will continue as usual on Monday evenings at 6:45 p.m. throughout the winter months at the Morcone Center. Contact Gail Salvetti on 781-837-1411 with any questions.

SAVE THE DATE! Feb. 16th at 7:15 p.m. Listening to Other Voices, Diane Moore, Ph.D., “Human Dignity and Religious Toler-ance.”

For further info or to register* contact Joan: 781-749-2155, x.300 or re-treats@glastonburyabbey.org or visit our website www.glastonburyabbey.org

Upcoming Events

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NOTES FROM OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR - JOE SCOLASTICO

Social Justice

“The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most I need, those who have

nothing apart from their poverty.” - Pope Francis

Wikipedia defines social justice in terms of “the distribution of wealth, opportunities and privileges within a

society.” The term social justice was coined by a Jesuit priest, Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio in the 1850”s when he was writing articles to combat the problems arising from the Industrial Revolution such as housing, fair

wages, and child welfare. The issues equated with social justice are not much different today and possibly

even more numerous and affecting more people. How do we discern what we need to do to respond to the

injustices in the world?

As Catholic people we have the guidance of the Church’s social teachings – a rich treasure for building a

just society. There are seven themes that are the heart of our tradition (for more information: http://

uscb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/cathoic-social-teaching )

As we strive to be that great society that the Pope spoke about, our own parish movement through the

social justice ministry calls each one of us to activism and volunteerism, it provides each of us the opportuni-

ty to find a passion for justice, and it invites each of us to respond to the needs of the oppressed and the struggling.

Pope Francis’ emphasis on the plight of the poor and marginalized has brought new energy to the work of

service and social justice. He reminds us: “Jesus tells us what the “protocol” is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in Chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel: I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was in prison, I was naked and you helped me, clothed me, visited me, and took care of me. Whenever we do this to one of our brothers, we do this to Jesus. Caring for our neighbor- for those who are poor, who suffer in body and in soul, for those who are in need. This is the touchstone.”

Through our Social Justice Ministry the opportunity exists to be the servant we are all called to be through

our Baptism, through the teachings and the life of Jesus Christ, and through the teachings of the Catholic

Church. By focusing on one need each month you have the opportunity to prayerfully and thoughtfully respond. Donating because you believe in the mission or just giving what’s in your pocket is the difference

between living your faith and passing by the table.

Our next cause will be Dufresne, Haiti which we will be in the Social Justice Corner throughout Lent. Please be sure to stop by the table and prayerfully and thoughtfully donate to this important global concern.

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RENEW RETURNS!

Last Saturday, Deacon Jim, his daughter Jennie and Jennie’s daughter Josie

(not pictured) took the ice cold plunge into the water at the 22nd Annual

Wellspring Drowned Hog event, and came out smiling! All for a great cause!

Thank you Jim, Jennie & Josie!

Wellspring’s

Drowned Hogs Event

Renew Yourself This Lent With...

When: Starts the week of March 6th and runs for 6 weeks, meeting once per week How: Sign-Up Saturday/Sunday after Masses, weekend of 2/12 & 2/19 What/Where: Small faith sharing communities in homes of fellow parishioners.

A time of reflection, prayer and

conversion.

We have offered several Renew programs over the years – Heal-

ing the Body of Christ, Renew, Arise –all of them were offered

through the materials of the Renew International organization.

Many hundreds of people in our parish have been engaged in

small group faith sharing throughout the three programs and

many new and lasting friendships were formed and enriched by

this faith sharing experience as demonstrated by the following

quote of a past participant:

“Participating in previous Renew programs at St.

Mary’s was one of the best and significant experienc-

es in my faith journey. The small group setting is the

perfect place to reflect, discuss and challenge myself

to think about how God is present and an integral

part of my life. I’m also very thankful for the oppor-

tunity it gave me to personally meet and form bonds

with my fellow parishioners whom I would not other-

wise have gotten to know. The discussions were

faith filled, important, relevant and open.”

The program brings people together in homes, much like the

early Christians, creating small faith sharing communities. A

leader will guide the evening though every participant will have

an accompanying book. There will be prayer, readings from sa-

cred scripture, reflections to be read, and then sharing among

participants. The evening ends with an opportunity for each par-

ticipant to determine an action they want to implement in the

upcoming week (and this is something they can tell others they

will do or silently commit to.) It is hard to try to explain in print

how transformative these evenings can be, though we hope

reading the quote within may help. But it is safe to say that for

many, Renew truly renewed their hearts and minds. And most

importantly as individuals grow stronger, the group and by ex-

tension the parish, also grows.

While we encourage fasting during Lent – from good things of

this world to help us desire the better things of the next – this

Lent, feast on prayer, friendship, and positive action through a

small faith sharing community. Your Easter joy will be enhanced

for having this experience.

If you would be willing to open your home to a small group or

you would be willing to a lead the group, please contact Lisa Har-

ney lharney01@gmail.com or the parish office and sign on! It

takes many hands to make light work, we would welcome many

hands!! Sign-ups will happen the next two week-ends (2/12 &

2/19) and we begin the week of March 6th . Meetings are 90

minutes, once a week, for the six weeks of Lent.

Come and be RENEWED!

WILL YOU RENEW THIS LENT?