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The Catholic Community of Somerset/Swansea at Saint Louis de France Parish Parish Staff Father David A. Costa, Pastor Rev. Kenneth Sicard, O.P., Weekend Assistant Rev. Gabriel Pivarnik, O.P., Weekend Assistant Rev. James Quigley, O.P, Weekend Assistant Sister Kathleen Corrigan, S.U.S.C., Pastoral Associate Rev. Deacon Robert Craig, Deacon Wendy Thibault, Parish Office Manager Heidi Dion, Director of Music –508-642-3954 Anne Cabral, Director of Faith Formation (6-10) Michael Fitzpatrick, Director of Faith Formation (1-5) Faith Formation Email : [email protected] Faith Formation Phone : 508-679-1236 Daily Mass Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:00 am Weekend Masses Saturday 4:00 pm Sunday 7:30 am, 10:30 am Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Saturday 3:00 - 3:30 pm or by appointment Parish Office Hours Monday—Friday 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Office Telephone: 508-673-7831 • Fax: 508-567-5177 Parish Email: [email protected] Sacraments Baptism - Please see priest after Mass or contact our parish office to make arrangements. First Communion - After completing a two year program for first and second grade. Confirmation - After completing a two year program Marriage - Arrange at least eight months prior to the wed- ding date. There are several requirements to be completed in advance of the wedding date. Please see priest after Mass or contact our parish office before any arrangements are made. Outreach Ministry - Please notify the parish office of any pa- rishioner who is unable to attend Mass due to illness or age. Parish Registration - Welcome! We welcome you to join our parish family. Please introduce yourself after Mass. Regis- tration forms are available at the main entrance of the Church, at the parish office or online at our parish website www.stlouisdefrance.net We very much hope that you feel at home with us! Parish Mailing Address - Post Office Box 70 • Somerset, MA 02726 Parish Office Location - 386 Luther Ave., Somerset , MA 02726 56 Buffington Street, Swansea, MA 02777 • stlouisdefrance.net
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The Catholic Community of Somerset/Swansea at Saint Louis de France Parish
Parish Staff
Father David A. Costa, Pastor Rev. Kenneth Sicard, O.P., Weekend Assistant
Rev. Gabriel Pivarnik, O.P., Weekend Assistant Rev. James Quigley, O.P, Weekend Assistant
Sister Kathleen Corrigan, S.U.S.C., Pastoral Associate
Rev. Deacon Robert Craig, Deacon
Wendy Thibault, Par ish Office Manager Heidi Dion, Director of Music –508-642-3954
Anne Cabral, Director of Faith Formation (6-10) Michael Fitzpatrick, Director of Faith Formation (1-5)
Faith Formation Email : [email protected] Faith Formation Phone : 508-679-1236
Daily Mass Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:00 am
Weekend Masses Saturday 4:00 pm
Sunday 7:30 am, 10:30 am
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Saturday 3:00 - 3:30 pm or by appointment
Parish Office Hours Monday—Friday 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Office Telephone: 508-673-7831 • Fax: 508-567-5177 Parish Email: [email protected]
Sacraments
Baptism - Please see priest after Mass or contact our parish office to make arrangements.
First Communion - After completing a two year program for first and second grade.
Confirmation - After completing a two year program
Marriage - Arrange at least eight months prior to the wed-ding date. There are several requirements to be completed in advance of the wedding date. Please see priest after Mass or contact our parish office before any arrangements are made.
Outreach Ministry - Please notify the parish office of any pa-rishioner who is unable to attend Mass due to illness or age.
Parish Registration - Welcome! We welcome you to join our parish family. Please introduce yourself after Mass. Regis-tration forms are available at the main entrance of the Church, at the parish office or online at our parish website www.stlouisdefrance.net We very much hope that you feel at home with us!
Parish Mailing Address - Post Office Box 70 • Somerset, MA 02726 Parish Office Location - 386 Luther Ave., Somerset , MA 02726
56 Buffington Street, Swansea, MA 02777 • stlouisdefrance.net
Divine Mercy Sunday
No daily or weekend Masses until further notice ALL WEEKEND INTENTIONS IN OUR MASS BOOK ARE BEING PRAYED FOR AS NORMAL DURING OUR ONLINE MASS
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FAITH FORMATION NEWS
FIRST COMMUNION/CONFIRMATION UPDATE
Following the guidelines of the Commonwealth of Massa-chusetts, the First Communion to be held at St. Thomas More on 3rd May will not take place. Unfortunately, we cannot give an alternate date at this time. The First Communions to be held on 17th and 31st May are still tentative and we will update you in due course. Although the Confirmations are at later dates, they are also subject to change and again we will update you based on the directives of Governor Baker. If you have any questions, please call the faith formation office at 508-679-1236 or email us at [email protected] or at the par ish office [email protected]
COLLECTIONS FOR 11/12APRIL 2020
Budget $ 2,658.00 Easter Retired Priests $ 403.00 Monthly I.M.E $ 466.00 Winter Make Up $ 301.00 Fuel $ 166.00
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Divine Mercy Sunday In a series of revelations to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska in the 1930s, our Lord called for a special feast day to be celebrated on the Sunday after Easter. Today, we know that feast as Divine Mercy Sunday, named by Blessed John Paul II at the canonization of St. Faustina on April 30, 2000. The Lord expressed His will with regard to this feast in His very first revelation to St. Faustina. The most com-prehensive revelation can be found in her Diary entry 699: My daughter, tell the whole world about My inconceiva-ble mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and a shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sin-ners. Nevertheless, Divine Mercy Sunday is NOT a feast based solely on St. Faustina's revelations. Indeed, it is not pri-marily about St. Faustina — nor is it altogether a new feast. The Second Sunday of Easter was already a solem-nity as the Octave Day of Easter[1]. The title "Divine Mercy Sunday" does, however, highlight the meaning of the day. In 1931, our Lord appeared to St. Faustina in a vision. She saw Jesus clothed in a white garment with His right hand raised in blessing. His left hand was touching His garment in the area of the Heart, from where two large rays came forth, one red and the other pale. She gazed intently at the Lord in silence, her soul filled with awe, but also with great joy. Jesus said to her: Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory (Diary, 47, 48). I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You (327). I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world (47).
At the request of her spiritual director, St. Faustina asked the Lord about the meaning of the rays in the image. She heard these words in reply: The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls. These two rays issued forth from the depths of My ten-der mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. Happy is the one who will dwell in their shelter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him (299). By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. It is to be a reminder of the demands of
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY APRIL 19, 2020
From Fr. Costa… In my many years of priesthood, I have found that Catholics spend a lot of time and energy on living a fruitful Lent. That is a good and worthy endeavor. However, we sometimes forget that the forty days of Lent lead to the Sacred Triduum and the fifty days of Easter which celebrate the core of our Christian belief: the crucified Jesus IS risen. Christ has conquered death. Sin and death have no power. Because Jesus lives, we live! “Easter”, within the context of liturgical time and seasons, has several meanings. First and foremost, it refers to the Easter Vigil and to Easter Sunday. It also refers to the Octave of Easter, the first eight days of the season from Easter Sunday up to and including the Second Sunday of Easter. Easter also refers to the fifty days of the Easter season, as the Roman Missal tells us: “The fifty days from the Sunday of the Resurrection to Pentecost Sunday, are celebrated in joy and exultation as one feast day, indeed, as one ‘great Sunday.”
Easter is, of course, about Christ’s Resurrection, but it is also about the growth of the Church. Throughout this season, the Scriptures proclaimed at Mass move from the empty tomb accounts in the hours and days after the Resurrection to details about the trials and tribulations of the early Church, healing and forgiveness, and the vision of the end-times as given to us in Saint John’s Gospel accounts. Jesus’ death and Resurrection inaugurated a new era and a new way of living in Christ.
Each Easter, we renew our baptismal promises and reflect on what it means to live in this new way and with this new vision. Perhaps especially this year, as we experience pandemic quarantine, when we cannot gather physically with one another, we are being stretched in our understanding and living of Easter. What is my Easter faith like? Am I living each day as a person of hope, knowing that the risen Jesus walks with us? How am I practically sharing this Easter vision with those around me? From Pope Francis’ 2018 Easter homily: To celebrate Easter is to believe once more that God constantly breaks into our personal histories, challenging
our “conventions,” those fixed ways of thinking and acting that end up paralyzing us. To celebrate Easter is to allow Jesus to triumph over the craven fear that so often assails us and tried to bury every kind of hope.
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My mercy, because even the strongest faith is of no avail without works (742). Many different versions of this image have been painted, but our Lord made it clear that the painting itself is not what is important. When St. Faustina first saw the origi-nal image that was being painted under her direction, she wept in disappointment and complained to Jesus: "Who will paint You as beautiful as You are?" (313). In answer, she heard these words: "Not in the beauty of the color, nor of the brush lies the greatness of this image, but in My grace" (313). So, no matter which version of the image we prefer, we can be assured that it is a vehicle of God’s grace if it is revered with trust in His mercy.
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