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A THOUGHT FROM POPE FRANCIS
OCTOBER 12, 2014
28th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME
MASS INTENTIONS
Saturday, October 11
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St John XXIII, 261 pope
8:00am – Deceased Guanellian Sisters & Priests
3:30pm – MR. & MRS WILLIAM ROSE by Bill
Fr Silvio
5:00pm – JOSE & MANUELA AMARAL
by sister Zenaida Carvalho
Sunday, October 12
Fr Peter
28th SUNDAY Ordinary Time
8:00am – ALL PARISHIONERS
9:00am – JAIME D’OLIVEIRA by wife & family
11:00am – CHARLIE DE MEDEIROS by family
7:00pm – ALL BENEFACTORS
Monday, October 13
Fr Silvio
Fr Silvio
Fr Peter
Fr Peter
Columbus Day
7:00am – GINA LaROCCO
Tuesday, October 14
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St Callistus I, 16 pope
7:00am – SOULS IN PURGATORY
Wednesday, October 15
St Teresa of Jesus, nun
7:00am – ELIZABETH LIMA
Thursday, October 16
St Margaret Mary Alacoque
7:00am – ELEANOR T. COUTO by Mary Mc Kivergan
Friday, October 17
St Ignatius of Antioch, bishop
7:00am – ERIC MELANSON by Kim & Richard
Saturday, October 18
St Luke the Evangelist
8:00am – JEANNIE LEWIS
3:30pm – ALL BENEFACTORS
5:00pm – JOSEPH McKENNA (2nd Ann) by wife
Sunday, October 19
Fr Peter
Fr Silvio
29th SUNDAY Ordinary Time
8:00am – ALL PARISHIONERS
Fr Silvio
9:00am – JOHN PENN by wife & family
Fr Peter
11:00am – EDWARD AXILE by Madeline Axile
Fr Silvio
7:00pm – TANHA GANETO, MARY & RUDOLPH
ALMADA by Antonia Ganeto
Fr Peter
PLEASE, PRAY FOR THE SICK:
Hardwell August, Matthew Boudreau, Concetta
Hopkins, Hope Laiter, Larry Bass, Frank Frausto,
Danile Lewis, Allison Roberto, Alex Wilson,
Charles Pringle, Amy Federivicz, Zachary Leiszler,
Carol Ladeira, Monica Rainville Baton, Joseph
Cabral, Gregory LaRocco, Fred Rioles and all the
suffering parishioners.
St. Paul confesses to having persecuted the
Church ferociously. Paul does not say "I am
good, I am from a Catholic family, I have a certain
nobility." No, Paul says, "I was a persecutor. I've
been bad". He remembers his past life, and he
remembers it from the very beginning. This habit
of remembering our life is not a very common
practice today. We forget things. We live in the
present and forget the past. Each of us has a
story: a story of grace, a story of sin, a story of
journey, so many good and wrong things ... It is a
good thing to pray with St. Paul who says: “He
has chosen me! He called me! He saved me! He
was my companion on the journey.”
The act of remembering our own lives is to give
glory to God. Remembering on our sins, by which
the Lord has saved us, is to give glory to God.
Paul says that he has only two things: his sins,
and the grace of the Crucified Lord, His grace.
Paul remembered his sins and said: 'I was a
sinner, but Christ Crucified saved me.’ This was
Paul’s memory. This is remembering that Jesus
saves and he himself invites us to think about it.
SACRED HEART SENIOR SERVICES
Sacred Heart Church of East Providence is
running a Senior Services and is located in the
Church Hall on 118 Taunton Ave. Volunteers,
who are willing to spend time there, are welcome.
For more information please contact Sr. Margaret
Mary at (401) 714-0145 (center) or (401) 2633707 (cell).
2014 SYNOD OF BISHOPS on the FAMILY
The Most Reverend Thomas Tobin, Bishop of
Providence, encourages the faithful to pray for the
Synod on the Family that is underway in Rome.
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Prayer to the Holy Family
by Pope Francis
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in you we contemplate
the splendor of true love. To you we turn with trust.
Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that our families may be
places of communion and prayer, authentic schools of
the Gospel and small domestic Churches.
Holy Family of Nazareth, may families never again
experience violence, rejection and division.
May all who have been hurt or scandalized find ready
comfort and healing.
Holy Family of Nazareth, may the Synod of Bishops
make us more mindful of the sacredness and
inviolability of the family, and its beauty in God’s plan.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
graciously hear our prayer. Amen
Dear Padre
From the Pastor’s Desk
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Question: In my days as an altar-boy,
during the Offertory the priest was
pouring into the chalice some wine and a
few drops of water. Why?
Answer: You are right! When I was serving
Mass as an altar-boy, I was wondering why
my pastor was counting the drops of water to
pour into the wine. They were three all the
time. In my little mischievous mind I thought
the pastor was careful to pour only three
drops of water for not spoiling the wine with
too much water. When I conveyed that
explanation to the young assistant pastor, he
got chocked by laughter. After regaining his
composure, he explained to me that wine and
water symbolize the blood and water that
flowed from the side of Jesus when he was
pierced by the soldier’s lance.
St. John in his Gospel records that,
“When the soldiers came to Jesus and saw
that he was already dead, they did not break
his legs, but one of the soldiers thrust his
lance into his side, and immediately blood and
water flowed out (Jn 19:33).”
So, when the priest consecrates the
wine into the Blood of Christ, he also
remembers the event just described.
If you have the opportunity to look at
the image of Jesus, Divine Mercy, who
appeared to St. Faustina Kowalska in 1931 in
Poland, you can see that two rays flow from
his Sacred Heart.
One is red (blood) and the second is
white (water). The red ray symbolizes the
Precious Blood of Christ (the Eucharist), while
the white ray symbolizes the water of Baptism
(the Church).
In the meantime the priest recites this
prayer, “By the mystery of this water and wine
may we come to share in the divinity of Christ
who humbled himself to share in our
humanity.”
The Offertory Rite helps us to enter into
the mystery of offering ourselves to the Father
as Jesus did when on the cross. It is the time
of the Mass when each person present in
church should offer himself or herself to God.
We offer to God what we are and what
we have; the good we have done and the
wrongdoing we have done. We offer our daily
work; our daily joys and sorrows; our daily
crosses and sufferings; our love to God and to
our neighbor; our family life; our school life;
our playing basketball and our cooking; our
doing laundry and our exercising at the gym;
our driving the car and our watching TV. We
offer our prayers and our thanksgiving for the
daily blessings we receive. (Mmmh! I have my
doubts on the goodness of offering the
constant texting and taking selfies!)
In those few drops of wine and water
there is my life, my dreams, my joys, my good
and bad days, my whole me. Everything I am
and have is given back to God for his glory.
When the Church says that we in the pews
have to have an active participation to the
Mass, she means what I just described. I
should not be a sack of potatoes sitting on the
pew thinking about the Patriots’ game or the
new boyfriend, but an active soul and mind
that are connected to what happens on the
altar before our eyes.
The Offertory Rite comprises also the
offertory collection, my participation and
support to the life of my parish by my prayer
and financial contribution. If the parish is a
family, a family is supported by all its
members, children and adults alike, who
participate according to their possibilities.
Remember that our faith is never a private
matter that affects only me. Faith is a public
and communal affair that brings into play the
single individuals and the entire community of
the parish. If God is love; if God is a
community of three Divine Persons forming
the Trinitarian family, we who are created
according to the image and likeness of God
should be love, community and family, too.
“Every day say to the Lord, “I love
you, O Lord. Give me your grace. I
thank you.”
Saint Louis Guanella
WE ARE A TITHING PARISH
GOD’S PLAN FOR GIVING
A WEEK AGO $ 3,078.00 CHILDREN $ 20.05
A YEAR AGO $ 3,056.00 CHILDREN $ 19.45
“The true purpose of tithing is to secure not the tithe, but the tither;
not the gift, but the giver; not your money, but you...for God.
SACRED HEART SCHOOL FUND
In Memory of Joan Peck
In Memory of Anthony J. Amerantes
In Memory of John & Priscilla O’Connor
In Memory of Francis Steadman
Previous Anonymous
Anonymous/Weekend 10-5-2014
820.00
150.00
4,000.00
100.00
90.00
5.00
OCTOBER 12, 2014
 SACRED HEART SCHOOL 
Students of the Month - September 2014
Kindergarten Allison Faria / Dylan Forit
1st Grade
Christopher Luiz / Cali Hidalgo Staffard
nd
2 Grade
Eric Blackston / Kaylee Faria
rd
3 Grade
Kylie Tiemeyer / Isabella Waycott
4th Grade
Amber Francisco / Om Khadka
th
5 Grade
Aiden Gaipo / Brianna Waycott
th
6 Grade
Sean Jacob Alcordo / Madison Martins
7th Grade
Saylor Costa / Mey Tiemeyer
th
8 Grade
Lena Legault-Ross / Benjamin O’Neil
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TOTAL to DATE
# 220
# 59
# 77
5,165.00
SACRED HEART 365 CLUB
ZENAS KENNEDY
$ 25.00
JO-ANN KENNEDY
$ 25.00
RICHARD COIA
$ 25.00
THANK YOU! ... to the cooks, their helpers,
the sponsors and all those who attended the
2014 Fall Parish Dinner. It was delicious, well
attended and fun.
There was a net profit of $ 3,780.00.
Thanks again and may God bless you all!
BIBLE STUDY CLASS
at Sacred Heart Church Hall, 118 Taunton
Avenue in East Providence, on every 1st and 3rd
Monday of every month, at 7:00 pm. For any
questions feel free to call Mr. David O’Connell at
632-2516 or Fr. Silvio at 434-0326.
Next Bible Study Class will be held on Monday,
October 20.
CATHOLIC TRIVIA
Answer to the last week’s quiz:
a. Pontius Pilate was from Rome, Italy
This week’s quiz:
The Gethsemane in the Bible was?
a. a mountain
b. a hill
c. a river
d. a garden
A GRAIN OF WISDOM
Wrong decisions can take you out of God’s will
but never our of His reach
 The Children of Israel
“Mr. Goldblatt," announced little Joey, "there's
somethin' I can't figger out."
"What's that Joey?" asked Goldblatt.
"Well accordin' to the Bible, the Children of Israel
crossed the Red Sea, right?" "Right."
"An' the Children of Israel beat up the Phillistines,
right?" "Right."
"An' the Children of Israel built the Temple, right?"
"Again you're right."
"An' the Children of Israel fought the 'gyptians, an'
the Children of Israel fought the Romans, an' the
Children of Israel would always doin' somethin'
important, right?"
"All that is right, too," agreed Goldblatt. "So what's
your question?"
"What I wanna know is this," demanded Joey.
"What would all the grown-ups doin when the
children do everything?"
 The Brown Apple
A four-year-old boy was eating an apple in the
back seat of the car, when he asked, "Daddy, why
is my apple turning brown?"
"Because," his dad explained, "after you ate the
skin off, the meat of the apple came into contact
with the air, which caused it to oxidise, thus
changing the molecular structure and turning it
into a different color."
There was a long silence. Then the son asked
softly, "Daddy, are you talking to me?"