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Blessed Sacrament Church
"I am the Living Bread come down from Heaven. If any man eats of this Bread,
he shall live forever; and the Bread I will give, is My Flesh." John 6:51-52
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
LORD'S DAY: Saturday: 4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
HOLYDAYS:
Vigil:
6:00 p.m.
Holyday: 7:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m.
WEEKDAYS: 9:00 a.m.
SATURDAYS: First Saturdays only: 8:00 a.m.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION:
Saturday 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. and by appointment
BAPTISM: As part of the preparation process an
interview with the Pastor and two instructional sessions
are required. Please contact the rectory to schedule.
ENGAGED COUPLES: Arrangements for your
marriage must be made at least nine months in advance
of the marriage date.
NEW PARISHIONERS: We welcome you and ask
that you register at the Rectory. We want to know and
serve you! We hope that you will favor your parish
with your prayers, your presence and your talents.
Pastor
Rev. Timothy J. Campoli
Church
Rectory
221 Federal Street
182 High Street
Greenfield, MA 01301
Greenfield, MA 01301
blessedsacramentgreenfieldma.org (413) 773-3311
Deacon
Deacon John J. Leary
(413) 219-2734 (C)
[email protected]
Calvary Cemetery
Wisdom Way
Greenfield
773-3311
Director of
Religious Education
Laurie Tilton
774-2918
[email protected]
“Whosoever shall eat this Bread, or
drink this Chalice of the Lord unworthily,
shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of
the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 11:27
Organist
Choir Director
Stephen Glover
772-0532
Alternatives Pregnancy Center
P. O. Box 344, Greenfield, MA 01302-0344
Pregnancy Tests, Counseling and Support Services
Post Abortion Support
(413) 774-6010
Natural Family Planning
Ed & Suzi Cottrill
(413) 772-6062
Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place in the side chapel
twenty-four hours a day, every day. All are welcome to come and worship and
adore our Eucharistic Lord.
“Could you not watch one hour with Me?” Matthew 26:40
Blessed Sacrament Church
Greenfield, MA 01301
Weekend of November 1 & 2
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion:
Saturday, November 1
4:00
Monica McCarthy
Joanne Yestramski
Winston LaBelle
Jason Semaski
Bill Randall
Judie McCarthy
Hannah Lively
Brian Luippold
Sunday, November 2
8:00
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25TH
(Clergy in Purgatory)
4:00 Barbara Most – by Jackie Jurewicz
SUN., OCT. 26TH – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Fr. Cullen)
8:00 Gilbert Pelletier – by Lionel & Doris Martin
10:30 Stanley & Sophie Karpinski – by Family
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH
(Fr. Aksamit)
9:00 Robert Campbell – by Justin & Mary Lou Moore and
Larry & Betty Roy
TUESDAY, OCT. 28TH – Sts. Simon & Jude
(Bishop Rozanski)
9:00 Annie & Andrew Dedinas – by daughter, Birute
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29TH
(Fr. Markovitch)
9:00 Lillian Zak – by Jane Fay
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30TH
(Deacon DeCarlo)
9:00 Deceased members of the Pavoni & Duke Families –
By Sandra Pavoni
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31ST
(Fr. Bombardier)
9:00 Gilbert Pelletier – by Lionel & Doris Martin
FIRST SATURDAY, NOV. 1ST – All Saints’ Day (Deacon Nolan)
8:00 Larry Filiault – by Laurie Tilton
4:00 Mass of Remembrance for all who died in the parish
this past year
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND – All Souls’ Day
(Fr. Campoli)
8:00 Joyce Tilton – by Laurie Tilton
10:30 Janet A. Penfield – by Family
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REMINDER:  Please join with us in praying the Rosary before
each daily Mass at 8:15 a.m., before the 4:00 p.m. Saturday Mass
and 8:00 a.m. Sunday Mass.
 Confessions after each weekend Mass.
 The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited Fridays at 3:00
p.m. in the Adoration Chapel. All are invited to come and pray
with us.
 Blessed Sacrament has a Prayer Chain which is available for
anyone. To utilize the Prayer Chain simply contact Annette
Canuel at 397-9803 or [email protected] with your petition.
 Sponsor Certificates - Many parishes require certificates of
sponsorship for Godparents and Confirmation Sponsors. These
will be issued only to those who are confirmed adult Catholics,
registered in the parish, regular participants at Mass, validly
married in the Church (if applicable) and providing for the
religious education of their own children (if applicable).
October 26, 2014
Requiescat In Pace
10:30
Deacon John Leary
Kevin O’Neil
Liza O’Neil
Kevin O’Neil, Jr.
Lionel Martin
Jim Podlesney
Lynne Podlesney
Robert Earley
Patricia Earley
Mary Jane Bardwell
Holly Elmer
Joyce Thibodo
Bob Page
Pam Page
Judy Lapointe
Bob O’Connor
Elizabeth Zabawa
Amanda Zabawa
Poet’s Seat Nursing Home:
Sunday, November 2
Deacon John & Donna Leary
Lectors / Cantors:
Sat., Nov. 1
4:00
Sun., Nov. 2
8:00
10:30
Jason Semaski / Karlena Henry
Laurie Tilton / Jane Winchester
Josh Rode / Jackie Jurewicz
Saturday, November 1
4:00
Piper Day, Jason Semaski
Sunday, November 2
8:00
Stephen Filiault, James Staelens
10:30 Eddie Muenkel, Nathaniel Pierce
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Paulin Bukowski
Jeane Glatkowski
The Sanctuary Candle will burn this week in memory/honor:
LeBeau – Boynton Families – from Marie Boynton
The Adoration Chapel Candles will burn this week in
memory/honor of:
1.) Special intention for Paul & Patti Pierce – from the Pierce
children
2.) Alice Conant – from Sandy & David Canney
3.) Fr. Benedict Groeschel – from Pat & Bob Earley
4.) Bob Thibodo – from Wife
Rosary Sodality
The Blessed Sacrament Rosary Sodality will have their meeting
on Monday, October 27th and on every last Monday of each
month in the Sacristy at 6:30 p.m. followed by Benediction and
Rosary in the Adoration Chapel at 7:10 p.m. The Rosary Sodality
would like to invite all parishioners, men, women, and children,
C.C.D classes and the R.C.I.A. adults, to join us for the Rosary
and for Benediction. All women are invited to join the Sodality.
For more information, call Judy Lapointe (774-2025) or Doris
Martin (772-0630).
First Saturday Mass
Saturday, November 1st is the First Saturday of the month in
honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Mass is at 8:00 a.m.
Holy Hour for Nonbelievers
We will have a Holy Hour on Sunday, November 2nd from 6:007:00 a.m. and again in the evening from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the
Adoration Chapel to pray for nonbelievers. We encourage and
invite everyone to come.
Recitation of the Holy Rosary
Please join us for the daily recitation of the Holy Rosary in the
Adoration Chapel at 7:00 p.m. during the month of October.
Food Pantry
Our Food Pantry for the Poor is in need of spaghetti sauce, peanut
butter, hearty soups, canned fruit and vegetables, cereal, baked
beans, canned ravioli, cookies/crackers, jello/pudding and
desserts. Thank you!
40 Days for Life
Through Nov. 2 you are invited to join other Christians for 40
Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to
abortion. You are also invited to stand and peacefully pray during
a 40-day vigil in the public right-of-way outside Planned
Parenthood at 3550 Main Street, Springfield, Mass. to help spread
the word. If you would like more information or if you would
like to volunteer to help, please contact Tim Biggins at (413) 3420403 and/or [email protected].
Community Meal
Blessed Sacrament Parish will sponsor the Community Meal at
the Second Congregational Church on Tuesday, October 28th at
5:30 p.m. If you can help with a casserole, salad, dessert, or a
financial contribution, please call Pamela Page at 774-2622.
Christmas Bazaar
Dove of Peace Christmas Bazaar will be held on Saturday,
November 8th at Our Lady of Peace Church, 90 Seventh St., in
Turners Falls from 9:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. featuring hand-made
craft items, gift baskets, baked goods and food items, homemade
apple and meat pies, Christmas ornaments and decorations, multiraffle, attic treasures, children’s shop and wrap corner, a special
visit from good St. Nick and so much more! Also lunch available
at the Christmas Cookie Café!
Mass of Remembrance
A special Mass of Remembrance will be celebrated on Saturday,
November 1st at 4:00 p.m. for our parishioners who have died in
the Lord this past year. Prelude music from 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Bibs Update
Thank you to all of you who contributed your time and talent to
make bibs for the Nursing Homes. It was a huge success! We
delivered about 25 bibs to each of the three Nursing Homes in
Greenfield. Again, thank you and God Bless! Annette Canuel
Tag, Rummage, Book, Jewelry and Bake Sale
A tag, rummage, book, jewelry and bake sale will be held on
Friday, Nov. 7th from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. and on Sat., Nov. 8th from 8
a.m. – 1 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church Father Casey Hall in
Greenfield. Saturday only $1.00 bag sale at 12 noon.
Catholic TV Network
The CatholicTV Network, America’s Catholic Television
Network® under the auspices of Cardinal Seán O’Malley, is now
available to cable and satellite providers in our area. Please help
provide this upbeat, youthful and exciting Catholic network and
a powerful resource to the people of our area and the entire nation.
To help, simply visit GetCatholicTV.com as an easy way to
petition your cable or satellite provider. If you are unable to
access the internet, please follow up with a postcard or letter to
your provider.
A Country Christmas Fair
St. Joseph's Parish in Shelburne Falls will hold a ”Country
Christmas Fair” on Saturday, November 15 from 9:00 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 16 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon at
the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center on 53 Main Street.
A big feature this year is a visit from Santa Claus on Saturday,
November 15 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. - bring your children
and cameras. The fair will offer hand-made craft items, handsewn and crocheted items, hand-made dolls, hand-painted
Christmas ornaments and holiday home décor, a fudge/candy
table and bake goods sale, a children’s gifting table, themed gift
baskets, Buckland’s famous J. G. Haigis Baloney for sale and a
tea cup auction. A big raffle featuring $100 in Lottery tickets plus
a gift certificate to Buckland Pizza, $100 gift certificate to the
Ocean Grill and Steakhouse in Greenfield and a $75 gift
certificate to West End Pub in Shelburne Falls round out the
offerings. Delicious lunch items will be available for purchase
and parking is free. Get Your Christmas shopping done early! For
more information call (413) 625-6405.
Ombudsman = Advocate
Volunteer as a Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Visit, listen and
advocate for individuals living in nursing homes and rest homes.
The next free training through the Executive Office of Elder
Affairs is October 29, 30, 31, 2014 from 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. in
Springfield. To request a training application, contact Trevor
Boeding at [email protected], 773-5555 x 2241. Read more
and begin filling out your application at www.fchcc.org.
St. Nicholas Bazaar
The annual St. Nicholas Day Bazaar will take place on Saturday,
December 6th starting at 9:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Częstochowa
Church, 84 K Street, in Turners Falls. Anyone who would like
to rent a table for this popular holiday event may call Shirley
Webb at 773-7202 for information and to reserve a space.
News of Our Shut-Ins
If you know of any parishioner who is a shut-in or in the hospital
or nursing home, please notify the rectory at 773-3311.
The Hour That Makes My Day
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
On the day of my Ordination, I made two resolutions:
1. I would offer the Holy Eucharist every Saturday in
honor of the Blessed Mother to solicit her protection on my
priesthood. The Epistle to the
Hebrews bids the priest offer
sacrifices not only for others,
but also for himself, since his
sins are greater because of the
dignity of the office.
2. I resolved also to spend a
continuous Holy Hour every
day in the presence of our
Lord
in
the
Blessed
Sacrament.
In the course of my
priesthood I have kept both of
these resolutions. The Holy
Hour had its origin in a
practice I developed a year
before I was ordained. The big
chapel in St. Paul's Seminary
would be locked by six o'clock; there were still private
chapels available for private devotions and evening prayers.
This particular evening during recreation, I walked up and
down outside the closed major chapel for almost an hour.
The thought struck me - why not make a Holy Hour of
adoration in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament? The
next day I began, and the practice is now well over sixty
years old.
Briefly, here are some reasons why I have kept up this
practice, and why I have encouraged it in others:
First, the Holy Hour is not a devotion; it is a sharing in
the work of redemption. Our Blessed Lord used the words
"hour" and "day" in two totally different connotations in the
Gospel of John. "Day" belongs to God; the "hour" belongs
to evil. Seven times in the Gospel of John, the word "hour"
is used, and in each instance it refers to the demonic, and to
the moments when Christ is no longer in the Father's Hands,
but in the hands of men. In the Garden, our Lord contrasted
two "hours" - one was the evil hour "this is your hour" with which Judas could turn out the lights of the world. In
contrast, our Lord asked: "Could you not watch one hour
with Me?" In other words, he asked for an hour of
reparation to combat the hour of evil; an hour of victimal
union with the Cross to overcome the anti-love of sin.
Secondly, the only time Our Lord asked the Apostles for
anything was the night he went into his agony. Then he did
not ask all of them ... perhaps because he knew he could not
count on their fidelity. But at least he expected three to be
faithful to him: Peter, James and John. As often in the
history of the Church since that time, evil was awake, but
the disciples were asleep. That is why there came out of His
anguished and lonely Heart the sigh: "Could you not watch
one hour with me?" Not for
an hour of activity did He
plead, but for an hour of
companionship.
The third reason I keep up
the Holy Hour is to grow
more and more into his
likeness. As Paul puts it:
"We are transfigured into his
likeness, from splendor to
splendor." We become like
that which we gaze upon.
Looking into a sunset, the
face takes on a golden glow.
Looking at the Eucharistic
Lord for an hour transforms
the heart in a mysterious way
as the face of Moses was
transformed after his companionship with God on the
mountain. Something happens to us similar to that which
happened to the disciples at Emmaus. On Easter Sunday
afternoon when the Lord met them, he asked why they were
so gloomy. After spending some time in his presence, and
hearing again the secret of spirituality - "The Son of Man
must suffer to enter into his Glory" - their time with him
ended and their "hearts were on fire."
The Holy Hour. Is it difficult? Sometimes it seemed to
be hard; it might mean having to forgo a social engagement,
or rise an hour earlier, but on the whole it has never been a
burden, only a joy. I do not mean to say that all the Holy
Hours have been edifying, as for example, the one in the
church of St. Roch in Paris. I entered the church about three
o'clock in the afternoon, knowing that I had to catch a train
for Lourdes two hours later. There are only about ten days
a year in which I can sleep in the daytime; this was one. I
knelt down and said a prayer of adoration, and then sat up
to meditate and immediately went to sleep. I woke up
exactly at the end of one hour. I said to the Good Lord:
"Have I made a Holy Hour?" I thought his angel said:
"Well, that's the way the Apostles made their first Holy
Hour in the Garden, but don't do it again."
Excerpt from Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of
Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton Sheen
(Ignatius Press).
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of Perpetual
Adoration in Franklin County
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Blessed Sacrament Church, Greenfield
1:00-2:00 p.m. – Confessions
2:00 p.m. - Service
Presider
Bishop Mitchell Rozanski
Speaker
Vinny Flynn