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Shrine of
Our Lady of
La Salette
St. Helena Parish
St. Mary’s Mission
36 Shaker Hill Road
Enfield, NH 03748
603-632-4263
[email protected]
PO Box 420 , 410 NH Route 4A
Enfield, NH 03748
603-632-7087
www.lasaletteofenfield.org
Served by the Missionaries of La Salette
January 11, 2015
Baptism of the Lord
“Our Lady of La Salette, Reconciler of Sinners,
Pray without ceasing for us who have recourse to you”
Fr. Johnny Vadakkan, MS,
Pastor
[email protected]
Mrs. DebraLee Hurley
Business Administrator
[email protected]
Mrs. Dorothy Campbell
Religious Education
[email protected]
Mass Schedule
Saturday 4:30pm St. Helena
Sunday: 8am St. Helena
Sunday: 9:30am St. Mary
Wednesday
11:30am St. Helena
First Friday St. Helena 5:30pm Mass
followed by Adoration
Confession
Saturday 4:00pm St. Helena
or by appointment.
Shrine Ministry Team
Fr. René Butler, M.S., Director
Br. David Carignan, M.S.
Fr. Roger Plante, M.S.
Br. Claude Rhéaume, M.S.
Fr. Joseph Ross, M.S.
Bro. Raymond Tétreault, M.S.
[email protected]
Shrine Mass Schedule
See information inside bulletin.
Confession:
In Chapel 45 min. prior to weekend
Mass, or by appointment at
North House
Gift Shop (603) 632-4301
For: Books, Gifts, & Music.
Br. David Carignan, M.S., ManSEE SEASONAL GIFT SHOP HOURS
INSIDE THIS BULLETN
Thank you for your patronage!
St. Helena ~ St. Mary Mission Statement
TheMissionofSt.Helena’sandSt.Mary’sparishistousetheclosenessofourcommunityto
promotetheproclamationoftheGoodNews,thebeautyandrichnessofcelebration,andthe
sharingofourselvesinservicetoGod’speople.
BelievingintheequalityofallwithinChrist’sfamily,westrivetohaveallpeoplefindtheir
ministryinthechurch.Werealizetheimportanceofreligiouseducationtoallmembersofthe
parishinhelpingthemanswerthecallofChrist,togrowasministerstoourownParishandto
theworld.
Dear Friends,
I wish to thank you for your prayers and well wishes. I safely made it home. It is nice to be
with my family. I’m sorry to hear that the weather is snowy and cold. Its in the 90’s here at home.
I’m told the work at St. Mary’s has begun. Mr. George has begun to remove the pews taking
4 at a time. The carpet has been ordered and will be installed once it is in. The old piano in the parish hall at St. Mary’s has been removed and the organ will be leaving soon.
Have a great week.
Blessings…..
Fr. Johnny
Support the Church by Sponsoring a Seminarian
The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette began their ministry in India during 1988. The La Salette Indian Province (La Salette Matha) is blessed with 50 priests and 70 seminarians. Presently 10 of the Indian La
Salette priests are ministering in the United States.
We are facing difficulties in maintaining the needs of our seminarians due to financial restraints. There are
many young men willing to join the La Salette Community to become religious missionary priests. However,
we are unable to recruit them due to lack of finances. The Indian La Salette Province is depending on generous people in other provinces to help provide support for these young men who desire to become priests.
If you wish to support/sponsor a seminarian until he becomes a priest we suggest some ways of doing so.
This support will be your gift to the future Catholic Church. For more information please contact Father
Johnny at 860 378-7811 (cell), 603 632-4263 (rectory), or e-mail [email protected]
WAYS TO OFFER SUPPORT FOR ONE SEMINARIAN
ONE SEMINARIAN
MONTH
YEAR
LIFETIME
SPONSOR-Tuition
$75.00
$750.00
$7500.00
BENEFACTOR-Tuition and Board $125.00
$1250.00
$12,500.00
ASSOCIATE-Complete Expenses
$150.00
$1800.00
$18,000.00
Thank you for considering the plan outlined above. We appreciate any help you can provide. Also, please continue praying for vocations and for the perseverance of the young
seminarians.
Isaiah 55: 1-11
1John 5: 1-9
Mark 1: 7-11
Parish Office Monday and Wednesday 9-5
For Baptism Preparation, please contact the Rectory.
For Marriage Preparation, the Diocese requires six months’ preparation.
Communion for Sick and Shut-ins: contact our Eucharistic Ministers to the sick. New to the area? We
want to know who you are! Please register by contacting the
rectory at 632-4263, or by filling out a Parish
Registration form located on the table.
MOVING? CHANGES OF ADDRESS ~ PLEASE CONTACT THE PARISH OFFICE.
Schedule of Events
Sunday
Jan 11
Tuesday
Jan 13
St. Helena
St. Mary’s
St. Helena
8am
9:30am
Mass
Mass
CCD
Catholic Coffee Hour
6:30pm
Adult Education
Wednesday St. Mary’s 11:10am
Jan 14
11:30am
Rosary
Mass
Saturday
Jan 17
St. Helena
4pm
4:30pm
Reconciliation
Mass
Sunday
Jan 18
St. Helena
St. Mary’s
8am
9:30am
4pm
Mass
Mass
Free
Community Dinner
Prayer Chain
For an intention, a prayer, or to become a member,
please call Margaret Battis at 632-5249 or send an email
via the parish website link: www.sthstm.org
Never underestimate the power of
PRAYER!
A La Salette Reflection on the Sunday Readings
Acceptable
(Isaiah 55:1-11; Acts 10:34-38; Mark
1:7-11)
St. Peter says to Cornelius, “In every
nation whoever fears God and acts
uprightly is acceptable to him.” This
seems hardly a lavish endorsement.
Imagine telling your acquaintances
that they are “acceptable”!
For St. Peter, however, being acceptable to God
is a wonderful thing. It is very nearly the same as
saying that God is “pleased,” with us, as he is
with the Suffering Servant in Isaiah. That idea is
expanded in today’s Gospel, to include also the
notion of “beloved.”
The opposite of “acceptable” is “unacceptable.”
At La Salette Mary came to say that her People’s
attitude and behavior were unacceptable to her
Son—inconsistent, incompatible and incongruous
with the baptism they had received.
Unacceptable as we may be, we nevertheless
remain beloved, for God is love and cannot not
love. All the more reason, then, for us to want to
please him.
All Are Welcome
Jonathan Edwards, a preacher in colonial New
England, gave a famous sermon in 1741 which
bears the title, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God.” For many decades after the Apparition of
La Salette, Mary’s message was usually interpreted in that very spirit. In fact, as I have had
occasion to note before, the first Memorare to
Our Lady of La Salette refers to the pains she
has taken to “shield me from the justice of God.”
No matter what your personal history, age, background, or
race… no matter what your present status in the Catholic
Church... no matter what your current family or marital
situation... no matter what your own self-image is, you are
invited, welcomed, accepted, loved and respected here at:
St. Peter’s comment about “whoever fears God”
must not be taken in that light. “Fear of the Lord,”
a Gift of the Spirit, has nothing to do with dread,
but with deep, abiding respect for all that pertains
to God (his Name, his Day, etc.)
St. Helena ~ St. Mary’s Parish
We can try to please others for two reasons:
1) we stand to gain by it, or 2) we do so simply
out of love. It’s a little like “imperfect and perfect
contrition” (Catechism of the Catholic Church,
nos. 1451-1453 and 1492). Both are good, but
one it so much better than the other.
Wills & Bequests have been very helpful to St.
Helena’s Parish over the years, and we hope
they will continue to assist the parish in its
good work in the present and in the future.
Knights of Columbus Council 8027
Meetings are held the 2nd Thursday of
every month at 7pm in the parish hall at St.
Helena. If you would like to join or reL
ceive information please contact:
Grand Knight, Norman Lessard 543-3617
There is no question about how Mary wishes us
to please God. She knows we are his beloved
children. Responding to that love would make us
so much more than acceptable.
Tel: 603-632-7087
LA SALETTE SHRINE
MASS AT LA SALETTE
6:30 on Saturday.
Confessions 45 minutes before weekend Mass
or by appointment
Fax.: 603-632-7648
GIFT SHOP
WINTER HOURS
Wed.-Sun: Open Noon to 4,
Mon.-Tues.: Closed
CHRISTMAS NATIVITIES EXHIBIT
Open by appointment
CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP
Second and Fourth Tuesdays
BIBLE STUDY
Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.
Call Fr. Joe Ross, 603-632-7087
for further details.
For information, call 603-632-5069
Daily Prayer This Week
First Week of Ordinary Time
In this first week of Ordinary Time, we might find ourselves feeling a little let-down after the Christmas season, especially in parts of the world where it seems cold
and dark most days. This is where we can ask for the
grace to let the stories of the gospels come alive in our
hearts.
The stories from Mark's gospel offer a vivid look into the
life of Jesus and his followers on such a human level.
Many are stories of healing and the week begins and
ends with invitations from Jesus to us and to his disciples. Jesus invites, “Come after me.” To the tax collector
Levi he beckons, “Follow me.”
The invitation to healing we are offered can be a part of
our own reflection as we begin a new year and want to
somehow “fix” what is broken in us. The healing happens if we allow Jesus into our hearts and lives.
As we look at our lives we may find a loneliness or separation from people in our family or others. We have parts
of our lives that are dark and seem unchangeable. It is
into this very darkness and discomfort that Jesus is
moved with pity for us, stretches out his healing hand to
us and says, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
We can hear the summons to follow him as a clear and
personal call from Jesus, the one who already knows us
and our failings and yet asks us to be with him. We can
hear this invitation more clearly if we can be touched
with awareness of our own failings and understand more
deeply how much we need a savior in our lives. It is then
that our hearts are open to accept this invitation.
We can pray to Jesus this week for the strength to be
healed of the patterns and habits of our lives that so often
turn us away from him and ask for the grace to make a
new beginning in our lives.
Sunday is the The Baptism of the Lord. We hear the
Lord say in the first reading from Isaiah, "Here is my
servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am
pleased, upon whom I have put my spirit." Those words
are echoed in the reading from Mark's Gospel, “You are
my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” This feast
marks the end of the Christmas season and the beginning
of Ordinary Time on the Church calendar.
Saturday is the Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot.
During this first week in Ordinary Time, we begin a four
week cycle of weekday readings from the Letter to the
Hebrews. This is the longest letter to any community in
the New Testament.
For the next six weeks, until the beginning of Lent, the
weekday gospels are from Mark's Gospel. This week
Mark offers us a look at the beginning of Jesus' public
ministry.
Monday he calls his first disciples: Simon and Andrew,
John and James. He drives out evil spirits and heals Peter's mother-in-law.
When he slips away to pray and the crowd follows, he
returns to preaching: “For this purpose have I come.”
Moved with pity, he heals a leper who told so many people about his healing that “it was impossible for Jesus to
enter a town openly.”
When a paralytic was lowered down through a roof for
healing, Jesus forgives sins to the skepticism of the
scribes.
The week ends as Jesus extends an invitation to the despised tax collector, Levi/Matthew “Follow me.”
Both items used with permission from the "Weekly Guide for Daily
Prayer," Creighton University's Online Ministries web site:
Offertory: $ 1536.00
Holy Day: $ 286.00
Parish Fuel: $ 962.00
If you would like a Mass celebrated for someone,
living or deceased, please contact the rectory or
pick up a request envelope at the entrances of the
parish churches.
Mass Intentions
January 17/18 Diocesan Seminarian Fund
4:30pm, Saturday, January 10, 2015
For grace and healing Agnes McGuire
Requested by: her husband Edward
The Finance Committee wishes to thank you for
your support in helping to meet the expenses of
our Parish.
Masses Next Week
4:30pm, Saturday January 17, 2015 Jessie Mendoza
January 10-16
AllanCampbell,JohnDaley,
SharonDemers,EvanMitnaul,
StephenRugg,andWyattAllen.
Please contact the rectory if you have not seen your
birthday or anniversary posted.
Knights of Columbus
Council 8027
Did you get a new cell phone for
Christmas?
The K of C are collecting old cell
phones and chargers. Please consider
donating your used phone. There are
boxes located on the table at the entrance to the Church.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
CLOW: Children's Liturgy of
the Word, at the 9:30 Mass at St.
Mary’s for children ages
3-kindergarten.
CCD: Children in grades 1-12, January 11th following the 9:30 Mass.
Catholic Coffee Hour: Sunday January 11th following the 9:30 Mass.
RCIA:Rite of Catholic Initiation of Adults will
have their next class on January 21st at 6:30pm at
Sacred Heart.
Communion for the sick and Shut-ins
Please contact any of the following Eucharistic Ministers, so they may set up a time to bring the Holy
Eucharist to the sick, homebound and shut-ins.
Marguerite Conley ~ 523-7013,
Rose Daudelin ~ 523-4859
Julie Plourde ~ 523-9647.
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