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St.Brigid Parish

Saturday, July 3, 2010

      4:00 PM     Mary and Wilfred Ostiguy and Family

Sunday, July 4, 2010

     8:00 AM     Holy Mass

    10:30 AM    Helen Romikitis, John Romikitis, Sr.,

                        John Romikitis, Jr. and John Romikitis III

      6:00 PM     Holy Mass

Monday, July 5, 2010

     8:00 AM     Holy Mass

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

     7:00 AM     John J. and Mary T. O’Connor

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

     7:00 AM     Bartholomew, Catherine, Lillian and

                        William Powers

Thursday, July 8, 2010

     7:00AM      Deceased Sisters of Charity of Nazareth

Friday, July 9, 2010

     7:00 AM     Patrick J. Madden, Anniversary

Saturday, July 10, 2010

     4:00 PM      Irene Malone, 31st Anniversary

Sunday, July 11, 2010

     8:00 AM     Holy Mass

    10:30 AM    Frank H. Bolstad

      6:00 PM     Lawrence W. Holt, 5th Anniversary

Please keep in your prayers all our parishioners who are ill, in a nursing home, or hospital.  If you would like the parishioners to pray for someone in particular who is ill or away in our armed services - please call the parish office and we will mention them in this area of the bulletin.

Please remember in your prayers all our parishioners who are sick, in the hospital or in a nursing home, especially Karen Read and Clement “Rocky” Kearns.

The Rite of Christian Burial was celebrated this week for Gerard Galvin.  Please remember him in your prayers.

Please pray for all those serving in our armed forces at home and abroad especially Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Conroy. 

INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY

The Parish Office will be closed on Monday, July 5th for the Holiday.  We will re-open on Tuesday, July 6 at 9:00am.

 

CHANGE OF MASS TIME ON MONDAY, JULY 5

Because of the Holiday, the mass at St. Brigid Church on Monday, July 5th will be held at 8:00 a.m.

 

 

St. Brigid Parish Support

Weekly Offertory:  Our Parish Support in our Offertory Collection this past weekend was $3,335.  Thank you for your continued support.

St. Brigid Parish Restoration Fund:   Please consider a gift to this most important Fund for our Parish’s Restoration.  Memorials in memory of a loved one who has died are also encouraged and welcomed.

Please prepare for your child’s Baptism by calling the Parish Office.  The next available date for Baptisms will be Sunday, July 11th at 1:00 p.m. in the Upper Church of St. Brigid Parish.  The preparation meeting for the parents will be held on Friday, July 9th at 7:00 p.m. also in the Upper Church at St. Brigid.

 

MIRAMAR RETREAT CENTER:

THE 7th ANNUAL SOME ENCHANTED EVENING

The evening will be held on July 31st at 5:00pm at Miramar Retreat Center, 121 Parks St., Duxbury.  Enjoy a social hour, gourmet dinner, silent and live auctions, and live entertainment.  Bring your family and friends.  Proceeds benefit the Miramar Capital Fund.  Tickets are $100.00 per person.  To make reservations, place an ad in the Program Book, make a donation, or donate an item for the auction, call Miramar (781-585-2460).  Publication deadline for ads and donations is July 25th.  Tickets are limited; reserve yours before July 25th.

 

FLOWER DONATIONS FOR ST. BRIGID ALTAR

Please remember that you may donate Altar Flowers in memory of your loved ones to adorn the altar at St. Brigid Church.  Please call the secretary at the Parish Office.

 

MUSIC WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM 6PM

MASS DURING SUMMER

There will be no music at the 6:00pm Mass for the summer.  Music will resume after Labor Day.

 

TUESDAY NIGHT PARISH BIBLE STUDY

Our weekly Scripture reflection group at St. Brigid will resume our meetings on Tuesday, July 6.

 

WELCOME TO SAINT BRIGID PARISH

A special warm welcome to Andrew Philip Blanchette, John James Dudley Bulger, Nolan Christopher Burns, Amara Jolie Ceurvels, Sean Patrick O’Keefe, Isabella Marie Ryan, Katherine Rose Santos, Selina Margaret Sheppeck, Colton Cole Wojdag, Ciara Elizabeth Dalessio, Clifford Jack Swain and Anna Doris Noonan, who by virtue of their Baptism last month were initiated into our Faith Community.  We promise our prayers and support.

 


Welcome to Fr. Michael Banks, OFM Cap.

Part-time Priest for our Parishes

We welcome Fr. Michael Banks, a Capuchin Franciscan that will be assisting in our parishes a couple of days a week beginning next week.

Fr. Michael is the former Provincial of the New York/New England Province of the Capuchin Friars.  He has been assisting at St. Ann’s Parish in Dorchester this past year.  Next year he has offered to share duties between St. Ann’s and St. Brigid and Gate of Heaven Parishes.  He will be with us a few days a week, and one or two Masses on the weekend.  We thank Fr. Michael for his service and will be able to welcome him the week of July 5th.  The following is a message from Fr. Michael:  

As the new priest helping out this year, your pastor, Fr. Casey, has asked me to write a brief introduction.  My name is Fr. Michael Banks, OFM Cap., a Capuchin Franciscan priest of the New York/New England Province of St. Mary, stationed at San Lorenzo Friary in Jamaica Plain, the former convent of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.

I was born in 1945 and raised in St. Ann Parish, Dorchester.  My parents, Vincent and Mary (Elwood) both grew up and were married in 1938 at St. Brigid’s.  My father’s parents were married in Gate of Heaven Church.

I was ordained in 1984 and have spent my whole priesthood serving in parishes in New York, as well as in administrative positions in our Province.  San Lorenzo Friary is our house of formation for our students studying for the priesthood at the Boston College School of Theology & Ministry.

In addition to helping out at St. Brigid and Gate of Heaven, I assist at St. Ann’s.  I consider it a real blessing to have the opportunity to minister at the parishes that are so important a part of my family’s history!

 

Two New Auxiliary Bishops for Boston

Congratulations to Bishop-Elect Kennedy and Bishop–Elect Uglietto who were named this week by Pope Benedict to be Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Boston.   Fr. Arthur Kennedy is currently the Rector of St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, and Fr. Peter Uglietto is currently the Rector of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston.

Congratulations to our two new Bishops – and we pledge our prayers and support.       

 

Happy 4th of July Weekend!!!

YEARLY MISSIONARY VISIT

SECOND COLLECTION THIS WEEKEND

FOR P.I.M.E. MISSIONARIES

Will be taken after communion

Each year, every parish in the Archdiocese of Boston welcomes a Missionary in order to help support the missionary activity around the world.  This year we welcome this weekend Fr. Ghezzi form PIME Missionaries. 

PIME (the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) is a Missionary Institute of priests and brothers who dedicate their lives to the mission among non-Christians on the five continents.  Founded in Italy in 1850, PIME opened its North America Region Headquarters in Detroit in 1947.  Mission awareness is promoted and financial assistance for missions in developing countries is provided. 

Reverend Giancarlo Ghezzi, PME, will be here this weekend to talk to us about his work as a PIME Missionary.  Please welcome him and be as generous as you can.

There are envelopes at the doors of the Churches this weekend for the special second collection that will be taken up after communion today.

 

SOUTH BOSTON CATHOLIC ACADEMY

“SCHOOL NEWS”

Faith, Family Spirit & Academic Excellence

www.SBCatholicAcademy.org

We pray that our students, their families, faculty and parishioners have a safe and restful summer.  South Boston Catholic Academy will be taking ongoing registrations during the summer.  You may call the school or visit the website at www.sbcatholicacademy.org to download a registration form.

 

UNDERSTANDING THE MASS

Gathering as a Community

When we enter the church building for the celebration of Mass, one of the first things we encounter is a holy water font.  This water has been blessed by a priest or deacon, just as the water was blessed at our baptism.  When we dip our finger into the font and bless ourselves with the water and the sign of the cross, this gesture is meant to remind us of the sacrament of baptism.  It was through baptism that we first became members of the Church, sons and daughters of God, and had our place in a pew – but not before genuflecting to the Blessed Sacrament!  We genuflect by lowering our right knee until it touches the floor.  This is a sign of reverence for the presence of Christ in the consecrated hosts in the tabernacle.  If the tabernacle is in the center of the church, we should genuflect in that direction; if it is located to the side, we should direct our genuflection to the side.  In some churches, the tabernacle is not kept in the main building but in a side chapel.  If that is the case, then instead of genuflecting, we would make a profound bow toward the altar.  We also bow instead of genuflecting when the tabernacle is empty, as on Holy Thursday or Good Friday.

 

 


Gate of Heaven Parish Support

Weekly Offertory:  Our Parish Support in our Offertory Collection this past weekend was $4,127.  Thank you for your continued support.

Gate of Heaven Parish Restoration Fund: Please consider a gift to this most important Fund for our Parish’s Restoration.  Memorials in memory of a loved one who has died are also encouraged and welcomed.

 

            

Please prepare for your child’s Baptism by calling the Parish Office.  The next available date for Baptisms will be Sunday, July 18th at 1:00 p.m. in the Upper Church at Gate of Heaven.  The preparation meeting for the parents will be held on Friday, July 9th at 7:00 p.m. in the Upper Church at St. Brigid.

FLOWER DONATIONS FOR

GATE OF HEAVEN ALTAR

Please remember that you may donate Altar Flowers in memory of your loved ones to adorn the altar at Gate of Heaven Church.  Please call the secretary at the Parish Office.

 

CONFESSION AT GATE OF HEAVEN CHURCH

Confessions will be heard every Saturday between 3:30 – 3:50.  Please see the priest in the Sacristy.

 

WELCOME TO GATE OF HEAVEN PARISH

A special warm welcome to Francis John Anderson, David Michael Parsons, Matthew Robert Parsons, Nicholas Atticus Sherburne, Ella Kathryn Cedrone, Vienna Anna Rose Noble, Finian Hayes Barrett, Graeme Coughter Barrett, who by virtue of their Baptism last month were initiated into our Faith Community.  We promise our prayers and support.

 

SAINT BRIGID AND GATE OF HEAVEN

MARRIAGE BANNS

I.                    Michael Haapaoja – Christina Marchand

I.          Eric Perschke and Alyson McGonagle

II.                 Michael Mulvaney – Erin Casey

II.         James Deady – Megan O’Toole

III.               John Noble – Kaitlin McColgan

 

Saturday Morning Mass Suspended for Summer

Please note: There are no Saturday morning masses at either Church during the summer months.  Saturday morning mass will begin again in September.  Thanks for your understanding. 

 

 

Gate of Heaven Parish

Saturday, July 3, 2010

    4:00 PM       Arline and George Cooper

Sunday, July 4, 2010

     9:00 AM     Jack Gearin

    12:00 PM     Ann Marie Conley, 3rd Anniversary

Monday, July 5, 2010

      9:00 AM    Hank and Agnes Frieburger Family

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

      9:00AM     Robert J. Burns

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

      9:00AM     Walsh Family

Thursday, July 8, 2010

     9:00 AM     Holy Mass

Friday, July 9, 2010

     9:00 AM     Holy Mass

Saturday, July 10, 2010

     4:00 PM      Robert O. Burns, 4th Anniversary

Sunday, July 11, 2010

     9:00 AM     Benedetta LoGrasso, Month’s Mind

    12Noon       Josephine Kane

Please keep in your prayers all our parishioners who are ill, in a nursing home, or hospital.  If you would like the parishioners to pray for someone in particular who is ill or away in our armed services - please call the parish office and we will mention them in this area of the bulletin.

The Rite of Christian Burial was celebrated this week for Gerard Galvin.  Please remember him in your prayers.

Please remember in your prayers all our parishioners who are sick, in the hospital or in a nursing home, especially Karen Read and Clement “Rocky” Kearns.  

Please pray for all those serving in our armed forces at home and abroad especially Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Conroy.

The Holy Rosary

Every Tuesday Evening at 6:30PM

at Gate of Heaven Lower Church.

Join us each Tuesday evening at 6:30PM for the praying of the Rosary.  This will take place at Gate of Heaven Lower Church. All are invited to pray this special devotion to Mary, while her intercession for the special intentions that each of us has, will be heard.

 

PARISH OFFICE SUMMER HOURS

The Parish Office has begun summer hours.  The Office will be open:

Monday through Wednesday from 9am to 5pm

Thursday and Friday from 9am to 3pm.

 


 

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