Gate of Heaven Parish Rev. Matthew Schultz, Administrator Johnson, Deacon Main Office Rectory Office Staff ALL RECTORY KATHI MARSHALL 163 Main St. ❖ Lancaster, NH 03584 Administrative Asst./Cemetery Administrator FR. SCHULTZ/RECTORY/EMERGENCY WEBSITE: www.gateofheavennh.org SANDRA DOOLAN 603-788-5553 Secretary/Receptionist/Sacramental Records FR. SCHULTZ E-MAIL: [email protected] PARISH OFFICE SUSAN TIBBETTS 603-788-2083 E-MAIL: [email protected] Faith Formation Coordinator/ RCIA Facilitator

The Catholic Communities of ALL SAINTS CHURCH ST. AGNES CHURCH ST. MATTHEW CHURCH ST. PATRICK CHURCH OUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS 163 Main Street 769 Presidential Hgwy 9 Jefferson Road 65 St. Patrick Church Rd 2470 Route 302 East Lancaster, NH 03584 Jefferson, NH 03583 Whitefield, NH 03598 Twin Mountain, NH 03595 Bretton Woods, NH 03595 Daily Mass Summer Weekend Masses MONDAY — 8:30 A.M. All Saints Church Winter Weekend Masses (Memorial Day Weekend through Columbus Day THURSDAY — 7:00 A.M. All Saints Church (Columbus Day to Memorial Day Weekend) SATURDAY TUESDAY & FRIDAY SATURDAY 4:00 P.M. St. Matthew Church 7:00 A.M. St. Matthew Church 4:00 P.M. St. Matthew Church SUNDAY SATURDAY (Spring & Summer) SUNDAY 7:00 A.M. St. Patrick Church 9:00 A.M. Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine 8:00 A.M. St. Matthew Church 8:30 A.M. St. Agnes Church SATURDAY (Late fall & winter) 10:30 A.M. All Saints Church 10:30 A.M. All Saints Church 9:00 A.M. All Saints Church 5:00 P.M. All Saints Church Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. Romans 15: 7 WELCOME TO GATE OF HEAVEN PARISH To every traveler who comes through our towns and stops to visit in one of our churches we say, “Welcome, friend, come and worship with us.” You can join us at All Saints Church, Agnes Church, Saint Matthew Church, Church or Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine. We are all one family, and you are welcome at our table. If you plan to move on, we pray you safe travel. If you plan to stay, we hope you find peace and fulfillment. Regardless of your situation, we thank you for stopping in to join our hearts with ours as we pray in our Father’s House! PARISH MINISTRY PERSONNEL SACRAMENTS Faith Formation Coordinator Reconciliation/Confession Susan Tibbetts 802-892-6170 Saturdays 2:45 p.m. — 3:45 p.m. St. Matthew Church Youth Ministry Coordinators Mondays 7:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m. All Saints Church Daphne Cassady 802-892-6170 Half hour before daily Mass Jeannine LaBounty 603-991-9213 For a personal appointment please call the rectory. Finance Council Chair Baptism/Marriage Tyler Rancourt 603-244-6616 Please call the rectory to make arrangements. (For weddings, Pastoral Council Chair please call six months in advance of your planned wedding date.) Bob Rutherford 603-846-9896 Communion/Anointing the Sick The Tabernacle Society Due to privacy laws priests must be asked by the family mem- Sandra Doolan, President 603-788-3315 bers to visit parishioners in the hospital or nursing home. Please Catholic Women’s Group advise us of those in need of the Church’s ministry, whether Carrie Morrill, President 603-869-3172 they are homebound or have been hospitalized. We are happy Men of Saint to bring the Eucharist to those who cannot get out to attend Kurt Hall (Tuesday P.M Group) 603-631-4075 Mass. And if someone is ill or declining in health, the pastor is Knights of Columbus happy to come to their home, anoint them and bring them Mark Frank, Grand Knight 603-788-4825 Holy Communion. Please call the rectory, and we will make the arrangements for you. RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for adults) Susan Tibbetts, Facilitator 802-892-6170 Cemetery Arrangements Boy Scouts Gate of Heaven Parish has four cemeteries—Calvary Kenneth King, Scout Master 603-636-5150 Cemetery, Water Street Cemetery, St. Matthew Cemetery and St. Cub Scouts Margaret Cemetery. You are always welcome to make arrange- Bill Rutherford, Cubmaster 603-837-9895 ments for your eventual burial in one of these cemeteries, as three of the four have sites to lease. Please call the rectory in Parish Bookstore/Gift Shop Ruby Berryman, Manager 603-631-3608 order to ask about end-of-life preparations. Calvary Cemetery Rectory Office (788-2083) John Brooks, Sexton 603-788-4030 Monday & Tuesday 9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew & St. Margaret Cemeteries Thursday 9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. Don Doolan, Sexton 603-788-3315 Closed Wednesday and Friday.

Parish Bulletin If you, or someone you know, is homebound, please call the rectory and let us know. We’d love to send them the weekly bulletin so they can keep up with the goings-on in the parish. Also, if you are a snowbird, and head south or west for the winter, we can also get the bulletin to your winter address. That way you always know what’s going on here at home!

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7th Sunday of Easter June 2, 2019

This Weekend SATURDAY, JUNE 1 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew 7th Sunday of Easter  Raymond Grimard by the Pauline Belanger Chapman family SUNDAY, JUNE 2 7:00 a.m. St. Patrick 7th Sunday of Easter  Bernadette Sudol by the members of the Cenacle of St. Monica 8:30 a.m. St. Agnes 7th Sunday of Easter  Roger Daigle by Allen & Lana (Masters) Snowden 10:30 a.m. All Saints 7th Sunday of Easter  Ann Araneo by Kathi Marshall

MONDAY, JUNE 3 8:30 a.m. All Saints St. Charles Lwanga and  Charles Merrill MacKinnon companions, martyrs by Walter J. Barden TUESDAY, JUNE 4 7:00 a.m. St. Matthew Feria  Delores Faye Marelli by Jeff & Ree Feller WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 7:00 a.m. St. Boniface, bishop & martyr NO MASS THURSDAY, JUNE 6 7:00 a.m. All Saints St. Norbert, bishop  Marilyn Foster by the estate FRIDAY, JUNE 7 7:00 a.m. St. Matthew Feria  Herbert McGee by a parishioner SATURDAY, JUNE 8 9:00 a.m. OLM Shrine Feria For the intentions of the Blessed Mother Pentecost

SATURDAY, JUNE 8 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew Pentecost  Janet Halpin Dube by Sonny & Pat Manning SUNDAY, JUNE 9 7:00 a.m. St. Patrick Pentecost  Gate of Heaven parishioners 8:30 a.m. St. Agnes Pentecost  Vincent A. and Delores Marelli by Jeff & Ree Feller 10:30 a.m. All Saints Pentecost  Roger & Berthe Choquette by their family

Your Weekly Offering Daily Readings Weekend of May 18-19, 2019 June 3, 2019 — June 9, 2019 OFFERTORY: $ MONDAY: Acts 19: 1-8 / John 16: 29-33 E-GIVE: $ TUESDAY: Acts 20: 17-27 / John 17: 1-11a $ WEDNESDAY: Acts 20: 28-38 / John 17: 11b-19 May the good Lord reward you for your generosity! THURSDAY: Acts 22: 30; 23: 6-11 / John 17: 20-26 (There is no second collection next weekend, June 8-9.) FRIDAY: Acts 25: 13b-21 / John 21: 20-25 SATURDAY: Acts 28: 16-20, 30-31 / John 21: 20-25 Due to the recent holiday weekend, the bulletin had to go to print early this week. Figures for the offertory collection will be SUNDAY: Acts 2: 1-11 / recorded here next week. Thanks for 1 Corinthians 12: 3b-7, 12-13 / your understanding! John 20: 19-23 Candidates for On Wednesday, May 22, Bishop Peter Libasci came to Gate of Heaven Parish to confirm the following young people. Concelebrating with the bishop were Fr. Schultz, Fr. Dan Deveau from St. Marguerite D’Youville Parish in Groveton, Fr. Craig Cheney from American Martyrs Parish in Colebrook, Fr. Kyle Stanton from Good Shep- herd Parish in Berlin and Fr. Matthew Mason. It was the largest group this parish ever had. Below are listed the candidates and their chosen saint’s name.

Everett Beaulieu — St. Robert Southworth — St. Jo’zef Sebastian Pelczar John Angus Steele, V — St. Francis Cardenas — St. John Paul II Leigha Beaulieu — St. Agnes Carissa Challinor — St. Faustina Olivia Forest — St. Angela of the Cross Maddison Crane — St. Augustine Rancourt — St. Patrick Sukeshini Dugan-Henriksen — St. Catherine de Vigri Connor Snowman — St. Roch Gracie Ingerson — St. Veronica Temperance Steele — St. Therese Brody LaBounty — St. Alban Mackenzie Foss — St. Catherine Delaney Robinson — St. Katherine Drexel Alivia Kenison — St. Rose Venerini Southworth — St. Cooper Ladd — St. Gregory Aly Jeannette Hook — St. Therese Bailey Qualter — St. Sebastian Cora Vivian Daley — St. Bibiana Trinity Steele — St. Mary Cheyenne Elizabeth Cloutier — St. Elizabeth Sage Williams — St. Elizabeth Ella Elizabeth Gilbert — St. Elizabeth Chase Bishop — St. Andrew Brodyn Luc Cote — St. Isidore Landin Foss — St. John Paul II John Lucien Daley — St. John Preston Locke — St. Felix Alexis Kay Santamaria — St. Katherine Alyssa Nadeau — St. Padre Pio Vincent Carmine Santamaria — St. Vincent Natalie Rivet — St. Mikhail Benjamin Young — St. Andre Cecilia Steele — St. Anthony Ian Thompson — St. Francis of Assisi Morgan Forest — St. Maria Zavala Sienna Jewels Grondin — St. Jules (Julian) Isabele Nadeau — St. Teresa of Calcutta MacKenna Jasmine Cote — St. Catherine Noyes — St. Ralph Kaedyn Scott Covell — Kaedyn Akaylah Riley — St. Juliana Falconieri Jacqueline Rose Giroux — Mary Ciara Robinson — St. Patricia Tyler Young — St. Michael Ciera Challinor — St. Aliyah Barbara Jackowski — St. Clare Adrianna Dami — St. Calliope Sophie Pauline Grondin — St. Rachel Gavin Gardiner — St. Agatha Jacques Giroux — St. Joseph Hannah Gardiner — St. Teresa of Calcutta Luke Thibault — St. Arnold Peyton Qualter — St. Brayden Landry — St. Clare Scheduled Events Take care of your body SATURDAY, JUNE 1 as if you were going to live forever. 8:30 A.M. Confessions (Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine) And take care of your soul 2:45—3:45 P.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) as if you were going to die tomorrow. 7:00 P.M. Ultreya Meeting (All Saints church hall)

ST. AUGUSTINE SUNDAY, JUNE 2 11:30 A.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (All Saints church hall) 3:00 P.M. Ordination Celebration (Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine)

MONDAY, JUNE 3 6:00 P.M. Boy Scouts (All Saints church hall) Led by the Spirit Discernment Retreat . . . 9:00 A.M.—8:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church) For single men ages 18-50. Spend the weekend of 7:00 P.M.—8:00 P.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) June 7-9 with other men from the Diocese of TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Manchester who are discerning the Lord’s will for 6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) their lives. Fr. Matthew Mason and the vocations 7:00 P.M. K of C Officers’ Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) team will lead a retreat at the Barbara Harris 6:00 P.M. Men of St. Joseph Meeting (All Saints library) Retreat Center on the shores of beautiful Otter 6:00 P.M. Catholic Charities Meeting (All Saints church hall) Lake in Greenfield, NH. Take time to pray, to WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 learn, and to listen for the Lord’s will for your life. [Rectory Office Closed] The cost is only $50 and financial aid is available. 11:00 A.M.—5:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (St. Patrick Church) 5:30 P.M. Praying the (St. Leo’s Church, Lunenburg, VT) 6:00 P.M. Respect Life Committee Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) THURSDAY, JUNE 6 6:30 A.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) 1:00 P.M.—2:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church) 5:00 P.M. COMMUNITY DINNER (All Saints church hall) 7:00 P.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (St. Matthew rectory) 8:00 P.M. Alcoholics Anonymous (All Saints church hall) Fiat and Quo Vadis Days Camps . . . FRIDAY, JUNE 7 Do you know where your life is going? The Lord [Rectory Office Closed] 6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) Jesus has a great plan for you! High school age young men and women (ages 14-18) are invited to SATURDAY, JUNE 8 attend our upcoming vocation camps to look at 8:30 A.M. Confessions (Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine) the Lord’s call in your life while having lots of fun. 2:45—3:45 P.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) These are overnight camps held at Northeast Cath- SUNDAY, JUNE 9 olic College in Warner and led by priests, sisters 11:30 A.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (All Saints church hall) and seminarians of the diocese. The camps include MONDAY, JUNE 10 a full schedule of hiking, swimming, canoeing, 6:00 P.M. Boy Scouts (All Saints church hall) sports and games, daily Mass and prayer, and op- 9:00 A.M.—8:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church) portunities to grow in friendship with the Lord and 7:00 P.M.—8:00 P.M. Confessions (All Saints Church) with each other. The cost is only $50 and financial TUESDAY, JUNE 11 aid is available. For more information or to register 6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church) please visit liveinblackandwhite.com or contact 6:00 P.M. Men of St. Joseph Meeting (All Saints library) Becky Vinson in the Vocations Office at (603) 663 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 -0153 or [email protected]. Fiat Days for young [Rectory Office Closed] women will be July 8-11, and Quo Vadis Days for 11:00 A.M.—5:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (St. Patrick Church) young men will be August 5-9. 5:30 P.M. Praying the Rosary (St. Leo’s Church, Lunenburg, VT) Weekly Readings 7th Sunday of Easter, June 2, 2019 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Acts 7: 55-60 / Psalm 97: 1-2, 6-7, 9 / Revelation 22: 12-14, 16-17, 20 / John 17: 20-26 Waiting in confident prayer is a theme in today's readings. In this Sunday between the Solemnities of the Ascension and Pentecost, we emulate the first disciples as they hoped for Jesus’ promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In the First Reading, taken from the Acts of the Apostles, we hear Stephen pray, “Lord Jesus, receive my prayer.” Like Jesus, Stephen dies praying for forgiveness for his enemies. “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” The Second Reading contains the final words of the Bible. John, who was entrusted with these visions, ends with a confident prayer by which he calls out: “Come, Lord Jesus.” These words continue to echo as Christians pray with confidence the prayer the Lord taught us: “Thy Kindgom come.” On the eve of his death, Jesus prays with expectation for the unity of all his followers who are to come. He entrusts them, and we are included among them, to the care of his Father. The faith of future generations is transmitted through the witness of the lives of the disciples. The unity for which Jesus prays is a unity with each other but more especially a unity with the Trinity; “So that they may all be one, as you Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us.” The final hope of our confident prayer is to be united with one another in the happiness of our union with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 1.) How does Stephen’s prayer echo that of Jesus’ just before he died? 2.) What do these two images in the second reading refer to: “Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life? 3.) How has your life been enriched by the Spirit as you wait in confident prayer?

JESUS Across the Border . . . Respect Life Committee. . . JESUS Across the Border (in partnership with SHALOM) Our parish Respect Life Committee meets on the first is presenting a Young Adult Mass at St. Clement Eucharistic Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the rectory at St. Shrine, 1105 Boylston Street, Boston, Ma at 7:00 p.m. on Matthew in Whitefield. In June it will be Wednesday, June 5. Friday, June 14, 2019. From 7:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. there There is no obligation to join this ministry, but we pray you will be live contemporary Christian music at the Bebop Pub, might attend a meeting. Today the value of human life seems 1116 Boylston Street, Boston, MA featuring Higher Love, so precarious. Please join us as we explore the issue and seek Mike McDuffee and Here on Earth Worship. Contact us answers for life. for information at [email protected] or www.jesusacrosstheborder.org. You can also follow us Cenacle of St. Monica . . . on Facebook at jesusacrosstheborder. Please join us for prayer at the hour of mercy (3 p.m.) on Thursday, June 13. The Cenacle of St. Monica is a Sanctuary Candle prayer meeting to pray for those family and friends During the month of June the sanctu- who have fallen away from the church. The meeting is on ary candle in all Saints Church will the second and last Thursday of each month in the sacristy burn in loving memory of all de- at St. Matthew Church. All are welcome. ceased members of the Tabernacle Society as requested by the TABS. At St. Agnes Church the sanctuary can- dle will burn in loving memory of Daniel Stiles as requested by Don & Every man is guilty Sandra Doolan. of all the good he did not do.