North American Martyrs Church June 20, 2021 | Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Schedule Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 7 a.m.| Saturday 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (Vigil) | Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

PASTOR OFFICE STAFF Rev. Frederick D. Fraini, III Susan Zammarelli, Secretary Lisa Burkitt, Religious Ed. Director & Safety Environment Coordinator

BAPTISMS: Contact the parish office to learn about our Call to Celebrate: Baptism Program.

MARRIAGE: Contact the parish office at least 1 year in advance of the wedding date to make arrangements.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: If you have family members who are ill, anticipating surgery or weakened because of prolonged illness or advanced age, contact the parish office for assistance.

CONFESSIONS: Saturday 3 - 3:45PM or by appointment in the church.

COMMUNION CALLS: Parishioners who are sick or disabled may call the parish office to arrange for the Holy Eucharist to be brought to them at home.

Rectory Office Hours Tuesday & Wednesday 12:30 p.m. -4:30 p.m. | Thursday 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

8 Wyoma Dr. Auburn, MA 01501 | 508-798-8779 | www.namartyrsauburn.org MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, June 19th 8:00a.m. Richard Rowe by David Dumais 4:30p.m. Robert Letourneau Twenty First Anniversary by His Wife and Family Sunday, June 20th 8:30a.m. Deceased Member of the Falvey and Fraini Children Entering the First Grade: If you have a child Families that will be entering the 1st grade in the Fall of 2021 10:30a.m. Antoinette O'Leary by Daughters: Charleen, please contact the Religious Education Office to begin Kathleen, Maureen, and Eileen. receiving emails regarding registration for the Fall. Monday, June 21st Make-Up program for those that missed 2020-2021: If 7:00am Father Robert Bruso by Father Fraini your child(ren) did not attend religious education in Tuesday, June 22nd 2020-2021 and you would like to re-enroll them for 7:00am John Sullo by Lisa Burkitt the Fall of 2021 please contact the Religious Wednesday, June 23rd Education Office by June 27th. A program will be 7:00am Barbara Paine by Bill Sipos provided over the summer to catch children up so they Friday, June 25th may join with their grade in the Fall! 7:00am Anthony P. Genatossio, 13th Anniversary, by His You may email reach Lisa by email: Family [email protected] Saturday, June 26th 8:00am Pro Populo JOIN 4:30pm Robert Paulsen, 3rd Anniversary, by His Family NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS Sunday, June 27th 8:30am Ron and Pauline Robertson, by Their Family Welcome! If you are new to our 10:30am Souls in Purgatory parish and would like to join, just scan the code and register online. We look forward to meeting you!

COLLECTIONS: WEEK END 6 /13 Sunday Collection $ 4,074.00 Hall Rental $ 160.00 Pauline Andrade, Kathryn Arsenault, Let us pray for: Peter's Pence, Catholic Campaign, Fuel $ 182.00 Janie Bouges, Michele Burke-Pellegrini, Louie Costagna, Dean Michael Collins, Shirley Connor, Christine Cote, Monthly Renovatoions $ 913.00 Gail Craig, Patricia Darrah, Jacob DeCarolis, Kevin Bulletin Ads, Mass Intentions $ 255.00 Dobson, Elaine Doherty, Jerry Fisher, Raymond Fluet, Online Donations $ 702.64 Joan Fouhy, Bob Fuller, Victoria Garcia, Henry Gemme, Total $ 6,286.64 Suzanne Gird, Lori Girouard, Ed Handlin, Mary Hannon, Elijah Johnson, Kim Johnson, Margaret Kehoe, Maureen Thank you for your continued generosity and Jones, Edward LaConto, Jean LaConto, Donna and Michel Langevin, Ralph Lanigan, Alice Leduc, Joyce Lessard, support. Peter Letourneau, Richard Levansavich, Sr., Frankie Marron, Michael McGrail, Max Mullen, Michael O’Connell, Mary Lou Paulli, Peggy Patenaude, John Power, Theresa Power, Anthony Real, Edward J. Rutkowski, Raymond Scanlon, Kathy Stasiatis, Scott Staruk, David Tatro, Bonnie Turner, Lucille Zammarelli. For all the men and women serving in our country’s military. For all the diocesan seminarians. If you want to have a name added or removed from the prayer list, please email [email protected], visit https://namartyrsauburn.org/prayer to enter the names online or call the rectory office.

Safe Environment Notice: Our parish follows the guidelines of the national charter for the protection of children & young people approved by the US Bishops & Diocese of Worcester policies. If you have been abused or victimized by someone representing the Catholic Church, please believe in the possibility for hope and help and healing. Contact Judith Audette, L.I.C.S.W., Victim Services Coordinator. A report can be made by phone to 508-929-4363 (a 24 hour confidential voicemail is available.) Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, “Behold this Heart, which has so loved men, as that it has spared nothing, even to the exhausting and wearing itself out, in order to show them its love; and instead of acknowledgment I receive, from the greater number, nothing but ingratitude, by their irreverences and sacrileges, and by the coldness and contempt wherewith they treat Me, in this Sacrament of love. But what I feel most deeply is, that they are hearts consecrated to Me, which thus treat Me. It is on this account, that I make this demand of thee: that the first Friday after the octave of the blessed Sacrament be devoted to a special feast in honor of My Heart; that thou wilt go to Communion on that day; and give it a reparation of honor by an act of amendment, to repair the insults it has received during the time of its being exposed on the altar. I promise thee, also, that My Heart will dilate itself, that it may pour forth, with abundance, the influences of its divine love upon those who shall thus honor it and shall do their best to have such honor paid to it.” These words, addressed to St. , express exquisitely the Love that Christ holds in His Heart for the entire human race. “For God so loved the world,” says the Gospel of John, “that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). We do not hear much from the Sacred Scriptures about the Heart of Jesus except in passing, but devotion to the has been present in the Church for a very long time. Christ revealed himself to St. Gertrude and St. , speaking of the Sacred Heart, but the most famous apostle of the Sacred Heart is St. Margaret Mary. After the saint’s death in 1690, Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical letter Annum Sacrum, issued in 1899, declared the month of June to be dedicated to the Sacred Heart. He also established the feast of the Sacred Heart to be in early June, following soon after the feast of Corpus Christi, according to the request of Christ. “Behold this Heart, which has so loved men!” Friends, we can never know completely the love of Christ for us— it is an infinite ocean of mercy. In the gospel for the feast day (John 19:31-37), St. Jerome translates the Greek word nysso with the Latin aperio (to open). In commenting upon this word usage, St. Augustine, a contemporary of St. Jerome, says that the gospel, “made use of a word which has a special import when he said, ‘the soldier opened Jesus’ side with a spear.’ He did not say struck the side, or wounded the side, or anything else like that; but he said, ‘he opened Jesus’ side.’ He opened it; for that side was like the door of life; and when it was opened, the Sacraments (the Mysteries) of the Church came through it...” This infinite ocean poured out of His open side and onto the Church, which has been washed in the blood of the lamb. The particular virtue offered to us for our consideration by this month, then, is true sacrificial love—the sort of love which is a denial of self and a complete embrace of the other. Jesus poured himself out for us by His sacrifice on the Cross, dying so that others might live. Perhaps we are not called to die physically for Jesus, but all of us can imitate the love of Christ in small ways, and perhaps we already do. The best way to do this is to offer all the sufferings, great or small, of our day to the Heart of Jesus as a bouquet of flowers by which we offer him some small comfort to His suffering. His heart aches for those souls who He “has wished to gather in his arms…but [they] would not!” (Mt. 23:37) Jesus wishes for nothing more than to embrace us in his arms, to adorn us with graces and Love, and to live forever in heaven with us. Do we desire it as well? To admit that we do desire it is an act of humility; it is to admit that we are not the person in control of our lives— that we are not the “number one” in our own lives—that we cannot define our own identity as tyrants—but, perhaps most important, that Christ saw fit to die for us as we are. Pride in any form is absolutely incompatible with Christ’s salvific work; we cannot conform Christ’s message to our own expectations and agendas, but we must surrender these to His loving mercy. We do not have to “earn” salvation or somehow do something of ourselves to make ourselves worthy of salvation. Salvation is a free gift, given to us on no other conditions than that we deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow him.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on Us! —Jakob Pohlman, Seminarian

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