AINT ETER THE POSTLE HURCH S P A C

Serving the People of Provincetown and North Truro 11 Prince St. • Provincetown, MA 02657 • tel. 508-487-0095 • fax 508-487-2564

E-MAIL: [email protected] • WEBSITE: WWW.STPETERS-PTOWN.ORG

ST. PETER’S LORD’S DAY MASSES SATURDAY 4:00 PM, SUNDAY 8:30 AM SUNDAY 8:30 AM & 10:00 AM JULY-LABOR DAY WEEKDAY MASSES TUESDAY AND THURSDAY 8:00 AM

OUR LADY OF LOURDES LORD’S DAY MASSES

SATURDAY 6:00 PM, SUNDAY 10:30 AM

SUNDAY 8:00 & 10:00 AM JULY-AUGUST

WEEKDAY MASSES MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY 9:00 AM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 3:15 - 3:45 pm or by appointment

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Sundays by appointment

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

Preparation should be made eight months in advance.

ROSARY: Saturday 3:30 pm

SACRAMENT OF THE SICK Call the Rectory at any time.

VISITATION OF THE SICK If you or a family member are housebound and would like to receive Communion, please call the Rectory.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY HELP LINE 508-487-0095 ext. 4

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Wednesday 9:30-4:30

PASTOR: Rev. Hugh McCullough PARISH SECRETARY: Cathy Henrique RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COORD.: Bethany Edwards ORGANIST: Mary Codinha CANTOR: Gerald Cassese SEXTON & CEMETERY MAINT.: Maurice Gonsalves

WELCOME! Please notify us if you are new to the area so that we may register you as a member of our parish family. ST. PETER THE APOSTLE CHURCH PROVINCETOWN/N. TRUR0

STROKE AWARENESS MONTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL According to the National Institute of Health, there are Feed the Hungry. Shelter the Homeless. more than 800,000 strokes each year in the U.S. A Visit the Sick. Comfort the Sorrowful. You stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain can practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, is partly interrupted or reduced (blood clot or brain and “See All the People” whose lives you are helping to hemorrhage), depriving the brain of oxygen and nutrients. transform, through your generous support of the 78th Within minutes brain cells begin to die. Some people Annual Catholic Charities Appeal. This year’s theme only experience a temporary disruption of blood flow to reminds us to bear witness to the tens of thousands who the brain (transient ischemic attack or TIA) that doesn’t benefit from the agencies and apostolates serving those cause permanent damage. Stroke is the 4th leading in need throughout our Diocese: from Mansfield, Easton cause of death in the U.S.; causing more serious long- and the Attleboro’s, through the Taunton, Fall River and term disabilities than any other disease. To identify if New Bedford areas, and extending all the way to Cape someone is experiencing a stroke Cod and the islands. Where there is great need, our THINK FAST: parish community can offer great hope. Please consider  FACE – By asking the person to smile, you can making your gift online by visiting tell immediately if one side of the face droops. www.givefrdiocese.org/cca19. You can also mail your  ARM – Ask the person to raise both arms. gift or, use one of the contribution cards located in Observe to see if one arm drifts lower than the church. Last year our total Catholic Charities was other. $18,385. We would like to increase that total this year,  SPEECH – Slurred speech is a symptom of a please be as generous as you can.

stroke. Ask the person to repeat a single sentence. WALK FOR HOPE Despite Cape Cod's beauty, living here can be a  TIME – Call 911 immediately. Time may be the challenge. With the cost of housing continuing to rise, difference between life and death or even a many struggle to remain in their homes. On Sunday, partial or full recovery. June 2, you can do something about Housing Assistance To learn more about the symptoms, causes, risk factors, at our Walk for Hope. Taking place in two locations — type of strokes, complications, prevention, medications, Falmouth and Hyannis. By walking, you will be and when to call/see the doctor. For more information supporting those most in need in our community. Thanks about strokes contact: mayoclinic.org/strokeawareness. to your help, Housing Assistance was able to prevent 412 clients from becoming homeless on Cape Cod last year. Questions? Please contact Deanna Bussiere, Event & Resource Development Coordinator at 508-771- Liturgical Roles 5400 ext. May 11 & 12 Lectors: LONGEST MARRIED COUPLE PROJECT Sat. 400pm Volunteer Sun. 830am Volunteer For the past eight years, Worldwide Marriage Eucharistic Ministers: Encounter has been hosting a Longest Married Sat. 400pm Volunteer Couple Project which has recognized couples Sun 830am Volunteers from each state and a national winner. Winners are May 18 & 19 selected solely from nominations. Nominations for the Lectors: 9th Annual LMC Project will be accepted until May 15, Sat. 400pm C. Lopes 2019, and are open to all married husband and wife Sun. 830am D. Allen couples regardless of religious affiliation. Send the Eucharistic Ministers couple’s name, wedding date, current residence, and a Sat 400pm R. Russell & M. Silvia contact phone or email to one of the following: Bryan & Sun 830am J. Rozza, A. Welsh, B. White Karen Berland 530 S. Academy Guthrie, OK 73044, or [email protected] or 405-850-4274 or at wwme.org. Awards will be presented in June, which is NOTE FROM BISHOP da CUNYA National Marriage Month. Bishop da Cunya and the Bishops of Massachusetts released a statement opposing bills presently being SUPPORT ST. VINCENT De Paul SOCIETY considered that would make it legal to end viable unborn You will notice at the end of the pews envelopes marked human life. Bishop da Cunya has asked all Catholics in St. Vincent de Paul Society. Society members in our Fall River Diocese to oppose this legislation. Contact parish raise funds and distribute them to the needy who the Massachusetts Catholic conference website at call asking for help. Please consider making a donation to support the good work of the society by slipping your www.macatholic,org to be educated on this serious donation into the envelope, dropping it into the basket or moral issue. the two white St. Vincent Poor Boxes by the entrance. FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 12, 2019

THIS WEEK (May 11 – May 17) In an interview, Art Linkletter recalled some of the more memorable things children said on his television Sat 4:00pm Robert Alves Sun 8:30am All Mothers program. In response to the question, “What is love?” Tue 8:00am Marian Goveia one little boy said, “Love is when your name is safe in Thu 8:00am Savoie someone else’s mouth.” That is a pearl of wisdom from NEXT WEEK (May 18 – May 24) the mouth of a very young observer!

Sat 4:00pm James & Verlie Kidney When is challenged by the crowd to tell them if He Sun 8:30am Dean Macara & Richard Michaud is indeed the , He answers them by saying that Tue 8:00am Lawrence Tomaselli He and the Father are one—one in power, one in Thu 8:30am Kevin Roderick shepherding His people, one in giving life. Those who MASS INTENTIONS believe in the Lord can recognize His voice because He Please pray for our deceased parishioners above. If you is the Good Shepherd, the One who gives them safety would like to reserve a Mass for a loved one, please call and life. He calls them by name and they are safe in His Cathy Henrique in the office, 508-487-0095 ext. 2., hands. Monday through Wednesday Jesus calls us by name in Baptism and in all the

sacraments. He calls us to be His followers, to live a life REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS in union with Him and the Father. Through faith, we hear Please pray for the Lord’s healing and peace to all who are sick and/or homebound, especially George Lopes, Him and we must answer. We hear His voice in those Gadek, Michael Sheehan, Josephine Ross who cry for justice, those who weep with sorrow, those Seagle, Julie Yaremko, Jean Mansfield, Eileen and who suffer from violence and war, and those who do not George Blundell, Linsey Baxter, Mary Martinez, Joan experience life as created it and are left in hunger Roderick, Joel Rivera, Richard S. Panek, Doris Cebula, and poverty. Hear the voice of the Lord and help to carry Charlie DeFrancesco, Emily Goncalves, Mary Ellen the cross of others. Your name will be safe in the mouth Driscoll, Frank Launie, Jamie, Neil Flannery, Raymond of the Lord! Sawyer, Fr. Manny Ferreira, Margaret Haynes, Joan Cianci, Susan Connors, Mary Lou Santos, Pat Shaw, Ron Nadeau, and Dawn Lunnen. Remember also our PRAYER FOR MOTHERS parishioners who reside at Seashore Point. If you would Dear God, like to add someone to our prayer list, please call Fr. On this day that we honor mothers, Mick or Cathy at the Rectory. may we draw strength from the

mothers who went before us. COLLECTION REPORT May we remember Jochebed, mother of , May 4 & 5 who gave her son over to God’s providence when forces

First Collection $1,278.00 that threatened him were beyond her control. Second Collection $ 524.00 May we remember the mother of Mary, St. Anne, This Year’s Total $1,802.00 who helped her daughter learn an openness to God’s will. Last Year’s Total $2,302.00 May we remember St. Monica, Difference - 482.00 who suffered an abusive spouse and her son’s poor “Thank You” to those parishioners who continue to choices but lived to see her child’s return to God. generously support our parish. Please remember your Most of all, we remember Mary. financial support of the Parish is not a donation to a charity, but a serious obligation to make your best effort Though she watched her child suffer and die, she also to support your Church family. This weekend’s Second saw his resurrection and glory Collection is for Parish Electric Bills. Next weekend’s and was in turn glorified by him. Amen. Second Collection is for St. Peter’s Parish Support. CROWN POINT PARKING CANCER SUPPORT GROUP As you know, Crowne Point Hotel has rented from us the The Cancer Support Group for Lower Cape residents 15 parking spaces, marked “RESERVED” facing Prince meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month St. in the church parking . Please remember not to from 1PM to 2:15 PM at the Truro Public Library. All park there at any time, including weekend Mass times, women experiencing the difficulties of dealing with since those spaces are under contract and the funds cancer, whether newly diagnosed, in treatment, not in from that agreement help keep us warm during the treatment or alternative care. For more details, please winter months. Thank you for your understanding. call Ginny Dutra at 508-648-1639 anytime. FIRESIDE INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. . Auto . Home . Life . Health . Business . Group . Investment “Our Insurance Is Your Assurance” Dine-in & Take-out 36 Shank Painter Rd., #10 Provincetown We Quote Rates By Phone Best Breakfast on (508) 487-9044 the Outer Cape! @davidmcolburncpa.com (508) 487-9639

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