Seventh Sunday of Easter – May 16, 2021

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7:30-8:00 a.m. – All Saints – Confessions 8:15 a.m. – All Saints – For The People Please pray for our Confirmandi: 10:00-10:20 a.m. – St. Isidore – Confessions 10:30 a.m. – St. Isidore – Theresa Roy by Rachel Roy ~Isaias Lagasse – St. Jean Marie Vianney Mon., May 17th – Easter Weekday ~Donnie St. Pierre – St. 8:30 a.m. – All Saints – Richard Emile Potvin by Larry Pudvah th Thursday May 20th at 7pm at St. Tues, May 18 – St. John I, & Martyr 5:00 p.m. – All Saints – Adoration with Confession Please Pray for the Couples that are 6:00 p.m. – All Saints – Karina Rheaume by a Parishioner

Wed., May 19th – Easter Weekday Getting Married this Year: 8:30 a.m. – All Saints – Elizabeth Cangelosi by The Heter Family ~Nathan Monty and Victoria Kane Thurs., May 20th – St. Bernadine of , Priest ~ Whitney and Eve Hayes 8:30 a.m. – All Saints – Conversion of Loved Ones by JAN ~Jordan Kane & Katie Waite 5:00 p.m. – All Saints – NO Holy Hour with Confession ~Ryan Shea and Lindsy Guilmette 6:00 p.m. – All Saints – NO MASS ~John and Candy Morris st Friday, May 21 – St. Christopher Magallanes, Priest, & Companions,

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8:30 a.m. – All Saints – Holy Souls in Purgatory by JAN Walk to Mary 10:45 a.m. – Mass at Our Lady of the Meadows St. Joseph’s Church to St. Anne’s Shrine, Isle LaMotte

nd May 22, 2021 Saturday, May 22 – St. Rita of Cascia, Religous

4:15-4:45 p.m. – All Saints – Confessions Celebrate our Sacred Mother on a journey in faith & fellowship.

5:00 p.m. – All Saints – Henri Tringle Jr. by Bruce & Marlene Mercy 9 AM – Begin walk from St. Joseph’s, pray Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet Sunday, May 23rd – Pentecost Sunday 11 AM - Celebration of the Mass, St. Anne’s Shrine 7:30-8:00 a.m. – All Saints – Confessions 12 PM – Lunch on your own 8:15 a.m. – All Saints – For The People 1 PM - Stations of the Cross, for life and 3 PM - Closing Prayers 10:00-10:20 a.m. – St. Isidore – Confessions For more details contact: 10:30 a.m. – SI – D’sed Members of the St. Anne Society by Its Members Janice at 802-848-3834 or [email protected]

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All Saints Amount needed in Sunday Offertory $1,440.00 Why is the human heart shaped as it is?

Not Available The human heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and

St. Isidore Amount needed in Sunday Offertory $705.00 regular in contour; it is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of

Not Available it were missing out of its side. That missing part may very well

Thank you to all who are supporting our parishes with your symbolize a piece that a spear tore out of the Universal Heart of monetary gifts and offerings. God bless you ever more! Humanity on the Cross, but it probably symbolizes something more. It

may very well mean that when God created each human heart, He kept a Second Collection:

small sample of it in heaven, and sent the rest of it into the world of May 16: Cath. Comm. Campaign ***** May 23: Energy time, where it would each day learn the lesson that it could never be Calendar of Events: th really happy, that it could never be really wholly in love, that it could ~Wed., May 20 : Confirmation at St. Joseph’s in Burlington ~Friday, May 21st: Rosary Cenacle at All Saints at 6:00pm never be really whole-hearted until it rested with the Risen Christ in an Please join us as the world needs our prayers eternal Easter, until it went back to the Timeless to recover the sample ~Saturday, May 22nd: Walk to Mary

which God had kept for it from all eternity. ~ Ven. Fulton Sheen

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May 18th: Feast of Pope St. John I influenced by the peacemaking example of her parents, pledged to forgive her husband’s killers. She strove to convince her sons to do On May 18, the honors the first “Pope the same. She often pointed out to them the image of the crucified John” in its history. John I was a martyr for Christ and the fact that he forgave those who killed him. Within a the faith, imprisoned and starved to death by a year, however, both sons succumbed to a deadly illness leaving Rita heretical Germanic king during the sixth century. not only a widow, but also childless. Following these tragedies, at the age of 36, Rita was accepted into the Augustinian convent. He was a friend of the renowned Christian philosopher Fifteen years before her death, on Good Friday 1442, she had an , who died in a similar manner. extraordinary experience. In contemplation before an image of Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians also honor Pope St. Jesus that was very dear to her, the Jesus of Holy Saturday, she was John I, on the same date as the Roman Catholic Church. moved by a deep awareness of the physical and spiritual burden of pain which Christ so freely embraced for love of her. With the The future Pope John I was born in , and served as an archdeacon tender, compassionate heart of a person fully motivated by grateful in the Church for several years. He was chosen to become the Bishop of love, she spoke her willingness to relieve Christ’s suffering by in 523, succeeding Pope St. Hormisdas. sharing even the smallest part of his pain. Her offer was accepted, her prayer was answered, and Rita was united with Jesus in a Pope St. John I was imprisoned in and deprived of food. He died profound experience of spiritual intimacy, a thorn from his crown on or around May 18, which became his feast day in the Byzantine Catholic penetrating her forehead. The wound it caused remained open and tradition and in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. visible until the day of her death.

In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, he is celebrated on May 27, Rita died peacefully on May 22, 1457. An old tradition records that the date on which his exhumed body was returned to Rome for veneration the bells of the convent immediately began to peal unaided by human hands, calling the people of Cascia to the doors of the in St. Peter’s Basilica. convent, and announcing the triumphant completion of a life faithfully May 20th: Feast of St. Bernadine of Siena lived. The nuns prepared her for burial and placed her in a simple wooden coffin. A carpenter who had been partially paralyzed by a stroke, voiced the sentiments of many others when he spoke of the beautiful life of this humble nun in bringing lasting peace to the people of Cascia. “If only I were well,” he said, “I would have prepared a place more worthy of you.” With those words, Rita’s first miracle was performed, and he was healed. He fashioned the elaborate and richly decorated coffin which would hold Rita’s body for several centuries. She was never buried in it, however. So many people came to look upon the gentle face of the “Peacemaker of SAINT BERNARDINE OF SIENA, crisscrossed on foot, preaching for hours at Cascia” that her burial had to be delayed. It became clear that a time, several times a day. He preached on punishment for sin and reward something exceptional was occurring as her body seemed to be free for virtue, but focusing in the end on the mercy of Jesus and the love of Mary. from nature’s usual course. It is still preserved today, now in a glass- His special devotion was to the Holy Name of Jesus. enclosed coffin, in the basilica of Cascia. Prayer to St Bernardine: SAINT BERNARDINE OF SIENA words were very important to you. You spent The Holy Spirit, Gift of God's Love most of your life speaking the golden words of Jesus' mercy and his Holy Name. And you abhorred words that were shameful. Pray for us that we may There is no gift of God more excellent than this. It alone always choose to speak Jesus' name with reverence and choose words of distinguishes the sons of the eternal kingdom and the love over words of shame. Amen. sons of eternal perdition. Other gifts, too, are given by the Holy Spirit; but without love they profit nothing. May 22nd: Feast of St. Rita Unless, therefore, the Holy Spirit is so far imparted to Margherita was born in Cascia in 1381. In the each, as to make him one who loves God and his local dialect, her name meant “pearl” and she neighbor, he is not removed from the left hand to the was known as Rita. Rita became acquainted right. Nor is the Spirit specially called the Gift, unless on with the local Augustinian nuns of St. and was attracted to their way of account of love. And he who has not this love, "though life, but her parents arranged a marriage for her he speak with the tongues of men and angels, is sounding in order to provide safety and security, and so brass and a tinkling cymbal; and though he have the gift Rita obediently married Paolo Mancini with of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, whom she had two sons. and though he have all faith, so that he can remove

In the climate of the times, there was often open conflict between mountains, he is nothing; and though he bestow all his families, and her husband Paolo was murdered. Her sons were goods to feed the poor, and though he give his body to expected to avenge the murder to defend family honor, but Rita, be burned, it profiteth him nothing." ~ St. Augustine Visit us at www.allsaintsrichford.org