St. John the Evangelist Church and St. Thomas Aquinas Church Serving Lynn, Nahant and Swampscott St
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St. John the Evangelist Church and St. Thomas Aquinas Church serving Lynn, Nahant and Swampscott St. John the Evangelist St. Thomas Aquinas 174 Humphrey Street 248 Nahant Road Parish Office: 198 Humphrey St. Nahant, MA 01908 Swampscott, MA 01907 Ph. 781-593-2544 FX 781-593-3616 Ph. 781-581-0023 FX 781-598-8860 Office Hours - 9AM to 4PM Mon-Fri email: [email protected] Website: stjohnsswampscott.org PASTORAL STAFF Rev. James T. Kelly, Administrator ! Deacon Andrew Acampora, Business Manager email: [email protected] Irene Curran, Parish Secretary email: [email protected] Office Hours are 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Will Parks, Music Director email: [email protected] Religious Education Directors Maureen McDonnell Kellie Frary email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Ph: 781-599-4711 Please remember your parish in your Estate Planning. DAILY MASS SCHEDULE ! Monday, Thursday & Friday 7:00 AM DAILY MASS SCHEDULE ! Wednesday - Eucharistic Serv. 7:00 AM ! Wednesday, 9:00 AM ! Holidays 8:30 AM ! SUNDAY VIGIL MASS ! SUNDAY MASS ! 4:00 PM on Saturday ! 9:00 AM ! SUNDAY MASSES ! ! 7:30 and 10:30 AM ! HOLY DAY MASS Announced in the Bulletin HOLY DAY MASSES ! Announced in the Bulletin If you are looking for past bulletins , go to: https://parishesonline.com and type in parish’s name (last twelve issues of bulletins on line) If you are interested in receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Marriage, or Baptism, please contact the office. FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT 3. APRIL 7, 2019 Reflection on Today’s Gospel 2019 Catholic Appeal The scribes and the Pharisees brought a Thank you for your generous support of the woman who had been caught in adultery and 2019 Catholic Appeal. For those of you still made her stand in the middle. We have all felt interested in making a pledge to this life- as the woman has at some point in our lives, changing work, please find a donation form surrounded by those who would condemn us. available in the pews or in the back of the The beauty of Christ's mercy at the end of this Church. You can also visit our website at: parable is clear and a welcome relief as we all bostoncatholicappeal.org to view our latest struggle to be good and holy people. But have video about the Appeal. Thank you! we ever imagined ourselves on the edge of the circle with a rock in your hands? How easy it is to be righteous when someone else's repute- tion is at stake. If we can point out a wrong, Our congratulations and prayers surely we are firmly in the right. go to the following new members "Let the one among you who is without sin be of our parish families who were baptized during the month of March. the first to throw a stone at her.” This Lent, not only are we invited to receive God's ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST mercy, but also to show God's mercy. During Blake David Litwin the next few weeks, consider those you tend to Grace Elizabeth Marshall judge the most harshly and try to think of Hannah Hepp Shaffer ways you can drop the stone in your hand and love as God loves. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Leone John Barletta St. Thomas Easter Flower May the Lord shower these children Collection Rescheduled with his choicest blessings. The Easter Flower collection which was scheduled for Sunday, April 14th has been changed to this Sunday, April 7th. PANCAKE BREAKFAST St. John’s Social Committee is sponsoring a Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, April 28th. Breakfast will be served after the 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Masses. Advance ticket sales will be held on the weekends of April 6/7 and 13/14. Please plan to join us for breakfast and parish fellowship. ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST 4. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Mass Intentions for St. John the Evangelist Church Saturday, Apr. 6 4:00 PM Nellie Ronayne Memorial Sunday, Apr. 7 7:30 AM Carmela Manganelli Memorial 10:30 AM Thomas Ryan Memorial Monday, Apr. 8 7:00 AM John Sullivan Memorial Wednesday, Apr. 10 7:00 AM Sean Rogers Memorial Thursday, Apr. 11 7:00 AM Raymond Lazzaro Memorial Friday, Apr. 12 7:00 AM Kathie Canavon Memorial Saturday, Apr. 13 4:00 PM Fr. Romuald DePasquale, OFM, Martin DePasquale and Leonora Dragone Mem Sunday, Apr. 14 7:30 AM Carmela Manganelli Memorial 10:30 AM Thomas Ryan Memorial Mass Intentions for St. Thomas Aquinas Church Sunday, Apr. 7 9:00 AM Thomas Quinn and Renald Bienvenue Mem Sunday, Apr. 14 9:00 AM Mary and Henry Gosselin Memorial Note to Sodality Volunteers Religious Education Program St. John the Evangelist Please pick up your Easter gifts th on Friday, April 12 and Religious Education Program: The last th Saturday, April 13 . Thank you. week for classes will be on this Sunday, April 7th through Wednesday, April 10th. First Communion : The Sacrament of First Nahant Garden Club Scholarship Communion will be celebrated on Saturday, The Nahant Garden Club is pleased to offer a May 4th at 11:00 AM. First Communion $2,000 academic scholarship to a 2019 high Practice will be on April 27th at 11:00 AM. school graduate who has been accepted to an Please keep our First Communion children in accredited institution of higher learning. The your prayers. applicant must be a current resident of Nahant Religious Education Registration for the for at least three years. Preference will be 2019/2020 School Year: Registration will be given to a course of study related to ecology, held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday environmental engineering or conservation. (May 14th - May 16th) in the Rel Ed Office Applicants must have a transcript of grades, from 3-5 PM and 6-8 PM . autobiographical letter (including civic/ community service), copy of acceptance letter St. Vincent dePaul's Food Pantry and a recommendation from a teacher or community leader. Please submit all require- Our Food Pantry is in urgent need for ments by May 10th to: Jeannie Buckley, 7 spaghetti sauce, cereal and oatmeal. Please Walton Road, Nahant. For more information, consider purchasing some of these items when please call 781-581-0389. your doing your own shopping. Thank you. FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT 5. APRIL 7, 2019 SANCTUARY CANDLE The Sanctuary Candle at St. John’s Tabernacle will burn HOLY THURSDAY - April 18th this week in loving memory of On April 18th, we will jointly celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7:30 PM Concetta, Salvatore, Martin, and at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Fr. Romuald DePasquale, OFM GOOD FRIDAY- April 19th by Elizabeth DePasquale. St. John's services will include a 9:00 AM Morning Prayer, the Celebration of the Lord's Passion at 3:00 PM and the Stations of the Cross Service at 7:30 PM. Parish Support Collections St. Thomas will host the Fast for Justice Youth St. John the Evangelist Group. Services will begin at Short Beach and include a Good Friday Service Offertory for Mar. 30/31...............$5,605 and Veneration of the Cross at 3:00 PM. This weekend, the second collections for both parishes will be for the Easter Flower fund. EASTER VIGIL – April 20th St. John's will have a 9:00 AM Morning St. Thomas Aquinas Prayer Service. Our parish communities will gather together at 7:30 PM at St. Thomas' to Offertory for March 31…..............$2,450 celebrate the Easter Vigil. May God bless all those who continue to EASTER SUNDAY – April 21 support our Parish Families. Thank you! Masses will be celebrated at St. John’s at 7:30 and 10:30 AM. St. Thomas’ Mass will be at 9:00 AM. ST. THOMAS FOOD DRIVE Participation in these liturgical celebrations The St. Vincent dePaul Society in Nahant will has a powerful and enduring effect on one's be holding a Food Drive this weekend April faith life. Please plan to join us. 6/7th to benefit the St. John’s Food Pantry. Please take a grocery bag with a list of needed items attached as you leave the Church today. Place your donation of one or more items in the bag and drop it off at either Church on your way into Mass next weekend. Items most urgently needed are: Religious Education Program brown and white rice (1 & 2 lb. bags), St. Thomas Aquinas cereal, oatmeal, and spaghetti First Communion : This year, the Sacrament sauce. Donations of any and all items are of First Communion will be celebrated on greatly appreciated! Thank you. Please check Sunday, May 5th at the 9:00 AM Mass. expiration dates as we cannot use expired Please keep our First Communion children in items. your prayers. ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST 6. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Schedule for Celebrant, Lectors, BEFORE YOU GO, PLEASE PAUSE AND STOP TO PRAY Eucharistic Ministers and Altar Servers For those who are ill: Matthew, Mary Pat O’Leary, Savannah Mae Curran, John Robert St. John the Evangelist Sasso, Kathie Mitchell, Michael, Tom Riordan, Agnes Raymond, Maura Scollin, APRIL 13 - SATURDAY Special Intentions, Jeffrey Tobey, David 4:00 PM Father Kelly + Francis Mancini Doherty, Caroline Ouellette, John Mahoney and Bryan Butters + Wayne Knight + Reich, Robert Kieser, Virginia Losano, Elle Zachary Barden and Madison Lilly Armitstead, Special Intentions, Sheldon APRIL 14 - SUNDAY ! Stone, Thomas Mahoney, Mary Mackey, 7:30 AM Father Kelly + James Kirby and Dina Russo, Joseph Donlon, Chloe Rombach, Timothy Wilkerson + Pauline Boyle + Laurie Pezzano, Shirley Stillman, George Timothy Sheehan Kyminas, Robert Tiernan, Audrey Fiore, Paolo Bongiovanni, Ellen Monnin, Frank 10:30 AM Father Kelly + Deacon Andy and Taddie, Frances Pratt, Jean Otty, Pamela Thomas Freeman + Lenore Taylor + Thomas Wilson, Josephine Kilroy, Joseph Velardi, and Erin Healey Frank & Andrea Amato, ! Mary Hogan, Dave St.