Year C Hymnal #972 XV Sunday in Ordinary Time July 14, 2019

Mon, July 15 Sat., July 13 Saint Henry, Emperor Weekend of July 7, 2019 4:00 PM … Katherine (Day) Corriveau by P. Jerome Regular Offertory $2,637.00 7 PM … Food Pantry Sun., July 14 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Loose Offertory 483.95 Online Offertory Last Wk 655.00 7:30 AM … Our Parish Family Parish Nurse There will Total Offertory $3,785.95 be no Parish Nurse on 9:30 AM … Julie Duquette (2nd Anniv) by Nelson & Lillie Duquette Food Pantry $ 0.00 July 23 and 30. The program will resume on 5:00 PM … Benedetta Contarino (25th Anniv) by Ann-Maria ********************** Tuesday, Aug. 6. Contarino Last Year: Wknd of July 8, 2018 Total Offertory $6,652.05 Mon., July 15 Saint Bonaventure On Monday, July 8, the SRP 12 PM … John & Letha Fife by Maureen Othot Thank you for your sacrificial gift! Food Pantry served 12 fami- Tue., July 16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel lies and gave out 23 bags of 12 PM … Phillip Beland (6th Anniv) by Linda Beland Goal: $23,000 groceries. Wed., July 17 Raised: $11,385 12 PM … Alfred K. Hobbs, Jr. (51st Anniv) by Cynthia Hobbs Balance: $11,615 Sound Investment You We are almost halfway to our can still donate towards Thur., July 18 Saint Camillus de Lellis goal! Giving to Catholic Charities our new and upgraded 8:30 AM … Fr. William Sullivan, O.S.B., by Malachy McCarthy improves our community, sound system. Through Fri., July 19 PARISH OFFICE CLOSED strengthens families and moves generous parishioner do- lives forward. Your gift supports 6:00 PM … Francis B. Kenney (73rd Anniv) & Mary C. Ken- nations, we are now only $1,900 away programs that feed the hungry, ney by Anne Kenney Sat., from our goal to fund the project. No heal the sick, strengthen families, amount is too small, and every little bit and welcome the stranger. July 20 Saint Apollinaris 4:00 ads up. Please specify your intention of Through you, people find the way PM … Donald Van Den Berghe by Al & Barb Heidenreich the funds on the check memo line or to self-sufficiency, independence Sun., July 21 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time and a new life. Thank you for envelope. Thank you to all who have 7:30 AM … Mary Marszal; Ernest, Carl & Jeanne supporting NH Catholic Charities. donated! We are truly grateful to you for your generosity! Bienvenue by Richard Bienvenue 9:30 AM … Ruth Turliss (1st Anniv) by Pat Tremblay ROUTES/ROOTS OF FAITH 2019—QUEBEC Save the 5:00 PM … Our Parish Family date! We are planning a weekend pilgrimage to Sanctuary candle The sanctuary candle Quebec on Columbus Day weekend, Oct burns this week for Abbot Mark & Monks of 11—14, 2019. We will tour the religious Saint Anselm Abbey, especially Br. Basil L. and historic sights in Old & New Quebec. Franciose, O.S.B., and Novice Celestine B. Hettrick. More info to follow!

READINGS FOR THE WEEK of July 14, 2019 Thank you! It is an honor to stand with the parishioners and friends of Monday: Ex 1:8-14, 22; Ps 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8; Mt 10:34 — 11:1; Saint Raphael Parish in upholding the value of each human life. Your gift of Tuesday: Ex 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34; Mt 11:20-24; $1,775.32 raised through the Baby Bottle Benefit will help Real Options Wednesday: Ex 3:1-6, 9-12; Ps 103:1b-2, 3-4, 6-7; Mt 11:25-27; Thursday: Ex 3:13-20; Ps 105:1 and 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27; Mt (formerly Care Net Pregnancy Center) to continue bringing the message of 11:28-30; Friday: Ex 11:10—12:14; Ps 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, hope to women and men who are facing unexpected pregnancy—helping 17-18; Mt 12:1-8; Saturday: Ex 12:37-42; Ps 136:1 and 23-24, them find the courage to Choose Life. Gratefully—Linda Barry. 10-12, 13-15; Mt 12:14-21; Sunday: Gen 18:1-10a; Ps 15:2-3, 3- 4, 5; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42 Corpus Christi To all who partici- pated in our Cor- pus Christi proces- Parish Outreach Ministry Volunteer wanted We are seeking a sion, followed by The goal of the Parish Outreach Ministry is volunteer to cut the grass of the Saint Raphael the Strawberry to strengthen our parish community by con- Parish / Saint Benedict Academy campus this Festival in the par- necting to those in need. There are members summer. The grass needs to be cut every 2-3 of our parish family who are homebound or weeks. We have a lawn mower on site. This is ish hall, we ex- do not drive, but would love to attend Mass a great project for youth in need of community tend heartfelt or receive Communion. Some might need service hours for school, or anyone who can thanks. Special thanks to Anne Kenney for help with a simple household chore or a ride donate a couple of hours to the grocery store or to doctor’s appoint- every 2-3 weeks. If you making the Eucharistic canopy in record ments. Volunteers can assist on a one-time are able to help, please time—less than a week! To Therese Dame basis or as often as they like. If you or some- call Kerri at the office at and Dorene Turner for organizing the straw- one you know would benefit from this pro- 623.2604. Thank you! gram, or if you would like to be a volunteer, berry festival, and to Collette and Roger please contact Kerri at the office. Hamel, who worked it. We are grateful to all who signed up for Adoration as well. From the Pastor: Fr. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B. , yearning for freedom, play important role in Revolution My niece Debbie has become the family the promise of freedom for those entering the expert on genealogy, and I find it fascinating , recruited blacks. In Mas- when she informs me of one or another fact sachusetts, black troops were among the about our forebears. She has become the Minutemen and they served at Lexington sleuth in the family gene pool! For exam- and Concord in April of 1775, and later at ple, I love the fact that my grandfather seven Bunker Hill. The names of some of them or eight generations back came to America in have come down to us: Prince Estabrook, 1752, landing in Ipswich, MA, then made his Salem Poor, Barzillai Lew, Blaney Grusha, way to what was then called Ipswich Canada, Titus Coburn, Alexander Ames, Cato Howe but is now Winchendon, MA. He was only a and Seymour Burr. The 1st Rhode Island year on the coast, and I was amazed to dis- Regiment recruited African Americans, cover that he came from Ireland, not Eng- including slaves, who were “absolutely free” land. There’s a long story here: he was Eng- upon enlistment. By the Siege of Yorktown lish “planted” in Ireland, but we’ll pass over The Marquis de Lafayette with an aide, perhaps James in 1781, one German officer serving with the that for the time being so we can get to the Lafayette, a spy for Continental troops pro-American French Royal Deux-Ponts point at hand. Regiment put the number of African- A point of pride on the Day side is that my impressive. Many saw Crispus Attucks, shot Americans under Continental Army com- dad’s forefathers fought in the American dead by British troops during the Boston mand at about 25 percent. Revolution and the Civil War. Deb still Massacre in 1770, as not only a Patriot James Lafayette, who served the Ameri- has work to do on this, but that little bit of hero but also a martyr for black emancipa- can cause as a spy and is said to have assist- Americana has made me pay a lot more at- tion. However, more than twice that number ed the famous Marquis de Lafayette, even tention to the conflicts of the 1770s and the served under British command. Lord Dun- adopting his name, would have been one of 1860s. For many, however, the Revolution more, colonial royal governor of Virginia, that 25 percent. At sea, as on land, both was very much the business of the Yankee and Sir Henry Clinton both issued proclama- Crown and Patriot authorities competed for settlers in the 13 original colonies, kind of tions promising freedom to any escaped black personnel in the various “navies” float- a family dispute – and every bit as intense slaves who served the Crown. “Lord Dun- ed by the rebel colonies, soon-to-be states. and violent as such frays can become – be- more’s Ethiopian Regiment” was testament Virginia and South Carolina had a large tween the Anglo-Americans and their British to the lure of freedom, which came by number of black captains with arma- cousins. The blood of England flowed in the “joining His Majesty’s troops.” ments, supplies and ammunition and gun- veins of most combatants on both sides. At the start of the Revolution and for some powder under their control. In addition to As last week’s column demonstrates, how- years to follow, a betting man would likely service as soldiers and sailors, African Amer- ever, the war to establish American inde- have cast his lot for freedom with the Red- icans also served in exploration, transport, pendence and lay down the groundwork coats. In the South, some slaves substitut- espionage, communication and field service. for remarkable freedoms attracted the interest ed for their masters. The irony cannot be lost In still another ironic twist in the Revolu- and participation of significant figures from on African Americans, slave or free. They tion’s racial policies, a French regiment of throughout Europe. To think that the Revolu- were risking their lives for freedom for a new black troops, Les Chasseurs-Volontaires de tion was en- country, but Saint-Domingue, helped Continental tirely, or even they had no troops in an attempt to recover Savannah mostly, a white clear assurance from the British in Georgia. Under the com- man’s dispute, that such free- mand of Laurent François Lenoir, Marquis however, is to dom for their de Rouvray, himself a black French aristo- write out of people would crat, the effort was unsuccessful. The unit history some ever come. served under with expeditionary force of the impressive Edward Comte d’Estaing. contributions Ayres, an Despite valiant service, the end of the war and some en- historian at the saw various state legislatures, including gaging figures, American Rev- those in and Massachusetts, especially olution Muse- proscribe blacks, free or slave, from military among African um in York- service. In 1792, the U.S. Congress restricted Americans. town, VA, military service to able-bodied, white males. When racists writes, “By the Upcoming column: Others who helped and bigots 1760s … as achieve American independence. sneer at black Crispus Attucks leads colonials in protest against British Crown forces in the colonists © Rev. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B. Americans Boston, 1770 began to speak complaining, out against “If they don’t like it, why don’t they go back British tyranny, more Americans pointed out to ?” the thought of stuffing a history the obvious contradiction between advocat- book down their gullets occurs. ing liberty and owning slaves. In 1774, Abi- In terms of numbers, black American Patri- gail Adams [the indomitable wife of John ots serving under arms in the Revolutionary Adams of Massachusetts, Founding Father period numbered around 9,000, an estimated and second president of the U.S.] wrote, ‘It 4 percent of the total number in Continen- always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to tal Army or state militia service. Given that me to fight ourselves for what we are daily black soldiers were made up of free blacks or robbing and plundering from those who from those who agreed to serve in exchange have as good a right to freedom as we for freedom – not a sure bet given the histo- have.’” ry of plantation owners — the number is New England militia regiments, again with