PARISH MISSION: We, the people of Our Lady of Mercy Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville, Connecticut 94 Broad Street are committed to journey together Plainville, Connecticut 06062-2799 as a community of faith, hope, and love within the Catholic tradition. Celebration of the Holy Eucharist We are called to witness to the presence of Vigil of Sunday (Saturday): 4:00p Christ in our lives through sharing and Sunday: 8:30a & 10:30a celebration of faith and a life of Christian Daily Mass: 8:00a service. (No morning Mass on Wednesdays) Confession (Sacrament of Reconciliation)

Saturday Noon or by appointment July 28, 2019 Rosary Devotion before daily Mass

Parish & Cemetery Office

19 South Canal Street Tel: 860-747-6825 ● Fax: 860-747-5407 Hours: 9:00a to 4:00p (Weekdays)

Clergy Reverend Raymond Smialowski, Pastor Robert A. Berube, Senior Deacon Staff Sandra DeBlois, Bookkeeper

Jo-Ann Blanchette-Silverio, Administrative Assistant

Jeanne Gionfriddo, Director of Religious Education & RCIA

Eric Hoffman, Organist and Music Director

Robert DeBlois, Maintenance

A Roman Catholic Community of Faith & Good Works Born as a Mission of Bristol in 1864 & Established as an Independent Parish in 1881 Parish email: [email protected] Parish website: www.olmct.org Facebook®: OurLadyOfMercyChurchCT

“Do whatever He tells you.” - Mary, to the disciples of Jesus (John 2:5)

Welcome to Our Lady of Mercy Church! If you are new to the area or just visiting, please stop and introduce yourself. We are pleased to have you share in our celebration of the Eucharist. We invite you to become part of our parish family. To register, or to update your address, please complete this form and mail it to the Parish Office or place it in the collection basket. _____ New Parishioner / Address Change _____ Name ______Phone ______Address ______Street/ City / Zip

We welcome all who gather here to worship with us. You are most welcome if you Sunday July 28, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time are visiting with us today. If 8:30a For the Intentions of all Parishioners you are new to our parish and 10:30a Tomasso Forcella Req. Family wish to become a member of St. Martha Monday July 29, OLM, we invite you to 8:00a James Tella 20th Anniv. Req. Brenda introduce yourself to our St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop & Tuesday July 30, pastor, Fr. Raymond Smialowski, and to register. Doctor of the Church Registration can be completed by stopping by the 8:00a Raymond Fillion Req. Reno Levesque Family parish office, filling out the short form on the front St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Wednesday July 31, page of our bulletin, or completing a short registration 8:00a No Mass form which can be found on our home page at Thursday August 1, St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop & www.olmct.org under the heading “New to Our Doctor of the Church Parish?” Please return the form to the office by 8:00a Blessing for the Families of Miroslaw, Dariusz, & dropping it in the collection basket or mailing it to Lilianna Req. Mother 19 S. Canal St., Plainville. Friday August 2, St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest 8:00a Jan Bakowski Req. Sister-in-Law 8:30a Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday August 3, Blessed Virgin Mary Sunday July 28 8:00a Celestina Martin Month Anniv. 10:30a Men’s AA Meeting, Rm 107 Annette Dulac 1st Anniv. Monday July 29 Saturday August 3, Vigil of The Eighteenth Sunday in 9 – 11:30a Bible School, Parish Center Ordinary Time 9:30a Legion of Mary, Gathering Space 4:00p Robert Bonola Req. Charlotte Auclair Tuesday July 30 Sunday August 4, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary 9 – 11:30a Bible School, Parish Center Time 7p NA Meeting, Rm 106 8:30a For the Intentions of all Parishioners Wednesday July 31 10:30a Bernie Peters 18th Anniv. Req. Family 9 – 11:30a Bible School, Parish Center 7p Men’s NA Meeting, Rm 107 Thursday August 1 9 – 11:30a Bible School, Parish Center Church Support Friday August 2 $4,044.00 Weekly Envelopes July 20/21 9 – 11:30a Bible School, Parish Center -$299.25 to Archdiocese Saturday August 3 $3,744.75 Total for OLM use Noon Confession, Church * 7p AA Meeting, Rm 107 Thank you for your generous support! Sunday August 4 10:30a Men’s AA Meeting, Rm 107

The Tabernacle Lamp… Sacrament of Baptism is lighted for the Greater Glory of God and in We look forward to welcoming you recognition of the Real Presence of Christ. and celebrating the Sacrament of This week the candle is flickering in memory Baptism of your child. You may of Bob Bonola. The Tabernacle Lamp is begin preparation even before your available as a memorial for a $5 per child is born. To begin the process, call Sue at 860-747- week. Consider having the lamp burn in memory of or the 5451. The date of the Baptism is scheduled after intentions of a loved one. There are openings available starting attending the Parent Preparation Program and registering the beginning of September. Call the office to schedule. with OLM. Please note that Godparents must be confirmed and obtain a Sponsor Certificate from their OLM Church Picnic own Catholic parish. Baptisms normally take place Our Parish Picnic is Sunday, Sept. Sundays after the 10:30am Mass. 1 at Noon under the pavilion at Norton Park. Please mark your *If you have changed your phone number, please let us know so that we may update our records. calendars and plan to be there.

Parish Informative Booklet On 13 May 1920, pilgrims defied government troops to If you are the coordinator of a group within OLM, please contact the office for a sample install a statue of the Virgin Mary in the

blurb for our booklet. Jo-Ann is in the process chapel. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was first of sending out sample descriptions via email officially celebrated there in January 1924. A hostel for and snail mail to different groups. If you the sick was begun in that year. In 1927 the first rector of haven’t received a sample blurb, please contact the office at 860.747.6825 and let her know the sanctuary was appointed, and a set of Stations of the how you would like to receive one by leaving Cross were erected on the mountain road. The foundation your email or snail mail address. Our goal is to stone for the present basilica was laid the next year. finish this booklet by late fall, 2019. In 1930 the officially recognized the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima apparition events as "worthy of belief" and granted a Please consider welcoming the Blessed Mother into papal to pilgrims visiting Fátima. In 1935 the your home by receiving our Pilgrim Statue of Our bodies of the child visionaries, Francisco and Jacinta, Lady of Fatima for a period of one week. A sign-up were reinterred in the basilica. Pius XII granted sheet is found in church near the statue of Our Lady of a Canonical Coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Fátima on 13 May 1946. This event drew such large crowds that the entrance to the site had to be barred. Pilgrimage In the 21st century, pilgrimage to the site takes place Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary. year-round. Additional chapels, hospitals and other facilities have been constructed at the site. The principal pilgrimage festivals take place on the thirteenth day of each month, from May to October, on the anniversaries of the original apparitions. The largest crowds gather on 13 May and 13 October, when up to a million pilgrims The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima is one of the have attended to pray and witness processions of the largest Marian shrines in the world. statue of Our Lady of Fátima, both during the day and by the light of tens of thousands of candles at night.

Official position of the Catholic Church The reported visions at Fátima gathered widespread attention, as numerous pilgrims began to visit the site. After a canonical inquiry, the Bishop of Leiria-Fátima The widely reported miracle of the Sun contributed to officially declared the visions of Fátima as "worthy of Fátima quickly becoming a major center of pilgrimage. belief" in October 1930, officially permitting the belief of Two million pilgrims visited the site in the decade Our Lady of Fátima.

following the events of 1917. A small chapel – (More of the story next week) Taken from: the Capelinha – was built by local people on the site of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3 the apparitions. The construction was neither encouraged %A1tima nor hindered by the Catholic Church authorities.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO GIVE YOUR DONATIONS TO OLM BEFORE OR Registration for Religious Education classes which will start in September AFTER VACATION! WE continues for children in grades 1 – STILL NEED TO PAY OUR 10. Registration forms were mailed BILLS WHILE YOU ARE AWAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! out two weeks ago. Please use this HAPPY SUMMER!!! form to complete registration. If you do not have a form, registration and questions concerning our program can be addressed by calling Jeanne at Feast of Our Lady 860.747.6825 or go to www.olmct.org and click on We are excited to Faith Formation & Traditional Religious Education. announce that we will be Does Your Child Love to Make celebrating the Feast of Music? Our Lady of Mercy at If your child loves music class, the 4pm Liturgy on Saturday, September 21, recorders, chimes, rhythm 2019. Mass will be followed by a potluck supper instruments, band or chorus in school, your child will in our Parish Center. Last year’s celebration enjoy making music in Our Lady of Mercy Church was awesome, so circle the date on your Children’s Choir. It is a lot of fun, educational, and calendars or add it to your phone. More spiritually nourishing as they sing their faith, and have fun doing it. Give the gift of music to your children while details are forth coming. Did you know that nourishing their spiritual life in a most happy and joyful Law #1218 states that each Catholic way! Rest assured there is no fee for Children’s Choir. Church is to have its own title? This title may Commitment to a 60-minute weekly rehearsal September be of the Blessed Trinity, one of our Lord Jesus through early June and singing at Mass about once a Christ, the Holy Spirit, a title of the Blessed month is the only cost. No prior experience in music is Virgin Mary, a name of one of the angels or needed (but could be beneficial). So, if your child is even that of a Saint? What do you know about constantly singing or listening to music, consider bringing the title “Our Lady them into our Children’s Choir. Please call the parish of Mercy”? Check office for more info at 860.747.6825. Rehearsals begin Thursday, September 5th from 4:00 – 5:00 pm. in upcoming weekly

bulletins for more Religious Education Needs information about Our Faith Formation Program is in need our Patroness. of the following items. They can be left

in the Gathering Space marked Faith What is RCIA? Formation or brought to the Parish The RCIA is normally known as Center. As always OLM parishioners are so generous the Rite of Christian Initiation and giving. Thank you again for your support… Paper for Adults. This is the process cold drink cups; 5 oz and 9 oz, Paper hot drink cups, for adults to follow who wish to explore the possibility of Heavy-duty paper plates, Paper towels, Plastic forks, joining the Catholic Church. The RCIA program is designed Paper small dessert plates, Poster board-white or color, for adults who are unbaptized, baptized in another Coffee - regular and decaf, Large disposable foil pans, Christian faith or for baptized Catholics who have never Paper cereal bowls, Ziploc bags - gallon and quart size, received First Eucharist or Confirmation. Together we will Aluminum foil, Glue sticks, and Velcro. Thank you for learn more about Scripture, Sacraments, and Teachings of not purchasing foam products, they are not healthy for the Catholic Church. Through the course of studies and through sharing our own faith experiences, we will enter the environment. into a journey of awareness as we discover God’s presence and His Holy Spirit working in our lives. If you are *We ask that you do not park on the dirt of the newly interested in the RCIA program, please contact the parish repaired water line in Section E in St. Joseph Cemetery. office at 860.747.6825. There is no cost for the program. It could damage the line once again. Thank you!

Children’s Liturgy Th e disciples notice Jesus praying “in a certain place.” Next Sunday, August 4, the 10:30am Mass will be a They ask him to teach children’s liturgy with the children that participated in them to pray just as John our Vacation Bible School taking an active part. During the Baptist had taught his the Mass the children will sing one of the songs learned disciples. Jesus teaches during the Vacation Bible School. Please plan to join us next Sunday. them a simple version of the most famous Christian prayer, the Our Father, or Parish Raffle the Lord's Prayer. Matthew's version shows signs of Raffle tickets for our annual parish raffle will soon be being shaped by public prayer. Luke's version is mailed. Your support of the raffle is encouraged and probably closer to the original form that Jesus taught. will contribute to the success of our fund raiser. Stripped of much of the language we are used to, Luke's version seems simple and direct. We pray that Congratulations! God's name will be recognized as holy and that his rule To Zachary Santini who is this year’s recipient of our parish’s Memorial Scholarship. over all will be established. This is followed by petitions for our needs for bread, for forgiveness, and Bulletin Announcements for deliverance. Luke uses the more theological If you need to submit an announcement for the language of “sins” rather than “debts,” which is used in weekend of August 18th please submit to the parish Matthew's version. office by August 5th, due to an earlier required Having taught his disciples a simple, daily prayer, Jesus submission date. Thank you. goes on to reassure them that God answers prayers. Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C First he tells a parable First Reading about a persistent neighbor Genesis 18:20-32 who asks a friend for bread Abraham pleads with God to save the innocent people at midnight. The friend is of Sodom and Gomorrah. already in bed and has no desire to disturb his family Responsorial Psalm by opening the door. But Psalm 138:1-3,6-8 because the neighbor is persistent, the sleeping man gets Lord, on the day I cried for help, you answered me. up and gives him all that he needs. If a neighbor is Second Reading willing to help us if we are persistent enough, how Colossians 2:12-14 could God not respond to our requests? You were buried with This teaching concludes with the reminder that if we Christ in Baptism and also seek, we will get a response. If a human father, with raised with him. all his faults, knows how to give good gifts to his children, how much more will our heavenly Father give Gospel Reading us? Instead of good gifts, however, Luke substitutes Luke 11:1-13 the word Holy Spirit. This foreshadows the gift of the Jesus teaches the disciples about prayer. Holy Spirit, who is central to Luke's theology and who Background on the Gospel Reading will play an important role in the growth of the early Luke gives more attention to Jesus' teachings on prayer Church after Pentecost. than any other Gospel writer. He also mentions Jesus The parable and the concluding teaching in this section at prayer more than the others. In today's reading, from should not lead us to think of prayer as a series of the beginning of Chapter 11 of his Gospel, Luke requests presented to God. Rather, as Jesus teaches in presents the core of Jesus' teaching on prayer. It his model prayer, prayer consists in recognizing God's consists of Jesus teaching a prayer to his disciples, a holiness and his rule over all things. Taken from: parable on the persistent neighbor, and assurances that https://www.loyolapress.com/our-catholic- God hears our prayers. faith/liturgical -year/sunday-connection CATERING The St. Pierre Family Bailey EXCEL MASONRY AVAILABLE ST. ANTHONY SOCIETY In Memory of Chimney Repair/Patios We are hoping to get new members! All Types of Masonry Work Funeral ~ ELAINE ~ James E. Wishart Dom Pedrolini Restaurant 32 Years Experience 860-747-2528 Home 747-0566 WE ARE ON THE CHURCH from Mom & Dad 860-302-3255 1248 QUEEN STREET · SOUTHINGTON WEBSITE AT: WWW.OLMCT.ORG

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