Saint Patrick ‘A Faith Community since 1870‘ 1 Cross Street Whitinsville, MA 01588

MASS SCHEDULE Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday: 4:30 PM Sunday 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 5:00 PM Rectory Phone: 508-234-5656 Monday– Wednesday 8:30 AM Rectory Fax: 508-234-6845 Religious Ed. Phone: 508-234-3511 Sacrament of Reconciliation: Parish Website: www.mystpatricks.com Confessions are offered every Saturday from 3:30 - 4:00 PM in the Church or by calling the Find us on Facebook at Parish Office for an appointment. St Patricks Parish Whitinsville St. Patrick Church, Whitinsville MA October 16, 2016 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Rev. Tomasz Borkowski: Patrick Stewart: Deacon Chris Finan: Deacon Pastor Deacon [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Mrs. Christina Pichette: Mrs. Shelly Mombourquette: Pastoral Associate to Youth Ministry Administrative Assistant [email protected] [email protected]

Mrs. Maryanne Swartz: Mrs. Mary Contino: Wedding Coordinator Coordinator of Children’s Ministries [email protected] [email protected]

Mrs. Jackie Trottier: Operations Manager Mr. Jack Jackson: Cemetery Superintendent: [email protected] [email protected]

Ms. Jeanne LeBlanc: Ministry Scheduler Mrs. Marylin Arrigan: Staff Support, Bulletin [email protected] [email protected]

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SCHEDULE OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL Pre school Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 71 Mendon Street, Uxbridge, MA 01569

Kindergarten Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 508-278-5851 First Grade Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM www.ourladyofthevalleyregional.com Grades 2 & 3 Sunday 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM Grades 4 & 5 Sunday 8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Free Breakfast every Saturday from 8-10

Children are to attend the 10:00 am Mass and take part AM for those in need. Would you like to be in the Children’s Liturgy of the Word. a part of this ministry? Contact Grades 6, 7 & 8 Monday –6:45 PM - 8:00 PM [email protected] or call the rectory. Donations are always welcome. Every First Thursday join us Formal High School Classes will take place September- at Jube’s with a coupon and 10% of your bill will be donated to December at varied times. Special Sessions take place John 21. Watch the bulletin for the coupon. throughout the year check the weekly schedule for times.

Sacrament of Baptism: For information concerning our Music Ministry Parent and Godparent Preparation Program, please contact the Cantor Rehearsal: First and Third Tuesdays 7:00-8:30 PM Parish Office approximately three to six months before the Contemporary Music Ensemble Rehearsals: Sept. 27th, 7:00 child is born. PM and then in Nov: Second & Fourth Tuesday 7:00-9:00 PM Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions are offered Shamrocks: Students age 6-12 Watch Bulletin for rehearsal every Saturday from 3:30 - 4:00 PM in the Church or by times and events. calling the Parish Office for an appointment. New Members are Always Welcome in any Music Ministry. Sacrament of Matrimony: Couples should contact a Parish Prayer Shawl Ministry Priest as soon as they decide to marry and before any other As a parishioner of St. Patrick’s, you can request a Prayer arrangements are made. The Diocesan policy requires a Shawl for someone whom you feel needs comfort by calling or minimum one-year period of preparation. e-mailing Lucille at 508-234-2255 or [email protected] or Sacrament of the Sick & Homebound Visits call Shelly or Jackie at the rectory at 508-234-5656 Please inform us when a family member is admitted to the SPiN--St. Patrick’s in Action—Contact Shelly hospital. Communion visits to the aged, sick, convalescing and Mombourquette to find out about this monthly service of homebound are a major concern to us. Please call the Rectory giving back to our community at [email protected] at 508-234-5656 to arrange these ministerial visits. NAC Food Pantry 508-234-4599 RCIA The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults teaches the Open Tuesdays 10:00 AM-12:00 PM history, traditions and Sacraments of the Roman & Thursdays 1:00-3:00 PM Church. Non-Catholics or Catholic Adults seeking 508-234-3800 information about full initiation into the , Contact Noreen Landry for support in times of need. through Baptism, Eucharist or Confirmation, should contact Fr. Bulletin Information Deadline Tomasz at the Parish Office (508-234-5656) or Ed or Pauline Information may be e-mailed to [email protected] or Rutana at 508-234-7089. dropped off at the rectory by Monday evening. 2 St. Patrick Church, Whitinsville MA October 16, 2016 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Members of the family requesting the The Mass book is open for the months of Mass are asked to bring the gifts of October-December. If you would like to bread and wine to the altar. Please book a mass in memory of a loved one make yourselves known to the lector please call the rectory at 508-234-5656. and sit near the gifts.

Saturday, Oct. 15 4:30 PM +

Sunday, Oct. 16 8:00 AM + Remi Roy By the Family 45th Anniv. 10:00 AM + Norman Violette By his Family 15th Anniv. 5:00 PM + Parishioners of St. Patrick

Monday, Oct. 17 8:30 AM +

Tuesday, Oct. 18 8:30 AM + All the Holy Souls in By Helpers of Holy Souls Purgatory

Wednesday, Oct. 19 8:30 AM + Thursday, Oct. 20 No Mass

Friday, Oct. 21 No Mass Saturday, Oct. 22 4:30 PM + Dot Skerry By the Bereavement Committee Sunday, Oct. 23 8:00 AM + Manuel Remigio By the Verla Family 10:00 AM + Michael Wilga By his Family 5:00 PM

October 16—Propagation of the Faith Second October 23—Utilities Nov. 1– All Saints Nov. 2– All Souls Collection Nov. 6– Building Fund Schedule

Sunday, Oct. 16 Faith Formation Session 8:50 AM-12:15 PM Center Decision Point for 9th & 10th Grades 5:00-7:30 PM Center

Monday, Oct. 17 Middle School Faith Formation Classes 6:45-8:00 PM Center

Tuesday, Oct. 18 6:00-6:45 PM Chapel

Wednesday, Oct. 19 Prayer Group and Bible Study 7:00-8:00 PM Chapel

Thursday, Oct. 20

Friday, Sept. 21 Saturday, Oct. 22 John 21 Community Breakfast 8:00-10:00 AM Center Baptism of Molly Elizabeth Mulcahy 4:30 PM Church

Sunday, Oct. 23 Faith Formation Session 8:50 AM-12:15 PM Center Decision Point for 9th & 10th Graders 5:00-7:30 PM Center Welcoming Committee Meeting 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” – C.S. Lewis 3 St. Patrick Church, Whitinsville MA October 16, 2016 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“When I was sick you visited Are you new to St. Patrick me.” (Matthew 25:36) Parish? E-CHURCH and E-Visiting the sick? Become a member by going to These are the words from Jesus’ last judgment mystpatricks.com to register on-line. Do scene as found in the Gospel of Matthew. One of the central you have students to register for aspects of parish life is undoubtedly caring for the sick and Religious Education? the homebound. It is not uncommon for lay ministers and Go to the Religious Education tab and family members to bring communion to the sick on a weekly basis, as is the case at St. Patrick’s. In some parishes, register on-line, or stop by the office. or parish nurses take on a full time responsibility of visiting, counseling and supporting the sick members of their commu- nities. In our town for many years a religious community of St. Camillus cared for the sick at St. Camillus Health Care Cen- If you have lost a loved one ter. The order of Camillians was founded in 1582 by St. Ca- during this past year and would millus de Lellis. The founder taught his volunteers that the "hospital was a house of God, a garden where the voices of like them remembered in our All the sick were music from heaven." Today members of St. Patrick’s provide spiritual outreach Souls Day Memorial Service on by bringing communion to the residence of St. Camillus and 11/16/16 @ 7:00 PM please every Sunday mass is celebrated there at 2:00 p.m. In addition to visiting the sick, bringing Holy Communion contact the office at 508-234-5656 or to them, and providing services in our local health care facili- e-mail Jackie at: ties, we are beginning a new initiative of streaming a Sunday Mass over the internet to the sick and the homebound. You [email protected] by 11/11/16 could call it an e-church visit. Remember we used to get mail. We still do. But today the mail source of communication is email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snap Chat to name a few. The way we communicate and reach out to one another Scripture for the week of has changed in the last two decades in ways I could not have imagined. We believe that we are called to use modern means of October 16, 2016 communication to connect to those who cannot be here with us. One way to do it is to stream a Mass. Please, keep this new 16 SUN Ex 17:8-13/2 Tm 3:14-4:2/Lk 18:1-8 initiative in your prayers. 17 Mon Eph 2:1-10/Lk 12:13-21 How did we come up with this ideal? More and more par- 18 Tue 2 Tm 4:10-17b/Lk 10:1-9 ishes utilize social media and modern technologies; one of 19 Wed Eph 3:2-12/Lk 12:39-48 them being the Vatican. But on a more personal note, two 20 Thu Eph 3:14-21/Lk 12:49-53 years ago I went to visit one of our parishioners who is sick 21 Fri Eph 4:1-6/Lk 12:54-59 and homebound. We continue to do that. She had been a 22 Sat Eph 4:7-16/Lk 13:1-9 member of the parish her entire life and during our conversa- 23 SUN Sir 35:12-14, 16-18/2 Tm 4:6-8, 16-18/Lk tions she told me how much she misses St. Patrick’s. How she 18:9-14 used to love to go to church every Sunday. She gets update from our parish bulletin but it is not the same. She felt very disconnected. She was sitting in front of me with a laptop Is God Calling You? computer on her lap. She told me how much she enjoys talk- ing with her children and grand children over SKYPE. Of Do You Know Someone Who course, she cannot visit with them physically because they do Would Like To Learn More About not live in the area. But she talks with them at least couple of The Catholic Faith? Is There times a week. Someone You Know Who Is So that is the story and I thought to myself: “Why not Baptized Catholic, But Never bring the church to her via internet.” That would be a great Received The Sacraments of idea. So over the last two years we have been working on that Eucharist and Confirmation? and we are very close to accomplishing it. We are hoping to start streaming one Mass (to begin with) every Sunday. I mentioned it last week to another parishioner who just re- St. Patrick’s RCIA Team is excited to invite you cently became homebound with cancer. You should have on “A Journey of Faith”. Let us walk with you as seen her face! She was so excited with the idea. Visiting the you discover more about the Catholic Faith and its sick today has potential to have many different forms; the role in our lives. For more information please newest one is an “E-Visit” over the internet. contact Deacon Chris Finan at (508) 234-5656.

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JOHN 21 Senior Luncheon COMMUNITY BREAKFAST

We have now served over Invitations were sent out 18,000 meals. We average 150 last week for the to 160 meals a week. It is November 1st amazing to see everyone come to Fall Luncheon for our tables. They are waiting at The Sunshine Seniors. the doors and a lot of times we have a full house at the very beginning. Mass will be at noon followed by a luncheon in the Parish Center. With the growth of our program comes the need for more help. We would like to add 2 or 3 more Please notify the office at 508-234-5656 to people to the teams. Do you have a friend that make your reservation. would like to join you to serve once every 9 weeks? We would love to have you join us. Feel free to sign The Knights of Columbus up by calling the rectory 508-234-5656 or e-mailing

[email protected]. If you are not a member of the Knights of Columbus and would like to join us, please talk to any Knight The Cursillo Movement is spon- or visit www.kofc365.org. soring “Traveling Ultreya” at St. Paul's Parish, 48 St. Paul Street, Blackstone, MA on Sunday, October 16th at 3:00 NAC Food Pantry p.m. with a Mass at 5:00 p.m. There Please remember those that are less will be music, an inspirational speaker fortunate. The NAC Food Pantry helps and fellowship. local area families, and will accept any ALL ARE WELCOME!! nonperishable food in date. If you would like to donate please drop items off in the boxes at the entrance of the Church or Help Needed drop a donation in the basket marked for the NAC Have you thought of helping Food Pantry. our local community? Please consider joining our teams as we go to various nursing homes HOLIDAY FAIR and alternative sites. Sponsored by the St. Denis Catholic Women’s Council

Saint Denis Church These communities treasure our visits. 23 Manchaug Street, Douglas, MA Please go on line http://www.mystpatricks.com/ (St. Denis is handicap accessible) spin to register or call the rectory. Saturday, November 5, 2016 The following are the dates for the rest of the 9:00 am – 2:00 pm year please consider joining us for all or one. You will be glad you did. November 13, Luncheon Children’s Menu December 11, January 15, February 12, March 12, Baked Goods Raffle Tables April 2, May 21 or June 11. Holiday Crafts Fancy Work Doll Clothes Bracelets Chocolate Treats Jewelry Children’s Activities And Much More We need Greeters and Be sure to take a chance on our Lottery Scratch Ticket Raffle! Eucharistic Ministers for the new 5:00 PM Mass. Are you on Twitter? Follow Deacon Chris on Twitter for St. Patrick’s updates, Bible Please contact the office at 508-234- verses, spiritual exercises and a daily en- counter with Jesus. Come Tweet for Jesus! 3511 or [email protected] Follow me at @DeaconChrisPatr.

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Prayer for Those in the Service

Almighty God, we stand before you asking for your divine mercy and protection. Embrace with Your invincible armor our loved ones in all branches of the service. Give them courage and strength against all enemies both spiritual and physical and hasten their safe journey back to their homes and families. Amen Please remember the following service personnel in your Prayers as they serve and protect our country: Pvt. Tyler Finnigan, US Army, Ft. Devens, MA L.Cpl. Aaron Marshall, Okinawa, Eric Hoyt, Machinist 1st Class, USS George H.W. Bush Aircraft Carrier, U.S. Army, L.Cpl. Troy Monteville, Afghanistan, LTJG David Mobed, US Navy, USS Mason

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