October 26, 2014 - Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Pastor - Rev. Kevin J. Martin Parish Central Office Cell - (207) 949-0382 145 Pritham Ave. P.O. Box 457 [email protected] Greenville, ME 04441-0457 (207) 695-2262

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St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish 370 Main St. - Jackman Sunday Masses at 11:00am and 5:00pm Confession by appointment

Sacraments of Initiation and Healing Sacraments of Vocation

 Marriage - Contact Fr. Kevin at least one year prior to  Baptism – Call the office at least 6 months in advance of intended date of wedding. the birth of your first child.  - Oct. 26, 2014 – “Love God with your whole  Confirmation – Call the parish office for more information. heart, with your whole soul, and with all your mind.” Is Christ  Eucharist – See Mass schedule. For a homebound or calling you to let Him manifest His love in your as a sick call, please contact the office or Fr. Kevin. priest? Call Father Seamus Griesbach at (207) 773-6471 or  Reconciliation - Saturday from 3:00-3:45pm at Holy write: [email protected] Family ; at St. Faustina and anytime by appointment call Fr. Kevin at 949-0382. For inquiries about the consecrated life contact:  Anointing of the Sick - If you or a loved one would like Sr. Rita Mae Bissonnette at (207) 773-6471 a visit, call Fr. Kevin at 949-0382. [email protected]

Holy Family Parish 145 Pritham Ave. - Greenville Saturday Mass at 4pm - Sunday Mass at 8:00am Confession Sat. at 3:00pm or by appointment St. Joseph Mission

4140 Rockwood Rd. - Rockwood

From Father Kevin’s Desk From Bette’s Desk

We will be worshipping in the chapel at Holy Family for Office Hours – I am happy to assist you with different needs. our Weekend Masses. As the cooler weather arrives, we are My office hours are Monday, Thursday and Friday from 9:00am using the chapel to help save on winter heating expenses. -12:00noon. You can reach me at 695-2262 or via email: [email protected]. Special thanks goes out to all from St. Anthony Parish who planned and supported our recent Ham and Bean Greenville Backpack Program - Help Feed Needy Supper last Saturday. We are grateful for your generosity with your time and great food! On behalf of the families and Families - Food can be dropped off in the box located in the friends who benefited from your service, thank you!! entrance of Holy Family Church. Thank you! This week’s food item is: Next weekend, we invite all our families and relatives to 9oz. box of crackers or individually packaged combo packs join us for our Annual Mass of Remembrance, which will FMI, contact Cecile Shields. Thank you for your support! be offered at Holy Family at the 4pm Mass and at St. Faustina Church at the 11am Mass. Family or friends of the deceased between November 2013 thru October 2014 will If you know of anyone who would like to prepare for the be invited at the Mass to light a candle in their honor. Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, or Eucharist, + Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the please notify Fr. Kevin or Bette in the parish office as faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. soon as possible so that we can meet with them and share Amen. the process with them. Recently, the Office of Lifelong Faith

During the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family, Formation met with priests of the diocese to review the which took place in from Oct. 4 thru 19th, there process and also to share our Bishop’s desire to celebrate the were many conversations and reflections on family life and Sacrament of Confirmation, both for the children and young how we as Church serve one another . There were an array of people and also those baptized, older adults who may have responses and reactions both within the church as well as within the secular press. At the conclusion of the gathering, not been confirmed. If you know of anyone who would like the Holy Father, gave a wonderful speech, to explore the Catholic Faith or prepare for Baptism, Full which I believe to be one of his finest yet, I wanted to ask you Communion into the , or other sacraments, to reflect upon his words, which I print on the pages 4-5 of please contact Fr. Kevin Martin at 949-0382. We also have our bulletin this week. The dialogue is ongoing and an Ordinary Synod will occur next year in Oct. 2015. people at each of our parishes who are willing to journey with you. St. Faustina Memorial Building Fund - We continue to accept memorial donations and any assistance is greatly 1st and 3rd Tuesdays - Holy Family Ladies Guild appreciated. Suggestions - consider remembering a loved one Meeting- The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November or friend, honor someone for a birthday or Christmas. Drop 4th at 2pm in the Chapel. All ladies are welcome. FMI, donation in the collection basket or mail to: St. Faustina contact Joyce Lessard. Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 457, Greenville, ME 04441. The funds will help us to pay for some of our final projects we Tuesdays at 1:30 PM - St. Faustina Ladies Prayer Group hope to complete as well as the $1,211.96 monthly mortgage meets to pray the Miraculous Medal Novena, the Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary, Stations of the Cross or a Chaplet. payment. Thank you for your support !! We offer the prayers for family, friends or anyone who is in need of prayer. Please let us know if there is a special person Christmas Cards for Sale - Keep Christ in Christmas that you would like us to add to our prayer basket. All ladies Support St. Faustina Church Building Fund of the parish are welcome to join us even if you can't come every week. $10.00 per box / Available at Church or thru Parish Office Raffle for a Full Size Quilt, Afghan, Candle Holder, and During the month of December, we will have a Stereo - $1.00 per ticket or $5.00 for book of 6 Calendar Raffle for St. Faustina Church Building Fund. Proceeds Benefit St. Faustina Church Building Fund If you have any new items to donate to the raffle, we See Isabelle Haggan or Jennifer Lacrosse for tickets are accepting donations. Drawing will be held November 30th after the 11am FMI, please see Isabelle or call 668-7762 Mass - Thanks for your support!

Weekly Offertory Collection Kindly remember in prayer : Pauline Bruchmann, Yvette Each parish needs an average of $1,100.00 weekly to meet Larochelle, Robert Godin, Jeannine Pinette, Lloyd Ferland, our 2014-2015 budget needs. If you are away a particular weekend, please remember to mail in or bring your weekly Crystal Levesque, Doris Martin, Ruth Brown, Linley Brown, offering to our parish. Thank you for your support! Jr., Denise Tibbetts, Amanda Favreau, Rosemarie Paradise, Rena Parent, Jim & Sue Johnston, Omer Servant, Lionel and Holy Family St. Anthony Theresa Breau, Dorothy Ragan; Richard Falardeau; Joe October 18 and 19 $ 657.00 $ 819.00 Guglielmo; Christine Fox Frauenheim; Father Eddy Morin; Cemetery Upkeep $ 10.00 $143.00 France Larochelle McAllister; Jeannette Morrill; Linda World Mission Sunday $282.00 $ 293.85 Kronholm; Audrey Schmitz; Rita Lampinen; Lauren Trigge; Gemma Tanguay; Arthur Giroux; Louise Mason; Lucy Fay; & St. Faustina Building Fund $ 120.00 Alice DeWyze. Thank you for your generous response to the Society for Weekly Prayer For Priests the Propagation of the Faith on World Mission Sunday. Oct. 26: Rev. James Plourde & Rev. Raymond Morency Our Parish contributions will reach the Church in Mongolia and Oct. 27: Rev. Theodore Letendre FIC & Rev. James Brewer local churches throughout the Missions, where the poor receive practical help and the experience of God’s love and mercy, His Oct. 28: Rev. Hilary Cameron & Rev. Richard Bertrand SJ hope and peace. FMI, please visit www.IAmAMissionary.org. Oct. 29: Rev. Rudolph Leveille & Rev. Armand Bill Sanctuary Candles for October 26 thru November 1 Oct. 30: Rev. Antony Richai Muthu HGN & Rev. Raymond Picard

Holy Family - In Memory of Marie Anna Boucher by Jeannine Plourde Oct. 31: Rev. Rene Lavoie & Rev. Real Nadeau St. Faustina - For All Parishioners Nov. 1: Our Holy Father Candles are $7.00 per week and will burn near our church tabernacle for one week. Candles may be offered for one’s Readings for the Week of October 26, 2014 personal intentions, or in memory of a loved one or friend. Oct. 26: Exodus 22:20-26 /1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10/Matthew 22:34-40 FMI, please call Bette at the parish office - 695-2262 Oct. 27: Ephesians 4:32-5:8 / Luke 13:10-17 Mass Intentions - To offer a Mass for a deceased relative or Oct. 28: Ephesians 2:19-22 / Luke 6:12-16 friend, use an envelope at the entrance of the church, make Oct. 29: Ephesians 6:1-9 / Luke 13:22-30 $10.00 check payable to the parish, in the memo line indicate whom the Mass Intention if being offered for. Pending Oct. 30: Ephesians 6:10-20 / Luke 13:31-35 availability, Masses will be offered either on a weekday or at Oct. 31: Philippians 1:1-11 / Luke 14:1-6 one of our weekend celebrations. Nov. 1: Revelation 7:2-4,9-14 / 1 John 3:1-3 / Matthew 5:1-12a Mass Schedule - October 25 thru November 2 DAY DATE TIME PLACE MASS INTENTION SAT. Oct. 25 4:00pm Holy Family Church Hugh Davis by Ed & Carol Worster SUN. Oct. 26 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. Oct. 26 11:00am St. Faustina Church Gary Gauthier by Rosaire & Lucia Gauthier SUN. Oct. 26 5:00pm St. Faustina Church Msgr. Vincent Tartarczuk by Father Kevin MON. Oct. 27 8:30am St. Faustina Church Leandre Achey by Lillian Bourque TUES. Oct. 28 8:30am St. Faustina Church Nephews Clint and Guy by Bob & Joyce Fountaine WED. Oct. 29 NO MASS NO MASS THU. Oct. 30 4:30pm Holy Family Church Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Giroux Sr. by Arthur and Diane Giroux FRI. Oct. 31 8:30am Holy Family Church John F. Mullins, Jr. by Bernice and family SAT. Nov. 1 4:00pm Holy Family Church All Deceased Parishioners of Holy Family SUN. Nov. 2 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners SUN. Nov. 2 11:00am St. Faustina Church All Deceased Parishioners of St. Anthony SUN. Nov. 2 5:00pm St. Faustina Church Willie M. Morin by Rejean and Gilles Morin

At the conclusion of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, Pope Francis addressed those assembled with the following speech on October 19th: “With a heart full of appreciation and gratitude I want to thank, along with you, the Lord who has accompanied and guided us in the past days, with the light of the Holy Spirit.

From the heart I thank Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod, Bishop Fabio Fabene, under-secretary, and with them I thank the Relators, Cardinal Peter Erdo, who has worked so much in these days of family mourning, and the Special Secretary Bishop Bruno Forte, the three President delegates, the transcribers, the consultors, the translators and the unknown workers, all those who have worked with true fidelity and total dedication behind the scenes and without rest. Thank you so much from the heart. I thank all of you as well, dear Synod fathers, Fraternal Delegates, Auditors, and Assessors, for your active and fruitful participation. I will keep you in prayer asking the Lord to reward you with the abundance of His gifts of grace! I can happily say that – with a spirit of collegiality and of synodality – we have truly lived the experience of “Synod,” a path of solidarity, a “journey together.”

And it has been “a journey” – and like every journey there were moments of running fast, as if wanting to conquer time and reach the goal as soon as possible; other moments of fatigue, as if wanting to say “enough”; other moments of enthusiasm and ardour. There were moments of profound consolation listening to the testimony of true pastors, who wisely carry in their hearts the joys and the tears of their faithful people. Moments of consolation and grace and comfort hearing the testimonies of the families who have participated in the Synod and have shared with us the beauty and the joy of their married life. A journey where the stronger feel compelled to help the less strong, where the more experienced are led to serve others, even through confrontations. And since it is a journey of human beings, with the consolations there were also moments of desolation, of tensions and temptations, of which a few possibilities could be mentioned:

- One, a temptation to hostile inflexibility, that is, wanting to close oneself within the written word, (the letter) and not allowing oneself to be surprised by God, by the God of surprises, (the spirit); within the law, within the certitude of what we know and not of what we still need to learn and to achieve. From the time of Christ, it is the temptation of the zealous, of the scrupulous, of the solicitous and of the so-called – today – “traditionalists” and also of the intellectuals.

- The temptation to a destructive tendency to goodness, that in the name of a deceptive mercy binds the wounds without first curing them and treating them; that treats the symptoms and not the causes and the roots. It is the temptation of the “do- gooders,” of the fearful, and also of the so-called “progressives and liberals.”

- The temptation to transform stones into bread to break the long, heavy, and painful fast (cf. Lk 4:1-4); and also to transform the bread into a stone and cast it against the sinners, the weak, and the sick (cf Jn 8:7), that is, to transform it into unbearable burdens (Lk 11:46). (continued…..—->)

- The temptation to come down off the Cross, to please the people, and not stay there, in order to fulfil the will of the Father; to bow down to a worldly spirit instead of purifying it and bending it to the Spirit of God.

- The temptation to neglect the “depositum fidei” [the deposit of faith], not thinking of themselves as guardians but as owners or masters [of it]; or, on the other hand, the temptation to neglect reality, making use of meticulous language and a language of smoothing to say so many things and to say nothing! They call them “byzantinisms,” I think, these things…

Dear brothers and sisters, the temptations must not frighten or disconcert us, or even discourage us, because no disciple is greater than his master; so if Jesus Himself was tempted – and even called Beelzebul (cf. Mt 12:24) – His disciples should not expect better treatment.

Personally I would be very worried and saddened if it were not for these temptations and these animated discussions; this movement of the spirits, as St Ignatius called it (Spiritual Exercises, 6), if all were in a state of agreement, or silent in a false and quietist peace. Instead, I have seen and I have heard – with joy and appreciation – speeches and interventions full of faith, of pastoral and doctrinal zeal, of wisdom, of frankness and of courage: and of parresia. And I have felt that what was set before our eyes was the good of the Church, of families, and the “supreme law,” the “good of souls” (cf. Can. 1752). And this always – we have said it here, in the Hall – without ever putting into question the fundamental truths of the Sacrament of marriage: the indissolubility, the unity, the faithfulness, the fruitfulness, that openness to life (cf. Cann. 1055, 1056; and Gaudium et spes, 48).

And this is the Church, the vineyard of the Lord, the fertile Mother and the caring Teacher, who is not afraid to roll up her sleeves to pour oil and wine on people’s wound; who doesn’t see humanity as a house of glass to judge or categorize people. This is the Church, One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and composed of sinners, needful of God’s mercy. This is the Church, the true bride of Christ, who seeks to be faithful to her spouse and to her doctrine. It is the Church that is not afraid to eat and drink with prostitutes and publicans. The Church that has the doors wide open to receive the needy, the penitent, and not only the just or those who believe they are perfect! The Church that is not ashamed of the fallen brother and pretends not to see him, but on the contrary feels involved and almost obliged to lift him up and to encourage him to take up the journey again and accompany him toward a definitive encounter with her Spouse, in the heavenly Jerusalem.

The is the Church, our Mother! And when the Church, in the variety of her charisms, expresses herself in communion, she cannot err: it is the beauty and the strength of the sensus fidei, of that supernatural sense of the faith which is bestowed by the Holy Spirit so that, together, we can all enter into the heart of the Gospel and learn to follow Jesus in our life. And this should never be seen as a source of confusion and discord.” ***The rest of the speech will be printed next week ****