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MARGARET MARY PARISH 845 H IGH S TREET , P.O. B OX 386 WESTWOOD , MA 02090 OFFICE 781-326-1071 F AX 781-329-1879 www.saintmmparish.org

SIXTH S UNDAY IN O RDINARY T IME F EBRUARY 17, 2019

A3_J`J : ! Rev. Robert Cullen R Ext. 103  ! PJ7 J` 7J37`-7: ! Rev. W. Chris Palladino J.C.L  ! D7 -` E_7J : ! Rev. Mr. E. Holderried  ! DJ7- A F JG F_ J` ! F CGJY37`  Y G:  Karlene Duffy R Ext. 101  ! R7YJBJ  E3 - J` ! A3_J`J J*7 AJ `: ! Denise Ra ery R Ext. 102  ! DJ7- A _ J-/YJ B1: ! Mark Nemeskal R Ext. 111  ! P  Y AJ ` ! Brian Cullen R E xt. 107  ! P JG A3_J`J J*7 AJ `: ! Gina Semensi R Ext. 100   ! OAAJ-7 H : ! M`3 1 R FJ3 1 ! 9:30 AM R 5:00 PM ! ______! ! M  S-G73 Y7: ! ! Saturday: 4:30 PM  : 10:00 AM & 6:00 PM  ! Weekdays: 9:00 AM  Monday R Friday  ! C`A7J`: ! Saturday 3:45 R 4:15 PM ! ! B J_: Second Sunday of the month at 12:00 PM. Contact the office.  ! P  Y C 7 A G7 SJ-W: Contact the office for a visit to the homebound/sick. ! ! M J B7: Please contact us at least  six months in advance.  Aon WeShare users T if you have not received an PARISH SUPPORT ! email with your 2018 Annual Giving Report for tax Weekend of February 9th & 10th ! preparaon, please contact Brian Cullen in the parish ! office by phone or email. If you would like to set Rup In RPew: $4,177  online giving, please visit the parish website and click  “online giving” on the boom of the homepage. Thank Online: $2,313 you for your generosity to keep our Parish running!  Mailed: $625  SERVER TRAINING ! Total: $7,115  We will be offering altar server training here at St. ! ______! Margaret Mary a er the 10 AM Mass next Sunday  GRAND ANNUAL ! (Feb 24). This is an opportunity open to all 3rd grade students and older who have received their First As of Wednesday, February 13th ! ! Communion. Please contact Curn 167 families have contributed ! [email protected] or Ann Joyce [email protected] if you have any quesons.  $118,375 towards our $130,000 goal ! ! Thank you for your generous support! ! Last Chance to Sign up for BEACH BASH VBS! ! Tuesday & Wednesday (Feb. 19 & 20)  ! 9:30 AM V2 PM parcipants  ! 9 AM V2:30 PM volunteers  ! !  ! Spaces sll available for parcipants . ! Volunteer/ helpers spots full.  ! Registraon is on our website.  From Educaon to Addicon Recovery Services to Parcipants need be poy trained.  Faith Community Nursing for the elderly, more than 50 $30 per parcipant, snack and lunch provided.  crical ministries enrich parish life and the lives of those (Financial aid is available; requests are confidenal)  who turn to the Church for assistance. This past week, many of you received a leer from Cardinal Seán requesng your support of the 2019 Catholic Appeal, which provides nearly The Social Jusce Commiee would like to thank the half of the funding for these life Rchanging programs. We Parishioners for their generous support of the Food ! hope that you will prayerfully consider pledging your Pantry Drive. We delivered approximately 40 bags of support. Please find more informaon about this life R food to the food pantry to help those in need this changing work at bostoncatholicappeal.org and make sure winter. !! As always your generosity is remarkable. !! to view our latest video about the Appeal. Thank you! ! Thank you all! !!

2018 YEAR END FINANCIAL ! TAX STATEMENTS ! ! Year end financial acknowledgment statements for tax purposes for those who use envelopes and/ or ACH payments are available now by contacng the parish office staff at 781 R326 R1071 or via email to [email protected]. Contribuons to the Capital Campaign will be mailed out directly from Cornerstone, not St. Margaret Mary. For those who make their contribuons to the offertory online, these reports will be emailed directly  to you from WeShare.  FB?OR>OV 16  17 !! ! ! ! SFUQE SRKA>V FK OOAFK>OV TFJB !

Dear Friends in Christ, ! I’ve always had a bit of a rebellious side. Something in my nature has always made me feel like if everyone did something one way, I wanted to find another way to do it. Or to root for the underdog. Growing up in New York, my whole family are Yankee fans, so as a young kid, was probably born in the mid Rlate first century, most likely in I decided I’d be a Mets fan. As a teenager, I remember Smyrna (in modern Turkey). According to credible , that I once wanted to die my hair blue, just for shock and Jerome, Polycarp was a of the apostle John. Jerome also value, I guess. (No, I never did!) Years ago it was shocking claims that John ordained Polycarp as bishop of Smyrna. In the account to see someone with different colored hair, or mulple of Polycarp’s martyrdom wrien by the church of Smyrna, Polycarp piercings or taoos, and yet today, we barely blink our states that he had served Christ for 86 years, indicang that he was eyes. What was once counter cultural is now the norm. either raised in a Chrisan family or converted as a very young man. He Someme a er I returned to the Church in my late 20s, it met with the Ignaus of Anoch on his journey to Rome around occurred to me just how different that was from the 110 AD and corresponded with him through many leers. Polycarp also route my peers had taken. Being a Catholic in New wrote a leer to the Philippians, which is significant for its extensive England not that long ago was the norm. Being a Catholic references and quotaons from the scriptures that later came to compose the . He was likely a person of some here and now is counter cultural. ! importance in the Church in Asia Minor, as Irenaeus claims that We’re in good company though! The Prophet , Polycarp met with Anicetus, the Bishop of Rome (around 150 or 160 who we hear from in the first reading knew this all too AD), in order to discuss differences between the churches of Asia and well. Chosen by God to remind the Israelites of the Rome, parcularly the date of the celebraon of Easter. The Asian Covenant to them while they parcipated in idolatry of churches at that me followed the custom of celebrang Easter on the false gods did not win Jeremiah many friends. Instead, it 14th of Nissan (the first day of Passover), regardless of what day of the led to imprisonment, torture, exile and likely his death. week it fell on; the Roman church followed the pracce of celebrang Jeremiah trusted in the promise God made to him: Easter on the first Sunday a er the beginning of Passover. While the “Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is two bishops quickly came to accord on many of the quesons under in the Lord.” Saint Paul, all the Apostles and twenty discussion, they decided that each would connue to follow their own centuries worth of faced the same lot for their customs regarding the date of Easter, without breaking off communion with the other. Shortly a er his trip to Rome, Polycarp was executed, witness in spreading the Good News of the Risen Christ. along with several other members of the church of Smyrna. The elderly They, of course, did so in imitaon of the Lord Jesus bishop inially fled the city to a country estate in order to escape whose life was a fulfillment of all of the prophets. Jesus capture; however, a er receiving a , which he interpreted as might be the ulmate example of living counter predicng his martyrdom, he waited there to be arrested. A er having culturally. Throughout the we hear His family been granted an hour to pray by those who came to seize him, Polycarp members queson if He’s gone crazy. Some of the first was brought to the stadium to be burned at the stake. However, the disciples walk away a er hearing Jesus call Himself the fire refused to harm him and he was eventually stabbed to death. His Bread of Life. Ulmately, the leading religious authories martyrdom is significant because it is one of the earliest extant and is of the day carried out their plan to kill Jesus, who me the first to use the term “martyr” to refer to someone who has died for and again called them out for their hypocrisy. ! professing the Chrisan faith (as opposed to simply meaning “witness”).  ! The Beatudes, which makes up today’s reading, Polycarp served Christ faithfully through a very long life, shepherding don’t make sense to today’s . How could someone the church of Smyrna, resolving disputes within the larger Chrisan be blessed if they ’r e poor, hungry or hated? Famous community, and eventually giving his life for refusing to renounce his author G.K Chesterton once said “Jesus promised His faith. His witness is parcularly important in demonstrang how the disciples three things T that they would be completely Church grew in the years following the death of the apostles, fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.” Yes, maintaining and preserving the teaching of those who knew Jesus the Lord Jesus commands us to take up our daily personally. The account of Polycarp’s martyrdom emphasizes a number and face the hardships and persecuons that come from of parallels between his death and the passion narraves from the living counter culturally as His followers, but we do so in Gospels. In doing so, it portrays Polycarp as imitang Jesus’ crucifixion faith and hope of the promise of Eternal Happiness in and represenng the crucified Christ for his community. Polycarp Heaven. ! shows us that all Chrisans are called to represent Christ to others, just as Polycarp did in his teaching, reconciling, and dying.  Yours in the Lord’s Service, ! ! St Polycarp, pray for us. ! Brian Cullen ! (Contributed by Rachel Nelson) ! FB?OR>OV 16  17 !! ! ! ! SFUQE SRKA>V FK OOAFK>OV TFJB !

A LETTER FROM FR. MARK GEBE (SMA) ! ! It is exactly six (6) months that I le Saint Margaret Mary Parish Westwood a er the Summer Programme. Permit me once again to express my profound gratude to all of you for your love and care during the me spent among you. It has really been a great and a wonderful experience at Saint Margaret Mary Parish. ! You have always been helpful to the Missionaries over the years and I am a witness to that with all your generous contribuons towards my Mission as the SMA Vocaon Director in Ghana. Am now fully back to my duty a er the program. Below are some of the acvies I was able to carry out with your help. ! ! 1. ! RECRUITMENT OF CANDIDATES FOR THE PREPARATORY SEMINARY FOR 2018 R2019 ACADEMIC YEAR (BEGINNING OF THEIR PRIESTLY FORMATION): During my mission appeal at the Saint Margaret Mary Parish, Westwood on the 25th and 26th of August 2018, I presented a problem concerning formaon of future Missionary Priests to you, with the cost $5,500 for training one SMA Seminarian for one Academic Year (books, health care, transportaon, food, tuions etc). Your generous contribuons during my mission appeal really helped in the recruitment of candidates for the 2018 R2019 academic year. ! ! 2.! SMA YOUTH ENCOUNTER (CAMP) 2018: SMA Vocaon and Mission Animaon Centre in Collaboraon with the SMA Ghana ! Regional Council organize every year a youth event dubbed "Youth Encounter" for all youth. The purpose of this “Youth Encounter” is to insll in the Youth of our generaon good Chrisan values and to serve as a plaorm for Vocaon Animaon. The following acvies form part of the Youth Camp: ! R Prayer ! R Talk on Chrisan empowerment ! R Music ! R Sports and games ! R L ife planning ! R Chrisan socializaon, etc. !

3. ! SMA ASPIRANT MEETING AND RETREAT: From the 3rd to the 5th of January 2019, the SMA Vocaon office in Ghana organized a three Rday Aspirant retreat and meeng duped “Come and See”. This meeng brought together young boys and men interested in the priesthood to come, see and experience the SMA way of life. We had 16 parcipants for the “Come and See” program out of which ten (10) parcipants are fully qualified for the 2019 R2020 Academic Year. ! ! All these acvies were successful thanks to your spiritual and material support. I pray for you all so that the good Lord will bless you and the work of your hands as you connue to support our missions. ! God is good! All the me. May Saint Margaret Mary connue to pray for us all. ! ! Blessings, ! Fr. Mark ! FB?OR>OV 16  17 !! ! ! ! SFUQE SRKA>V FK OOAFK>OV TFJB !

Thank you to all who UPCOMING EVENTS AT LA SALETTE RETREAT CENTER ! aended our annual St. 947 Park Street, Aleboro, MA 02703  Valenne “Sweet Treat” for Call 508 R222 R8530 to register!  seniors. It was a pleasure to ! show love to those who Tuesday, February 26 th : 7:00 pm T 8:30 pm ! have done so much for our Find the FUN in DysFUNcon | Presenter: Doe Levesque ! parish and community and remain role This 4 Rsession evening seminar will examine the effects and affects of models for today’s youth. Blessings to all having been part of a dysfunconal family that did not recognize emoons, our YOUth who baked sweet treats for our process them and grow from them. It is important to know that it is never party as well as those who made wonderful too late to learn: 1/ sadness is not the foundaon of life; 2/ healthy laughter gi s, and donated candy. A St. Valenne is a healing factor; 3/ goals are achievable, even by me; 4/ God's love is the celebraon without chocolate? source of strength and courage to move forward. Find comfort in joining Unthinkable! Of course a party requires others on the same journey of discovering. ! many hands on deck and I am grateful to Suggested Donaon: $10 per person and per session ! Denise and Michael Ra ery as well as the Please note that the other 3 sessions of this 4 Rsession seminar are scheduled students who helped decorate, clean up, for March 12 th ; March 26 th ; and April 9 th , 2019 T 7:00pm to 8:30 pm.  serve punch and tea, run the bingo and ______ nd trivia games and played my mom ’s old Saturday, March 2 : 9:15 am T 4:00 pm (Registraon begins at 8:30 AM) ! records on my dad’s old phonograph. ! ! ! : Spiritual Pilgrim |Presenter: Sr. Marilyn Sunderman, RSM, Ph.D. Peace and prayers and stay tuned for details This program will focus on the Trappist monk Thomas Merton as a spiritual on our next event. ! pilgrim whose journey to God included !reflecons on experiences of prayer, Karlene Duffy ! prophec wrings on issues of social responsibility, and the !love of nature. !The !day includes presentaons of these topics and experiences

in !journaling prayer. ! Young Adult Suggested Donaon: $45 per person (includes lunch) ! Study ______ ! Wednesday, March 6th: 9:15 am T 4:00 pm (Registraon begins at 8:30 Join the Norfolk County Catholics for the AM) ! month of February every Thursday 7:30 R Ash Wednesday Retreat: Walk Through the Desert | Presenter: Doe Levesque  8:45 PM at St. Mary’s Walpole to read, This day will conclude with the celebraon of Mass and distribuon of reflect, and discuss the upcoming Sunday ashes. It will begin with a walk through the desert as Jesus leads us through Mass readings. No preparaon needed and the desert of our lives. The journey through desert sand leads to healing no pressure to be a biblical scholar, we are water. There, Jesus will tell all who listen: "Love alone is your birthright, not a welcoming group of young adults, each the fears that confine. (Joe Wise)” When absorbed, this truth reveals the with a genuine desire to grow closer to God inner calling to reach out to others with love, compassion and hope. ! through reading Scripture. For more Donaon: $45 per person (Lunch & Mass included in program) ! informaon, please visit our Facebook Page ______ at Norfolk County Catholics. ! Wednesday, March 20th: 10:00 am T 3:00 pm (Registraon begins at 9:30 am) ! Centering Prayer Spirituality: Chrisan Contemplave Pracce ! HELP WANTED ! Presenter: Ethel Fraga ! Parish is seeking a part Rme The day will consist of an introducon to and use of these following custodian 12 R16 hours per week. Potenal pracces: Leco Divina: a prayerful reading of Scripture; Centering Prayer: candidates must be proficient at regular an approach to meditaon in the Chrisan tradion; Welcoming Prayer: the cleaning and indoor and outdoor building pracce of welcoming life in good mes and in bad, making of all of life an maintenance; be available for weekends as offering; Walking Meditaon: walking in a centered and prayerful way ! needed; assist staff for setup and break- Eang Gratefully, Intenonally and with Reverence; NB: People who have down for parish acvies; have basic meditated in other tradions are welcome. ! knowledge of building systems; be physical- Suggested Donaon: $45 per person (includes lunch) ! ly able to shovel snow and perform required ! Go to our Website for more informaon: www.lasaleeretreatcenter.com ! dues. Interested individuals are invited to submit resumes to sm@sm.net ! FB?OR>OV 16  17 !! ! ! ! SFUQE SRKA>V FK OOAFK>OV TFJB !

Get Ready for Lent with Inspiring talks and book signings! ! ! Pauline Books & Media ! 885 Providence Hwy, Dedham, MA www.pauline.org/dedham ! ! “Intenonal Discipleship: CALLED” Conference ! ! Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP ! Remember Your Death: Memento Mori ! SATURDAY MARCH 2nd, 2019 Fontbonne Academy !(930 Brook Road, Milton, MA) ! Sat. 3/2 @ 10:30 AM V11:30 AM ! ! 9:30 AM R 3:30 PM (Mass/ dinner to 7:30 PM) ! S. Maria Grace Dateno, FSP ! ! Keynore speakers include Hosffman Ospino, Gina Five Things I Love About the Mass ! Bauer, and Sco Powell. Mass will be celebrated at Sat. 3/9 @ 10:30 AM V11:30 AM ! 4PM by Bishop Robert Reed, followed by dinner and another keynote by ! Kae Prejean McGrady. ! ! Breakout sessions !include the family as domesc church; engaging parents in faith formaon; discipleship in high school and college; witnessing in the workplace; ministering with people with a disability; recognizing and culvang gi s/charisms; and panel discussions on fostering a culture of vocaons and accompanying someone in their discernment process. For more info, please visit ! disciplesinmission.com/conference !

Forming Disciples in Mission is an all Rday (or two Revening) session to help develop a common language and skill set for the New Evangelizaon. Worldwide Marriage Encounter ! Parcipants learn how to share personal "Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, tesmony, strategies to help form disciples, and whose hope is the LORD." Trust the Lord to develop an understanding of what makes strengthen and enrich your marriage by evangelizing parishes.  aending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter ! Weekend. The next Weekends are Mar 8 R 2/23 (St. , W. Medford) ! R 10, 2019 in Duxbury, MA and Apr 13 14, 3/16 (Pastoral Center, Braintree) ! 2019 in Brewster, MA. For more To register for one of these upcoming workshops, informaon, call Stephen & Michelle O'Leary at 800 R710 R9963 or ! visit them at hps://wwmema.org/. ! please visit disciplesinmission.com/formingleaders FB?OR>OV 16  17 !! ! ! ! SFUQE SRKA>V FK OOAFK>OV TFJB !

Liturgies for the Week Ministers’ Schedule February 23rd & 24th Feb. 16 Saturday 4:30 PM John Ciampa Saturday, February 16th 4:30 PM Feb. 17 Sunday 10:00 AM Paula Agrusa (3rd Anniversary) Priest Fr. Cullen 6:00 PM Pro Populo

Lector Shelia O’Neill Feb. 18 Monday 9:00 AM Andy Gillis

Eucharistic Ministers Chuck Spiegel Feb. 19 Tuesday 9:00 AM Leo (Joe) Crowe Jr.

Principals Mark DeLorey Feb. 20 Wednesday 9:00 AM Evelyn Hines Nancy Meagher

Feb. 21 Thursday 9:00 AM Carole Winslow Special Assistance Bob Hanley

Feb. 22 Friday 9:00 AM Charles DeAngelis Altar Servers Ann Joyce Feb. 23 Saturday 4:30 PM Robert & Eleanor O’Hara ** 2 Altar Servers Needed **

Feb. 24 Sunday 10:00 AM Carole Winslow Sunday, February 17th 10:00 AM

6:00 PM James J. O’Leary III Priest Fr. Cullen (70th Brithday) Lector Rachel Nelson

Please pray for all the deceased of Eucharistic Ministers Holderried our parish including, Isabelle E. Principals Mary Sethna & Reginald Sethna Goode, whose funeral Mass we celebrated recently, as well as all of Altar Servers Reginald Sethna our sick and those who have asked for our prayers. ! ** 2 Altar Servers Needed **

Women’s Book Club will meet for Lent for an 8 R Sunday, February 17th 6 :00 PM week group Bible study called “The Turning Priest Fr. Cullen Point” with Dr. Allen Hunt.  More informaon coming soon!  Lector Maureen Bleday

Eucharistic Ministers Tom Nedder

Principals Ken & Lois Foscaldo

Altar Servers Will Bewley ** 2 Altar Servers Needed**

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