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Saint Thomas the Apostle Church Church Pastor 82 Exchange Street Fr

Saint Thomas the Apostle Church Church Pastor 82 Exchange Street Fr

Saint the Apostle Parish Millis, Massachusetts

Saint Church Pastor 82 Exchange Street Fr. Sinisa Ubiparipovic [email protected] Rectory 111 Exchange Street Office Manager Millis, MA 02054 Matt Cooke (508) 376-2621 [email protected] saintthomasparish.org

May 2nd, 2021

Mass Times Rectory Office Hours Saturday: 5:00PM Tuesday-Friday Sunday: *8:30AM* & *10:30AM* 11:00AM-4:00PM Monday-Wednesday: *6:30PM* Church Hours Thursday-Saturday: *9:00AM* Sunday-Friday *Adoration and Confession* 8:00AM-8:00PM to follow Masses Saturday 8:00AM-6:30PM Radio Station Please tune in to the new FM station 87.9 from the Sacraments church parking lot if you would like to attend Mass Registration for Religious Education is now from your car! Communion available at the side open on the website for grades 1-10! door by the statue of Mary, but please let the priest, or one of the ushers, know that you’ll be there! Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish Millis, Massachusetts Announcements Scripture Study and Lectio Divina – What does it mean to be fruitful? Grow in your knowledge of the Word of God by joining us The Church teaches that there are 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit. These are the every Monday from 8:25PM to 9:15PM for a short and easy to “effects” of having an intimate relationship with . The 12 fruits understand Scripture study and meditation led by Fr. Sinisa. are charity (or love), joy, peace, patience, benignity (or kindness), goodness, longanimity (or long-suffering), mildness (or gentleness), faith, modesty, Easter Series continency (or self-control), and chastity. May 3rd – :24-31 May 10th – :1-14 Appearance to the 7 Disciples May 17th – John 21: 15-19 Jesus and Peter St. also said, “the fruit of silence is prayer, fruit of prayer is The Zoom link can be found on the parish website hompage. faith, fruit of faith is love, fruit of love is service, fruit of service is peace.” Meeting ID: 448-724-5156 When we have an authentic, personal and intimate relationship with God, then we produce fruit. If we simply go through the motions and externally practice religious acts, without it leading to conversion or transformation of mind and heart, we wither and produce no fruit.

What does this mean? “Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; Family Rosary – Thursday evenings at 7:00PM Fr. Sinisa people will gather them and throw them into a fire and other Saint Thomas families. Zoom link above. and they will be burned.”

Family Holy Hour – Our Lord, many times throughout the , gives us descriptions, warnings, and analogies of the reality of hell. In St. Thomas is hosting a Holy Hour with music and meditation :43 he says, “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is specifically geared toward families, from 6:30PM-7:30PM every better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go 2nd and 4th Friday of the month. Next family Holy Hour is into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.” In :28 he th Friday, May 14 . says, “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both Please be advised that you may be getting a call from some of soul and body in Gehenna.” Again in :13 Jesus says, our parish volunteers in the next few weeks, to see if any of your “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road parish information needs to be updated. broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.”

Jesus clearly warns us multiple times of the reality of hell and its fiery torments and that many souls go there. is real, so is hell. God forces noone into Heaven nor does He send anyone to Hell. Instead it is a choice everyone has to make in this short time that God has given us.

Online Giving Capital Improvements Calendar Please consider signing up for online giving on the May 3rd - 10th: Crosses Painted on the Church parish website under Register/Donate or by using the QR May 11th-17th: Shingles Replaced on Church Roof Code below! We are extremely grateful to our 60 donors who have already signed up! Average weekly online donation is If you wish to donate toward the improvement of the property ~$55/per donor. please donate online under “Special Collections” - Weekly Parish Offering “Capital Improvement” or send a check. So far we have raised Offertory – $ 1,782 $13,550 out of the desired $40,000 goal. Online – $ 3,464 Other upcoming projects: Maintenence – $ 135 • Replacing the sign in front of the church Total – $ 5,381 Weekly Goal – $ 4,800 • Prayer walk behind the church (Deficit)/Surplus – $ 581 • Modernizing the confessional Gifts - Capital Improv. – $ 6,650 • Building a crying room Reading I Reading II Acts 9:26-31 1 Jn 3:18-24 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the Children, let us love not in word or speech disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing but in deed and truth. Now this is how we shall know that he was a . Then took charge of that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him and brought him to the apostles, and he reported him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater to them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if our spoken to him, and how in he had spoken hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God out boldly in the name of Jesus. He moved about and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep freely with them in Jerusalem, and spoke out boldly in his commandments and do what pleases him. And his the name of the Lord. He also spoke and debated with commandment is this: we should believe in the name the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him. And when the of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he brothers learned of this, they took him down to commanded us. Those who keep his commandments Caesarea and sent him on his way to Tarsus. The remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know church throughout all , , and Samaria that he remains in us is from the Spirit he gave us. was at peace. It was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit it grew in numbers. Jn 15:1-8 Responsorial Psalm Jesus said to his disciples: “ the , and 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32 my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every R. I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You your people. are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”

Mass Intentions Saturday Sunday Monday – Friday Saturday Sunday May 1st May 2nd May 3th – May 7th May 8th May 9th 6:30PM MON 9:00AM THU 9:00AM 8:30AM 9:00AM 8:30AM Rita Murphy, LIV All Souls in Purgatory Richard Stocks, All Parishioners Jack Rushton Gill Chory 6:30PM TUE 9:00AM FRI LIV 10:30AM 5:00PM 10:30AM Fr. Dennis Sheehan, LIV John Francis Gill, LIV 5:00PM Waldo & Christine & Henry Natalie Bosse 6:30PM WED Ken Axelson Margaret Flynn Rev. Henry Doherty MacDonald

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