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Year C Hymnal #984 XIX Sunday in Ordinary Time August 11, 2019

Fri., August 9 Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Weekend of August 4, 2019 Mon, August 12 Office CLOSED Regular Offertory $2,835.00 7 PM … Food Pantry Loose Offertory 369.20 Tue, August 13 6:00 PM … Susan Canty by Jack & Colleen Byrne Online Offertory Prev Wk 1,035.00 12:45 PM … Parish Nurse Sat., August 10 Saint Lawrence Total Offertory $4,239.20 Wed, August 14

4:00 PM … Richard O’Dowd & Ron Pichette by Claire O’Dowd 7 PM … Knights of Columbus Meeting Sun., August 11 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Stewardship Make up $ 15.00 Assumption of B.V.M. $ 100.00 7:30 AM … Bert & Irene Coulon by Lionel & Lillian Coulon On Monday, August 5, the Food Pantry $ 100.00 9:30 AM … Eddie & Mary (Howe) Byrne by Eileen Smith SRP Food Pantry served 15 5:00 PM … Our Parish Family ********************** Last Year: Wknd of August 5, 2018 families and gave out 38 Mon., August 12 Saint Jane Francis de Chantal Total Offertory $4,006.00 bags of groceries. The food 12 PM … John J. McDonnell, Jr., by Margaret-Ann Moran pantry needs plastic and paper grocery bags, Thank you for your sacrificial gift! Tue., August 13 Pontian, & Hippolytus canned baked beans and spaghetti sauce. 12 PM …  Dupre by the McGhee family Goal: $23,000 We welcome Wed., August 14 Saint Raised: $11,795 produce from 12 PM … Cornelia Tupola by Mary Jenkins Balance: $11,205 your gardens to 6:30 PM … Assumption of B.V.M. Vigil Mass Your gift bridges the gap for many give to clients of Thur., August 15 The Assumption of the B.V.M. of our neighbors and moves lives the SRP Food forward. Thank you for considering 8:30 AM … Camille “CJ” Grandmaison by Lionel & Lil Pantry on Monday evenings. If you have a gift to Catholic Charities. Enve- Coulon vegetables to share, please drop them off at lopes are at the ends of the pews Fri., August 16 King of Hungary and at the back of the church. the rectory Mondays before 4 PM. Thank Parish Office CLOSED Thank you! you! 6:00 PM … William Canty, Sr., by Jack & Colleen Byrne Sat., August 17 ROUTES/ OF FAITH eGiving ... Did you 2019—QUEBEC We are 4:00 PM … Our Parish Family know you can use Sun., August 11 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time your credit card or planning a weekend pil- 7:30 AM … Mary Marszal; Ernest, Carl & Jeanne electronic check to grimage to Quebec City, Bienvenue by Richard Bienvenue support the mission one of the most Old World cities in of Saint Par- 9:30 AM … Stephanie Dauphinais by Eileen Smith North America, on Columbus Day 5:00 PM … Rocco Ricci, Sr., by his family ish? This is especially helpful when you are on vacation. Go to our web- Weekend, Oct 11—14. 2019. Infor- site (www.st-raphael-parish.org) and Sanctuary candle The sanctuary candle mation can be found on our web- click on the Giving button. In a few site. Registration deadline is Aug. 27 burns this week for Our Parish Family. minutes, you can be sure that your gift will work every day of the year and spots are filling up fast. Call the Assumption of B.V.M. Masses— We will to help your parish. office at 623-2604 if you have ques- celebrate Masses on Wednesday, Aug. 14 tions. at 6:30pm (Vigil) in the main church and Thursday, Aug. 15 at 8:30am in the chapel. Free BBQ The Arthur J. O’Neil Council, serving Saint Raph- ael and Saint Lawrence Parishes, invites all men ages 18 and This is a holy day of obligation and all pa- over who might be interested in learning more about the rishioners and visitors are encouraged to works of the Knights of Columbus and the benefits of join- ing them, with their wives or girlfriends and their families, READINGS FOR THE WEEK of August 11, 2019 are invited to a free introductory, no pressure, informal Sunday afternoon Monday: Dt 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; Mt 17:22-27; of food and fun following the 10:30 AM Mass at Saint Lawrence Church on Tuesday: Dt 31:1-8; Dt 32:3-4ab, 7, 8, 9 and 12; Mt 18:1-5, 10, Sunday, Aug. 25 at noon at the home of past Grand Knight John Flanagan 12-14; Wednesday: Dt 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3a, 5 and 8, 16-17; Mt and his wife Valerie at 9 Pollard Road, Goffstown. Catholic men, with their 18:15-20; Thursday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; Ps 132:6 families, are urged to attend this free annual event! -7, 9-10, 13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28; Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Ps 45:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56; HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN Friday: Jos 24:1-13; Ps 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22 and 24; Mt 19:3- GROW? Perhaps you’d like 12; Saturday: Jos 24:14-29; Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 11; Mt 19:13 -15; Sunday: Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18; Heb 12:1-4; Lk to contribute some of the 12:49-53 beautiful blossoms to adorn Save the date! Our Christmas the at SRP! We’d love Festival will be Nov. 15 and Suicide Lifeline: If you or someone you know struggle with to display them! Please drop them off in the 16, 2019. Please call the office church sacristy Saturday afternoons between at 623.2604 or email suicidal thoughts, you can call the U.S. National Suicide Christmas.festival@st-raphael- Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) any time 3-3.45 p.m. parish.org if you have ques- of day or night. tions or would like to help. From the Pastor: Fr. Joseph Day, O.S. , in America 400 years ago this month, couldn’t prevent sanctity

Before the start of the 11 a.m. Mass last Sun- the Church and joined the Secular Franciscan day at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, order in 1901. She became devoted to the King of France, in , I was , the Blessed and the Eu- prowling around trying to soak up some of the charist. She distributed Catholic literature on Catholic history in the Big Easy. Few American the streets and remained so active in assisting cities, perhaps none, rival New Orleans in the the poor that she was known as “’s breadth and depth of its historical and cultural Angel of Charity.” connections to the faith. I was in town to pre- In the crypt, normally reserved for bishops, sent a conference paper, so the opportunity to of ’s Cathedral in New York, one visit the cathedral, located right on the banks of can find the tomb of (1766- the Mississippi, was impossible to resist. In my 1853). He was a slave from present-day wanderings, I came upon a little nook that was and brought by his owners to New York in a chapel dedicated to the memory of Henriette 1787. When his mistress died in 1807, Pierre DeLille. In the several windows, she was hold- took Toussaint as his surname to honor Tous- ing infants, caring for the sick and poor and saint L’Ouverture, who led the rebellion instructing youngsters. against French colonialism and established the I resolved to discover little bit more about independence of Haiti. Reared as a Catholic her, even though this column was intended to and educated by his owners, the Bérard fami- be about the 400th anniversary of the intro- ly, Pierre Toussaint was taught by family tu- duction of slavery. That anniversary is noth- Top left, captured Africans aboard Dutch ship arrive in Virgin- tors and trained to be a house servant. As rebel ing to celebrate, but it is eminently worthy of ia in August of 1619; top right , Mother Mary Elizabeth and racial tensions grew in Haiti, the family commemoration. Any celebration attaches emigrated to New York, taking some slaves, Lange. Bottom, from left, Mother Henriette DeLille, Fr. Augus- not to the institution, but of the people who, including Toussaint and his sister, Rosalie. He dragged in chains from their homes in West tus Tolton, Pierre Toussaint, . was apprenticed to a hairdresser. After his Africa, triumphed in many cases over the igno- tered to poor blacks, free or enslaved, and Cre- master returned to Haiti and died there, the rance, prejudice and oppression imposed upon oles, or those of mixed race. Sadly, she became slave voluntarily supported his mistress. them. Their triumph lies in survival, establish- estranged from her brother, who felt that her Freed upon the death of the mistress, who had ment of an African-American culture and re- identification with the black community ex- remarried, Toussaint saw his hairdressing skill markable achievements by many individuals. posed his racial identity to his white associates. blossom as a business. He began to support Henriette DeLille is one. To reflect on such Mother (1784- the poor, the orphaned, the Church, the new- individuals, however, does not allow one to 1882), was born in to Haitian parents. By comers flooding the city and various other char- ignore the human cost and tragedy of slavery. 1813, she had made her way to . ities, including the first Catholic school for Although different incidents claim to be the There, she founded in 1829 the Oblate Sister of black children in New York. He helped fund moment when slavery came to what is now the Providence, the first congregation of African construction of Saint Patrick’s Church on Mul- U.S., historians generally agree that the arrival American women religious in the Church. They berry Street, in due course the city’s first cathe- of a Dutch ship at Jamestown, VA, in August of ministered to slaves and free blacks from the dral. Toussaint married a slave, Juliette Noel, 1619, marks the beginning of the slave trade U.S., as well as French-speaking blacks from whose freedom he purchased in 1811, and they here and its systematic oppression of an esti- the Caribbean through education, health care adopted the daughter of his sister Rosalie, who mated 10 million human beings. The U.S. and homes for the elderly. Mother Mary Eliza- had died. Rosalie’s freedom he also purchased. Census for 1860 counts nearly 4 million slaves. beth was the first general. She and her His correspondence includes letters to the Bér- While slavery existed longest in the South, we sisters ministered to cholera patients in an epi- ard family in France, who fell on hard times New Englanders should recognize blood in this demic in 1832, sheltered the old and served as after the . region too. During the colonial period, slavery domestics at Saint Mary’s Seminary. Throughout history, the suffering of many existed here too, legally proscribed in the 1780s Father (1854-1897), the men and women has led them to achieve re- and abolished in practice by 1800. Portsmouth, first black American priest, was a former slave markable things against all odds. That surely is NH, has an historical trail detailing features baptized and reared as a Catholic in his native the case of the Afro-American community. of an African-American community, its origins . His godmother was the wife of his Amid those achievements, however, there are in local slavery. As Catholics, we cannot escape master. How freedom came to Tolton and his some, born into slavery or surrounded by racial the historical connection to slavery either. That family is disputed; some accounts say their prejudice, whose faith, devotion and charity Dutch pirate ship had raided a Spanish vessel owner freed them, others show the family es- leave one in awe. Out of the swamp of slav- carrying cargo and slaves, rerouting both for a caping to Quincy in the free state of Illinois. An ery’s evils, they demonstrate that divine grace profit to the new English colony. Men and Irish-born priest there, Father Peter McGirr, and human cooperation can let sanctity arise. It women stolen from home, held by Catholic was impressed by Tolton’s abilities, enabled should be no surprise, then, that the cause for imperialists, stolen by Protestant pirates, and him to study in the parish school despite some the of each of these five African deposited in the New World - the web of slav- opposition, and eventually arranged for him to Americans as saints of the Church is under ery’s evil is extensive. pursue priestly studies in Rome. Ordained in way. © Rev. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B. Mother Henriette DeLille (1813-1862) was 1886, “Good Father Gus” was known for his born in New Orleans the daughter of a free eloquent preaching, beautiful singing and rol- woman of color and a French father in a com- licking accordion-music. His success in con- mon-law marriage in the so-called plaçage verting blacks and in establishing parishes for system. Well educated in the French system them won the respect of the American bishops. and destined for marriage à la plaçage, she was Julia Greeley (1833-1918), a lay woman, drawn to the Catholic faith of her birth, resist- was born a slave in Hannibal, MO, the town ing common-law arrangements, and, instead, made famous by Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer felt called to religious life. She taught in a and Huck Finn novels. Throughout her life, she Catholic school for girls of color, gave away born the consequence of slavery, an injury to her inheritance and founded a community of her right eye inflicted by her owner while whip- nuns, eventually established as the Sisters of ping her mother. With Missouri’s Emancipation the Holy Family. Her sisters, originally one Act in 1865, Greeley was able to move to Colo- French and seven young Creole women, minis- rado, where she worked with the poor, entered