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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Sixth Sunday of Easter May 26, 2019 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and School Fr. Tim Meares, Pastor www.olphrm.com 331 Hammond Street • Rocky Mount, NC 27804 • Office: (252) 972R0452 • Fax: (252) 972R4780 STAFF DIRECTORY M AY IS THE M ONTH OF M ARY CHURCH OFFICE Excerpts from The Glories of Mary public calamities she invariably prayer be only a simple Hail (252) 972-0452 by St. Alphonsus Liguori calls upon the faithful to enlist Mary. OFFICE HOURS How Promptly Mary Helps All her protection through novenas, How quickly this good Monday—Friday Who Invoke Her through prayers and Mother helps all who pray to 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM WE are the poor children of processions, through visits to her! She not only runs, but flies, FR. TIM MEARES Eve. Inheriting her guilt and her churches and shrines. to our assistance. Pastor … Ext 1 condemned to the same penalty, Our Lady herself desires this. So great is this good Mother's Rectory … (252) 972-1949 we have to wander about in this She wants us to seek her always compassion, and her love so valley of tears, exiles from our and invoke her aid. It is not as if urgent, that she does not even DEACON JOSEPH KIBBE Ext 1 country, weeping over our many she were begging us for these wait for our prayers --- she afflictions of body and soul. marks of veneration, for they anticipates them. She hastens to MRS. ANNA ZIEGLER But happy are they who, in cannot come up to her make herself known in Secretary . Ext 1 spite of their sorrows, turn often deserving. She desires them so anticipation of people's desire MRS. JENNY JALETTE to the comfortress of the world, that our confidence and (Wis. 6:14). Director of Religious Education ...Ext 2 to the refuge of the miserable, devotion may be increased by Her heart is full of pity for to the great Mother of God, and them and move her to answer poor sinners, and scarcely has MRS. PENNY SILVERS devoutly invoke her. us with greater help and she noticed our miseries when Music Director & RCIA … Ext 3 The Church is careful to teach comfort. she lavishes her tender mercies her children with what attention St. Bonaventure observes that on us. CARITAS . Ext 4 and trust they should pray to Ruth, whose name means SCHOOL OFFICE this loving protectress. For this "seeing and hastening," was a (252) 972-1971 purpose she commands them to figure of Mary; "for Mary, have special devotion to her. seeing our miseries, mercifully SCHOOL OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday She has instituted many feasts hastens to help us." 7:30AM to 3:30 PM of Our Lady, and she sets aside Novarinus adds that "Mary, in MRS. JULIE LOVE one day in the week for her her intense desire to help us, can Principal special honor. She recommends brook no delay, for she is not at that all priests and religious in all an avaricious hoarder of the CONFESSIONS their daily Office invoke her in graces at her disposal, but a Tuesday: after 8:00 AM Mass Wednesday: 5:30 - 6:00 PM the name of the whole Christian Mother of Mercy, and instantly Saturday: 4:00 - 5:00 PM body, and she recommends that showers down the treasures of or by Appointment all the faithful pray to her three her liberality on her servants." times a day at the sound of the Richard of St. Lawrence LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Angelus. assures us that Mary pours out Saturday Vigil: 5:30 PM See the confidence which the her compassion on everyone Sunday: 9:00 AM Church places in Mary: in all who prays for it, even if the 12:30 PM (Español), 6:00 PM (Traditional Latin Mass) Monday-Thursday: 8:00 AM Sacraments Friday 9:00AM Holy Matrimony Anointing Arrangements must be made Baptism of the Sick ST. JOSEPH ADORATION CHAPEL with the parish clergy at least Arrangements must be made Available upon request prior Monday—Friday 6:00AM-Midnight six months in advance. with the church office. to surgery or at the time of Participation in the Diocesan illness. Pre-Cana program is required. Page 2 Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rocky Mount Friday, May 31, 2019—The Queenship of Mary 7:00PM Missa Cantata, followed by Re-consecration of parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary A dessert will follow Mass in the parish hall. Saturday May 25, 2019 5:30 PM For the People First Saturday Devotion Sunday May 26, 2019 During her third apparition on July 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin 9:00AM For All Who Died in announced that she would come again to ask for “… Service to Our Country the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays.” Thus, on 12:30PM Spanish Mass December 10, 1925, the Blessed Virgin, with the Child Jesus at her side, 6:00PM Myra & Tristan Miller appeared to Lucia saying: “My daughter, look at my Heart surrounded with the thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me constantly through Monday May 27, 2019 blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me, and tell 8:00AM No Mass people that I promise to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months: Tuesday May 28, 2019 • Confession, (the confession can be made eight days and even more, before or after the 8:00AM Kim DiGiacomo first Saturday). • Receive Holy Communion Wednesday May 29, 2019 • Pray five decades of the Rosary 8:00AM Bishop James Checchio, Jr. + • And keep me company for 15 minutes meditating on one or more of the mysteries with the intention of offering me reparation. Thursday May 30, 2019 - from Our Lady of Fatima, Our Mother Comes to Us, International Pilgrim Virgin Statue Foundation, Inc. 8:00AM Bishop James Checchio, Jr. + Friday May 31, 2019 Saints Devoted to Mary—this week, St. Bonaventure 9:00AM Graduating 8th Graders of Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (b. 1221; d. 1274 A. D.), is one of the most famous OLPH School theologians and mystics in the Roman Catholic Church. The Popes have repeatedly set St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas before the universal Church as outstanding Saturday June 1, 2019 proponents and expositors of the dogma and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. 8:00AM In Thanksgiving to Like his spiritual father St. Francis of Assisi, St. Bonaventure had the most ardent Our Lady devotion to the Immaculate Mother of God. 5:30PM Shirley Crowell —see full text at www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/IC-BAGNO.HTM "Blessed is the man who loves thy name, O Mary. Yes, truly blessed is he who loves thy Sunday June 2, 2019 9:00AM For the People sweet name, O Mother of God! For thy name is so glorious and admirable, that no one 12:30PM Spanish Mass who remembers it has any fears at the hour of death." 6:00PM Gray Baines + St. Bonaventure shares his devotion to Mary is in his great Marian work, Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary and in the collection of Psalms praising Mary, titled Immaculate Conception The Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sunday May 26, 2019 11:00AM Intention of the Celebrant NO MASS ON MONDAY, MAY 27TH There will not be a Mass on Monday, May 27th. The church office will also be closed on this day. Please make a note of these changes. Prayer for the Fallen Offertory God our creator and sustainer, Offering Given . $ 5,405.00 today our country brings to our memory Fiesta! . $1,131.00 those who have defended this nation in times of trouble. They have sacrificed their lives to protect our shores Today’s second collection is for from those who would limit our freedoms Peter’s Pence. or enslave us to ways that are against your will. The second collection on June 2nd will Bring all those who have died in service to our country be for Catholic Communication into your heavenly presence. Campaign. We humbly call down your blessing on those still serving; grant your heavenly protection to these men and women, Donate online: http://olphrm.org and open your Sacred Heart to give them peace and comfort. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So many good things happening as we conclude this school year! On Friday, 5/24, we DURING THIS BEAUTIFUL MONTH OF MARY, prayed a living rosary in the YOU ARE INVITED TO SHOW DEVOTION TO church led by Father Meares. What a gift to come together in THE BLESSED MOTHER BY BRINGING FLOWERS such a powerful prayer! TO YOUR FAVORITE MARIAN STATUE. Our 8th grade Algebra students completed their EOC on Thursday! Thursday was Outdoor Classroom Day and our staff Announcements took advantage and moved learning outside! NEW PARISHIONERS FOLLOW US! Tuesday we will celebrate the success of our Angels & Saints Please see an usher for a Facebook: facebook/olphrm Fund with donuts after morning prayer! With the help of our registration card or come Twitter: OLPHRockyMount parish, we met and surpassed our goal! Thanks be to God! to the Parish Office for Prospective students continue to visit and enrollment for 2019- Website: www.olphrm.com 20 continues for grades PreK-8. FYI, our preK program is less K of C Facebook: expensive than many daycare centers. We prepare our youngest OUR LADY'S RELIGIOUS RockyMountNCCouncil4600 learners for school and form them in the Catholic faith! Call for a GOODS STORE will be BULLETIN visit or more information! open after the 9:00 AM Mass Sunday and closed Send announcements to In Christ, [email protected] Julie Love, Principal on holidays.
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