Year B Hymnal #905 III Sunday of Easter April 15, 2018

Mon. April 16 Sat., April 14 Weekend of April 8, 2018 6:30 PM … Youth Ministry Regular Offertory $3,244.00 4 PM … Charles Richard by Simone Richard 7 PM … Food Pantry Sun., April 15 III Sunday of Easter Loose Offertory 590.75 Make-Up Offertory 312.00 Tue., April 17 7:30 AM …Mary Marszal; Ernest, Carl & Jeanne Online Offertory 565.00 12:45 PM ... Parish Nurse Bienvenue by Richard Bienvenue Total Offertory $4,711.75 Wed., April 18

9:30 AM … Our Parish Family Stewardship $1,796.00 6 PM … Rehearsals—Gym 5 PM … Alfred K. Hobbs, Jr., by Cynthia Hobbs Stewardship Loose 215.55 7 PM … Best Foot Forward rehearsal Thur., April 19 Mon. April 16 ~OFFICE CLOSED~ Total Stewardship $2,011.55 6:30 PM … Holy League 9 AM … Available Intention Easter Make up $ 255.00 7 PM … Best Foot Forward rehearsal Tue., April 17 Total Easter $7,876.00

12 PM … Ralph Simone (10th Anniv.) by Kerri Stanley Food Pantry $ 165.00 Goal: $24,000

Wed., April 18 Raised: $ 0.00 12 PM … Christopher Stanley (living) by Kerri Stanley ********************** Balance: $24,000 Last Year: Wknd of April 9, 2017 Did you know? Thur., April 19 Total Offertory $7,485.15 8:30 AM ... Available Intention  8.2% of New Hampshire residents live Thank you for your sacrificial Fri., April 20 below the poverty level. 6 PM … Our Parish Family Saint Raphael Food There are 29,000 low-income working Sat., April 21 Pantry On Monday, * families in the Granite State. 4 PM … Bob McGrail by Sue McGrail April 9, the food pantry 1-in-10 residents across New Hamp- Sun., April 22 IV Sunday of Easter served 23 families and shire are “food insecure”. gave out 44 bags of groceries. 7:30 AM …Rita Decotis by Dottie DeCotis We hope you will join us in reaching our goal and Moving Lives Forward with 9:30 AM … Joanne North by Bernard & Eleanor Duffy Toes are tapping 5 PM … Dorothy Evelyn O’Brien by Virginia Kelly this year’s Catholic Charities appeal. and plans are Envelopes are at the end of the pews developing! THE and at the back of the church. Sanctuary candle The sanctuary candle NEW SAINT burns this week for Las Vegas shooting victims by Mikki Margaritis. RAPHAEL FOL- LIES will return May 4-5 at the Discovering Christ returns next month! READINGS FOR THE WEEK of April 15, 2018 Dana Center of Saint Anselm Discovering Christ is an Monday: Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30; Jn 6:22 College. We will have an open exciting initiative de- -29 rehearsal night next Wednes- Tuesday: Acts 7:51 — 8:1a; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 7b, 8a, 17, signed to help men and day, April 18 at 6:30 PM in the 21ab; Jn 6:30-35 women encounter the gym. Please call the rectory at Wednesday: Acts 8:1b-8; Ps 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a; Jn 6:35- person of Jesus Christ and 40 623.2604 to reserve a time. accept his invitation to know Him in a Thursday: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, 20; Jn 6:44-51 personal relationship. Share a meal, listen Friday: Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Jn 6:52-59 Congratulations to Saturday: Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; Jn to a dynamic presentation, and explore 6:60-69 Erin E. Fitzpatrick answers with others on these questions Sunday: Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29; 1 Jn (‘18) and Michelle of purpose, faith and life. 47 men and 3:1-2; Jn 10:11-18 D. Bui (‘20), who women have already experienced this were this year’s recipients of exciting course and beginning May 10, we Thank you! We are grateful to all who will be offering it again on Thursday attended this year’s Empty Bowl event the Reverend Gregory C. mornings immediately following the 8:30 March 24. $475 was raised for Saint Keleher, O.S.B. Memorial Schol- AM Liturgy. We hope you will consider Raphael’s Food Pantry. We deeply appre- arship and Saint Raphael Parish ciate the long support of the Friends of the learning more about this endeavor! You Quota Club—and their cooking skills! Endowed Scholarship respec- will find registration forms at the en- tively. trance of the church, or go online to Pro-life Friends Needed!!! Just weeks ago, Planned Parenthood—the nation’s largest abortion chain— Calling all high school youth! Check out our plans for April! announced plans to expand their operations “in all 50 Monday, Apr. 16 (6:30—8 PM) Holy Spirit—just a dove? states.” That includes our home state of New Hampshire! Monday, Apr. 30 (6:30—8 PM) Holy Spirit and its benefits Come out on Saturday, April 28 from 10 AM—12 PM for Monday, May 7 (6:30—8 PM) Laying on of Hands the Third Annual National Day of Prayer and Protest Monday, May 14 (6:30—8 PM) I’m Confirmed—Now What? Against Planned Parenthood outside of Planned Parenthood, 24 Pennacook St., Manchester. For more info, Saturday, May 19 (9 AM - 12 PM) Confirmation & Reception contact Paul Galasso at [email protected] or 603.260.1377. Monday, May 21 (6:30 - 8 PM) Last class: pizza, Jeopardy, etc. Questions? Call Lynne at 603.533.4574/email [email protected]. From the Pastor: Fr. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B. Everything from a mess kit to a , and insight into war Since February, we’ve front in , medals and ribbons, some from the U.S. and had a crackerjack exhibi- and Fr. Angelo Roncalli, French governments, the State of New Hamp- tion in the upstairs an Italian chaplain who shire and the City of Manchester, to Frank Ken- church conference room. later became Pope John ney, a parishioner and the late father of arch- Furniture was removed XXIII, now canonized sacristan Anne Kenney. Visitors could see what and stored, the room as a saint. a WWI mess kit looked like, imagine what the scrubbed and made ready Posters also outlined point of a bayonet felt like and reflect on what to receive the display, “A efforts by peacemakers the chaos of battle sounded like when a Russian Parish Goes to War: such as President Wood- artillery officer signaled with his saber to Saint Raphael in World row Wilson and his “commence firing.” War I.” The exhibit famous “Fourteen Within the parish display, visitors could ex- commemorated the cen- Points,” the “Ten amine a Rosary given by the Church to soldiers tenary of the death of Visitor inspects photos of SRP pastors during WWI, Points” advanced by and sailors departing for the war. They could Pvt. Henry J. Sweeney, image of Abbot Bertrand Dolan, O.S.B., as Army Pope Benedict XV and see the baptismal register where the infant the first lad from Man- chaplain, and image of Pvt. Frank Kenney, along with efforts from the last Aus- Sweeney’s name was recorded – and in the chester to fall in the parish baptismal records. tro - Hungarian monarch, same volume, the names of his comrades who Great War, WWI’s moni- Emperor Carl II – all, fell and those who came home. A copy of a ker until World War II erupted in 1941. tragically, to no avail. Visitors could review the letter Henry wrote to his family just before Henry was a parishioner, went to our gram- consequences of the war in the rise of new na- his death was on view, and likewise a selection mar school and lived in the neighborhood. That tions, the fall of imperial regimes, the birth of of material from the letters and diary of Pvt. was pretty much the situation for five other communism in Russia, the $55 billion in repa- Kenney. One of the most colorful artifacts was young men from Saint Raphael – Herman F. rations the Allies imposed on Germany, the a “fiddle-back” chasuble, the outer garment Little, John D. Mallon, Frank McKeown, Mi- Treaty of Versailles and the seeds of World a priest wears at Mass and from the WWI era. chael Mulroy and Joseph S. Richardson – who War II, including a photo of Adolf Hitler as World War I can seem like ancient history to made the same supreme sacrifice. We will re- a young soldier in WWI. many people, but its causes and consequences member them, as we do all our veterans, espe- For most visitors, the highlight was an array continue to affect our world: nationalism, eco- cially those who fell in defense of freedom. of artifacts actually used in battle, as well as nomic rivalry, efforts to dislodge people from A lot of people visited the exhibition – a some objects from the home front, all generous- their homes to advantage others, illusions of quick walk through for some and for others a ly provided by collectors and organizations. In invulnerability and the danger of technology nudge out the door gently after over an hour’s our two displays cases, viewers could see an cut loose from morality. Moreover, many of the inspection. But the display captured visits from array of – perhaps the most visually artifacts came from people only a generation or folks from California, part of young Sweeney’s compelling feature of the exhibition – that actu- two removed from the war. In other words, family; students from Saint Benedict’s Acade- ally protected the heads of combatants in the people some of us in the parish knew and loved my; teachers from Trinity High; students from Great War. We had American doughboy and were caught up in it. We had lots of fun organ- Saint Anselm; neighborhood residents; visiting British Brodie-style pie plate helmets; Austrian izing the exhibition, and learned a fair bit priests; descendants of parishioners who fought helmets, nearly identical to those worn by Ger- about the Great War global politics. But there in World War I; collectors of militaria; and man troops; and an Italian crested that was nothing “fun” in the war in and of itself. many others. I was particularly gratified when echoes the French-style. It remains a vivid scar on 20th century history, Abbot Mark A. Cooper and a couple of vans An increasingly rare gem, a Bavarian pickel- one that cost millions of lives and disrupted life full of Benedictines arrived one morning for haube, or spiked helmet complete with the for millions of others. Striving for peace in the a visit. But, alas, it’s all over now. What was royal crest of the House of Wittelsbach, arrived 21st century is not just the work of a few soft- intended to be a two-week show became a late in the show. Ironically, the helmet carries headed dreamers. It must be the constant work month’s show, and then ended with a nearly the coat of arms of us all – by know- three-month run! pattern found on the ing the issues, hold- The exhibit is worth a quick recap. “A Parish crests of Saint Vin- ing our leaders to Goes to War” packed some of Big Bertha’s cent Archabbey account and seeing punch. Lining the walls, large posters in color and Saint Mary the common humani- told the story of the Great War’s origins and Abbey, the ty in all peoples. We causes from the assassination of an Austrian “grandmother and honor our vets best in archduke to a deadly web of military alliance mother houses” of prayer, monuments and political and economic rivalries. Visitors Saint Anselm. The and in defending liber- learned about military and political leaders, first monks of our ty as did they. And by propaganda, weapons and technology, color congregation came From left, U.S. ‘doughboy’ helmet, Austrian helmet, gas mask striving to establish and romance and its brutality in the trenches from Bavaria, and and British Brodie helmet. the peace and justice and elsewhere, along with the war in the air and received much help that make war only a at sea. Other posters detailed the entry of the from the Wittelsbach royal family. Saint Raph- memory. U.S., training “doughboys” like Henry and his ael was made up of German and Irish immi- © Rev. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B. friends, as well as a look at the front around the grants and their families, and one can only im- cathedral town of Soissons on the Franco- agine the heartache of finding family members German border, where Henry was killed. at home in the “enemy” army. The Army uni- Still others provided insight into the huge cost form of Walter Shottuck, son of German immi- of the war in lives and injuries, the medical care grant in Manchester, well illustrated that point. that was available, the origins of facial recon- Other features included two late 19th century structive surgery, the influenza epidemic, the rifles, one French, one Austrian, both used in Zimmerman telegram and the Armenian geno- WWI. We had “trench art,” unused shells cide. emptied of explosives, used as goblets, vases Finally, posters showed spiritual care for and even a chalice. Visitors saw a stretcher, soldiers on both sides in the midst of hellish even with some blood stains, used to carry the conditions. This set of images included photo- wounded and sick to medics. One of the nasti- graphs of Father Frank Duffy of the famous est features of the war was poison gas, first Fighting Irish 69th Regiment of New York; Fr. employed by the Germans, then enthusiastically Frank Browne, the British Jesuit chaplain picked up by everyone else. We showed a gas famous for his photos of R.M.S. Titanic and the mask and its air filter. We had a bevy of