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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 pickelhaube, and insight into war Since February, we’ve front in World War I, 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 helmets – 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.