Weekday Mass

(Monday thru Saturday) 9:00 am Mary’s Chapel

Weekday Mass in Portuguese: Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. Pelo tel: 781-871-5754

Lord’s Day Masses

Saturday Vigil Mass - English - 4:00 pm Saturday Mass - Portuguese - 7:00 pm 403 Union Street Sunday Mass - English - 7:30 am - Main Church Rockland, MA 02370 10:00 am - Main Church Sunday Mass - Portuguese - 7:00 pm—Main Church (781) 878-0160

www.holyfamilyrockland.org Mary’s Chapel will be opened during the week, Monday – Friday, Pastor Rev. James F. Hickey from 8:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. Parochial Vicar Rev. James J. O’Driscoll until 8:30 p.m. for personal prayer and adoration. Parochial Vicar, Rev. Valdir Mesquita Brazilian Ministry Ferreira Lima Confessions/Reconciliation: Saturdays from 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. in the St. Joseph’s

Pastoral Associate Ms. Teresa Doyle Smith Center or by appointment. Dir. Religious Ed. Mrs. Elizabeth Davis Baptismal Arrangements: Parents register for baptism by contacting Director of Music Mr. Robert Kirby Mrs. Elizabeth Davis at 781-871-1244. Finance & Operations Ms. Anne Marie Kennedy Manager Marriage Arrangements: Couples should arrange an interview with one of the priests of the parish at least six months prior to Parish Secretaries Mrs. Kathleen Small the planned wedding date. Mrs. Mary Corrieri Sacrament of the Anointing Especially prior to entering hospital, call the Ms. Brenda Callahan of the sick: rectory.

Last Rites of the Church for

the Dying: Call the Rectory. Rectory ...... (781) 878-0160 Fax ...... (781) 871-6389 St. Vincent de Paul: Call 781-792-0168 and follow taped directions Religious Ed...... (781) 871-1244 Alcoholics Anonymous: Wednesdays 7:00 p.m. Holy Family Parish Center Cemetery ...... (781) 878-2306 / 0160 Narcotics Anonymous: Mondays 7:00 p.m. St. Joseph’s Center HOLY FAMILY PARISH, ROCKLAND, MASSACHUSETTS

July 11~ Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Listen to the instruction Jesus gives his disciples in the gospel today as he sends them to do his work! They went out with confidence to preach as Jesus directed. These instructions are For intended for us also, his present day Saturday, July 10 4:00 Luke Leonard disciples! Take some time this week to think Sunday, July 11 7:30 Virginia Rich (L) about the fact that Jesus is sending you to bring 10:00 Robert Christie, Sr. and good news, and that you are capable of doing Robert Christie, Jr. Sunday, July 17 4:00 John & Elsie Umbrianna and this work because God has “blessed you with Nora Westburg every spiritual blessing.” Remember - Jesus 10:00 Jennie McCabe gives you what you need and is relying on you, so let’s get busy! We are celebrating Mass on Saturdays at 4 p.m. in the Main Church and Sundays at 7:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. in the Main Church. Mass will continued to be taped for public Classes with Fr James O'Driscoll on Facebook showing on Rockland Cable TV Channel 32 on Verizon (James O'Driscoll) and parish YouTube channel and Channel 15 on Comcast on Sundays at 7:30 a.m., (Holy Family Church, Rockland, MA)

10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and can be viewed on our Monday - Spiritual Book Club with Fr. Philippe’s Eight website: www.holyfamilyrockland.org. Doors on the Beatitudes at 2 p.m. Tuesday - We will continue our Bible Study on the Book of REMEMBER IN PRAYER THE RECENTLY Romans at 2 p.m. DEPARTED Sandra Dowdall, Alice Korzeniowski, Adam T. Whalen and all who have died during the       Covid-19 pandemic.    BREADS AND WINE 

The Breads and Wine for the month of July are in            memory of Michael Botelho lovingly donated by Kathy and Fred Kawa.                           !       "    HOLY FAMILY ROSARY PHONE PRAYER GROUP 

Holy Family has formed a Rosary Phone Prayer Group. This  ⍥⍩⍥⍣⍥⍤ is a conference call and meets Monday - Saturday at 10:30 a.m. to pray the rosary, Chaplet of Mercy and short ⍪⍦⍣⍫⍦⍣ Stations of the Cross. Sign-up by calling 781-384-6909.  #    $ %$  Readings for the week of July 11, 2021 & '    ⑨⑦⑨⑧$&   '  Sunday: Am 7:12-15/Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 [8]/Eph 1:3- 14 or 1:3-10/Mk 6:7-13      Monday: Ex 1:8-14, 22/Ps 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8 [8a]/Mt 10:34—11:1 Tuesday: Ex 2:1-15a/Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34 [cf. 33]/Mt 11:20-24 COMMUNION TO THE HOMEBOUND Wednesday: Ex 3:1-6, 9-12/Ps 103:1b-2, 3-4, 6-7 [8a]/Mt Once again Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion 11:25-27 may bring Holy Communion to our elderly, ill and infirm Thursday: Ex 3:13-20/Ps 105:1 and 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27 parishioners who are unable to attend Mass. If you or a [8a]/Mt 11:28-30 loved one would like to receive Holy Communion Friday: Ex 11:10—12:14/Ps 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, 17-18 please call Teresa Doyle Smith at the rectory at 781- [13]/Mt 12:1-8 878-0160 or email Saturday: Ex 12:37-42/Ps 136:1 and 23-24, 10-12, 13-15/ [email protected] and Mt 12:14-21 arrangements will be made. Please note that the Next Sunday: Jer 23:1-6/Ps 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6 [1]/Eph 2:13- Eucharistic Minister who brings communion will be fully 18/Mk 6:30-34 vaccinated. THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FAMILY NOTES, XV Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 11, 2021

Nicholas Pieck and His Companions, The Martyrs of Gorkum [Netherlands] Nineteen priests and religious, taken by Calvinists in Gorkum, near , were hanged on account of their religion. Of these, eleven were Franciscan friars of the Observance of the convent of Gorkum, amongst whom were St. , the guardian, and St. Jerome Weerden, vicar. With them were taken SS. Leonard Vechel, Nicholas Janssen and Godfrey Van Duynen, secular priests, and John Van Oosterwyk, a canon regular of St. Augustine of great age. Vechel was the parish priest at Gorkum. To these fifteen were afterwards added St. John Van Hoornaer, a Dominican, who came to the assistance of his Franciscan brethren when he heard that they were taken; two , SS. Adrian Van Hilvarenbeek and James Lacops, the last of whom had been very slack in his religious observance and contumacious under reproof; and St. Andrew Wouters, a secular priest, who went straight from an irregular life to imprisonment and martyrdom. In June 1572 the anti-Spanish Calvinist forces called the Watergeuzen, “Sea-Beggars”, or Gueuz, “Ragamuffins”, seized Gorkum, and from June 26 to July 5 the and four other priests were at the mercy of the soldiers, who treated them with incredible cruelty, partly out of contempt for their religion and partly in order to discover the whereabouts of the hidden church vessels. Then word came from the admiral, Lumaye, Baron de la Marck, to bring them to Briel, where they disembarked in the early morning of the 7th and, half-naked as they were, marched to the market-place with the caricatured circumstance of a religious procession, and there contemptuously ordered to sing the Litany of the Saints, which they did gladly enough. That evening and the next morning they were interrogated before the admiral and, confronted by Calvinist ministers, invited to purchase their freedom by abandoning the Catholic doctrine of the Blessed Sacrament; this they refused to do. Letters now arrived to the Baron de la Marck from the magistrates of Gorkum, complaining of the detention of the prisoners, and from the Prince of Orange, ordering that they be released; at the same time two brothers of Nicholas Pieck made personal appeal for him. The admiral said that all should at once be set free if they would abjure the primacy of the pope: again they refused, and all the efforts of his brothers could not induce Father Pieck to abandon either his faith or his religious brethren. Soon after midnight an apostate priest of Liege was sent to lead the prisoners to a sacked and deserted monastery at Ruggen, in the outskirts of Briel. Here they were gathered in a turf-shed where were two convenient beams. At this last moment, when already Father Pieck had been flung off the ladder, speaking words of encouragement, the courage of some failed them; it is a significant warning against judging the character of our neighbor or pretending to read his heart that, while a priest of blameless life recanted in a moment of weakness, the two who had been an occasion of scandal gave their lives without a tremor. All the nineteen were hanged, St. James Lacops from a ladder, the rest from the beams; one St. Antony Van Willehad, was ninety years old. The execution was the sheerest butchery: all hung long before they were dead, St. Nicasius Van Heeze till after dawn, and the bodies were mutilated before they were cold, some before life was extinct. Like the martyrs of England and Wales, these men gave their lives for the Catholic faith in general, and for the truth of its Eucharistic teaching and the primacy of the Roman pontiff in particular. Their bodies were ignominiously cast into two ditches and there lay till 1616, when, during a truce between Spain and the United Provinces, they were dug up and the remains transported to the Franciscan church in . They martyrs of Gorkum were canonized in 1867.

Taken from Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Vol. III, Christian Classics, Westminster MD 1981, pp. 56-57

Fr. O’Driscoll

JULY 11, 2021

Religious Education News and Calendar Director of Religious Education: Mrs. Elizabeth Davis; Assistant: Mr. Bob Fullam Contact Information: Phone (781)-871-1244 or Email to [email protected] Do you know a child starting Kindergarten?

Holy Family Religious Education is excited to announce that we will have a Sunday morning class just for YOU!

Come learn about God’s love for you and your family.

With abundant opportunities for prayer, developmentally appropriate lessons, as well as Bible stories, the saints, Liturgical celebrations, arts & crafts, music… we look forward to working with you and your children as they begin their faith journey into Kindergarten and beyond.

Class will meet Sunday mornings 9:00 – 9:50 AM and conclude in time for families to attend 10:00 AM Mass together. Registration and additional information are available now online at: https://www.holyfamilyrockland.org/religious-education- information-and-registration-2021-2022. Registration forms are also available in the church foyer.

Please do not hesitate to call (781-871-1244), email ([email protected]) or make an appointment to stop in the Religious Education Office if you have questions, would like to volunteer, need registration materials mailed to you or would like more information about our outstanding program. We are grateful for the opportunity to walk this faith journey together with your family.

Preparation for receiving the Sacraments of Reconciliation, First Eucharist and Confirmation is ongoing and cumulative. It is important that all our students attend Religious Education classes each year.

Together we can create a strong faith foundation for our young people! THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME New Schedules at Holy Family for CARDINAL SEAN O’MALLEY’S Masses, Confessions and Funerals WELCOME HOME VIDEO

“Our Church is a family. It’s our spiritual home.”

WEEKEND MASSES: Cardinal Sean

Saturday Vigil Mass: 4 p.m. Main Church Cardinal O’Malley has reinstated the Sunday Mass Obligation as of Sunday, June 20, 2021. To view his Sunday Masses: 7:30 a.m. Main Church uplifting video message please go to Holy Family’s website 10:00 a.m. Main Church home page at www.holyfamilyrockland.org.

We have discontinued the 10 a.m. Mass in Mary’s “Let us gather together again in joy, as one people united Chapel as of this weekend, July 3/4. around the Eucharist.” Cardinal Sean

DAILY MASS: LIVING FAITH Daily Mass will be held Monday – Saturday at 9 a.m. in Daily Catholic Devotions for Mary’s Chapel. July, August & September 2021 Also, Mary’s Chapel will be opened during the week, Monday – Friday, from 8:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. for Outreach Ministers to the personal prayer and adoration. And on Saturday until 8:30 Homebound: p.m. The new issue of Living Faith is available for pick-up after Mass this weekend in the Parish Information CONFESSIONS: Center. They have been separated and marked for your convenience. Confession is available inside St. Joseph’s Center on Saturday afternoons from 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. face to face, Parishioners: masks optional or anonymously (priest behind door Living Faith provides daily reflections based on a Scripture standing). passage from the daily Mass. This booklet is available in or the Main Church foyer. Please help yourself to a copy.

you may call the rectory (781-878-0160) and make an appointment with a priest.

FUNERALS:

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