Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 14, 2016

CHURCH & PARISH OFFICES MASS SCHEDULE St. Patrick Parish Saturday 4PM 12 Main St. Sunday 8AM, 10:30AM, 6PM Pelham, NH 03076 603-635-3525 (office) WEEKDAYS MASS SCHEDULE 603-635-3919 (fax number) Monday through Thursday 8am Website: www.stpatricks-pelham.com Friday No Mass Offices Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30-4:00 First Friday and First Saturday 8am Offices located in the school near the carport HOLY DAY MASS SCHEDULE Pastor Holy Day 8am, 10am & 7pm Rev. Volney J. DeRosia Ext. 15 Email: [email protected] ADORATION Wednesday 8:30-9:30am Deacons 2:00-8:00pm Deacon John Ross Email: [email protected] FIRST FRIDAY Deacon Tom Lavallee The Knights and the Women’s Guild invite Email: [email protected] everyone to First Friday Rosary at 6pm in the chapel. The Rosary is followed by the Divine Faith Life Director Mercy Chaplet at 6:45 PM. Adam Castor 603-635-1447 Ext. 14 Email: [email protected] RECONCILIATION Saturday 3pm to 3:30pm Business Manager or by appointment Therese Soucy Ext. 11 Email: [email protected] ANOINTING OF THE SICK & COMMUNION TO THE SICK & HOMEBOUND Secretary Please contact the Parish Office for arrangements Kathleen Jean Ext. 10 Email: [email protected] BAPTISM Please contact the Parish Office to schedule a Music Ministry baptism. Parents are required to meet with the Gary Williams 603-635-7669 pastor and participate in a baptismal catechetical Simeon Morrow [email protected] session prior to the celebration of the sacrament.

FORMED MARRIAGE To help you grow in your faith go to Arrangements with the parish must be made at www.formed.org and sign in with the parish least nine months prior to the wedding. registration code nr3434 (all lowercase). Fulfillment of a Diocesan, pre-marriage program is required. Help Souls on their way to Heaven When Fr. Von gets called to anoint people who KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS are dying, he calls on a group of people to pray a Care to join the Knights of Columbus? Please Chaplet for them. contact Erick Wright at 603-635-8772 or If you would like to join this ministry or want [email protected] . More information more information, contact Fr. Von at online: http://www.nhknights.org/ [email protected] or (603)-635-3525. 1 Page 956 MASS INTENTIONS PARISH COLLECTIONS

Saturday August 13 In order for the parish to meet its regular 4pm Michael DiRocco , 3 rd Anniversary expenses, our offertory and other requested by the DiRocco family designated parish collections must bring in Sunday August 14 $8,700 per week. 8am Lt. Donald G. Taylor , 40 th Anniversary, requested by the Parish Collections for the following week: Taylor family Offertory 8/7/16 $6,273 10:30am Roland Gonsalves “Birthday Remembrance” requested by Total funds collected for this week for Helen Gonsalves & family parish expenses $6,273 6pm Intentions of all our Parishioners Thank you for supporting our parish ~Fr. Von~ Monday August 15 8am Rev. John Sledziona requested by Capital Improvements Donna Smith collected as of 8/7/16 7pm Winifred “Una” Harrington $1,543 requested by Joan Davis Thank you for your generosity! Tuesday August 16

8am Dorothy McCarthy “Birthday SECOND ENVELOPES Remembrance” requested by Pat FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEKS Lawlor

Pauline Fortier requested by the Aug. 21 NH Missionaries Abroad and Parish Staff Migrant & Refugee Ministry Wednesday August 17 This collection supports The Good Samaritan 8am Francis & Jackie Hynes , 48 th Home in Colombia, run by Claire Aucoin. In Wedding Anniversary, requested addition, a portion of this collection supports the by their children diocesan ministries to migrants and refugees 7pm Confessions throughout the state of New Hampshire. Thursday August 18 Aug. 28 Faith Life Formation 8am Patricia Cormier requested by This collection helps with expenses for Faith Life. Roland & Therese Soucy Sept. 4 Conference of Catholic Bishops Rev. Florent R. Bilodeau This collection provides funding for academic Friday August 19 scholarships at the Catholic University of 8am No Mass America and supports the work of the U.S.

Conference of Catholic Bishops. Saturday August 20

4pm David Berard requested by Your contributions toward the support of the his family parish and its ministries are greatly appreciated. Gonsalves & family

Sunday August 21 8am Rena Cayer requested by her family 10:30am Ann Appiani , 26 th Anniversary, requested by her family 6pm Intentions of all our This week the Altar Flowers are in memory of rd Parishioners Michael DiRocco, 3 Anniversary, by the DiRocco Family 2 Page 956

Tuesday, August 16 Food Pantry, 6:30-7:30 PM The Joy of Love, 7:00 PM, in the meeting room Please welcome into our parish family the Wednesday, August 17 following children who were recently Adoration 8:30-9:30 AM and 2:00-8:00 PM baptized here at St. Patrick. They are: Food Pantry, 1:00-3:00 PM Thomas Joseph Banks, Wesley James Confessions, 7:00 PM Gilbert, Noah Roy Indeglia, Cameron Thomas Kosik, Callum David Malloy, Thursday, August 18 Caitlin Joyce Miller and Isabella Rae AA, 7:00 PM, in the K of C Hall Patalano. Please keep these children and their families in your prayers. ------

HOLY YEAR PILGRIMAGE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Bishop Libasci is pleased to announce that as part of the observance of the Year of Mercy, he Bishop Peter A. Libasci invites all couples who will be leading a diocesan-wide pilgrimage to are celebrating their 25 th , 30 th , 35 th , 40 th , 45 th , Washington D.C. Central to this Pilgrimage will 50 th or beyond Wedding Anniversary (anytime be our visit to the Basilica of the National Shrine during the year 2016), to attend a Special of the , America’s Anniversary Mass . This celebration will be held . There we will have the on October 16, 2016 at 2:00 p.m., at Saint Anselm opportunity to go through the National Holy Year Abbey Church, Manchester. If you are Door! The pilgrimage is scheduled for celebrating your 25 th , 30 th , 35 th , 40 th , 45 th , 50 th or September 26-28, 2016. For further beyond anniversary, please contact the parish Information, contact Canterbury Pilgrimages at office by no later than Monday, August 15, 800-653-0017 or go to 2016. We will need your last name, first names www.canterburypilgrimages.com and mailing address . Please also indicate your special anniversary year. ------

------PRAYER SHAWL Here at St. Patrick we have a Prayer Shawl FRANCIS’ THE JOY OF LOVE Ministry. These shawls are made by many Fr. Von is leading a discussion group on Pope volunteers and are either knitted or crocheted. If Francis’ most recent exhortation, The Joy of Love you know of someone who is sick or needs (Amoris Laetitia) on Tuesday evenings beginning comfort, please call the parish office to receive at 7:00 PM in the Meeting Room. Our last one. We have many shawls of varying colors. meeting is on August 16 th . Please read chapters The Prayer Shawls are free. 8 & 9 for August 16 th . For a free copy of the book, you can download it On the other hand, if you are interested in at w2.vatican.va and click on “Amoris Laetita”, or making prayer shawls, the parish office has www.dynamiccatholic.com and click on “Free instructions. Just call us at 603-635-3525 and Resources”. we will get the instructions to you. 3 Page 956 MOTHER AND DAUGHTER TEA St. Mark's Titus 2 Women's Ministry, in partnership with the Gianna Family Care Center of Londonderry, will be hosting a Mother and Daughter Tea for girls ages 9 - 14 and their ST. PATRICK PARISH mothers. We invite you to come explore God’s PRESENTS AN EVENING OF special gift of human fertility and the beauty and wonder of God’s holy plan for growing into FUN & LAUGHTER womanhood. The purpose of this presentation is Friday, October 21, 2016 to provide an atmosphere of love and learning 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Buffet Dinner served at 7:00 pm and to discuss the important topic of growing up. Featuring the Game This program builds a foundation for continued “Price It Right ” communication between a mother and her Four Oaks Country Club, Dracut, MA daughter. Our speaker, Nancy Malo of Catholic Cash Bar • Raffles • Silent Auction Medical Center, will be discussing topics Tickets $40.00 Each including the changes in a young woman’s body

as it prepares for future motherhood; the onset CRAFTERS WANTED We are looking for crafters for St. Patrick’s of ovulation and subsequent menstrual periods; Christmas Craft Fair to be held on Dec. 3, 2016. the functions of the female reproductive system; Cost for is $30 for an 8’x6’ space. All crafters the sacredness of human life; the self-respect of who have hand crafted items are welcome. It is modesty; and the virtue of chastity. It will be a fun day with a coloring contest for kids, held on Saturday, September 24 th from 1:00 – scrumptious food and homemade goodies at our 4:00 PM at St. Mark's Parish, Londonderry, NH. Bake Table. Please call the parish office at 603- The cost is $25.00 per family (non-refundable) 635-3525 for an application and more details. and reservations are required by September 14 th . Attire for the occasion is semi-formal or ------your 'Sunday Best'.

ANNUAL CELEBRATION FOR OUR LADY WITH THE GOLDEN HEART () August 22, 2016 Where: Immaculate Conception Church If you would like to sign-up to sponsor the Altar 216 E. Dunstable Road, Nashua, NH Flowers for 2017, please contact the Parish Time: 6:30-8:30 PM Office at 603-635-3525. Rosary, NEW Slide Show Presentation on Our Lady of Beauraing ------Refreshments-Sales Table (cash & checks only) PTV – SCHEDULE For information, please contact Irene Tremblay, For St. Patrick Mass Schedule Director at 978-649-1813 Sunday – 8:00 PM Monday – 6:00 AM & 4:00 PM FOOD PANTRY Tuesday – 9:00 AM & 8:00 PM The Pelham Food Pantry is in need of COLD Wednesday – 8:00 AM & 10:00 PM Cereal, Pasta Sauce and Pasta (no Lasagna or Thursday – 9:00 AM & 5:00 PM Large Shells Please). We are still accepting Friday – 7:00 AM & 5:00 PM produce from our local gardeners. It is greatly Saturday – 5:00 AM & 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM “Live” appreciated!! Subject to change 4 Page 956 St. Patrick Parish Youth Ministry August 22 nd 6:00-7:30 PM Lectio Divina St. Therese Youth Room

SING AND SHOUT On August 28 th from 2:00-4:00 PM at St. Joseph’s Are you interested in the Catholic Faith? Parish in Salem, NH will be having their monthly Interested in learning how to become Sing & Shout Praise and Worship Adoration Catholic? Please email Deacon Tom at Time. All families are welcome as we come [email protected] or call 603-845-3450. together as Church and worship the Living God.

ASCEND WITH BISHOP LIBASCI th "Catechists are people who keep the memory On September 17 Bishop Peter A. Libasci and of God alive; they keep it alive in themselves NH Catholic Youthfest invites you for a day of and they are able to revive it in others." hiking, praying, and picknicking in the beautiful ~ Pope Francis ~ White Mountains of New Hampshire. Prices range from Free to $4.00. For more information Planning has begun for the 2016/2017 Faith Life and to register go to www.catholicnhorg/ascend School Year and I am reaching out to the Parish or contact Kathryn Buttrick at 603-663-1-0173 Community seeking Catechist's and Catechist or [email protected] . Register by September th Aides. If you are interested and feel the God is 14 . calling you to this type of ministry please contact Adam Castor, Director of Faith Life at SAVE THE DATE!!! th th [email protected] or 603-635- On the evenings of October 27 & 28 the 1447. Daughters of Mary, Mother of Healing Love will be at our parish to do a teaching on the ------Enthronement of the Sacred of Jesus and the Devotion to the in the home. The Catechesis will focus on the power of home enthronements to bring peace and healing to families. More information to come.

A Workshop on Bereavement Ministries San Damiano House of Prayer Faith Life Registration and Schedule for 2016- 333 Pawtucket Street 2017 is on the Parish Website and in the Parish Lowell, MA 01854-3303 Office. “Attending to the Bereaved” A Saturday Program (15 hours) ------Offered over a 3-month time period Opportunity to receive th st On August 20 & 21 Adam Castor, Director “A Certificate of Completion” of Faith Life , will be present after all the Masses Dates: Sept. 17 th , Oct. 22 nd , Nov. 19 th to give families an opportunity to ask questions Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM about the Faith Life Program and to pick up Suggested Donation: $100.00 per session registration information. Also, if you are Plus, an internship of 15 hours interested in becoming a Catechist this will be an with supervision $50.00 opportunity to discuss this with Adam and (Includes Books and a light Lunch) discern this calling a bit more. Register by September 7, 2016 E-mail [email protected] 5 Page 956