Blessed Sacrament Church "I am the Living Bread come down from Heaven. If any man eats of this Bread, he shall live forever; and the Bread I will give, is My Flesh." John 6:51-52

SCHEDULE OF MASSES LORD’S DAY: Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. HOLYDAYS: Vigil: 6:00 p.m. Holyday: 9:00 a.m. WEEKDAYS: 9:00 a.m. SATURDAYS: First Saturdays only: 8:00 a.m.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturday 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. and by appointment

BAPTISM: As part of the preparation process an interview with the Pastor and two instructional sessions are required. Please contact Laurie at 774-2918.

ENGAGED COUPLES: Arrangements for your marriage must be made at least nine months in advance of the marriage date.

NEW PARISHIONERS: We welcome you and ask that you register at the Rectory. We want to know and serve you! We hope that you will favor your parish with your prayers, your presence and your talents.

Pastor Rev. Timothy J. Campoli Church Rectory 221 Federal Street 182 High Street Greenfield, MA 01301 Greenfield, MA 01301 blessedsacramentgreenfieldma.org (413) 773-3311

Deacons Director of Religious Dcn. John Leary Education/Child Advocate 413-219-2734 Laurie Tilton deaconjohnleary@ 413-774-2918 gmail.com [email protected]

Dcn. George Nolan Organist/Choir Director 413-523-3394 Stephen Glover [email protected] 413-772-0532 Corpus christi Dcn. Robert O’Connor Calvary Cemetery 413-230-8496 Wisdom Way, Greenfield “He took bread, and blessed, and broke it, [email protected] 413-773-3311 and gave it to them, and said, ‘Take; this is Alternatives Pregnancy My Body.’ And He took a cup, and when Hispanic Ministry Center He had given thanks He gave it to them, Sr. Caritina Olmos, M.P.S. Pregnancy Tests, Counseling, 413-777-5115 Support, Post Abortion Support ‘This is My Blood of the covenant, which is Sr. Rosa Torres, M.P.S. 413-774-6010 413-459-7052 poured out for many.’” Natural Family Planning (Mark 14:22-24) Ed & Suzi Cottrill 413-772-6062

Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place in the side chapel twenty-four hours a day, every day. All are welcome to come and worship and adore our Eucharistic Lord.

“Could you not watch one hour with Me?” Matthew 26:40

Blessed Sacrament Church Greenfield, MA 01301

Weekend of June 29 & 30

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion:

Saturday, June 29

4:00 Deacon John Leary Kathy Burrows Jason Semaski Cynnie Erho Kerry Semaski Francis Campbell Hannah Lively Joanne Yestramski Brian Luippold

Sunday, June 30

10:30 Deacon George Nolan Suzanne Hunter SATURDAY, JUNE 22ND (Fr. Goni) Deacon Bob O’Connor Mary Jane Bardwell 4:00 O’Neill and Falvey Families – by Thérèse Falvey Joyce Thibodo Lionel Martin SUNDAY, JUNE 23RD –Corpus Christi – The Most Holy Body and Bob Page Blood of Christ (Fr. Campoli) Judy Lapointe

10:30 Gary P. LeBlanc – by Family MONDAY, JUNE 24TH – The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Holy Trinity Church Weekend Mass Schedule

9:00 Joyce Tilton – by Laurie (Deacon Leary) Sunday: 8:00 a.m and 10:30 a.m. TH TUESDAY, JUNE 25 (Deacon Ratté) 9:00 Grace and Blessings for Laurie Tilton – by Maureen Poet’s Seat Nursing Home: Filiault TH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 (Deacon Bucci) Sunday, June 30 Deacon John and Donna Leary 9:00 Marlene Holmes – by mother, Mary Barchenski and Family Lectors / Cantors: TH THURSDAY, JUNE 27 – St. Cyril of Alexandria (Fr. Roux) 9:00 Joann Skinner – by Suzanne & John Davis Sat., June 29 4:00 Monica McCarthy / Betsy Grybko TH FRIDAY, JUNE 28 – The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Sun., June 30 10:30 Marie Boynton / Karlena Henry (Fr. Reardon) 9:00 Richard Henry – by Maureen Filiault & Family SAT., JUNE 29TH – Sts. Peter and Paul (Clergy in Purgatory) 4:00 Marlene Holmes – by daughter, Sarah and Family SUNDAY, JUNE 30TH – 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Our Seminarians) 10:30 Fr. Kevin Kortina – by David & Helen Shea Murphy ************************************************** REMINDER:  Please join with us in praying the Rosary before each daily Mass at 8:15 a.m. and before the 4:00 p.m. Saturday Mass.  Confessions after each weekend Mass.  The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited Fridays at 3:00 p.m. in the Adoration Chapel. All are invited to come and pray with us.

 Blessed Sacrament has a Prayer Chain which is available for anyone. Simply contact Marie Boynton at 413-772-5858 or Saturday, June 29 [email protected] with your petition. 4:00 Lauren Semaski, Jason Semaski  Sponsor Certificates - Many parishes require certificates of sponsorship for Godparents and Confirmation Sponsors. These Sunday, June 30 will be issued only to those who are confirmed adult Catholics, registered in the parish, regular participants at Mass, validly 10:30 Nathaniel Pierce, Michael Pierce married in the Church (if applicable) and providing for the religious education of their own children (if applicable).

June 23, 2019 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – Corpus Christi Fr. Charles Gonet Spiritual Food for Thought Deacon Genaro Medina "Your Lord is seated at the Father’s right hand in heaven. How Requiescat In Pace Mary Lou Bueno then is the bread His body? And the chalice, or rather its Elizabeth A. LaPierre content, how is it His Blood? These elements are called For the Glory of God and in memory of Stella Lachapelle a Sacraments, because in them one thing is perceived by the sense donation was made to Blessed Sacrament Church from Vickie and another thing by the mind. What is seen has a bodily Shuler and Darryl Brassard. God Bless you! appearance; what the mind perceives produces spiritual fruit. The Sanctuary Candle will burn this week in memory/honor: You hear the words, ‘The Body of Christ’, and you answer In Thanksgiving for Prayers Answered - from Anonymous ‘Amen.’" — Saint Augustine The Adoration Chapel Candles will burn this week in Community Meal memory/honor of: Blessed Sacrament Parish will sponsor the Community Meal at 1.) Stella LaChapelle - from all the Family the Second Congregational Church on Tuesday, June 25th at 2.) Joshua Rode, for God’s protection and guidance 5:30 p.m. If you can help with a casserole, salad, dessert, or a 3.) For a special intention – from Anonymous financial contribution, please call Ken and Melissa Bacigalupo 4.) Patricia Duffey Earley - from Robert Earley at 413-801-9156 or 413-325-8078. Food Pantry Note of Thanks Please remember to leave your non-perishable donations at the Dear Father Campoli, Sincere thanks from here and doors of the church for our Food Pantry. We need baked beans, Maryknollers around the world for your kindness. Fr. Francis hearty soups, cereal, canned fruit, jello, pudding and desserts. Breen, MM enjoyed the weekend and the people of Blessed Holy Family Parish SummerFest 2019 Sacrament were very receptive. Deacon Robert O’Connor was Holy Family Parish, 29 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, will a great host. hold SummerFest 2019 on the parish grounds on Sunday, June Needless to say, this is a great help towards our efforts to 30th from 11:30 – 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $10; Children 12 and bring the “Good News” to all nations. May this kindness under are free. (Price includes 1 hot dog and 1 hamburger, rebound to you and your people. chips, coleslaw, pickles, soda or water.) Entertainment by T.J. & Sincerely yours in Christ, Deacon Paul Bork The Peepers. Kid games. Event open to the public! St. Cecilia Choir Seeks Singers Members of the St. Cecilia Choir sing for funerals in the parish Knights of Columbus Council #133 and they are seeking more singers. If you would like to join in, Meetings 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. please call Joyce Thibodo at 773-7111. Fr. Casey Hall, Holy Trinity Church All You Can Eat Pancake and Egg Breakfast Put on by the 2019-2020 Confirmation class and the Pope Saint We are looking for new members. John Paul II Youth Group an All You Can Eat Pancake and Egg If interested, please contact Jason Semaski Breakfast will take place Sunday June 30th from 8:30-11:30 at (413-626-3378) or Jay Dillon (413-773-3678). the Holy Trinity Father Casey Hall. This will be our last major fundraiser for our trip to the Steubenville East Catholic Youth A Pilgrimage to Greece, Patmos, Ephesus Oct. 11-21, 2019 Conference to be held the weekend of July 12-14th at UMASS Join us on a spiritual journey to many towns of the New Lowell. https://lifeteen.com/events/steubenville-east/ We have Testament where St. Paul first spread the Good News. Also visit 32 teenage youth from four Franklin County parishes going with Patmos where St. John wrote Revelations and Mary’s House in eight adults. We started raising the funds needed for this Ephesus. Fr. Timothy Campoli and Msgr. Ronald Yargeau are conference back in February and this breakfast will get us to our Spiritual Directors. Daily Mass will take place. The cost is Lowell. Please help reach our goal of $10,000 needed to attend $4199. A bus to Logan will be arranged if there is interest. For a this conference. The cost for the breakfast is just a simple flyer and more info., please contact Helen Shea Murphy at 413- donation of any amount! Youth will be at the doors of the 824-8733 or [email protected]. View the website church this weekend to solicit donations and hand out free at www.pilgrimages.com/helensheamurphy. tickets. Find Your Greatness–Four Habits that will change your life Fr. Michael Pierz invites you to a Pilgrimage to the What if each Catholic prayed for ten minutes and read five Holy Land - October 2 - October 10, 2019 pages of a great book every day? What if every Catholic did “As Christ invited His first disciples to 'Come and see', join us one thing each week to intentionally share God’s message with as we follow Him and enter this pilgrimage of faith and life in others? Come and discover how four life-changing habits can the Holy Land!” -Fr. Michael Pierz, St. John’s, Agawam / point you towards discovering incredible possibilities for your Highlights include: Tel Aviv, Caesarea, Stella Maris, Haifa, life. You will leave the event with a personal plan to help you Cana, Nazareth, Mt. Tabor, Tiberius, Sea of Galilee, become the best version of yourself. Join Dynamic Catholic and Capernaum, Mount of Beatitudes, Tabgha, Jericho, Jordan speaker Jonathan Fanning on Sat., Sept. 14th from 9:30 – 1:30 River, Mount of Temptation - Dead Sea, Bethlehem, Ein Karem, p.m. at Holy Name Parish, 323 Dickinson St., Springfield. For Jerusalem. More information and online registration at tickets visit DynamicCatholic.com/Springfield or call 859-980- www.johnpaultours.com/frpierz 7900 or Holy Name Parish 413-733-5823. To meet Jonathan Wanted – WWII and Korean Vets! visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQpimlatiDk. The event is Honor Flight New England transports World War II and Korean appropriate for ages 12+; youth are encouraged to attend. War veterans to see their memorial in Washington DC at no cost Husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, single or to those that served. For a veteran application contact married, young or old, Catholic or non-Catholic are invited. www.honorflightnewengland.org or call (603) 518-5368.

St. : The Painter Who Became an Advocate for the Poor

The 19th century Polish saint who was influenced by St. later influenced Pope St. John Paul II. Filip Mazurczak

Adam Chmielowski Christ — often dealt with religious themes. was born into an He knew that he needed to grow closer to God. aristocratic family in Adam briefly thought of becoming a Jesuit, but his Igołomia, a village outside enthusiasm fizzled after entering the novitiate. He kept of Krakow, in 1845. Then, asking God what he wanted of him. formally didn’t Nineteenth-century Krakow was a city of social exist: The once-mighty inequality. In Adam’s day, more than a fifth of its Polish state was partitioned population consisted of the unemployed, who were between Austria, Prussia frequently homeless. The filthy, lice-infested city and Russia in 1772, 1773 homeless shelter had terrible sanitary conditions. The and 1795. Yet the Polish Church in Krakow, especially the Vincentians and people refused to accept other orders, aided the poor. However, this was this, and many rebelled insufficient. against the oppressors. At this time, Adam became increasingly attracted to One such upheaval was St. Francis of Assisi. This medieval champion of the the January Insurrection of 1863-1864, directed against poor’s ministry resonated with Krakow’s the Russian Empire, in which the fought bravely socioeconomic problems. Eventually, Adam welcomed yet were brutally suppressed. Not yet 18, Adam took the homeless into his own apartment. In 1887, Adam part. During one battle, a Russian grenade killed Chmielowski became a Third Order Franciscan and Adam’s horse and badly damaged his leg, which was took vows at the hands of Krakow Archbishop Cardinal amputated. Adam, however, didn’t take pity on Albin Dunajewski. He began to call himself “ himself; he stoically taught himself to function with a Albert” and wore a gray habit. wooden limb and offered up the dismemberment to God The following year, Brother Albert realized that to for the cause of Polish independence. bring Krakow’s poor lasting change, the city’s After the uprising, Adam decided to pursue a career homeless shelter would need reform. He negotiated an in painting and was accepted at the agreement with the city prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in government, making him the Munich, where he studied with institution’s caretaker. To finance many famous Polish painters. Upon the improvements, Brother Albert returning to Poland, Adam worked auctioned off his paintings. In as a painter 1870-1885. In total, he addition to improving the material produced 61 paintings. He quickly conditions, he banned alcohol in became one of the most feted Polish the shelter. He asked the poor to artists, living briefly in and work (making exceptions for the then in artsy, intellectual Krakow. elderly and those with Adam’s social circle consisted of disabilities), teaching them the best-known Polish artists, actors practical skills, and lectured on the and writers. Catechism and the Gospels. Yet Adam Chmielowski wasn’t Eventually, Brother Albert happy with this glitzy life of founded two religious orders, the celebrity. At one point, he was Albertine Brothers and Sisters, even hospitalized for depression. devoted to the poor. They set up Adam remained a devout Catholic, homes for the poor, sick and and his paintings — including his elderly in 20 Polish cities. masterpiece, the unfinished Ecce Brother Albert worked to help as Homo, which depicts the mocked by St. Albert many poor persons as possible

until his death in 1916, amidst World War I. During poverty. The play features imagined dialogues between that bloody conflict, he sent Albertine Brothers and the saint and the communist revolutionary (called “the Sisters to the trenches to aid war invalids. After his Stranger”), powerfully showing the difference between death, thousands of Kracovians visited his tomb, the Christian and Marxist approach: The former argues convinced that he died a saint. that poverty can be overcome by seeing God’s image in Today, the Albertines run homes for the poor and the individual, while the latter reduces all to class sick all over the world. Visitors to Krakow can make a struggle and argues that the rich must be violently pilgrimage to the Albertine-run Ecce Homo Shrine, overthrown. After his election as pope, John Paul which features a museum devoted to St. Albert and the beatified St. Albert in 1983 and canonized him in 1989. famous titular painting. From his installation of showers for homeless St. Albert Chmielowski greatly inspired St. John Romans at the Vatican to his spontaneous meetings Paul II. In 1938, when Karol Wojtyła started his with the poor, Pope Francis has beautifully shown that studies in Polish literature at the Jagiellonian the Church has a “preferential option for the poor,” to University, he was a young, promising actor, quote one of the Latin-American bishops’ documents. playwright and poet. Yet his calling to serve God and The life and work of St. Albert Chmielowski, likewise, the Church was stronger than his love for the arts. In reminds us that a particular vocation of the Christian is this, he found inspiration in his fellow artist St. Albert to love the poor, marginalized, weak and those with Chmielowski. disabilities. In today’s self-centered age, when In 1949, the young Father Karol Wojtyła wrote a professional success is seen as the greatest good, St. play about him titled Our God’s Brother. A Kracovian Albert Chmielowski — who gave up the life of a urban legend had it that Brother Albert met Vladimir celebrity painter to serve Christ by helping the poor — Lenin (who lived in Krakow after being expelled from challenges us to ask if we focus too much on worldly Russia) and debated him on how to best alleviate goals and ignore life’s true meaning.