PARISH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT & MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE PARISH June 21, 2020 Parish of the Holy Spirit Mary Queen of Peace Parish St. Bernard Church St. Joseph Church 185 Main Street, Keene 35 Brattleboro Road, Hinsdale Saturday 4:00PM Saturday: 4PM Sunday 8:00AM, 9:30AM, 11:15AM Sunday: 9:00AM Weekdays 8:00AM (Mon-Sat) 9:30AM (Friday) Weekdays: Monday 9AM, Thursday 9AM Wednesday 5:30PM First Friday: 5:30PM First Friday 6:00PM Holy Days: As Announced Holy Days: As Announced Confession: By appointment & Saturdays 3:30-4:00PM Confession: Sat: 2:30-3:30PM, Rosary: 7:30AM (before Weekday Mass) St. Stanislaus Church 80 Richmond Road, Winchester First Friday Devotions, 6PM at St. Bernard Church, Mass in Sunday: 7:45AM (Latin) 10:30AM honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, from approximately 6-6:30 Weekdays: Wednesday 5:30PM [Rosary, after Mass] and Eucharistic adoration with confessions from 6:30-7:30. Holy Days: As Announced St. Margaret Mary Church Confession: By Appointment 33 Arch Street, Keene Saturday: 4:00PM Eucharistic Adoration Sunday: 9:00AM Confession: Sat: 3:00-3:30PM Clairvaux Center, 161 Main Street, Keene Monday–Friday 9AM-7PM, Sunday 3PM-7PM Immaculate Conception Church *after 4PM use coded door 37 School Street, Troy St. Margaret Mary Church, 33 Arch Street, Keene Sunday: 11:00AM First Friday of every month 9:00am-3:00pm Holy Days: As Announced Confession: By Appointment St. Joseph Church, 33 Brattleboro Road, Hinsdale Rosary: 10:30AM (before Mass) No adoration starting Nov 1. Will resume May 2020. MASS INTENTIONS Hello Everyone, PARISH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Welcome home! For many of St. Bernard Church you this is the first time you Mon June 22 have been back in the church 8:00 Azalea Houle on her birthday by her family building for months. I am so Tues June 23 of the Parish of the Holy Spirit happy that we are finally able to †8:00 Barbara Quadrini by her husband Ted come together in adoration, Wed June 24 worship and faith. Let us, through our prayers, glorify God. To- 8:00 Isabel Prieto on her birthday by her family day is the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ, this is a Thurs June 25 fitting day to be rejoined as the Body of Christ. Corpus Christi 8:00 Jerry & Jeanne Girard, 60th Wedding Anniversary points primarily to the Eucharist, but also very much to the Mys- Fri June 26 tical Body of Christ, the Church. In celebrating this feast we are †8:00 Blanche and her late husband by Blanche L. Day proclaiming our unwavering and wholehearted declaration that Sat June 27 Jesus is really, truly, fully present in the Eucharist. This mystery †8:00 No Intentions and miracle, we call transubstantiation (big word of the day). †4:00 Barbara & Jean by the Stampalia Family While materially still bread and wine, its substance is now the Sun June 28 Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, in fullness. This is truly mind 8:00 Pro Populo boggling and ought to shatter our understanding of the material †9:30 Scott Babin by Everett & Stephanie world. God can do this. He IS Presence. Anyway… I could go on 11:15 All members of the William Marconi Italian for a while here. Society past and present by The Italian Society Immaculate Conception Church I want to give you a few updates. We will continue to live stream Sun June 28 Masses for a while. I don’t intend on doing this in perpetuity †11:00 No Intention though, only while we have limitations on Mass attendance. The St. Margaret Mary Church schedule of live stream masses is as follows. Wednesday 6pm, Sat June 27 Thursday-Saturday 8am, Sunday 11:15. Holy Communion will be †4:00 No Intention made available after the 11:15 Mass (12:20-ish) for those who Sun June 28 are not yet comfortable attending Mass. I have a concern, with †9:00 Deceased Family Members of Mr. & Mrs. Anselme social distancing protocols that not everyone will be able to at- Lambert by Miss Cora Lambert tend Mass, I hope this is not the case, however Holy Commun- MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE PARISH ion after the 11:15 is also to ensure that even if you can’t attend St. Joseph Church Mass you can still receive Holy Communion. We will see how Sat June 20 this goes and what the actual needs are as we walk through this. †4:00 No Intention School Update. Chris Smith and company are well on their way Sun June 21 to moving into the Clairvaux Center. They have initiated some †9:00 Guy X. Bouchie, Jr. by his sister Martha touch up and beautifying work around the outside of the building St. Stanislaus Church and our lease agreement is all but finalized. In case you were not Sun June 21 yet aware the parish offices will remain on the 3rd floor for the †10:30 Pro Populo time being, while the school occupies the 1st and 2nd floors. Our parish presence in the building will be reevaluated after one year. Also, Catholic Charities is no longer operating out of the SANCTUARY LAMP Clairvaux, this is first because of Sr Kathleen’s retirement and Week of June 21st because of the school. They are actively looking for a new home in Keene. The Newman Center has an office on Keene State’s Adoration Chapel campus. I look forward to working with Cindy Cheshire on Kerry forming and keeping the parishes bond with the Newman Cen- ter. This also means the Catholic Faith Formation Center, the bookstore, will no longer be. I have met with Ann Ball a couple of times to plan and prepare the closing of the bookstore. We have a certain amount of inventory and we hope to make availa- PARISH SUPPORT ble the remaining books at a deep discount, in the weeks to PHS: 5/30-6/5: $8,881.25 come. As far as the library goes, my plan is to narrow the selec- 6/6-6/12: $6,288.44 tion of books we keep and make those available for loan. I can Weekly Offertory Needed: $13,500.00 foresee keeping a bookshelf in the future office (rectory building) when we move there. MQP: 5/23-5/29: $863.00 Scan to make I think this is it for now. Next week I will write about our new 6/6-6/12: $670.00 an Online Donation Youth Minister/School Campus Minister and our new Parish Liai- Weekly Offertory Needed: $1,600.00 son, who will begin on August 1st. I think this is it for now. THANK YOU for your continued support Many blessings, during this time! Fr Alan PARISH GROUPS & MINISTRIES BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE PRAYER SHAWLS: 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at Paul VI Audience Hall Clairvaux Center, 161 Main Street in Keene. Starts around 9am, or Wednesday, 12 December 2007 after WINGS. We have lap robes and shawls for the sick, those having surgery, or those struggling with their health. All items are Saint Paulinus of Nola made with prayers and blessed by the priest. Please call the office to obtain one. Dear Brothers and Sisters, WIDOWS GROUP: 2nd Thursday of the month. April 9th, LongHorn’s. Please call Sarah Avery 357-0176 for further infor- The Father of the Church to whom mation. we turn our attention today is St CAFÉ WITH PADRE: Next meeting March 11th at St. Bernard Paulinus of Nola. Paulinus, a con- Church hall after the 8am Mass. temporary of St Augustine to whom MEN’S HOLY HOUR he was bound by a firm friendship, exercised his ministry at Nola in Campania, where he was a Start your 2020 on a positive spiritual step with a group of like monk and later a priest and a Bishop. However, he was original- minded men. Each month on the 2nd Tuesday, Deacon Fintan ly from Aquitaine in the South of France, to be precise, Bor- Moore leads a group in structured prayer and reflection for one deaux, where he was born into a high-ranking family. It was hour at St. Margaret Mary Church at 6:00 pm. The next gath- here, with the poet Ausonius as his teacher, that he received a ering will be on July 14th. fine literary education. He left his native region for the first time CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS: Court St. Joseph in Hinsdale. Meet- to follow his precocious political career, which was to see him ings are held the first Tuesday of every month. rise while still young to the position of Governor of Campania. CATHOLIC WOMEN OF CHARITIES: In this public office he attracted admiration for his gifts of wis- Come and stop in at the next meeting at St. Margaret Mary Church dom and gentleness. It was during this period that grace caused April 6th at 6:30pm. the seed of conversion to grow in his heart. The incentive came THE LADIES OF ST. ANNE: The next meeting for the Ladies from the simple and intense faith with which the people hon- of St. Anne society will be held in the parish hall at St. Bernard’s oured the tomb of a saint, Felix the Martyr, at the Shrine of pre- church on Wednesday March 11th from 5 pm until 6:30pm. A sent-day Cimitile. As the head of public government, Paulinus light supper will be served. There will be an important discussion took an interest in this Shrine and had a hospice for the poor on fundraising.