Chelmsford Catholic Collaborative Home to St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist Parish Families Parish Offices located at 115 Middlesex Street, North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 01863 (978) 251-8571•(978) 256-2374•fax (978) 293-0303 † [email protected] Just as our Blessed Mother Mary and the Evangelist, called John, came together at the foot of the cross to serve Christ crucified, so also do the parish families bearing their names come together to serve God by serving each other and all who make up the body of The Risen Lord. 8 8 WWW.SAINTJOHNCHELMSFORD.ORG WWW.SAINT-MARY.ORG 55 • 7R 7 • 7R 7 • 7R7 • 7R7 : %`R:7•7 : %`R:7•7 %JR:7• 757 %JR:7• 75 75 7 7 7 QJR:7R2`1R:7• 7 QJR:7R2`1R:7• 7 Th qh()hHhhyr hrirrrh vurSrsr phyrqh : %`R:7•7R7 : %`R:7•7R7 Q`G7:]]Q1J IVJ Q`G7:]]Q1J IVJ 21` 2`1R:7Q` .VQJ . ,.%`R:7•7R 7 February 10, 2019 9V$1JJ1J$2`1R:75 7 2`1R:7• 7R 7 8QJHC%R1J$ : %`R:75 7 : %`R:7• 7R7 1J .V:788.:]VC 1J .V7:`1.8VJ V`8.:]VC Simon said in reply, 8:`79011 1118:1J RI:`78Q`$ :JRHC1H@QJ> 10V1V1?C1J@: .VGQ QIQ`]:$V8 “ 8(Q.J9011 1118:1J =Q.JH.VCI`Q`R8Q`$ HC1H@QJ *+ ,-+.1J%]]V`CV` Q`]:$V8 .” When they had done this, they caught a great ,Q.:0V]`:7V`:1R`Q`7Q%`VC`Q`:CQ0VRQJV5 ~Luke 5: 5-6 H:CC .V]:`1.Q``1HV:JR:@`Q`V6 8 number of fish. O In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises Lord.P -Responsorial Psalm 138 In honor of • at St. Mary’s • President’s Day, the parish offices will be closed Faith Formation Events • See Faith Formation Page 6 on Monday, Grace Notes Rehearsal • 8:10 - 8:45 am • Church February 18th. Children’s Liturgy of the Word • 11 am Mass 6 pm Music Ministry Team Rehearsal • 5:00 - 5:45 pm • Church New Faith Formation High School Youth Group, following 6 pm Mass • Hall Program Presentation for Catechists and Bible Study • 10:00 am - 12 noon • PC Conf Room 1 Altar Server Training • 4:00 - 5:00 pm • St. John Church Table Facilitators Catechists Faith Formation Program Launch • 7 pm • St. John Hall of BOTH parishes! Boy Scout Troop 77 Committee • 7:00 pm • PC Conf Room 2 Attention all Catechists & Table Facilitators! Please come learn about the NEW! Family Faith Formation Altar Server Training • 4:00 - 5:00 pm • St. John Church program to be launched in the Fall of 2019 at both Bible Study • 7:00 - 8:30 pm • Hall parishes. If you were unable to attend Saturday’s presentation, please be sure to attend on... Monday, February 11th: 7:00 – 8:00 pm PPC & Finance Council Mtg • 7:00 pm • St. John Parish Hall St. John’s Parish Hall Godspell Rehearsal • 7:00 pm • St. John Church Music Ministry Extra Rehearsal • 6:30 - 7:30 pm • Music Room Boy Scout Troop 77 • 7:00 pm • Hall PPC and Finance Councils SVdP Meeting • 7:00 - 9:00 pm • PC MR 5 Our Wednesday, February 13th meeting is a rollout of the new Collaborative Faith Formation Program. Rosary Makers • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • PC Conf Room 2 Please do your best to attend this meeting, as this is Rosary • 12:00 - 1:00 pm • PC Chapel an opportunity for us to hear your valuable Adoration • 3:00 - 9:00 pm • PC Chapel feedback. We will meet on... RCIA • 7:00 - 8:30 pm • PC Conf Room 2 Wednesday, February 13th at 7:00 pm St. John Parish Hall Adoration • 7:00 am - 9:00 pm • PC Chapel Knitting & Crocheting • 3:00 - 5:00 pm • PC MR 2 Godspell Rehearsal • 7:00 pm • St. John Hall NO 9:00 am Mass: Mass at St. John’s this week Catholic Men’s Group • 7:45 - 8:45 am • PC Conf Room 1 Adoration • 9:30 am - 3:00 pm • PC Chapel that make you go Reconciliation • 11:00 am - 12:00 noon • Church Altar Server Training • 12:30 - 1:30 pm • St. John Church Is there a hymn that you haven’t heard in a Music Rehearsals • 1:00 - 4:00 pm • Music Room while? Or maybe there is a specific hymn that Collaborative Bell Rehearsal • 2:30 - 3:30 pm • Loft has a special meaning for you that you would 4 pm Music Ministry Team Rehearsal • 2:45 - 3:45 pm • Music Room like to hear sung at Mass? If so, contact us with String Ensemble/Ministry Rehearsal • 3:00 - 4:00 pm • Church your requests! Anointing of the Sick • following 4:00 pm Mass St. Mary Music Ministry John at (978) 729-4226 or [email protected] Faith Formation Events • See Faith Formation Page 6 Godspell Rehearsal • 1:30 pm • Parish Hall St. John Music Ministry 6 pm Music Ministry Team Rehearsal • 5:00 - 5:45 pm • Church Jason at (781) 354-1947 or [email protected] page 3 February 10th, 2019: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. John Church Wedding BANNS I • at St. John’s • Alexa Queenan & Matthew Silva There are about 20 ordered and Faith Formation Events • See Faith Formation Page 7 pre-paid 125th Anniversary DVDs still Children’s Liturgy of the Word • 8:30 am Mass waiting to be claimed. If you have not Coffee and Donuts, following 8:30 am Mass • Hall yet picked yours up, please do so by African Liturgy Committee Mtg • 11:30 am • OPC the end of February. They will be Group Baptism • 2:00 pm • Church available for pickup at the parish VBF Planning Meeting • 6:00 - 8:00 pm • OPC office during regular business hours. QJ VI]C: 10V `:7V``Q%]9 Altar Server Training • 4:00 - 5:00 pm • Church meets the 3rd Saturday of every month Families w/Addiction Support Group • 7:00 pm • Mary Gill for scripture reading and open discussion. Catechists Faith Formation Program Launch • 7:00 pm • Hall For further information, contact Ray at [email protected]. Tuesday Morning Coffee Group, following 9 am Mass • Hall Join us… Next Saturday, February 16th Altar Server Training • 4:00 - 5:00 pm • Church 9:30 - 11:00 am Open Music Ministry Rehearsal • 6:30 - 8:00 pm • Church St. John’s New Parish Center Linehan Room PPC & Finance Council Mtg • 7:00 pm • Hall Godspell Rehearsal • 7:00 pm • Church St. John Tuesday Morning Coffee Group Charismatic Prayer Group • 10:00 am • OPC Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday BINGO • 6:45 pm (doors open at 3:00 pm) • Hall of the Month in the St. John Charismatic Prayer Group • 7:00 pm • OPC Church Hall following the 9:00 am daily Mass. Godspell Rehearsal • 7:00 pm • Hall Altar Server Training • 12:30 - 1:30 pm • Church Saint Patricks Day Dinner Contemplative Group • 9:30 am • Linehan Reconciliation • 3:00 - 3:45 pm • Church and Shamrock Raffle Saturday, March 16th at St. John’s Appetizers at 5:00 pm/ Dinner at 5:30 pm Faith Formation Events • See Faith Formation Page 7 Tickets are $18 per person Children’s Liturgy of the Word • 8:30 am Mass Coffee and Donuts, following 8:30 am Mass • Hall Tickets will be on sale after all Prayer Shawl Meeting, following 8:30 am Mass • Hall Masses at both churches on the African Liturgy • 12:30 pm • Church weekends of March 2nd/3rd Godspell Rehearsal • 1:30 pm • St. Mary Parish Hall and March 9th/10th. Join us for the traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage, Irish soda bread, hot/cold beverages and dessert… and live more entertainment! BYO beer and wine! Turn page for World Marriage Day more Today, February 10th, is World Marriage Day, welcome to World Marriage Day honors husband and wife as the foundation of the family, the basic unit of society. It salutes the beauty of their faithfulness, sacrifice and joy in daily married life. This question gets to the heart of the issue of Our World Marriage Day Symbol indulgences. Indulgences, of course, do not bring speaks readily of the role and values about the forgiveness of sin: that is only possible for we proclaim. Husband and wife are mortal sins through the sacrament of penance, and symbolically seen as two candle-like for venial sins through acts of charity, or contrition, as figures, reminding us that married love well as the sacrament of penance. What is an calls us to help enlighten the world. The indulgence? The Catechism says it is "a remission before God of the couple is joined by a heart, focusing on love as the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been power that fosters unity within the couple and forgiven and which the faithful Christian, who is duly disposed, gains generates the capacity to be life-giving and under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church, inspire others to fruitfulness and unity. which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and all the saints.? MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKENDS - Marriage Encounter Weekends are a special time for a In the past, there was the idea that gaining an indulgence would take married couple away from all distractions: work, away a certain amount of time in purgatory. Saint Pope Paul VI did kids, bills, and other pressures and concerns. When away with that notion and simplified how indulgences should be was the last time you had a weekend like that? It considered.