Saint Patrick Parish ‘A Faith Community since 1870‘ 1 Cross Street Whitinsville, MA 01588 MASS SCHEDULE Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday: 4:30 PM Sunday 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 5:00 PM Rectory Phone: 508-234-5656 Monday– Wednesday 8:30 AM Rectory Fax: 508-234-6845 Religious Ed. Phone: 508-234-3511 Sacrament of Reconciliation: Parish Website: www.mystpatricks.com Confessions are offered every Saturday from 3:30 - 4:00 PM in the Church or by calling the Find us on Facebook at Parish Office for an appointment. St Patricks Parish Whitinsville St. Patrick Church, Whitinsville MA October 16, 2016 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Rev. Tomasz Borkowski: Deacon Patrick Stewart: Deacon Chris Finan: Deacon Pastor Deacon [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mrs. Christina Pichette: Mrs. Shelly Mombourquette: Pastoral Associate to Youth Ministry Administrative Assistant [email protected] [email protected] Mrs. Maryanne Swartz: Mrs. Mary Contino: Wedding Coordinator Coordinator of Children’s Ministries [email protected] [email protected] Mrs. Jackie Trottier: Operations Manager Mr. Jack Jackson: Cemetery Superintendent: [email protected] [email protected] Ms. Jeanne LeBlanc: Ministry Scheduler Mrs. Marylin Arrigan: Staff Support, Bulletin [email protected] [email protected] RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SCHEDULE OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL Pre school Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 71 Mendon Street, Uxbridge, MA 01569 Kindergarten Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 508-278-5851 First Grade Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM www.ourladyofthevalleyregional.com Grades 2 & 3 Sunday 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM Grades 4 & 5 Sunday 8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Free Breakfast every Saturday from 8-10 Children are to attend the 10:00 am Mass and take part AM for those in need. Would you like to be in the Children’s Liturgy of the Word. a part of this ministry? Contact Grades 6, 7 & 8 Monday –6:45 PM - 8:00 PM [email protected] or call the rectory. Donations are always welcome. Every First Thursday join us Formal High School Classes will take place September- at Jube’s with a coupon and 10% of your bill will be donated to December at varied times. Special Sessions take place John 21. Watch the bulletin for the coupon. throughout the year check the weekly schedule for times. Sacrament of Baptism: For information concerning our Music Ministry Parent and Godparent Preparation Program, please contact the Cantor Rehearsal: First and Third Tuesdays 7:00-8:30 PM Parish Office approximately three to six months before the Contemporary Music Ensemble Rehearsals: Sept. 27th, 7:00 child is born. PM and then in Nov: Second & Fourth Tuesday 7:00-9:00 PM Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions are offered Shamrocks: Students age 6-12 Watch Bulletin for rehearsal every Saturday from 3:30 - 4:00 PM in the Church or by times and events. calling the Parish Office for an appointment. New Members are Always Welcome in any Music Ministry. Sacrament of Matrimony: Couples should contact a Parish Prayer Shawl Ministry Priest as soon as they decide to marry and before any other As a parishioner of St. Patrick’s, you can request a Prayer arrangements are made. The Diocesan policy requires a Shawl for someone whom you feel needs comfort by calling or minimum one-year period of preparation. e-mailing Lucille at 508-234-2255 or [email protected] or Sacrament of the Sick & Homebound Visits call Shelly or Jackie at the rectory at 508-234-5656 Please inform us when a family member is admitted to the SPiN--St. Patrick’s in Action—Contact Shelly hospital. Communion visits to the aged, sick, convalescing and Mombourquette to find out about this monthly service of homebound are a major concern to us. Please call the Rectory giving back to our community at [email protected] at 508-234-5656 to arrange these ministerial visits. NAC Food Pantry 508-234-4599 RCIA The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults teaches the Open Tuesdays 10:00 AM-12:00 PM history, traditions and Sacraments of the Roman Catholic & Thursdays 1:00-3:00 PM Church. Non-Catholics or Catholic Adults seeking Catholic Charities 508-234-3800 information about full initiation into the Catholic Church, Contact Noreen Landry for support in times of need. through Baptism, Eucharist or Confirmation, should contact Fr. Bulletin Information Deadline Tomasz at the Parish Office (508-234-5656) or Ed or Pauline Information may be e-mailed to [email protected] or Rutana at 508-234-7089. dropped off at the rectory by Monday evening. 2 St. Patrick Church, Whitinsville MA October 16, 2016 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Members of the family requesting the The Mass book is open for the months of Mass are asked to bring the gifts of October-December. If you would like to bread and wine to the altar. Please book a mass in memory of a loved one make yourselves known to the lector please call the rectory at 508-234-5656. and sit near the gifts. Saturday, Oct. 15 4:30 PM + Sunday, Oct. 16 8:00 AM + Remi Roy By the Family 45th Anniv. 10:00 AM + Norman Violette By his Family 15th Anniv. 5:00 PM + Parishioners of St. Patrick Monday, Oct. 17 8:30 AM + Tuesday, Oct. 18 8:30 AM + All the Holy Souls in By Helpers of Holy Souls Purgatory Wednesday, Oct. 19 8:30 AM + Thursday, Oct. 20 No Mass Friday, Oct. 21 No Mass Saturday, Oct. 22 4:30 PM + Dot Skerry By the Bereavement Committee Sunday, Oct. 23 8:00 AM + Manuel Remigio By the Verla Family 10:00 AM + Michael Wilga By his Family 5:00 PM October 16—Propagation of the Faith Second October 23—Utilities Nov. 1– All Saints Nov. 2– All Souls Collection Nov. 6– Building Fund Schedule Sunday, Oct. 16 Faith Formation Session 8:50 AM-12:15 PM Center Decision Point for 9th & 10th Grades 5:00-7:30 PM Center Monday, Oct. 17 Middle School Faith Formation Classes 6:45-8:00 PM Center Tuesday, Oct. 18 6:00-6:45 PM Chapel Wednesday, Oct. 19 Prayer Group and Bible Study 7:00-8:00 PM Chapel Thursday, Oct. 20 Friday, Sept. 21 Saturday, Oct. 22 John 21 Community Breakfast 8:00-10:00 AM Center Baptism of Molly Elizabeth Mulcahy 4:30 PM Church Sunday, Oct. 23 Faith Formation Session 8:50 AM-12:15 PM Center Decision Point for 9th & 10th Graders 5:00-7:30 PM Center Welcoming Committee Meeting 11:30 AM-1:00 PM “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” – C.S. Lewis 3 St. Patrick Church, Whitinsville MA October 16, 2016 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time “When I was sick you visited Are you new to St. Patrick me.” (Matthew 25:36) Parish? E-CHURCH and E-Visiting the sick? Become a member by going to These are the words from Jesus’ last judgment mystpatricks.com to register on-line. Do scene as found in the Gospel of Matthew. One of the central you have students to register for aspects of parish life is undoubtedly caring for the sick and Religious Education? the homebound. It is not uncommon for lay ministers and Go to the Religious Education tab and family members to bring communion to the sick on a weekly basis, as is the case at St. Patrick’s. In some parishes, deacons register on-line, or stop by the office. or parish nurses take on a full time responsibility of visiting, counseling and supporting the sick members of their commu- nities. In our town for many years a religious community of St. Camillus cared for the sick at St. Camillus Health Care Cen- If you have lost a loved one ter. The order of Camillians was founded in 1582 by St. Ca- during this past year and would millus de Lellis. The founder taught his volunteers that the "hospital was a house of God, a garden where the voices of like them remembered in our All the sick were music from heaven." Today members of St. Patrick’s provide spiritual outreach Souls Day Memorial Service on by bringing communion to the residence of St. Camillus and 11/16/16 @ 7:00 PM please every Sunday mass is celebrated there at 2:00 p.m. In addition to visiting the sick, bringing Holy Communion contact the office at 508-234-5656 or to them, and providing services in our local health care facili- e-mail Jackie at: ties, we are beginning a new initiative of streaming a Sunday Mass over the internet to the sick and the homebound. You [email protected] by 11/11/16 could call it an e-church visit. Remember we used to get mail. We still do. But today the mail source of communication is email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snap Chat to name a few. The way we communicate and reach out to one another Scripture for the week of has changed in the last two decades in ways I could not have imagined. We believe that we are called to use modern means of October 16, 2016 communication to connect to those who cannot be here with us. One way to do it is to stream a Mass. Please, keep this new 16 SUN Ex 17:8-13/2 Tm 3:14-4:2/Lk 18:1-8 initiative in your prayers. 17 Mon Eph 2:1-10/Lk 12:13-21 How did we come up with this ideal? More and more par- 18 Tue 2 Tm 4:10-17b/Lk 10:1-9 ishes utilize social media and modern technologies; one of 19 Wed Eph 3:2-12/Lk 12:39-48 them being the Vatican.