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July 24, 2016 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time CHURCH OF SAINT PAUL HAMILTON/WENHAM
July 24, 2016
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
CHURCH OF SAINT PAUL
HAMILTON/WENHAM
Eucharistic Adoration Every Saturday beginning with the Men’s Group at
7:30 am and continuing until 3:00 pm in the chapel.
Sacraments Baptism:
Usually the second Sunday of the month at 11:30 am.
An instruction for parents and sponsors is held usually the
First Friday of the month at 7:00 pm in the Church Hall.
Contact the Rectory to make arrangements.
Confession: Saturday from 3:45 – 4:15 pm in the
Penance Room with special times during Advent and Lent.
Marriage : Contact the Rectory to receive information.
A preparation period of at least six months must be allowed.
Couples are required to attend a Marriage Preparation
Program during this time.
Pastoral Visitation: The Eucharist and the Anointing of the Sick
can be brought to our parishioners confined to their homes.
Also, a friendship visit can be made to parishioners.
Kindly contact the Rectory.
Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life: If you feel called to consider a vocation to the priesthood or
religious life, please speak to the pastor. You are invited to see the
Archdiocesan website: www.bostoncatholic.org. We are all asked to support and pray for vocations.
Wills and Bequests: They have been very helpful to
Saint Paul’s Parish over the years and we hope they will continue
to assist the parish in its good works now and in the future.
Kindly speak to the pastor and/or Parish Office so that we may
answer any question and provide guidance.
50 Union Street Hamilton, MA 01982
978-468-2337
Website: www.churchofsaintpaul.net
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 978-468-6538
Pastor Reverend Michael Lawlor
Welcome to all new parishioners! Please introduce yourself after Mass or at the Office.
Weekend Assistant Reverend Dennis Dever
Music Director Joseph Cipoletta [email protected]
Parish Secretary
Lucy Cronan
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (978) 468-3617
P.R.E.P Grades 1 - 5 Jeanne Abbott [email protected]
S.P.Y.M Grades 6 – 10 Jackie Martin [email protected]
Religious Education Offices are located in the Parish Hall.
There is an elevator for handicapped access
to the church located in the rear of the building.
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Saturday 4:30 pm
Sunday 8:00 am, 10:15 am, 5:30 pm
Weekdays 9:00 am, except Thursdays
Mass Schedule Parish Offices
Mass Schedule
SAINT PAUL CHURCH HAMILTON / WENHAM
A Big Thank YOU
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REMEMBERING GOD THROUGH LEISURE Dear Friends, Summer affords us the opportunity for vacation and time together. All of this is wholesome and good for both body and soul.
Every week affords us the opportunity of honoring the Lord’s Day on Sunday. It is that weekly rhythm which is to enhance our body and soul. We stop our weekly activity to worship God at Mass and renew our spiritual lives. It is worth every effort to be attentive to this rest and worship. Rest, properly understood, restores our tired lives and allows us to bring perspective to the situations at hand. So much of our busyness is born out of love for our family. Still, we want to utilize better our actions in love of God. Our different activity on Sunday whereby we worship and rest allows us to spend valuable time with God and then with each other, to enjoy ourselves, and to really be family together. The highlight of our week as family is our participation at Mass. Here we offer ourselves together with our joys and sorrows and ask that the redeeming grace of the Cross help transform us. This weekly renewal of strength is important for body and soul. If we are attentive to this responsibility, then we keep God at the center of our lives. We truly allow him to love us and his love will change us. We worship at Sunday Mass and we strive to spend time with family.
Certainly, the children look with eagerness to their weeks away from school. A different routine in the summer months allows us the opportunity of appreciating more our many blessings and the special persons God has placed in our lives. Leisure is important so that we may remain attentive to our duties. Vacation allows us to do things together as family and to enjoy new adventures. Time together is so important!
Vacation affords us the opportunity to reflect upon the beauty which God has given to us through His creation. Within the context of this beauty comes a deeper appreciation for what God has given and our responsibility to be good stewards. We must be responsible to one another. What God has bestowed upon us is only temporary. An accounting of our stewardship before the bar of Divine Justice is clearly taught in the Gospel Parables. A vacation break offers us the great opportunity of examining our lives. Examination of self is essential for progress in our spiritual journey. The Greeks would say that the unexamined life is not worth living. Christianity would borrow this philosophy and develop it through the early Fathers of the Church and through our teaching tradition. It is sound! It is the hope that with rest and leisure our re-examined lives will be filled with greater zeal to serve God and each other with a deeper love and level of commitment. Central to our lives will always be our worship of God at Holy Mass.
It is my hope and prayer that our vacation and leisure this summer never leaves God behind. Rather from our summer leisure may we find our weekly rhythm of worship, work, and rest centered on the Lord’s Day as a means of sustaining us week by week. Enjoy with an appreciation of God’s grace a wonderful summer.
Father Michael Lawlor Pastor
SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, July 23 4:30: Parishioners of St. Paul Sunday, July 24 8:00: John & Genevieve Moynihan
10:15: Lois Thompson
5:30: Michael & Katherine Lawlor
Monday, July 25
through Friday, July 29 No Daily Mass
Saturday, July 30 4:30: Andrew Barada Sunday, July 31 8:00: Joan and Ed Hogan, Sr.
10:15: James Burke
5:30: Parishioners of Saint Paul
If you would like to have a Mass
Intention for a deceased loved one,
please contact the parish office.
Please keep these parishioners in your prayers throughout the week:
Jennifer Arapoff Michelle Broderick
Jean Buckley Myles Burke
John Cronan
Marion Dempsey
Grace Ferreira Paul Ferreira Ben Hutchinson
Duane Johnson Sarah Johnson
Samuel Laforme Roger LaMontagne
Eileen Malala
Tom Marcotte Mary Moran
Cecile Nickola Karla Pippins
Michael D. Ryus
Sharon Short Adriana Swanson
Jennifer Todd Kathleen Tuscano
Nancy Walsh
Tanner Watson
For our troops:
Greg Cohan
Mass Ministries for the Weekend of July 31
4:30 Mass
EMC: E. Donahue
Lector: TBD
Altar Server: open 8:00 Mass:
EMC: D. Fraser, M. Groesbeck, S. Janes,
M. Mendonca
Lector: T. Barrett
Altar Server: 10:15 Mass:
EMC: N. Monaco, K. Safrin
Lector: J. Whelan
Altar Server: E & Q Moynihan
5:30 Mass:
EMC: Lector:
Altar Server: D. Ferris
Please know that your service to Saint
Paul’s is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
...and for all our parishioners who are sick, for our homebound parishioners and those confined to nursing facilities and hospital, as well as, the sick and the suffering known only to God. If you or someone you know is homebound and wishes to receive Holy Communion, please call the parish office. Sick or ill prayer requests must be made by the individual or immediate family member by calling the parish office.
Beginning Monday, there will be no daily Masses Monday - Friday at St. Paul’s.
Daily Masses resume Monday, August 8th. Area parishes offering Daily Masses:
Our Lady of Hope, Ipswich: 9:00 M-F, ex. Wednesday
St. John the Evangelist, Beverly: 9:00 M-F, ex. Thursday
A Very Special Event Mission Co-op Appeal Sunday, July 30/31
Fr. Dennis Dever in his early years of priesthood was a member of the Society of St. James the Apostle serving in South America. Next Sunday, July 30 and 31, Fr. Dever will make an appeal for our Annual Mission Co-op Sunday. Founded by Cardinal Cushing in 1958, members of the Society are diocesan priests, from English speaking countries, who work with the exceptionally poor in Peru and Ecuador. Please be as generous as your means allow to help those less fortunate. For more information on the Society of St. James visit their website: www.socstjames.
Thank you, as always, for your generous support.
JULY 24, 2016
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to encourage your participation in spiritual devotion.to encourage your participation in spiritual devotion.to encourage your participation in spiritual devotion.to encourage your participation in spiritual devotion.
Adoration extends its influence far beyond the individual adorers, touching their homes and
families and reaching out to the parish community and beyond. (Pope Paul VI)
~~~~~~~~~~~ Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it is recorded in Heaven and
retold for all eternity! (Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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The spiritual lives of our families are strengthened through our Holy Hour. (Blessed John Paul)
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A Holy Hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament is so important to Jesus that a multitude of souls
go to Heaven who otherwise would have gone to hell. (Jesus revelation to Blessed Dina Belanger)
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All the angels of heaven gaze in ecstasy at the image left on our soul after each holy hour you make in
the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. (Excerpt from “Letters To A Brother Priest”)
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The only time our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for
activity did He plead but for an Hour of companionship. (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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Each time you approach the Blessed Sacrament remember that Jesus has been waiting for you for
twenty centuries for this personal visit from you. (St. Josemaria Escriva)
Eucharistic Adoration Saturdays, 8:30 – 3:00 p.m.
St. Paul Chapel Adorers are needed, especially 8:45 - 10:30 am.
Please join us as we pray weekly for :
• vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life from the parish; • married couples of the parish; • parishioners and their intentions.
St. Paul’s Celebrates Year of Mercy This week’s Corporal Works of Mercy are Christ-like acts of service that help our neighbors with their everyday material and physical needs including:
Clothe the Naked • Donate your slightly worn clothes and shoes, especially winter outerwear. • Host or volunteer to help with a clothing drive. • Collect new/cotton/warm socks for the homeless. • Knit, sew or crochet baby blankets or hats/carves/gloes for hose in need. • Hose a dress down/up day in your school for $1/person and use the money to buy much needed clothing for
those in need. • Pray for those in need.
We need your help to reach our goal of having two adorers pre-sent during Adoration. Please, any time you can give Is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
JULY 24, 2016
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2016-2017 NEW VOLUNTEERS The Archdiocese of Boston requires that all clergy, lay ministers, staff, teachers and any volunteer 18 years of age or over, who has direct contact with children and young adults attend a Virtus training session.
Virtus Training Sessions Tuesday, September 13
& Thursday, October 13 at 7:00 pm in the church hall. Please mark your calendars
now!
If you are a volunteer in our parish and have not yet attended a Virtus training, please plan to attend one of the dates above. Other possible training dates and locations within the diocese are available at www.bostoncatholic.org under Protecting God's Children/Training and Education.
2016-2017 registration is underway!
Enrollments have been sent out. If you did not receive yours, please contact
Jeanne Abbott or Jackie Martin.
If you are new to the parish or have a child entering Grade 1, please email Jeanne Abbott at
If you have a child entering Grade 6-10, please email Jackie Martin at [email protected]
Men’s Prayer Group: Saturday’s at 7:30 am in the Chapel. Please feel free to stop by
and join us any Saturday !
Asked and Answered By Dr. Scott Hahn
Though we be "but dust and ashes," we can presume to draw near and speak boldly to our Lord, as Abraham dares in this week’s First Reading. But even Abraham - the friend of God (see Isaiah 41:8), our father in the faith (see Romans 4:12) - did not know the intimacy that we know as children of Abraham, heirs of the blessings promised to his descendants (see Galatians 3:7,29).
The mystery of prayer, as Jesus reveals to His disciples in this week’s Gospel, is the living relationship of beloved sons and daughters with their heavenly Father. Our prayer is pure gift, made possible by the "good gift" of the Father - the Holy Spirit of His Son. It is the fruit of the New Covenant by which we are made children of God in Christ Jesus (see Galatians 4:6-7; Romans 8:15-16).
Through the Spirit given to us in Baptism, we can cry to Him as our Father - knowing that when we call He will answer. Jesus teaches His disciples to persist in their prayer, as Abraham persisted in begging God's mercy for the innocent of Sodom and Gomorrah. For the sake of the one just Man, Jesus, God spared the city of man from destruction (see Jeremiah 5:1; Isaiah 53), "obliterating the bond against us," as Paul says in this week’s Epistle.
On the Cross, Jesus bore the guilt of us all, canceled the debt we owed to God, the death we deserved to die for our transgressions. We pray as ones who have been spared, visited in our affliction, saved from our enemies. We pray always a prayer of thanksgiving, which is the literal meaning of Eucharist. We have realized the promise of this week’s Psalm: We worship in His holy temple, in the presence of angels, hallowing His name. In confidence we ask, knowing that we will receive, that He will bring to completion what He has done for us - raising us from the dead, bringing us to everlasting life along with Him. A service of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology www.SalvationHistory.com
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