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SAINT JEROME PARISH IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH
Collaborative Staff
Saturday, May 16
Mary Jane Pereira Sunday, May 17 Robert B. Heaney, 1st Anniversary Paschal McCafferty Thursday, May 21 Phong Vu Saturday, May 23 Deceased Members of Goggin Family Mary Zumbahlen, 4th Anniversary Sunday, May 24 Amanda Goodstein, 25th Anniversary George W. Ryan
Saturday, May 16
Elaine Keenan, 5th Anniversary Sunday, May 17
Robert K. Mahoney, 42nd Anniversary Margaret Carloni, 18th Anniversary Jeanne Anderson, Memorial Saturday, May 23
Robert Leyden, 9th Anniversary Sunday, May 24
Francis A. Levasseur, 7th Anniversary Francis E. Sheppard, 28th Anniversary
Director of Lifelong Faith Formation Director of Finance/Operations Mary Ellen Cassani Jade Nguyen [email protected] [email protected]
Music Director Office Manager Monika Brodsky Daryle Wilson [email protected] [email protected]
Youth Minister Saint Jerome Parish Maintenance Zach Morris Mike Pollard [email protected]
Saint Jerome School Tuition Manager Frances LaRosee [email protected]
Catholic Weymouth Offers Mass Online at Facebook.com
Please go to our website and watch Holy Mass in our own collaborative. Go to catholicweymouth.org and click on the f (found in upper right) of the homepage. You do not need to have a facebook account to watch our Mass. Go to this site for Holy Week and continued updates regarding parish information.
Please Note All of your Mass intentions are being remembered by our parish priests during their private Masses. Adoration
Please practice social distancing/use hand sanitizer as you enter and leave the Church.
Sundays 10:00am - 12:00noon
Immaculate Conception and Saint Jerome
Weekdays 8:00am - 10:00am
Tues, Thurs, Sat - Immaculate Conception Parish Mon, Wed, Fri - Saint Jerome Parish
Confessions - BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Please email Fr. Huy
[email protected] or call the office to make appointment
Memorial Gifts for the Week
May 17, 2020
The Hosts, the Altar Wine
and the Sanctuary Light have been donated
in loving remembrance of
Margaret Carloni
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May 17, 2020: SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Deacon Fran Corbett Gospel Reflection
Attention All 2020 Graduates !
We would like to celebrate all 2020 graduates in our Collaborative family and we ask you to remember them in your prayers. This includes all those graduating from public or private schools and College graduates. We are putting together a Graduation Board which will be on
display at Mass on Pentecost Sunday, May 31. If your graduate would like to be included on this picture board, please have them scan and email a photo of themselves and the school they are graduating from to: [email protected] .
We look forward to the day when we can be a community again and receive the Holy Eucharist together.
Many years ago, when my children were still at home, my work required me to travel at times. My wife was able to join me, and that meant we needed to find a safe and loving caretaker for our children. Nan and Auntie stepped up to our rescue. They were completely competent, and more importantly, deeply caring. Our children felt very safe with them as loving care takers, advocates and councilors. Nan and Auntie were more than “babysitters,” they helped guide our children through the ups and downs of daily life, even though the children made it clear that they were not babies anymore!
Today’s Gospel tells how Jesus prepares His disciples for His imminent departure from them. Sometimes, people misinterpret His tone as a stern parental-like warning, “if you love Me,
you will keep my commandments.” Not unlike what parents may have told our children, “you better behave, and do what you are told while we are away.” Quite the contrary, Jesus is lovingly guiding His close friends to prepare for His absence by remaining in spiritual communion with Him. He will send a councilor and Advocate, the Holy Spirit, to help: all food for the journey. If they love Jesus, they will stay in communion with Him, and this will provide the inspiration and energy to live as Jesus lives. Loving Jesus and remaining faithful to Him, during this pandemic is the guide to our daily Christian life. Spiritual communion is something relatively new to many of us who have counted on the Eucharist as our regular means of being close to our Lord, but perhaps now we can better appreciate its nourishing value, as we try to keep safe from this viral scourge .
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is not saying that He is going back to God and when His disciples (including all of us) die we can go to God and be re-united with Him. Rather, Jesus is saying He will be present to them (and us) through the Spirit and in the depth of their own beings. They are being told to proceed with and become aware of Jesus’ spiritual presence without His physical manifestation.
Finally, Jesus assures His disciples He will not leave them orphans and He will come to us, and be with us. We will see Him (with the eyes of our souls) when we realize that He is in the Father and that we are in Him and He is in us. Jesus concludes with a powerful binding of us all through His love (love is repeated 5 times in this very brief gospel). Jesus reminds us to love Him by observing His commandments, and says “whoever loves Me will be loved by the Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
Let us reflect upon these loving words of Jesus during our spiritual communion each day!
Deacon Fran
Ascension Thursday
Thursday, May 21 is the Ascension of the Lord, a Holy Day of Obligation (remotely).
Please watch Mass live on facebook at 5:00pm. You may access the Mass from our facebook page; Catholic Weymouth
or our website: catholicweymouth.org
Click on the f on the top right of the Homepage, you will then be redirected to facebook, scroll down until you find the image of the live Mass.
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Forming in Faith...
Faith Formation
Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope and do it with gentleness and reverence 1Pet 3:15
In the days ahead, when we proceed with a measure of caution in all of our affairs, St.
Peter invites us to speak joyfully about the hope that is in our hearts because the Lord is with us. We are firmly rooted in faith, we abide and hope and we reach out in love as we step forward to renew our public lives in the coming weeks. May a soon return to worship
give us a reason to speak of this special hope in our lives.
Immaculate Conception School Motto See some beautiful object; learn some great truth; do some good deed.
This week we recorded the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary at Our Lady’s Statue in front of the Old Rectory. Our Lady sits quietly between the sites of the first and second elementary schools that taught so many of our parish children over its 50 years.
Daryle and I found some old class registers from Immaculate Conception School and determined that the first school opened in the stable house of the Old Rectory on September 10, 1923 with 14 boys and 12 girls. During the school year it added 2 more boys and 3 more girls. The first teacher listed at the one room schoolhouse was Sister M. Frederick. In subsequent years children were added to the stable schoolhouse until, according to the attendance logs, it appears the school at 1187 Commercial Street opened September 13, 1928 with Grades 1-6 and 162 days in session. Grade 1 by this time had 31 children and the upper classes had 14-15 students per grade. My class that began in 1960 had 48 students! The school did its best to offer a comprehensive education with music and art part of the curriculum.
Bulletin We are emailing the bulletin weekly, please email or call the office and request to be put on our list. If you do not have email and would like the bulletin mailed to you, we will be happy to do that as well.
Please know that you are all in our prayers. If there is anything we can do to assist you during these trying times, please email us at [email protected] or call 781-337-0380.
Immaculate Conception School was staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph, the order of sisters that served the Archdiocese of Boston. The school was closed in 1973 “due to declining enrollment and an emphasis on secondary rather than elementary schools.”
If you have any stories about the school that you would like to share with us, please email Mary Ellen Cassani @ [email protected] and we will share them with the parish from time to time over the summer.
Both the Joyful and the Sorrowful Mysteries have been uploaded to our website, catholicweymouth.org and our facebook page Catholic Weymouth.
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Collaborative News and Events...
First Reading Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. With one accord,
the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip when they heard it and saw the signs he was doing. For unclean spirits, crying out in a loud voice, came out of many possessed people, and many paralyzed or crippled
people were cured. There was great joy in that city. Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Responsorial Psalm Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
Second Reading Beloved: Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to
anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing
evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit.
Gospel Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you
will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
Readings: Sixth Sunday of Easter
Volunteers Wanted for Saint Jerome School’s Friday Fun Clubs
The Saint Jerome School Spirit Committee is continuing our beloved school tradition of
“Friday Fun Clubs.” We are seeking school and parish volunteers who would like to share their talent with our students. Things that have been shared in the past include art, dance, sports, magic, cooking, painting, creative writing, yoga, spy club and lots more!
These virtual clubs will be presented via video on our school’s website and/or YouTube
channel. The possibility of a live instruction is there, if that better suits your style and capabilities.
What is your talent? Would you be willing to create a 15-30 minute video instructing the students on how to complete a project? Do you have a topic that works for one lesson or a series of lessons? We will compile a list of all the talents people are willing to share. Once we have the total number of videos we can offer and the
recommended age groups for the project/talent, we will share the process for submitting your video, the release dates, and publish any supplies necessary for families to participate from home. The focus should be on items that are easily obtained or already in our homes.
Please share this notice with your talented family and friends. All are welcome to share the magic! We are grateful for your willingness to help in any way you can! If you would like to help, please email your name, telephone contact, talent, how many sessions you will produce and materials needed to:
[email protected]. Sincerely, The Friday Fun Club Crew!
