St. Barbara’s Parish Sunday Bulletin

Sunday, February 19, 2006

MASS INTENTIONS

WE REMEMBER IN A SPECIAL WAY AT MASS THIS WEEKEND

those whose names are inscribed in our Book of Remembrance; members of St. Barbara Benefactor Society; your family members, relatives and friends, and the following deceased: Harold & Vera Haley; George Ray; Gerry McCabe; Cosmo Fedele; Thomas Mulkerrin, Alyssa Dion.

ALTAR SERVERS

Fr. Carroll invites boys and girls, Grade 4 and up, to join our Altar Servers. Please consider it and call the rectory for further information.

INCOME TAX STATEMENTS

All envelope users who are interested in obtaining a copy of their 2005 contributions to the Parish may call the rectory office and we will be happy to mail a statement to you. Call 781-933-4130.

ASIA-PACIFIC CULTURAL EVENT

Calling all Asian-Americans in our community. Please come and join us. St. Barbara’s Parish in Woburn is planning to hold an Asia-Pacific Cultural Festival this summer. If you are interested in helping organize the program or would like to share your talents in this cultural show, please contact Louise Sullivan 781-376-1797, or leave a message with the Parish secretary.

FOOD COLLECTION

: for families helped thru Woburn Social Concern will be held next weekend, Feb. 25/26th. Some of the items most needed are: juices, canned fruits and vegetables, tuna fish, spaghetti sauce, coffee or tea, puddings, cereals. Please try to bring at least one item to church next weekend.

CAN YOU HELP??

We are already recruiting teachers for next year’s Religious Education program 2006-2007. Grades 7,8,9,10 are the grades for which we are most in need (Grades 11 & 12 have enough teachers). If you would consider helping out with the program, please come to an information night in the lower rectory on Thursday, March 16th at 7:00 p.m. This will be a good opportunity to get an overview of each grade, to take a look at the books and teaching materials. If you decide then that you would like to volunteer for a particular grade level, you can either teach your own class or team teach with a friend. We really pray you consider this and come to the meeting. For more information, call Ann Cronin 781-933-9334. Thank you.

PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJUGORGIE

Father Tom Reilly of St. Michael’s Parish, Bedford will be chaplain for this pilgrimage – April 25 to May 5, 2006. Cost is approximately $1,500. Brochures are available at the rectory office for anyone interested.

TAKING INVENTORY OF YOUR GIFTS

The spiritual term for identifying your gifts and determining how they can best be used for service to others is “discernment”, from a Latin word meaning “to sift through”. Discernment takes time, prayer and reflection. Begin by setting aside some quiet time with no interruptions. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you recognize your gifts and talents. Then ask yourself some questions:

• What are my talents?
• What are my special abilities?
• What skills have I developed?
• What people skills do I have?
• When people compliment me, what do they recognize?
• What do family members see as my best traits?
• What is my job or profession?
• What are my material gifts?
• What activities energize me?
• What difficulties have I overcome?
• What activities in my life have been especially fruitful?

Join us in our Parish Ministries. We invite you.

Source OSV

ST. PATRICK’S NIGHT – SATURDAY, MARCH 4th

Tickets are still available for our St. Patrick Night celebration in the church hall – a delicious corned beef and cabbage dinner – music by John Connors and the Irish Express and Irish Step Dancing.. Tickets are $25.00 per person and may be obtained by calling:

• Carol McDermottroe 935-7037,
• Jo Power 933-2845, or
• Mary Rossignol 935-3086.

If you plan to attend, please call as soon as possible.

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Last week the leper was healed. Today the paralytic is cured. The friends of the paralytic are resourceful. They cannot get into the house where Jesus is preaching because there are too many people. So they climb up the outer staircase to the roof, remove the roof of slate and stalks and lower him down into the middle of the room where Jesus is standing. He forgives the man’s sins. The scribes are shocked and scandalized that Jesus would dare claim the power of God to forgive sins. To prove that He did, He commands the crippled man to get up and walk home. He does. Now the point is this. People believed that the man was ill because he had sinned. Now if the sin was not removed, then he could not be healed. So, in healing the man Jesus proved that his sin was forgiven. Jesus has come not to just heal bodies, but souls, spirits, and hearts. He can do both.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE PARISH SO FAITHFULLY AND WE ARE MOST GRATEFUL TO OUR PARISHIONERS WHO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCREASE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.

SUNDAY PARISH OFFERTORY – Your Stewardship
Weekly Budget Needs:	$8,687.25
02/12/2006 Offering:	$4,397.00
Deference for the Week:	$4,290.25

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WEEKEND RETREAT

for Health Care Workers at Campion Renewal Ctr, Weston, March 3-5. Third in a series of Companions in Healing Retreats for nurses, physicians, chaplains, social workers, therapists and all members of the medical team – prayer, reflection and support. Offering for entire weekend is $135; for Sat. only, $65. For registration call 781-788-6810.

“FINNEGAN’S WAKE” AT THE LOG CABIN!!

St. Charles Social Group invites you on a day trip to Holyoke, MA on Wed., March 15th. The day includes an interactive Celtic comedy “Finnegan’s Wake”, complete luncheon Deluxe Yankee Line motorcoach transportation. Tickets are just $69 p.p. for the package. For reservations or more information call Alice 781-933-7091.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK

The Sacrament of the Sick will be administered this Saturday at the 4:00 P.M.. Mass. Who can receive this Sacrament? Those who are chronically ill, are having treatments, or will be having surgery this month. We invite you to come receive the Sacrament of the Sick, a source of strength, healing, and grace. If you would like to receive this Sacrament, tell the Priest before Mass.

YOUNG-AT-HEART COMING EVENT

Mark your calendars for Friday, May 5th when we will tour the State House. The Tour starts at 11:15 a.m. so the bus will leave the parking lot at 10:30 a.m.

BOSTON CATHOLIC MEN’S CONFERENCE

will be held on March 4, 2006 at the New Boston Convention & Exhibition Ctr, South Boston from 8 am to 6 pm. Keynote Speakers include: Archbishop Sean O’Malley; Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa (Preacher to the Papal Household); Fr. John Corapi (Former US Army Vet, millionaire businessman, drug addict & homeless man to priest); Sean Forrest (Founder of “Movin’ with the Spirit” ministry); Scott Hahn (Convert to Catholicism detailed in best-selling book “Rome Sweet Home”; and others! Please contact the rectory if you are interested in attending.

MY OATH TO YOU

When you are sad… I will dry your tears.
When you are scared… I will comfort your fears.
When you are worried… I will give you hope.
When you are confused… I will help you cope.
And when you are lost… And can’t see the light,
I shall be your beacon… Shining ever so bright.
This is my oath… I pledge till the end.
Why you may ask?… Because you’re my friend.

Signed: GOD

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