St. Barbara’s Parish Sunday BulletinSunday, July 8, 2007MASS INTENTIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WE REMEMBER AT MASS IN A SPECIAL WAY THIS WEEKEND:all our deceased loved ones, those whose names are inscribed in our Book of Remembrance, Members of St. Barbara’s Benefactor Society, and the following deceased: Margie O’Neil, Joseph Jarvis, David Santilli, Joseph Ouellette, Anthony Ferlisi, Nicholas & Helen Mercurio, John O’Connor, John Fitzgerald, Mary Brickley, Michael & Helen McMaster, Joseph Ranerie, Ruth Brown, Alan Gillis, Ruth Ann Hawley, Albert Eovine, Frank Strazzere, Steve Maloof, Michael Lowthers, Raymond Belanger.BLACK & INDIAN MISSIONS COLLECTIONThis collection will be taken up at all the Masses this weekend. We ask your support and generosity that, once, again, needed assistance may be available. There is so much rebuilding needed. Over several hundred miles of the Gulf Coast many churches, schools and entire parish facilities were totally destroyed.SCRIPTURAL ROSARYwill take place from 12 to 1:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 14. Please come and pray to the Blessed Mother for peace in the world.BULLETIN BITS“The harvest is rich,” Jesus tells the seventy two in today’s Gospel, “but the workers are few.” The situation is the same today. How can I help with God’s harvest? Am I called into the field? Am I one who could provide food or shelter or wages to those who toil in the fields of the Lord?
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SUNDAY PARISH OFFERTORY – Your Stewardship | |||
| Weekly Budget Needs: | $8,687.25 | ||
| 07/01/2007 Offering: | $6,361.00 | ||
| Difference for the Week: | $2,326.25 | ||
MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
still has a few seats available for the 9th grade for September and also does accept transfer students. If interested please contact the Admissions Office at 781-322-3098 (ext. 308),
A LETTER FROM CARDINAL O’MALLEY
to all the parishes of the Archdiocese asking for our support and prayerful assistance as the Archdiocese begins an educational phase of the campaign in support of marriage. He asks:
- That you pick up a prayer card found at the entrances of the Church
- That you pray each day using this card
The vocation of marriage is in crisis. Over the past 20 years, there has been more than a 60% decline in the number of marriages recorded in the Archdiocese of Boston, down from 12,274 in 1986 to 4,519 in 2006. We can no longer assume or depend on the support and encouragement for marriage that just a generation ago was a mainstay in our culture and society. We must step forward and uphold the marriage of a man and a woman as essential for the good of all people. We ask for your support and prayers with this important work.
THE NEED FOR REST
- The Bible says that after creating the world, on the Seventh Day, God rested.
Rather than because He was tired, God meant to model for us the need to rest and reflect on a job well done.
- During His ministry, Christ Himself would withdraw to a “Lonely Place” resting to refresh His spirit.
- Today, we have more leisure, but feel more stressed.
We have more devices to save labor and time, but panic at the thought of ‘getting behind.’
- Lord, help me remember when we must rest, reflect, and worship on a Sunday, or on a vacation, and that rest is as needed as all other things in our lives to do a good job for our employer, and for God as well.
Rather than because He was tired, God meant to model for us the need to rest and reflect on a job well done.
We have more devices to save labor and time, but panic at the thought of ‘getting behind.’
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