The Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time • August 16, 2015

“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in

me and I in him.”JOHN 6:56

FIRST READING: Proverbs 9:1–6RESPONSORIAL: Psalm 34:2–7

SECOND READING: Ephesians 5:15–20GOSPEL: John 6:51–58

Chewing on God’s Word, 2

Register for Faith Formation, 3

Moving Forward, 7

Good Housekeeping, 8

WHAT’S INSIDE:

Blessed Sacrament Parish

St. Mary Parish

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Chewing on God’s Word

Rev. Chip HinesPastor

People have been quarrelling about the words of Jesus for 2,000 years and I’m not sure that will change any time soon. What’s amazing is that people are still talking about the words of our Lord, still reading His words, still praying with them and still receiving many graces through His words. This does not surprise me as He is the Word made flesh, but it proves to me that Jesus was who He said He was. If Jesus had just been a guy, just another guru or teacher, I’m pretty confident His words would have been lost long ago. They are not easy words to hear. Sometimes they are diffi-cult like these:

“Amen, amen, I say to you,unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my bloodhas eternal life,and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food,and my blood is true drink.”

As difficult as that can be for us to read and hear, it was that much more difficult for the people of Jesus’s time. We at least have the advantage of 2,000 years of theology to help us understand it. When He said them, Jesus didn’t have time to spell it all out. His mission was happening and so he spoke what needed to be spoken and the Apostles passed it on to us; the Fathers of the Church explained it to us; and the great theologians of all time have taught it to us for generations.

May I suggest that if we don’t understand something about the faith that reading these masters of the faith might be a place for us to start. Trying to figure it all out on your own with no reading and studying is like trying to fix your car or an appliance without the manual or instructions. You may fumble onto a solution but more than likely instead you’ll get frustrated and quit.

The Church has produced many smart folks, from St. Thomas Aquinas to St. Bonaventure to Bl. John Henry Newman to Henri de Lubac to St. John Paul II to Benedict XVI and Francis. Read them and others, find a Catholic teacher and author that you can be comfortable with, read their works and your understanding will grow. Even if I was the best preacher in the world, which I’m not, you couldn’t get a full understanding of our faith by listening to me for 10 min-utes a week. It’s not enough.

I challenge us as a collaborative to read and study. In the coming months and years, we can do it together. And if you encounter something is difficult, don’t walk away; ask questions because this is how we learn and grow. Faith forma-tion for children is important but continuing our own faith formation journey as adults is important too. It is my hope that we will continue to grow and learn as we get older so that our relationship with Jesus Christ will mature along with us. Plus it keeps the old brain working which is a plus unto itself.

Peace.

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The 7th Annual Archdiocesan Justice Convocation will be held on Saturday, October 24, 8:30am–1:30pm. This year’s theme is “Care of our Common Home—Welcom-ing Immigrants/Refugees and Promoting Environmen-tal Stewardship.”  Pope Francis has launched his long awaited encyclical Laudato Si! (Praised Be! On the Care of our Common Home). One of the Convocation Keynote Speakers, Dr. Carolyn Woo, President of Catholic Relief Services, was with the Holy Father in Rome speaking at the launch. To register please see the Archdiocese web site, www.bostoncatholic.org.  The objective of the Con-vocation is to explore ways that local parishes can ad-dress these global challenges  and how we, as a Church, can make a significant impact in promoting justice and peace. The convocation will be held at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, 66 Brooks Drive, Braintree. For more in-formation or if interested in carpooling from Walpole, please contact Philip Czachorowski at p.czach@verizon.net.

Register Your Childfor Faith Formation

Registration for Faith Formation for 2015-2016 is now open. Thank you for your patience as we constructed a new, easier-to-use system. You may register your chil-dren for all grades, including Confirmation, at either parish web site at www.blessedsacramentwalpole.org/registration or stmarywalpole.com/registration.

A list of schedules, fees, and other options are available on the site. As part of the new system you will be able to choose the time and day and location of your child’s class. You may choose any of the classes at Blessed Sacrament or St. Mary’s for any of your children, mix-ing-and-matching the class locations and times that work for you. You do not have to register for classes at your own parish. If you have questions, please contact Karen Brady at 508-921-1028 ext. 2008 or kbrady@mat-t13catholic.org.

Share With Those In

NeedIn today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.”

As we know, our loving God cannot be seen by our eyes, but is experienced through loving people.

With love for your neighbors who have nothing, look around your house to see what furniture, household items, and clothing you no longer use and donate them to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul thrift stores in Pla-inville or Stoughton. Call 1-800-675-2882 to arrange for the donation of large items.

Blessed Sacrament School 50th Anniversary Celebration

This coming school year, Blessed Sacrament School

will celebrate its 50th year of education in Walpole. 

In preparation for this celebration, the school is hoping to reconnect with many of its past students, parents, and staff members.  If you fall into one of these cate-gories, please reconnect with BSS by visiting  school.blessedsacrament.org/bss50  and sharing your contact information.

Several special events are being planned for through-out the year to recognize this milestone, and this will help to ensure that the school is able to connect with as many people as possible from throughout its history. Contact Seana Dorich at  sdorich@blessedsacrament.org or 508-668-2336 with any questions.

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Blessed Sacrament ParishTen Diamond Street, Walpole, MA 02081 | 508-668-4700 | BlessedSacramentWalpole.org

New Teen Handbell Choir FormingWe are pleased to announce a new musical ensemble beginning this September: a handbell choir specifically for the teens of Blessed Sacrament and St. Mary’s (Grades 7-12). Handbells are a fun instrument, with most ringers having charge over at least two bells/notes at a time, but sometimes more! There is no need to have prior experience with music or to have a knowledge of read-ing music as we will begin with the initial steps together. The re-hearsals will be weekly on Sunday evenings in the balcony of the

church at Blessed Sacrament from 5–6pm, starting on September 13. The choir will ring for Mass about once a month or every six weeks. There are spots for roughly 11 ringers. Please contact Erica for more information about joining the choir: music@blessedsacrament.org. This is a fun way to experience sacred music and to participate in the Mass!

Red Cherry for Youth MinistryOn Wednesday, August 19, from 5:30 to 7:30pm, 10% of all orders at Red Cherry frozen yogurt at 1049 Main Street, Walpole, will be do-nated to Blessed Sacrament Parish youth summer trips. Enjoy some delicious frozen yogurt or a smoothie, stay cool and refreshed, and support our youth.

Proceeds help fund our summer youth service and retreat trips.

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Separation, Divorce and BeyondSeparation and divorce is painful, often shattering. Blessed Sac-rament Parish in Walpole is offering a 10 week program facilitated by a group of Catholics who have themselves endured separation and divorce. This program is designed to offer support and heal-ing for those who have experienced a failed marriage and offer hope for the prospect of better tomorrows, by discussing subjects such as anger, self-image, loneliness, blame and guilt. The pro-gram consists of 10 meetings, on Sunday evenings, 7 to 8:30pm,

held in the Community Room, September 13 through November 15. If interested in learning more or to sign up for this program , please contact Jeanie Mattila at 508 384-8779 or jean.matte6@gmail.com, or John Meuleman at 781 982-6097 or jmeulema@russelectric.com.  Sign up is required by Sept 8.

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Blessed Sacrament Parish

Prayers For Our Service

Members Zachary BannonFrank L. BrunettaPeter Conroy Michael McKayMatthew McKayRobert Dunne, Jr.Michael Edwards

Caitlin BrunettaKyle BradburyTimothy MerriganAl Goetz Kevin DayFrancesco Carpeno(Lamperti)

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for their selfless service to us and our country. We ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

Please remember our military in your prayers. To add or remove a name, call Margaret 508-668-4700 x1007.

Sung Acclamations During MassWe invite you to sing the Eucharistic Acclamations with us during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. If you at-tend the 4pm, 8am, and 11am Masses, you can lo-cate the music in the pew hymnal, #864, 866, 868, 869 (Mass of the Resurrection.) For the 9:30am Mass the music is found at #874, 876, 878, 879 (Mass of Re-newal.) Please lift your voices in song!

Remember in Your PrayersEach week during the Prayer of the Faithful at Mass, we pray for those in our community who are sick. If you have a family member whose name should be added to the prayer list, please contact Margaret Manning at mmanning@matt13catholic.org or 508-668-4700 x1007. We kindly request that only imme-diate family members of the sick add names to the list.

Through our parish prayer line, we also remember all our  shut-ins,  our  unemployed,  our  sick,  our  griev-ing,  and  our  own  parish  dead, including Joan Flanagan, whose Mass was celebrated this past week. Call  508-668-2448  with  your  prayer inten-tions or to join the prayer line.

Book ClubBlessed Sacrament Book Club meets next on Tues-day, September 8 at 7:30pm in the Community Room. The book selected for discussion is The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. Tom Sherbourne is a light-house keeper on a tiny island off the coast of Western Australia. When a baby washes up in a rowboat, he and his wife decide to raise the child, as their own. The baby seems like a gift from God, and the couple’s reasoning for keeping her seduces the reader into entering the waters of treacherous morality. Newcomers are always welcome. Our Teens Reflect on Their Summer Service TripThis week at The Romero Center, we went into the city of Camden, NJ and experienced poverty firsthand. We spent time with people struggling with a variety of hard-ships. We learned that poverty is more widespread than we would like to think and we saw God in the faces of those we served. Thank you for all your support for a successful and moving experience.—Natalie, age 17

From the week in Camden, NJ, I will be taking back sev-eral lessons that I was lucky to learn during volunteer-ing. First and foremost, I will be bringing to Walpole a new purpose of service. I have truly learned the impor-tance of helping others who are less fortunate, and what it means to serve through the Catholic faith. Additional-ly, I most definitely will be more grateful for the wonder-ful opportunities and resource that I have in Walpole. I have learned to see God in the most surprising places; perhaps in the homeless or disabled. God is speaking to us wherever we go. Overall, the week was one of the most eye-opening experiences I have had. Thanks to

the parish for their immense support and prayers. It was truly amazing! —Grace, age 17

What I learned on the trip was not to fear feeling help-less. For five days straight, I watched people suffer and suffocate in a life so miserable and yet so unchangeable. To be a witness to such hopelessness make me realize how lucky I am to have the opportunity to help even if it is so small, like giving away a box of crackers or pack of water. What we as a person and community need to realize is that our call from God isn’t to fix people’s lives, but simply allow them to experience true happiness. By playing with kids, learning from the homeless, and serving the disabled I became aware of how easy it is to make someone happy and yet how reluctant commu-nities are to make this happiness last. The trip was ex-tremely inspiring and unexpectedly influential. Thank you for all the support!

—Kaylana, age 17

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Rev. Donald R. Delay Service Recognition AwardsFather Chip recently bestowed The Reverend Donald R. Delay Service Recognition Award on:

Sabrina DiMartinoNell GordonSaoirse KeaneJohn Montanaro

Allie MorrisMargaret O’LearyJohn StantonKevin Sullivan

Katherine TrudelAlexander Whearty

These young parishioners served St. Mary’s admirably during their high school years.  They are role models for their peers and for the younger children in the parish. Their active and enthusiastic involvement in parish life is a form of evangelization that speaks much louder than words. Congratulations!

Holiday Fair 2015This year’s St. Mary’s Holiday Fair will be Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15. Please save these dates.  

It also means it’s time to start cleaning out those closets. There will be only one drop-off of your good quality, gently-used or new articles that you would like to donate to the Fair. Drop-off date is Saturday, Septem-ber 12 from 9am to 2pm at the Parish Center auditorium.

Rejoice! Let Our Voices Be Heard!Thank you to all those who have stepped forward to join our Cantor Ministry. We started with 2 members and have grown to 10 volunteer Adults and Youths. This display of enthusiasm and appreciation for the music of St. Mary’s will bring us many years of quality to come. We could always expand our Cantor Ministry even more. So please, if you are interested, we will welcome you with open arms.

The Music Ministry is in dire need of Choir Members to sing at the 11:30 Mass. The music we can provide depends on the parishioners who make themselves known. We will be singing mostly SATB Choral Music in it’s original text and language which will add richness and enhance our Liturgy. Rehearsals will be on Thursday nights from 7–8:30pm.

Please contact Kevin Di Lorenzo, Director of Liturgical Music, and join our Choir as soon as you are able. St. Mary’s needs you for our Choral Ministry to reach it’s full potential. If you feel you would be a better fit for the St. Mary’s Con-solation Choir for our dearly departed, again, please contact Kevin. You may wish to participate in both. Kevin’s email is kdilorenzo@stmarywalpole.com.

St. Mary Parish176 Washington St, East Walpole, MA 02032 | 508-668-4974 | StMaryWalpole.com

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Prayer RequestsWe are asked to pray for all our sick, our grieving, and our suffering.  If you wish to add a name to the prayer requests, please contact Louise Fahey at Lffahey@gmail.com.

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Moving ForwardPart of a series of articles on Christian spirituality and prayer:

While we face timelines and deadlines just about every day in so many areas of daily life, when it comes to faith and prayer, it is never too late or too early, and second (third, fourth, and beyond) chances are always available for me, my spouse, our children, for everybody! As we move through Easter and more fully into spring, it’s a good time to contin-ue making prayer part of daily life or to start.

As a parent, in addition to bringing my children to Mass or religious education, I can encourage prayer within my fami-ly by having a children’s or youth Bible and some faith-related books, as well as some books and DVDs with life-giving messages and Christian values in the storyline, around the house. Sometimes by simply having the books or DVDs there, the children, with their natural curiosity, just pick them up and look at them on their own. Also, for very young children, it can be helpful to have these items in the house and then bring a few of them to Mass for those restless moments.

Some other simple and more obvious ways and opportunities to pray together are just before eating a meal and at bedtime. Growing up, my family always said a quick prayer before eating. As I started my own family, we continued this ritual. At bedtime, we would say The Lord’s Prayer and the religious education prayer for whatever grade the chil-dren were in. Then after coming across a book, Making Heart Bread, we added “Least Favorite/Most Favorite.” At the end of the day, we would share with each other and God (during prayer time) what our least and most favorite parts of the day were and why. It was a way to introduce the concept of bringing to God both our highlights and lowlights of the day.  

As time has gone on and the children have gotten older, our prayers have changed to call to mind more that we are blessed in so many ways, that not everyone in the world has a full plate at every meal or a place to call home, to pray for the downtrodden, and to ask God to help us to see how we might be of help to others. Another practice that can be helpful for older children and adults is to prayerfully go back over one’s day. We have also tried to add quiet, electron-ics-free time into each day; part of any relationship, including that with God, is listening.

Overall, it seems that the biggest part of helping my children to become comfortable with faith and prayer, is to do what I can to ensure that it is not strange or foreign to them. That is, to make it a part, however small or big, of our daily lives; communicating with God both formally (through participation in Mass and through prayers such as the Our Father, the Hail Mary, etc.) and informally (through simple conversation with God) and putting our faith into action (being of service to others). Each time we have conversations within our family (whether they are simple or more complex) about God, religion, and faith, and each time we reach out to someone in need in the course of daily life and as situations arise within the family, our community, and in the world, we are nurturing and supporting each other’s faith. And, as scripture tells us, where two or three are gathered in God’s name, God is there. In this way, it is also prayer.

Some local places to look through and shop for resources:• Pauline Media in Dedham has books, DVDs, CDs, and all kinds of Catholic religious objects for all age groups and

from the very basic to the more complex.• La Salette Shrine in Attleboro also carries all kinds of Catholic books, DVDs, CDs, and religious objects for people

of all ages in their gift shop (not all items are listed online).

—Carissa A. Kane, Certified Spiritual DirectorRepublished from the Blessed Sacrament web site. Be sure to check the parish web sites and social media regularly for new articles on a variety of topics.

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Praying for Families  Join Holy Cross Family Ministries for their Hour of Mer-cy as they Pray for Families every Friday, 3–4pm with Exposition, Adoration, Quiet Prayer, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Litany to St. Joseph, Holy Cross Prayers, Prayer for Pope Francis and Benediction. Remembering The Family That Prays Together Stays Together. Held at Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street, Easton, MA 02356. For more info: Holy Cross Family Ministries:  508-238-4095, Ext. 2027.  www.FamilyRosary.org/Events

For Your MarriageSt. Paul tells us to be careful in the way we live. Do we listen and follow God’s voice so we can discern His will in our own lives and marriage relationship? The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends are September 19–20, Octo-ber 23–25 and December 4–6. For more  information call Steve and Michelle O’Leary at 1-800-710-WWME, visit them at www.wwme.org, or go to www.facebook.com/Wwmema

Youth MinisterEarlier this summer, we welcomed a new youth minis-ter for the Matthew 13 Collaborative. During her first few weeks of employment it was determined that her talents and goals did not align with the needs of the collabora-tive. We wish her the best in her future endeavors as she seeks to serve the Lord in her apostolate. Fr. Chip will continue to assess the collaborative’s future youth min-istry efforts, in coordination with Karen Brady, Director of Faith Formation, and the leadership of the parishes.

Good Housekeeping: Aligning Our Priorities with God’sWe seek the good. But not all goods are equal, nor should they be sought in the same ways and for the same purpos-es. Some are more important than others. People are more important and have greater value, and thus are “higher” goods, than furniture. A starving human being’s life is of greater value than private property. Learning to correctly distinguish between goods of higher and lower value is one part of forming our conscience.

Classical moral theory distinguishes between “true” or “authentic” goods and those that are merely “instrumental.” True goods are those that have value in and of themselves. They are worth seeking and realizing for their own sake: a dignified human life, love, fidelity to our relationships, truth, beauty, integrity, justice, friendship, wisdom, knowledge of God, and happiness. Instrumental goods are those that have only relative value. They are useful only as a means for attaining true goods.

Money is an instrumental and relative good. As a medium of exchange, its only moral value lies in what we do with it. It can be sought and attained through good or evil means, and it can be used as a means for good or evil. It should only be used to pursue and attain authentic goods.

Although folk wisdom reminds us that money can’t buy happiness, many people find a kind of pseudo-happiness in amassing and attaining money based on the fantasy of what they can do with it—even though they never seem to do anything with it except use it to make more money. In being satisfied only with possessing and accumulating more money, as if this were a good in itself, they cheat themselves of the opportunity to use their wealth for what really and authentically satisfies.

Power is also an instrumental good. The pope, the president of the United States, and the father and mother of a family all have power and authority over others. But that authority is only an instrument that can be used to serve the authentic and “higher” common good of those who are subjected to it or to wrongfully encroach upon their freedom and dignity. When power is treated as an authentic good, then holding onto power becomes a supreme value. This can breed corruption and despotism, disfiguring the moral life of the one who has power and harming those subject-ed to its use.

The Christian moral call is to always seek authentic goods, making use of instrumental goods wisely and for this pur-pose only. Higher authentic goods should never be sacrificed or endangered in the pursuit of lower goods. We should not trade our relationships with the people who love us for the sake of wealth, power, or popularity; we should not sacrifice our personal integrity in the pursuit of comfort; we should not endanger the common good in the realization of our own personal desires. Christian moral life is a matter of having our priorities correctly ordered. These state-ments presuppose the existence of a metaphysical order of morality, a hierarchy of goods that exists in the mind and will of God. Correct knowledge of this order requires contact with the mind of God. Conscience formation is aided by a spirituality that enables our personal priorities to become those of God.

—Stephen T. Rehrauer, CSsR, Bringing Home the Word, August 2015

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Weekly Mass IntentionsBSP-Blessed Sacrament; STM-St. Mary

Sat, Aug 15

Wed, Aug 19Sat, Aug 22

4pm BSP: Peter J. Turco4pm STM: John E. Killory, Sr.9am BSP: Fr. Louis D. Bourgeois4pm BSP: George Sr. and Helen Jiannetti, and

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Readings for the Week of August 16, 2015Sunday: Prv 9:1-6/Eph 5:15-20/Jn 6:51-58Monday: Jgs 2:11-19/Mt 19:16-22Tuesday: Jgs 6:11-24a/Mt 19:23-30Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15/Mt 20:1-16Thursday: Jgs 11:29-39a/Mt 22:1-14Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22/Mt 22:34-40Saturday: Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17/Mt 23:1-12Next Sunday: Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b/Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32/Jn 6:60-69

Message of the WeekJohn 6:51–58

Today’s Gospel continues Jesus’ bread of life discourse where he emphasizes over and over again that his followers are to “eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood.” Not surprisingly, his listeners don’t know what to make of this mysterious teaching. So the quarrels begin.

This scene is all too common. People en-counter a difficult teaching of the faith and so they argue about it or rationalize it away instead of just accepting it and living ac-cording to it. On a large scale, these sorts of arguments are what lead to the breakdown of Christian unity. Some of the things Jesus wants us to do are difficult—like respecting God’s plan for sexuality or controlling our urges for unrestrained pleasure, power, or profit. Some of the things Jesus taught us are mysterious—like the teaching that the Eucharist is truly his body and blood. But thankfully he has given us his Holy Spirit to help us understand and do what we should. Let’s not waste our time arguing about the faith. Let’s live it.

Everyday StewardshipAh, to be nineteen again! By the time I was twenty, I had already changed my major, met with a vocation director about a possi-ble call to the priesthood, and started dat-ing the girl who would end up becoming my wife. When I was twenty-four, I was married and one year away from completing a mas-ter’s degree. I wish I could look back and say I knew exactly what I was doing, but that would be a lie. However, what I did have go-ing for me is that I always tried to figure out where the Lord was leading me. The process of discerning his will for my life wasn’t easy, and I did feel the need to sometimes explore paths briefly to which he was not calling me. But that was an important part of the jour-ney, waiting for God to speak to each situa-tion in which I found myself.

Now, my oldest son is nineteen and he must discern God’s will for himself. I fear that he will not be as interested in what God may be saying to him. He may choose to go it alone, and even though I know God will be there somewhere, it will be my son calling the shots.

Saint Paul urges us to not continue in ignorance, but to try to discern the will of God. It is interesting that by making decisions based upon all the data we collect, we remain ignorant if we choose not to listen to God’s still voice in our lives. The fact is that our lives our not our own and God has given them to us with a purpose and a plan. We can be instruments of God even if we sometimes say no to his requests, but we can never achieve our full potential without constantly discerning his will for us and responding in maturity. Will our sons and daughters be willing to choose his will over igno-rance? Their greatest hope lies in us serving as good ex-amples with our lives.

—Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS

Questions of the WeekJohn 6:51–58:How do you react to Jesus’ words: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life”?

Proverbs 9:1–6:How would you personify wisdom today?

Ephesians 5:15–20:What do you consider wise Christian conduct?

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Matthew13Mass TimesSaturday Vigil: 4:00pm Blessed Sacrament & St. MarySunday: 7:30am St. Mary8:00am Blessed Sacrament9:00am St. Mary9:30am Blessed Sacrament11:00am Blessed Sacrament11:30am St. Mary Blessed Sacrament Parish

Dcn. Reynold G. Spadoni, DeaconDr. Erica Johnson, Director of Pastoral

MusicSusan Glancy, Director of Youth MusicLee Smolinsky, Business ManagerMike Lamperti, Facilities ManagerJanet Neubecker, Office Manager

St. Mary ParishKerry Pitman, Office StaffPat Chitvanni, Office StaffRay Lane, Facilities StaffTom Whearty, Facilities StaffKevin DiLorenzo, Director of Liturgical

Music

For Collaborative Staff contact informa-tion, visit http://13ma.tt/pastoralteamFor Parish Staff contact information, visit www.blessedsacramentwalpole.org/staff

orwww.stmarywalpole.com/staff

MATT13CATHOLIC.ORG

Weekly Events CalendarSunday, Aug 167:30am STM Mass8am BSP Mass9am STM Mass9:30am BSP Mass11am BSP Mass11:30am STM Mass12:30pm BSP Baptisms

Monday, Aug 1710:30am BSP Bible Study, Ignatius Catholic Bible Series, Community Room

Tuesday, Aug 189:30am BSP Bible Study, Topic TBD, Commmunity Room

Wednesday, Aug 199:30am BSP Morning Prayer Group, Community Room4pm BSP Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Chapel6:30pm STM Adult Bible Study Class, Parish Hall

Thursday, Aug 207pm BSP Beloved Community, Community Room

Friday, Aug 21No events scheduled

Saturday, Aug 22No events scheduled4pm STM Mass4pm BSP Mass

BSP Blessed Sacrament ParishBSS Blessed Sacrament School

STM St. Mary Parish

Social MediaFacebook.com/blessedsacramentwalpoleFacebook.com/stmarywalpoleTwitter.com/BSPWalpoleTwitter.com/StMaryWalpole

Daily Mass:Monday 8am St. MaryTuesday 8am St. MaryWednesday 8am St. Mary; 9am Blessed

SacramentThursday 9am Blessed SacramentFriday 8am St. Mary; 9am Blessed Sacra-

mentSaturday 9am Blessed Sacrament

Confession TimesSaturdays:3:00pm St. Mary & Blessed Sacramentor by appointment

Collaborative StaffRev. George “Chip” Hines, PastorMargaret Manning, Pastoral AssociateMartin Murphy, Director of Finance &

OperationsDom Bettinelli, Director of Communi-

cationsMargaret Kelly, Assistant to the Pastor

Rev. Joseph Diem, Parochial VicarJames Spillman, School PrincipalKaren Brady, Faith Formation DirectorAnneMarie Dion, Faith Formation

CoordinatorDebbie Lafleur, Faith Formation Asst.