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Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish Easter Sunday Of The Resurrection Of The Lord

April 12, 2020

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April 12, 2020 Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish , Methuen ~ Lawrence Easter Sunday

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Mass Schedule:

Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish

22 Plymouth Street, Methuen, MA 01844

Phone: 978-686-3984 Fax: 978-686-8300

Email: [email protected]

Web: OLGCParish.com

Parish Staff: Very Rev. Christopher Casey, V.F. Pastor — Ext 25 [email protected]

Rev. Mr. Steven J. Murphy Deacon—Ext 10 [email protected] Mrs. Karen Miller Business Manager — Ext 17 978-686-0728 [email protected]

Mrs. Denise Mundry Parish Office—Ext 10 978-686-3984 [email protected] Lori McLaughlin Coordinator of Music Ministries 603-275-6486

Jimmy Massie Facilities 978-697-4701 [email protected] Religious Education Ph: 978-686-3984 Fax: 978-686-8300 Mr. Mark Friedrich Coordinator of Adult Faith Formation [email protected]

Mr. Mark Houle Coordinator Grades K-8 [email protected]

Prayer Shawl Ministry Our prayer shawl gatherings are the first Wednesday of the month at 1pm and 7pm in the parish office.

We welcome new folks at any time to join us in this beautiful simple ministry. We thank all who have donated yarn or mon-ey with which to purchase new yarn. Remember: Blessed Shawls, Lapghans & Baby Blankets are available in the parish office. Thank you and God Bless! Questions? call the parish office.

Ellen Gallant Card Ministry Do you know of someone who is sick, going through difficult times, in the military, or may just need a

little note of encouragement? Fill out the forms found in the church and chapel and drop them in the box labeled “The Ellen Gallant Card Ministry” or the weekly collection basket. If you’d like to help make someone’s day by joining us in this ministry, contact Donna Fawcett @ [email protected]

Mass Schedule: Church & Chapel are handicapped accessible (elevator in Church, ramp at Chapel)

Sat. 4 pm at St. Theresa Church 22 Plymouth St., Methuen, MA

Sun. 8 am at St. Theresa Church

Sun. 10:30 am at St. Augustine Chapel 128 Ames St., Lawrence, MA

Daily Mass: 7 am Monday — Friday at St. Theresa Church

Reconciliation: Saturdays, 2:45—3:30 pm at St. Theresa Church or anytime by appointment

Baptism: Second Sunday of the month. Previous arrangements neces-sary

Marriage: Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance

New Parishioners: Welcome! Please come to the Parish Office to meet us and to register

Lawrence Catholic Academy

101 Parker St. Lawrence, MA 01843

www.lawrencecatholic academy.org

978-683-5822

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday to Thursday 8 am to 3 pm

Friday 8am to noon

Augustinian Examen During Pandemic

The Graduate Programs in Spirituality at Merrimack College are providing you an

opportunity to spend some time in a guided meditation to help ease the stress and fear brought on by the current pandemic. It is their hope that participants will come away with some relief.

Join them for an hour of guided meditation on Saturday, April 18th from 10:00 to 11:15am

Respond to [email protected] for your

Zoom invitation Offered by the Graduate Programs in Spirituality at

Merrimack College

May this time of trial end quickly as we remember the Resurrection of our Lord and

Savior.

Stay well and Happy Easter!!

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Dear Parishioners, Happy Easter! I hope that you and yours find the joy the Lord wishes you. Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen! And there is cause for rejoicing here. Is there? This COVID-19 Pandemic has changed our lives and challenged us like nothing else. I know people are hurt-ing, alone, afraid, and bored. And we have a long way to go before it gets better. This is a time to reflect on the importance of our faith lives. When I have every reason to doubt that Jesus is truly with me and loves me my faith in Him demands that I stop and think. Who is Jesus? Does He love me? Is He here with me now, in this moment, even though I’m in such torment. One way that we ask those kinds of questions is the same way Jesus did. “My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?” Or as He said it in his native Aramaic “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani” Those words are from Psalm 22, which in and of itself reminds us that Jesus is teaching us something, not just yelling out in frustration like perhaps we have been doing over the past few weeks. In their book The Gospel of Matthew Curtis Mitch and Edward Sri write this about the passage” “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani” is a quote from Ps 22:1 in the Aramaic language Jesus commonly spoke. Matthew’s crucifixion scene has already alluded to this psalm several times (27:35, 39, 43). In quoting Ps 22, Jesus expresses intense suffering. He identifies himself with the psalmist, who was ridiculed and abused by his enemies and felt as if God had abandoned him. However, the psalmist goes on to express tremendous trust in God in the midst of this trial, confident that God will rescue him. By quoting the opening line of this psalm, Jesus evokes the whole of Ps 22, which describes God’s rescue of his suffering righteous one. Therefore, Jesus’ words My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? do not represent despair but anticipate the confident hope of the suffer-ing psalmist that God will rescue him and vindicate him in the end. ( Mitch, C., & Sri, E. (2010). The Gospel of Mat-thew (p. 360). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.) In his encyclical Spe Salvi “Saved in Hope” Pope Benedict XVI wrote “The Christian faith has shown us that truth, jus-tice, and love are not simply ideals, but enormously weighty realities. It has shown us that God—Truth and Love in per-son—desired to suffer for us and with us. Bernard of Clairvaux coined the marvelous expression: Impassibilis est Deus, sed non incompassibilis—God cannot suffer, but he can suffer with. Man is worth so much to God that he himself be-came man in order to suffer with man in an utterly real way—in flesh and blood—as is revealed to us in the account of Jesus’ passion. This means that in all human suffering we are joined by one who experiences and carries that suffering with us; hence [consolation] is present in all suffering, the consolation of God’s compassionate love—and so the star of hope rises. (Benedict XVI, Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2008), 39.) Man is worth so much to God that he himself became man in order to suffer with us. In Jesus God has united Himself to us to conquer sin and death and to lead us to Heaven. The idea of His suffering with us reminds us of the basics of our faith, that God is always with us. Do we believe this? And if we do, can that faith help us in this time. I think so. But we need to understand that God did not send us COVID-19 and all the suffering that has come with it. But He is suffer-ing with us during it. That is what true love means. Good times. Bad times. Sickness. Health. No matter what the sea-son, God is with us. That is His promise. And that can be our source of consolation and peace as we struggle to find the joy of Easter amidst the sorrow of our current circumstance. As someone put out on Facebook, “The Churches are emp-ty, but so is the tomb.” Jesus Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! Happy Easter everyone.

God Bless, Fr. Chris

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Saturday, April 11 ~ Easter Vigil 7:00 pm Fr. Chris’ Intention

Sunday, April 12 ~ Easter Sunday 11:00 am Fr. Chris’ Intention

Monday, April 13 4:00 pm

Tuesday, April 14 4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 15 4:00 pm Frank Judge ~ Requested by his wife

Thursday, April 16 4:00 pm

Friday, April 17 4:00 pm

Saturday, April 18 Paul Kroeter ~ 76th Birthday Remembrance ~ Requested by his family

Sunday, April 19 Joseph Fournier ~ 49th Anniversary ~ Requested by his family Deceased Members of the Third Order of Mary ~ Requested by Third Order of Mary Members Mary I. Sirois ~ Requested by her family All living members of the Parish Joe and Madge Saindon ~ Requested by their family

Sunday April 19

Eucharistic Ministers

Lector

8:00 am Maureen Haley Ed Lane

Norm Potts

Peter DelaBruere

10:30 am Deacon Steve Mark Friedrich

Larry Hall

Michelle Contreras

Saturday April 18

Eucharistic Ministers

Lector

4:00 pm Irene Moschetto Linda Murphy

Betty Small

Carol Smith

MEMORIALS Week of April 12, 2020

Altar Bread In Memory of Jack and Teresa Wheeler

Donated by their family

Altar Wine In Memory of Ron and Ann Gosselin


Altar Candles In Memory of Bill and Chris Pekarski


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St. Vincent de Paul Society

Today as we celebrate the feast of Easter we find the challenge of also seeing and believing the resurrection

that comes through our own lives of self-sacrifice. It is then that we are truly Easter people!

As you place your gift in the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Poor Box, know that you are a

sign of God’s love to those who are suffering and you give them Easter hope and joy

Walter Blymon, Arthur Thibault, Helen Sawicki,

Joseph Howanski, Jeannette Demers, Michael Culpon,

Mary Jo Daigle, Ronald Begin, George Henderson, Andrew

Champy, David Champy, David Adams, Gary Stachulski, Douglas McKnight, William Luna, Aiden

Sutliff, Ellen Villers, Alice Blow, Judith Upham, Benjamin Melo, Ron Simonian, Art Munger, Brad Waters, Mary Conway, Elisabeth Hooper, Matt

Kinsley, Bishop Todd Brown, Diane Castiglione, Fr. Paul Valley, SP, Noah Leary, Joseph Androwas, Cecile Townsend, Ray Boutselis, Ronald Mullen, Leeann Hanson, Elaine Labrecque, Sheila Hunt, Reina Rodriguez, Jennifer Prugnarola, Nicholas

Norcia, Donna Myers, Anita & Dottie Watson, Gary Dubois, Michael Donovan, Jaykub Parsons, Ava

Gagnon, Tom McGuire, Judy Lacroix, Charlie Carrell, Mariana Rosato, Carrie McNiss, Sarah & Patrick Scanlon, Kristina Racitti, Robbyn Culpon, and all those on our Parish prayer line, and all the

residents at Woodmill Nursing Home, Nevins Nursing Home, Mary-Immaculate Nursing Home,

Berkeley Nursing Home and Methuen Village.

Those who have died:

If you have a friend or loved one that you would like us to pray for, please call the parish office and leave the name. If you would like a name put back on the

list, call the office. Thank You.

Prayer Requests for Priests

O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, live in (name a priest), act in him, speak in and through him. Think your thoughts in his mind, love through his heart. Give him your own dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide him

always. Correct, enlighten and expand his thoughts and behavior. Possess his soul; take over his entire

personality and life.

April 11 Fr. Michael Alfano ~ April 12 Pope Francis ~ April 13 Fr. George Fitzsimmons ~ April 14 Fr. Stephen Zukas ~ April 15 Fr. Lawrence Rondeau ~ April 16 Fr.

Thomas Nestor ~ April 17 Fr. Linh Nguyen

Weekend of April 4/5, 2020

Total Offertory: $ 6,301.00 Maintenance: $ 642.00 Grand Annual to date $ 5,708.00 Online Giving $ 1,490.00 (Month of March 2020)

In Need of

Prayer . . .

Our highest gratitude and appreciation ~ we are so grateful for your support.

Bless your generosity!

Friends

If your situation makes it possible to continue to give us your weekly envelopes, please do so! This will enable us to continue to pay our bills while we

don’t have regular collections. You can mail your envelopes in, or put them in the

mail slot at the Parish Office. Thank you!

Also check out 90-DAYS NOW—FOR YOUR PARISH

A special initiative to help your parish during this

time. For more information visit our website www.olgcparish.com

Thanks!

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Week of April 12, 2020

12 SUN Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10

13 Mon Acts 2:14, 22-33/Mt 28:8-15 14 Tue Acts 2:36-41/Jn 20:11- 18 15 Wed Acts 3:1-10/Lk 24:13-35 16 Thu Acts 3:11-26/Lk 24:35- 48 17 Fri Acts 4:1-12/Jn 21:1-14 18 Sat Acts 4:13-21/Mk 16:9-15 19 SUN Acts 2:42-47/1 Pt 1:3-

9/Jn 20:19-31

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C.S. Lewis Book Club: Lawrence, MA 2019-2020 Calendar

Facilitator: Rev. Andrew M. Beauregard, F.P.O.

Most First, Third and Fifth Mondays of the Month St. Augustine Chapel

128 Ames Street, Lawrence, MA 6:50pm Doors Open 7:00pm Opening Prayer/Introduction of the Evening topic 7:10pm Discussion of a work of C.S. Lewis (see below) 8:25pm Closing Prayer/Announcements

We will meet on the following Monday evenings listed, including state or national holidays. In the event of two or more inches of snow falling after 6:00pm, the evening is cancelled. Please do the “assigned readings” before the evenings listed below and think about the readings ahead of time so that you can contribute something to the topic. Lewis’ style is simple, yet profound. What does he tell us about God, Jesus, our common humanity, prayer, the Christian life and life everlast-ing? These are not technical talks; but a friendly atmosphere where we can freely contribute our insights. Prior knowledge of C.S. Lewis’ life or writings are not necessary—just an open heart seeking the truth in love. In most cases, all of the works can be found at your local library, perhaps even on line. You may decide to purchase the individual books at a local bookseller or on Amazon. Books will NOT be provide, so please come with your own copy. Thank you. April 13 No Meeting—Easter Week April 25 Catholic Literature Conference April 27 The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

To make a pledge to the Catholic Appeal, please visit bostoncatholicappeal.org or pick up a pledge form at

the back of the church.

Thank you for your prayers and support. Stay tuned for continued updates regarding our parish’s 2020 Catholic

Appeal!

Catholic TV Daily and Sunday Mass

Cardinal Seán encourages Catholics to participate in the daily and Sunday Masses broadcast from the Catholic

TV chapel.

Daily Mass airs live at 9:30am and is rebroadcast at 7:00pm and 11:30pm

Sunday Masses air throughout the day at 10:00am,

4:00pm, 7:00pm and 11:30pm

Viewers can watch these Masses on demand at any time at www.WatchtheMass.com

For more information about CatholicTV and where you

can watch it, visit http://catholictv.org

Even if we cannot receive Jesus in the Eucharist, we can still be close

to Him by making a spiritual communion.

As we make this spiritual

communion, we also pray for all those affected by coronavirus

OLGC Website

Please continue to check out the OLGC website which is being updated regularly.

You can view the weekly bulletin and watch our live stream Masses.

Weekday Masses (Monday to Friday) will air at 4:00pm and Sunday Mass will air on

Sunday at 11:00am

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Happy Easter

From Your Parish Staff

Fr. Chris

Deacon Steve

Denise Mundry

Karen Miller

Mark Friedrich

Mark Houle

Lori McLaughlin

Jimmy Massie

Enzo DiNatale

Catholic Easter Prayer

Lord, the resurrection of your Son has given us new life and renewed hope.

Help us to live as new people

in pursuit of the Christian ideal.

Grand us wisdom to know what we must do, the will to want to do it,

the courage to undertake it, the perseverance to continue to do it,

and the strength to complete it.

Amen

Source: New Saint Joseph People’s Prayer Book

Thank you

to the anonymous donor

of this year’s

Paschal Candle

A Note From Fr. Chris . . .

Hello Everyone, I have a somewhat unusual request. One of the people who comes to our parish occasionally also works with mentally ill people who are living independently, most of them in single room occupancy places. They all have limited income and regularly use food banks. Many of the food banks don’t have food and some of the food banks I’ve heard are closed which places these folks in a predicament during these difficult times. If you are able to donate anything please consider taking part. The staff will come by and pick up the food items and distribute it accordingly. Please leave these food items on the screened porch at the Parish Office located at 22 Plymouth St., Methuen, MA Non-perishable items such as peanut butter, jelly, pasta, pasta sauce, mac and cheese, etc...the usual items that can help peo-ple in these situations get through. If you can help, please do so. If you do come, please remem-ber our social distancing guidelines. If someone is dropping something off on the porch, please wait in your car until they go. Thank you, stay healthy, know that you are in my prayers and God Bless! Fr. Chris

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