very reverend marc b. drouin, v.f. , pastor p.o. box 285, … · very reverend marc b. drouin, v.f....
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VERY REVEREND MARC B. DROUIN, V.F. , PASTOR
P.O. BOX 285, BELMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03220 Receptionist (603) 267-8174 Fax (603) 267-1170 [email protected]
Saint Joseph Parish Website Address: http://www.stjosephbelmont.org/
PARISH OFFICE
Receptionist Available Mon-Fri 8:30 am—4:30 pm …..603-267-8174
Church Hall & Sacristy….603-267-8648 P.O. Box 285, Belmont, NH 03220
Fax (603) 267-1170 [email protected]
www.stjosephbelmont.org
Reconciliation: Saturday 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. or by appointment.
Baptisms: Contact the Parish Office for details regarding preparation that is required prior to the baptism.
Marriages: Please call the Parish Office for a first meeting at least six months prior to the desired wedding date.
Anointing of the Sick: Arrangements can be made to cele-brate this Sacrament at any time by calling the Parish Office.
Homebound and Hospital Ministry: Kindly call the Parish Office if you are homebound so we may bring Holy Eucharist. If you are entering the hospital, inform the staff you are Catho-lic so you may receive Holy Eucharist during your stay.
New parishioners: Please call the office to register.
Mission Statement - Ours is a faith community which is welcoming, family oriented, and spiritually vital. We seek to provide each person with the op-portunity to experience spiritual growth by developing a deeply personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to serve the community by making present the person of Jesus and his Gospel message. We seek to attract others to enter into our parish family by rejoicing in the resurrection and living what we profess to believe.
EUCHARISTIC LITURGY SCHEDULE
Saturday: 4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.
Weekdays: St. André Bessette Parish in
Laconia
Holy Days: 6:00 p.m.
August
30 2020
Parish community of
Saint Joseph
Answering Our Call To Discipleship
St. Joseph Parish Belmont
PARISH TELEPHONE LISTINGS
Weekend Assistant: Rev. Msgr. Richard Thompson…... 267-8174
Bulletin Coordinator: Wanda Gilson…………………….267-8174
Business Manager: Bernadette Eaton……………………267-8174
Church Hall & Sacristy .................................................... 267-8648
Cursillo/Ultreya: Lionel & Annette Maurier .................. 279-4320
Faith Formation Coordinator: Seth Evangelho………… 267-8174
Finance Council: Don McLelland ................................... 387-4358
Food Pantry: Carol Heydt………………………………..267-8174
Knights of Columbus/Robert R. Leroux, Council 10943:
Leonard Campbell ................................................. 455-1105
Liturgical Ministries/Scheduling: Lucille Leroux ........... 267-8105
Music Director: Jeanne Breton………………………… 524-8469
Pastoral Council: Al Nix………....………………….…..524-6834
Receptionist: Tina Hayward……………………………..26781744
Sacristan: Janet Leroux .................................................... 267-8105
Scripture Sharing: Martha Levesque ............................... 267-6101
Sexton: Mark Messier ...................................................... 267-8174
Website: Richard Dumais …[email protected]……455-3149
Saturday, Aug 29 - Vigil of 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30 pm Lisa Vigneault by her cousins; In thanksgiving to St. Anthony for prayers answered by Laurette Young
Sunday, Aug 30– The 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time–Jer 20:7-9/Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 [2b]/Rom 12:1-2/Mt 16:21-27 9:30 am Stanley & Nancy Stafford by David & Gloria Michaud; Joshua Shoemaker by his family; The Parishioners of St. Joseph
Monday, Aug 31- 1 Cor 2:1-5/Ps 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 [97]/Lk 4:16-30 8:00 am Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Laconia
Tuesday, Sept 1- 1 Cor 2:10b-16/Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14 [17]/Lk 4:31-37 5:00 pm Mass Sacred Heart Church, Laconia followed by confessions
Wednesday, Sept 2- 1 Cor 3:1-9/Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21 [12]/Lk 4:38-44 8:00 am Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Laconia
Thursday, Sept 3- 1 Cor 3:18-23/Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 [1]/Lk 5:1-11 8:00 am Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Laconia Friday, Sept 4- 1 Cor 4:1-5/Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40 [39a]/Lk 5:33-39 No Mass
Saturday, Sept 5- Vigil of the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30 pm Lisa Vigneault by her cousins; The Parishioners of St. Joseph Sunday, Sept 6– The 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time- Ez 33:7-9/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 [8]/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20
9:30 am Peter Drouin by Theresa Rolfe & Family; Mario Giunta by Pierina
OFFERTORY FOR WEEK OF AUGUST 16, 2020
OFFERTORY FOR WEEK OF AUGUST 16, 2020
NH Missions Abroad……………$ 365.00
Amount needed weekly to make budget $4,038
Fiscal Year Totals Budget Amount July 1-August 23……..$32,304.00 Actual Amount July 1–August 23…....$32,776.25 Surplus Amount July 1– August 23.....$ 472.25
Thank you for your generosity.
MASS INtentions
Current total of pledges collected is $224,957!
Thank you to all who have pledged and are making our campaign a success.
For those who use the Vanco Electronic Giving program, you are now able to log in to your account with Vanco and make dona-tions for all the special second collections taken throughout the year, as well as, donations to the Building Fund and Food Pantry. You may still continue to make electronic donations for Offertory and the Capital Campaign. Go to our website for more infor-mation (www.stjosephbelmont.org). Please remember to update your credit card information periodically.
Electronic Giving Update
Offertory ……………………………$5,059.00 Vanco………………………………...$ 521.00 Total………………………………… $5,580.00
Offertory ……………………………$3,131.00 Vanco………………………………...$ 606.00 Total………………………………… $3,737.00
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
ST. JOSEPH FOOD PANTRY
Serving Belmont and surrounding towns.
Currently open Friday: 9—10:30 am Safety protocols have been implemented to allow for safe distancing. Donations are still welcomed on Fridays. For more information contact the office.
RCIA – An Opportunity for Involvement,
Even in a Pandemic
The past several months have been very isolating, and there’s no sign of a change soon. One parish activity that has
adapted to the pandemic and continued its core mission is RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. Using a weekly telephone conference call, we’ve continued to share our reflections and insights on the Sunday scriptures with our catechumen, Carrie Garcia. We have 5 active Team Members – but we need sponsors. A sponsor accompanies a person interested in becoming Catholic through the RCIA process. For an unbaptized per-son, a sponsor participates from the initial inquiry period through a year-long catechumenate, until the person is cho-sen for baptism at the Easter Vigil. From the Rite of Elec-tion on, the person chooses a godparent as their faith com-panion and the sponsor’s role is completed. For someone baptized in another Christian denomination, a sponsor is usually involved for a much shorter period of time, depend-ing on the candidate’s prior religious training. Most baptized candidates are received into the full communion of the Church at a Sunday Mass. If you’d like to know more about becoming an RCIA spon-sor, please talk with one of our Team Members – Bob Chap-man, Ron Hrasna, Mark Messier, Don Roberts, or Jennifer Ruffing – or call the parish office (603-267-8174) with your phone number and e-mail address and a Team Member will contact you. We’ll answer your questions about how you can be part of the RCIA process, prepare you to be a spon-sor, and then match you up with an appropriate person.
Question: How many times a day can a person receive communion?
Answer: To find an answer to this question, we need to turn to the Church’s Code of Canon Law. Here we read, “One who has received the blessed Eucharist may receive it again on the same day only within a Eucharistic celebration in which that person participates …” (no. 917). This tells us that the standard answer would be that we can receive communion twice in a day.
Having said that, we also want to be sure that we pay at-tention to the entire instruction. The phrase “within a Eu-charistic celebration in which that person participates” is important. It means a) that we always have to think of re-ceiving communion as being within a celebration of the Mass and b) we have to be participants in that celebration – we can’t simply show up “in time” for communion. (However, viewing a live stream Mass during the pandem-ic would qualify as a Eucharistic Celebration)
So, when would this rule apply?
For example, if you attend Mass on a Saturday morning and then take part in the Sunday Vigil Mass on Saturday evening, you could licitly receive communion at both cele-brations. Or, another example, if you receive communion at a wedding or funeral Mass, you could also receive com-munion at a daily Mass or Sunday Vigil celebrated on the same day. We always want to be sure that we observe the rules for fasting from food and drink before receiving the eucharist (see Code of Canon Law, no. 919).
We should also remember that the Code of Canon Law instructs that anyone who is in danger of death or seriously ill may also receive communion a second time (no. 91,
Q & A
Instruction on Receiving Communion
FOOD DRIVE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th
8 am to 6 pm TILTON MARKET BASKET
The St. Joseph Parish Knights will be conduct-ing a food drive at the local Market Basket to benefit the parish food pantry patrons. If you would like to help for a 2 hour shift please call Frank Ruffing at 491-2613. “On the job” train-ing will be provided. The primary required skill is smiling and being friendly.
AUGUST 30, 2020
GOSPEL MEDITATION ENCOURAGE DEEPER
UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE
Secular pursuits only bring a temporary amount of satisfac-tion and fulfillment. As much as we may think that achiev-ing worldly success, economic security, personal well-being, and self-fulfillment are worthy goals to obtain, they all are dependent on external variables and can lead to emp-tiness. We are trained to be very pragmatic and productive. Unless we are able to check off all of the boxes or comply with specific measurable requirements, our value and worth becomes questionable. Corporations, educational institu-tions, systems, structures, and secular ideology rarely con-sider deeper, more spiritual, and human contributions a per-son can and needs to make.
To the secular mind, the wisdom and ideals of the Gospel are making less and less sense. Consider for a moment this question: “What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” While Jesus is asking this very challenging question to people who are considering his message, many in our world are in a quite different place. Whether we realize it, many folks are asking a much differ-ent question. Why would you not want to gain the whole world and secure your life? If you look at where a lot of folks are investing their time, energy, and resources, it be-comes obvious where current priorities rest.
Modern day comforts and possibilities are backing us out of our relationship with God. The fire burning in every human heart is trying to find its satisfaction in the things that hu-mans have created and not God. Being altruistic and offer-ing compassion for those most in need becomes a political responsibility or responsible gesture. We realize that our hearts need to be centered on something and someone who calls us out of ourselves, but we struggle and battle with naming the source of that call. God places the desire to seek, find, and love Him in the core of every soul. We are not abandoned and left to fend for ourselves. But we can easily get confused. We know that when we extend our-selves to another self-sacrificially, we are doing what is just and right. We know that we can work through suffering and loss and come out better and more whole on the other side.
Our minds need to be renewed so that they can begin to un-derstand that there is much more to who we are, and that faith plays a pivotal role in achieving our true and everlast-ing goals. It is when we see that it is only faith that can bring us to this heightened awareness of ourselves and God that it will begin to make sense. Then, we can put things in proper perspective and consider being a disciple. ©LPi
AUGUST 30, 2020
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Saturday, August 29 3:30 pm Reconciliation– parish hall 4:30 pm MASS (Church) 5:15 pm Distribution of Communion following Mass
Sunday, August 30 9:30 am MASS 10:15 am Distribution of Communion following Mass
Monday, August 31 8:00 am Mass Sacred Heart, Laconia
Tuesday, September 1 5:00 pm Mass Sacred Heart, Laconia followed by confessions Wednesday, September 2 8:00 am Mass Sacred Heart, Laconia 8:30am -4pm Adoration Sacred Heart, Laconia Thursday, September 3 8:00 am Mass Sacred Heart, Laconia 8:30 am– 4 pm Adoration at Sacred Heart Church
Friday, September 4
Saturday, September 5 3:30 pm Reconciliation– parish hall 4:30 pm MASS (Church) 5:15 pm Distribution of Communion following Mass
Sunday, September 6 9:30 am MASS 10:15 am Distribution of Communion following Mass
PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
If you would like to pray for a week or have questions, please contact
Leonard Campbell at 455-1105
or Len email at [email protected].
“COME SIT WITH ME”
St. Joseph Parish Church is open daily for private prayer from
8:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Please enter through the parish hall.
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