Sat., July 6 Saint Maria Goretti 4:00 PM … Ed & Peggy Moran by Margaret-Ann Moran

Sun., July 7 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM … Mary Marszal by Richard Bienvenue 9:30 AM … Denny Smith by Talley, Joyce & PJ Guill 5:00 PM … Our Parish Family Mon., July 8 12 PM … Monica Celeste Morin by Claude & Irene Morin

Tue., July 9 Saint Augustine Zhao Rong

12 PM … Francis & Irene Linehan by Maureen Othot

Wed., July 10

12 PM … Julie Duquette (2nd Anniv) by Priscilla Walsh

Thur., July 11 Solemnity of Saint Benedict

8:30 AM … Br. Basil Louis Franciose (living) by P. Jerome

Fri., July 12 PARISH OFFICE CLOSED

6:00 PM … Henry Roy by Lionel & Lillian Coulon

Sat., July 13 Saint Henry the Emperor

4:00 PM … Katherine (Day) Corriveau by P. Jerome

Sun., July 14 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

7:30 AM … Our Parish Family

9:30 AM … Julie Duquette (2nd Anniv) by Nelson & Lillie

Duquette

5:00 PM … Benedetta Contarino (25th Anniv) by Ann-Maria

XIV Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mon, July 8 7 PM … Food Pantry Tue., July 9 12:45 PM … Parish Nurse

July 7, 2019

Weekend of June 30, 2019 Regular Offertory $3,022.00 Loose Offertory 463.30 Online Offertory Last Wk 790.00 Total Offertory $4,275.30

Stewardship Make up $ 43.00

Food Pantry $ 0.00 **********************

Last Year: Wknd of July 1, 2018 Total Offertory $3,908.00

Thank you for your sacrificial gift!

Sanctuary candle The sanctuary candle burns this week for Our Parish Family.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK of July 7, 2019 Monday: Gn 28:10-22a; Ps 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15ab; Mt 9:18-26; Tuesday: Gn 32:23-33; Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b and 15; Mt 9:32-38; Wednesday: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a; Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19; Mt 10:1-7; Thursday: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5; Ps 105:16-17,18-19,20-21; Mt 10:7-15; Friday: Gn 46:1-7, 28-30; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mt 10:16-23; Saturday: Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7; Mt 10:24-33; Sun-day: Dt 30:10-14; Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37; or Ps 19:8-11; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37

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On Monday, July 1, the SRP Food Pantry served 17 fami-lies and gave out 27 bags of groceries.

Sound Investment You

can still donate towards

our new and upgraded

sound system. Through

generous parishioner do-

nations, we are now only $2,100 away

from our goal to fund the project. No

amount is too small, and every little bit

ads up. Please specify your intention of

the funds on the check memo line or

envelope. Thank you to all who have

donated! We are truly grateful to you

for your generosity!

Year C Hymnal #969

Goal: $23,000

Raised: $11,385

Balance: $11,615

We are almost halfway to our goal! Giving to Catholic Charities improves our community, strengthens families and moves lives forward. Your gift supports lives with programs that feed the hungry, heal the sick, strengthen families, and welcome the stranger. Through you, people find the way to self-sufficiency, independence and a new life. Thank you for supporting Catholic Charities New Hampshire.

Parish Outreach Ministry The goal of the Parish Outreach Ministry is to strengthen our parish community by con-necting to those in need. There are members of our parish family who are homebound or do not drive, but would love to attend Mass or receive Communion. Some might need help with a simple household chore or a ride to the grocery store or to doctor’s appoint-ments. Volunteers can assist on a one-time basis or as often as they like. If you or some-one you know would benefit from this pro-gram, or if you would like to be a volunteer, please contact Kerri at the office.

Volunteer wanted We are seeking a vol-unteer to cut the grass of the Saint Raphael Par-ish / Saint Benedict Academy campus this spring, summer and fall. The grass needs to be cut every 2-3 weeks. We have a lawn mower on site. This is a great project for youth in need of community service hours for school, or anyone who can do-

nate a couple of hours eve-ry 2-3 weeks. If you are able to help, please call Kerri at the office at 623.2604. Thank you!

FIAT DAYS: July 8—11, 2019 for women; QUO VADIS DAYS: Aug 5—9, 2019 for men. Northeast Catholic College, Warner, NH If you are a young woman or man age 14-18, you are invited to attend the annual Fiat Days (women) or Quo Vadis Days (men) camp to spend time with others your age looking at the Lord’s call in your life. Fiat Days is led by vocations of the dio-cese, while Quo Vadis Days is led by priests and seminarians of the diocese and both include a full schedule of hiking, swimming, canoeing, sports and games, daily Mass, prayer, and opportunities to grow in friendship with the Lord and with each other. For more information and to register, please visit: liveinblackandwhite.com or contact the vocations director, Fr. Matthew Mason, at 603-663-0196 or mmason@rcbm.org.

SUMMER HOURS

The parish office will

be closed on Fridays

during the months of

July and August.

Wanted: Lectors Considere serving God and fellow parishion-ers as a reader! Service

in this important role is by appointment, but you can help expand our roster by volunteer-ing. We need to increase our roster at all weekend Masses. Please contact Kerri at 603.623.2604/admin@st-raphael-parish.org. Thank you!

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of programming options

on Boston Catholic TV?

You can access it in NH on

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One of the sum-mertime treats I’ve always enjoyed was the booths and kiosks at fairs, carni-vals and seaside resorts where you could find spin art. For a modest fee, the at-tendant would give you several bottles of paint and a card that you would lock in place. You would squeeze out the paint in any color, con-sistency and design you wanted, lock the card in place, press the button and watch the art emerge. Take that, Michelangelo and DaVinci! Eat your heart out, Matisse and Renoir! Spin art, strangely enough, reminds me of the formation of our country. The United States of America is a red, white and blue sor t of place. This is a time to celebrate the blessings God has granted us and enabled us to share with the rest of the world. Because we are a people who could do a little better in remem-bering our history, however, we tend to forget that in the spin art of America there are many colors that have contributed to our national achievement. Indeed, if it were not for these many colors, we would not be nearly so red, white and blue. Without question, we know we owe a debt of gratitude to our British cousins. Even though the American Revolution was fought against the mother country, so much of what we value in terms of freedom, human rights and repre-sentative government comes from the experi-ence of England and Scotland. The Anglo-American colonists first fought for “the rights of Englishman,” as embodied in parliamentary democracy, when poor old King George III and Parliament started to impose taxes, trade re-strictions and limits on hard-won freedoms. Most of our Founding Fathers – Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Frank-lin, Hamilton and Burr, as well as most of the key military leaders, trace their lineage – and their ideas – to England, Scotland or Wales. What became the U.S. Navy, for ex-ample, looks to a Scot, Captain John Paul Jones, as its fir st great hero, and an Ir ish-man, Commodore John Barry as its founder and organizer. If England and Scotland get a nod, you can be sure Ireland will demand a place – and the Irish played a significant role in providing troops for the colonial army and thinkers for the emergent American experiment. Many of these Irish were Scots-Irish Protestants, with the blood of the Highlands and the rocky soil of Ulster in the veins, but some were Irish Catholics. Gilbert du Motier, the famous Marquis de Lafayette, dominates discussion of the French contribution to the establishment of the U.S. Convinced of the nobility of the American uprising, Lafayette arrived in the infant country to give Washington help in teaching strategy to

the Continental Army. Lafayette rose to be-come a major general in the colonial forces, and likewise helped secure troops, materiél and financing from the French monarchy for the American cause. Three other French officers that merit attention are Admiral Jean Baptiste, comte d'Estaing, whose fleet kept the Royal Navy bottled up and laid siege to British-held Savannah and Newport, and General Jean-Baptiste de Rochembault, who led the French expeditionary force intervening on be-half of the colonists in America, and who played a major role at the decisive victory at Yorktown. Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, likewise helped assure vic-tory over Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown by keeping the Royal Navy blockaded, unable to assist British ground troops. Both d’Estaing and Rochembault, aristocrats friendly to King Lou-is XVI, ran afoul of the French Revolution, despite sympathy for liberal policies. Unfortu-nately d’Estaing met his fate on the guillotine and Rochembault was imprisoned, later was released by Napoleon. Germany and Poland both contributed signifi-cant figures to the American Revolution as well. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, was a Prussian and American military officer. He served as inspector general and a major general of the Continental Army and was Washington’s chief of staff toward the end of the war. He is credited with bringing order and discipline at Valley Forge and elsewhere to colonial militias and melding them into a fighting force that could confront British troops, among the best military units in the world. Prior to arriving in the U.S. at Ports-mouth, NH, on Dec. 1, 1777, von Steuben had been an aide-de-camp to King Frederick the Great of Prussia, one of Europe’s greatest tacti-cians and strategists, who had also been one of his teachers. Poland’s contribution is well known in Manchester, where an equestrian statue of Count Casimir Pulaski stands down-town. He was a freedom fighter for America and for his native Poland. Here, he served as general in the Continental Army, is credited with saving Washington’s life and developed the American cavalry. What Baron von Steuben did for foot soldiers, Count Pulaski did for mounted troops. Pulaski died shortly after he was wounded in the Battle of Savannah. From 1776 to 1784, Andrzej Tadeusz Kościuszko, another Polish military officer with a distin-guished career, served in the Continental Army, eventually becoming a brigadier general. Kos-ciuszko’s contributions were many, not the

least of which was skill in fortifi-cations, including those at West Point. For Jef-ferson, his friend, Kosci-

uszko was “as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known." The Pole left funds in his will for the education of freed American slaves and emancipated the serfs on his estate at home, although neither intention was allowed to be fulfilled. Spain contributed two individuals who played key roles in American independence, Don Juan de Miralles Trailhon, who has been de-scribed as a merchant, smuggler and maybe even a pirate, but who actually worked under-cover for King Carlos III to assist the revolu-tion against British rule. Miralles became close to Washington and provided funds and influ-ence for the new nation in Madrid, which still ruled her own empire from Mexico to Chile and Argentina. Meanwhile Gen. Bernardo de Galvez was a Spanish military and colonial official in Louisi-ana and Cuba, and eventually became Viceroy of New Spain. He led operations prevented the British from encircling the rebel colonials from the south and maintained supply lines for the Americans by sea and land. Galvez also was instrumental in drafting the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which ended hostilities, re-established Anglo-American peace and trade and, happily for Madrid, recovered Florida from the British. This month, as we celebrate our national in-dependence and reflect on our history, it is good to thank God too for the richness of the peoples who helped secure its future. American development was not without bloodshed, vio-lence and even oppression. We dare not forget genocidal encounters with Native Americans and enslavement for African-Americans and subsequent discrimination for many. And yet, through it all, the ideals of the Fourth of July – liberty, representative government, rule by law, checks and balances and opportunity – have survived, and defended, amazingly, by some of the very people to whom they were once de-nied! Next week: A look at the roles of some of the people in America from the very beginning in achieving independence. © Rev. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B.

From the Pastor: Fr. Jerome Joseph Day, O.S.B.

The many colors that make up the red, white and blue of America

From left, Commodore John Barry, Ireland; Captain John Paul Jones, Scotland; Juan de Moralles de Trailhon, Spain; Count Casimir

Pulaski, Poland; Marquis de Lafayette, France; Baron von Steuben, Germany