ST. PETER MASS SCHEDULE:

Saturday, June 21

     8:00   Mem:  Fathers Living and Deceased

     5:15   Birthday Mem:  John Benincasa by Wife,

              Nancy

Sunday, June 22

     7:30   Mem:  Frank & Rose Susco by Grace

   11:00  Mem:  Leonard & Phyllis Powers and Lenny

              Powers, Jr. by Family

Monday, June 23

     9:15   (Loretto Home)  Birthday Mem:  Charlotte

              Franzoni by Chub

     4:45   Mem:  Fathers Living and Deceased

Tuesday, June 24

     9:15   (Loretto Home)  Mem:  Jennie Baker and

              Deceased Members of the Baker & DeBlasio

              Family by Lagattuta, Baker and Fair Families

     2:00   Mass at Genesis Elder Care Center:

              Mass for Parishioners

Wednesday, June 25

     9:15   (Loretto Home)  Mem: Adrian Joseph Fredette

              by Wife & Family

Thursday, June 26

     9:15   (Loretto Home)  Mem:  Angelo Coccia

     4:45   Mem:  Giovanbattista Mainolfi by Sarah,

              Josephine & Luigi Mainolfi

Friday, June 27

     9:15   (Loretto Home)  Mem: Frank & Mary Nemera

              by Daughter, Alice Gray

     4:45   Mem:  Nancy Mainolfi by George & Cheryl

              Hooker

Saturday, June 28

     8:00   Birthday Mem:  Nicholas Flory by Family

     5:15   Mem:  Mary & Anthony Dolphin, Sr., James

              and Anthony, Jr. by Family

Sunday, June 29

     7:30   Birthday Mem:  Rose Valente by Grace

   11:00  21^st Ann:  Yolanda Ladabouche by Husband

 

 

CANDLES FOR THIS WEEKEND:

(ST. PETER’S)

 

Mem:  Richard Loomis

by Mary Scruton

 

 

 

 

 

ST. DOMINIC MASS SCHEDULE:

Sunday, June 22

     9:15   Mem:  Fathers Living and Deceased

Tuesday, June 24

     9:00   Ann:  Laura Chamberland by Harry &

              Gregory Chamberland

Wednesday, June 25

     9:00   Mass for Parishioners

Sunday, June 29

     9:15   Mem:  Nina LaPenna by Bernice Santoro

 

 

 

ST. DOMINIC COLLECTION REPORT

WEEKEND OF JUNE 14/15

Offertory                                                           1,132.00

Fuel                                                                         74.00

 

 

 

 

 

Please pray for the following St. Dominic Parishioners who are ill:  John Connell, Ellen Baker and continued health to Gordon Anderson, Jr.

 

 

 

 

BISHOP’S FUND

The 2008 Bishop’s Fund continues to gain momentum. Our goal for this year is $39,200 for St. Peter and $11,250 for St. Dominic. We have already raised a total of $17,171 for St. Peter and $5,880 for St. Dominic. Thank you to all those who have already contributed to this 50^th anniversary Bishop’s Fund appeal.

 

 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Monday, June 23

     2:00 PM – Legion of Mary meet at St. Peter Rectory

Wednesday, June 25

     Altar Servers trip to Great Escape

Saturday/Sunday, June 28/29

     Peter’s Pence Collection to be taken up at all Masses

 

 

ST. PETER COLLECTION REPORT

WEEKEND OF JUNE 14/15

141 Envelopes (326 sent out) plus $871.00      4,078.00

Need                                                                  4,800.00

Difference                                                      -    722.00

Last Year – Same Date – Offertory                      4,159.00

 

 

 

BABY BOOTIES FOR LIFE

PLEASE NOTE: If you forgot your baby booties last week, a collection container will be available at next week’s masses. Thank you for your support of this worthwhile cause for the sanctity of human life! They cannot afford any lost baby booties so please don’t forget to bring them back as soon as possible.

 

 

 

St. Dominic welcomes Mike Knowles & Lori Hickey as the new members of our Parish Council. We thank them for their willingness to serve our community. St. Dominic is grateful to Agnes Blow and Tim Clain for their years of service on the Parish Council.

 

St. Peter would like to thank Dan & Sheila O’Hara, Bill & Cathy Petrics and Kelly Giancola for their faithful and generous service to our Parish Council. We welcome Lorraine Canty, Richard Del Bianco, Joe Peterson, Heidi Senecal and Lisa Shappy as the new members of our Parish Council. We thank them for their willingness to serve our community.

 

 

 

IS GOD CALLING YOU?

If you feel you may be called by God to follow the Lord as a Priest or Brother, please contact Brother Tim Jones @ 212-567-1300 or brotimjones@yahoo.com. There will be literature, retreat weekends and individual discernment counseling offered. Also, you may want to view our vocation website at: www.franciscanvocation.org. Thank you.

 

 

WHEN GOD CREATES:

“THE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY”

Are “Men from Mars and Women from Venus” really? Or, does our Church’s “Theology of the Body” hold the TRUE key to unlock and understand the mysteries of our complimentary yet distinct natures? Come and See for yourself!! Fr. Thomas Loya, nationally-known speaker on “The Theology of the Body”, will be in the Diocese of Burlington from Wednesday, September 3^rd through Saturday, September 6^th to explore how and why God created men and women with different yet complimentary physical, spiritual and intellectual characteristics. Both married and single people should find this topic insightful and entertaining! He will be in Rutland on Saturday, September 6 from 2:30 – 5:00 PM at Mt. St. Joseph Academy, Admission $5. Sponsored by Marriage, Family & Respect Life Ministries, Diocese of Burlington. For more information, contact Judy Kanya (802) 658-6111 or jkanya@vermontcatholic.org.

 

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops addressed Poverty in their

November 2002 Statement, A Place at the Table.

 

     When we gather as Catholics to worship, we gather    around a table to celebrate the Eucharist. It is at this   altar of sacrifice that we hear the saving word of   Christ and receive his Body and Blood. It is Christ’s   sacrificial meal that nourishes us so that we can go forth to live the Gospel as his disciples. Too often, the      call of the Gospel and the social implications of the   Eucharist are ignored or neglected in our daily lives. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church insists,     “The Eucharist commits us to the poor. To receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us,    we must recognize Christ in the poorest.” (no. 1397)

 

     As Catholics, we must come together with a common conviction that we can no longer tolerate the moral      scandal of poverty in our land and so much hunger     and deprivation in our world.

 

     “What did you do for the least of these?” Jesus identified himself with the hungry, the thirsty, the    naked, the imprisoned, and the stranger, insisting      that when we serve them we serve him (Mt 25:40).

 

St. Peter Church has two programs to help alleviate poverty in our local community. We ask that you prayerfully consider participating to help our poverty outreach programs.

 

• Community Cupboard Food Shelf:  We collect food for the Community Cupboard Food Shelf on the first Sunday of each month. Parishioners are asked to bring non-perishable food items and leave them near the entrances of the church. Last year St. Peter Church contributed over 2,000 food items to the Community Cupboard. If you would like to contribute, simply bring food items to the church on the first Sunday of the month.
• St. Anthony’s Guild is the St. Peter Parish direct ministry to the needy of our community. The Guild’s patron saint, St. Anthony of Padua, came from a wealthy family that wanted him to become a great nobleman. But, for the sake of Christ he became a poor Franciscan Priest.

 

 

 

Currently this ministry is carried on through the generosity of parishioners who support St. Anthony’s Guild through weekly, monthly and yearly contributions.

 

This past year St. Anthony’s Guild distributed $4,942.71 and helped 84 individuals/families. Recipients do not have to be parish members. Since January 2008, St. Anthony’s Guild has distributed $1,320.00 and helped 29 individuals/families. If you would like to join St. Anthony’s Guild, call St. Peter Church at 775-1994.

 

     In 1968 Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign   made a stop at Ball State University. He wanted to      address the university students on the meaning of life.    “What really is our purpose in life?” Kennedy asked      them before recounting the suffering of children who     were literally starving in Mississippi. “In the last      analysis, the only excuse, really, for our existence must be that we are to perform some act, do      something on behalf of those who are less well     off…And I think that you should take this on as a     burden.”

 

 

 

 

"Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge. Even all the hairs of your head are counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father." - Mt 10:29-32