PARISH COMMUNITIES ST. MARY & ST. PHILIP BENIZI - PASTOR: REV. LEO LEBLANC X24 THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD (01/09/22) ...
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Parish Communities
St. Mary & St. Philip Benizi
Pastor: Rev. Leo LeBlanc x24 • fathrleb@gmail.com
The Baptism of the Lord (01/09/22)
St. Philip & St. Mary Parishes of Grafton
Calendars have arrived and are available in both
St. Philip & St Mary St. Philip’s and St. Mary’s gathering spaces.
Thank you to Roney Funeral Home for
St Philip (Mass @ 9am on Sunday) sponsoring them this year!
January 9, Sunday, 9:00am – Memorial Jay
Swett St. Mary
January 8, Saturday: 4:00pm – Memorial Shirley P.
January 16, Sunday, 9:00am – Memorial John Sullivan by her Family
Chartier January 9, Sunday: 7:30am – For the Holy Souls in
Purgatory
To request a Mass Intention, please call Jill Sullivan (ext. 10) or
Lisa Stewart (ext. 11) at St. Mary’s Parish Office at 508-839-3993.
10:30am – Birthday Remembrance Gene Hogan by
his Family, Memorial Susan Beaudry by the LaPointe
Family, 16th Anniversary Kathleen Romeo and 15th
Welcome to St. Mary & St. Philip Parishes! Anniversary Frank Marripodi by the Family
Monday – 8:00am Mass
Please visit our website for all the upcoming events. Tuesday – 12:00pm Mass – Months Mind Shirley P.
If you would like a bulletin sent home, please call St. Mary’s
parish office. Sullivan by her Family
Wednesday – 12:00pm Mass followed by Adoration
Please visit our website for the latest details on our parishes: Thursday – 8:00am Mass
https://stmarysgrafton.org or https://stphilipsgrafton.org January 15, Saturday: 4:00pm – Birthday
Please sign up for Flocknote on our website for
Remembrance Irving Shanley by the Family
continuous updates on your phone or email. You can find us January 16, Sunday: 7:30am – For the Holy Souls in
on Facebook at: stmary.stphilip.of.grafton.ma Purgatory
10:30am – Living and Deceased Members of St.
You will find our recorded weekly Mass on your local Mary, St. Philip, and St. James
cable channels at 6:30 AM daily on Channel 191 for Charter
or Channel 34 for Verizon. Link for GCTV schedule http://
grafton.cablecast.tv/CablecastPublicSite/schedule?
channel=1
Sunday Offertory
Mailing Addresses and Phone Numbers: December 28th – January 3rd,
St. Mary Office - 508-839-3993 2022 Special Collections:
17 Waterville St., N. Grafton, MA 01536 $3,465.30
Christmas Offering
St. Philip Office – 508-839-3325 $360.00
12 West St., Grafton, MA 01519 Catholic Home Missions
Thank You! 02/13/22
St. Philip Diocesan Priests’ Retirement
For those who are not able to attend Mass December 28th – January 3rd, 03/02/22
2022
We currently offer a recording of the Sunday Mass $460.00 The Church in Latin
on Google Drive, an audio recording of the Homily Includes WeShare America
posted on our website https://stmarysgrafton.org/ Christmas Offering 03/13/22
homilies and we broadcast the recorded Mass on $50.00
Grafton Community TV. Thank You!
Celebrate THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION as follows:
Tuesday afternoons after Mass at 12:45 -1:30pm at the rectory. Ring the back doorbell and Father will
answer the door and give you directions.
Saturday afternoons at 2:45-3:30pm in the Family Room (behind the tabernacle in the church).
By appointment – Call or text Fr. Leo at (508) 450-0281 to schedule.
Please go to our website at https://stmarysgrafton.org/news/confession for more details.
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Holy Waters Baptism is a love story. Certainly, for parents having their child baptized, it is a story of the love they share with each other; a story of the love they have for their child; and a story of the love they share as part of an extended family. Yet ultimately, baptism is about God’s love. A love first expressed in Christ’s baptism in the River Jordan where, as we hear in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 3:15-15, 21-22), God declares Jesus to be his “beloved Son” in whom the Father is “well pleased.” At our baptism, God says much the same to each of us. As Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas writes: “In his baptism, Jesus consciously received the identity that had been his since before the beginning of time: he was, and had always been, the child of God, the beloved of God, and nothing and no one could take that love away. That’s what happens in our baptism, too: like Jesus, we, too, are forever claimed as God’s own. From that moment and for the rest of our lives, we are drawn into the life of God, caught up in an unbreakable relationship of love. Wherever you go, whatever you do, wherever the Spirit sends you, the divine life is flowing through you, as close as your breath, as close as your heartbeat. You and I belong to Christ forever, and we are loved to the core.” But God’s love extends beyond each person. It extends to all of his creation. As the optional psalm for this weekend (Psalm 109) exclaims, “You [God] have constructed your palace upon the waters. You make the clouds your chariot; you travel on the wings of the wind. You make the winds your messengers; and flaming fire your ministers.” Jesus didn’t need to be baptized; he accepted baptism so that all the waters of creation might become a means of grace and blessing. Jesus embraced the physical world and used it as the means to impart grace and healing on all whom he encountered: water to make wine for the wedding couple, mud and spit to heal the blind man, bread and wine made his Body to feed the world. The Church uses elements of this world – candles, incense, oils, water, gold vessels – to serve as visible signs of God’s grace working in the world. As Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si, “The Sacraments are a privileged way in which nature is taken up by God to become a means of mediating supernatural life. Through our worship of God, we are invited to embrace the world on a different plane. Water, oil, fire and colours [sic] are taken up in all their symbolic power and incorporated in our act of praise.” And so, as baptized followers of Christ, we must show equal reverence and care for the natural world. For it is by means of the waters of baptism that we are led to God through the grace of his Spirit. It is true that, just as Jesus knelt in prayer at his baptism, we also must pause in our busy lives and enter into the spiritual life so we can more readily hear God’s love story, his eternal cry to us, “You are my beloved.” But by the same token, we live and breathe and experience God’s grace in this world, this present life, and so must seek to encounter God within his world. Sadly, according to a recent study, the river in which Jesus was baptized is now thoroughly “polluted with saline and effluent, including untreated sewage. The valley’s wetlands have dried up, its springs are failing, and half its biodiversity has been lost.” God has not forsaken us; yet we forsake the very waters he uses to give us grace and defeat the sting of sin and death. As the theologian Kyle Norman warns, “A lack of care for that which God has crafted is ultimately a lack of care for God’s presence, for God is actively present in the intricacy of the created world. God not only created the world, but God’s spirit of love continues to sustain it.” Let us treat our planet in such a way that our lives can truly say to this world that has been gifted to us by God, “You are my beloved. In you I am well pleased.” God expects nothing less from us. Deacon Tim 3 970
January 9, 2022 The Baptism of the Lord
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASS SCHEDULE
Sunday Jan 9 Gr. K-6 remote 9:15-10:00am
Gr. K-6 gathered 9:15-10:15am St. Mary
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (ages 3-5) 9:15-10:15am St. Mary
Gr. 7-8 remote 4:00-4:45pm
Gr. 9-10 remote 5:00-5:45pm
Gr. 7-10 gathered 6:00-7:00pm St. Mary
(note location change for Gr. 7-10 gathered)
Monday Jan 10 Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (ages 3-5) 4:30-5:30pm St. Mary
Gr. K-6 gathered 4:30-5:30pm St. Mary
Sunday Jan 16 NO RE CLASSES GATHERED AND REMOTE MLK JR. HOLIDAY WEEKEND
Children’s Liturgy of the Word 10:30am Mass St. Mary
First Penance Service 1:00pm St. Mary church
Monday Jan 17 NO RE CLASSES MLK JR. HOLIDAY WEEKEND
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR TITHING COMMITTEE:
At our November 2021 meeting, the Committee recommended two
tithes, each in the amount of $172.00. Father Leo approved the
recommendations. The two organizations receiving the tithes are
Abby's House and Veterans, Inc. We appreciate your continued
generosity.
Committee Members: Nancy Atchue, Peter Cardoza, Sharon Doane, Sue Treveloni, Joan Shanley
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
Opens January 9th and 10th
Calling all parents of children ages 3, 4, and 5! We will be starting this special program for your children on
Sunday, January 9th from 9:15-10:15 a.m. for class #1 and Monday January 10th from 4:30-5:30 p.m. for class
#2. This class helps children to understand the love, joy and protection of God, life in the church, and to
develop and discover on their own, a personal relationship with God. Children learn through the use of
manipulatives especially researched to be just right for this age level and they truly love their time in the
Atrium classroom; room #7.
Register for regular sessions at:
https://stmarysgrafton.org/re-registration
For additional information and photos, see our webpage at:
https://stmarysgrafton.org/good-shepherd or contact
Darleen Farland at dfarland@stmarysgrafton.org
Market Sunday
Thank you in advance to all who will help in 2022 to support the families who
rely on us monthly.
Our next Market Sunday is February 5/6. We could really use your help for
the winter months with: Rice mixes, cookies & crackers, juice boxes, coffee
(1 lb. cans/bags), tea & hot chocolate, sugar (1 lb. boxes), pancake mix,
paper towels, tissues and toilet paper (individually wrapped or 4 packs)
If you know of anyone needing assistance to provide for themselves or their family, please refer
them to the Society of St Vincent de Paul at 508 839-3993 x35. All information is kept strictly
confidential.
SMALL FAITH SHARING GROUPS
2021-2022
The theme we’ve chosen is: PREPARING WITH MARY TO WELCOME AND ADORE CHRIST’S
BIRTH
• January 15, 2022: With Mary and the Magi we adore God’s Word-Made-Flesh. This Leads to
Christ’s tangible Presence in the Eucharist
Session information is below. Please sign up on our website https://stmarysgrafton.org/small-
group-pre-registration, if interested or for more information.
Sessions: Saturday morning 9:30am in person at St. Mary Parish Hall or via Zoom
Scout Troop 106 Christmas 2021 Tree Pick Up Service
Scout Troop 106 will once again be offering residential Christmas tree pick up January 9th from 9am-
12pm for a nominal fee of $15.00 each. The funds raised will help
support Scouting related activities.
If you are interested, please email your name, address and phone number to
Fundraising.Troop106@troopmaster.email no later than January 5th, 2022.
Please call Christopher Chiu at 508-293-1232 with any questions.
We accept payment (check or cash) at pickup time. If you will not be home
between 9am and 12pm on January 9th, please mail in advance your check
payable to Troop 106 to "Holly McCormick, 28 Hollywood Drive, North Grafton,
MA 01536".
NEW THIS YEAR: Pay using Venmo @ScoutsBSA-106. Put "Xmas tree pick up" in the comment box and
email or call to give us your street address. You can scan the QR code above as well.
Please have your tree on the curb by 9am on January 9th. We thank you for your support and the
opportunity to serve the Grafton community.
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January 9, 2022 The Baptism of the Lord
PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT ON OUR
COLLABORATIVE JOURNEY
Come, Holy Spirit, as we pray together in Your Name.
With You alone to guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts.
Teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue this journey.
We are weak and sinful. Do not let us promote disorder, fear,
or discord.
Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path,
that we may journey together to Eternal Life.
May we not stray from the Truth and what is right.
Make us one in mind and heart and seek only the Father’s Will.
All this we ask of You, who are at work in every place and time,
in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever. Amen.
(adapted from the synodal prayer of the Church)
We want to hear from YOU!
Please check out our Parish Renewal Information Tables in St. Philip and St. Mary
Gathering Spaces.
We have copies of the meeting minutes, Prayer Cards, and a Suggestion Box.
Please see the notice next to the suggestion box for details.
Grafton Parish Collaboration Information
REPRESENTATIVES FOR ST. MARY'S & ST. PHILIP'S
These representatives will be engaged with Fr. Anthony and I, as we begin
our collaboration process among the three parishes. Besides regularly
communicating through the bulletin and websites, as well as by regular mail,
these representatives are also available to you to answer questions and to
listen to your concerns and comments.
The four representatives for St. Mary's are:
Katie Hanna at katiebhanna@gmail.com Ed Romeo at eromeo795@gmail.com
Rick Ross at Ricross@verizon.net Tina Skowronek at tina.skowronek@verizon.net
The four representatives for St. Philip's are:
Nancy Atchue at Atchue@juno.com Peter Cardoza at pcardoza@csrfinancial.com
Mark Durfee at Kenda100@verizon.net Patti Hart at pehart@aol.com
The four representatives for St. James are:
Mike Braun at msbraun@charter.net Al Hargrave at ahargrave@verizon.net
Lori Lauria at lorijhl@aol.com Nancy Morin at npm9329@gmail.com
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If you know of any elderly or
Website for both parishes: home-bound parishioners who
www.stmarysgrafton.org would like to have the bulletin
www.stphilipsgrafton.org sent to them by mail, please
contact St. Mary Parish
Parish Staff office and one will be sent out
weekly.
Deacon Tim Cross: ext.29
deacontimcross@gmail.com
Business Manager: Lisa Stewart We thank our advertisers for
ext.11 lstewart@stmarysgrafton.org
making our bulletin possible.
Director of Religious Ed. St. Mary/ Please patronize our advertis-
St. Philip: ers especially during this time
Darleen Farland ext.12 of pandemic. Thank you!
dfarland@stmarysgrafton.org
Director of Music/St. Mary: Pamela Cross
ext.37 p.cross@shoplegacy.com
Parish Secretary/Safe Environment Coor- Al’s Oil Service
dinator St. Mary: Jill Sullivan ext.10 American Red Cross
jsullivan@stmarysgrafton.org Boucher Energy Systems
Parish Secretary/Safe Environment Buggy Whip
Coordinator St. Philip: Cancun’s Restaurant
contact Jill ext.10 or Lisa ext.11 CatholicMatch
Collette Motors, Inc.
Custodian: Ron Dennis CSR Financial Services, LLC
rdennis@stmarysgrafton.org HearJOY Audiology
St. Vincent de Paul Society Heffernan Painting
St. Mary-St. Philip 508-839-3993 ext.35 Mallory’s Army Foundation
All information is kept strictly confidential. McClure’s Barber Shop
MD MedAlert
St. Mary Prayer Line 508-839-3993 ext.18 Post Office Pub
Rand Automotive Center
St. Mary-St. Philip Soup Kitchen ext.32
RE/MAX Executive Realty
Youth Group Ministry - Roney Funeral Home
youthgroup@stmarysgrafton.org Rosaries From Flowers
Trusted Like Family
St. Mary Office – 508-839-3993 Homecare, Inc.
St. Philip Office – 508-839-3325
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