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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 7, 2021 EMAIL RECEIVED THIS WEEK 40 DAYS FOR LIFE BOSTON PRAYER CAMPAIGN Dear Friend in Christ: You are invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil (from February 17 through March 28) outside Planned I heartily invite you and your parishioners to join us at the 13th Parenthood,1055 Commonwealth Ave., Boston from 7:00 a.m.- Edition of New York Encounter. This 3-day annual cultural event 7:00 p.m. In addition, prayer vigils are scheduled throughout the will take place February 12-14. Because of the pandemic it will week at the same location. For more information visit be broadcast live from New York City, in collaboration with the https://www.40daysforlife.com/boston. Sheen Center, and made available on the New York Encounter website www.newyorkencounter.org. LAST YEAR’S SECOND COLLECTIONS The 2021 special edition, titled “When Reality Hits”, will be a As Catholics, we are called to support not only our parishes but reflection on the events of 2020 in order to move forward with- also the needs those beyond our own community. We are called out, however, wasting the sorrows we have suffered and the les- to support the Holy Father Pope Francis, the Archbishop and sons we have learned, as if they had been in vain. those with whom we are in communion. We are called to help the poor and those affected by natural disasters. We are called to sup- Since 2009, when New York Encounter was founded by members port the work of missionaries who bring Christ to those who do of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, it has not know Jesus. We are asked to support the retirement needs and been an example of faith lived in the public sphere and has pro- health care of our religious sisters and priests. The Catholic Bish- vided a vibrant meeting point to thousands of people of different ops of the United States receive many requests from other bishops beliefs, traditions and cultures striving for reciprocal understand- from around the world for assistance because of the simple reason ing, broadened perspectives and the possibility for true friendship. that we have so much more than most others when it comes to We would be grateful if you could include the announcement be- material wealth. These requests from others is what leads the low in your parish bulletin. Bishops to ask for help through “Second Collections”. The pan- Sincerely, demic changed the offertory process but many of you continue to Rita Simmonds help support these needs which haven’t gone away. Thanks for For New York Encounter your donations to the second collections. Below is a list of the second collections and the amounts that were donated by you in SPECIAL 13TH EDITION OF NEW YORK ENCOUNTER 2020. May the Lord reward you for your almsgiving. The 2021 NEW YORK ENCOUNTER, When Reality Hits, will take place online on February 12-14 and will be broadcasted live at the Encounter website www.newyorkencounter.org. The En- SECOND COLLECTIONS 2020 AMOUNT counter is a three-day cultural event organized by members of Communion and Liberation featuring panel discussions, artistic Church in Latin America $2,517.00 performances and unique exhibits. Some highlights: Reflections Church Around the World $2,738.00 by Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and Archbishop Holy Land Shrines - Good Friday $623.00 Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, on the events of last Easter Clergy Health & Retirement $1,920.00 year. A conversation with word renown philosopher Charles Tay- Seminarians - Pentecost $1,176.00 lor on what we are learning from 2020. A dialogue with Luigi Zamagni President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Science Clergy Health & Retirement (Sept.) $1,956.00 on the future of work and business in a post-COVID world. A Holy Father & Missionary Efforts $977.00 discussion on a truly human path to racial justice with Rev. Eu- World Mission Sunday $933.00 gene Rivers. Video exhibits on the Servant of God Msgr. Luigi Retired Religious Sisters $1,707.25 Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation and on Msgr. Christmas Clergy Health & Retirement $6,174.00 Lorenzo Albacete, theologian and close friend of the Encounter. These events and many others can be found at www.newyorkencounter.org. All events are FREE and no regis- YEAR END STATEMENTS tration is required. All are invited! Last week we mailed out the 2020 year-end contribution state- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ments to parishioners who are using offertory envelopes and elec- Become an online member for free! Now through June 30th, enter tronic giving for the collections. If you are receiving a packet of Promo Code MCGIVNEY2020 for 12 months of free online offertory envelopes in the mail each month but not using them, membership https://www.kofc.org/secure/en/join/join-the- please let us know so we can update our list (and save postage). knights.html. We appreciate the generosity of all who support St. Mary Parish. BULLETIN COVER FIAT Jesus heals Simon Peter’s mother-in-law Fiat, a gathering of women interested in learning more about reli- [From the Life of Christ illumunations, Hitda Codex] gious life, cordially invites you to the next meeting on Wednes- The Hitda Codex is an eleventh-century manuscript containing a day, February 10, 2021 at 7:00pm on Zoom. Please contact Sr. selection of passages from the Gospels, commissioned by Marian Batho, CSJ at marian.batho@csjboston.org or 617-746- Hitda, abbess of Meschede c. 1020. 2025 for more information and the link to the meeting. 2
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 7, 2021 My brothers and sisters in Christ, PLEASE PRAY FOR . . . I am please to introduce Fr. George Kalangabusa to St. Mary’s. Jane Feltner, Dick, Ellie Paradise, Jordan, Eva, Helen, Edward, Fr. George was originally scheduled to begin studies at the Boston Jackie, Jane L, Brian, Ursula, Kathleen, Laura, Frank, Charlie, all College School of Ministry and Theology back in September but the sick and suffering. was unable to enter the country. He was able to delay his start and Note: If you want a name added or removed from the sick list, will begin studies this week. Fr. George asked me last summer for please email or call the parish office. residence, but at the time we had no room. Recently, Fr. Charles’s unexpected departure opened up space. So we welcome Fr. George and hope that this period of study will be rewarding for OFFERTORY him and the people he will serve after he returns to Uganda. Fr. Thank you for your generous offering to our parish. George’s mother is living; his father died in 2009. He has two The following was collected during all parish Masses. brothers, two sisters and a deceased sister. Fr. George is 32 years January 23/24 old. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Kassana- Offertory $3,299.00 Luweero in 2016 and was assigned to be a parochial vicar. He #Worshippers 468.00 speaks English, Luganda, some of the Bantu languages as well as a little Swahili and German. He likes listening to music, especial- December Electronic Giving $3,430.00 ly Church music, and playing basketball. This is Fr. George’s sec- ond time in Boston. He was with us for the Uganda Martyr’s January Electronic Giving $4,185.00 Feast celebration in 2018 and visited Texas, Louisiana, New Jer- sey and Louisiana in the past. We look forward to when you will be able to greet him without distance. – Father Michael MASS INTENTIONS DEACON STEVEN WITH US FOR LENT Please find the full Mass Schedule on page 6. St. John’s Seminary has sent their deacon/students to live in their assigned parishes for the Season of Lent. This is a good idea be- Saturday, February 6 cause the COVID restrictions have made it difficult for deacons 4:00pm Arthur Veno, Sr. such as Steven to serve and minister in the parishes. Deacon Ste- Sunday, February 7 ven will be living in the rectory with the priests and continue his 9:00am Ethan Anderson seminary training and coursework online. We are happy that we Monday, February 8 will have the Deacon with us at least for Lent. Deacon Steven will 12:10pm Kevan LeBlanc finish his coursework in May and will receive a new assignment Tuesday, February 9 where he will serve as a Deacon for the next year. Let us continue 12:10pm Roger LeBlanc to pray for him and pray that more men will consider serving as Wednesday, February 10 deacons and priests. 12:10pm John Henry Kempton Thursday, February 11 LENTEN PREPARATION II 12:10pm Patricia Downey Last week I said that a key component to marking Lent is being Saturday, February 13 truly sorry or regretful for your past sins. I said without contrition 4:00pm Parish & Parishioners and sorrow, Lenten ascetical practices can be reduced to mindful- Sunday, February 14 ness and wellness training which is the latest fad. Don’t get me 9:00am Robert McGurrin wrong; I am all for healthy living, but it only helps you in this life instead of getting you ready for judgment and eternity. Wellness tends to focus on self-love and self-care more than loving God and your neighbor. So sorrow is key. If we are not sorry, why do PARISH OFFICE we need to repent and change? At the same time, we need to ex- Currently there is no receptionist working in the rectory office. amine all the practices, behaviors and habits that wear us down The phone is checked for messages periodically throughout each and distract us. I think it is good to try to rid ourselves of those day. We will call you back. The easiest way to communicate with bad habits even before Ash Wednesday. The goal is not to stop us is email. We can schedule Masses, sacraments etc. Please in- doing them for just forty days. The goal is to attend to them clude your phone number in your email message in case we need through the forty days and say good-bye to the harmful ones for- to call you as a follow up. ever. I think dealing with our phones is a big one. Excessive 133 CLUB MAILING DELAY drinking, drug use, wasting time on the computer and TV, over- The 133 Club mailing for December and January was combined eating, being late all the time – these are just a few examples of into one letter and mailed out this past week. Getting these letters habits that weaken us when we come to ridding ourselves of sin- out the door has been challenging during the pandemic since we ful habits and behaviors such as jealousy, gossip, hate, lust. So it do not have our usual volunteer crew... so thank you for your pa- may be good to examine how we are structuring our lives and tience. If you know that you owed membership dues for Decem- relating to others so we can train to be more virtuous when Lent ber or January, please consider mailing in your payments. You starts on February 17th. don’t have to wait for the payment envelope to show up. Thanks. 3
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 7, 2021 YEAR OF SAINT JOSEPH its contradictions, frustrations and disappointments. This week we continue to include an excerpt from the Holy Fa- Jesus’ appearance in our midst is a gift from the Father, which ther’s Apostolic Letter, Patris Corde, which means With a Fa- makes it possible for each of us to be reconciled to the flesh of ther’s Heart. Pope Francis has declared 2021 to be a year of the our own history, even when we fail to understand it completely. foster father of the Savior – St. Joseph. Give thanks that the Holy Just as God told Joseph: “Son of David, do not be afraid!” (Mt Father wants us to seek the help of the humble and obedient man. 1:20), so he seems to tell us: “Do not be afraid!” We need to set St. Joseph pray for us. aside all anger and disappointment, and to embrace the way 4. An accepting father things are, even when they do not turn out as we wish. Not with Joseph accepted Mary unconditionally. He trusted in the angel’s mere resignation but with hope and courage. In this way, we be- words. “The nobility of Joseph’s heart is such that what he come open to a deeper meaning. Our lives can be miraculously learned from the law he made dependent on charity. Today, in our reborn if we find the courage to live them in accordance with the world where psychological, verbal and physical violence towards Gospel. It does not matter if everything seems to have gone women is so evident, Joseph appears as the figure of a respectful wrong or some things can no longer be fixed. God can make and sensitive man. Even though he does not understand the bigger flowers spring up from stony ground. Even if our heart condemns picture, he makes a decision to protect Mary’s good name, her us, “God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything” (1 dignity and her life. In his hesitation about how best to act, God Jn 3:20). helped him by enlightening his judgment”. Here, once again, we encounter that Christian realism which re- Often in life, things happen whose meaning we do not under- jects nothing that exists. Reality, in its mysterious and irreducible stand. Our first reaction is frequently one of disappointment and complexity, is the bearer of existential meaning, with all its lights rebellion. Joseph set aside his own ideas in order to accept the and shadows. Thus, the Apostle Paul can say: “We know that all course of events and, mysterious as they seemed, to embrace things work together for good, for those who love God” (Rom them, take responsibility for them and make them part of his own 8:28). To which Saint Augustine adds, “even that which is called history. Unless we are reconciled with our own history, we will evil (etiam illud quod malum dicitur)”. In this greater perspective, be unable to take a single step forward, for we will always remain faith gives meaning to every event, however happy or sad. hostage to our expectations and the disappointments that follow. Nor should we ever think that believing means finding facile and The spiritual path that Joseph traces for us is not one that ex- comforting solutions. The faith Christ taught us is what we see in plains, but accepts. Only as a result of this acceptance, this recon- Saint Joseph. He did not look for shortcuts, but confronted reality ciliation, can we begin to glimpse a broader history, a deeper with open eyes and accepted personal responsibility for it. meaning. We can almost hear an echo of the impassioned reply of Job to his wife, who had urged him to rebel against the evil he Joseph’s attitude encourages us to accept and welcome others as endured: “Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not they are, without exception, and to show special concern for the receive the bad?” (Job 2:10). weak, for God chooses what is weak (1 Cor 1:27). He is the “Father of orphans and protector of widows” (Ps 68:6), who com- Joseph is certainly not passively resigned, but courageously and mands us to love the stranger in our midst. I like to think that it firmly proactive. In our own lives, acceptance and welcome can was from Saint Joseph that Jesus drew inspiration for the parable be an expression of the Holy Spirit’s gift of fortitude. Only the of the prodigal son and the merciful father (Lk 15:11-32). Lord can give us the strength needed to accept life as it is, with all continued next week When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now,” - St. Teresa of Calcutta HOW SHOULD I HOLD MY HANDS WHEN RECEIVING HOLY COMMUNION? Form a “throne” for our Lord by resting your left hand over your right hand. YES NO NO NO Never receive single-handed or try to snatch the host with your fingers. 4
Quinto Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario 7 de Febrero del 2021 Queridos hermanos y hermanas, estamos celebrando el quinto domingo del tiempo ordinario. Oy estaré dando la bendicion de San Blas par los males de garganta. San Blas fue un médico cristiano de la villa de Sebaste de Armenia Menor, una región de la antigua Asia Menor que luego lo ordenarón sacerdote y despues obispo. Cuenta una leyenda cristiana que mientras llevaban al obispo Blas hacia su martirio, una mujer se abrió paso entre la muchedumbre y colocó a los pies del religioso a su hijo que estaba muriendo sofocado por una espina de pescado que se le había atravesado en la garganta. San Blas, como médico que era, tomo al niño por la espalda y en un brusco abrazo oprimió sus pulmones, y el niño expectoró la espina. Este sería el origen de la costumbre de bendecir las gargantas el día de su fiesta el 3 de febrero. NOTA: CABALLEROS DE COLÓN: Hagase miembro en linea gratis! Desde ahora y hasta el 30 de juno, use el código promocional MCGIVNEY2020 y obtenga 12 meses de membresía en línea gratis. https://www.kofc.org/secure/es/join/join-the-knights.html Sinceramente, P. Fernando J. Vivas Reflexión: En el evangelio de hoy escuchamos como Jesus despues de regresar de la sinagoga entró en la casa de Pedro. Ahí encuentra a la suegra de Pedro enferma. Muchos hermanos separados untilizan este texto para desacreditar el sacerdocio, diciendo que los apostoles eran casados y tenia esposas. Pero el hecho de que Pedro tenia suegra no significa que tenía esposa en el momento que Jesus lo llamo. Probablemente, la esposa había muerto y Pedro como buen yerno no habria sacado a su suegra a la calle, sino que la sostendría en su casa como si fuera su mamá. Lo mas importante de este pasaje es ver como Jesus te sana para servirle! Jesucristo al tener un encuentro con el hombre enfermo (especialmente de pecados) lo sana, y la reaccion del hombre sanado es servirle. Si Dios te ha ayudao, te ha sanado, te ha liberado por que no le sirves? Que te detiene para servirle al Señor? IV Domingo: Lecturas Jb 7:1-4, 6-7 Sal 147: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 1Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 Mc 1, 29-39 5
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 7, 2021 SAINT MARY PARISH Parish Office: 781-891-1730 Fax: 781-209-0555 Mailing Address: 133 School Street, Waltham, MA 02451 Email: Please contact us via the website (WHO WE ARE > PRIESTS & STAFF) Website: https://www.stmarywaltham.org/ SAINT MARY CHURCH SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO CHAPEL Location: 133 School St., Waltham MA 02451 Location: 51 Hall Street, Waltham, MA 02453 Parking Lot & Rel. Ed. Bldg: 30 Pond St., Waltham Parking Lot & Parish Ctr: 30 Taylor St. Waltham St. Mary Church is open every day from 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. St. Charles Borromeo Chapel is closed temporarily due to pandemic. La iglesia está abierta todos los días de 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. MASS SCHEDULE/Horario de las Misas QUINCE AÑOS Saturday Vigil /Sábado Vigilia 4:00 pm Llamar al Padre Fernando para programar la celebración. La joven Sunday/Domingo 9:00 am debe estar participando en el Programa de Confirmación. 11:00 am Español BAPTISM/Bautismo 1:00 pm Luganda Parents must call the parish office for information about preparation 6:00 pm Español and baptism. Parents and godparents must attend a preparation class. Monday thru Friday/Lunes a Viernes 12:10 pm Para Bautismos padres deben llamar a la oficina. Padres y padrinos Mon. & Fri./Lunes y Viernes 7:00 pm Español deben asistir a la preparación. Friday/Viernes 8:00 pm Luganda SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION/Sacramentos de Iniciación Holy Days/Dias de Precepto 12:10 pm Adults and children (age 7+) who want to receive the sacraments of 7:00 pm Español Baptism, Confirmation, or First Communion must attend preparation classes. Call the parish office for information. CONFESSIONS/Confesiones Los adultos y niños (7+) que desean recibir los sacramentos del Bau- Sunday/Domingo 10:00 am - 10:45am tismo, la Confirmación o la Primera Comunión pueden tomar clases Mon thru Thurs/Lunes-Jueves 11:30 am - noon de preparación para los sacramentos. Llamar a la oficina. Friday/Viernes 11:00 am - noon Saturday/Sábado 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm MARRIAGE/Matrimonio Call the parish office to arrange a meeting./Llamar a la oficina. PRAY THE ROSARY/El Santo Rosario Monday thru Friday/Lunes a Viernes 11:30 am STAFF Sunday/Domingo 10:30 am Español Pastor/Párroco Rev. Michael Nolan Parochial Vicar/Vicario Par. Rev. Joseph Diem ADORATION/Adoración Parochial Vicar/Vicario Par. Rev. Fernando Vivas Friday/Viernes 12:45 pm - 5:45 pm Business Mgr./Dir. de Negocios Mary McCarthy COMMUNION TO SICK & HOMEBOUND Sexton/Sacristán Michael Welch Comunión a los hogares y enfermos Call the parish office 781-891-1730 Llamar a la oficina 781-891-1730 CATECHESIS/Catequesis Nilvia Hernández 781-308-4961 or stmarywalthamre@gmail.com AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM/Programa Después de la Escuela Call the parish office 781-891-1730 Llamar a la oficina 781-891-1730 FAQ: How can I make a donation? Thank you! Gracias! Drop in basket at Mail to: Online via website Venmo weekend Mass St. Mary’s (click DONATE) @stmarywaltham 133 School St. Webale nnyo! Waltham, MA 02451 Merci! 6
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