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Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time February 16, 2020

The Light of Christ Catholic Collaborative

Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time • February 16, 2020


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The Light of Christ Catholic Collaborative COLLABORATIVE STAFF

Pastor: Rev. Thomas J. Stanton Parochial Vicar: Rev. Robert Cullen

Senior Priest in Residence: Rev. Joseph Arsenault Senior Priest/Weekend Assistant: Rev. Mark Riley

Deacons: Joseph Nickley, James McLaughlin and Paul Breadmore Finance and Operations Manager: Dennis Leonard

Administrative Assistant: Colleen Booker Email: [email protected]

Website: www.loccc.org

Director of Music: William Healey Children’s Choir : Margaret Healey Organist: Lynn Bartlett Cantor: Dennis Leonard Director of Religious Education (781) 447-3135 Grades 1-Confirmation Cathleen Smith [email protected] Cemetery Office: Kathy MacGilvray Office Assistant: Charles Guillemette Facilities Managers: James Lewis Tom Blinn

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Holy Ghost Parish 518 Washington Street Whitman, MA 02382

Tel: 781-447-4421 Fax: 781-447-1375

St. Bridget Church 455 Plymouth Street Abington, MA 02351

Tel: 781-878-0900 Fax: 781-878-6566

Holy Ghost Mass Schedule Weekend: Saturday: 4:00PM Sunday: 7:30AM & 10:30AM

Weekday: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9AM

Holy Day Mass Schedule As Announced

St. Bridget Mass Schedule Weekend: Saturday: 4:00PM Sunday: 9:00AM & 12:00PM

Weekday: Tuesday and Thursday at 9AM Saturday liturgy will be a Communion Service

Holy Day Mass Schedule As Announced

DIVINE MERCY DEVOTION

Tuesdays at 7PM in the lower chapel

PERPETUAL ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

In Divine Mercy Chapel (lower church) BAPTISM Second and Fourth Sundays of each month at 12Noon (Please arrive 15 minutes early). Call the rectory (781-447-4421) to arrange for the sacrament. BINGO at Whitman Knights of Columbus Every Monday at 6PM in the Whitman Knights of Columbus Hall

CONFESSION: Saturdays 3:00 to 3:30 PM or anytime by appointment MARRIAGE: Please contact the rectory one year in advance.

Couples meet with the priest or deacon before a date is set. Participation in a marriage program is required

Organist: Carolyn Bates (781) 878-5410 Children’s Choir : Jessie Bishop (781) 974-5043 Directors of Religious Education (781) 878-5950 Anne Fennell, Grades 1-6, [email protected] Cathleen Smith, Grade 7 to Confirmation, [email protected] Phone: 781-447-3135 Superintendent, Saint Patrick Cemetery: Jeff Allen Phone: (781) 982-8974 or (781) 878-0900 Fax (781) 878-6566 Saint Vincent de Paul: (781) 878-1194

BAPTISM First and Second Sundays of each month at 1:30PM(Please arrive 15 minutes early). Call the rectory (781-878-0900) to arrange for the sacrament. BINGO Every Sunday at 6:30PM in the School Hall ST. BRIDGET SCHOOL (781) 878-8482 Mr. Matthew T. Collins, Principal www.stbridgetschool.us


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HOLY GHOST COLLECTION

Sunday Collection $ 5,852.00

Fuel Fund $ 2,688.00

ST. BRIDGET COLLECTION

Sunday Collection $ 6,126.00

Fuel Fund $ 4,532.00

This week Parish Tithe is for Friends of the Unborn PO Box 692246 Quincy, MA 02269

Please remember for the second collections, to make the checks out to Holy Ghost or St. Bridget.

We will send one check to the designated group for the collection. Thank you.

For the week of February 8 through February 16, 2020

Saturday, February 15, 2020 4PM HG Elsie Studley—3rd Anniversary 4PM SB Malvina Forgione & Frank Pinto— Memorial

Sunday, February 16, 2020 7:30AM HG Donald Mackenzie—Memorial 9:00AM SB Eleanor Duchaney—20th Anniversary 10:30AM HG Elizabeth Morris—1st Anniversary 12PM SB Ehvy Thi Thai Than—Memorial

Monday, February 17, 2020 9AM HG Mass at Holy Ghost

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 9AM SB Mass at St. Bridget

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 9AM HG Edward Coughlin—18th Anniversary

Thursday, February 20, 2020 9AM SB Mass at St. Bridget

Friday, February 21, 2020 9AM HG Ed Conlon—11th Anniversary

Saturday, February 22, 2020 4PM HG Arthur Hynes—5th Anniversary Anna White—10th Anniversary 4PM SB Maria Nguyen & Peter Lai— Memorial

Sunday, February 23, 2020 7:30AM HG Mass at Holy Ghost 9:00AM SB Jeanne Kelly—1st Anniversary 10:30AM HG John W. Lington—1st Anniversary 12PM SB Eleanor Pappone & Jean Force— Memorial

New Offerings for remembering your loved ones If you would like to honor the memory of a loved one by sponsoring the use of the sanctuary lamp or altar bread ad wine at church for a week, please contact either rectory. Donations are $35.00 per week (or $50.00 for two weeks in the chapel at Holy Ghost.)

The Sanctuary Lamp at Holy Ghost will burn in the lower Church this week in memory of

Martin Cunningham.

The Sanctuary Lamp at Holy Ghost will burn in the upper Church this week in memory of

Nicholas McWilliams.

Banns of Marriage 3rd Time: Justin Townsend & Renai Marie Gildea

Please remember in your prayers the souls of the recently departed: Shirley A. Ferris, Nadine

Principato


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Lt. Joe Sturges Lt. J.G. Thomas M. Condon Pat Torney SGT. Thomas M. Malloy, Jr. (USMC) Sgt. Nick Lavery SO2 Ryan C. Flaherty Sgt. Matthew McCann Sgt. Seamus Murray Lance Corp. Nicholas Rizzo Staff Sgt. Jonathan P. Martins Steve Gaudet LCpl M Ryan O’ Flaherty Spec. James R. Furtado Kyle Scales USN Col. Kevin Hanrahan Capt. Joseph J. Lucas SPC Anthony Gulino Peter E. Columbo LCPL Jarod Zachariah Maze Sgt. Nicholas Voci Senior Airman Sara Furtado PFC Zachary Samya Staff Sgt. Marie Ketchen Airman Samuel Clark LCpl Johnathan Jaskolka Major Ryan Chandler Sgt. Andrew McAleer LCpl. Sean Concannon SFC Jason Race Jason Malloy USAF Brian Malloy USN Petty Off. 3rd Class Michael Wenners Captain Stephen Donaghy Private Billy Feeney SGT Christian Renteria USA Corp. Casey Hogan Cpl. John J. Feeney,USMC Airman Daniel Levesque LCpl Derek Corkery, USMC Spec. Taylor M. Loring Cpl. Joseph Von George USMC Sargent Jordon McIntyre Stephen Zagami DC Lt. J.G. Jacob M. Concannon R. Randall F. O. 1st Lt. Shane Reardon,USMC PVT Steven Littlefield Commander Amy Grabel Payce Petty Officer Jonathan Burbine Thomas E. Wyatt MMN1 LcCpl Larry J. Jarrins USMC Sgt. Daniel O’Donnell,USMC CPL James W. Belton USMC 1LT Katelynn Hickey SSG Andrew Hickey LCpl Michael Duphil MAJ Matthew Luyster US Army Capt. Joseph V.Bomar,USAF 2nd Lt. Thomas Leonard, USMC USN Sgt. Zachary DeLuca, USMC Ensign Anthony J. Iannone, USN

PRAYERS FOR OUR RELATIVES & FRIENDS SERVING IN THE MILITARY

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

The ladies of the Prayer Shawl Ministry have a supply of beautiful prayer shawls available at the

rectory at Holy Ghost and St. Bridget. Each one has been blessed and comes with a special prayer. If you have a family member or know someone who is ill or in need of special prayers, please come to the rectory

to take a shawl for the individual, as a special gift from the parish of our concern and prayers.

CEMETERY LOTS Please consider St. Patrick or St. James Cemetery for yourself and/or your loved ones final resting place. Cemetery lots are available. Please call either rectory for more information.

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY RAFFLE St. Bridget’s St. Patrick’s Day Raffle tickets are now available. They make great Christmas Gifts. Buy your raffle ticket today. $15,000 in prizes to be drawn! Tickets are $100.00 each. First prize is $10,000 and five prizes of $1,000 each. Contact Bill Brown for tickets at 339-788-8678. We will deliver them to you.

Cunniff Pine Street Needs Help

The stove at the Cardinal Spellman Center at Holy Ghost is in disrepair. We are in need of purchasing a new stove. The Knight of Columbus in Whitman has offered to match any donation up to $2500.00 to replace the stove. All donations will be appreciated. Please make the check out to Holy Ghost and please let us know it is for the stove. Thank you for your help.

ABINGTON ROTARY CLUB PRESENTS

A BENEFIT DINNER/THEATRE EVENING Saturday, February 29, 2020

Abington Senior Center

Judith Kalaora of History at Play presents CHALLENGER: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe

Pasta Dinner 5:30PM-7:00PM (Cash Bar)

Performance: 7:00PM – 8:15PM

Tickets: $30 Per Person includes dinner and performance

Tickets are available at the Senior Center and Bemis Drug

Jamaica Mission Trip Fundraiser My name is Carolyn Cooke and I am currently a senior at Cardinal Spellman High School. This April, I will be traveling to Jamaica through Mustard Seed Communities on a mission trip to serve those that are living in this third world country. I will be fundraising for this trip at the Saturday and Sunday masses the weekend of February 29-March 1 at Saint Bridget's should you want to donate or become a prayer partner for me. I would really appreciate your prayers and support!


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FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Good Sunday Everyone This week I had a funeral of someone who worked for New England Telephone, you may remember it was also called New England Telephone and Telegraph. In 1879 they merged with Bell telephone even though everyone still called it New England Telephone and Telegraph. In 1899 Bell Telephone became part of AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) but still everyone called it New England Telephone. We are part of our Parishes, part of our Collaboratives, and part of the Archdiocese of Boston We have 249 priests serving in 283 parishes and 89 collaboratives – 11 more this year bringing the number of collabora-tives to 100 and 14 will be established in 2021. Hopefully priests do their best in their multi-parish assignments. Some priests refuse to participate, and then when it is time for the priest assignment to end the Archdiocese scrambles and tries to find weekend coverage often times asking neighboring parishes to assist. In some cases, a pastor refusing to participate resigns, and then the parish needs to come into an existing collaborative. I realize for the majority of people religion is like politics, it’s all local but we need to keep an eye on the bigger picture too. People say to me “Father Tom Remember when there were 4 or 5 priests in every parish” of course I do. But people in the Church and priests need to remember the old adage change is inevitable growth is optional. Hopefully we can continue to grow. Last Saturday Father Robert Blaney, Clergy Personnel, and Father Paul Soper, Disciples in Mission Coordinator for the Archdiocese met with the close to 200 Permanent Deacons of our Diocese to discuss and receive their input regarding having Deacon administrators in Parishes. EVEN IN PARISHES THAT HAVE FULL TIME PRIEST PASTORS AND PARHOCIAL VICARS DEACON ADMINISTRATORS WOULD FREE UP THE PRIEST TO BE ABOUT THE SACRAMENTAL AND PRIESTLY WORK HE WAS ORDAINED TO DO. These Deacons would continue their ministry as Deacons in their Collaboratives – Celebrating Baptisms and Weddings and preaching and leading Communion Services. In addition to these rolls they would take on the administrative end of the collaborative pertaining to financial matters, contracts, leading Parish Council and Finance Council etc. and work with the Priest Pastor ensuring that Diocesan mat-ters and concerns are addressed. Please pray for all the Deacons or our diocese who may be being called to this type of ministry and pray as I try to

discern and determine whether our Light of Christ Collaborative may benefit from this program. We are blessed to have the three wonderful and holy Deacons we have, and one of them may be chosen by the Archdiocese, and by myself as your Pastor, to participate in this new program. Going back to New England Telephone – their slogan years ago “reach out and touch someone” let us celebrate that God reaches out and touches us and touches our collaborative community of faith and may we remember to pray for our Faith Family God Bless Father Tom

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