MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM
Sunday 7:30 & 10:30 AM
Monday-Wednesday 8:00 AM
Pastor:
Rev. Edward J. Hanlon [email protected]
Religious Education:
Carole LeBlanc [email protected]
Director of Music:
Patricia Saviet
Parish Secretary:
Celeste Allain [email protected]
Parish office hours: 8:30am-2:00pm M-F
89 Main Street
South Grafton, MA 01560
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Saturday 4:00 PM
Call rectory for appointment
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
Baptism is celebrated on the Third Sunday of the month at
12:00 PM. Call the rectory to make arrangements.
SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
Couples planning for marriage should contact the rectory
one year prior to the wedding date.
CARE FOR THE SICK
Please contact the rectory if you know of anyone who is
hospitalized or confined to home because of age or illness.
WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS
Please introduce yourselves after Mass. We want to know
and serve you. We hope you become active members of
our parish community.
We are a Stewardship Parish
TIME ◆ TALENT ◆ TREASURE
508 839-5354 • FAX 508 839-5430 • Religious Education Office 508 839-6800 • Web: stjamesgrafton.com
Saint James Parish
SAINT JAMES CHURCH SOUTH GRAFTON
Saturday, June 1
4:30 PM 18th Anniversary, Frankie Noel
By his mom, dad and Michelle
Sunday, June 2
7:30 AM Walter & Josephine Such
By Skip Michniewicz
10:30 AM 32nd Anniversary, Mrs. Mary Chase
By Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Lavallee & family
Monday, June 3
8:00 AM 3rd Anniversary, Stella Lipinski
By her children
NO MASSES TUES. 6/4 OR WED. 6/5
Next Saturday, June 8
4:30 PM Blanche Grenier by Janet Isabelle
4th Anniversary, Martha Kaleza and
Robert & Marie Quist by the Quist family
Next Sunday, June 9
7:30 AM Patrick, Peggy, Ray and Tommy Cadrin
By Peter & Elaine Wojnar and family
10:30 AM 15th Anniversary, Donald & Theresa Johson
By their family
Due to an early bulletin submission,
Financial figures will be available soon.
THANK YOU!
HOSPITAL VISITS Each week, Worcester Medical Center (St. Vincent’s),
U. Mass Memorial and U. Mass University Campus and
Milford Hospital are called to see if any parishioners are
patients. When patients are admitted through the emergency
room, they will often not be listed under their parish. Please
call the rectory when a family member, friend or neighbor
is hospitalized.
We also want to know if any of our parishioners are
currently in nursing homes. With the new privacy laws, it is
impossible for us to get that information without your help.
GOAL: $40,000.
GIFTS/PLEDGES $24,170.
BALANCE FOR GOAL $15,830.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter
Jesus says "I give you a new commandment: love one
another." Learn how to love your spouse more by attending
a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. The next
Weekends are Jun 8-9, 2019 in Medway, MA and Sep 14-
15, 2019 in Medway, MA. For more information, call
Stephen & Michelle O'Leary at 800-710-9963 or visit them
at https://wwmema.org/.
NEEDED!
We are in need of altar servers for the 4:30 and 7:30
masses. Those who previously served have graduated and
will no longer be on the schedule. Please help if you can.
SECOND COLLECTION
THIS WEEKEND
There will be a
Diocesan second collection for the
Catholic Communications
Campaign this weekend at all the
masses. Please be as generous as
you are able. Thank you.
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER JUNE 2, 2019
EMAIL PRAYER MINISTRY
There is a prayer box for prayer intentions located near
the main entrance of our church on the left-hand back pew
shelf for anyone who would like to ask for a special prayer.
Please fill out one of the index cards with your request and
drop it in the box or email your prayer request to
[email protected]. You may also express
your interest to be included in the prayer ministry at this
web address also. Matthew 21:22 “And whatever you ask
in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
COMMUNION CALLS
Please call the rectory if you or anyone you know and
care about is homebound because of age or illness and
unable to attend Mass. We have wonderful parishioners
who will be happy to visit with them and bring them
Communion.
VETERANS’ MINISTRY
The Cluster Veterans’ Ministry is available to mail out
packages to deployed military personnel and can help in
other ways, also. If you know someone who is deployed or
if you are active military or a veteran, and you need
assistance, you can contact them at (508) 839-3993, ext. 17.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1
Second Collection for Catholic Communications
Campaign
SUNDAY, JUNE 2
Second Collection for Catholic Communications
Campaign
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
7:00 PM Outreach ministry meeting
STEWARDSHIP NOTE
We were created for community. Human beings are not
meant to be alone. As each of us grows in our relationship
with Jesus, we find ourselves drawn further into
community. Our stewardship never reflects just on us, but
on the Body of Christ to which we belong.
When speaking to his Father, Jesus always spoke about
all of us as a whole. Jesus has a unique relationship with
each and every one of us, but he also sees us collectively as
one. When the Holy Spirit was sent to assist us until the
Second Coming, she ascended upon a multitude, not just
one person at a time.
We are called to live a fruitful stewardship way of life. It
is by that fruit that we can tell if we are really giving of
ourselves in a generous manner. However, the fruits that
result from my stewardship and your stewardship will never
amount to more than what we can produce together.
As you try ever harder to cultivate what God has given
you and offer it back to Him with an increase, what does
your relationship with your parish community look like?
How has your stewardship helped enable your community
to become a clearer reflection of God? It is important to
reflect on these things because we can sometimes find
ourselves drifting away from community if we are not
careful. We are always stronger together. We never want to
wake up one day and find ourselves alone.
-Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS
Have you made God smile today?
GOSPEL MEDITATION
“That they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you
in me." Does technology bring us together, or does it
remind us of distance and differences and keep us apart?
Most days, I'm not so sure. With the constant inundation of
news from across the world, it can be easier to tune out the
sufferings and the joys of people we'll never meet, in places
we'll never visit. But is this the invitation of Jesus?
Over the centuries, our Church has become truly
universal across the globe. There are Christians across
nations and cultures, across lines of rich and poor. There
are Christians who live behind white picket fences, and
Christians dying in conflict zones. "That they may all be
one," Jesus prays. One in what? Love. "That the love with
which you loved me may be in them." This is easier said
than done, of course. The world is far too vast for us to
individually love every human being. I can hardly
remember the names of half the regulars at my Sunday
Mass! But that doesn't mean we can't try.
"I pray not only for them, but also for those who will
believe in me through their word." Jesus had this religious
popular explosion in mind. The mission and message of
Christ was not meant to stop in the Apostle's generation or
stay cordoned off in the geographic confines of Israel.
Jesus' words at the Last Supper are a prayer, a plea to the
Father for the spread and unity of the Church across time
and space. This week, look up organizations supporting the
persecuted Church and make a donation. Next week, visit a
struggling parish within your own diocese. When you meet
someone new at hospitality Sunday, invite them over for
dinner to get to know them better. Whether far off or close
to home, let's allow Jesus' prayer to live in us, to be drawn
together in love.