July 29, 2018 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1290 Grafton St. Worcester, MA 01604

508-757-0789 ladyoflourdes1290@gmail.com

www.ololma.org

Mass Intentions and Calendar

Saturday, July 28 4:30 pm Harold E. Howard 15th anniv by the family Sunday, July 29 8:30-9:30 am Summer Bible Study in the church 9:30 am Marcilia Reyes de Suarez 3rd anniv by the family 10:30 am Picnic Planning Meeting in Church Hall 10:30 am opens -Sharing Our Bounty in Church Hall Thursday, Aug 2 8:00 am Kevin Muzzey by his mother Friday, Aug 3 7:00 pm NA Meeting Sunday, Aug 5 7:30 am Joseph Bianculli 88th anniv by his wife 9:30 am Louise George, Michael Tymon, Rita and Anthony Panarelli req. by the family 10:30 am opens -Sharing Our Bounty in Church Hall

Rev. Brian O’Toole Pastor

Cheryl Orrell Admin Asst/Bookkeeper

Rev. Francis J. Roach Mr. William Cotter In Residence Maintenance

Rev. Robert E. Kelley Mary Jo Castrale In Residence Soup Kitchen

Roland Gauthier Mrs. Judy Verdini Music Director Religious Ed

Wedding Bann

August 11, 2018 - 2:00 PM

Amanda Niewdowski and Kiel Corey

Scripture Readings

29 SUN 2 Kgs 4:42-44/Ps 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18 [cf. 16]/ Eph 4:1-6/Jn 6:1-15 30 MON Jer 13:1-11/Dt 32:18-19, 20, 21 [cf. 18a]/Mt 13:31- 35 31 TUE Jer 14:17-22/Ps 79:8, 9, 11 and 13 [9]/Mt 13:36-43 1 WED Jer 15:10, 16-21/Ps 59:2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18 [17d]/ Mt 13:44-46 2 THU Jer 18:1-6/Ps 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab [5a]/Mt 13:47-53 3 FRI Jer 26:1-9/Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14 [14c]/Mt 13:54-58 4 SAT Jer 26:11-16, 24/Ps 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34 [14c]/ Mt 14:1-12

Mission Statement:

"Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, disciples of Jesus Christ in Worcester, MA, reaches out with love into the neighborhoods to welcome, serve, support, and engage the community in Jesus.

In creating a welcoming relationship with Eucharistic and prayerful celebrations, we gather to make a difference by coming closer to God and one another."

MASSES Daily Mon - Sat: 8:00 AM

Saturday 4:30PM, Sunday 7:30 & 9:30AM Holy Days 8:00 AM, Noon, 5:30 PM PENANCE Saturdays 2:30-3:30 PM

Next weekend, Brother Terence Skorka CP (born and raised in North Brookfield) will visit our parish as the rep-resentative of Passionist Mission Papa New Guinea. He will request our prayers and financial help. You are invited to see the people and mission at www.passionists.com. Here you can read about how the mission started.

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”

(JOHN 6:9)

The miracle of the Loaves and Fishes is the only miracle which is recorded six times in the Gospel. It carries two im-portant messages. First, no matter how little we have, we

always have enough to share. Second, Christ can take our humble gifts and do great things with them if we are just will-

ing to let Him. No gift is too small or insignificant!

We welcome Henry Matthew Gabriel

and his parents, Jeffrey and Melissa,

who was baptized last Saturday

at the 9:30 Mass.

WEEKLY OFFERING

Sunday Offertory 7/21-7/22 $1,813.00

Maintenance 25.00

Initial Offering 6.00 Thank you as always

for your generous support!

SAVE THE DATE

CHURCH PICNIC

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Next planning meeting is this Sunday,

July 29 at 10:30am

Summer Bible Study

Our next Summer Bible Study is this

Sunday, July 29th from 8:30 - 9:30 am

between masses in the church.

All are welcome!!!

The next date will be …

August 26th.

Try Online Giving and Help Your Parish Go to: ololma.org & click on Online Giving for easy and

secure instructions to set up your personal and confiden-

tial account or make an appointment with Fr. Brian or

Cheryl at the rectory for help to set up your account.

-By doing this: you can take the chore of filling your

contribution envelopes unnecessary and take the guess-

work out of how you support your parish.

-By doing this: you help your parish maintain a consis-

tent budget, especially when you are away from the par-

ish and reduce the expense of sending envelope packages

each month.

Senior Fraud Hotline RSVP’s Senior Fraud HelpLine is a toll-free resource for seniors and their families to call when they are concerned that they are being targeted by scam-mers. If they are in doubt, they should check it out by calling 1-800-297-9760. Confidential. Knowledgeable. Local. Supportive.

Solar Array

Our Lady of Lourdes Community Solar program is

now fully engaged. If you have questions, issues or

concerns with the payment process, please contact

NEXAMP at 855-727-4636 or email at solarizesup-

port@nexamp.com

Prayer Shawl Our Lady of Lourdes Prayer Shawl Ministry WILL NOT meet on Wednesday, August 22. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, September 26. Call Donna with any questions or requests for prayer shawls at 508-304-1745.

Jack Barry Little League

Fall Ball Registration

Registration is now open for Fall Ball. The sea-

son will run end of August through October

2018. Minor League Baseball and Softball, Major

League Softball and Little League Baseball.

Please visit jackbarryworcester.com to register.

New Our Lady of Lourdes Website

Have you checked out our new looking website?

Same site, different look. Go check out our new

look at ololma.org! We have changed our website

host so we have a new look. If there is anything

you would like to see on our website, please let us

know. In the future, we will also be changing from

Basecamp to a much simpler communication tool

called Flocknote with many more tools that we can

reach out to you, our parishioners! Stay tuned for

more information.

Summer Giving

The parish of Our Lady of Lourdes counts on your

regular offertory contributions throughout the summer

to pay for our continuing operating expenses. As you

enjoy vacations away from home, please do not forget

your generous support of your church. Together we

can keep our parish fiscally strong. Thank you!

Feast of the Assumption Pilgrimage in Leicester The Sisters of Mercy are hosting the 117th Annual Mass and Pilgrimage to Our Lady’s Grotto at Nazareth on Wednesday, Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven. The procession leaves the parking lot at St. Joseph Church in Leicester at 9:15 am arriving at the Grotto at 10 am for Mass. Fr. Richard Reidy will be the principal celebrant. Following Mass there is a reception on the Nazareth grounds. All are welcome!

GLORIA

You take away the sins of the world,

receive our prayer, You are seated at the right hand of the

Father, have mercy on us.

For you alone are the Holy One;

You alone are the Lord. You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ,

With the Holy Spirit, In the glory of God, the Father.

Amen

Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace to people of good will.

We praise you,

we bless you, we adore you,

we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord, God, Heavenly King,

O God, almighty Father.

Lord, Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son,

Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us:

GATHERING HYMN To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King

seventeenth Sunday in ordinary time Cycle B

LITURGY OF THE WORD FIRST READING 2 KGS 4:42-44

A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing to Elisha, the man of God, twenty barley loaves made from the firstfruits, and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, "Give it to the people to eat." But his servant objected, "How can I set this before a hundred people?" Elisha insisted, "Give it to the people to eat." "For thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and there shall be some left over.'" And when they had eaten, there was some left over, as the LORD had said.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PSALM 145

SECOND READING EPH 4:1-6

Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

GOSPEL JN 6:1-15

Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.

The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little." One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?" Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted." So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world." Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

HOMILY

NICENE CREED

I believe in one God, the Father almighty,

maker of heaven and earth, of all things

visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only

Begotten Son of God, born of the Father be-fore all ages. God from God, Light from Light,

true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and be-

came man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius

Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.

He ascended into heaven and is seated at the

right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver

of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken

through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic

Church. I confess one baptism for the forgive-ness of sins and I look forward to the resur-

rection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

GENERAL INTERCESSIONS

The Response is: “Lord hear us.”

LITURGY OF THE Eucharist

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS Bread of Life

HOLY, HOLY MASS OF CREATION

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION MASS OF CREATION

We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again

GREAT AMEN MASS OF CREATION

OUR FATHER

SIGN OF PEACE

LAMB OF GOD MASS OF CREATION

COMMUNION Gift of Finest Wheat

RECESSIONAL The God of All Grace