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Our Lady of Mercy
94 Broad Street Plainville, Connecticut 06062
June 21, 2015
Rev. John F. Brinsmade Pastor Dcn. Robert Berube Deacon Nicholas Drabik Organist Sandra DeBlois Bookkeeper Robert DeBlois Maintenance Bryan Knorr Director of Liturgy Jeanne Gionfriddo Director of Religious Education & RCIA Jo-Ann Blanchette-Silverio Parish Administrative Assistant
Parish Office/Cemetery Office Hours 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. Monday - Friday
Parish Trustees Raymond Corsini, and Josephine Forcella
New Parishioners Welcome! If you are new in the parish, please introduce yourself after Liturgy or at the Rectory.
Liturgy Schedule Sunday Liturgy - Church Saturday 4:00 P.M. Sunday 8:30 A.M. 10:30 A.M. Weekday Liturgy Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat. 8:00 A.M.
Devotions Rosary - Monday through Saturday before Morning Mass.
Sacrament of Matrimony Couples should make arrangements at least six months in advance. Dates or time can be arranged only after speak-ing with one of the parish clergy.
Sacrament of Baptism Parents should begin to prepare for the Sacrament of Bap-tism for their child in advance (even before the child is born, if possible). This allows time for the required prepara-tion. Dates can be arranged after attending the parent preparation program. For information contact Rich and Sue Dziura 860 -747-5451.
Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday At Noon
Sacrament of the Sick Arrangements can be made for any sick person to be anointed. Holy Eucharist is brought to the homebound by our Eucharistic Ministers and the parish clergy.
PARISH MISSION We, the people of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville, Connecticut are committed to journey together as a community of faith, hope, and love within the Catholic tradition. We are called to witness to the presence of Jesus Christ in our lives through sharing and celebration of faith and a life of Christian service.
Parish Office/Cemetery Office 19 South Canal Street, Plainville, Connecticut
Phone: (860) 747-6825 Fax: (860) 747-5407
Email: [email protected] Website: www.olmct.org
FACEBOOK.COM/OURLADYOFMERCYCHURCHCT
How should we treat sacred art in church? Dear Padre, What is the proper way to treat sacred art in church? It upsets me to see that people place of hymnals, pamphlets, plants and other objects at the base of a sacred statue. Catholics are a sacramental people. We use objects and works of art to reveal and remind us of God’s presence and love acting in our lives. So we should respect statues, paintings, and sacred art. These items are valuable and make our churches beautiful. Sacred art helps us to enter into prayer. We do not adore these items as idols, but they help us to mediate and contemplate on God. Therefore, we should respect the sensibilities of other people. Too many items around a work of art may distract people or even damage the art. So everything should be kept in its right place. For example hymnals belong in their proper place. On the other hand, items near the art may enhance our prayer experience. A prayer card that is associated with a statue may be nearby, or flowers may enhance the beauty of the art. But this should always be done tastefully and with the parish’s permission. In this way, we keep God’s house clean and in order. Everything has a reason for where it is, and everything should in its proper place.
FR. DON KIRCHNER, CSsR [email protected]
MASSES FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 21, 2015 – Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary
Time MONDAY June 22 8:00AM Brodie & Michael Brayne Req. Brayne Family TUESDAY June 23 8:00AM Kazimierz Kwiatkowski Req. Children WEDNESDAY June 24 8:00AM No Mass THURSDAY June 25 8:00AM Waltrude Roberts Req. Daughters FRIDAY June 26 8:00AM Eleanore Gervais Req. Jacques & Audrey Gervais SATURDAY June 27 8:00AM Anne Tarascio – 1st Anniv. Pauline Schwartz – 1st. Anniv. Norma Tarca – 1st. Anniv. 4:00PM Norma Tarca – 1st. Anniv. Req. Daughter Patti & Children SUNDAY June 28 8:30AM Parishioners 10:30AM Pauline Brousseau Req. Clem & Alice Brousseau VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL…Are you planning
summer activities for your children? Do your children like upbeat music, games, crafts and Bible stories? Our Lady of Mercy will hold its Vacation Bible School Program August 3 to 7 from 9 to 11:30AM, for children ages 3 to 10 at the Parish Center. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT FOR REGISTRATION! The theme is Son Spark Labs Vacation Bible School. Your children will excitedly explore God’s life-changing plan as they find out the answers to life’s most important questions. They will discover that God loves them and that through Jesus they can live as members of God’s family and personally experience God’s plan for each of us. The week is filled with games, music, crafts and snacks. The fee of $25 will help defray the cost of the program. Registration is limited so register as soon as possible. Please call Jeanne at the Parish Office for additional information at 860.747.6825. JUNE 22 – 6 – 8PM – Karate JUNE 24 – 7PM – NA – Room 107 JUNE 28– 10:30AM – 12:30PM - Men’s AA Meeting
FINANCIAL STATEMENT Regular $5510.50 Monthly 85.00 Holy Day 10.00 Cathedraticum - 289.88 SSP - 289.88
Total $4672.74 Next weekend there will be a second collection
to help pay for the Air Conditioning Bill.
ST. GERARD’S CENTER FOR LIFE… is very grateful to be welcomed into Our Lady of Mercy Church. The annual baby bottle drive is an effort to support the mission of St. Gerard’s in helping women and families in crisis pregnancies. Bottles and pledge cards will be available after all Masses this weekend and will be collected next weekend, June 27-28, 2015. Thank you for your generosity as we partner together to keep this pro-life mission alive in the greater Hartford area!
PARISH TEENS VOLUNTEER FOR MISSION TRIP…Thank you for your generosity in supporting our teen and adults attending the weeklong Catholic Heart Work Camp to be held this summer. Our three teens and three adults will join about 300 others to serve the impoverished in Hartford. If you didn’t take the opportunity yet, the group will still welcome your donations. Checks should be made out to OLM Teen Youth Group and can be mailed to 19 South Canal St. or put in an envelope and placed in the offertory basket by the end of June. THANK YOU to those who have been so generous already!
CATHFAMILY…is a new Emagazine that has been posted on our OLM website. It is an easy-reading resource packed with info on all that touches families: meals, parenting, rituals, relationships, and how to 'survive' (and thrive) taking kids to Mass! Please go to www.olmct.org and you will find the link to this magazine on the Home page on the lower right side of your screen.
Super SumHER at Mercy!...Four hot summer workshops! One cool school for girls! Programs and clinics are available for girls rising
to grades 5th
– 9th.
All Programs are held in July: Higher
Achievement Program, Theatre Arts Program, Soccer
Clinic and Basketball Clinic. Please visit
www.mercyhigh.com for specific program information
and online registration or call 860-346-6659 and request
a brochure be sent to you.
MARRIED COUPLES…Give your marriage a well-deserved vacation. Plan to go on a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend and come back with a marriage that is refreshed and full of energy! If you’d like to make your marriage even more special than it already is, consider this weekend which is a positive, simple, common sense private experience between husband and wife that revitalizes marriage. A weekend away renews the romance and excitement you experienced during your dating days. A Weekend will help you enjoy life with a new closeness to each other and with God. Upcoming Dates: July 10 – 12 & November 6 – 8, 2015. For more info please contact Paul or Kim at 860.376.0440, [email protected] or visit www.wwmc.org. FUNERAL LITURGIES…Funerals give the opportunity to remember and pray for the deceased and to support and console the bereaved. A funeral Mass is celebrated when the body of the deceased or the cremains—cremated remains—of the deceased are present. This Mass of the church follows the usual liturgical funeral rites. If the cremains are present, the cremains may be sprinkled with holy water and incensed at the appropriate times, conferring the same respect
normally given to the body of the deceased. However no pall is used. The cremains are usually placed on a table near the paschal candle in the location a casket would occupy during a funeral liturgy. A Memorial Mass
is celebrated when there are no remains of the deceased present in the church.
RELICS…In the Catholic vocabulary relics are the remains of the saints. We venerate them, not in themselves, but in honor of the holy people whom they represent, and in acknowledgement of the good work God has done through them. There are three classes of relics. First class relics are actual bits of bone or hair from the saint. Second class relics are items that belonged to the person, such as clothing, devotional items, etc. Third class relics are items that have touched the first class relics. We venerate these as sacramentals. We do not credit them with miraculous power, but honor God as responsible for any miracles or good works done by the saint, or through use of the relic. We acknowledge that God alone has the miraculous power.
ALTAR RELICS…Most Catholic churches have relics
set in some part of the altar. It is believed that this
tradition originated with the Eucharistic celebrations in
the catacombs during the period of persecution in Rome.
Later development saw the altars erected over the
tombs of saints, or more simply, the relics of the saints
were placed beneath the altar. The symbolism of this
use of relics emphasizes that it is the Eucharist itself
from which the saints derived their holiness. Relics are
now set into the altar stone. Our altar has one but no
documentation can be found to specify from whom or
where the relic came from. IF YOU ARE 18 OR OVER…and you are living with your parents, we ask that you please register yourself separately from your parents. You may use the form below to do so and we will send you a registration form or you may download and print a form from the home page of our website. Thank you. CHANGE OF ADDRESS OR PHONE #?
MOVING? NEW PARISHIONER? Kindly fill out the
new information below and return it to the Parish Office
by mail, in person or place in the collection basket. This
info will help us keep our records up to date and to
welcome new parishioners. Thank you.
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