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ST. THOMAS VOLUNTOWN ST. ANNE GLASGO
MISSION STATEMENT
“With Christ’s vision of love, we as the parishioners of St. Thomas the Apostle are committed to evangelize,
educate, energize, invite, serve all and build Christ’s community through the gospel and sacramental life.”
Saturday March 5th First Saturday
8:00 am No Mass Offertory $ 1,601.00
5:00 pm For All Parishioners
March 6th Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time The second collection this week is the
8:00 am DAnnie Dutka World Combined Collection.
R/b Mary Dutka The second collection next week is for our
10:30 am Celebrant’s Intention Monthly Maintenance.
Monday, March 7th
8:00 am No Mass The Combined Collection for World Charities is this
Tuesday March 8th weekend. The causes supported by this collection are: The
8:00 am No Mass Catholic Relief Services Collection, The Catholic Campaign
Wednesday March 9th Ash Wednesday for Human Development, The Church in Central and Eastern
8:00 am Joseph & Josephine Bush(perp) Europe, Holy Land Collection. This combined collection
7:00 pm Mass offers an excellent opportunity to support hands-on efforts
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Thursday March 10 towards helping people in need. Your gift does make a
6:30 pm Mass difference. Please be generous.
Friday March 11th
8:00 am Mass 20 Club
6:00 pm Stations of the Cross # 78 Pat Gwiazda
Saturday March 12th
8:00 am Mass On Ash Wednesday, March 9, 2011, St. Thomas’ religious
5:00 DDoris LaFleur education program with parishes across the Diocese of
R/b Pauline & Fred Marzec Norwich is beginning a program of prayer and sacrifice
March 13th First Sunday of Lent called Operation Rice Bowl. For 37 years, Operation Rice
8:00 am For All Parishioners Bowl has helped to feed the hungry poor. Through our
10:30 am Celebrant’s Intention participation in this program, we bring hope and healing to
another person or family living halfway across the globe,
“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on strengthening and enriching those persons’ lives, both
them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.” – physically and spiritually, and greatly enhancing your parish
Matthew 7:24 community’s Lenten faith experience. Families are
Our Lord gives us two distinct commands today. We must encouraged to gather each week in prayer for the hungry
listen and we must act. We listen when we participate in poor and to share a sacrificial meal. With the moneys saved
Mass. We act when we participate in the ministry of the from this meal, a donation is placed in the family Rice Bowl
parish. We need to do both for a strong foundation. and can be brought to the parish family Rice Bowl on Palm
Participating more fully in the liturgy and life of the parish Sunday, April 17, 2011. This Lent, gather in prayer and
may require some changes on our part. We may have to sacrifice as a family to pray and to care for the hungry poor.
move away from our current lifestyle so that we can move
closer the God.
CHOWDER AND GRINDERS
Please remember the sick and needy in your Please join us every Friday during Lent, in the Parish Center,
prayers. We pray for: Mark Anctil, Alice Babik, Lisa for chowder, tuna grinders and grilled vegetable sandwiches,
Becotte, Brad Charron, Guy Ciccone, Elaine Desrosier, from 4:30 – 6:30pm. Eat in or take out. We appreciate all
Betty Duprey, Claire Kinnie, Linda Lussier, Doty & Glen donations of tuna, mayo, cheese etc.
Lyon, Ray Pelletier, Denise M. Rhinehard, Scott Stoveken, Help us raise money for our Parish!!
and Lillian Wesa
NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MARCH 6, 2011
OUR LENTEN JOURNEY
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As I make my Lenten journey with You,
send me Your Spirit,
Lent begins this week on Ash Wednesday. Ash help me to give of myself,
Wednesday is a Day of Obligation. All Roman Catholics are help me to turn away from sin,
encouraged to attend Mass on this day to mark the beginning and help me to fast and pray,
of the Lenten Season. so I may know You and serve You better.
Let me be renewed through my journey
At St. Thomas’, Mass will be at 8:00 am and 7:00 pm. to share Your grace with the world. Amen
Ashes will be blessed and distributed at all Masses.
“Remember you are dust and to dust you will return” is a The Pastoral Council will not be meeting this week.
reminder that we are mortal and we need repentance. It
reminds us also that we are sinners and on our foreheads the
ash mark is a sign of humiliation. In older times, sinners had
to do public penance wearing sack cloth and ashes. Lent has
Stations of the Cross, Fridays at 6:00
a goal that is meant for spiritual growth. Fasting is primarily
pm.
a spiritual discipline designed to tame the body so that we
The Sacrament of Confirmation will be April 9, 2011
can concentrate on higher things.
at 5:00 pm.
Rehearsal for Confirmation will be April 2, 2011
Prayer, fasting and almsgiving (or charity). By
controlling the passions of the body, we free our souls for at 3:00 pm.
prayer. And by refraining from eating, we free up food or
“Why Catholic?” program will be offered for six
money that we can give to those less fortunate than
consecutive Thursdays, March 10,17,24,31 and April 7,14
ourselves. The three spiritual disciplines go hand in hand.
at St. Catherine of Sienna Church, Preston, 9:30-11:00 am
So these forty days we pray, a form of communication, a
“Speak Lord, I am listening”- presented by Fr. Roger
way of talking to God, or through the saints, to God. Let us
Lamareaux, at St. Thomas April 3, 2011. 6:30 – 8:00 pm
do this talk or conversation and live closer to Him in His
at St. Catherine of Sienna April 4, 2011 7:00 pm.
presence.
May God bless you,
Fr. Augustine Naduvilekoot
Pastor
GUIDELINES FOR LENT, HOLY WEEK AND THE
TRIDUUM 2011 ST. THOMAS TRAVELERS
April 9th Shopping and browsing at the Rockingham
FAST AND ABSTINENCE Mall in Salem, NH & Kittery Outlets,
These regulations unite the whole Catholic Church Kittery, ME $38.00
throughout the world in the Lenten journey of repentance
and conversion of heart. Observed in a spirit of generosity, May 21-22 Bucks County Shrine Tour –
fast and abstinence remind us of our own frailty and make us Tour includes overnight accommodations at The
more sensitive to the needs of others. Acts of penance find Crowne Plaza, Valley Forge. One breakfast buffet,
their completion in works of charity and justice. National Shrine of Padre Pio, Our Lady of
Czetochowa, motor coach transportation,
FASTING: Those between the ages of 18 and 59 years old 50.00 deposit due March 15th
are obliged to observe the laws on fasting. Traditionally, $159.00 double, $154.00 triple, $239.00 single
fasting means limiting oneself to one full meal in the day
and two smaller meals. The two prescribed days of fasting June 9,10,11,12 Quebec City with Mass at St. Anne
are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. DeBeaupre $585.00
ABSTINENCE: The law on abstinence obliges all those July 23 Spirit of Boston, Boston Harbor cruise
who are over the age of 14. On days of abstinence meat is seaside luncheon, Quincy Market
not eaten at any meal. The prescribed days of abstinence are $73.00
Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent, including Good
Friday.
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