it is our vision to be a truly evangelizing parish, one in
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It is our vision to be a truly evangelizing parish, one in which all parishioners enter into a closer relationship with Christ, that they share the Good News of His kingdom with others, that they participate actively as members of the parish family,
and that they reach out to those in need.
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SAINT WILLIAM OF YORK CATHOLIC CHURCH, TEWKSBURY, MA
OFFICE HOURS Monday– Friday:
9:00am to 4:00pm Saturday:
10:00am to 1:00pm
MASS SCHEDULE Monday– Friday
9:00am 5:30pm
(Labor Day-Memorial Day) Saturday
9:00am & 4:00pm
Sunday 7:30am; 9:30am; 11:30am; 5:00pm
*Family Mass 11:30am
2nd & 4th Sunday *Temporarily postponed due to COVID 19
LOCATION: Saint William Parish
Saint Eugene de Mazenod Chapel 1351 Main Street
Tewksbury, MA 01876 United States
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CONTACTS:
Eileen Wood 978-858-3634 (home) 978-851-1304 (work) 978-500-1771 (cell)
Diane Trayah 978-657-6103 (home) 978-551-1278 (cell)
PARISH STAFF Rev. Quilin Bouzi, OMI, Pastor……………..…………….…[email protected] Rev. William O’Donnell, OMI, Parochial Vicar………. [email protected] Rev. George Roy, OMI, Parochial Vicar…………...……….……...978-851-7331 Rev. John J. Hogan, OMI, Senior Priest…………...……….……...978-851-7331 Deacon Thomas M. Walsh, Jr……………………[email protected] Kaitlyn Sullivan, Business Manager ……………………[email protected] Donna Bell, Administrative Assistant………………….…[email protected] Mary Ellen Day, Administrative Assistant…………...…[email protected] Gene Heider, Maintenance Supervisor ……………………….………....978-804-3240 Peter Cote, Maintenance…………………………………….………….978-851-7331
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Office Hours: 9:00am to 2:00pm ~ Parish Center Building ~ 978-851-3471
Susan Southard, Administrative Assistant…….…………[email protected] Andrew Genovese, Coordinator of Confirmation…......978-851-7330 [email protected] Dianne Bartalamia, Rel. Ed. Coordinator for grades K-2…... [email protected] Molly Aviles, Rel. Ed. Coordinator for grades [email protected]
MUSIC Nancy Benetti, Music Director……………978-490-4579, [email protected]
PARISH INFORMATION BAPTISMS ~ Twice a month on Sunday at 1:00pm. Please make arrangements at least one month in advance. WEDDINGS ~ Arrangements should be made at least six months prior to marriage. RECONCILIATION ~ by appointment or Wednesdays 7:00pm - 8:00pm in the Church Sacristy COMMUNION CALLS ~ Temporarily postponed due to COVID-19. NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING ~ Eileen Wood, Instructor - 978.500-1771 ST. VINCENT DE PAUL HOTLINE ~ 978.851.0181 ST. WILLIAM’S BINGO ~ 978.640.0859 GRIEF SUPPORT ~ Elaine Walsh, Parish Nurse 978-866-0995 or [email protected] ST. WILLIAM’S BLESSED VIRGIN MARY SODALITY ~ Michele Marino - 978-851-5063 ST. WILLIAM’S PARISH COUNCIL ~ Alyson Doucette- 617-543-4812
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday, June 26
4:00 P.M. Hannaford & Walsh Families
Sunday, June 27 7:30 A.M. St. William’s Parish Family 9:30 A.M. Charlotte & Roger Pare 11:30 A.M. Priest’s Intentions 5:00 P.M. Elizabeth Nawn Pare (1st Anniv)
Monday, June 28 - St. Irenaeus, Bishop & Martyr
9:00 A.M. Lil and Red Stanley & Barbara Paul
Tuesday, June 29 - Sts Peter & Paul, Apostles 9:00 A.M. Louis E. Marion (20th Anniv)
Wednesday, June 30 - The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
9:00 A.M. All Souls Day Mass Intentions
Thursday, July 1 - St. Junipero Serra, Priest
9:00 A.M. Jeremiah Ahern (15th Anniv)
Friday, July 2 - First Friday
9:00 A.M Lucy Maida
Saturday, July 3 - St. Thomas, Apostle First Saturday
9:00 A.M. Deceased Parishioners in June
FUTURE MASSES
Saturday, July 3
4:00 P.M. Francis & Ramona Doiron & William & Judith Reddy
Sunday, July 4 - Independence Day
7:30 A.M. St. William’s Parish Family 9:30 A.M. Bob Duncan (6th Anniv) 11:30 A.M. Justin Elliott (5th Anniv) 5:00 P.M. Robert “Bobby” Curcuro
REGISTRATION FOR FALL CLASSES has begun and will continue until June 30. Registration forms were mailed to all families who have children currently enrolled in the program. Children who attend public school and are entering grades one through eight, should register for clas-ses. Call the office for more information. Registration forms are available at the religious education office and the rectory.
Registration will continue until June 30th.
Saint William Confirmation Program Volunteers Needed
Do you want to do something great to grow your parish? Our Confirmation program is in need of:
Hall Monitors to keep our program safe and organized.
Assistants to help with small group discus-sions and support the flow of the curricu-lum.
Lead Catechist to facilitate already prepared lessons.
A full training will be provided. Every volunteer must be interviewed, fill out the required Code of Conduct, CORI (background check), and partici-pate in VIRTUS training. Please contact Andrew Genovese today at [email protected]
ATTENTION ALL PARISH ORGANIZATIONS……
Bank statements for June 30th and July 31st as well as the Reconciliation Report for the month of June & July, for ALL Parish Organizations, are needed to complete the parish audit for the Archdi-ocese of Boston. Please have these statements into the rectory as soon as possible. Please submit the June information as soon as possible and the July information when it becomes available.
II. Vincenzo Barinelli
& Janelle Bouzerdan
FIRST FRIDAY & FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION INFORMATION
First Friday (July 2) – Mass at 9:00AM, followed by Devotion to the Blessed Mother First Saturday (July 3) – Mass at 9:00am and Devo-tion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, following the Mass.
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JUNE 27, 2021
Standing Out from the Crowd – The Touch of Faith
Touching is an activity that is very common among human being and animals; in fact it is difficult not to touch or be touched. It has to do with coming into contact with somebody or something. This is what we experi-ence in hugs, handshakes and others. There is another sense in which touch succeeds physical touch; this is where the mind, soul and spirit are involved. We often say that we are touched by what we heard, saw, imagined, thought and so on. This Sunday we are reflecting on the healing touch of Jesus Christ. We are reflecting on how a physical touch can effect total healing working on the platform of faith. The gospel begins with the information that Jesus Christ crossed over to the other side with his disciples. “Crossing over to the other side” is reflected in several places in the gospels. Wherever we see it occurring there is always an indication that something very im-portant will be taking place. Jesus would always cross over to the other side to save a situation, to heal, to teach or to show forth the active power of God. We saw him last Sunday crossing over to the other side with his disci-ples when they encountered a storm at the middle of the sea.
There is so much I love about this gospel, not least of which is the fact that it centers on the embodied experiences of a girl and a woman. It is a girl who falls ill, a woman who bleeds, a daughter who suffers and dies too soon and a daughter whose intimate bodily suffering renders her an outcast. From the Gospel Reading, we could see that there was no prior appointment nor plan between the woman with the hemorrhages and Jarius. What they did was to stand out from the crowd and make their appointment with Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Every day, Jesus comes over to the other side of our lives. Often, we do not notice him and at other times we pre-fer to move along with the crowd without making an effort to stand out from the crowd and experience him in a personal way as the woman and Jarius. Faith does not make things easier; it makes things possible. The woman’s faith had to be tried by her struggle to reach to the clothing of Jesus Christ. The faith of Jarius had to go through the trial of interruption by the woman with the issue of blood and the message of the death of his child. On our journey through life, we may struggle with many trials, maintain your faith and do not give up.
The details about the woman show that she did not touch the body of Jesus but his clothes; some transla-tions would say the fringe or hem of his garment. Other people were standing close to our Lord and may have touched his hands or any other part of his body, but nothing happened. This woman touched just the clothes with faith, and her story changed. The touch Jesus received was significantly different from the ones he had been re-ceiving so he stopped and asked who touched me! This might have appeared to be a senseless question as the dis-ciples established. This was because the crowd was so much and many people were pressing round him. But Je-sus was right; someone actually touched him in a way that was different from others. Now there were different types of touch that Jesus Christ received on that day. There is the familiarity touch. Some people purposefully touched Jesus in that crowd to establish that they were familiar with him. In our day and age such people would stand beside Jesus and take pictures (selfies). Those who made this kind of touch remained the same; nothing happened.
We have the accidental touch. Some people touched Jesus accidentally. They didn’t know that they actu-ally touched him. In the midst of the pushing and struggling in the crowd some people accidentally made touches on Jesus Christ but nothing happened. There is the faith touch. Among all in the crowd only one person purpose-fully made a touch of faith on Jesus Christ. The pain of twelve years turned into pay, the challenge of twelve years became a chance and the stumbling block of twelve years became a stepping stone.
Both the girl and the woman were healed by Jesus because of faith – the faith of the girl’s father and the faith of the woman with the hemorrhages. Both received healing because they touched or were touched by Jesus. Whether in the celebration of the sacraments or in our exercise of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, Je-sus shows us the importance of a faith that is lived and experienced through the human senses. Remember that God created us in his image, and God said that it was good.
Let us pray – Father, we thank you for the gift of your grace that flows into our lives, bringing us into life more fully. Help us to be free of the fear and anxiety that comes from doubting your presence. Help us to grow in a greater awareness of your gifts. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
Please stay safe and healthy! I love you and I miss you! Fr. Q, OMI
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I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me…(Ps. 30)
MAGNIFICAT SUBSCRIPTION
Anyone wishing to purchase a subscription or continue their sub-scription to MAGNIFICAT, a monthly book that includes the daily readings as well as morning
and evening prayers, can do so by coming to the rectory to sign up. A payment of $35.00 must be prepaid before August 1, 2021, so that we may order the correct amount of books. The current subscription expires with the September issue.
Once again it is time for all volunteers involved in any aspect of parish life to come to the rectory during business hours to fill out a CORI form and to sign a “Code of Ministerial Behavior “ form. The following is a directive from the Archdiocese regarding the CORI reform law: To facilitate the CORI reform law signed by the Governor of the Commonwealth, the Department of Criminal Infor-mation Services recently put a new CORI access sys-tem in place. This system called CORI requires that all individuals provide the last 6 digits of their Social Security Number along with other information re-quired on the CORI request form. The form content is sent to the Archdiocese by the Commonwealth for use in requesting CORI. The Archdiocese is certified to access the background of all clergy, seminarians, school personnel including educators, staff and volunteers, designated parish vol-unteers, paid parish staff and Pastoral Center staff. The Archdiocese is required to carry out the CORI process within the confines of the regulations put forth by the CORI Unit. We appreciate the cooperation of all those required to complete the annual CORI and we particularly thank you for keeping the pledge to protect those among us who are most vulnerable.
Adult Faith Learning Experiences - August 2021
St. William’s Church will once again be hosting a series for adult learners on the “Eucharist” followed by sessions on “The Mass”. This will be a three-part program with the first night focusing on the Eucharist. On the second and third nights we will be looking at the meaning and elements of our Mass, the central expression of our faith. It will be led by Deacon Tom Walsh. Each of our sessions will begin with video presenta-tions on specific sub-topics and presentations by the group leader, followed by discussions on what was presented. The direction of the discussion on each element of the presentations will be primarily group determined. The presentations will be on Monday evenings start-ing at 7:00 PM in the Lower Church. The dates and topics of the presentations are as follows: Monday, August 9- Eucharist Monday, August 16- The Mass Part 1 Monday, August 23- The Mass Part 2
Interested participants are encouraged to pick and choose the subjects of greatest interest or relevance to their needs and interests. It is suggested that partici-pants attempt to come to both sessions two and three to receive the greatest benefit from these programs. Donations to cover costs will be free will and can be made at any of the presentations. Prior registration, while not necessary, is encouraged to allow for best planning. Please feel free to visit us as you are able. We look forward to an interesting and informative series. Please contact the rectory to express interest, 978-851-7331 or email: [email protected]
PARISH GOAL: $70,220 Gifts and Pledges to date: $50,000
Gifts and Pledges may be dropped in the collec-
tion baskets or you can give directly by visit-ing www.bostoncatholicappeal.org and clicking
"Donate"
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Total Budget – Offertory $ 423,578.31 Weekly Budget – Offertory $ 8,305.46
Offertory 06/20/2021 $ 4,778.00 WeShare Collection $ 2,553.00 Support of Church
Fiscal year offertory needed $ 415,342.05 Fiscal year offertory collected $ 474,206.92
Your continued generosity is greatly appreciated ______________________________________
Please consider adding St. William’s Parish in your will.
Many of us go away on vacation for a week or two in the summer. That’s evident here at the church in a drop in attendance at Mass (understandably), and in lower collections. Some, “make up” for missed dona-tions to the Sunday collection when you get back – and that’s admirable. Others, intend to, but for-get. With WeShare that problem goes away – your offerings go to support Saint William ’s whether you’re here at Mass that week or not. Thank you for your support!
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