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Weekend Mass Schedule�
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Saturday: 4:00pm�
Sunday: �
English: 8:00am�
10:30am � �
Brazilian: 12:00pm�
Week Day Mass Schedule�
9:00am �
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Monday�
Wednesday�
Friday �
ST. MICHAEL PARISH�
Welcome New Parishioners�
We welcome you to the community of St. Michael.
Please introduce yourself to the priest, call or visit the
Parish Center or visit us online at www.stmikes.org to fill
out a registration form. As a parish committed to the vi-
sion of stewardship, we encourage your involvement by
sharing with us your God given gifts of time, talent and
treasure. For detailed information about our ministries,
parish activities and contact persons, refer to our parish
website.�
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Baptisms�
The Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated on the 3rd Sun-
day of the month at 2:00pm. Baptism catechesis for the
parent(s) and godparent(s) is held on the 1st Sunday of
the month at 1:00pm and 2:30pm. Register online at
www.stmikes.org or call the Parish Center and ask for
Pat Conte ext. 306. �
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First Eucharist and Confirmation�
A complete preparation process is REQUIRED for each
sacrament. Please contact the Faith Formation office for
information.�
Marriage�
Arrangements MUST be made at least 6 months prior to
the intended date of the wedding. Please call the Parish
Center to schedule your date and make an appointment
to speak with Pat Conte our wedding coordinator. �
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Ministry of the Sick�
Please notify us if there is a sick or aged family member
or friend who would like to receive the Sacrament of the
Anointing of the Sick and/or Holy Communion at home.�
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Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)�
Saturdays from 2:30 to 3:30 PM in the lower church. �
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RCIA �
If you have not been baptized or were baptized but have
not received First Eucharist, Reconciliation or Confir-
mation, please contact Sheila Mahoney at 978�562�
3148, call or email the Parish Center.�
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St. Michael’s Cemetery�
Cemetery lots are available. For information contact �
Helena at the Parish Office.�
21 Manning Street, Hudson, MA 01749�
Phone: 978�562�2552 Fax: 978�568�1761�
Faith Formation Phone: 978�562�7662�
www.stmikes.org�
@stmikes_hudson�
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facebook.com/stmikes.hudson�
Administrator: � Rev. Laurence “Ren” M. Tocci
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Xaverian Assistant: Rev. Anthony Lalli, S.X.�
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Weekend Assistant: Rev. Adriano Lessa�
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Deacon:� Deacon Jared Auclair �
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Music Director: Donna McIntyre�
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Finance & Operations �Helena Siciliano � x304�
Manager:� � [email protected]�
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Baptisms & Weddings: Pat Conte � x306�
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Director of� Paula O’Brien � x309�
Faith Formation: [email protected] �
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Administrative� � Vina Sousa � x300�
Assistant: �� [email protected]�
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Custodians:� Antonio Gonçalves�
� � Francisco Pinheiro�
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Bread and Wine in Memory of�
Lawrence Leary, Bob Alexander, Carol Radford�
Lights and Candles in Loving Memory of�
Antonio C. Sousa & Decease Relatives�
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Grand Annual Year To Date�
51,327.77�
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From the Business Office�
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Offertory: � Bulletin went to print before �
� � numbers were available.�
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Saturday� � December 19 , 2020 �
4:00pm � Maureen (Duffy) Russo�
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Sunday� � � December 20, 2020� �
8:00am Francesco J. Camera & Deceased Relatives �
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10:30am � Jose Maria Chaves�
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Monday� � December 21, 2020�
9:00am � � Catherin Gilroy�
� � � Barbara Gilroy� �
Wednesday� � December 23. 2020�
9:00am�� � Murray Skip Buchanan�
� � � Ines & Jose Morreira�
Thursday � � Christmas Eve��
2pm� � � St. Michael’s Parishioners �
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4pm� � � St. Michael’s Parishioners�
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6pm� � � St. Michael’s Parishioners�
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Friday� � � Christmas Day�
8:00am�� � St. Michael’s Parishioners
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10:30am� � St. Michael’s Parishioners�
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Saturday� � December 26, 2020 � �
4:00pm�� � Jose, Pedro, Paulo Janeiro�
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Sunday � � December 27,. 2020 �
8:00am� �Fr. Evert Vierra�
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10:30am � Antonio C. Sousa & Deceased Family�
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If you have requested a Mass intention and would like to
have a family member present the gifts, please see an
Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion before the
start of the Mass. �
**PARISH CENTER HOURS** �
Monday/Tuesday�9:00am�3:00pm�
Thursday/Friday�9:00am�3:00pm�
Readings for the week of December 20, 2020�
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Sunday:�� 2 Sm 7:1�5, 8b�12, 14a, 16/Ps 89:2�3, 4�5,
� � 27, 29 � [2a]/Rom 16:25�27/Lk 1:26�38 �
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Monday: � Sg 2:8�14 or Zep 3:14�18a/Ps 33:2�3, 11�12,
� � 20�21 [1a; 3a]/Lk 1:39�45�
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Tuesday:� 1 Sm 1:24�28/1 Sm 2:1, 4�5, 6�7, 8abcd]/Lk �
� � 1:46�56�
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Wednesday: � Mal 3:1�4, 23�24/Ps 25:4�5ab, 8�9, 10 and 14
� � [cf. Lk21:28]/Lk 1:57�66�
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Thursday: � Morning: 2 Sm 7:1�5, 8b�12, 14a, 16/�
� � Ps 89:2�3, 4�5,27 and 29 [2]/Lk 1:67�79�
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Friday:� � Vigil: Is 62:1�5/Ps 89:4�5, 16�17, 27, 29 [2a]/
� � Acts 13:16�17, 22�25/Mt 1:1�25 or 1:18�25. �
� � Night: Is 9:1�6/Ps 96:1�2, 2�3, 11�12, 13 [Lk
� � 2:11]/Ti 2:11�14/Lk 2:1�14. �
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Dawn: Is � 62:11�12/Ps 97:1, 6, 11�12/Ti 3:4�7/�
� � Lk 2:15�20. Day: Is 52:7�10/Ps 98:1, 2�3, 3��
� � 4, 5�6 [3c]/�
� � Heb1:1�6/Jn 1:1�18 or Jn 1:1�5, 9�14�
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Saturday: � Acts 6:8�10; 7:54�59/Ps 31:3cd�4, 6 and 8ab,
� � 16bc and 17 [6]/Mt 10:17�22�
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Next Sunday: � Sir 3:2�6, 12�14 or Gn 15:1�6; 21:1�3/Ps �
� � 128:1�2, 3, 4�5 [cf. 1] or Ps 105:1�2, 3�4, 5�6,
� � 8�9 [7a, �8a]/Col 3:12�21 or 3:12�17 or �
� � Heb 11:8, 11�12, 17�19/Lk 2:22�40 or �
� � 2:22, 39�40�
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D������� 20, 2020�
Christ in the Corners . . .�
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I understand the annual lighting of the town Christmas tree has been suspended for
this year, yet another custom buried under the burden of the Covid-19 scare.
But in a way, this might be a good thing. Our experience of Christmas has developed into
a magical time, with splendid decorations, specialized theme music piped in everywhere,
and strings of colored lights blinking in intricate sequence of multi-colored luminescence.
(My own artificial tree in the rectory has eight—count ‘em: eight!—different patterns of
flashing lights, like a pine-nettle signal corps!) Maybe it’s time for a little subtlety to the
season.
Christ comes in at the edges. A humble hill-country girl is His mother, from a town
in the boondocks. And when it came time for Him to be born, He wasn’t even permitted
the tiny bit of attention that would come from His grandparents and extended family
fussing over the birth. No, not even the modest fanfare that any newborn receives from
doting relatives. His birthplace was an even more remote village in the hinterlands, while
Mary and Joseph were obliged to journey away from what little support network they
would have enjoyed in Nazareth. And beyond this, He wasn’t even born in a room in a
populated inn; He was ushered into this world in a little grotto reserved for livestock . . .
the most obscure birth imaginable, as close to invisible as could be.
He began His New life in this same way, too—that is, His Risen life. No one observed
the Resurrection in the pre-dawn of that first Easter Sunday; the witnesses could only
testify to an empty tomb. His death was in full view, on public display. But on either side
of this spectacle, His birth and His emergence into New life, these were hidden events.
They were meant to be searched out, to be specifically looked for, or else they’ll slip by
completely unnoticed.
Christ still enters into our life today in opaque ways: sensed but unseen;
inconspicuous, even invisible, yet encountered. In the end, our Lord never wanted to be a
celebrity. Even when they whisked Him off to try and make Him king, He slipped from
their midst and made good His escape. When He did address the crowds, it was always as
people: harangued and helpless, lost and without a shepherd, and as often as not He
zeroed in on one person in amidst the throng. Christ comes to us on the terms of a
relationship.
The precious infant in swaddling clothes, tucked away in a manger, revealed only to
shepherds and a few choice magi, is the perfect image of the Lord who stands at the door
of our hearts and knocks. Especially with this year’s pared-down holiday season, use the
strangeness as an opportunity to clear the field and see Him in the subtle, delicate places
where He tends to hang out. Find Him in the corners of your world, the crawl spaces of
your life.
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Cristo nos cantos. . .�
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Eu entendo que a iluminação anual da árvore de Natal da cidade foi suspensa neste ano,
mais um costume enterrado sob o peso do susto do Covid-19.
Mas de certa forma, isso pode ser uma coisa boa. Nossa experiência de Natal se tornou um
momento mágico, com decorações esplêndidas, música temática especializada tocando em
todos os lugares e fios de luzes coloridas piscando em uma sequência intrincada de
luminescência multicolorida. (Minha própria árvore artificial na reitoria tem oito cores! -
padrões diferentes de luzes piscantes, como um corpo de sinalização de agulhas dos
pinheiros!) Talvez seja tempo de um pouco de requinte para a estação.
Cristo entra pelas beiras. Uma humilde garota da região montanhosa é Sua mãe, de uma
aldeia do interior. E quando chegou a hora do nascimento, Ele não teve nem mesmo a
mínima atenção que deveria ter de Seus avós e parentes se preocupando com o
nascimento. Não, nem mesmo a modesta fanfarra que qualquer recém-nascido recebe de
parentes amorosos. Seu local de nascimento foi um vilarejo ainda mais remoto no sertão,
enquanto Maria e José foram obrigados a se afastar da pouca rede de apoio que teriam em
Nazaré. E além disso, Ele nem mesmo nasceu em um quarto em uma pousada populosa;
Ele foi conduzido a neste mundo a uma pequena gruta reservada para o animais. . . o
nascimento mais obscuro que se possa imaginar, o mais próximo do invisível que poderia
ser.
Ele começou Sua nova vida da mesma maneira, - isto é, Sua vida de Ressuscitado.
Ninguém observou a ressurreição na madrugada daquele primeiro domingo de Páscoa; as
testemunhas só puderam testemunhar sobre um túmulo vazio. Sua morte estava à vista de
todos, em exibição pública. Mas em ambos os lados desse espetáculo, Seu nascimento e
Seu surgimento em uma nova vida, esses foram eventos ocultos. Eles foram feitos para
serem revistados, especificamente procurados, ou então passarão despercebidos.
Cristo ainda entra em nossa vida hoje de maneiras ocultas: sentido, mas não visto;
imperceptível, até mesmo invisível, mas encontrado. No final das contas, nosso Senhor
nunca quis ser uma celebridade. Mesmo quando eles tentaram fazer-lo rei, Ele conseguiu
sair do meio deles. Quando Ele falava às multidões,: e falava a um povo arengado e
desamparado, perdido e sem pastor, e com frequência Ele focalizava uma pessoa no meio
da multidão. Cristo vem a nós nos termos de um relacionamento.
A preciosa criança em faixas, deitado numa manjedoura, revelada apenas aos pastores e
alguns magos escolhidos, é a imagem perfeita do Senhor que está à porta dos nossos
corações e bate. Especialmente com a temporada de féstas reduzidas, use a estranheza
como uma oportunidade esse ano para limpar o campo e vê-lo nos lugares subtis e
delicados onde Ele costumava frequentar. Encontre-O nos cantos do seu mundo, nos
espaços vagos da sua vida
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St. Michael Parish
Contact: Paula O’Brien
978.562.7662 [email protected]
Current Hours: Sunday - Thursday
Watch Mass as a Family on our Live Feed link– Sat 4PM, Sun 8 AM & 10:30 AM
https://www.stmikes.org/watch-mass-live
Please pray for all our children and families in our Catholic Christian Community.
May God strengthen our resolve and shelter us in His tireless Mercy.
Grade 6 Discovery Series continues with The
Story of Israel a 6 week series.
Grade 7 Discovery Series continues with
Celebrating the Eucharist a 6 week series.
Grs 6 & 7: The Second Series Ending
Assignment will be emailed to students the
week of December 27. Essays will be due by
January 10 for attendance credit.
Grade 8 Episode 5 Assignment due now.
Please email. No class 12/20. Classes will
meet again week of January 3, 2021.
Grade 9 Next Session: Sun. Dec 20 at 4:00PM,
Upper Church. Red Zone Pending.
December 2020
Month of the
Divine Child Jesus
Christmas Break
December 23, 2020—January 2, 2021
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Christmas Card Creations:
A Tradition of St. Michael Parish Children
Grades 1—5
Children are asked to create Christmas Cards for our
Homebound Parishioners as well as for the Retired
Religious Sisters of St. Chretienne in Marlboro. Many of
these folks look forward to receiving a note of
acknowledgement of your thoughts and prayers,
especially during the Holy Season. Jesus asks us to
care for our elderly, sick and lonely and a cheery card
lifts their spirits!
If you are able, please drop off homemade cards
before the end of December to the Parish Center.
Thank you!
The giver of every good and
perfect gift has called upon us
to mimic God’s giving, by
grace, through faith, and this
is not of ourselves.”
St. Nicholas of Myra
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Our Lady Thrift Shop�
Our Lady Thrift Shop located at 197 Pleasant Street
in Marlborough has ‘gently used’ clean clothing and
more for the whole family. All proceeds go to local
charities and their African Missions. Store hour:
Tues., Thurs., Sat. 10:00�12:00 & 1:00�3:00pm.
Donations especially children’s clothing always
welcome!�
Parish Council is Available for Comments�
If you have any questions comments, feedback, or sug-
gestions please feel free to contact Father Ren at
[email protected]. or reach out to our Parish Council
members at [email protected].�
Please indicate in the Subject heading which Council
Member you would be most comfortable addressing, or
which Mass you attend.�
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Barbara Maglione� � Brian Aucoin�
Marty Richardson � � Noemia Braga�
Greg Michaud� � � Vera Teixera�
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Know someone that needs �
St. Vincent de Paul’s help? �
We are waiting to help. Please call the number listed
here.�
978�618�5175�
Eucharistic Adoration�
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Friday morning after Mass until noon.�
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Suicide Prevention�
Unfortunately suicide is a very real issue in our �
society today. If you or someone you know is
looking for information or help please go to: �
www.nami.org/Learn�More/Mental�Health�
Conditions/Related�Conditions/Risk�of�Suicide.
Where you can find resources and help.�
2021 Breaking Bread Missals�
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When Covid19 hit parishes, the guidance from the
Archdiocese of Boston was to remove all Missals
from the pews. That guidance is still being followed
today. The parish is making available a limited num-
ber of 2021 Breaking Bread Missals for purchase.
The cost of the missal is $10. If you purchase one
you will be able to bring to Mass with you each week
and follow along with the readings. It is not re-
quired that you purchase one. �
Please contact Donna McIntyre or Fr. Ren to
purchase a Missal if you would like. They will be
available on a first come first service basis.�
St. Michael's Parishioners,�
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We're looking for volunteers who would be interest-
ed in providing a meal once a month for two of our
long�time parishioners, Bob and Joan Sacco. It could
be as simple as setting aside two servings of a meal
you were making for your own dinner. If interested,
please contact�Stella Daigneault (Mrs. D)
at�[email protected] or 978�568�1755.�The
meals, single serving�for two, could be dropped off
on the front steps of�Bob and Joan's home at a time
and on a day convenient for you, with simple reheat-
ing instructions. Any meal would be so greatly ap-
preciated, but�they�do best with a bland, "meat and
potatoes" kind of diet,�like chicken or fish and rice,
soups, nothing spicy, and limited pasta sauce dishes.��
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Thank you in advance for any who are willing and
able to help two of our beloved own at St. Michael'�
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