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St. Gerard Majella, Canton

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

St. Gerard Majella Church

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February 14, 2016

Collection February 6th & 7th

Attendance - 991

Offertory - $6,219

Offertory July 1st to date: $248,715

Budget July 1st to date: $249,316

Unfavorable Variance YTD ($601)

Thank you for your continued support of St. Gerard’s

Mass Intentions Saturday, February 13th 4:00PM Robert Burchard (2nd Anniversary) Sunday, February 14th 8:30AM For the People of the Parish 10:30AM Ruth Slocum (10th Anniversary) 6:00PM Russ & Joyce Feeley (Memorial) Thursday, February 18th 9:00AM June Ingemi, Bernice & Gene Garwitz (Memorial) Saturday, February 20th 4:00PM Jean Driscoll (Anniversary)

Sunday, February 21st 8:30AM Theresa Gildea (Anniversary) 10:30AM Joseph Wolanin (Memorial) 6:00PM For the People of the Parish

If you are a visitor to Saint Gerard Majella Parish, we want you to know how welcome you are -whether you have come from another part of the country, from across the world, or from another parish here in the Archdiocese. Thank you for praying with us. Thank you also for your generosity, which helps us to celebrate our liturgies in a fitting and beautiful way, and to offer spiritual support to people in the Canton area. Enjoy your visit!

Prayer Corner for the living Please keep the following in your prayers: John Mariani, Emily Lewis, Ava Alpert, Kay Smith, Robert Sommer, Lawrence, Marissa, Ericka, Joan F. Meissner, Danielle, Carol, Betty B., Bernie Donahoe.

Communion If you are attending Mass with someone who is un-able to walk to the altar to receive communion, please let one of the Eucharistic Ministers know be-fore Mass so they can bring Communion to them.

50 Middle School students in St. Gerard’s Jr CYO enjoyed a day skiing at Gunstock on Saturday, February 7th

The Light is On For You — On all the Wednesdays of Lent from 6:30-8:00PM at St. Gerard Majella and all the par-ishes and chapels of the Archdiocese of Boston will be open for individual confession. The Archdiocese has set up a website, www.TheLightIsOnForYou.org, to help you prepare. It has videos on the Sacrament of Reconciliation, sheets on how to make a good con-fession, answers to frequently-asked questions and more. Please make plans to come on Lenten Wednesdays and spread the word of this special out-reach of mercy to those you know.


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Attention Parents When children need to use the bathrooms in the Church, during or after Mass, it is strongly recommended that an adult accom-pany them. This is not meant to alarm any-one but merely to underscore the simple fact that St. Gerard’s is a very safe and nurturing environment. Our aim is always to protect our children.

Operation Lazarus A January donation to our fund to feed and clothe the homeless, was generously made by ONE anony-mous donor. Our sincerest thanks! There are return

stamped envelopes available at the right parking lot exit for anyone who would also like to contribute to

this ministry. Thank you!

Our next trip into Boston is February 27th. See our website to contact a committee head for details.

Youth Ministry College Outreach: Meetings have taken place re-garding a trip to the Dominican Republic for any stu-dents of college age interested. If you missed the meetings and are still interested, please contact Kel-sey Aufiero @ [email protected] High School Ski Trip: Friday, March 4th - Sun-day, March 6th. Flyer & permission slip available in the church hall and online. SJ House: Our next event for families at this Rox-bury shelter will be Friday, February 26th. Father Bill’s: Our next trip to Quincy is Saturday, February 27th. Teen Mass: Sunday, February 28th, 6PM. Grade 10 Confirmation Class: Sexuality & Abor-tion seminar given by RN Linda Thayer, Sunday, February 21st, 7-9PM. All students expected to at-tend. Jr CYO (middle school students):Next Rosie’s Place trip to prepare a meal at this women’s shelter is Sunday, February 21st. Sign up in church hall, YM conference room window.

There will be no classes Sunday, February 14th through Thursday, February 18th for grades 1-8.

Fourth Grade Retreat: Saturday, February 27th from 1:00-4:00PM, followed by the 4:00PM Mass. If you have not returned your child’s registration form, please drop it off at the Rectory ASAP.

Summer Positions We are currently accepting applications for 3 full- time college intern positions. Candidates will work from mid May thru mid August, coordinating and managing our Summer Kids Camp and Outreach Programs, under the supervision of Mike Mahan.

Applications and full job descriptions are available online @ www.saintgerard.org. Go to the KIDS CAMP tab. You may also pick up these forms at the Parish Office, Monday thru Thursday, 9:30-4:30PM. Candidates will be chosen the 1st week in April. For any other questions, you may call Kathy-Donahoe at the Parish Office @ 781-828-3420.

Stations of the Cross Please join us during this Lenten season as we walk together with Jesus on his way to Golgotha. During this Lenten season, let us join together as Jesus’ faithful followers and participate in the great Catho-lic tradition – The Stations of the Cross.

Week 2 Friday, February 19 - 7:00PM Week 3 Friday, February 26 - 7:00PM

Week 4 Friday, March 4 - 7:00PM Week 5 Friday, March 11- 7:00PM

Lenten Bible Study Sponsored by CHRISM. In response to Pope Fran-cis' call for a year of Mercy, Celia Sirois will focus on the power of mercy as it is revealed in the Old Testament and the New Testament. The course will run each Tuesday (February 16th - March 15th) in St. Gerard's hall from 10AM – 12 noon. All are wel-come!! Light refreshments served. For more infor-mation CHRISM go to www.chrismbiblestudy.org

40 Homilies for Lent 2016 Initiative from 1060 Catholic Radio Boston.

Deacon Dan Nelson will be the guest homilist on 1060 Catholic Radio Boston on the Saturday of the First Week in Lent February 20. Please tune in to 1060 AM at the top of the hours, or listen at 1060Catholic.org on the mobile App: Catholic Radio Boston, or on your phone at 712-832-8010, to hear Deacon Dan’s homily.

Decorating Committee St. Gerard’s is looking for some volunteers to form a decorating committee for the church. We are in need of people who enjoy this and would be avail-able for both Easter and Christmas. It would involve a few hours at each of these holidays. Please call the Parish Office at 781-828-3420 if you would like to volunteer.

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February 14, 2016

Trips The Seine River Cruise

Featuring Paris and Normandy All inclusive: flights, 7 night cruise, all meals, daily sight-seeing, fully escorted. Trip includes visits to Paris, Nor-mandy, Mont Saint Michel, Les Andelys, Bayeux, Rouen, Vernon, and Giverny. October 28 – November 5, 2016. From $2999/ppdo cash or check ($3059 credit card) to $3799, depending on 5 categories or 3 deck levels. De-posit of $500 due with reservation. Call Janet Walrod for information and registration form 781-575-1491.

Calling All Girl Scouts: Sunday, March 6th is Girl Scout Sunday, nationwide!

A special Mass for Girl Scouts is being held at St. Gerard Majella Parish at 10:30AM on Sunday, March 6th. We will remember in a special way the Girl Scout promise to serve God. Wear your sash or vest and receive a blessing and patch at this Mass. We would love to have Girl Scouts participate by serving as greeters and readers. Please contact Ellen Donovan at [email protected] or Robin Horrigan at [email protected] to sign up to help, or with questions.

If you are unable to make it to this particular Mass but want to celebrate Girl Scout Sunday, you can wear your Girl Scout uniform to any Mass, at any parish on March 6th, including St. John’s, and pick up your participation patch at the Girl Scout monthly leader meeting.

The Quality of Mercy in the Old and New Testa-ments: In response to Pope Francis' call for a year of mercy, this course will focus on the power of mercy as it is revealed in the Old Testament and the New. Instructor: Celia Sirois

Locations and Dates: St. Gregory Parish, Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester

Monday evenings 7PM until 8:30PM - February 15th to March 14th

St. Elizabeth Parish, Reedsdale Road, Milton Tuesday evenings 7PM until 8:30PM - February 16th to March 15th

St. Gerard Parish, Washington Street, Canton Tuesday mornings 10:00AM until noon - February 16th to March 15th

Holy Family Parish, Tremont Street, Duxbury Thursday mornings 10:00AM until noon - February 18th to March 17th The Passion and Resurrection Narratives: During this five-week course we will deepen our Lenten Journey as we examine Jesus' road to Calvary. Instructor: Barbara Sullivan

Locations and Dates: Collaborative of St. Mary, Sacred Heart and St. Ann at

Sacred Heart Church in N. Quincy Monday mornings 9:45AM until 11:15AM - February 15th to March 14th

St. Mary of the Nativity, Kent Street, Scituate Tuesday mornings 9:45AM until 11:15AM - February 16th to March 15th

Join LIFT Ministries on Tuesday, February 23rd @ 7PM for an inspiring night of worship at St. Camillus Church in Arlington with speaker Travis Moran. The night will include uplifting music, a relevant talk, confessions, Eu-charistic Adoration, and is FREE to attend and open to ALL AGES. A downloadable flyer, along with more infor-mation about LIFT, can be found on their website at www.liftedhigher.com.

Calling All Singers!! We will soon be starting rehearsals for Easter Sun-day 10:30AM Mass. All four groups (Youth Choir, Adult Choir, Teen Band and Teen Band Ensemble) will sing/play together for this Celebration. Please come and join us. Can't make Tuesday or Wednes-day rehearsal no problem. We are having one huge rehearsal on Palm Sunday (Sunday, March 20th ) from 2:30PM – 4PM followed by pizza in the church hall. Please consider joining us. We would love to have you. Please speak with Tracy Zwicker-Suplee ([email protected]) for more information and to ensure we have enough copies of the music.

Thank you in advance for helping to build our Music Ministry!

The Society for the Propagation of the Faith cor-dially invites you to attend the exclusive Boston premiere of the major motion picture:

THE YOUNG MESSIAH Thursday, March 10, 2016

Doors open at 6:30PM Premiere begins at 7:00PM

AMC Framingham 16 22 Flutie Pass

Framingham, MA

All 16 screens in the theatre are reserved for this event. Groups will be seated together on a first-come-first serve

basis, so be sure to be there when the doors open at 6:30PM!

Sign up by visiting www.propfaithboston.org

While the tickets are complimentary, we request that at-tendees prayerfully consider a Lenten gift to benefit chil-

dren in the missions. You may give now by visit-ing www.propfaithboston.org and clicking on the “donate now” button. An opportunity to donate will also be avail-able during the RSVP process and the night of the event.


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Do mercy and justice contradict each other? Pope Francis says no

by Elise Harris (CNA/EWTN News).- When God is described in the Bible as being both merciful and just it can seem like an identity cri-sis, however Pope Francis said it’s the opposite: rather than contradicting each other, the two actually go hand in hand

“Sacred Scripture presents us with God as infinite mercy, but also as perfect justice. How are these two things recon-ciled? How can the reality of mercy be articulated with the need for justice?” the Pope said Feb. 3

While these two characteristics can seem like opposites, “in reality it's not like this, because it's precisely the mercy of God that brings the fulfillment of true justice,” Francis affirmed.

The Pope made his comments to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience. He recently be-gan a new series of catechesis on the topic of mercy as it is understood in scripture, in honor of the Jubilee of Mercy.

He said that when we think of justice, what might come to mind is an administration office where victims of an injustice appeal to a judge in court asking that justice be done.

This, Francis noted, “is retributive justice, imposing a punishment to the guilty, according to the principle that each must be given what is due him.” While certain wrongs can be made right in this way, he said that it “still doesn't bring true jus-tice.”

Instead, “it is only in responding with good that evil can be truly defeated,” the Pope said, explaining that what we find in the bible is path that teaches, allowing the offended person to approach the guilty party and invite them to conversion.

By helping the guilty person to see the evil they have done and by appealing to their conscience, they are then able “to see their wrong and be open to the forgiveness offered,” Francis said, noting that this is also how families forgive each other, spouses and children included.

Pope Francis noted that of course “this is not an easy path,” since it requires that we be willing to forgive and to always desire the salvation of those who offend us.

However, it is only in doing this that “justice can triumph,” he said, because, “if the guilty person recognizes the wrong done and ceases to do it, then there is no more wrongdoing, and the person who was unjust becomes just, because they have been forgiven and helped to find again the path of good.”

This is where forgiveness and mercy come into play, he said, explaining that this is the true meaning of God’s justice.

“(God) does not seek our condemnation, but our salvation,” the Pope continued, noting that this goes for everyone. The problem, then, doesn’t consist of lack of mercy, but rather of “who really wants to allow God to enter their heart.”

By making us see the wrongs we have done, the Merciful Father helps us to recognize our own need for his mercy, which is revealed in Jesus Christ, he said.

“God’s justice is his mercy,” Francis observed, praying that as God’s children, we would be open “to his divine mercy, and readily and generously share it with our brothers and sisters.”

• In a majestic Mass at Houston’s Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on Tuesday evening, history was made for the Anglican ordinariates established by Pope Benedict XVI: Their first bishop was ordained…The ordi-nariates were established as the Vatican’s pastoral response to repeated and persistent inquiries made by An-glican individuals and groups who desired full communion with the Catholic Church, in a history that goes back to at least Pope Pius XII.

• A man who awoke from 12-year coma said he “was aware of everything,” while in the coma. Reading the story of Martin Pistorius could make you rethink your views on coma victims. The young man not only came out of his coma, but got a college degree and married! Nationalcatholicregister

• Robert Royal remarked with regret on the extent to which the synod fathers (last fall) appeared to have taken their

prescriptions for families from a secular playbook instead of from their own Catholic tradition…Most synod partici-

pants, Royal wrote, “seemed to look at problems of marriage and family from the kind of thin rationalist standpoint

of politicians in democratic countries….That shallow rationalism is precisely what gave us contraception, abortion,

no-fault divorce, gay marriage, and much else that threatens the future of our societies..”…As his important new

book A Deeper Vision (Ignatius Press) makes abundantly clear, the secularizing of the synod that he observed last

fall was only a symptom of something that’s been happening for over a half a century now—the shunting aside of the

Catholic intellectual tradition by people in leadership positions and academic life who ought to have absorbed that

tradition and worked to promote it.

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Email: [email protected]

Web: www.saintgerard.org

Parish Office: 781-828-3420

Fax: 781-828-2520

Church Hall: 781-828-8699

MASS SCHEDULE

Sunday Masses: 8:30AM, 10:30AM & 6:00PM

Weekday Masses: Monday–Thursday 9:00AM

Saturday Vigil: 4:00PM

Holy Days: As announced

Rosary: Daily 8:30AM before Mass & Monday 7:30PM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILATION

Saturdays: 3:15-3:45PM

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

2nd & 4th Sunday of the month at 1:00PM.

Contact the Parish Office one month in advance.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

Arrangements should be made six months in

advance. Contact the Parish Office.

SACRAMENT OF THE SICK

Contact the Parish Office if anyone is ill in the hospital or

at home.

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Tuesdays: 9:30AM–12 Noon

PRAYER MEETING

Tuesday, 7:30PM

A.A. MEETING

Saturday, 10:30AM, Church Hall

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday 12:00-4:30PM

Tuesday - Thursday 9:30AM-4:30PM

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION/YOUTH MINISTRY R.E. Coordinators: Donna Andersen, [email protected] Maura Messinger, [email protected] Y.M. Director: Mike Mahan Y.M. Ass’t. Director: Janet Maguire Secretary: Kathy Donahoe: [email protected]

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