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St. John Neumann Church 157 Middleboro Road / P.O. Box 718 East Freetown, MA 02717
www.sjnfreetown.org 508-763-2240 (phone) 508-763-3040 (Fax)
Rev. Gregory A. Mathias, Pastor Rev. Msgr. John J. Smith, (Assistant in Retirement)
WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE
Sunday: 8:00, 9:30, 11:00A.M.
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 P.M.
DAILY MASS SCHEDULE
Monday – Thursday: 7:30 A.M.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 4:00 – 4:30 P.M.
or by appointment
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Mary, Mother of All Nations Chapel
Weekdays: 8:00 A.M. – 9:00 P.M.
Mondays (except civil holidays)
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
PARISH OFFFICE / RECTORY 508-763-2240 YOUTH MINISTRY OFFICE
[email protected] NEUMANN HALL
Monday – Friday: 8:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. (Closed holidays) William and Susan Furtado (Sr. Youth Ministry)
Mrs. Diane Whelan Parish Secretary JoAnn Violette/Amy Burgess (Jr. Youth Ministry)
Dennis and Debra Dube (Young Adult Ministry)
OFFICE OF FAITH FORMATION 508-763-8122 MUSIC MINISTRY NEUMANN HALL Ms. Linda Johnston Director
Mr. Philip Pereira Organist
Mrs. Suzanne Medeiros Director
Dr. Doris Thibault Coordinator for Grades 1 – 7 MAINTENANCE AND FACILITIES
Mrs. Anna Manny Coordinator for Confirmation Raymond Bedard
SACRAMENTS AND CHURCH PROGRAMS PARISH ORGANIZATIONS AND MINISTRIES
Please go the parish website www.sjnfreetown.org or contact the office for more complete information.
BAPTISM: Celebrated Sunday after 11:00 Mass. WOMEN’S GUILD: 1st Mondays
Mass on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Baptism ST. VINCENT de PAUL: 1st Wednesdays
Catechesis is required of all parents YOUTH MINISTRY: see website for events and times.
MARRIAGE: Please contact the pastor at least 8 months Junior (Gr. 6 – 8): Every Tuesday
prior to the intended date and prior to other plans. Senior (Gr. 9 – 12) Every Monday
MINISTRY TO THE SICK: Please notify us if a homebound COUPLES’ CLUB: 2nd Saturdays
or hospitalized family member would like a visit. ADULT CHOIR: Rehearsal on Thursdays 7:00 P.M.
PRAYER LINE: Call the rectory to include your intention. PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY: 1st Saturday
RCIA: We welcome adults who wish to complete their initiation TROOP 333: Every Saturday
into the Catholic Church. Please contact the office.
Welcome to St. John Neumann Parish. Thank You for joining us in worship today. We hope you will join us on
the spiritual journey, in ministry to all God’s people. Please contact the parish office.
Click on the QRC to connect to the parish website.
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 16, 2013
June 15: Vigil: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
5:00PM – Alexander Tremblay—5th Ann.
by wife, Lillian
June 16: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00AM – People of the Parish
9:30AM – James Kenney by family
11:00AM – Robert Barlow by children
June 17: Weekday
7:30AM – Jacqueline Mathieu
by St. Vincent DePaul Society
June 18: Weekday
7:30AM – Dennis Messier by Eileen D’Oliveira
June 19: Weekday, Saint Romuald, Abbot
7:30AM – Duane Dumas
by Charlie & Marlene Johnson
June 20: Weekday
7:30AM – Robert P. Boucher by Jeanne Carlier
June 22: Vigil: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
5:00PM – Francis & Sheila Warr
by Donald & Bette Messier
June 23: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00AM – Helen Dion—8th Ann. By Muriel
9:30AM – Laurent Moreau—1st Ann by family
11:00AM – People of the Parish
Catholic Charities Appeal
May 1st began the 2013 Catholic Charities Annual Ap-
peal for the Diocese of Fall River. We encourage you to
mail in your pledge and to support the Appeal as gener-
ously as you can. If at all possible, we’d like you to con-
sider pledging throughout the year.
Programs supported by the Appeal help people in all
phases of life—from children, to youth, to parents, to the
elderly. Numerous agencies, programs and ministries
provide food and shelter, educate children and adults
and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of
thousands. Your support of the Catholic Charities Ap-
peal helps us to meet these responsibilities.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES TO DATE: $45,785.00
LAST YEAR’S TOTAL: $51,836.00
St James-St John School, 180 Orchard St
New Bedford is now accepting registrations for
the 2013-2014 school year for grades Preschool
through Grade 8.
Please contact the principal Cristina Raposo at
[email protected] or visit our website
www.sjsjschool.com or call 508-996-0534.
Stop in Neumann Hall after the 8:00AM and 9:30AM Mass
and enjoy Coffee & Donuts!!
Your Offertory Trust Thank you for your Parish Support through your
Offertory Trust.
BUDGET: $ 4172.00
MAINTENANCE: $ 1759.00
Second Collection: At all Masses this weekend
June 15-16 is for the Energy Offering.
Consider the Catholic Faith
We believe that Jesus Christ established One, Holy,
Catholic, and Apostolic Church in order to guide us to
his Kingdom and the true fulfillment of our human
lives.
You are invited to learn more about our faith and the
possibilities of initiation at a no-pressure, informal
inquiry session.
When: Wednesday, June 19, 7:00 PM
Where: Library, St. John Neumann Church
What: Introduction to Catholicism, Question & Answer
No registration required. Come as you are.
The Lord bless you and keep you!
The Lord let his face shine upon
you, and be gracious to you! The
Lord look upon you kindly and
give you peace! Num 6:24-26
Pro-Life Boot Camp
The Pro-Life Apostolate of the Diocese of Fall River is
pleased to announce that the third annual Pro-Life Boot
Camp for young adults entering high school through sen-
ior year will be held on the campus of Stonehill College in
Easton, MA on the weekend of July 19-21, 2013. For
more information and registration forms, please contact
the Pro-Life Apostolate at 508-675-1311 or
SJN Book Club meets Pope Francis
SJN Book Club will be reading On Heaven and Earth
in June. Please join us for this interesting dialog be-
tween Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) and his
friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka.
We will discuss the book beginning on June 17th in
the library at 7pm. Hope to see you there !!
The Learning Leadership Academy (LLA) teaches stu-
dents in grades 1 thru 8 how to communicate, cooper-
ate, collaborate, have compassion and courage, solving
conflicts and building commitments with peers. This
year the LLA will be hosted by Saint Francis Xavier
School the week of July 8-12. For more information
please contact Dr. Maribeth Manley at
Parish Prayer Line – We have a Prayer line in our parish. If you are interested in sharing your faith through prayer for the sick of our parish and for other intentions please call Rachel Constant 508-995-4269. Thank You!!
SJN Parish Finance Council
The Parish Finance Council is a consultative body of lay persons established to advise the Pastor in mat-ters pertaining to the financial affairs of the parish. The relationship between the Pastor and the council is one of support and collaboration.
When a new pastor is installed at a parish, the cur-
rent pastoral and finance councils cease to exist. A
new pastor must form his own council. We are
pleased to introduce our finance council members:
Rev. Gregory A. Mathias
Diane Whelan
Richard Troland
Robert Manny
John Bastoni
Amy Magnett
Holly Hill-Batista
Connie Lopes
LATIN AMERICA
Second Collection: At all Masses the weekend of June 22
-23, 2013 is to support the work of the Church in Latin
America. Thanking you in advance for your generosity to
this annual collection.
Cathedral Camp
Cathedral Camp, owned and operated by the Diocese
of Fall River, is a day camp for children between the
ages of 4 and 14. This year, the camp will be offering
seven one week sessions from July 1 to August 16.
Bus transportation is included in the camp fees.
For further information, please visit our web site at
www.cathedralcamp.net or please call the camp at
508-763-8874 .
Abuse Prevention Training
The Abuse Prevention Training for all those over the age
of 17 who are parish volunteers will be held Wednesday,
June 26th in Neumann Hall at 6:30 pm. This training is for
the new Eucharistic Ministers and anybody who in their
ministry MAY come in contact with children and have not
undergone the Abuse Prevention Training. Anybody who
needs a CORI update can do so at this time. Please bring
your drivers license. This is a diocesan regulation. If you
have any questions please contact Sue Medeiros at 508
763-8122 or at [email protected] . Thank You!!
Ephesians 4: 15 "Living the truth in Love."
Camp Angel Wings
Southcoast VNA’s Camp Angel Wings is a FREE be-
reavement camp for children and teens grieving the loss of
a loved one. It will take place the weekend of July 13 and
14, 2013 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm.
The camp provides opportunities for kids and teens to ex-
plore their many feelings about grief in a therapeutic way
and helps them be compassionate towards others. For more
information, please call Lindsay Coe @ 508-973-3219 or
visit our website at www.southcoast.org/vna/camp.html.
Christine Coons Award ---- Each year a graduating senior from our parish receives a scholarship award given by the Senior Youth Ministry in honor of Chris-tine Coons. The award was presented at last week’s 9:30 Mass. This year’s award was accepted by Katie Correia. Thank you for your service to our parish. Camping Trip ---- Well the time is almost here !! You have probably already started packing your gear. If you are interested in going camping with us and you haven’t given us your deposit, now is the time to re-serve your spot. We are going to Ellis Haven in Plym-outh. We will be leaving the Youth Ministry office at 1:00 on Fri. July 19th and returning on Mon. July 22nd at around 1:00. The cost of the trip is $ 80.00 all in-clusive. Join us for some Fun in the Sun and a good time with friends. We need a $25.00 Deposit now so that we can plan for the weekend. For more information about SJN Senior Youth Minis-try, contact Bill and Sue Furtado at 508-763-4359 or e-mail us at [email protected] All permission slips are available at Drop Ins, online, and outside the Youth Ministry Office in Neumann Hall
The Holy Rosary Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan's
of Taunton are pleased to announce a featured
speaker at our July meeting.
Sr. Eleanor McNally, SUSC will speak on the topic of
Human Trafficking on Sunday July 14th at 2:30 pm at
Holy Rosary Parish Center, 80 Bay St., Taunton. All
are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Any
questions please call Carol Spoor, Ofs at 508-644-
2645.
Missionary Cooperative
Fr. James Doran from the Oblates of the Virgin Mary
will be at our parish on the weekend of June 29-30th for
the Annual Missionary Cooperative. He will be sharing
with us the work that is being done in Cebu, Philippines
by the Oblate Priests. Cebu is an island in the middle
part of the Philippines and belongs to the island group
called Visayas.
Zeal to consume us
The stories of Apostles, Martyrs, and other heroic fig-
ures of the Church’s long history always confront me as
a sharp challenge. For instance, I write this on the feast
day of St. Barnabas, the Apostle: Here was a zealous
messenger of the Christian faith who “rejoiced” when
he came upon a vibrant community of converts in the
city of Antioch, (Acts 11:23). He didn’t put a check
mark on a checklist, or give a simple nod of approval to
the fact of these converts, rather, “he rejoiced.”
Do we “rejoice” at the fact of converts to Catholic
Christianity? Is it more important to us than almost an-
ything else? I would say “Probably not.” For one
thing, we don’t live in a religious culture which is
“exclusivist,” (e.g. The people in the Church will go to
heaven, and those outside will not.) Quite the contrary,
the modern way of thinking is radically “inclusivist” . . .
everybody makes it according to their own preferred
belief system and lifestyle. So as not to offend any-
body, we are tempted to think, “At the end of the day,
all religions and beliefs are the same: They are different
roads leading to the same city.” Barnabas and his bud-
dy Paul didn’t think this to be the case: They broke their
backs traveling through Asia Minor and Greece trying to
bring about conversions to Christ.
Where is our “zeal” to save people? The so-called
“born again” Christians seem to have this zeal! By con-
trast, we Catholics seem to have a “live and let live”
reputation: Generally speaking, we are not knocking on
doors and handing out literature.
As you might perceive, I struggle with this matter as a
student of the Gospel and a product of my specific ex-
perience. On the one hand, the imperative of the Gos-
pel to “go to all nations” and to unashamedly bear wit-
ness needs to be taken seriously: We need to challenge
ourselves in this area. On the other hand, our culture is
a very noisy market place of competing ideas and be-
liefs. Everyone is trying to sell you “a bill of goods”, so
who do you believe?
The Second Vatican Council address this issue in a doc-
ument called the “Dogmatic Constitution on the
Church,” (Lumen Gentium, in Latin). It says the follow-
ing:
Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault
of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His
Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace
strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them
through the dictates of conscience.(19*) Nor does Di-
vine Providence deny the helps necessary for salvation
to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet
arrived at an explicit knowledge of God and with His
grace strive to live a good life. Whatever good or truth
is found amongst them is looked upon by the Church as
a preparation for the Gospel. [Nevertheless] The
Church has received this solemn mandate of Christ to
proclaim the saving truth from the apostles and must
carry it out to the very ends of the earth.(133) Where-
fore she makes the words of the Apostle her own: "Woe
to me, if I do not preach the Gospel"
Here the guiding principles are fairly clear: It simply
cannot be that all religions are the same . . . different
roads leading to the same city. The claims of Christ to
be the only Son of God do not allow us to say this. On
the other hand, we can only propose the faith and in-
ivite others by a sincere display in our lives of convic-
tion about the Gospel. In some way it should be evi-
dent. We shouldn’t just blend in to the secular culture
as if our Faith makes no difference to everyday life or is
just a personal and private matter.
St. Barnabas . . . Pray for Us