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Of New Bedford North
St. Joseph-St. Therese—St. Mary—Our Lady of Fatima
“PARTNERING IN MISSION”
The Churches are Handicap accessible.
Weekend Masses
5:00 p.m.—Our Lady of Fatima
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday 3-3:45 PM St. Joseph-St. Therese
4:15-4:45PM Our Lady of Fatima
Sunday 6:15-6:45 PM St. Mary
Adoration & Benediction
1st Wednesday of the Month 8:30AM-1PM at
Our Lady of Fatima
Prayer Group
7PM Tuesdays at Our Lady of Fatima
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE & MAILING ADDRESS St. Mary’s
106 Illinois Street, New Bedford, MA 02745 Telephone 508-995-3593
Fax 508-995-2453 Email [email protected]
St. Joseph-St. Therese
51 Duncan Street New Bedford, MA 02745
508-995-5235 [email protected]
Our Lady of Fatima
4256 Acushnet Avenue New Bedford, MA. 02745
508-995-7351
www.ccnbn.org
TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Congratulations on the birth of your child! The church celebrates with you and is ready to prepare you if this is your FIRST child being baptized at our Parish. A welcoming instruction for parents and god-parents is required. Please call the Parish office to schedule this sacrament.
INITIATION OF ADULTS: Adults expressing an interest in becoming Catholic are invited to search through our RCIA formation process. For more information, please call the Parish Office.
FAITH FORMATION: Grades 1-9. First Eucharist is a two year program, grades 1 and 2. Confirmation is a two year program, grades 8 & 9.
SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Congratulations on your engagement! Please speak to Fr. Dan at least one year in advance of the intended date to allow adequate time for Parish and Diocesan Marriage preparation.
FOR OUR HOME-BOUND: Contact the Parish Office to receive Holy Communion at home if you are confined. THE SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: May be received after any weekday Mass or by appointment.
REMEMBRANCE BOOK
Is located near the tabernacle of St. Mary’s Church. This prayer book has been compiled to provide people with the opportunity to entrust their loved ones to God’s all embracing love.
ST MARY’S
14-day Memorial Candles:
In Memory of Carole Day by Barbara & Eliza-beth
In Memory of Irene Lacroix
Icon Candle:
In Memory of Bill Arabasz by family
Hosts for August:
In Memory of Roger Fernandes by wife, Pauline
Prayer to St. Thérèse,
the Little Flower
O Glorious St. Thérèse, whom Almighty
God has raised up to aid and inspire the
human family, I implore your miraculous
intercession. I fervently beseech you to
answer my petition…(here state your
request)...and to carry out your promises of
spending Heaven doing good upon earth.
Little Flower of Jesus, give me your
childlike faith, to see the face of God in all
people and experiences of my life, and to
love God with full confidence. Help me to
always believe, as you did, in God’s great
love for me, so that I might imitate your
“little way” each day. Amen.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
CHURCH FIRST SECOND ONLINE
OLF 2086.00 607.00 -
SMNB 3,586.73 824.00 350.00
SJST 2981.00 970.00 542.08
Parish Financials
THANK YOU to all who share their talent, time, presence, and support with our Parishes
Thank you for your faithful Stewardship of our
Parishes.
August 10/11 2019
Anyone wishing to dedicate candles or hosts in memory of a loved one, please call the Parish offices for more information.
8/4 8/11 8/18 8/25
4:00PM 219 217
5:00PM 91 102
7:30AM 150 140
9:00AM 173 152
10:30AM 411 358
7:00PM 207 243
MASS ATTENDANCE
ST JOSEPH-ST THERESE
MEMORIALS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST:
The Hosts are offered in memory of Oscar Freitas
at the request of his family.
The Sanctuary Lamp is offered for the greater
glory of God and in memory of John Santos, at the
request of his wife, Theresa & sons, Paul & Lenny.
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
Sanctuary Candle in memory of Anibal Tavares
Our Lady of Fatima is for the Intentions of the
Prayer Line
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls in this week’s Mass intention; for
Arthur Villeneuve whose funeral Mass was celebrated here; for the souls in Purgatory;
and for the deceased of our parish.
Weekend Mass Intentions Sunday Aug 18 10:30 AM Community Mass: Grace, Tony & Peter Colangelo, John & Benevida Teixeira, Joao Gaspar, Manuel Medeiros 7:00 PM David Constantine by Charles Bourgault Weekday Mass Intentions Monday Aug 19 8:00 AM For Parishioners Friday Aug 23 8:00 AM Wally Jaworski by wife, Wanda
Next Weekend Sunday Aug 25 10:30 AM Community Mass: Abilio Carreiro, Manny Carreiro, Michael G. Soares 7:00 PM William Hunter by wife, Lorraine & family (4th anniversary)
August 18, 2019
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls in this week’s Mass intention; for
Maurice Galipeau, whose funeral Mass was celebrated here; for the souls in Purgatory;
and for the deceased of our parish.
Weekend Mass Intentions Saturday Aug 17 4:00 PM Catherine Desjardins by Lucille Allain, Anthony Giunta by family Sunday Aug 18 7:30 AM Parish Family, Clara Zambrano by son. Jose & Linda (13th Ann) Weekday Mass Intentions Tuesday Aug 20 8:00 AM Month’s Mind for July: Emily Mello, Cecille Charette, Jeanne Paquette & Hilda Boucher Beatrice Houde by husband, Al Thursday Aug 22 8:00 AM Maria deJesus Soares & Angela Oliveira & Parents by Olivia Pragana Next Weekend Saturday Aug 24 4:00 PM Jesse Guerra by Bridget, Caleb & Ethan (10th anniversary) Hazel Freitas by daughter, Ann & son, Gary (11th anniversary) Sunday Aug 25 7:30 AM Parish Family, Mary Bastarache Alves, 59th Ann. (Son, Michael)
Mass Intentions: St. Mary’s
Mass Intentions: St. Joseph-St. Therese
Mass Intentions: Our Lady of Fatima Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls in this week’s Mass intention; for
the souls in Purgatory; and for the deceased of our parish.
Weekend Mass Intentions Saturday Aug 17 5:00 PM For Parishioners Sunday Aug 18 9:00 AM M/M Manuel Resendes, M/M Jose Cordeiro, Sean McNamee Gannon
Weekday Mass Intentions Wednesday Aug 21 8:00 AM Souls in Purgatory, Victims of abortion and those who vote to legalize it, Leo Arber, John & Marian Teixeira, Anibal Tavares Next Weekend Saturday Aug 24 5:00 PM For Parishioners Sunday Aug 25 9:00 AM
Youth and Youth Education
RCIA “I have called you by name" Isaiah 43:1
“If you do nothing else with your life, develop an amazing friendship with God.”(Matthew Kelly)
Begin to develop your relationship with God and His family by becoming a ful-ly initiated member of the Catholic
Church. The first step is getting information regard-ing the RCIA Program offered through the Catholic Community of New Bedford North by calling the office at 508-995-3593..
Faith Formation Registration for the Faith Formation Program for Catholic Community of New Bedford North will take place according to the follow-ing schedule: St. Joseph/St. Therese -- August 17th and 24th after the 4PM Mass St. Joseph/St. Therese -- August 18th and 25th
after the 7:30 AM Mass Our Lady of Fatima – Aug. 24th and Aug. 31st after the 5:00 PM Mass Our Lady of Fatima – Aug. 31st and Sept. 1st after the 9:00 PM Mass St. Mary’s – September 8th and 15th after the 10:30 AM and 7:00 PM Masses You may register your children at any of the parishes that make up the Catholic Community of New Bedford North, whichever is most convenient for you according to the above
schedule. Registration Fee Schedule Grades 1,3,4,5,6,7- $35.00 per child / $50.00 per family Sacramental Years Grade 2 – First Penance/First Communion - $50.00 ($25 for Catholic School Students) Grades 8 and 9 – Confirmation I and II - $70.00 ($35 for Catho-lic School Students Checks may be made payable to St. Mary’s Faith For-mation
If you have any questions or concerns regarding registration for our new Faith Formation Program please feel free to contact Mr. B at [email protected] or by calling the office at 508-995-3593
The St. Mary’s Youth Group is organizing a summer day trip for youth and families on Saturday, August 31, 2019.
The youth group will be visiting Canobie Lake Park in Salem N.H. We will depart at 8:30am from St. Mary’s Church and return at approx. 8:00pm that same night. Tickets are $42 per person; we have limited seat-ing available on a shuttle bus. For questions or to reserve a spot, please contact Rick Rezendes (508) 817-0519
VOCATION CHALICE Will YOU promote vocations by host-ing the Parish “Vocations Chal-ice” in your home? If you are in-terested in hosting and praying for vocations for one week, please sign up by calling 508-995-3593 or email Fr. Dan at
[email protected]. The chalice case will be presented at Mass after Communion.
Interested in Scouting?
Call St. Joseph-St. Therese
Parish Office
The Franciscan Friars invite you to join them in welcoming St. Anthony of Padua to Saint Anthony’s Church, Barstow
Street, Mattapoisett. Holy Mass at 8 AM, Veneration after Mass until 1:30 PM. St. Anthony will be visiting in the form of
two precious and first-class relics from the Pontifical Basilica in Padua, Italy. The relics will be accompanied by Father
Alessandro Ratti, one of the OFM Conventual Franciscan Friars who minister in the Basilica where the Saint is buried.
Prayer petitions with holy cards will be distributed by Friar Alessandro to allow parishioners to write their personal
prayer petition to the saint. The writing of your intentions is a worldwide tradition when venerating a relic of a saint.
Father Alessandro will bring the petitions back to the Basilica in Padua and place them at the tomb of St. Anthony. The
tour officially ends back at the Tomb of St. Anthony where the Friars will gather to pray for our intentions and petitions.
To learn more about St. Anthony of Padua, please visit: www.saintanthonyofpadua or call Tom Muscatello, North
America Representative, at 914.263.8841. The relic of St. Anthony will also be visiting St. Anthony of Padua Church
in New Bedford on August 29. Please call 508-993-1691 for more information.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter
"My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them,
and they follow me." Learn how God is calling you to
more in your marriage by attending a Worldwide
Marriage Encounter Weekend. The next Weekends are
Sep 14-15, 2019 in Medway, MA and Oct 18-20, 2019 in
LACONIA, NH. For more information, call Stephen &
Michelle O'Leary at 800-710-9963 or visit them at
https://wwmema.org/.
Catholic Community of New Bedford North
Have you suffered a reduction in income? Are you having difficulties making your mortgage or rental payments on time? Facing foreclosure? Need help budgeting”? Are you a first time home buyer? Catholic Social Services -Diocese of Fall River is
offering financial capability workshops and one-on-
one counseling to all, including homeowners and
renters facing financial difficulties. The counseling
is confidential and free of charge. Contact CSS in
New Bedford at 508-997-7337.
Take Control. Become financially empowered.
If you notice some of your
fellow parishioners are
not putting their
env e l op es i n t he
collection basket it could
be that they are using ONLINE GIVING. The
ONLINE GIVING setup is located on our
parish website. This is a very simple and easy
way to keep track of your donations.
From the Moderator
Being a collaborative isn’t just trying to keep three parishes going with fewer clergy. Rather, it is to appreciate that
we can be stronger together. Here is an update on many areas:
Administration. Instead of replicating the same tasks and roles three ways, we are slowly bringing all our adminis-
trative roles into a unified vision. This will not only save some money, but it will also improve the services we can
provide to our collaborative. A central administrative office space will be located at the present St. Mary’s Parish
Offices in the next few weeks. The Collaborative’s Administrative Assistant, Director of Finance & Operations, Pas-
toral Associate, Director of Adult Enrichment, Coordinators of Faith Formation and the office of the Moderator will
be located. Since Fr. Raposo still resides at Our Lady of Fatima Rectory, his personal office will remain there to meet
with couples. We have implemented a new data base with parishioners from all three parishes to allow quicker and
more efficient means of record keeping and communication. We are also working with OLF to have one Bulletin for
all three parishes. SJST and SMNB have the same publisher; OLF has a different publisher, so we need to transition
when contracts are up.
The Coordinating Pastoral Council : Is composed of Fr. Dan as Moderator, Fr. Raposo as Co-Pastor, Deacon Tony
Pimentel, Mr. David Beaulieu, Mrs. Peggy Lenihan as ex officio members. Five parishioners from each of the three
parishes will be appointed members for the first three years of the council. Nominations to the Council will begin
the fourth year for a two year term. They will replace the traditional finance and pastoral councils of each parish. We
will be meeting roughly every 4-6 weeks to develop and implement the strategic plan for the collaborative, monitor
finances, mass attendance, and deal with the vision and life of the Catholic Community of New Bedford North. Our
first meeting will be Monday, September 16th at 6:30PM.
Faith Formation. Fr. Raposo and I, and are pleased to announce that Ms. Cherie Jupin, former coordinator for St.
Joseph-St. Therese will become the Faith Formation Coordinator of our collaborative for Grades 1-4; Ms. Susan
Pacheco from Our Lady of Fatima will become the Faith Formation Coordinator of Grades 5-7. Mr. Walter Pires will
oversee the Confirmation Program and the Confirmation Catechist Team. During the next year, focus groups of par-
ents and catechists will meet to explore curriculum for our collaborative and continue the process of creating a sin-
gle, unified faith formation program for all three parishes – one that gives serious attention to evangelizing and cate-
chizing parents. All Faith Formation classes for the collaborative will take place in All Saints Catholic School (St.
Mary’s Pastoral Center) and the Msgr. Moore Education Center when classes resume in the Fall.
Youth Ministry. We will be reaching out to St. Joseph-St. Therese and Our Lady of Fatima, inviting their young
people to participate in a youth ministry program. We are planning our Sunday evening 7PM as a Youth/Young
adult Mass. ALL are welcome, but we hope to especially reach our teens through prayer and worship by introducing
a modified life teen program. The confirmation program is being planned in such a way that the youth can partici-
pate at the 7PM Mass.
Mass Schedule. The current Mass schedule will remain as is and will be reviewed by the Coordinating Pastoral
Council in November for any tweaks that could be needed. MASS INTENTION BOOK: Will open August 19 for the
remainder of 2019 and the 2020 Mass Intention Book will open September 15th for January-March 2020, ONLY.
“SERVICE IS THE PRICE WE
PAY FOR BEARING THE
NAME CHRISTIAN”
PASTORAL STAFF
Very Rev. Daniel W. Lacroix, V.F. Co-Pastor & Moderator [email protected] Rev. John A. Raposo Co-Pastor Rev. Deacon Tony Pimentel Permanent Deacon Mr. David Beaulieu Pastoral Associate
Mrs. Peggy Lenihan Finance & Operations [email protected] Mrs. Linda Marie Del Val Bookkeeper Mrs. Lou Bernardo Secretary Mrs. Lucy A. Pinto Secretary
Ms. Cherie Jupin Coordinator of Faith Formation Grades 1-4 508-264-4820 Ms. Sue Pacheco Coordinator of Faith Formation Grades 5-7 Mr. Thomas Leman Stewardship Coordinator Mrs. Barbara Bonville Director of Adult Enrichment [email protected] Mrs. Suzanne Beaulieu RCIA Coordinator [email protected] Mrs. Patricia Ferreira Music Director [email protected] Patrick and Denise Gannon OLF Music Director
Mr. Tobey Burke Facilities Manager [email protected] Mr. Martin Flinn Groundskeeper
Safe, Nurturing, Technology Rich, Catholic Environment
Solid Curriculum - Focus on 21st Century Skills & Gospel Values - Strong Parent-School
Communication ~ Affordable & Accessible
Extended Care available 6:30AM—5:30PM Full Day Preschool for 3 & 4 year olds
Come & see the opportunities available for your child to grow & succeed in an active, faith-filled community of
learners!
Contact Principal Sue Massoud at [email protected] or
508-995-3696 for more information or to schedule a tour. www.ascsnb.org
We invite you to visit All Saints Catholic School and experience our intimate environment where stu-
dents feel safe, welcomed and loved — and form friendships that last a lifetime.
All Saints Ca†holic School
Preschool—Grade 8
Thinking about pre-school for your child? All Saints Catholic School has separate pre-school programs for 3 and 4 year olds! Safe, affordable, faith-filled play based learning and social development - available three, four or five days per week. Together with ASCS Summer Program, we provide quality education and child care nearly year round for children age 3 through Grade 8! Limited seats available in grades 1 - 8. If you or someone you know is interested in excellent educational opportunity in a faith based environment, please contact Sue Massoud at 508-995-3696 or email [email protected] for more information.
A Monthly presider schedule is available for viewing or download at ccnbn.org
***Special Note: Parishioners attending any of the three parishes
within the Catholic Community of New Bedford
North (Our Lady of Fatima, St. Joseph-St. Therese
or St. Mary’s) can be assured that their budget
envelopes will be returned to their parish of
registration to be counted there. This is not the
same if you attend Sunday Mass at another parish
not affiliated with our Collaborative. Other
parishes have been kind enough to return the
envelopes back to us, but be aware some may not
do this, and your envelopes will not be credited to
your parish. If you will be attending a parish
outside the collaborative, please mail or bring your
envelopes to one of the parish offices. Thank you!
STEWARDSHIP THOUGHT Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time In today’s second reading, St. Paul encourages us
not to grow weary or lose heart, but to persevere in
following Jesus. Our willingness to give of our-
selves, even in the face of conflict and division, is
one way to measure our discipleship (Our Sunday
Visitor, ibid., page 30).
IMPORTANT NOTICE *** With the new Mass schedule taking shape as
of June 30, Canon Law states that Masses may
be moved to a different church or time in the
formation of a collaborative. Any party making
an intention to a particular parish must be in-
formed of this and give their consent. In the
event they do not want the Mass to be moved,
the paid stipend will be refunded.
Please call the parish offices if you have sched-
uled a Mass after June 30 and do not want it
moved to a different Mass time or church.
All are welcomed to join us at Our
Lady of Fatima for Rosary and
Chaplet of Divine Mercy every
Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. There is so much
to pray for.
Bulletin Advertisements can be purchased for a
business, family, or a sponsor ad can be purchased
supporting community service organizations like
emergency pregnancy counseling or the battered
women’s shelter, etc. If you are interested or would
like more information, please call Tom, Liturgical
Publications (LPi), at 216-325-6825 x6285.
St. Mary’s Holiday Fair November 2nd and 3rd
CRAFTERS WANTED:
For more information please call the
parish office at 508-995-3593.
