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Church of the Sacred Heart
Roslindale, MA
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Sacred Heart Parish Roslindale, MA
SATURDAY, December 19
8:30 am Daily Mass
4:00 pm Thomas & Anna Robinson Memorial
SUNDAY, December 20
8:00 am Rose Jones 1st Anniversary
10:00 am Jean Marie Dure &
Germaine Senat Memorial
12:00 pm Edilmiro Flores Memorial
5:15 pm Sunday Mass
MONDAY, December 21
8:30 am Al Schwartz 5th Anniversary
TUESDAY, December 22
8:30 am Jonathan LaPorte Anniversary
WEDNESDAY, December 23
8:30 am Jean Rene Anniversary
THURSDAY, December 24 Christmas Eve
8: 30 am Daily Mass
4:00 pm Charlotte, Edward &
Frances Hoffman Memorial
6:00 pm Christmas Vigil Mass
10:00 pm Christmas Vigil Mass
FRIDAY, December 25 Christmas Day
8:00 am Nativity of the Lord
10:00 am Nativity of the Lord
SATURDAY, December 26 8:30 am Daily Mass
4:00 pm Vigil Mass
SUNDAY, December 27
8:00 am Sunday Mass
10:00 am Virginia Salinas Anniversary
12:00 pm Josefa Emilia Soto de Báez Anniversary
5:15 pm Sunday Mass
Those we know and love who share in Christ’s suffering
through illness: Lucy Algere Knox - Yaritza Baerga - Heidi Barbuto - Danielle
Broderick - Evelyn Broderick - Francisca Cruz - Fran Dolan
- Christine Carroll - Kathleen Durepo - Robert Federico - Ga-
briela Gonzalez - James Gordon - Eleanor Havey - Chet Havey -
Ruth Harzbecker - Jane & Paul Heanue - Candy Hickey - Rich-
ard Fraser - Ed Girvan - Andres Hernandez - Ileana Thompson
- Anthony Iarrobino - Christopher Keegan - Mary Kearns - Car-
mine Lavoi - Jessica Lopez-Hernandez - Robert Lynch - Barba-
ra McAveeney - Jennifer McGoldrick - Helen Kearns Moffie -
Bridget Mulkerrin - Joseph Mutascio - Genevieve Norton -
Jahaidy Nova - John Reilly - Evelyn Shanahan - Ernst & Yvrose
Toussaint - Midge Whelan.
May Christ heal all their ills.
Mass Intentions From the Pastor’s Desk
The Year of Mercy has begun. In case you're
tempted to be a bit jaded by yet another "special
event" courtesy of Rome, don't be. This Jubilee is full scale; the way the Great Jubilee of the
Year 2000 was. Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee on Dec. 8
by opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter's Basil-
ica. That, by the way, is no small feat. Jubilee
doors are not simply unlocked with a key; they
are unbricked first. Yes, unbricked. At the end of a Holy Year, the doors are sealed up behind a
wall until the next Jubilee begins. That's what occurred when Pope St. John Paul II closed the
Great Jubilee 2000.
More than anything else we'll encounter this
year, the door is an image of mercy. Whereas a
wall is the boundary between what stays in or is kept out, a door is meant to allow movement
between "in" and "out." But that movement can only occur when the door is open. A closed
door is just part of a wall. It might as well be bricked up.
With this Jubilee, our Holy Father Francis is
challenging each one of us to step over the thresholds of our comfort zones. He is inviting us to take a risk and move beyond what we've
allowed into our lives toward what—and whom—we have kept out. I begin this Jubilee
Year of Mercy with many questions. What new doors will be opened for me? What new doors
will I open for others? What doors, perhaps old and forgotten, will I open to God?
Our Lord, after all, never forces his way in. He calls, but waits for us to answer. He leads, but
we must choose to follow. He knocks, but we are the ones who must open the door to his
grace. God does not ask more than we can give; he gives us more than we ask for. May his Holy Spirit tear down the bricks in our lives. And
may this Extraordinary Jubilee Year be the
hinge on which our hearts swing open to mercy.
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe is a wife and mother of eight children, and a
disciple of the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales. She is an inspira-
tional author, speaker, musician and serves as a Children's Editor
at Pauline Books and Media.
Msgr. Frank Kelley
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Sacred Heart Parish Roslindale, MA
Our parish Tithe Our project for generosity needs some help. Would
you be able to help? We need some parish members to help
find opportunities for Sacred Heart community to help oth-
ers. Please contact me if you can help.
Also, do you have a charity to recommend to us?
Please let me know what or to whom we can be of help in
the weeks to come. Fr. Kelley
11/01/15 St. Vincent de Paul Society (second collection)
11/08/15 Campaign for Human Development
11/15/15 Wounded Warrior Project
11/22/15 Retired Religious Sisters (second collection)
11/29/15 Italian Home for Children
12/06/15 Christmas Flower Collection (second collection)
12/13/15 Pine St. Inn
12/20/15 Roslindale Food Pantry
12/25/15 Christmas - Clergy Benefit Trust
12/27/15 Sacred Heart Youth Choir
SACRED HEART PARISH Roslindale, MA
PARISH STEWARDSHIP Thank you for your generous support and response to our follow-up on the increased giving campaign. Fr. Kelley
ALL VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers who are in contact with children or the elderly
are required to complete a CORI form each year. If you
have not done so already please come to the rectory office
to fill out the form. Please remember to bring a govern-
ment issued photo ID and your social security number
which will be necessary to complete the CORI form.
We gratefully acknowledge the Gift to the Memorial Fund given to the Glory of God in Memory of:
Patrick J. Ahearn by: Martin & Josie Grealy
John Mitchell by: Pat Girvan & Family
Stewardship
Stewardship of treasure involves trust in
God. You have to really believe in God’s Provi-dence and trust that if you give 10 percent of your
income to the Church and charity, for example God will help you live on the rest
October October October
Week 2013 2014 2015
1 9269 8110 8500
2 7443 7706 9036
3 8147 7891 8651
4 8242 8076 9210
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(includes Mass offertory and electronic giving via parishpay.com)
Parish Tithes for October 2015 (5% of monthly offertory)
Grand Annual Collection 1 $980
Lost Coin Women’s Fund 2 $442
World Mission Sunday 3 $442
Sacred Heart Confirmation
Outreach Day 4 $442
$2,306
GRAND ANNUAL RETURNS We are entering the last weeks of our Annual Appeal for Sacred Heart Parish. Last year we raised a total gift of $67,064.70. We need another 39
donors to meet last year’s total of 360 contributors. Make your gift offering to our parish’s annual appeal in the last weeks of 2015. To this date in early December we have real-ized $58,753.01 from 321 donors. Thank you for these generous contributors to Sacred Heart Parish. We still need to hear from a number of our parish members in order to meet last year’s goal. You can give by placing an offering in the offertory basket or by sending your gift into the rec-tory. Thank you very much, Msgr. Frank Kelley
Still need some last minute gifts for Christmas? We will be selling some fair trade cof-
fee, tea and chocolate by Equal Exchange after the 10 am Mass today, December 20 at the coffee
hour at St. Theresa House. We’ll be tasting and selling Organic Mind, Body & Soul, Organic
Love Buzz and Café Salvador coffee and selling Carmel Crunch chocolate and tasting a few more chocolates. Come on down, enjoy some
coffee and baked goods by Fornax and buy some stocking stuffers.
Sponsored by Sacred Heart Catholic Re-lief Services Ambassador program. If you are in-
terested in finding out more about this pilot pro-gram, contact Mary Celeste Brown at [email protected]
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bAPTISMS september 2015 Troy Alexander Muñiz; Joziah Batista; Ariana Al-
exandra Betancis; Eva Castillo; Alanis Castillo; Anthony Alexander Cruz; Mileyna Deyanira Guz-
man; Geomar Villar-Guzman; Carlos Miguel Villar-Guzman; Kafael Alejandro Gonzalez; Chase Chris-tian Espino; Harper Isabella Espino; Priscilla Isabel Rios.
Classes - Spanish Saturday, December 19 Class 10:00 am
December 26 No Class
January 2 No Class
Classes - English Sunday, December 20 Class 11:30 am
December 27 No Class
January 3 No Class
Confirmation Program The Confirmation Winter Semester
Will start on January 10, 2016
Adult Catechumenate Saturday, January 9 Class 11 am
Giving trees Sacred Heart Parish will continue our tradition of
our Christmas Giving Trees to benefit the Ital-ian Home for Children. Trees are set up in both the
upper and lower churches during Advent decorated with orna-ments which have a child’s name, age and wish list for Christmas.
Please take a tag, purchase the requested item, then attach the tag to the unwrapped gift and place it under the tree. Please do not
wrap the gifts. All gifts should be received by Sunday, December
20 to allow the staff of the Italian Home to prepare for Christmas. The staff and children of the Italian Home appreciate your contin-
ued generosity.
Christmas 2015 at Sacred Heart Christmas Pageant Rehearsals
Dec 19th Saturday 11 am upper church
Dec. 23rd Wednesday 6 pm to 8 pm
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
December 20 Regular Mass schedule
December 22 at 12 noon
Sacred Heart School pageant, all grades
December 23rd 9:30 am School Mass
Grade one tells the Christmas story, upper church
December 24, Christmas Eve
Confessions 1:00 to 3:00 pm lower church 4:00 pm Christmas Eve Vigil Mass
Lower church 6:00 pm Family Mass & Christmas Pageant
Upper Church 10:00 pm Christmas Eve Mass—Spanish Upper Church
December 25, Christmas Day
8:30 am Christmas Day Mass
Lower Church 10:00 am Christmas Day Mass
Upper Church No Mass in evening on Christmas Day
December 26 & 27 Feast of the Holy Family
Saturday, 4:00 pm Lower Church
Sunday, 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12 noon in Spanish 5:15 pm
January 1, Feast of Mary, Mother of God
Thursday, December 31 4:00 pm Friday, January 1 8:30 am and 10 am
Today’s Liturgy
I am writing this reflection just after news of the
horrific terrorist murders in Beirut and Paris. We are Bos-
ton veterans of the anguish we share with many others in
places around the world. Our hearts are weighed down
with sadness. Will this carnage never end? How do we
confront the fears wished upon us by groups that have lost
all sense of human value?
When the Angel of the Lord appeared to Eliza-
beth’s husband Zechariah, the first words were “Be not
afraid.” Zechariah then learned that Elizabeth, despite her
years, would bear a son, with the name John. And in to-
day’s reading from Luke, we are present in the room when
John, hearing Mary’s voice, stirs within Elizabeth: “the
infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the
Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice ad said, “Blessed are
you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your
womb.” John’s stirring is the spark of joy inspired by
Mary’s visit. It is also the pulse of hope, against all fears,
then and now.
Hope, love, and faith find their beginning in us,
and we share in our perseverance against the fears of our
time. In Elizabeth’s words, “Blessed are you who believed
that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be ful-
filled.” Greg Tobin
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CUARTO DOMINGO DE ADVIENTO 1ª lectura: (Miqueas 5, 2-5) El canto jubiloso del profeta Miqueas anuncia la restauración de Jerusalén. El profeta ve a Jerusalén libre de su condenación. 2ª lectura: (Hebreos 5, 5-10) El sacrificio de Cristo santi-fica aniquilando el pecado. Esta salvación se confirma con su entrada en el santuario celeste, por la resurrección.
Evangelio: (Lucas 1, 39-45) Hoy vemos el encuentro de dos grandes mujeres, Isabel y María. Es la escena de la visitación. La presencia de María nos dice que la promesa del Mesías está cumplida. Ella, por su fe, es alabada por Isabel.
En este período del adviento, dos son los personajes centrales que aparecen en escena: san Juan Bautista, el precursor del Mesías, que juega un papel muy im-portante en nuestra preparación espiritual. Y María Santísima. Es ella quien ocupa, sin lugar a dudas, el puesto preeminente. Ella es su Madre y, sin ella, no habría navidad. Es ella quien lo trae en su regazo vir-ginal, quien lo dará a luz en muy pocos días y nos lo ofrecerá para nuestra adoración. Ella es quien mejor puede ayudarnos a preparar nuestro corazón. Y es ella quien aparece hoy en el Evangelio como prota-gonista. María va a la montaña de Galilea a visitar a su prima Isabel, que está ya esperando a su hijo, el futuro Precursor. Y ese maravilloso encuentro en la fe realiza un milagro: Juan Bautista, todavía en el seno de su madre, siente y reconoce a Jesús, el Me-sías, también en el seno purísimo de su Madre Vir-gen; y es tal su regocijo nos cuenta el evangelista que la criatura saltó de alegría en el vientre de Isabel. Su madre, llena del Espíritu Santo, le dirige a María aquellas palabras tan inspiradas que los cristianos rezamos miles de veces desde que aprendimos a re-zar cuando éramos chiquitos: ¡Bendita tú entre las mujeres y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesús!. Bendita es María por su fe y por su aceptación amo-rosa de la Voluntad de Dios en su vida; bendita por-que creyó en el anuncio que Dios le dirigía a través del ángel y porque lo abrazó con todo su corazón. Ésta es la mejor manera de prepararnos para el naci-miento del Niño Jesús. Ojalá también nosotros, como María, le hagamos un lugar a Dios en nuestra alma. Más aún, que le demos el lugar más importante, el primero. Que sea su santísima Voluntad, la fe y el amor a Él lo que verdaderamente cuente en la balan-za de nuestros pensamientos, decisiones y comporta-mientos en el quehacer diario y en las mil circunstan-cias concretas de cada día. Que sea la caridad, la hu-mildad, el servicio, la alegría lo que nos caracterice como cristianos.
BULA DE CONVOCACIÓN DEL JUBILEO EXTRAORDINARIO DE LA MISERICORDIA
Misericordiae Vultus DEL SANTO PADRE FRANCISCO
14. La peregrinación es un signo peculiar en el Año San-to, porque es imagen del camino que cada persona realiza en su existencia. La vida es una peregrinación y el ser humano es “viator”, un peregrino que recorre su camino hasta alcanzar la meta anhelada. También para llegar a la Puerta Santa en Roma y en cualquier otro lugar, cada uno deberá realizar, de acuerdo con las propias fuerzas, una peregrinación. Esto será un signo del hecho que también la misericordia es una meta por alcanzar y que requiere compromiso y sacrificio. La peregrinación, entonces, sea estímulo para la conversión: atravesando la Puerta Santa nos dejaremos abrazar por la misericordia de Dios y nos comprometeremos a ser misericordiosos con los demás como el Padre lo es con nosotros.
NUESTROS ENCUENTROS Los martes: Oración del grupo de la Renovación de 6:30 a 9:00 pm en la Iglesia de abajo. Los jueves: ADORACION EUCARISTICA, de 6:30 a 8:30 pm en la Iglesia de abajo. Los viernes: Encuentro del coro a las 7:00 pm en la biblioteca Tercer viernes del mes: Encuentro de Parejas a las 6:30 pm en la casa Santa Teresa. Todos los domingos después de la misa de 12:00 pm: Cafecito Latino para todos en el salón Murray. CONFESIONES: Sábado 26, a las 3:00pm
AVISOS: BENDICIONES EN LA MISA LOS DOMINGOS - 1er. Domingo: Niños/as recién nacidos no bautizados - 3er. Domingo: Niños/as recién bautizados - 4to. Domingo: Parejas casadas que cumplen aniversario
MISA DE NAVIDAD (Nochebuena)
(Jueves 24 de Diciembre)
Santa Misa a las 10:00pm: Iglesia de arriba
INTERESANTE
Nunca eches en cara lo que haces por los demás. Pues Dios es mucho mas grande, y no te
saca en cara lo que hace por ti.
Un hombre y su mujer se van de vacaciones a Jerusalén y mientras paseaban el esposo falleció. El de la funeraria le dice a la esposa: - Tiene la opción de llevárselo a su país por 10.000 dólares o enterrarlo aquí por 1.000 dólares. – Me lo llevo, dijo la mujer – ¿Como va a hacer ese gasto pudiendo enterrarlo en Tierra Santa? – Hace muchos años aquí murió un hombre y a los 3 días resucitó…sinceramente por 9.000 dólares prefiero no arriesgarme!!!
mi correo es: [email protected]
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MISSION STATEMENT Rooted in the universal call to discipleship, the mission of Sacred Heart and St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Roslindale and Forest Hills is to preach Jesus Christ. Proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ takes many forms: preaching, wor-
ship, education, service, works of mercy, and evangelization. The staff and the congregation are guided by the overall mission to proclaim the victory of Jesus Christ over sin and death in this time and place.
By this mission we are to be judged.
Rev. Msgr. Francis H. Kelley, Pastor
Rev. Mario Guarino, Parochial Vicar
Deacon Jesus Quiles
Mrs. Kathy M. Sherrod, Pastoral Assoc.
Parish Secretaries: Mary Dillow & Margaret Laboy
Rev. Eugene P. Sullivan, Sr. Priest, In Residence
Sacred Heart School:
Mrs. Monica Haldiman, Principal
1035 Canterbury St, Roslindale 02131
Office: 617-323-2500
Fax: 617-325-7151
Tuition: 617-325-0229
After School Program: 617-325-3656
www.SacredHeart-Boston.org
Sunday Masses:
Saturday Eve: 4:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM & 5:15 PM,
12:00 PM in Spanish
Weekday Masses:
Monday-Friday: 8:30 AM
Saturday: 8:30 AM
Penance:
Saturday, 3:00-3:45 PM, Lower Church
Baptism:
Call Rectory for arrangements.
Marriage:
Call Rectory to speak with one of the priests at least 6 months be-
fore the marriage.
Rectory Office 617-325-3322 FAX 617-325-2145
SUNDAY, December 20
Coffee– English 11:30 am St. Theresa House
CCD English 11:30 am School
Coffee– Spanish 01:00 pm Murray Room
TUESDAY, December 22
Prayer Group– Spanish 06:15 pm Lower Church
Boy Scout Troop 7 07:00 pm St. Theresa House
WEDNESDAY, December 23
Youth Choir—English 05:30 pm Upper Church
Pageant Rehearsal 06:00 pm Upper Church
Haitian Bible Study 07:00 pm Rectory
Adult Choir—English 07:30 pm Upper Church
THURSDAY, December 24 Christmas Eve
FRIDAY, December 25 Christmas Day
The rectory office will be closed Friday, Decem-ber 25 for the Christmas holiday.
Parish Resources The Week Ahead
The Parish of
169 Cummins Highway Roslindale, MA 02131
Tel: 617-325-3322 Fax: 617-325-2145 www.sh-roslindale.org
E-mail: [email protected]
Sacred Heart
We Need Your Help!
Box Tops for Education
Sacred Heart School is collecting as many Box Tops as we can! We
have entered into a friendly competition with Holy Name School, to see wo can raise the most money from Box Tops!
CALLING ALL FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS of Sacred Heart School to please save you Box Tops for our school. Send
them into school or drop off at the rectory and Church. A box will
be located in the back of the Church for the entire academic year. Come show your Sacred Heart pride! Ask friends, relatives and co-
workers! Thank you from the Scholars of Sacred Heart School! If you have any questions contact Elaine Tutein, Box Tops coordina-
tor at [email protected]