thirieth sunday in ordinary time— october 25, 2020
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THIRIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME— OCTOBER 25, 2020
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Cranberry Catholic Collaborative
(508) 947-0444
Saints Martha & Mary
Lakeville
Sacred Heart
Middleboro
St. Rose of Lima
Rochester
ST. JOSEPH PRAY FOR US
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Adoration will be held Sunday of this weekend!
Saints Martha & Mary on October 25th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Please come and join us and spend some time with Jesus in the Most Holy
Eucharist. We will have Benediction, a five-minute reflection,
followed by silent prayer and adoration. Confessions will be
available during adoration. We hope to see you there!
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Eucharistic Adoration with Mass
& Divine Mercy Chaplet
Every Friday 6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m.
Intention for the week of October 30th
For the success of the merger of the CCC Parishes, and for a
smooth transition to the new St. Joseph the Worker Parish
Weekly Bible Study With Father JT
Thursday, October 29th
at Saints Martha & Mary Parish Hall
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Matt 27:45-54 Power in the Blood!
Worship & Meditation
For some reason, it is easier to genuflect in reverence to the
presence of Christ in the tabernacle of a church, than to
genuflect in reverence to the same presence of Christ in
another person’s soul. We wrongly believe that God divides
himself, placing himself in one place in preference to another.
It doesn’t work that way. Love of God and love of neighbor
are intimately and inseparably connected because the essence
and spark of God’s very presence is in all creation. God’s
presence is just as real in the one who is good, as in the one
who is bad, and the one who is just, and the one who is
unjust.
Our brains get in the way of truly contemplating the
awesomeness of this truth. We like to separate things into
boxes, the sheep from the goats and the deserving from the
undeserving. But, with God there are no distinctions such as
this. Our human classifications, subdivisions, and definitions
hold no power or have any weight in God’s eyes. Sadly, we
relate to God and to each other as if they do.
We cannot be deaf to the world’s pain. It is not about having,
hording, accumulating, acquiring, securing, storing,
protecting, owning, claiming, or any of the other human
terms we use to distinguish mine from yours. We put so much
power in these words and that power, even though we may
not always realize it, can cause those words and the
distinctions they carry to wound and hurt others. We have the
whole order of things wrong, but we are so set on preserving
this order that we are absolutely afraid to do it any other way.
We go through hoops trying to convince ourselves why the
perils of the person seeking a new place to call home are not
our perils that we turn our back and justify closing our doors.
It makes perfect sense to us. Yet, it makes no sense in terms of
our faith. It doesn’t square with any of the words found in
Sacred Scripture or in any time-tested teaching of the church.
We have it all reversed. We know that we do because when
Jesus speaks about such things and the words of the Old
Testament prophets ring out again, we start to feel
uncomfortable and anxious. What we do, directly or by
omission, to one of the least of these little ones we do to God.
It is quite possible that some of what we are doing personally,
economically, politically, globally, and even religiously is
doing more harm than good. Let’s ponder that a bit.
Faith Formation Update
This past week we ventured into new territory as we began our Faith Formation programs
in this pandemic environment. Our formation programs, Living Our Faith for grades 1-8,
First Eucharist prep, and Confirmation prep, were offered remotely through the Google
Classroom platform. I’m very happy to report that attendance and participation were
excellent. Several parents reached out to let us know how much their children learned
from our sessions. As Faith Formation leaders and catechists, we know there is no
substitute for gathering in person as a faith community to grow in faith together. However,
we are extremely pleased at how responsive and adaptable our families have been in this
unprecedented situation. Please continue to pray for our faith formation families as we
look forward to eventually meeting together in person as the pandemic subsides.
Michelle Sylvia, Director, Faith Formation
THIRIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME— OCTOBER 25, 2020
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Responding to the Call
Have you ever Googled the word “love”? If you did you may have come across something called the Love Calculator. It is a
website where you can supply two names, and the percentage chance of a successful relationship is calculated. Curious, I
entered my name and my wife’s. Twenty percent! I hope my wife doesn’t read this!
I then decided to add my name and God. A whopping thirteen percent! Then for the last attempt, I put in my name and
Jesus. A very disappointing zero percent! Am I that unlovable? Of course, then I read the small print at the bottom of the
page: “Please note that this site has no serious intention whatsoever.” Shocking!
The truth is, the modern world increasingly seems to have no real idea what love is or how to determine when love is real.
That makes the seemingly simple words of Jesus about loving God and your neighbor very complex indeed. How can you love
God with your all your heart, soul, and mind when you have no idea what the act of loving means? And then, what
constitutes loving a neighbor? To make it more complicated, Jesus commands you to love them like you love yourself. I bet
you can agree with me that there are a lot of people out there who do not even come close to loving themselves. Knowing
what love is in modern times is just not that easy. How is a well-meaning person able to find out the true meaning of love?
— Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS
CCC TIMELINE PLAN FOR THE YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST (YoE)
Know that nothing in the plan is written on stone. Adjustments/tweaking
may happen if real need arises, especially within the pandemic environment.
Sunday, October 24/25 (4th Sun):
Saturday 10am: Formed - Real Presence Series & Witness Video
Sunday Homily topic: Eucharist as Sacrifice, Thanksgiving & Family Meal
Sunday, November 21/22 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic - Eucharist and Community Building
Sunday Evening 5-6pm: Teaching Holy Mass (Eucharistic Celebration) for Adults (SH)
Sunday, December 26/27 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic - Eucharist in Sacred Scripture & Life of Saints (no other activity for December)
Sunday, January 23/24 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic - Eucharist: Token & Symbol of Love (no other activity for January)
Sunday, February 27/28 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic - Eucharist: Our Catholic Identity
Sunday 11am-12pm: Eucharist - Real Presence, for Youth & Young Adults (M&M)
Sunday, March 27/28 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic - Eucharist: Renewal & Transformation
Sunday 12-1pm: Teaching Holy Mass, for Youth & Young Adults (SH)
Sunday, April 24/25 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic: Eucharistic Devotions
Sunday 11am-12pm: Teaching Adoration, for Youth & Young Adults (M&M)
Sunday, May 22/23 (4th Sun):
Homily Topic - Eucharist & Priesthood
Monday, May 31, 5-6pm: Outdoor Rosary Procession- Bible Rosary of Luminous Mysteries (RoL)
Sunday, June 19/20 (3rd Sun) - Corpus Christi:
Closing Mass of YoE 9.30am (M&M) or 11am (SH), Followed by Parish Luncheon & Socials.
FAITH LIFTS THE SOUL
HOPE SUPPORTS IT
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Mass Intentions—Saints Martha & Mary Parish
Saturday, October 24th
5:30 p.m. Mary Theresa Graney, Memorial and Philip
Paulson, Memorial
Sunday, October 25th
9:30 a.m. Francis M. Sullivan, Sr., 12th Anniversary and
Joseph Hojlo, Birthday Memorial
Monday, October 26th
8:00 a.m.
Tuesday, October 27th
8:00 a.m. The Russell Family, Memorial
Wednesday, October 28th
8:00 a.m. Normand Vadenais, Memorial
Thursday, October 29th
8:00 a.m.
Friday, October 30th
6:00 p.m. Dawn Costa, 4 Month Anniversary
Mass Intentions—Sacred Heart
Saturday, October 24th
4:00 p.m. Harold Priest, Jr., Memorial
Sunday, October 25th
11:00 a.m. Joseph Tougas, Memorial and James DeLuca,
Birthday Memorial
Mass Intentions—St. Rose of Lima
Sunday, October 25th
8:00 a.m.
Financial Blessings 10-18-2020�
Saints Martha & Mary�
$2,516.00
Sacred Heart Total�
$6,653.00
Middleborough�
$6,125.00
Rochester�
$528.00
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continued support at this time.
Thank you!
This week I would encourage you to watch,
“Hope in Mercy with Fr. Michael Gaitley”.
(This can be found in the recently added column.) Father
Gaitley gives a talk on our problems in this world today, with
the pandemic and all the crazy things going on. He answers
questions: Was Vatican II a mistake? Has Pope Francis
departed from the teaching of his predecessors? Does the
Holy Spirit have something to say about the troubles in the
Church and the world today? Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC,
answers these questions and more.
Hi Kids, this week lets watch Lukas
Storyteller. Lukas is a fish that lives in
the sea of Galilee, who, along with his
friends tell us about different saints
they have met, and about Jesus. This
week let’s watch,
“SAINT LUKE AND THE CALL TO BE A SAINT”
In this inspiring episode, Lukas helps his friends discover the
meaning of their names as they learn about their patron
saints, while Lukas recalls his own encounter with Jesus and
how it changed his life forever.
Did you know?
Do we wear religious medals for good luck?
NO, a Catholic does not wear a medal for luck. We wear medals to remind ourselves either of the saint that the medal
represents or of Jesus and His mother, Mary. Many religions have signs of devotion that are worn. Jewish and Muslim men
wear skull caps. Muslim women veil themselves in public. Catholics wear medals, crucifixes, and scapulars.
When a Catholic wear a medal we are not looking for luck, but for God’s blessing through the intercession of the saint. One
medal that many Catholics are familiar with is, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. Our Lady appeared to Sister Catherine
Labore, a French Visitation Cloister Nun in Paris, and asked her to construct a medal with Mary’s image on it with the words
on the back, “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”
A scapular is another familiar sacramental. Two pieces of cloth attached to a string and placed over the scapular bone. The
most famous being the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Finally, and most famous, the Crucifix that reminds us daily of the price of our salvation and how much God loves us.
Again, we don’t wear sacramentals for luck, we wear them for prayer, blessing, and intercession from those who represent the
sacramental we wear. It is an exterior sign of an interior love and devotion.
THIRIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME— OCTOBER 25, 2020
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Remember In Your Prayers
Fr. Francis Daley, Bill Dow, Regina R. Perez, Ruth Santos,
Jim Medas, Jacob Layman, Wanda Daglis, Bill Eaton,
Joyce Parenteau, Elaine Tomlinson, Christopher Perry,
Marie LaFrance, Marissa-Lynn, Janet Macedo, Sue Kinney,
Melissa Hatfield, Aidan Dougherty, Joseph Drolette,
Rebecca & Steven Cummings, Katie Westhaver,
Bernard Moisan, Jessica Morrison, Alan Douillette,
Walter and Marilyn Campbell, Maryann Wilson,
Kechy Ikejiofor, Nathan Ware, William Hedlund, Jr.,
Kathaleen Arruda, Marianne Cokely, Boaz Rene Asfar,
Kevin and Sharon O’Hara
To be added to the prayer list please call the
parish office. Names will remain on the list for
one month and will only be listed as requested by
family members please.
Live the Liturgy—Inspiration for the Week
Do we really understand how important our relationships
with our brothers and sisters throughout the world truly are?
Many give God’s commandment to love your neighbor and
yourself a congenial glance of approval and agreement
without really thinking about the implications. Sometimes it
is easier to kneel in reverence before the tabernacle in a
church than to kneel in reverence before the tabernacle of
another person’s soul. Witnessing and being consumed by
the Divine Power alive in the heart of every living being
transforms not only how we see our brothers and sisters but
how we see God Himself. The cries of the poor and those
who are hurting must echo in our hearts. We can no longer
be deaf to the world’s pain. It is no longer acceptable to
judge others, unduly criticize, or marginalize, neglect, abuse,
manipulate, or participate in the exploitation of anyone! We
are asked to become hypersensitive to not only what we are
doing, but why we are doing, it. This holds true not only
with regard to the daily conduct of our lives but our
economic and corporate relationships and policies as well.
Setting Our Hearts Aflame
The Eucharist
Last month we welcomed our young folk to the Table of the
Lord for the first time. These are among my favorite
celebrations in the Church! To see the children light up
when they receive the Eucharist for the first time fills me with
joy. I am also remembering Fr. Daniel Moran who would
make every child feel special to Jesus and to him. He put a
hand on each child’s face and tell him/her “Jesus loves you,
and so do I!” Then I would see the face of Jesus in theirs's!
What joy!
The Eucharist is one of the three Sacraments of Initiation,
the other two being Baptism and Confirmation. In the early
Church, Baptism was followed by Confirmation and then
First Holy Communion. The Eucharist is the source and
summit of our faith and is the culmination of Christian
initiation. You may be asking yourselves, if this is true, why is
Confirmation now after Eucharist? In the early Church, the
faithful would get their children baptized and then would
wait for the Bishop to come around to confirm their
children. This could be months or perhaps years between
visits to the parish. The end result was that fewer and fewer
persons were confirmed because parents couldn’t always get
their children to the bishop and thus very few Catholics were
receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion. Eventually, it
was decided that to get more people to the Lord’s table that
parish priests could allow the Sacrament of the Eucharist to
precede Confirmation. This is where we are at today in most
parishes. But at the Second Vatican Council, the bishops
restored the original order of Baptism, Confirmation and
Eucharist in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. There
is a movement in some parts of the world to restore the
Sacraments into their proper order to mirror the intentions
of the early Church.
This week I would like you all to reflect back to your First
Communion. What did it mean to you to receive Jesus for
the very first time? What was it like for you when you first
experienced the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist?
Today, in memory of Fr. Moran, who so loved celebrating the
Eucharist with children, let us remember: “Jesus loves you…
and so do I.” Peace, Holly
Bottle and Can Drive to assist a family affected by Hurricane Laura
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous has an everlasting foundation. Proverbs 10:25
With Hurricane Laura over, the devastation will have to be faced.
Let us work together to help our brothers and sisters in need. I will again be collecting
redeemable bottles and cans to assist a family from the Lake Charles, LA area that received major
damage to their family farm. All proceeds collected will be donated directly to the family to help
them with day to day items. “Helping people affected by Hurricane Laura 5 cents at a time.”
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Readings for the Week of 10-25-20
Sunday: Ex 22:20-26/Ps 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 [2]/1 Thes 1:5c-
10/Mt 22:34-40
Monday: Eph 4:32—5:8/Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 [cf. Eph 5:1]/Lk
13:10-17
Tuesday: Eph 5:21-33/Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 [1a]/Lk 13:18-21
Wednesday: Eph 2:19-22/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [5a]/Lk 6:12-16
Thursday: Eph 6:10-20/Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10 [1b]/Lk 13:31-35
Friday: Phil 1:1-11/Ps 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 [2]/Lk 14:1-6
Saturday: Phil 1:18b-26/Ps 42:2, 3 5cdef/Lk 14:1, 7-11
Next Sunday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14/Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 [cf. 6]/1
Jn 3:1-3/Mt 5:1-12a
Observances for the week of October 25, 2020
Sunday: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday: All Hallow’s Eve
Next Sunday: All Saints; Daylight Saving Time ends; Nation-
al Vocation Awareness Week
Al-Anon and A.A.
Al-Anon: Meets at Saints Martha & Mary downstairs in
the Parish Hall every Tuesday morning at 10:30 a.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous: At Sacred Heart Church on
Saturdays in the Parish Hall from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
At United Church of Christ in Lakeville on Sundays.
The beginners’ meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. and
the regular meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.
Collaborative Information
Temporary Administrator Rev. Jude Thaddeus Osunkwo
Senior Deacon George M. Gabriel
Deacon Alan Amaral
Pastoral Associate Holly Clark
Finance & Operations Donna Roderiques
Administrative Associates Lisa Bossé
Director Faith Formation Michelle Sylvia
(Lakeville/Rochester/Middleboro 947-0072)
First Eucharist Eleanor Hurley
(Lakeville/Rochester/Middleboro 947-0444)
Confirmation Lori Handerhan (Middleboro 923-0151)
Music Ministry
Directors Henry Rondelli (Lakeville)
Stacy Dawson (Middleboro)
Jack Roussell (Rochester)
Organists Tom Roussell (Middleboro)
Accompanist Rita Rondelli (Lakeville)
Jimmy Dolan (Lakeville)
Jack Roussell (Rochester)
Maintenance
John Dunham (Lakeville and Rochester)
Jean Leveque (Middleboro)
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
Saturday Vigil
4:00 p.m. Middleboro
5:30 p.m. Lakeville
Sunday
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9:30 a.m. Lakeville
11:00 a.m. Middleboro
Weekday
Monday—Thursday 8:00 a.m. Lakeville
Friday 6:00 p.m. Lakeville with Eucharistic Adoration & Divine
Mercy Chaplet
Holy Days - As Announced
Drive Thru Confessions
Mondays and Thursdays 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Lakeville
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