Gate of Heaven Parish 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ October 6th, 2019

Gate of Heaven Parish Rev. Matthew Schultz, Administrator

163 Main Street Dc. Michael Johnson, Permanent Deacon

Lancaster, NH 03584 Mrs. Sandra Doolan, Secretary

Parish Office: 603.788.2083 Website: www.gateofheavennh.org

Rectory/Emergency: 603.788.5553 Email: gateofheavennh@gmail.com

Office Hours: M:10-3, Tu: 9-12, Th: 10-3 frschultz17@gmail.com

Office closed Holy Days and Federal Holidays

27th Sunday Ordinary Time

Saturday, October 5

4:00pm (St. Matthew’s)

+Dora Bourassa by her daughters

Sunday, October 6

7:00am (St. Patrick’s)

+Gate of Heaven Parishioners

8:30am (St. Agnes)

+Ila LeBlanc by Catherine Zirpolo and Family

10:30am (All Saints)

+Elizabeth Couture by GOH Parish

Daily Mass

Monday, Oct. 7, Our Lady of the Rosary

8:30am (All Saints)

+Bob and Micky Brennan by their sons Terry and Tom

9:00am-8:00pm: Eucharistic Adoration

7:00pm-7:45pm: Confessions

7:45pm-8:00pm: Miraculous Medal Novena and Benediction

Tuesday, Oct. 8, Feria

7:00am (St. Matthew’s)

+Irene Cantin by the estate

Wednesday, Oct. 9, SS. Denis & Compan-ions

No Mass [Adoration at St. Patrick’s 10-5pm]

Thursday, Oct. 10, Feria

7:00am (All Saints)

+Marilyn Foster by the estate

Friday, Oct. 11, St. John XXIII

7:00am (St. Matthew’s)

+Nathan Brooks by the estate

Saturday, Oct. 12, Sat. of the BVM

9:00am (Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine)

To the Blessed Mother for a special intention by Rosa

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Saturday, October 12

4:00pm (St. Matthew’s)

+Sr. Virginia, RSM by Gloria McLaughlin

Sunday, October 13

7:00am (St. Patrick’s)

Pauline Viens by her family

8:30am (St. Agnes)

+Stanley Leavitt by a friend

10:30am (All Saints)

+Gate of Heaven Parishioners

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Confession

Saturdays at St. Matthew’s

3:00pm-3:45pm

Mondays at All Saints

7:00pm-7:45pm

One half-hour before every weekday and weekend mass except the 8:30am mass at

St. Agnes.

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The Sacramental Life

Confession and Mass Times: See above

Baptism: Please call the parish office to make ar-rangements.

Marriage: Please call six months in advance of the proposed date of marriage.

Last Rites/Emergency: Please call the Parish Office at 603.788.2083. If office is closed, please call my rectory number at 603.788.5553. You may call the rectory at anytime day or night for this important sacrament.

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Cemeteries: Gate of Heaven Parish has four cem-eteries under its care: Calvary, Water St. St. Mat-thew’s and St. Margaret’s Graveyard. Please call the Parish Office for details on purchasing a plot

or making burial arrangements.

Homebound/Sick: If you or someone you know is homebound or ill, please call the parish office to make arrangements for a visit from Fr. Schultz.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Many, many thanks to so many individuals who made our annual parish picnic so successful and joy-ful. I am especially grateful to Brandon and Katrina Guida for hosting us at their beautiful and fun campground, Lindsey Foss for her 1,001 phone calls and emails arranging everything to be just right, Tri-na Beattie for the floral arrangements, the Knights of Columbus for doing the grilling and the many others who chipped in along the way. Merci mille fois! The bouncy house was always occupied, the food delicious, the day was beautiful...all in all, it was a great and joyful day. I might add that a very spirited pick-up football game arose in the midst of the picnic and a well-fought game was played until the last play when a certain someone made a game winning pass to a certain receiver who made a game-winning catch. They wish to remain anonymous on account of their great humility. However, it was something like a Brady-Edelman play you would see on a Sunday…!!!

In other news, October is the month of the Most Ho-ly Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yes, I am sure you have heard from this pulpit on numerous occa-sions the importance of this short but powerful prayer. But it never hurts to be reminded by the saints and religious how wonderful is this prayer—see below for some great quotes.

Also, this week on October 13 we remember the “Miracle of the Sun” which occurred in Fatima in 1917. An estimated 70,000 people were in attend-ance for this last of the ’Fatima apparitions’ and were graced to see this stupendous miracle—more details on the following page.

Let us continue to try to pray the rosary daily espe-cially for peace in the world, in our homes and in our families.

May God bless you and Our Lady keep you,

Fr. Schultz

"The Rosary is a prayer that always accompanies me; it is also the prayer of the ordinary people and the saints... it is a prayer from my heart." -Pope Francis "Love the Madonna and pray the Rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother." -St. Padre Pio "There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot solve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia, of the seers of Fatima “When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacri-fice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.” - Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche

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Announcements

+++Start the week right and “see” Jesus in the Eucharist exposed in adoration at All Saints Church 9 am to 9 pm every Monday. “He will enter the depths of your heart in communion with the Lord, who makes himself bodily pre-sent in the Eucharist. In the Sacred Mon-strance, he always entrusts himself to us and asks us to be united with his Presence, with his risen Body” (Benedict XVI). — Come and see Jesus, so you may be bedazzled by His pres-ence.

+++Reminder : Faith Formation begins for gtades 1-6 Sunday, October 6th 11:45am to 1:00pm at All Saints Church Hall.

+++Please pray for Richard Guilmette, Grace Degan, Charlotte Brooks, Dorothy St. Cyr and Fr. Donald Gauthier whose funerals were this week. May they rest in peace.

+++With Labor Day over, the annual Tabernac-le Fall Sale is just around the corner. We need your help! We are hoping to fill our Christmas Tree with handmade ornaments and sell them at the sale. Please drop them off at Geo. M. Ste-vens, Lancaster or give us a call and we will pick them up. Thank you! Kristine and Jane 631.0818

+++October Family Rosary: Please join us for the October Family Rosary! Saturday, October 12, after the 4 pm Mass at St Matthew ln Whitefield, and Sunday, October 13, 2019 after the 10:30 am Mass at All Saints in Lancaster, NH. On the twelfth of October we will be pray-ing along with the Public Square Rosary Rallies throughout the nation. On the Thirteenth of October we will be praying along with others on an anniversary of the Sixth Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and The Miracle of the Sun. +++Boggles, Bangels ‘n Beads! The Tabernacle Society is once again looking for those special pieces of jewelry that you no longer wear and don’t know what to do with them. We would ap-preciate them for our ever famous “jewelry ta-ble”. There are baskets in the churches to drop them off. Thank you !

The blue faded slowly and then the light seemed to pass through yellow glass. … People wept and prayed with uncovered heads in the presence of the miracle they had awaited. The seconds seemed like hours, so vivid were they. This wasn’t the only unexpected response from a secular source. The journalist Avelino de Almeida had previously published a satirical article about Fatima in the anti-religious newspaper O Seculo, which had succeeded in drawing great attention to the apparitions. But when he witnessed the miracle first hand he adopted a very different tone and truthfully reported what he saw, even though he was violently criticised for this by fellow journal-ists. Meanwhile, José Almeida Garrett, a young lawyer, reported that “The sun’s disc did not remain immo-bile. This was not the sparkling of a heavenly body for it spun round on itself in a mad whirl. Then, suddenly, one heard a clamour, a cry of anguish breaking from all the people. The sun, whirling wildly, seemed to loosen itself from the firmament and advance threateningly upon the earth as if to crush us with its huge and fiery weight.” Eyewitnesses to the miracle said that the sun danced in the sky, the colour of the whole land-scape changed successively, and the sun seemed to come down towards them, so that many of the crowd thought it was the end of the world. It was also seen at a distance by various people, undercut-ting the idea that it was simply a collective halluci-nation. Something else that suggests that the mira-cle was genuine is that the people at the Cova felt the heat of the sun as it approached them. Their clothes and the ground – which had been soaked by the torrential rain – were dry at the end of the mira-cle.

Your Weekly Offering

September 28/29

Offertory: 2,348.45

E-Give: 649.60

Total: 2,998.05

May God bless you for your generosity!

2nd Collection Next Week Oct 12-13: FUEL

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All Saints: Mary Ellen Shaver by Fr. Schultz St. Matthew’s: Roy Birard by Fr. Schultz St. Agnes: Ralph and Katie Doolan St. Patrick’s: Deceased members of St. Patrick’s Church

The 6th Apparition of Fatima (Oct. 13, 1917): …[A]s for the children, they made their way to the Co-va amid the adulation and skepticism which had fol-lowed them since May. When they arrived they found critics who questioned their veracity and the punctuali-ty of the Lady, who had promised to arrive at noon. It was well passed noon by the official time of the coun-try. However, when the sun arrived at its zenith the La-dy appeared as she had said she would. "What do you want of me?" I want a chapel built here in my honor. I want you to continue saying the Rosary every day. The war will end soon, and the soldiers will return to their homes. "Yes. Yes." "Will you tell me your name?" I am the Lady of the Rosary. "I have many petitions from many people. Will you grant them?" Some I shall grant, and others I must deny. People must amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend our Lord any more, for He is already too much offended! "And is that all you have to ask?" There is nothing more. As the Lady of the Rosary rises toward the east she turns the palms of her hands toward the dark sky. While the rain had stopped, dark clouds continued to obscure the sun, which suddenly bursts through them and is seen to be a soft spinning disk of silver. "Look at the sun!" From this point two distinct apparitions were seen, that of the phenomenon of the sun seen by the 70,000 or so spectators and that beheld by the children alone. Lucia describes the latter in her memoirs. After our Lady had disappeared into the immense dis-tance of the firmament, we beheld St. Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady robed in white with a blue mantle, beside the sun. St. Joseph and the Child Jesus seemed to bless the world, for they traced the Sign of the Cross with their hands. When, a little later, this ap-parition disappeared, I saw Our Lord and Our lady; it seemed to me to that it was Our Lady of Sorrows (Dolors). Our Lord appeared to bless the world in the same manner as St. Joseph had done. This apparition also vanished, and I saw Our Lady once more, this time resembling Our Lady of Carmel. From the Catholic Herald, Oct. 12, 2017 …[W]hat happened was so incredible that even non-believers couldn’t deny it, as this report, which ap-peared in the secular Lisbon paper O Dia, indicates: The silver sun … was seen to whirl and turn in the cir-cle of broken clouds. A cry went up from every mouth and the people fell on their knees on the muddy ground. … The light turned a beautiful blue as if it had come through the stained-glass windows of a cathedral and spread itself over the people who knelt with out-stretched hands.