Holy Family Parish Paróquia Sagrada Família

HOLY FAMILY PARISH HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27TH 10:00 AM Fran Quadros 11:45 AM Brazilian Mass 6:00 PM Brazilian Mass NEW YEAR DAY FRIDAY JANUARY 1ST 10:00 AM PRIESTS INTENTION 11:45 AM BRAZILIAN MASS

SUNDAY, January 3, 2021 10:00 AM Priests Intention 11:45 AM Brazilian Mass 6:00 PM Brazilian Mass

Holy Family Parish Paróquia Sagrada Família

30 Grafton Street Lowell MA 01852

Main Phone: (978) 453-2134 Brazilian Community: (978) 934-0622

Fax: (978) 453-0933 Email: holyfamilylowell@gmail.com

Administrator Reverend Nicholas Sannella

Pastoral Staff Reverend Donald G. Lozier, OMI Reverend Gilmond Boucher, OMI

Deacon Alvaro Soares

Business Manager David McLean

Director of Religious Education Claire Couillard

Immaculate Conception

High School of Religion Director W. Gerald Dockett

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Parish Secretaries Cathy Martel (English)

Lira De Moraes (Brazilian)

Custodians John Perry

Immaculate Conception Marlene Heiss

BBlessings to you and yours for this New Years

HOLY FAMILY PARISH HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH We pray…..

For those that are sick or recently in the hospital… Dr. Gertrude Bailey, Daniel Bedard, Rina Bedford, Fr. Gilmond Boucher, Bob Brown, Buote Family, Loretta Caira, Bill Calhoun, David Carpenter, Roger Chartrand, Millie Ciszek, Francine Clay, Robert Connolly, Anne Marie Countie, Davidson Family, Debbie Demers, DeRocco Family, Teresa Dipersio, Jerry Dockett, Mary Dockett, Cathy Durand, Cynthia Evans, Joshua Geoffroy, Roger Geoffroy, Sr. Marilyn Gignac, Andrew Gosselin, Susan Goyette, Donna Gravelle, Karen Graham, Sr. Joan Gregoire, Ilene Hallisey, Len Hallisey, Havelka Family, Frank Holden, Marge Keefe, Annette Knust, Jim Knust, Kozowyk Family, Fran & Jerry Labadini, Nora & Bob Labadini, Maryann Lanzara, Anthony Lavina, Betty LeClaire, Jeanne LeLacheur, Raymond LeLacheur, Carol Leonard, John Leonard, Terry Lesard, Pauline Letourneau, Betty Mallett, Donald Marcouillier, Steven Marks, Barbara Matyl, Sheila McCarthy, McDonagh Family, Chris McHardy, Margaret Mello, Georgette Mendonca, Manuel Mendonca, Caryn Misquita, Pauline Moore, Sr. Shirley Letourneau Morrison, Aparecida Nascimento, Francis O’Donnell, Linda Paradise, Kim Peirce, Jeanne Pinard, Mary Richardson, Patrick Rivanis, Ruthelyn Rivanis, Mary Rivas, Robert Rivas, Joel Rivera, Elaine Robinson, Ed Rotondi, Sr. Jeanne Rouillard, Freeman Shepherd, Donna Sherman, Stephanie Southworth, Bea Stamp, John Stamulonis, Marilyn Sullivan, Rose Sweeney, Kristy Williams, Diane Wingfield, Collette Wooldridge.

May they experience God’s healing love and comfort.

PRAYER AND REFLECTION DECEMBER 27, 2020 Holy Family; Jesus, Mary, Joseph Introduction

Family life is always a challenge, and our religious ancestors had advice about how to make it work. Though many cultural values were different, we realize how family life was interwoven with faith. We don’t know much about Jesus’ family, but we hear today that they followed traditional Jewish laws. We tend to think of them as so different from our own families; but, like us, they would have struggled to understand what they were being called to. We are more alike than we think.

Prayer of the Faithful

Let us pray now for our own families and for all families.

For the church: That it may be a wise and compassionate guide for families of every configuration … we pray,

For all families throughout the world subject to violence, injustice or lack of resources … we pray

For families who try to be loving and faithful in the midst of daily challenges and struggles … we pray

For national policies and funding that support families and their needs … we pray

For families separated by distance, issues of faith or other beliefs and viewpoints … we pray

For children in need of foster care or adoption and those who choose to parent them … we pray

For all families in this community, especially those dealing with illness or death … we pray

Presider God of life, we are all members of families, often struggling and imperfect. Help us to remember that Mary, Joseph and Jesus lived together in faith and love, dependent upon you to sustain them. Show us how to love, accept and be grateful for our own families. Teach us how to forgive family members who have wounded us. Grant us the grace to be the people you call us to be. We ask this in the name of your Son, Jesus. Amen.

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Meus olhos viram a tua salvação!' Domingo da Sagrada Família – Ecl 3,3-7.14-17a; Sl 128(127);

Col 3,12-21; Lucas 2,41-52

O evangelho deste domingo chama a nossa atenção para a relação de Jesus com o Pai, sinalizando que sua missão ultrapassa os limites da família a que pertence. Aos 12 anos, tendo atingido a maturidade ele vai em peregrinação a Jerusalém. Após o término da festa, permanece em Jerusalém e os pais voltam para procurá-lo. Depois de três dias, o encontram no templo, sentado entre os mestres da Lei, participando ativamente do ensinamento. As pessoas ficavam maravilhadas com a sabedoria de Jesus. Ao vê- -lo, Maria disse: Filho, por que agiste assim conosco? A resposta de Jesus é um anúncio de sua identidade: Por que me procuravam? Não sabeis que de-vo estar na casa de meu Pai? (v.49). O Filho está envolvido com as coisas do Pai, pois foi enviado para realizar a sua vontade. Jesus desce com os pais para Nazaré e era obediente a eles. Maria guardava todas estas coisas no coração (v.51). Como discípula, ela conserva os acontecimentos para compreender a missão do Filho. Je-sus ia crescendo em sabedoria, idade e graça diante de Deus e dos homens (v.52), seguindo as etapas normais do crescimento humano. A 1ª leitura orienta as relações familiares, lembrando aos filhos o dever de honrar pai e mãe, conforme ensina o quarto mandamento (cf. Ex 20,12; Dt 5,16). No salmo, a fidelidade aos ensinamentos do Senhor leva a trilhar os seus caminhos de felicidade. Que o Senhor te abençoe cada dia de tua vida. A 2ª leitura exorta a revestir-se das virtudes e atitudes essenciais para seguir o caminho da vida nova. Coloca o amor co-mo vínculo da perfeição, pois leva a formar um só corpo em Cristo, solidificado por sua palavra.

A Sagrada Família de Nazaré cumpre seus compromissos religiosos e ilumina as relações entre pais e filhos, sendo modelo para todos os lares. Maria conserva no coração a palavra e os acontecimentos, acolhendo com fé o plano de amor do Pai que se revela no Filho..

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