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Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish August 14, 2016

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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August 14, 2016 Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, Methuen~Lawrence Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL PARISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

PRESENTS

DEEP SEA DISCOVERY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

SPONSORED BY COMMUNITIES TOGETHER

WHEN: Monday, AUGUST 15 – Friday, AUGUST 19

8:30 a.m – 12:00 NOON

NO COST OR FEE TO ATTEND WHERE: DUPERRY HALL, ST. THERESA CHURCH 22 PLYMOUTH ST., METHUEN, MA

WHO: CHILDREN IN GRADES PRE-SCHOOL TO GRADE 6. CHILDREN IN GRADES 7-8 CAN BE VOLUNTEERS.

LOOKING FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEENS TO

BE PART OF OUR TEAM.

CHILDREN WILL HAVE FUN WITH SPECIAL ACTIVITIES, ARTS & CRAFTS,

SING-A-LONG, AND PRAYER.

PRE-REGISTER BELOW IF INTERESTED & LEAVE IN COLLECTION

BASKET OR BRING TO PARISH OFFICE. ******************************************************

Children’s names & ages Volunteer’s name & age Home Phone or cell # Emergency contact name & #

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Mass Intentions For the week of August 14, 2016

Saturday Aug. 13 4:00 pm Napoleon Thibodeau (anniversary) By his family

Sunday Aug. 14 8:00 am 10:30 am

Fr. Richard Gosselin & Bill Gosselin Blanche & John G. Thibault And living members of our parish Raymond Pelletier

By their family By their family By his family

Monday Aug. 15 7:00 am Frank Judge By his family

Tuesday Aug. 16 7:00 am Norman Lacroix By Rosalie Crowley

Wednesday Aug. 17 7:00 am Maureen McCarthy By a friend

Thursday Aug. 18 7:00 am Doris Dion By her sister

Friday Aug. 19 7:00 am Albert & Lillian Dubois By their daughter

Saturday Aug.20 4:00 pm Lillian Vercauteren (anniversary) By her family

Sunday Aug. 21 8 am 10:30 am

James Zahn (birthday remembrance) Anthony Roger Larry Bouchard And living members of our parish

By his family By his family By his family

Memorials

For the week of August 14, 2016

The Altar Bread—donated by his family In Memory of Paul Kroeter

The Altar Wine—donated by his family

In Memory of Thomas G. Sabbagh, Jr.

The Altar Candles—donated by their family In Memory of the George Ouellette Family

St. Vincent de Paul Society

August 7 = $133.00

In today’s Gospel Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is

my anguish until it be accomplished! Your gift to the Society to assist those suffering in poverty will help to set the earth on fire with all of God’s love.

Thank you for your generosity to our parish.

Please realize how important it is that you use your envelopes and that you “make-up” your weekly contribution when you are not present at Mass for a particular weekend. We appreciate all that you do for our parish.

For August 7

Envelopes = 147 $5,680.00

Money not in envelopes 494.00

Total $6,174.00

Maintenance = 20 $244.00 Catholic Relief = 89 $1,246.00 Money not in envelopes 397.00 Total $1,643.00

Summer Service at the Cor Unum Meal Center

When the temperature heats up, so does demand for

volunteers at the Cor Unum Meal Center at St. Patrick

Parish in Lawrence. This summer, tens of thousands of

children and adults will be served free, nutritious meals at

Cor Unum. Serving meals at Cor Unum is a wonderful

opportunity for individuals, families, and groups. Will you

consider volunteering your time through Summer Ser-

vice at Cor Unum? To register to volunteer, go

to www.corunummealcenter.org and click on

the Summer Service button, or call 978-688-8900.

Monday, August 15 is the Feast of the

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Because the Feast Day falls on a Monday this year, it is not a Holy

Day of Obligation

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Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish 22 Plymouth Street, Methuen, MA 01844

Phone: 978-686-3984 Fax: 978-686-8300 Email: [email protected] Web: OLGCParish.com

Office Hours: 8 am to 4 pm Monday ~ Friday

Parish Staff: 978-686-3984

Very Rev. Christopher Casey, V.F. Pastor — Ext 25 [email protected]

Jimmy Massie Facilities — 978-697-4701 [email protected]

Lori McLaughlin Coordinator of Music Ministries 603-432-8656 [email protected]

Rev. Mr. Steven J. Murphy Deacon — Ext 10 [email protected]

Mrs. Pearl Ouellette Business Manager — Ext 17 978-686-0728 [email protected]

Mrs. Carol-Ann Ramirez Assistant to the Pastor— Ext 10 978-686-3984 [email protected]

Religious Education — Ph: 978-686-3985 Fax: 978-686-8300 Mr. Mark Friedrich — Coordinator of Adult Faith Formation [email protected]

Mr. Mark Houle — Coordinator Grades K-8 [email protected]

Weekend Masses: Church & Chapel are handicapped accessible (elevator in Church, ramp at Chapel)

Sat. 4 pm at St. Theresa Church 22 Plymouth St., Methuen, MA

Sun. 8 am at St. Theresa Church

Sun. 10:30 am at St. Au-gustine Chapel 128 Ames St., Lawrence, MA

Daily Mass: 7 am Monday — Friday at St. Theresa Church

Eucharistic Adoration: every Thursday, 4:00 pm — 9:30 pm at St. Augustine Chapel

Reconciliation: Saturdays, 2:30—3:30 pm at St. Theresa Church or anytime by appointment

Baptism: Previous arrangements neces-sary

Marriage: Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance

New Parishioners: Welcome! Please come to the Parish Office to meet us and to register

Lawrence

Catholic Academy

101 Parker St. Lawrence, MA 01843

www.lawrencecatholic academy.org

978-683-5822

Children age 3 through

Grade 8

Beacon Hospice in Methuen is seeking volunteers in a variety of capacities, from doing activities with patients to household activities o offering emotional support. Hospice gives patients facing life-limiting illnesses comfort, dignity and quality of life. As an important part of the hospice care team, hospice volunteers can help improve quality of life for patients as well as their families and caregivers. Areas of volunteer work include activities with patients, such as offering companionship; reading and writing letters; playing chess, cards or board games; craft projects, pet therapy, and providing support at time of death. Household activities in-clude arranging donated flowers, light gardening, delivering blankets, running errands and walking pets. Emotional support includes providing respite for caregivers, making spiritual prayer calls, attending funerals and participat-ing in memorial services, and offering companionship to loved ones. For more information contact volunteer coordinator Jillian Harmon at 978-837-3333.

CHRISTMAS FAIR! CHRISTMAS FAIR!

1st Meeting Wednesday August 31 at 6:30 in parish office

Join us—everyone welcome! No we are not celebrating Christ-mas in July! But it is time to start

looking ahead to our Parish Christmas Fair. If you are thinking about donating to our Fair, now is a great time to do so. Why, you ask? Be-cause now is the time that most of the stores (Sears, Target, Hallmark, Home Depot, Lowes, etc.) are having sales, getting ready for Fall and Winter items. We are looking for “new” items for the Penny Sale, and raffle items. If you de-cide to donate an item or would rather donate the money instead, please bring it to the Parish Office during the week. Your generosity is great-ly appreciated.

COME TO A MEETING!!!!

Join us on Wednesday, August 17 6:30 pm in the parish office

We are looking to plan A NEW and FUN EVENT ~APPLE FEST

For this coming October!!!

Come to the meeting—bring your ideas Everyone needed—Everyone wanted

Bring a Friend! Donations of soda & water or cash to help would be

greatly appreciated!!!!!

Check out our Facebook page search OLGC Parish Applefest

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Pregnancy Care Center is looking for Bilingual (Spanish/English) people to help women value the gift of life. They have a part time office assistant position available in the Lawrence center and volunteers are needed at both, the Haverhill and Lawrence offices. Training will be provided. Only 3 hours a week on your part is necessary to reach out to women who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy situation. Our former holy father, St. John Paul II once said, " Pro-life is the most im-portant work on earth." Will you allow God to work through you to reach our sis-ters? If interested, please call Susana at (978) 686-5124. Full job description available at www.PCCFriends.org.

Mission Statement Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish

Lawrence ~ Methuen

Our Lady of Good Counsel is a diverse multi-cultural parish serving the Catholic community

of Methuen and Lawrence. We are committed to building a community of faith intent upon God, in unity of mind and heart. We are a family of believers, joined by our Baptism, and nurtured by the Eucharist. As children of God, we endeav-or to bring the love of Christ to all we meet. We are com-mitted to be the Body of Christ, rooted in the tradition of the Catholic Church. Together we worship and praise our God. Guided by prayer and the counsel of the Blessed Mother, we minister to the community through faith for-mation, fellowship, and service. With diligence, compas-sion, and love we endeavor to help others come to know and love Jesus. Empowered by grace, constant in our mission, we strive to be led by the Holy Spirit.

St. Theresa Church 22 Plymouth St., Methuen

St. Augustine Chapel 128 Ames St., Lawrence

ANNUAL CELEBRATION FOR OUR LADY WITH THE GOLDEN HEART

ALSO KNOWN AS OUR LADY OF BEAURAING

Monday, August 22, 2016 Where: Immaculate Conception Church 216 E. Dunstable Rd., Nashua, NH 03062 Time: 6:30-8:30 pm

Rosary, NEW Slide Show Presentation on Our Lady of Beauraing Refreshments - Sales Table (Cash & Checks only) For information contact Irene Tremblay @ 978-649-1813

Dear Parishioners, We read these words in the Letter to the Hebrews this weekend: “Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and perse-vere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith.” This great “cloud of witnesses” contains the saints who have gone before us. Many saints can be our inspiration to the life of holiness and service that each of us is called to as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Having been inspired then, we too become saints. That is the call for each of us... to be a saint. When our time on earth is done we look forward to the new life to come in the eternal joy of heaven. So the saints not only motivate us to the mission we have on earth, but remind us of the greater joy to come, the glory of Heaven made possible for us because of what Jesus has done for us. However, the first reading from the Book of the Prophet Jeremi-ah reminds us that witnessing to the faith often times causes stress and division rather than bringing the peace one might hope for. Jeremiah was warning the Kingdom of Judah and the City of Jeru-salem of impending doom; the Babylonian Empire would soon attack and topple the city and destroy the Temple. The people don’t listen though, and in fact, as we hear today, want Jeremiah killed for all the aggravation he is causing them. We hear Jesus say in the Gospel of Luke “Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but ra-ther division.” In Luke 2:34 we heard Simeon prophesy that Jesus will be a “sign that will be contradicted”, and Jesus is making clear that the Gospel will encounter the same kind of resistance that the Prophets encountered in their day. The Navarre Commentary on the Gospel of Luke has this… “God has come into the world with a message of peace (cf. Lk 2:14) and reconciliation (cf. Rom 5:11). By resisting, through sin, the redeeming work of Christ, we be-come his opponents. Injustice and error lead to division and war. “Insofar as men are sinners, the threat of war hangs over them and will so continue until the coming of Christ; but insofar as they can vanquish sin by coming together in charity, violence itself will be vanquished” (Vatican II, Gaudium et spes, 78). Jesus is the Prince of Peace and came to establish the Kingdom of God in our midst. To accomplish this Jesus came into the world filled with sin (Romans 5:8 “But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”) Sin and the Life of Grace that Jesus calls us to are diametrically opposed to one anoth-er. The fact the Jesus is calling us out of sin and into grace will cause conflict. Remember that spiritual adage “Where there is sin there is division, where there is division there is sin.” St. Paul wrote to the Galatians: "Now the works of the flesh are plain: for-nication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunk-enness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you be-fore, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (Gal. 5:19-21). Sin always has and always will divide us. The Life of Grace on the other hand brings us into closer union with God and with each other. The ones who have gone before us, the Saints in Heaven, form a great “Cloud of Witnesses” that can be a source of inspira-tion as we struggle to live the Life of Grace. But as the Church Militant we are the ones who are called today to live in this world in union with God and free from sin. Our lives will at times be a source of division, (just consider the controversy that swirls around the Catholic position on abortion in our day for example); the Let-ter to the Hebrews encourages us in this way: “Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners, in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.” (Heb 12:3-4)

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August 15, 2016

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for the week of August 14, 2016

14 SUN Jer 38:4-6, 8-10/Heb 12:1-4/Lk 12:49-53

15 Mon Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/1 Cor 15:20-27/Lk 1:39-56

16 Tue Ez 28:1-10/Mt 19:23-30

17 Wed Ez 34:1-11/Mt 20:1-16 18 Thu Ez 36:23-28/Mt 22:1-

14 19 Fri Ez 37:1-14/Mt 22:34-

40 20 Sat Ez 43:1-7a/Mt 23:1-12 21 SUN Is 66:18-21/Heb 12:5-

7, 11-13/Lk 13:22-30

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Extraordinary Ministers

Of Holy Communion

and Lectors

Prayer Requests for Priests ~ We ask you to remember in prayer the following

priests:

Aug. 13, Fr. Walter Woods ~ Aug. 14, Fr. Brian Mahoney ~ Aug. 15, Pope Francis ~ Aug. 16, Fr. Stephen Healy ~ Aug. 17, Fr. Ronald Calhoun ~ Aug. 18, Fr. Joseph Kane ~ Aug. 19, Fr. John

Rowan

August 20/21

Extraordinary Minister of Holy

Communion

Lectors

4 pm Marge Brien Paul DeGagne

Irene Moschetto Sue Fink

Denise Donlan

8 am Paula Doherty Conrad Karcz

Betty Small

Please fill in

10:30am Deacon Steve Arleen Bradley

Larry Hall Mike Bradley

Mark Friedrich

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION St. Augustine Chapel

Please come and visit the Lord in the Eucharist any Thursday, 4 to 9:30 p.m. Stay a few minutes or longer. Consider committing to an adoration hour on a weekly basis--we are looking for people to take any hour, especially between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m. Call Michele Brown-Hall

at 688-6301 and leave your name and phone number.

Teresa Wheeler, Dot Lane, Janet Solomon, Darlene Stikeman, Baby Atlas Schalank, Bryanna Simpson, Bruce & Sarah Mackie, Jody Cormier, Evelyn Schelling, Ginger Blanchette, Phil McKinnon, Roger Martineau, Marie Lanouette, Yvette Shevlin, Al Savastano, Rose Goudreau,

Anita Watson, Fr. Gregory McCormick, sP, Irene Condon, Carmen Pizarro, Sarah Acevedo, Gerard LeBlanc, Patty Thompson, Nicole Garcia, Brian Bowes, William Eskel, Patrick Scanlon, Linda Murphy, Tom McGuire, Phillip Hersey, Jean Moysenko, Michael Russell, Michael Donovan, Sheila Meservey, Joe Howanski, Baby Ava Gagnon, Michael Culpon, Regan Sforza, Rita Ducheneau, Robbyn Culpon, Martha Ouellette, Claire Vasapolli, and all those on our Parish prayer line, and at the Woodmill, Nevins, Mary-Immaculate and Berkeley Nursing homes. Those who have died: Mary Scuto, Albert Sarcione, David Lane, Frederick Mottram If you have a friend or loved one that you would like us to pray for, please call the parish office and leave the name. If you want your loved ones name back on this list please call the parish office.

Are you looking for someone for house cleaning— or to run errands????

Call Luz Pagan at 978-857-1774 Honest and reliable call the parish office for a reference

Summer Office Hours 8 am—3 pm Monday—Thursday

8 am—Noon on Friday during the months of

July and August

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23rd Annual Shrine Feast Day Celebration

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1:30 pm Outdoor Living Rosary 2:45 pm Procession with St. Theresa

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Main Celebrant and Homilist Rev. Matthew Newcomb Archdiocese of New York

For more information

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Babysitter Wanted….Local family looking for a person to babysit a 2 year old—15 hours per week in Methuen—Riverside Drive area. If interested please call Stephanie at 978-601-9025.

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