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Parish of the Incarnation of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Melrose and Saugus
The Seventh Sunday of EasterMay 24, 2017
Incarnation Parish Bulletin
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 24, 2020
Dear Friends,As you are by now aware, Governor Baker has announced a four phased approach to re-opening businesses across the state. Phase One will allow some essential stores and businesses to re-open immediately and we were pleasantly surprised to hear that places of worship are included in this first phase. Immediately after the announcement, the Archdiocese sent out to every parish an eleven page directive with guidelines to re-open our churches safely. This is all very good news but I want to be clear-re-opening does not mean a return to normal. How we celebrate mass will be very different for the foreseeable future. The
necessary precautions and requirements are long and will definitely take some time to get used to, but the presence of the virus has already changed our lives on so many levels. As we put together our own plan of re-opening the parish, I want to make you aware of a few decisions that have already been made.
1. This coming week, both churches and offices will be deep cleaned and sanitized by an outside company. The cleaning will consist of a disinfecting fogging/spraying as well as the use of UVC light to kill all bacteria and viruses.
2. Daily Mass will resume this week, starting on May 25th at 8:00am.
Regular Weekday Schedule-8:00am Mon & Tue at MBS8:00am Thurs & Fri at Inc
3. Funeral liturgies will also be allowed starting this coming week, May 25th.
4. Weekend liturgies will resume next weekend, May 30-31-the Feast of Pentecost. We will initially return to our regular weekend schedule at both parishes but that may change due to limits of capacity numbers allowed and the time necessary to sanitize the
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Incarnation Parish Bulletin church between liturgies. We may well need to make some changes in mass times due to these constraints going forward.
5. We will only be allowed 40% of our church capacity at any liturgy. Once we reach that number we will not be allowed to admit any more and the doors closed. The people who attend any liturgy will be required to social distance (6 feet) from others. Families of one household will be able to sit together but all areas of the church will be clearly marked. Everyone must wear a mask or a facial covering while in church.
We will all be asked to accept and adjust to many other changes and requirements as we begin to open up our churches. We will all need a great deal of patience and flexibility in the coming weeks for sure. Please keep in mind that although it is great news to be back in church for mass-it is not business as usual. You will notice many other changed as well and we will be asked to accept a new normal.
We will get through this together.
FR STEVETo read about the Boston Archdiocese guidelines and recommendations:https://www.bostoncatholic.org/news/may-18-2020-archdiocese-boston-statement-phase-1-re-opening
MILESTONESPlease remember family and friends in need of prayer, especially Sarah Fradkin, Bill Connors, Maureen, Irene Lawless, Perry Brown, Betty Howard, Stephen Gaeta, Jim R., Ted Ayotte, Robert Burke, Sandra W., John Anderson, April Crouse, Adele Maciejowski, Colleen Sullivan, Debbie Saschuk, Julia G., Donna Correia, Sandra V., Don Marsden, Georgia Rose Okerholm, Donna Page, Denise, Sr. Mary Shaun, Nicholas Ward, Frank Zizzo, Helen Staunton, Domenic DeLuca, Maia DeLuca, Joseph Connelly, Jeannette Bailey, Anita V., Leona Dewhurst, Jacqueline, Chuck Giorgio, Kathleen O’Neill, Thomas M., Michael Lester, Sydni Simpson Garrity, Carole R. , Patricia Zibroski, Anthony S.,Janice T., John Maciejowski, Bonnie Strudas, Helen Giorgio, Andrew Reczeck, Frank Stankavish, Susan D., Ed M., Joyce D., Joshua B.,Janelle Hodges, Diane, and parishioners facing surgery.
If there is anyone you wish to add to the prayer list, please contact the rectory. Please note: All names will remain on our Prayer List and will be prayed for unless our office is notified to remove an individual.
Please pray for Theodora Costas who was buried this week.
GRAND ANNUAL APPEALOur Grand Annual Appeal is underway and thanks to so many of you for your generosity! As of last week, our Grand Annual contributions totaled $88,402.00
If you would like to contribute to the Grand Annual Collection and did not receive an envelope, you can contribute online through our
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Incarnation Parish Bulletin website:www.incarnationmelrose.org, or use one of the envelopes available at the doors of the church.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Thanks to all of you who have been giving online!Use the following link to sign up for Online Giving!https://www.myowngiving.com/Default.aspx?cid=45
Offertory Week of 5/10-5/17 Online: $2818.00 Mailed In: 1595.00 $4,413.00
Monthly Maintenance Online: $221.00 Mailed In: 100.00 $321.00
CALENDAR
If you have scheduled an announced mass during this time, Gina Distefano will be in touch with you when masses resume to reschedule.
JAMES FIELD MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP Thanks to our golf tournament and donations made in memory of Fr. Jim Field, the parish is prepared to make awards annually to graduating seniors. A letter of application including a description of engagement in church life and community activities as well as details of achievement and goals for college is required.
Seniors are asked to send their letter to Fr. Steve by June 1.
Congratulations to our graduating seniors! Here are a few of our Incarnation graduates:
Kevin Walsh is graduating from The Catholic University of America In Washington, DC with a BS in Finance, with honors!
Ian Walsh is graduating from Malden Catholic High School and is off to Providence College this fall.
Jane Harrington is graduating from Melrose High School and will be attending St. Anselm College.
Sara Maguire is graduating from Melrose High and will be attending UMass Amherst.
And congratulations to Rosanna Caralis on her graduation from the Mystic Valley Charted School.
Tell us about your seniors so they can be recognized! Here is your chance to brag about your children and grandchildren!
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CATHOLIC APPEALThe launch of the Catholic Appeal will be postponed until another weekend that would be well suited for the parish. For those who wish to make a contribution currently can do so online (www.bostoncatholicappeal.org) or through the request you may have received in the mail.
On Friday, May 29, the Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter, Bishop Robert Reed will celebrate a memorial Mass at the CatholicTV Network’s Chapel of the Holy Cross in Watertown, for those who have died of COVID-19. The Mass will be broadcast on CatholicTV live at 9:30am ET and again at 12:30pm, 7pm, and 11:30pm. The Mass will also be available on CatholicTV.org/masses and WatchtheMass.com. Participation is available only via CatholicTV.
People are invited to submit the name of a loved one to be placed on the altar during Mass, please visit www.CatholicTV.org/memorial. Bishop Reed also invites names submitted for any loved one who has passed regardless of whether it was due to COVID-19.
“Since the beginning of the global health crisis we have been praying daily for all those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Bishop Reed. “On the last Friday of May, we will remember in a particular way at the altar those who have due
because of the virus, realizing how difficult these losses have been for grieving family members and friends.” Bishop Reed is an auxiliary bishop of Boston and president of The CatholicTV Network.
COVID-19 Memorial MassThis Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Robert P. Reed in memory of all those who have died from COVID-19.Fri 9:30am
For The KidsChildren’s Liturgy of the Word20 minute liturgies each Sunday for Children to watch while their parents watch the Mass online.Sun 8:30am
Women of the ChurchGreat Souls: Mother TeresaThis documentary traces the dramatic story of a young teenage Catholic girl who felt the call of God to serve the poorest people of India.Thurs 4am/Fri 8:30pm
CatholicTV PresentsThe Field AfarThe life story of Fr. Vincent Capodanno, a Catholic priest who received the Medal of Honor for his valor as a chaplain to the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, and whom the Catholic Church has declared "Servant of God," one of the first stages toward sainthood.Mon 9:30pm/Thurs 8pm/Sat 3:30am
CatholicTV ShowcaseThe Miracle of Father KapaunA documentary about Father Kapaun, a military chaplain during the Korean War.Thurs 5pm/Sat 1pm
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Incarnation Parish Bulletin CatholicTV Presents SpanishNinevahThe story of Professor Yohanna Yousif reflects that of thousands of Christians and other minorities who fled the invasion of Mosul and the Nineveh Plains by ISIS in the summer of 2014.Thurs 9:30pm
* Schedule subject to change; all times Eastern
* DAILY MASS
9:30am LIVE, 7pm and 11:30pm
CatholicTV Mass Celebrants* :Sunday, May 24Cardinal Seán O'MalleyBoston Monday, May 25Father John CarmichaelMarshfield
Tuesday, May 26Father Darin ColarussoCambridge
Wednesday, May 27Father Adrian MilikWaltham
Thursday, May 28Bishop Jason GiombettiBridgewater
Friday, May 29COVID-19 Memorial MassBishop Robert P. ReedWatertown/Walpole
Saturday, May 30Father Thomas MacdonaldBrighton
Divine OfficeDaily9am Morning Prayer9pm Evening Prayer
RosaryMon.-Sat. 10am & 6:30pmSun. 9:30am & 6:30pm
Chaplet of Divine Mercy:Daily, 3pm
*Celebrants subject to change
WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER"Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?" Let your heart burn for Jesus and your spouse by attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. The next Weekends are Jun 6-7, 2020 in Medway, MA and Sep 12-13, 2020 in Medway, MA. For more information, call Stephen & Michelle O'Leary at 800-710-9963 or visit them at https://wwmema.org/.
THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTERMAY 24, 2020
AscensionHe has been telling the apostles about his crucifixion and death, remember? The possibility of losing him had terrified them, as we saw.
But then he rose again.
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Incarnation Parish Bulletin This too was a shock, a huge one. It was “unbelievable” for many of them, in the full sense of that word.
Some simply refused to accept it! But in time they got over “resurrection-shock.” All of them, even Philip, could let go of the sorrows of Jesus’ crucifixion and death and have some real joy for a change.
And then he told them he was going away, this time forever.
He did not exactly tell them, he let them overhear his great prayer to the Father. (7 Easter Gospel) A really huge jolt. Whiplash material. First it involved insurmountable sorrow and loss, followed then by out-of-your-mind astonishment and joy, but resulting in goodbye forever.
Jesus’ great prayer in the Gospel for the Seventh Sunday of Easter is one very helpful way in which he consoled them.* There he is praying not for the world but for the ones his Father gave him. His words aren’t about separation but just the opposite: the disciples are always to be with him, and with the Father as well, even to the end of time!
You and I, just like the disciples, need a lot of time to understand this.
Here is what Jesus is saying, in one interpretation:
The Father and I are one. When you see me you see the Father. And I will be one with you in the same way the Father is with me. We all will be present to each other in the oneness of love.
Then a funny thing happens. Instead of breaking in with a clownish “couldn’t you just show us the Father and forget all this talk about unity and oneness,” Phillip begins to listen as Jesus prays in a
remarkable way.
In essence, Jesus says,
they have accepted your words, Abba, and they truly understand the fact that I came from you. They believe that you sent me.
What is it that they have accepted and believed? It is the power of God’s love even amid departures and loss.
And something else, something we saw last week, but could not identify yet. Jesus was so wide open to God that the two were completely at one. “Whoever sees
me sees the Father,” he said. That is a very deep description of such love.
How does this make sense to us?
We need to have the Holy Spirit of God come to us tenderly and lift us into flight so we can see how the risen Christ works.
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Incarnation Parish Bulletin From such a vantage point, maybe Jesus would say something like the following to us:
I have shown you who God is and who I am. Now I go, like all human beings, back to the Father—your Father and my Father. This Holy Spirit of God I have been describing? It is no fantasy. I am going to send it into you, and as often as you accept it you are one with me and with the Father.
Next week, on Pentecost, we will celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. For now we are waiting. Let us drink a lot of spiritual coffee so that we will not sleep through it.
John Foley, SJ________ * See the Gospel for the 7th Sunday of Easter for this prayer. Especially, “and now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.” (Jn 17:11)
If your diocese, like so many, is celebrating the Ascension on Sunday instead of Thursday you would hear a different reading.
John Foley, SJFr. John Foley, SJ, is a composer and scholar at Saint Louis University.
THE PERSPECTIVE OF JUSTICE
The Mission in the WorldHaving ascended into heaven, Jesus can now say that “I am in the world no more, but these are in the world.” He is not physically present in the world the way he was in the first third of the first century. It is now up to us to deal with the world.
During the period dominated by Trent and Vatican I, the Catholic Church was defensive in its approach to the world, which was regarded as an occasion of sin. Vatican II heralded a new approach based on dialogue rather than confrontation.
The world is viewed not as the enemy but rather as the object of service. This positive approach is much closer to our biblical roots: “I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.”
“Time is the unfolding of truth that already is.” The world and its history are where we encounter the eternal God, “reaching from end to end of the universe.” We are not called to abandon the world but to remain in it and to take responsibility for its well ordering. The paschal mystery is a challenge to us to lift the world to the heavens.
Holding faithfully to the gospel and exercising her mission in the world, the Church consolidates peace among men, to God’s glory. For it is her task to uncover, cherish, and ennoble all that is true, good, and beautiful in the human communityVatican II, Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, 1965: 76.
Gerald Darring
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Incarnation Parish Bulletin HOW TO FIND USAs a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Boston, we are committed to excellence in liturgy, service, hospitality, and life-long learning, all centered in Christ. 429 Upham Street, Melrose, MA 02176 Office: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm1-781-662-8844 Office1-781-662-9340 FAX e-mail: [email protected] website: www.incarnationmelrose.org Follow us on Twitter @IncParish Like us on Facebook!PASTORAL and SUPPORT STAFF Fr. Steve Madden,[email protected]. Michael Ssenfuma, Parochial [email protected]. André Brouillette, Weekend AssistantDeacon Bob [email protected] Lahiff, Director of Faith Formation [email protected] Gelzleichter, Director of Music [email protected] Gina Distefano, Business [email protected] David E. Wiggin, C.F.X., Bookkeeper Jim Guiry, Maintenance ManagerDottie Ahlin, Household Assistant
LITURGY (Beginning 5/25) Mass Schedule~ Saturday 4:30; Sunday 8:00 am & 10:30amDaily Mass ~Thursday-Friday at 8:00.
SCRIPTURE STUDY )Every Friday morning -meeting online via Zoom. Email Shawn if you would like to participate. Everyone is welcome in this lively and interesting forum.
RECONCILIATION (Suspended due to COVID-19)Saturday, 3:30 - 4:15 pm, or by appointment at any time.
JOINING THE PARISHNo matter what your journey has been, we want to be your companions for the next steps, to share the Gospel together and to help each other along the way.Please introduce yourself to a staff member, or drop in for
coffee on Sunday. You can register as a parishioner online via our website, or stop by the rectory. ADULT INITIATION, RCIAWe are always ready to begin the process by which an adult or older child becomes a Catholic, either by full initiation in baptism, or by reception into full communion. We are also happy to prepare you for adult Confirmation. Contact Deacon Bob Breen.
BAPTISM FOR INFANTSCongratulations! The baptism of infants is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month, or within the Sunday assembly. Fr. Steve is the staff contact person for preparation.
GENERATIONS OF FAITHWe are a community of life-long learners. Our parish program of inter-generational learning and celebration of faith is called Generations of Faith. Contact:Ann Lahiff.
MARRIAGECongratulations! The engaged couple must contact the Rectory at least six months in advance, preferably a year ahead
CARE OF THE SICK To arrange for the Sacrament of the Sick, for Holy Communion for the home-bound, or Viaticum for the Dying, please contact the parish office. We normally send ministers out with communion after the eight o’clock on Sunday, and also schedule regular home visits during the week. It is always possible to anoint the sick during regularly scheduled liturgies. All you have to do is ask!
ORDER of CHRISTIAN FUNERALSWe will work with you to plan your own funeral liturgy or that of a loved one, and are prepared to celebrate the Vigil, also known as the “Wake,” in the Church building for those who choose.
BULLETIN INFORMATIONPlease contact Ann Lahiff at [email protected] with any questions, information or submissions for our bulletin.http://www.incarnationmelrose.orgTo view bulletin, click “bulletin archive,” and then, “Incarnation bulletins”
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