All Saints and All Souls

Celebrate All Saints Day with us by dressing as your favorite Saint. Join us at 9:00 AM Mass and Coffee and Donuts following the 9:00 AM Mass on Sunday, November 1st. The purpose of this day is to honor all saints that are both known and unknown. Also, to remember any saints feast days that we might have missed during the year. The All Saints Day Mass schedule follows our usual Sunday Mass schedule.

Prepare for All Souls by submitting your Memorial Poster for display on our church walls. All Souls Day follows All Saints Day, and commemorates the faithful departed, those who die in God's faith and friendship. All Souls Day Mass schedule 6:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 7:00 PM.

Youth Ministry SCREEEMFEST Update

The Youth Ministry Screeemfest Trip to Canobie Lake Park for grades 6-12 is cancelled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms predicted for Saturday afternoon and evening.

CatholicTV...

Now playing on CatholicTV is the new series Spotlight with Father Chip Hines and Father Bill Kelly. The idea of the show came about when a fellow priest overheard Father Chip and Father Bill debating about a movie and said, "you two should have your own show." Not long afterwards, the two priests found themselves in the CatholicTV studios being filmed as they discussed the "'Superman'" movie series.

From Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

FairTrade-tober

By Kevin Clarke (U.S. Catholic)

You can find out more about Fair Trade month and how you can get involved at http://www.fairtrademonth.org/.

You've probably been seeing a lot more fair trade products showing up at your local market. They've gone from small boutiques (I'm looking at you Ten-thousand Villages ) and after-Mass coffee to more or less mainstream retail outlets in just a few years. Fair trade piggy backs on existing commerce networks to deliver commodites, food and specialty products that are sourced in a manner that promotes the human dignity of producers and contributes to relationship building with consumers.

Devoting your dollars to fair trade is a relatively painless way to help promote authentic human development in some of the more materially diminished parts of the planet without resorting to charity or squabbling over a federal grant. You also get to participate in what development economics use to call "third way" networks but which Pope Benedict XVI approvingly rebrands in Caritas in Vertitate as the "economy of communion" (borrowing a concept here from the Focolare movement): "a broad new composite reality embracing the private and public spheres, one which does not exclude profit, but instead considers it a means for achieving human and social ends . . . [a] willingness to view profit as a means of achieving the goal of a more humane market and society." (46)

Benedict sees this new economy as a means of "civilizing" market forces. So be civilized, like the Pope says, and this month, shop your values.

Monthly Message From Our Lady

Message of September 25, 2009

"Dear children! With joy, persistently work on your conversion. Offer all your joys and sorrows to my Immaculate Heart that I may lead you all to my most beloved Son, so that you may find joy in His Heart. I am with you to instruct you and to lead you towards eternity. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Given to Marija (Pavlovic) Lunetti who is one of the visionaries to whom Our Lady appears everyday. On the 25th of each month Our Lady gives Marija a message for us all.