| Sacred Heart | |
| Offertory for Oct. 11th & 12th | $ 5,370.00 |
| Envelope Offerings | $ 4,843.00 |
| Loose Cash | $ 527.00 |
| St. Katharine Drexel | $ 147.00 |
Of the 265 envelopes we sent to Sacred Heart parishioners, 115 parishioners have used their envelopes this week.
Thank you to all who so generously contribute to our parishes each week!
—Fr. Colletti
Thank you to Richard Rycroft for coordinating and scheduling the Eucharistic Ministers for Sacred Heart Parish. Richard has stepped down from this ministry and Anita Shine will take over the Eucharistic Ministers scheduling for the parish. Maryanne Bourque will be doing the educational piece for the Eucharistic Ministers. Thank you Richard, Anita, and Maryanne! Your ministry is much needed. Richard Rycroft will be coordinating the Homebound Ministry for both parishes.
Thanks to all who have contributed blankets for our annual blanket drive. We will be packing them up and shipping them the week of October 18. Already, the nights are beginning to be below freezing at Pine Ridge. For those who still want to help but don't have time to buy a blanket, please consider a contribution to the fund for utility support; make your check payable to the parish, with the notation, Lakota Heat Fund.
In the first lecture, Fr. Walter Cuenin spoke on Vatican II and Liturgy and its impact on lay involvement. We learned that when the altar was turned around & the Mass said in the vernacular, the relationship of the congregation to the “celebrant” was altered. The priest became the “presider” and the congregation became the “celebrants”. As the people of God, it became our right and our duty to actively participate in the Mass.
Please join us on Monday, November 2nd at 7:30 pm in Sacred Heart Parish Center to hear Deacon Guy Sciacca and Deacon Sal DiFazio discuss the Parts of the Liturgy. All are welcome. Look for future announcements on “Art & Environment and Its Role in Liturgy” and “Music and Its Role in Liturgy”.
Our parishes’ First Graders cordially invite you to join them at their grade-level Mass next Sunday, October 25, at Sacred Heart Church at 10:00am.
Break-In at Sacred Heart Parish Center
Over the weekend there was a break-in at Sacred Heart Parish Center. Someone jimmied open the lower level kitchen window and crawled through. The perpetrators were able to unlock all of the doors in the lower level at this point. There was no reported damage and no known loss. The police were notified and they are doing a thorough investigation of the crime.
This is the intriguing title of this week’s WINGS (Women IN God’s Spirit) session. Our speaker, Sister Kathleen Short, C.S.J., has unique and varied credentials – she is a certified massage therapist and yoga teacher in addition to a pastoral counselor, spiritual director and retreat director. All these facets of her background will come together as Sister asks us to reflect on the story of the Bent Over Woman (Luke 13:10-17).
Join us this Thursday, October 22, at 9:30 – 11:15am, in the hall in St. Brigid Parish Center. For transportation, contact Mary Harvell at 781-862-0794. For child care during the session, contact Jane Goubeaux at 781-862-4146. Membership in WINGS is not required to attend this or any WINGS program.
Attention newly engaged couples! Presenting a program of wedding music in St. Brigid’s Church on Sunday, November 1, 2009 @12:30pm Gale Livingston(the “voice of St. Brigid’s”); Jeff Hoefler, trumpet and Bill Grzybowski, organ will present samples of music for the Catholic Wedding. All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Bill Grzybowski: email: williamgrzybowski(5). or call 781-862-0335.
Experience some special time with the Lord during the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament this Friday and every Friday from 12:00 – 2:45pm at St. Brigid Church.
Starting this Thursday and for the next four Thursdays through November 19th, a Lectio Divina group will meet at 11:15am for about a half-hour in Room #9 in St. Brigid Parish Center. The group will use this classic form of contemplative prayer to reflect on the gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday. Please join us each week or as your schedule permits.
Nazareth Academy, located at 27 Cordis St. in Wakefield, MA is girl’s college preparatory high school in the Catholic tradition for grades 9 - 12. Meet the teachers & students, visit the newly renovated building and classrooms. Come see the difference a school can make! Please contact www.nazacademy.org Questions: (781) 246-7600.
Megan Chenaille, Director of Youth Ministry
E-mail: Megan Chenaille
781-862-8724
Youthful Mass
All are welcome to join us tonight, Sunday, October 18th, at Sacred Heart Church, 6pm!!
There will be Anna’s Taqueria for all High School Youth after the Mass in the Parish Center.
Confirmation Classes
Registrations for 9th and 10th grade Confirmation Classes were sent out a couple of months ago. If you did not receive a registration form, please contact the Religious Education Office at 781 862-8724. The Confirmation Class & Important Events calendar for the year were sent out recently as well. Please look through and mark your calendars. Contact Megan if you have not received this information. Confirmation Classes begin this week on October 19/20.
Confirmation Mass
Confirmation for 11th grade Confirmation Candidates
and their families will be held on
Sunday, October 25, 2009
4:00pm in St. Brigid Church
Middle School Fridays are back!
6th, 7th and 8th graders of the Catholic Community in Lexington are invited to join us for the November 6th Middle School Friday event. We will meet in the St Brigid Hall at 6 PM for pizza, then board a bus to Laser Quest in Danvers MA. Flyers will be available at the rear of the church in the parish office and on-line at the parish website. Sign ups are due at the parish office by November 2nd. Cost is $23 and scholarships are available. For more information please contact Mary Ellen Goodwin @tgoodwin99@msn.com. .
Future events all begin at 6pm with Pizza and include:
Nov 6 - Laser Tag – Danvers
Dec 11 - Nativity Movie - Sacred Heart
Jan 8 - Snow Tubing - Nashoba
Feb 5 - Movie - Sacred Heart
March 19 - Jump On In - Woburn
April 9 - Game night - Sacred Heart
May 14 - Mini Golf
Please do not hesitate to call or e-mail with any questions or concerns. 
All children are invited to join in the Children’s Liturgy of the Word, a special weekly presentation and discussion of the day’s scripture readings. After a blessing and dismissal by the priest before the first reading during St. Brigid’s 9:00am Mass, the children proceed downstairs to Keilty Hall to participate in this program. They rejoin the Mass after the homily.
You can make your used clothes new again by donating them to the men and women of St. Francis House and The Women’s Lunch Place! Start now to gather your gently used men’s clothing and new underwear for our annual clothing drive for St. Francis House, a center in Boston offering shelter and rehabilitative programs for poor and homeless men. New this year, we will also collect new and used women’s clothing for The Women’s Lunch Place in Boston, a center offering a daytime community and programs for poor and homeless women and their children.
Collection times (lower level of St. Brigid Parish Center):
Saturday, November 7: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, November 8: 10:00am – 4:00pm
If you would like to help receive donations, please contact Mary Harvell at 781-862-0794 or mharvell at ix dot netcom dot com.
A mother was watching her four-year-old child playing outside in a small plastic pool half filled with water. He was happily walking back and forth across the pool, making big splashes. Suddenly, he stopped, stepped out of the pool, and began to scoop water out of the pool with a pail.
“Why are you pouring the water out, Johnny?” the mother asked.
“’Cause my teacher said Jesus walked on water. And this water won’t work,” the boy replied.