Saturday, March
29
Vigil Mass –
2nd Sunday of
Easter / Feast of the Divine Mercy
4:00 pm
X
Jonathan Haddad by the Sullivan Family
Sunday, March
30–
2nd Sunday of
Easter / Feast of the Divine Mercy
7:30 am
X
Josephine R. Stones
by Daughter, Eleanor Kiddie &
Dorothy Fox
9:00 am
X
Pete Bernier & Don Tencellent
by their Wives and Families
11:00 am X Joseph J. Gravell by
his Wife
Monday,
March 31 - Annunciation of the Lord
12:05 pm X Anne Blachowski by her Friend
Tuesday, April
1
8:00 am X Don Tencellent (3rd
Anniv.) by Helen & Family
Wednesday, April
2 – Saint Francis of Paola
8:00 am X William
Wertenbach Sr. & William Wertenbach Jr.
Thursday, April
3 -
8:00 am X Julia Chapin
7-8:00 pm
The Sacrament of Confession
First Friday,
April 4 - Saint
Isidore, bishop
8:00 am – For the People of the Parish
Saturday, April
5 – Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest
2-3:00 pm The Sacrament of Confession
Vigil Mass – Third Sunday of Easter
4:00 pm
X
Tom Wilke by his Family
Sunday, April
6– Third Sunday
of Easter
7:30 am
X
Leo & Angeline Diana
9:00 am
X
Maura Campbell by Carmel Moore
11:00 am X Emil Addabbo by friend of
Vito
Then he said to Thomas,
"Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it
into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe." Thomas answered and
said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you
come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen
and have believed."
- Jn 20:27-29
Your offertory gifts for
the support of
Saint James Parish
totaled $18,996.00 last
weekend – Easter Sunday.
Thank you very much!
The Sanctuary Lamp
burns this week for the greater honor and glory of God
and in memory of
Francis
Madden
Classes will Be Held as usual this week
for all grade 1-8 students.
Our Grade 2 First Eucharist Preparation Liturgy III will be held on Saturday, April 5th, at
10:00 am, in the church.. We invite the students who are preparing to receive
First Holy Communion and their family and friends, to join us to celebrate!
ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS! Join
us and 2500 other youth from the northeast and Canada
for a great weekend retreat at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, MA
on
July 11-13. Registrations are currently being accepted
with a $60 deposit. Total cost for the weekend is $220 which includes
transportation, food, lodging, admission, tee-shirt and CD. It will be a time
of great speakers, music, Mass and adoration. Call Macy Jordan 645-0164 with
any questions.
Saint James
School apparel is now available! Proudly show your school spirit by
wearing a sweatshirt, t-shirt, baseball cap or winter hat. Please see www.saintjamesschool.net
for a photo and full description of the items. These items are available
immediately for purchase through the school store, the main office or by
filling out the order form from the website. Please make checks payable to Saint
James School. If you have any questions or would like to suggest another
item, please call 860-533-1487 or e-mail development@saintjamesschool.net.
Proceeds from the sale of these items will benefit Saint James School.
COFFEE AND... in the church hall after all Sunday Masses next weekend Please join us! You can also stop by the Crafters “Boutique” to support their “time &
talent”.
Readings
for the Week of March 30, 2008
Sunday: Acts
2:42-47/1 Pt 1:3-9/Jn 20:19-31
Monday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10/Heb 10:4-10/Lk
1:26-38
Tuesday: Acts 4:32-37/Jn 3:7b-15
Wednesday: Acts 5:17-26/Jn 3:16-21
Thursday: Acts 5:27-33/Jn 3:31-36
Friday: Acts 5:34-42/Jn 6:1-15
Saturday: Acts 6:1-7/Jn 6:16-21
Have you ever thought
of going into business with
your Father?
Have
you ever thought about being a priest?
If so, speak with Father Cavanaugh or Father Manna
or visit www.vocationshartford.org
Monday, March 31st
7:30
pm – RCIA – Mystagogia
(church hall)
Saint James Circle of Love Prayer Line
To add Prayer
Intentions call either Patricia Albers (643-1015) or Mary Law (643-7087).
Please pray for those
from our parish
who have entered
into eternal life during
the month of
February:
William Kurapkot,
William Evans,
Anna Pavelack,
Gerald Foley
May they rest in
peace and may the Lord comfort their
family and friends
who mourn.
The Saint Vincent de Paul Society would
like to thank Mary Ann Leone for her donation, and Josephine Krikorian for her
donation In Memory of Albert Krikorian,
John A. and John B. DeQuattro, and Josephine DeQuattro In Memory of John B. DeQuattro.
You are invited to a Life
in the Spirit Seminar to be held for 8 consecutive Tuesday nights at
7pm in the church hall, from April 8th
through May 27. The seminar includes prayer, song, talks and small group
sharing.
A Blood Drive
will be held on Wednesday, April 9th,
1:30-6:30-pm, in the Conference Room iCare,
341 Bidwell St., Manchester. For an appointment to donate
please call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE. With
the help of all eligible donors in your community, we can continue to meet the
needs of all patients throughout the year!
Archbishop’s
Annual
Appeal,
“Sharing
God’s Gifts”,
helps to provide the critical
funding needed to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, counsel those in
despair, offer job training to the unemployed, and make available medical care
to those without health insurance. Your gift to the 2008 Annual Appeal will
help to continue the vital ministries, services and programs that reach out to
so many in need.
Helping a Mother and her baby
is Birthright’s work. Join
us for an orientation on Thursday, April
24th, at 7:30pm at the office on 914 Main St., Office 216, East Hartford. Learn how you can be blessed with the
opportunity to nurture life! Please call 290-8800 to let us know you’ll attend.
The Archdiocese of Hartford Catholic Committee for Boy Scouts will hold
the annual “Follow In His Footsteps IX”
Catholic Retreat June 6-8 at Camp
Mattatuck in Plymouth,
CT. Day program $15 Weekend program $26. To register by May 23rd or
for more info, call Shannon Petzan at 860.243.9465 X18 or sperzan@adh-ore.org
The
Saint James Staff is hosting a
Parish Appreciation Social on Sunday
April 13th
at
the Manchester Country Club, from 5:00-7:00pm.
An
assortment of finger foods
and
desserts will be served.
All
members of all committees and those who give their time and talent, (at least
10 hours a month),
will
be invited to attend. (Volunteers will receive an invitation in the mail.)
We
appreciate your earliest response
so
that we may plan accordingly.
THE FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY will be celebrated
at the Church of the Assumption on Sunday,
March 30th, beginning at 2pm with a talk on The Divine Mercy by
Mark Ferrel, a lay evangelist from Santa
Ana, CA. We will have
the Chaplet of Divine Mercy at 3pm with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until
4pm. The celebration will conclude with a healing service with a first class
relic of Saint Faustina. Prayer teams will be available.
What is the Divine mercy devotion?
The Divine Mercy devotion is about God’s merciful love, which is poured out for
us in his Son, Jesus our Lord and Savior. God wants us to turn to him with
trust and repentance. This turning with trust to our Lord, who is mercy, is the
only source of peace for mankind. His mercy is always available to us, no
matter what we have done. We can always receive the Lord’s mercy and
forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance. The Lord wants us to live reconciled
with him and one another.
The Apostle of the Divine Mercy.
Sister Faustina was born Helen Kowalska in the village
of Glogowiec near Lodz, Poland,
the third of ten children. At the age of twenty, she entered the Congregation
of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. These Sisters devoted themselves to the
care of young women who were morally and materially impoverished.
In 1934, in obedience to her spiritual
director, Sister Faustina began to keep a diary, which she entitled “The Divine
Mercy in My Soul”. This detailed account of her
profound revelations and extraordinary spiritual experiences reveals the manner in which our Lord
entrusted to her a very special mission, namely, to announce to the world the
message of and new forms of devotion to his Divine Mercy.
In 1938, at the age of 33, Sister Faustina
died of a lung disease. Some twenty-nine years later, in 1967 the Archbishop of
Cracow, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, successfully completed the first stage in the
process for beatification of Sister Faustina.
On Sunday, April 30, 2000, Pope John Paul II
(Karol Wojtyla), the very Bishop who began the process of beatification,
decades earlier, canonized Sister Maria Faustina of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
During his homily at the canonization Mass, the Holy Father declared that the
Sunday after Easter Sunday would be celebrated throughout the Universal Church
as Divine Mercy Sunday.
The
Divine Mercy Image. The image was revealed in a vision Sister Faustina had
in her convent cell on February 22, 1931. “I saw the Lord Jesus clothed in a
white garment. One hand was raised in the gesture of blessing, the other was
touching the garment at the breast. From beneath the garment, slightly drawn
aside from at the breast, there were emanating two large rays, one red, the
other pale... After a while, Jesus said to me, ‘paint an image according to the
pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You’” (Diary, 47)
