August 9, 2020 · instrument which not only instructed God’s people but also shaped their prayer....

St. Thomas the Apostle Parish 3 Margin St.

Peabody, MA 01960 978-531-0224 ~ 978-531-6517 fax

www.stthomaspeabody.org

St. John the Baptist Parish 17 Chestnut St

Peabody, MA 01960 978-531-0002

www.stjohnspeabody.org

August 9, 2020

Two parishes with one mission: to bring Jesus Christ to all!

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 9, 2020

Peace be with you! ¡la Paz esté con usted! Paz esteja con voce! Our parishes join me in welcoming you and offering to help you on your journey of faith. Below is a directory of our personnel. We are all here to serve you in any way we can. We want to know you and your family so please take a minute to register, using the cards in the pew, or after Mass, or online, or at the office. We can also provide faith formation and sacraments for your children at Saint John's School or in our religious education programs. Let us know how we can help you. God bless! FFr. John

We are here to serve you. Please call or contact us.

Our clergy serve both parishes, our school, and Brooksby Village. Call us at 978-531-0002 Rev. John E. MacInnis, Pastor

Rev. Kevin Leaver, Parochial Vicar Padre Paúl G.M. McManus, Parochial Vicar, Hispanic Ministry Deacon Leo Martin + Rev. Dan Zinger + Rev. Denis Nakkeeran

Our lay staff are here to help in any way they can: St. John the Baptist

Karen Hinton Dir. of Religious Ed 1-5 Dawn Alves Dir. of Religious Ed 6-8 Tracy Palen Office Administrator Kathleen Wilkinson Parish Secretary Janet O’Connor Parish Secretary Dr. Holly Zagaria Director of Music Ministry Raisa Ferreras Music Ministry (Spanish) Aida Vargas Spanish Religious Ed Lucy Cortez Spanish Religious Ed

Linda McKenzie Brooksby Village Pastoral Assoc. Brooksby Catholic Ministry: 978-536-7947

Saint John School: 978-531-0444

Parish Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am-3:30pm Email: [email protected]

St. Thomas the Apostle

Dawn Alves Pastoral Associate Dir. of Religious Ed 6-10 Dr. Holly Zagaria Director of Music Ministry Renildo Paiva Music Ministry (Brazilian) Lisa Ann Trainor Dir. of Religious Ed K-5 Tracy Palen Office Administrator Linda Cavallon Administrative Assistant Danise Mendonça Administrative Assistant Leila Andrade Brazilian Administrator Parish Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am-12:00pm Email: [email protected]

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Mass Schedule for Both Parishes

Masses in English: Saturday 4:00 PM St. John’s Sunday 8:00AM St. Thomas 10:00AM St. John's 10:00AM St. Thomas

Masses in Spanish: Saturday 7:00 PM, Sunday 11:30AM & 7:00 PM Brazilian Mass: Sunday 11:30 AM

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How Jesus Prayed In our series: Eucharist: Holy Food for Holy People. To explore further how Jesus worshipped and how it shapes our worship, we need to look at the place and the day when Jesus worshipped most often: the synagogue and the Sabbath. Gathering with others for prayer once a week on the Lord’s Day was a sacred duty for Jews, in fulfillment of the third Commandment. We see how faith-fully Jesus observed the Sabbath in the Gospel of Luke. It describes Jesus taking up the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and begins preaching from its text. “He came to Nazareth where he had grown up and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isai-ah.” (Luke 4:16, bold type added) In these very few words we learn that going to the synagogue on the Sab-bath was what Jesus did very regularly. In all likelihood, every week.

After the temple in Jerusalem was completely destroyed in 70 AD, the synagogue emerged in Judaism as the sin-gular place of worship for Jews. A synagogue is literally a “gathering place.” The New Testament depicts syna-gogues as places where Jews gathered to hear the scrip-tures, written on scrolls which were kept in a niche or a cabinet known as the Ark of the Scrolls. A visitor to any Jewish synagogue today will notice two dominant archi-tectural features: the Bema, a platform or podium, from which the scriptures are read and explained, and the Ark of the Scrolls, where the sacred texts of the Torah are kept. The Hebrew scriptures (which we refer to as the Old Testament) constantly refer to the word of God as the instrument which not only instructed God’s people but also shaped their prayer.

In our Catholic churches the ambo or pulpit is our bema. Here the scriptures are proclaimed and preached. As I wrote and as Mary Healy explained in her article, the use of the bible in our Mass today was an outstanding contri-bution of Vatican II to our worship. The council’s dog-matic constitution on divine revelation (Dei Verbum)

represents the church’s most authoritative and complete exposition on the meaning and centrality of the bible to Catholic life and worship. In that document, Pope Saint Paul VI and the bishops of the world summoned us as be-lievers to read, study and pray over and with the scriptures to an extent that most of us never had. When we began hearing so many more texts of the bible, lectors and preachers had to face the challenge of making the word of God what it was intended to be “living and effective, sharper than any two edged sword, penetrating even be-tween soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to dis-cern reflections and thoughts of the heart.” (Hebrews, 4:12).

Our new Missal presents scripture and preaching as inte-gral to Catholic worship. “The Mass consists in some sense of two parts, namely the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist, these being so closely intercon-nected that they form but one single act of worship. For in the Mass is spread the table both of God’s Word and of the Body of Christ, and from it the faithful are to be in-structed and refreshed.” (GIRM, 28)

In an ancient synagogue archeologists found a large stone chair from which the leader of worship spoke. Jesus refers to the “chair of Moses” to point out to his listeners that we must recognize the authority of those who preach even if their words and actions don’t coincide. I mention this because our churches have a place where the priest leads us: the presider's chair where he may also preach. The cathedra or chair of the bishop symbolizes his teaching authority.

My point here is simple but important. Jesus has shown us how to pray with him and through him to the Father. When we pray at Mass today our rituals and structures follow historical patterns of worship found in three places where Jesus prayed with others: the synagogue, the home and the temple. On Sunday, our Sabbath, we join with Jesus in a church, the gathering place where we hear his word from the scriptures at the ambo. In the house of God’s family we celebrate our Passover meal with bread and wine that become the true Lamb of God. And in our church we enter the sanctuary of the temple where Christ joins our sacrifice to his to the praise and glory of the Fa-ther for our salvation. The teachings of Saints John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II brought forth the way we cele-brate the Eucharist now with a care for and integration of elements of word, meal and sacrifice and in churches that incorporate features of those ancient sacred spaces in which Jesus once prayed. All this comes together in our Mass today! God bless! Fr. John

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an ancient synagogue.

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niche of the scroll

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Cómo Oraba Jesús En nuestra serie: Eucaristía: comida santa para gente santa. Para explorar más a fondo cómo Jesús adoró y cómo da for-ma a nuestra adoración, necesitamos mirar el lugar y el día en que Jesús adoró con mayor frecuencia: la sinagoga y el sábado. Reunirse con otros para orar una vez por semana en el Día del Señor era un deber sagrado para los judíos, en cumplimiento del tercer Mandamiento. Vemos cuán fielmen-te Jesús observó el sábado en el Evangelio de Lucas. De-scribe a Jesús tomando el rollo del profeta Isaías y comienza a predicar a partir de su texto. “Llegó a Nazaret donde había crecido y, según su costumbre, ingresó a la sinagoga el día de reposo. Se puso de pie para leer y le entregaron un per-gamino del profeta Isaías”. (Lucas 4:16,) En estas pocas palabras aprendemos que ir a la sinagoga en sábado era lo que Jesús hacía muy regularmente. Con toda probabilidad, todas las semanas. Después de que el templo en Jerusalén fue completamente destruido en el año 70 DC, la sinagoga surgió en el judaísmo como el lugar singular de culto para los judíos. Una sinagoga es literalmente un "lugar de reunión". El Nuevo Testamento describe las sinagogas como lugares donde los judíos se re-unían para escuchar las escrituras, escritas en rollos que se guardaban en un nicho o gabinete conocido como el Arca de los Rollos. Un visitante de cualquier sinagoga judía de hoy notará dos características arquitectónicas dominantes: el Bema, una plataforma o podio, desde donde se leen y ex-plican las Escrituras, y el Arca de los Rollos, donde se guar-dan los textos sagrados de la Torá. Las escrituras hebreas (a las que nos referimos como el Antiguo Testamento) se re-fieren constantemente a la palabra de Dios como el instru-mento que no solo instruyó al pueblo de Dios sino que también moldeó su oración.

En nuestras iglesias católicas, el ambón o púlpito es nuestro Bema. Aquí las escrituras son proclamadas y predicadas. Como escribí y como Mary Healy explicó en su artículo, el uso de la Biblia en nuestra misa de hoy fue una contribución sobresaliente del Vaticano II a nuestra adoración. La con-stitución dogmática del concilio sobre la revelación divina (Dei Verbum)

representa la exposición más autorizada y completa de la iglesia sobre el significado y la centralidad de la Biblia para la vida y el culto católico. En ese documento, el Papa San Pablo VI y los obispos del mundo nos convocaron como creyentes para leer, estudiar y orar sobre y con las Escrituras en una medida que la mayoría de nosotros nunca tuvimos. Cuando comenzamos a escuchar muchos más s textos de la Biblia, los lectores y predicadores tuvieron que enfrentar el desafío de hacer de la Palabra de Dios lo que pretendía ser "viva y efectiva, más afilada que cualquier espada de dos filos, penetrando incluso entre el alma y el Espíritu, articu-laciones y médula, y capaz de discernir reflexiones y pen-samientos del corazón”. (Hebreos, 4:12). Nuestro nuevo Misal presenta las escrituras y la predicación como parte integral de la adoración católica. “La Misa con-siste en algún sentido en dos partes, a saber, la Liturgia de la Palabra y la Liturgia de la Eucaristía, que están tan es-trechamente interconectadas que forman un solo acto de adoración. Porque en la Misa se extiende la mesa de la Palabra de Dios y del Cuerpo de Cristo, y de ella, los fieles deben ser instruidos y renovados”. (GIRM, 28) El otro mueble encontrado en las sinagogas antiguas era la silla desde la que hablaba el líder de la adoración. Jesús se refiere a la "silla de Moisés" para señalar a sus oyentes que debemos reconocer la autoridad de quienes predican pero no siguen su comportamiento cuan-do sus palabras y acciones no coinciden. Menciono esto porque nuestras iglesias tienen un lugar donde el sacerdote nos guía: la silla o cátedra del presidente que simboliza su autoridad y donde incluso puede elegir predicar. Mi punto aquí es simple pero importante. Jesús nos ha ense-ñado cómo orar con él y por medio de él al Padre. Cuando rezamos hoy en la Misa, seguimos patrones históricos de adoración que se encuentran en tres lugares donde Jesús oró con otros: la sinagoga, el hogar y el templo. El domingo, nuestro sábado, nos unimos con Jesús en una iglesia, el lu-gar de reunión donde escuchamos su palabra de las Escritu-ras en el ambón. En la casa de la familia de Dios, celebra-mos nuestra cena de Pascua con pan y vino que se con-vierten en el verdadero Cordero de Dios. Y en nuestra igle-sia, entramos en el santuario del templo donde Cristo une nuestro sacrificio al suyo para alabanza y gloria del Padre por nuestra salvación. Las enseñanzas de los santos Juan XXIII, Pablo VI y Juan Pablo II presentaron la forma en que celebramos la Eucaristía ahora con cuidado e integración de elementos de palabra, comida y sacrificio, y en iglesias que incorporan características de esos antiguos espacios sagra-dos en los que Jesús una vez oró. ¡Todo esto se reúne hoy en nuestra misa! ¡Dios LE bendiga! Padre John

A la derecha: Una antigua

sinagoga.

A la izquierda: nicho de el

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representa a exposição mais autoritária e completa da igreja sobre o significado e a centralidade da Bíblia na vida e no culto católicos. Nesse documento, o Papa São Paulo VI e os bispos do mundo nos convocaram como crentes para ler, estudar e orar sobre e com as escrituras de uma maneira que a maioria de nós nunca fez. Quando começamos a ouvir muitos textos da Bíblia, os leitores e pregadores tiveram que enfrentar o desafio de tornar a palavra de Deus o que se pre-tendia que fosse “viva e eficaz, mais afiada do que qualquer espada de dois gumes, penetrando até entre alma e espírito articulações e medula, e capaz de discernir reflexões e pen-samentos do coração. ” (Hebreus, 4:12).

Nosso novo Missal apresenta as escrituras e a pregação co-mo parte integrante do culto católico. “A missa consiste, em certo sentido, em duas partes, a Liturgia da Palavra e a Liturgia da Eucaristia, estando tão intimamente inter-conectadas que formam apenas um único ato de adoração. Pois na Missa está espalhada a mesa tanto da Palavra de Deus quanto do Corpo de Cristo, e a partir dela os fiéis devem ser instruídos e revigorados. ” (GIRM, 28)

A outra peça de mobiliário encontrada nas sinagogas antigas era a cadeira da qual o líder do culto falava. Jesus se refere à " cadeira de Moisés" para mostrar aos seus ouvintes que devemos reconhecer a autori-dade daqueles que pregam, mas não seguem seu compor-tamento quando suas palavras e ações não coincidem. Men-ciono isso porque nossas igrejas têm um lugar aonde o padre nos conduz: a cadeira ou a cathedra do presidente, que simboliza sua autoridade e onde ele pode optar por pregar.

Meu ponto aqui é simples, mas importante. Jesus nos mostrou como orar com ele e através dele para o Pai. Hoje, quando oramos na missa, seguimos padrões históricos de adoração encontrados em três lugares onde Jesus orou com outras pessoas: a sinagoga, a casa e o templo. No domingo, nosso sábado, nos juntamos a Jesus em uma igreja, o local de reunião onde ouvimos a palavra dele nas escrituras no ambão. Na casa da família de Deus, celebramos a refeição da Páscoa com pão e vinho, que se tornam o verdadeiro Cor-deiro de Deus. E em nossa igreja entramos no santuário do templo onde Cristo une nosso sacrifício ao dele para louvor e glória do Pai por nossa salvação. Os ensinamentos dos san-tos João XXIII, Paulo VI e João Paulo II trouxeram a manei-ra como celebramos agora a Eucaristia com o cuidado e a integração de elementos de palavra, refeição e sacrifício e em igrejas que incorporam características dos antigos espa-ços sagrados nos quais Jesus uma vez orou. Tudo isso se reúne em nossa missa hoje! Deus abençoe! Fr. John

Como Jesus Orou Em nossa série: Eucaristia:

Alimento Santo para Pessoas Sagradas. Para explorar ainda mais como Jesus adorava e como ele molda nossa adoração, precisamos observar o local e o dia em que Jesus adorava com mais frequência: a sinagoga e o sábado. Reunir-se com outras pessoas para orar uma vez por semana no Dia do Senhor era um dever sagrado para os jude-us, em cumprimento ao terceiro mandamento. Vemos como Jesus fielmente observou o sábado no evangelho de Lucas. Ele descreve Jesus pegando o pergaminho do profeta Isaías e começa a pregar a partir de seu texto. “Ele veio a Nazaré, onde havia crescido, e foi de acordo com seus costumes à sinagoga no dia de sábado. Ele se levantou para ler e rece-beu um pergaminho do profeta Isaías. ” (Lucas 4:16, negrito acrescentado) Nessas poucas palavras, aprendemos que ir à sinagoga no sábado era o que Jesus fazia regularmente. Com toda a probabilidade, toda semana. Depois que o templo em Jerusalém foi completamente destruído em 70 dC, a sinagoga emergiu no judaísmo como o local de culto singular para os judeus. Uma sinagoga é lit-eralmente um "local de encontro". O Novo Testamento de-screve sinagogas como lugares onde os judeus se reuniram para ouvir as escrituras, escritas em pergaminhos que eram mantidos em um nicho ou gabinete conhecido como Arca dos Pergaminhos. Um visitante de qualquer sinagoga judaica hoje observará duas características arquitetônicas dominantes: o Bema, uma plataforma ou pódio, a partir do qual as escrituras são lidas e explicadas, e a Arca dos Pergaminhos, onde são mantidos os textos sagra-dos da Torá. As escrituras hebraicas (que chamamos de Anti-go Testamento) se referem constantemente à palavra de Deus como o instrumento que não apenas instruiu o povo de Deus, mas também moldou sua oração.

Em nossas igrejas católicas, o ambão ou púlpito é o nosso bema. Aqui as escrituras são proclamadas e pregadas. Como escrevi e como Mary Healy explicou em seu artigo, o uso da Bíblia em nossa missa hoje foi uma contribuição notável do Vaticano II para nossa adoração. A constituição dogmática do concílio sobre a revelação divina (Dei Verbum)

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Anointing of the Hands Changing of the Vestments Promise of Respect & Obedience

Receiving the Chalice First Blessing to Cardinal Lying Prostrate

Congratulations Fr. Dan

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Consecration to the Blessed Mother Fr. Walter with Fr. Dan

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The Gift of the Liturgical Reform MARY HEALY

“Now that a half-century has passed, the time is ripe for a calm, charitable, and theologically substantive discussion about the liturgical reforms."

3rd Installment to be featured in

the Bulletin

Full Article can be found on the

St. Thomas webpage www.stthomaspeabody.org/

One Loaf, One Body

The Tridentine Mass strongly emphasizes the vertical dimension of the liturgy — our communion with the all-holy, transcendent God. That dimension is paramount. But the reformed liturgy highlights that which is equally necessary but had been neglected: the horizontal dimen-sion of our communion with one another in Christ. St. Paul reveals the deep link between the Eucharist and the Church, referring to both as the body of Christ: “The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor 10:16–17). To say the Church is the body of Christ be-cause the Eucharist is the body of Christ is not a pictur-esque metaphor; it is an existential reality that is meant to be lived and experienced. The Eucharist makes the Church. As St. John Chrysostom explains, What is the bread? It is the body of Christ. And what do those who receive it become? The Body of Christ — not many bodies but one body. For as bread is completely one, though made of up many grains of wheat, and these, albeit unseen, remain nonetheless present, in such a way that their difference is not apparent since they have been made a perfect whole, so too are we mutually joined to one another and togeth-er united with Christ. St. Augustine, similarly, exhorts his congregants to ap-proach Holy Communion with a deep awareness of their communion with one another in Christ: “The Body of Christ,” you are told, and you answer “Amen.” Be mem-bers then of the Body of Christ that your Amen may be true. . . . Consider that the bread is not made of one grain alone, but of many. . . . Be then what you see, and re-ceive what you are! Now for the Chalice, my brethren, remember how wine is made. Many grapes hang on the bunch, but the liquid which runs out of them mingles together in unity. So has the Lord willed that we should belong to him and he has consecrated on his altar the mystery of our peace and our unity.

When we approach the altar to receive the body of Christ, we are giving our solemn “Amen” not only to Christ the Head, but also to all the members of his body. To receive Communion while holding a grudge against another person, or judging others, or fueling division, or even while being simply indifferent to the needs of those around one, is therefore a very real form of sacrilege. “Whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 Jn 4:20). Love means more than simply that I bear no ill will to-ward the people in the pews around me; it means I share some responsibility for their well-being and their holi-ness. I am my brother’s keeper. To treat the Mass as if it were a purely private affair between God and me would be antithetical to its very meaning. This does not, of course, mean we are obliged to form relationships with every single one of our fellow parishioners. But it does mean that the Eucharist is the high point of what is meant to be a community life of mutual love and care animated by the Holy Spirit, concretely expressed in acts of service toward one another, in which our “hearts are being knit together in love” (Col 2:2). The revised Order of Mass restores this dimension by reinstituting the ancient Christian practice of the sign of peace, in accord with the exhortations of St. Paul and St. Peter: “Greet one another with a holy kiss.”15 The rite of peace is placed immediately before Communion precise-ly so we can grasp the connection between communion with Christ and communion with the members of his body. The actual form of the sign of peace (a handshake, a kiss, a bow) may vary in accord with customs and cul-ture, but its purpose is unchanging. It is a symbolic re-minder to examine our hearts before we receive Christ himself, to ensure that there is no buried resentment, no one excluded from our love. Or if there is, as Jesus taught, “leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift” (Mt 5:24).

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The Gift of the Liturgical Reform by Mary Healy...continued

A Sacrifice of Thanksgiving Another essential truth brought to light by Vatican II is that the liturgy is a sacrifice of thanksgiving. The very word Eucharist (eucharistia in Greek, todah in Hebrew) means “thanksgiving.” In ancient Israel, one of the most important kinds of sacrifice was the todah, the thanksgiv-ing sacrifice.16 It would be offered by someone who had been in mortal danger or had suffered some other terrible trial, whom God had delivered. The rescued person would show his gratitude to God by sacrificing a lamb in the temple and then eating the lamb, along with bread and wine, in a celebratory banquet with his family and friends, accompanied by prayers and songs of thanksgiv-ing. The prophet Jonah, for example, vowed to offer a todah if he were delivered from the belly of the whale (Jo 2:3–10). King David offered a todah after being rescued from his enemies and bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem (1 Chr 16). The ancient rabbis gave a striking prophecy about the todah: “In the coming age, all sacrifices will cease except the todah sacrifice. This will never cease in all eternity." Israel’s greatest annual feast, the Passover, is its national todah: a celebration and memorial of their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, in which they sacrificed a lamb and consumed it in a banquet with wine and unleavened bread, accompanied by hymns of praise. It is this feast that Jesus celebrated on the night before he died, and transformed into the everlasting todah — the memorial and celebration of his passion and resurrection, the new exodus through which God has delivered his people from sin, Satan and, death. In his sacrifice, Jesus replaces hu-man sin with its opposite: he gives God the perfect praise that human beings had failed to offer. His sacrifice is thus inseparably both thanksgiving and atonement for sin.18 From the beginning, the early Christians called the Lord’s Supper the Eucharist (todah) because in its very essence it is an act of overflowing gratitude to God for his saving deeds in Christ. Praise and thanksgiving therefore have an indispensable place in the liturgy. Because we are cor-poreal beings, we praise God not just interiorly but with acclamations, antiphons, hymns, and songs as well as bodily gestures.19 Scripture constantly exhorts us to give praise to God aloud:

“Shout to God with loud songs of joy! . . . Sing praises to our King, sing praises!”

(Ps 47:1, 6).

“Lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings!” (Is 40:9). Indeed, such verbal praise not only accompanies a sacrifice, it is a sacrifice: “The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me” (Ps 50:23). Over the centuries, the responses at Mass had been gradu-ally taken over by the servers and the choir; the verbal participation of the congregation was reduced to a mini-mum. Vatican II recognized the need to restore the partic-ipation of the people both in spoken responses and in congregational singing, while also preserving periods of reverent silence. Of course, there is a place for a relative-ly brief Mass without music — for instance, a weekday Mass that busy working people can attend. But at the Sunday liturgy, the center and high point of the life of the local church, the whole community ought to be joining with one voice in sung acclamations and hymns that lift their hearts and minds in joyful thanksgiving to God. As St. Augustine is reputed to have said, “He who sings prays twice.” In a real though invisible way, we who cel-ebrate the liturgy enter into the heavenly worship of the angels and saints that goes on eternally before God’s throne.

About Mary Healy Dr. Mary Healy is a professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and a member of the Pon-tifical Biblical Commission. She is a general editor of the Catholic Commentary on Sa-cred Scripture and author of two of its vol-umes, The Gospel of Mark and Hebrews.

Her other books include The Spiritual Gifts Hand-book and Healing: Bringing the Gift of God’s Mercy to the World. Dr. Healy is chair of the Doctrinal Commission of Catholic Char-ismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS) in Rome.

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Be an Adorer on the First Friday of each month. Adoration is an opportunity to retreat from the

world and just be one with the Lord. Join us September 4th following the morning Mass.

Contact: Dawn Alves [email protected]

"Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life, for you are safe with me." 1Samuel 22:23

St. John the Baptist Thrift Shop Shop Hours:

Thursday + Friday + Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

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If you like working with people and are willing to give up a few hours each week, this is your opportunity.

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We welcome everyone. We are open every

Thursday + Friday + Saturday, year round, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.

If you would like to volunteer, please drop by the shop any day that we are open, and speak with me. I will be

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Thank you and God bless!

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Holy Baptism for BOTH Parishes

All baptisms are being scheduled for a single family at a time with a total of

NINE family members and the priest or deacon celebrating.

Please call

Kathleen Wilkinson at 978-531-0002

You may leave a message with your name in-cluding best phone number to contact you,

and the staff will return your call. God Bless!

Ministry UPDATE August-September

Dear parishioners and friends of St. John & St. Thomas Parishes, The outreach ministry is in full swing at this time, as our to go

lunches on Fridays and 3 Sundays a month have been converted to eating indoors once again. Our comfortable airconditioned

church hall spaces have been such a blessing indeed, allowing for limited but important fellowship, and for giving our brothers and

sisters respite from the heat and hot summer days. They are so grateful for this opportunity, and their gratitude is shown not only by their words, but also by their complete adherence to our new COVID guidelines for indoor gathering. Showering and laundry procedures are going well also, as newly developed protocols for health and safety have been initiated and followed carefully. Soon we will expand our offerings to include a medical component to

our ministry. This will be under the guidance of a Registered Nurse who will dedicate her time and talent to provide blood pres-

sure screening and health education, focusing on topics such as hypertension, diabetes, addictions, and medications. Please con-

tinue to keep our ministry in your prayers! As always, I thank you abundantly for your continued generosity and support!

Pat Adam, Outreach Coordinator

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