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Our Lady of Grace April 12, 2020 Dunstable, Groton & Pepperell
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L A D Y
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G R A C E
P A R I S H
D U N S T A B L E
G R O T O N
P E P P E R E L L
M A
HAPPY EASTER!
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WELCOME TO
OUR LADY OF GRACE PARISH OF
DUNSTABLE, GROTON & PEPPERELL
We are glad you joined us today!
St. James Church West Groton
St. Joseph Church Pepperell
OUR TWO WORSHIP SITES
Parish Staff
Director of Religious Education: Robert Daly
Ph: 978-433-2028 [email protected]
Business Manager: Debra Lackey, M.B.A.,
Notary Public
Ph: x307 [email protected]
Administrative Assistant: Cotty Reid
Ph: x301 [email protected]
Music Coordinator: Ellen Blackwell
Ph: 978-433-6131
Baptism Ministry Leader: Rena Mendel
Cemetery Manager: Joseph Viel
Ph: 978-208-0266
Liturgy Schedule
At Saint James Church
Sunday: 7:30 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.
At Saint Joseph Church
Weekday Mornings: Wed, Thurs, Fri 8:30 a.m.
Saturday: 4 p.m.
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.
Once a Month:
4:00 p.m. Rel. Ed. Mass For CY1 & CY2 & Families
Confessions: Saturdays: 3:00—3:30 PM at St. Joseph
Church or by appointment with the Pastor.
Information regarding any sacraments, (Baptism,
Marriage, Anointing) please check our website or
call the parish office.
Bulletin Submissions: Deadline for putting
something in the bulletin is Monday at Noon for the
following weekend bulletin.
Father Jeremy St. Martin—Administrator
Father Jason Worthley—Parochial Vicar
Deacon: Michael Markham
Ph: 978-433-5737 x303 Fax: 978-433-9566
Web Site: www.ourladyofgracema.org
Parish Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9a.m. - 5p.m.
For a Sacramental Emergency, please call the office and select ext. 302 and leave a message and
Fr. St. Martin will get right back to you.
St. James Church
13 St. James Ave.
Groton, MA 01450
St. Joseph Church
28 Tarbell Street
Pepperell, MA 01463
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DAY DATE TIME IN MEMORY/HONOR OF REQUESTED BY
Sunday April 12 7:30 AM John “Jack” Whitehill The Collentro Family
Sunday April 19 7:30 AM The Living & Deceased Members of the
Kennett Family
The Collentro Family
9:30 AM Jerry Croteau Joan Croteau
11:30 AM Barbara Killian The Killian Family
MASS INTENTIONS
Scripture for the week of April 12, 2020
12 SUN Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10
13 Mon Acts 2:14, 22-33/Mt 28:8-15 14 Tue Acts 2:36-41/Jn 20:11-18 15 Wed Acts 3:1-10/Lk 24:13-35 16 Thu Acts 3:11-26/Lk 24:35-48 17 Fri Acts 4:1-12/Jn 21:1-14 18 Sat Acts 4:13-21/Mk 16:9-15 19 SUN Acts 2:42-47/1 Pt 1:3-9/Jn 20:19-31
PLEASE HELP!!! Even though Masses are cancelled for the next few weeks, the
parish still has on-going expenses that do not go away.
No weekly Offertory will create great hardship for our Parish
over the next few weeks. We still have to pay for salaries,
heat, electricity, etc.
We are keeping our church buildings open every day so that you
may still privately worship. Please help us to continue our services to you.
If you could mail in your donation to us that would be a huge help.
(Our Lady of Grace Parish, 28 Tarbell Street, Pepperell, MA 01463)
Or, now might be the time to sign up for Online Giving. Here is the link for that
https://www.myowngiving.com/default.aspx?cid=603
Normally, in our Offertory Collections, we receive between $3,500 and $4,500 weekly. If we
cannot celebrate Masses for the next 4 weeks, we will lose between $14,000 and $18,000.
If you have any questions, please contact Debbie at 978-433-5737 or
Please do what you can. Thank you! And stay healthy!
A NOTE REGARDING ALREADY SCHEUDULED
MASS INTENTIONS
Since the suspension of public Masses, please
know that Fr. Jeremy, while saying daily Mass
privately, is celebrating your requested
intentions during this time.
Have a Joyous
Easter!
With Blessings from
Our Lady of Grace Staff
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Sunday Reading Reflection Hello good people. It is
the case that when the
suffering of the cross is
finished the glory of the
resurrection is
revealed! And it is
undoubtedly the case that after the
suffering of the current coronavirus
and all its side effects, we will
experience a coming together again
in Church that will be so beautiful
and fantastic that it will absolutely
blow us away. It is the same
difference between Christ’s bitter
passion and the glory of Easter
morn. It is the same difference
between sin and forgiveness. It is
the same difference between hate
and love. It is the same difference
between excommunication and
communion; isolation and friend-
ship; darkness and light.
When we can safely return to
communion with each other I know,
beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
we will be rejoicing.
Right now Christ’s isolation on the
cross is replaced with his coming
together in glory with his friends at
Easter.
It was the case that Christ’s passion
never separated him either from
God the Father’s love nor his
mother’s.
He needed his mother’s embrace
on the cross and while he was
physically unable, stuck, prevented
from going to her, isolated, he did
go out spiritually. We are doing the
same in our exile from each other.
We are praying for each other.
Nothing can stop love. Christ
proves this on the cross.
Good news of love in the midst of
the darkness is too much to
relay. One little business I know is
still paying its employees, risking
financial reversal. The owner, in
his judgement, is not willing to risk
the short term problems associated
with red tape and delays. His
workers have real lives like, a baby
on the way, a dependent parent at
the sunset of life, a spouse who is
not eligible for any assistance from
anywhere who has employment
that fell through the cracks. He is
giving them personally from the
profits of the business while he
can. Some would say this is
desperate or foolish but others
have gone the other way and found
things to not be as they had hoped
in terms of benefits being quick or
easy to obtain. Who knows. The
point is this, people are willing to
sacrifice for each other. People are
treating each other like people.
There is kindness in the midst of
the darkness.
There is a strong group of young
adults in the area who have
spontaneously been drawing close
to each other in the faith. This is a
miraculous surprise. We are
witnessing lots of prayer. People
are reporting to me that they are
praying the rosary and the Divine
Mercy Chaplet like crazy. There are
people who are spending time
calling each other. There are many
who have called to say how much
they miss going to Church and miss
each other at Church. I have been
doing virtual Confirmation
interviews and getting a lot of
youth really interested in how they
might become more active after
they complete their sacraments of
initiation. A young man came to
ask me how to become a priest.
Pray for him.
The Office of Tenebrae is a thing
people have become interested in
and such things as the Angelus, the
Liturgy of the Hours, spiritual
direction, eucharistic processions,
interreligious and ecumenical
affairs, and the right use of blessed
candles in the home.
There is the theme of “alone” in all
the readings.
What is revealed is that there is no
such thing. There is no
‘alone.’ There is only the feeling or
experience of ‘alone.’ We might be
more separated physically like we
are with the social distancing but
we are spiritually close. From the
spiritual perspective, we are never
separated from God. To be totally
separated from God is impossi-
ble. He is everywhere. He is being
itself. We know that if we were
separated from him we would
simply not exist and neither would
God, for it would mean he stopped
loving and if he did that he would
not be God. The truth is that when
we, in our bodies, experience the
feeling of ‘alone,’ it causes our
spiritual yearnings to come more to
the fore.
We are experiencing that now. We
have a heightened awareness of
spiritual things now. We long for
Heaven, Church, truth. We know
that this world is passing away and
is temporary. This is good to know
because it is true.
The reason why we can know that
this will all end well is because,
however it goes, whether it gets
worse before it gets better, it
doesn’t matter. The worse it gets
the better it gets anyway. With
Christ nothing can harm us. Our
own end and the end of the world
(whether that be tomorrow or next
century) is ever closer. That will be
the last battle, the final trial, and
like Christ’s on the cross will feel
like ‘alone’ and being abandoned,
but it will end in the ultimate and
permanent victory. Christ in the
garden said let this cup pass and
we too ask for relief in the midst of
trials but we also say with Christ,
“but not my will but yours” We cry
out with Christ, “My God, my God
why have you forsaken me?” But
we know that beautiful feeling of
abandonment is just the precursor
to joy beyond all telling. It is the
physical and the spiritual beginning
to come together in a new and
perfect way.
I can’t wait to see you all
again. With Christ we are and will
do bravely. We will come together
in this world and if not, by God’s
mercy, in the life of the world to
come, forever and ever. Amen.
In Christ,
Fr. Jeremy St. Martin
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Important Information for your DONATION STATEMENTS for 2020
Statements for donations are only sent to those parishioners who submit their
donations in a parish envelope or through our OnLine Giving system. Loose checks
put into the Offertory basket are not recorded into the database.
For info, please give Debbie a call at 978-433-5737 or email [email protected]
Email:
Or Call & Leave Message:
(860) 481-0959l
Virtual OLOG Mass
Fr. Jeremy’s Masses are online. Go to our website and subscribe and then click
the bell to get notifications. Fr. Jeremy is fulfilling all the Masses that were set up for
special intentions and you can see these fulfillments there.
Holy Thursday, Live Mass of the Lord's Supper April 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Good Friday, Live Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
April 10 at 3 p.m. (9:30 p.m. rebroadcast)
Holy Saturday, Live Solemn Vigil of Easter April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Easter Sunday Mass
April 12 at 8 a.m. on CW56 Local (WLVI-TV) and at 11 a.m. on CatholicTV (rebroadcast at 7 and 11:30
p.m.)
A reminder that these liturgies are not open to the public
HOLY WEEK WITH CARDINAL O’MALLEY
ON CATHOLIC TV
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Thank You to all who donated to our Easter Flower Offering
In Memory/Honor OF Loved Ones
Donated By In Memory/Honor Of
Joan Croteau Mrs. Stella Piekarski,
Mrs. Vera Madsen &
Gerald J. Croteau Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Poitras Gramma & Grampa,
Nana & Pa
Betsy Glow Harold Glow
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gillogly Edward T. Gillogly, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Barry Marson Donald Duncan & Family
Joan Fields & Roaemary Oregu
Arlene & Melvin Kahn
Dorothy Marson
Mr. & Mrs. George Curt John & Marion Scanlon,
William J. Rice
Robert Scanlon,
Raymond Maysek
& Maddie Maysek
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Sheedy Alice & Stafford Sheedy
Andrew, Jane & Bernice Hartery
Ann Marie Trobridge Robert & Ruth Trowbridge
Mr. & Mrs. Edmund Delli Colli Ed Delli Colli
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bauer
Mr. & Mrs. John Gubernat John & Shirlee Gubernat
Mr. & Mrs. James Madera, Jr. James Madera
Janet Matera
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Marton Andrew & Jean Marton
Barbara Gielty
Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Morgiewicz Deloris Kump
Conrad & Barbara Morgiewicz
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Marston
Bob Johnson Most Reverend Alfred Jolson
Reverend Louis Blicky
Reverend Stirling MacDonald
Very Reverend Wendell Searles
Donated By In Memory/Honor Of
Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Pinque John Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald
Elermo Pinque
Anna Pinque
Mr. & Mrs. James Webb
Mr. & Mrs. George Faircloth Members of the Faircloth Family
Members of the Campbell Family
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Newsham David “Ticky” Pillsbury
Joyce Chapman
Mr. & Mrs. Marijan Andacic Radoslav Andacic
Nera Andacic
Toming Wong
Susan Berry
Anita Anderson John & Eileen Friedrich
Nat & Margaret Anderson
Michael Anderson
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Aronis John Aronis
Theodore Aronis
James Aronis
Maria Goguen Al & Karen Goguen
Neri Richard & Family
The Goguen Family
The Allain Family
George Melanson
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard St. Laurent Annit Guilmette
Dr. Ugene Guilmette M.D.
Alice St. Laurent
John St. Laurent
Joanne Daley Parents
Paul J. Daley
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Broderick
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Walkovich Patrick Michael Walkovich
Susan Eaton Members of the Eaton Family
Members of the Dobies Family
These are the names as of the printing date for this bulletin. Due to the pandemic event that exists current-
ly, I am not in the office to receive the Easter flower offerings envelopes. Once I am back in the office, the
offerings received between now and then will be published in future bulletins. Please know that your
loved ones are being prayed for. The editor apologizes for any misspelled names.
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