MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM

Sunday 7:30 & 10:30 AM

Monday-Wednesday 8:00 AM

Pastor:

Rev. Edward J. Hanlon ejhanlon3@verizon.net

Deacon:

Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Varney…...varney1a@msn.com

Religious Education:

Patrick O’Donnell stjregrafton@gmail.com

Director of Music:

Patricia M. Saviet

Parish Secretary:

Celeste D. Allain catstjames@aol.com

Parish office hours: 8:30am-2:00pm M-F

89 Main Street

South Grafton, MA 01560

SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

Saturday 4:00 PM

Call rectory for appointment

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

Baptism is celebrated on the Third Sunday of the month at

12:00 PM. Call the rectory to make arrangements.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

Couples planning for marriage should contact the rectory

one year prior to the wedding date.

CARE FOR THE SICK

Please contact the rectory if you know of anyone who is

hospitalized or confined to home because of age or illness.

WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS

Please introduce yourselves after Mass. We want to know

and serve you. We hope you become active members of

our

parish community.

We are a Stewardship Parish

TIME ◆ TALENT ◆ TREASURE

508 839-5354 • FAX 508 839-5430 • Religious Education Office 508 839-6800 • Web: stjamesgrafton.com

Saint James Parish

SAINT JAMES CHURCH SOUTH GRAFTON

Saturday, June 30

4:30 PM 1st Anniversary, Nancy Marshall by her sister

Walter & Beatrice Brousseau by their daughter

Sunday, July 1

7:30 AM Jane Radzik by the Radzik family

10:30 AM Louie Franco by the Toscano family

Philippe & Rosanna Lavallee

By Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Lavallee

Monday, July 2

8:00 AM Souls in Purgatory

Tuesday, July 3

8:00 AM Souls in Purgatory

Wednesday, July 4

8:00 AM Eva Vellutini by Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Lavallee

Raymond Lojko and Roger Lemoine

By Carol Ziemba

Next Saturday, July 7

4:30 PM Bernice Laferriere

by Lorraine & Howie Marchand

Jeanne E. Mathieu by the family

Jean Allain & Ann LaBaire by their family

Next Sunday, July 8

7:30 AM Scott McKeon, Claudette Lourden and

Dick Bovenzi by Peter & Elaine Wojnar & family

10:30 AM Constance T. Enik by Patrick O’Donnell

Cesarina Procoprio by the Toscano family

June 23 & 24 $4,711.00

Higher Utilities $125.00

Peter’s Pence Collection $745.00

THANK YOU!

MONTH OF JUNE

Budget for June $20,800.00

Total collections for June $18,667.00

Deficit of $2,133.00 STEWARDSHIP REMINDER

We find ourselves in the season of vacation and other

wonderful reasons for travel. Please remember that our

financial commitments as a parish don’t “take a vacation”.

To you who provide your financial support through

electronic giving weekly or monthly, Thank You! To you

who use the envelope system, please remember to

contribute as you do regularly by anticipating or making up

your contributions. Everyone’s participation helps keep us

on track! Thank you!

GOAL….$40,000.

GIFTS/PLEDGES: $28,850.

BALANCE FOR GOAL: $11,150.

112 Gifts received.

Thank you!

Prayer for Freedom

Dear Lord,

so many today misunderstand freedom

believing that it is the ability to do whatever we want.

Help us always to remember that freedom, true freedom,

is being able to do what we ought to do.

That freedom, true freedom,

is not indulging our every want and whim,

but instead is the ability to rise above any desires

that are wrong, disordered, dangerous or excessive.

Give us the grace always to remember

that true freedom makes us the people you wish us to be,

that true freedom brings us closer to you,

and reshapes our world in the likeness of your kingdom.

Amen. © Liturgical Publications Inc

CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOME CARE

Catholic Charities Home Care program is looking for

aides to care for elders and handicapped individuals in their

own homes. Aides provide light housekeeping, laundry,

shopping and personal care. Please call for an appointment:

1-800-649-4364.

VETERANS’ MINISTRY

The three Catholic churches in Grafton have an active

Cluster Veterans’ Ministry that can always use new

members. If you are interested, the contact number is at St.

Mary’s –508-839-3993, ext. 17. Please also call if you have

any requests for them, including, but not limited to,

personal item packages for soldiers deployed overseas.

They are ready and willing to help our military and

welcome your calls.

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JULY 1, 2018

FOR NEXT WEEKEND, July 7 & 8

4:30 pm Lectors-Kathy Torrey, Ken Hehir

Eucharistic Ministers-Mary Lynn Spada,

Bob Reed, Carol Schilke

Altar Server-

7:30 am Lectors-Cheryl Trilligan, Bob Cournoyer

Eucharistic Minister-Mary McKeon

Altar Server-

10:30 am Lectors-Letty Atamian, Karen Vincent

Eucharistic Ministers-Deacon Tom,

Cheryl Dujnic, Phil Lavallee

Altar Servers-David Guerad, III, Wayne Guerad,

Andrew Johnson

HELP WANTED We are looking for people to help water the flowers on

the church grounds one day a week during the summer

months. It will take about half an hour. If you are available

to help, please contact Denise Tucker at (508) 839-5829 or

via email at denise.designs@yahoo.com. Thank you!

SAINT JAMES HARVEST FAIR

NEEDS YOUR HELP!!! SILENT AUCTION: The Silent Auction table is now

accepting donations--any new items or crafts that can be

bid on, monetary donations or gift certificates may be sent

or brought directly to the rectory.

BUY-A-BASKET needs all kinds of items to go with their

basket themes. If you see small inexpensive items for their

baskets, such as pet supplies, holiday items, sports items,

candles, or what have you, please pick them up!

CRAFT TABLE is looking for any type of craft you’d like

to donate. Some ideas are holiday decorations and

ornaments, knitted and crocheted items, household

decorations, or anything else you “craft”. Please put your

name and suggested selling price on your donated items.

WHITE ELEPHANT TABLE We are now accepting

items for the White Elephant Table. No clothes or shoes, no

exercise equipment, computers or TV’s, please. Small

furniture items are okay. Please bring your items to the

garage. Thank you!

GOSPEL REFLECTION

Today's Gospel offers a rare framework -- a story in a

story. Most of the healing miracles are standalone

encounters. One person approaches Jesus, demonstrates

faith, and is healed. The evangelist tells the next story. This

Gospel, however, is different. Jesus is on his way to heal

one person, a young girl of twelve, and is interrupted on his

journey by "a woman afflicted with hemorrhages." She

bravely approaches Jesus in a crowd, despite being ritually

unclean from her bleeding, and stretches out to touch his

cloak. She is healed! Jesus meets her eye, confirms her

faith, and continues on to resurrect the young girl.

Reading this passage, it might be easier to identify with one

story -- the long-suffering woman or the young, innocent

girl -- and to move past the other. But here they sit side by

side. The girl is twelve. The woman has been suffering for

twelve years. For the Gospel writers, number parallels have

deep symbolic meaning.

Between the woman and the young girl, we are not one

or the other. We are both. None of us had a perfect

childhood, perfect families, or a perfect peer group. As we

endure pain, disappointment, or unmet expectations, it can

feel like a part of our childhood hopes have died. Our

coping mechanisms, social adaptations, and hidden secrets

can make us the "walking wounded" in some respects.

Jesus wants to do more than simply staunch the bleeding.

His healing hand makes dead things come alive. He

awakens the dreams that are asleep. This process requires

prayer, conversations with trusted community and spiritual

mentors, and critical looks at difficult areas of our life.

However, we can believe the words of our Lord. If we

approach Jesus in faith, believing that he wants to heal and

save, we, too, will hear his calming words spoken over the

hurts of our life. "I say to you, arise!" "Go in peace."

Students, parents and catechists would like to thank all

our parishioners for your prayers and support for a week of

education, spiritual practices, and service in the Catholic

faith with the middle school summer program. It was a

blessed week with greater communion with God and

neighbor. We wish you all a blessed, relaxing and carefree

summer!

“…as a matter of equality your abundance at the present

time should supply their want, so that their abundance may

supply your want, that there may be equality.” (2

CORINTHIANS 8:14) We are responsible not only for our

own lives, but for the lives of those around us. It is

important that we not only grow, nurture and share our

gifts; but that we also teach our children and encourage

others to do the same. This is the communal aspect of our

Catholic faith. We are the “Body of Christ”. We are called

to be dependent on each other and not live in isolation.