“You are my inheritance, O Lord.” Psalm 16
REVEREND JOSEPH R.UPTON
Congratulations to Father Joseph R. Upton, who was ordained a priest on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at the Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, Providence, by Bishop Thomas J. Tobin.
It does not seem possible that four years have passed since Joseph received permission to reside at St. Joseph Parish whenever he came home from his Theological studies at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland.
During his time here he has been a great asset to our parish family and a wonderful help to me as I struggle to meet both the demands of my diocesan responsibilities and the needs of the parish of St. Joseph.
Father Upton has brought to our parish both great dedication and enthusiasm during his time among us. He was innovative, and creative.
We came to recognize in him a man of keen intellect and loyal service to the Church. I know that he will do well in the years to come.
It is therefore, with great joy that I offer Father Upton my gratitude and that of the Parish of St. Joseph for all that he has done for us. Father Upton has evidenced a spiritual insight and pastoral zeal during his time among us. Father has also, given our community that singular and rare opportunity in our day, to observe, encourage and appreciate the spiritual journey of a young man who has accepted the call of God to service in the Church as a priest of Jesus Christ.
We are happy to have been a part of that journey.
Many thanks and may God bless you Father Upton!
“Ad Multos Annos”
Monsignor Bastia
June 27th Week Announced Masses:
Saturday, June 26th
5:00pm with gratitude to Our Lord Jesus Christ the High Priest, for Father Joseph R. Upton, req., The Parishioners of St. Joseph’s
Sunday, June 27th (Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
9:00am 13th Anniversary Oliveiro Pina, req., wife, and daughters
11:15am Memorial George & Matilda Reilly, req., Family
Monday, June 28th (St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr)
8:00am Memorial Patricia May
Tuesday, June 29th (St. Peter & Paul apostles)
8:00am 17th Anniversary Margaret Gracie, req., Florence Gracie
Thursday, July 1st (Blessed Junipero Serra, priest)
8:00am For the Intentions of the Parishioners of St. Joseph’s
Friday, July 2nd (First Friday)
8:00am For the Intentions of the Father’s Day Donor Envelopes
8:30-12:30pm (Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament)
Saturday, July 3rd
5:00pm For the deceased benefactors of St. Joseph’s
Sunday, July 4th (Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
9:00am For the Overseas Missions
11:15am Available for Intention
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First Friday, Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament July 2nd from 8:30am to 12:30pm
June 27th Sacrificial Giving Report
2009 2010
Envelopes (68) $ 2057.00 (62) $1829.00
Loose $ 796.25 $ 248.00
Children $ 1.75 $ 25.00
TOTALS $ 2855.00 $ 2102.00
Thank you for your generosity!
Father’s Day Donor Envelopes: $614.00
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Sanctuary Candle will burn this week in honor of Our Lord:
And in memory of:
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel S. Harrop, Jr.
Req.
Dr. Daniel S. Harrop, III
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OVERSEAS MISSIONS: At all Masses the weekend of July 3rd & 4th, 2010, Sister Emerita McGann, CDP. a Sister of Divine Providence, from Melbourne, Kentucky, will be our guest speaker. The Sisters of Divine Providence, Madagascar need our financial help. Through your donation you share in the life and works of mercy of sisters of Divine Providence, Madagascar in a special way. You become for them and for all those whose lives they touch, a sign of God’s loving Providence. God Bless You.
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ALTAR SERVERS
Sat:
5:00pm Jeffrey, (MC), Alexis, Ben Meaghan
Sun:
9:00am Nicholas, (MC), Catherine, Thomas, Olivio DeLuca
11:15am Lachelle, (SS), Alexadra, Jenna, Ronan
READERS
Sat: July 3rd
5:00pm Patricia McWilliams
Sun: July 4th
9:00am James Vandermillen
11:15am Jane Carey
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS
Sat. July 3rd
5:00pm Pat O’Hara, Carroll Medeiros, Florence Gracie
Sun: July 4th
9:00am Al Kelly, Bob Anthony, Arthur Sears
11:15am Maureen Robbins, Janes Jaquinto, Lorraine Beaudoin
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REMINDER!!!
YOU ARE INVITED
FIRST MASS of Father Joseph Upton
TODAY, Sunday, June 27th, 3:00PM
Saint Paul Church, Cranston
at the Intersection of Broad St. and Warwick Ave.
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
The Spirit of Prayer in Liturgy is important. It is to be observed throughout the Church: after each Scripture reading and after the homily, a period of silence for reflection and absorption of what we have heard is to be observed.
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St. Joseph Church will be open for visitors on Saturday, July 3rd, from 11:00am-4:00pm. We are coordinating the Open House with the RI Historical Society’s walk commemorating George M. Cohan who was baptized at Joseph Church on July 14, 1878.
St. Joseph’s welcomes four new Altar Servers: Alexis Robbins, Ronan Fahey, Olivia DeLuca, and Ariana Andrade. Best wishes in your new
“Thank You” and “goodbye” to Benny Lu, who has served as the Master of Ceremonies for the Sunday 9:00am Mass for the past four years. He is moving out of state. A very sincere thanks for his faithful service. Best wishes in your future endeavors.
Volunteer Appreciation Beach Day
Any parishioner who has volunteered their time or talent to Saint Joseph’s throughout the past year is invited to join us for a volunteer appreciation beach day, to be held on Wednesday, July 28th from 10:00AM to 3:00PM, at the Galilee Beach Club in Narragansett. The use of the club is made possible through the generosity and kindness of Dr. Daniel Harrop,III, a parish trustee. Sun lovers will enjoy the sandy beach and ocean surf; others will enjoy the Atlantic breeze on the deck or under an umbrella! If you are a volunteer and would like to attend, please call the Rectory @ 421-9137 to reserve your place.
THE POPE SPEAKS ABOUT THE MASS:
ROME, JUNE 17, 2010 - The doctrine of the Eucharist — and its relevance for believers — is not sufficiently understood and must be a catechetical priority, says Benedict XVI. The Holy Father affirmed that a “more profound knowledge of the mystery of the Body and Blood of the Lord” is a necessity for the life of the Church. “At the same time,” he added, “in the missionary spirit that we wish to nourish, it is necessary to spread the commitment to proclaim such Eucharistic faith, so that everyone will encounter Jesus Christ who has revealed the ‘close’ God, friend of humanity, and to witness it with an eloquent life of charity.” The Pope went on to give a reflection on the Eucharistic mystery, considering Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary and how it is memorialized. He acknowledged that “sacrifice” is no longer a popular word. “However, properly understood,” he said, “[sacrifice] is and remains fundamental, because it reveals to us with what love God loves us in Christ.” Benedict XVI affirmed that Mass itself, “celebrated in the respect of the liturgical norms and with a fitting appreciation of the richness of the signs and gestures,” fosters and promotes Eucharistic faith. “In the Eucharistic celebration,” he said, “we do not invent something, but we enter into a reality that precedes us, more than that, which embraces heaven and earth and, hence, also the past, the future and the present. This universal openness, this encounter with all the sons and daughters of God is the grandeur of the Eucharist: We go to meet the reality of God present in the body and blood of the Risen One among us.“ It is because of this, the Holy Father affirmed, that liturgical prescriptions are not mere “external things” but “express concretely this reality of the revelation of the body and blood of Christ.” Hence, he contended, the best catechesis on the Eucharist is the Eucharist itself, well celebrated. Later in his address, the Pope noted how the Eucharistic celebration must lead to charity. “Feeding on him we are freed from the bonds of individualism and, through communion with him, we ourselves become, together, one thing, his Mystical Body,” he said. This surmounts the differences of profession, class and nationality to form “one great family, that of the children of God.” “When we receive Christ,” the Pope added, “the love of God expands in our innermost self, modifies our heart radically and makes us capable of gestures that, by the expansive force of good, can transform the life of those that are next to us. [...] A celebrated Eucharist imposes on us and at the same time renders us capable of becoming, in our turn, bread broken for brothers, coming to meet their needs and giving ourselves. “Because of this, a Eucharistic celebration that does not lead to meet men where they live, work and suffer, to take to them the love of God, does not manifest the love it encloses. To be faithful to the mystery that is celebrated on the altars we must, as the Apostle Paul exhorts us, offer our bodies, ourselves, in spiritual sacrifice pleasing to God in those circumstances that require dying to our ‘I’ and constitute our daily ‘altar.’”
12th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (June 20th, 2010)
Faith Of Our Father’s
“Faith of our Fathers” midi (Click to Listen!)
Faith Of Our Fathers: A Reflection On Father’s Day
The third Sunday in June is observed each year in the United States as Father’s Day. The origins of this national event are not clear. Some records suggest that it was first celebrated as a church service some 100 years ago in Fairmont, West Virginia, at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Whether this is true or not, the impulse to honor fathers is a worthy one and it comes with the biblical admonition to honor our fathers and mothers.
In the Bible it is Abraham who is counted as the father of faith and he is revered in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. The word “faith” is an important component to remember because it means trust in God—being able to rely on that which is dependable. Abraham trusted God’s assurance that his children would become a great nation. The promise came at a point when he and his wife, Sarah, were elderly and childless. And yet Abraham believed that God could do what was foretold to him. He went forward in confidence that God could accomplish, through him, a benefit for all of the world.
Joseph of Galilee is an exemplary father in the Bible. He married Mary, despite the unusual circumstances of her pregnancy. He dared to be unconventional because he trusted that God was working through her and him. He was a righteous man who dared to take on the roles of husband and foster father. And as refugees from danger, after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, it is clear that he protected his family by going beyond what was familiar to find a safe haven. We can learn much about fatherhood from Joseph.
Another father that captures the imagination is a man called Jairus. We read about him in the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke. He was a man of importance whose daughter was dying and he came to Jesus, fell at his feet and begged Jesus to help his child. The actions of Jairus revealed his character. He trusted that God could help and it didn’t matter that he had wealth and prestige. He humbled himself for the sake of his daughter.
A final father from the Bible that is impressive is the one who had two sons, one of whom went astray. This is, of course, the story told by Jesus of the prodigal son. The father in the parable teaches his two sons powerful lessons of love: the one who went astray who discovered that his father’s care came to him even when he had run away from it and the other who struggled to understand such extravagant love in the face of his brother’s failures and his own fidelity. The father in the story, like God, never gave up on either of his children.
On Father’s Day let us remember that we have been given a heritage of dedication and faithfulness from the fathers we encounter in the Bible and from those fathers who exemplify the best qualities of parenting.
PRIEST CALLED TO CONFESSION AS YEAR CLOSES
The first day of the most numerous international meeting of priests in history was marked by the call to conversion and the need top approach the sacrament of reconciliation with God. Addressing some 10.000 priests who has already arrived in the Eternal City on Wednesday to take part in the closing of the Year for Priests, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop pf Cologne, affirmed that just as the “Church must always be reformed” ( Ecclesia simper reformanda ), so bishops and priests “must always be reformed” (simper reformandus). In the meditation the cardinal gave Wednesday morning, before the celebration of Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, he said that priests, like Paul on the way to Damascus, “must fall off their horse again, to fall in to the arms of the merciful God.” It is not enough in our pastoral work to correct only the structures of our Church so that it is more attractive. It isn’t enough! What is lacking is a change of heart, of my heart”, he stressed. “Only a converted Paul was able to change the world, not an engineer of ecclesiastical structures”, the cardinal clarified at the start of the international meeting of priests, convoked by Benedict XVI and organized by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy. Cardinal Meisner said that “one of the most tragic losses” the Church suffered in the second half of the 20th century was “the loss of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of reconciliation”. The lack of participation in the sacrament “{1} s at the root of many evils in the life of the Church and in the life of the priest,” he continued. “When Christian faithful ask me: “How can we help our priests?” I always respond: “Go to confession with them”. According to the German cardinal, “whenever a priest stops hearing confession, he becomes a religious social agent” and “falls into a grave crisis of identity”. “A priest who is not found frequently on one side or the other of the of the confessional’s grille, suffers permanent damages to his soul and his mission,” the cardinal declared. “A confessional where a priest is present, in an empty church, is the most important symbol of God’s patience, {God} who waits.” In the confessional, the cardinal continued, “the priest can cast a glance at the hearts of many persons, and from there arise motivations, encouragement, aspirations for his own following of Christ.” Confession, “allows us to access a life in which one can only think of God.” He said, “To go to confession means to begin to believe again, and at the same time to discover that up to now we have not trusted in God in a sufficiently profound way and that, for this reason, we must ask forgiveness.” In conclusion, one finds in this sacrament “the merciful Father with his most precious gifts, that is, his commitment, forgiveness, and grace”.
June 20th Week Announced Masses:
Saturday, June 19th
5:00am 2nd Anniversary Dorothy Hickey Harrop, req. Son, Dr. Daniel S.Harrop, III
Sunday, June 20th (Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
9:00am For the Intentions of the Father’s Day Donor Envelopes
11:15am Month’s Mind Donald J. Rossi, req., family
Monday, June 21st (St. Aloysius Gonzaga)
8:00am For a Special Intention, req, friend
Tuesday, June 22nd (St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop, St. John Fisher, bishop and martyr, St. Thomas More, martyr.)
8:00am Available for Intention
Thursday, June 24th (The Nativity of St. John the Baptist)
8:00am Memorial Helen Coleman and deceased family in Ireland
Friday, June 25th
8:00am Memorial Rev. Americo Lapati, req., Msgr. Raymond B. Bastia
Saturday, June 26th
5:00pm Available for Intention
Sunday, June 27th (Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
9:00am 13th Anniversary Oliveiro Pina , req., wife and daughters
11:15am Memorial George & Matilda Reilly, req., Family
June 20th Sacrificial Giving Report
JUNE 2010
2009 2010
Envelopes (72) $1734.00 (65) $1434.00
Loose $ 774.75 $ 960.00
Children $ 3.25 $ 3.00
TOTALS $ 2512.00 $ 2397.00
Thank you for your generosity!
Catholic Communications Campaign: $707.00
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The Sanctuary Candle will burn this week in honor of Our Lord:
And in memory of:
De. & Mrs. Daniel S. Harrop, Jr.
Req.
Dr. Daniel S. Harrop, III
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The Altar Bread will be offered this week in honor of Our Lord:
And in memory of:
Lawrence A. Roberge, Sr. and Vincent P. McWillliams
Req.
Daughter & Wife
OVERSEAS MISSIONS: At all Masses the weekend of July 3rd & 4th , 2010, Sister Emerita McGann, CDP., a Sister of Divine Providence, from Melbourne, Kentucky, will be our guest speaker. The Sisters of Divine Providence, Madagascar need our financial help. In such a poor country, the Sisters struggle not only to provide for their basic needs, but for the needs of the poor as well. They need funds to educate their young native sisters and to feed, shelter and clothe them. Through your donation you share in the life and works of mercy of sisters of Divine Providence, Madagascar in a special way. You become for them and for all those whose lives they touch, a sign of God’s loving Providence..
About Mass Intentions
It is the long-standing tradition of the Church that each Mass may have an intention, for either a living person, a person who has died, or a particular intention. The value of ONE Mass is beyond our imagining, and the practice of having a Mass offered on someone else’s behalf is a reminder of our profound interconnectedness as members of the Body of Christ. Perhaps there is a deceased relative, a living friend or family member in need, or even an intention which you hold in your heart. Consider having a Mass celebrated for your intention. Call the Rectory to book an upcoming Mass.