Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
Sharon, MA
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
Sharon, MA
Easter Flower Memorial Donations
Easter flower memorial donations have been made in memory of the following
loved ones of parishioners of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish. Please remember
these individuals in your prayers during the Easter season.
George Stevenson
Mary Ellen Bonfiglio
Claire Greve
The Dumont Family
The Methot Family
Laurentina Salema
Sarah Rusiecki
Edward Rusiecki
Jose Salema
Grace Salema
Evelina E. Emmi
Anthony J. Emmi
Joseph B. Clark
Loretta Clark
Dominic Butanowicz
Thomas Hughes
Edward & Regina Pasternack
Kiernan Families
Sharamitaro Families
Robert Sullivan
Barbara Giglio
Bob Giglio
Firefighter Kennedy, BFD
Firefighter Walsh, BFD
Eternal rest grant unto
Minck & McNulty Families
Daniel J. Sullivan
them, O Lord
Edna Rebello
And let perpetual light
Mary Roderick
shine upon them.
Eleanor Lavezzo
May their souls and all the
Angelina Rebello
Michael Kurtzer
souls of the faithful
Ron Kurtzer
departed,
Selma & Peter Ingegneri
Through the mercy of God,
Harold & Jean Artz
Rest in peace, Amen.
Eleanor Tobias
Arthur Bullard
Agnes & Roland Aussant
Catherin & Charles Menz
Kenneth & Brion Ball
Vincent & Robert Menz
Donna & Robert Norton
Harriet Bullard
Dolores Kemp
Laurentina Salema
Sarah Rusiecki
Edward Rusiecki
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Second Sunday of Easter
Eleanor Delaney
Lawrence Durkee, Sr.
Elaine Durkee
Rosemary Elliott
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Goulart
Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Rose
Mrs. Mary Travers
Cliff Tate
Leonard J. Prosack
Miguel von Fedák
Malaysia Flight 370 Victims
The Firefighters of Boston
Carolyn Cleveland
Anthony Santos
Eileen Sullivan
Gloria Mazzaferro
Stanislaw Kedzior
Mary & Joseph Skiendiel
Robert J. Parilla
Robert J. Parilla, Jr.
Pierre & Ruth Graveline
Conrad & Rita Gervais
Anton & Rajes Emmanuel
The Cook Families
The Dowdell Families
William Grant, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Johnson
Anna Chrappa
Anna Thomson
Clifford DeCoste
John D. & Mary A. Mason
Elizabeth Statkus Griffin
Ernest & Theresa Venti
Eileen, Louis & Larry Corrado
Americo & Rosetta Dakille
Domenic & Virginia DiLoreto
Angelina & james Cassarino
Vincenza Herrick
Rose & Sam DiLoreto
Dana D. Zadrozny
Sue & vic DiLoreto
Mafalda DiLoreto
Evelina E. Emmi
Anthony J. Emmi
Joseph B. Clark
Loretta Clark
Sharon, MA
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
Today’s Music
Gathering Song: G3 #536 At the Lamb’s High Feast We
Sing
Communion Song: G3 #524 Alleluia, Alleluia, Give
Thanks to the Risen Lord
Sending Forth Song: G3#680 We Walk by Faith
Responsorial Psalm:
Today’s Readings are on page 1066.
Scripture for the week of April 27, 2014
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Acts 2:42-47/1 Pt 1:3-9/Jn 20:19-31
Acts 4:23-31/Jn 3:1-8
Acts 4:32-37/Jn 3:7b-15
Acts 5:17-26/Jn 3:16-21
Acts 5:27-33/Jn 3:31-36
Acts 5:34-42/Jn 6:1-15
1 Cor 15:1-8/Jn 14:6-14
Acts 2:14, 22-33/1 Pt 1:17-21/Lk 24:13-35
2nd Sunday
of Easter
Monday 9:00 Josephine Cabral, 10th Anniversary
Wednesday 9:00 Angelo Polito—5th Anniversary
Saturday 9:00 Margaret Wyman
Certain moments in
life are “oh, no” moments. We suddenly realize that what
we thought was absolutely true turns out not to be. Facts
and new information forces us to re-think our position and
we have to admit to ourselves and to others that we were
wrong. Our certainty gives way to truth and we realize our
mistake; hence, the ‘oh, no.’
Prayers for the Deceased
Jaime Garcia, Carmel Murphy, Mark Rutherford, Anthony
Badessa, Thomas Hughes
Prayers for the Sick
Elsie Barnor, Jody Thomas, Maura O’Toole, Anthony
Venti, Ed Walsh, Melina Diaz, Lorraine Thomas, Joe Mason, Maureen Irvine, Bryna Stock, Mark Kincaid, Phyllis
Smalley, Ricardo Balarezo, Bob Naughton, Sue Hayna,
Gonzalo Perez, Stacey Siegal, Ann Marie McGrath, Dale
Van Meter, Lucille Blain Salhany, Raquel Balarezo,
Jimmy Testa, Valarie Chiodo, Thelma Sirkin, Sandra Bolton-Mason, Don Friend, Bruce Smith, Mary Fitzgerald,
Neil Cronin, Anne Friend, William Trainor, Carol Nagobads, George Brown, Atticus Venti, Noah Bartell, Pam
Bailey, Sister Anna V. Oncia, Sue Wall, Gertie DiLoreto,
Colin O’Brien, Donna Prado, Sherril White, Michael
Pellegrini, Roberta Devlin, Jeanette Carey, Carin Soulavy,
Maureen Giacchino, Mary Ramsbottom, Kay & Richard
Donati, Annanette Harper, Kathy Totino, Jessica Davis,
Karen Trudeau, Howie Moore, Mary Anne Harris
Thomas has an “oh, no” moment. He and the Apostles had
been with Jesus throughout His ministry. They were the
first witnesses to His work, His words, and His miracles.
Yet they were at first very skeptical about His resurrection.
When he appeared, Thomas was absent and the others
tried to convince him that they had seen Jesus. He doubted
their testimony. So when Jesus appears to Thomas, he has
an ‘oh, no’ moment. He not only dismisses his doubts, but
he also professes his faith.
In the community of the Church, we experience the Risen
Lord. In word and sacrament, in prayer and service, we
find the assurance of the Lord. Together we join Him in
working towards the goal of our faith: eternal life.
~James Gaffney, © 2008 Karides Lic. to St. George Publishing
jim@stgeorgepublishing.com
Labels Are for Jars Reminder
If you did not get a chance to return your jar, please do so
this week. We will send a check to Cor Unum Meal Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts on Thursday. Thank you.
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Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
Sharon, MA
First Communion
This year we will continue our local
custom of celebrating First Communion at various regularly scheduled parish Masses during the Easter Season.
We will celebrate First Communion at the 4:30 p.m.
Masses on Saturday, May 3 and 10, and the 9:30 a.m. and
11:30 a.m. Masses on Sunday, May 4 and 11.
Why celebrate First Communion during the Easter Season? Since First Communion is a sacrament of initiation,
the Easter Season is an appropriate time to celebrate it as
well as the other sacraments of initiation - Baptism and
Confirmation. We will celebrate Baptism on April 27 and
May 4 and 17 and Confirmation on May 9 – all in the
Easter Season. Nicholas Duhamel will be welcomed into
the Christian community and the Catholic Church through
the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist at
the Easter Vigil on April 19. The Easter Season is a joyful
time to celebrate all the sacraments of initiation - Baptism,
Confirmation, Eucharist.
Why celebrate First Communion at regularly scheduled
parish Masses? Why not have "separate" and "special"
Masses for First Communion? The key to the answer lies
in our belief the Eucharist (First Communion) is a sacrament of initiation - initiation into the worshipping community of faith. Separate First Communion Masses and some
of the customs surrounding them give the mistaken impression that celebrating the Eucharist and receiving Communion is a once-in-a-lifetime event like a baptism or a
wedding. The children are being initiated into the ongoing
sacramental life of the parish. It is important for the parish
community to be part of the Eucharistic celebration during
which the children will share at the Eucharistic table for
the first time.
First Communion is a significant moment both for the
children and their families and the whole parish community. It's a time for the whole gathered assembly to welcome these children to the table of the Lord. We do so
with great joy! May the community's active presence and
participation at the Eucharistic celebrations during which
the children will share for the first time at the Eucharistic
table cause all of us to reflect on the gift of the Eucharist
in our own lives and in the life of our parish community.
Thank You.
The church looked beautiful for Easter! A
big thank you to all the wonderful parishioners who came Saturday, April 19, to
decorate the church: Kathy Hawes, Kate
Mason, Edith Semelfort, Sally Glover,
Carol Roberto, Maureen Duffy, Pat Blansfield, Jean Santos, and Mary O’Dwyer.
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St Gerard's Church is hosting a presentation
on Medical Ethics/ End of Life Concerns
with Rev Myles Sheehan, S.J., MD. on
Wednesday evening, May 7 from 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Fr. Sheehan, S.J. Is a physician trained in internal medicine and geriatrics. He currently serves as the
provincial of the New England Province of the Society of
Jesus. For more information on Fr. Sheehan, please visit
www.sjnen.org.
This evening is sponsored by the Adult Faith Formation
committee in collaboration with St. John and St. Gerard
parishes.
Eastertime: A Sense of the Season
First, we kept the forty days with praying, fasting and giving alms. Then we celebrated the three days of Christ’s
passion, dying and rising. Now we delight in the fifty
days with rejoicing, feasting and giving witness. The season of Easter is fifty days long. It is a time of unbridled
joy and exuberant rejoicing. The church tells us “The fifty
days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost are celebrated in
joyful exultation as one feast day, or better as one ‘great
Sunday.’ These above all others are days for the singing
of the Alleluia.”
Why is Eastertime fifty days? The ancient cultures that
gave us the Bible had great respect for numbers. They
believed that numbers contained hints about God and the
meaning of life. The number seven was thought to contain fullness: There are seven days in the week, according
to God’s original way of ordering time, creating all that
there is and resting. So If you multiply 7 times 7, you
have “fullness times fullness.”
Bust wait! 7 times 7 is 49! With God, there is always
more—more than we can ever imagine. So our holy season of Easter is even more than “fullness times fullness.”
It’s “fullness times fullness” and then some: 7 times 7+1.
That’s what love is like: more than we can ever imagine.
That’s what heaven is going to be like: more than we can
ever imagine.
The fifty days are days for looking for the risen Lord
among us, for hearing in each other’s stories of rising
from the big and small deaths, days when we experience
something of Christ’s triumphs. That’s why we look to
the newly baptized, robed in bright new clothes and oily
with gladness: At Easter, they died and rose with Christ!
Now they take their places with us. Together, like the
apostles who were so full of the Spirit that people thought
they were drunk, we rush about with good and giddy
news: Death is not the last word. Life and love are forever. And slowly, painstakingly, we work together, together with Christ, to change this world into the world to
come. Sing Alleluia!
Copyright ©1997 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications,
1800 North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL 60622-1101; 1-800-933-1800.
Text by David Philippart.
Second Sunday of Easter
Sharon, MA
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
All Parishioners Are Invited to Fr.
Scott’s Final Mass and Farewell
Reception
Please join us to celebrate Fr. Scott, wish
him well in his future as the pastor of Holy
Family Parish in Amesbury and Star of the
Sea Parish in Salisbury, and to show him how much we
appreciate all he has done for us!
Date: Mass on May 31 at 4:30 p.m. followed by an Open
House Reception 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. Come anytime and
bring your cards and best wishes to Fr. Scott. The formal
program starts at 6:30.
Where: O’Connell Hall and parking lot
Our major gift to Fr. Scott will be contributions to
NEADS, the organization who trained Lazer, his ministry
dog. Contributions are tax deductible.
If you wish to bring a dessert or make a contribution towards the party, please contact Fabiola Aguilera at 781784-2265 ext. 11 or faguilera@comcast.net
Memories of Fr. Scott Needed
We are collecting pictures and stories of Fr. Scott for a
slideshow. Please send your pictures to faguilera@comcast.net or drop them off at the Rectory.
Children’s Hospital Blood Drive at
St. Timothy’s Parish, Norwood
Give Pints for Half-Pints. St. Timothy’s Parish is hosting a Blood Drive to benefit Boston
Children’s Hospital on Saturday, May 3, 2014.
The Bloodmobile will be at the church parking
lot from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. To schedule an appointment
to
donate,
please
log
onto
www.halfpints.childrenshospital.org. sponsor code is
STCNORW or call the parish office - 781-769-2522, x 34.
For specific questions about donating blood or eligibility,
call the Blood Donor Center at 617-355-6677.
Good Friday—Holy Land Collection
$610 was contributed to the Good Friday Collection which
supports the sacred places and the educational, charitable
and peace-seeking ministries of the Church in the Holy
Land. Thank you for your generosity.
Spirituality of Stewardship
Receiving God’s Gifts gratefully; Nurturing God’s Gifts
responsibly; Sharing God’s Gifts in love and justice;
Returning God’s Gifts generously.
Collection – Easter, April 20
$8,127 was contributed for the Easter Collection. Thank
you for your generosity. If you were unable to give to the
Easter collection last weekend, you may still make a contribution by placing your Easter offering in the collection
basket or mailing it to the rectory.
2014 Catholic
Appeal Update
Thank you to all our generous parishioners who have contributed to this year’s Catholic
Appeal. As of April 16, 107 donors had contributed
$16,658. In order to reach our goal, we still need about 50
more donors. Your donations allow our Archdiocese to
provide many services for our parish, and further its mission of evangelization, education, and charity. If you have
yet to respond, please make a pledge today and help us
reach our goal by June 30. Your pledge can be paid in
monthly installments through January 31, 2015. For more
information, please visit www.BostonCatholicAppeal.org
Easter Collection
The Easter collection for the Clergy Health and Retirement
Trust supported the health and well being of our 638 active
and senior diocesan priests. Thanks to your generosity,
our parish raised $8,127 in support of Fr. John O’Donnell
and all our priests who faithfully serve our Catholic family
in the Archdiocese of Boston. Our parish contribution will
have a significant impact on the quality of life programs
we are able to provide for our priests. If you were out of
town this past weekend, or did not have the opportunity to
participate, all are welcome to make a donation online at
www.clergyfunds.org. On behalf of all our priests, thank
you for your generous support of the Clergy Health and
Retirement Trust.
Welcome to Our Lady of Sorrows Parish. We encourage all our parishioners who worship with us to register. Our
registry is a vital source of connection we use to communicate and build community. Please call the rectory, 781-7842265, or return this form to the rectory by the collection basket, mail, or in person. Thank you.
Name: ________________________________________ Email: ____________________________________
Street Address: __________________________________Town: _____________________Zip: ___________
Tel. # _________________ Names & ages of any children ________________________________________
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Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
Sharon, MA
O U R L A DY O F S O R R O W S P A R I S H
59 Cottage St, Sharon MA 02067
Parish Office (781) 784784-2265 • • www.myolosparish.org
Welcome!
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish welcomes you. Thank you for worshiping in our parish. If you are new here,
please introduce yourself to any of the staff. We encourage you to register with us in the parish by calling
the rectory. Our registry is a vital source of information we use to communicate and build community.
We welcome and greatly appreciate your presence at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish.
Liturgy Schedule
Our Vision
Saturday ~ 4:30 p.m. Sunday ~ 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 a.m.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday 9:00 a.m.
Thursday, Liturgy of the Word and
Distribution of the Eucharist ~ 9:00 a.m.
Holy Days as announced.
We welcome all to our community as we celebrate and
explore our Catholic faith.
We embrace the unique religious composition of Sharon.
We proclaim the Risen Lord who gathers us as a
community.
We pursue open dialogue as we follow the teachings of
Jesus Christ through lifelong learning and faith
formation.
We practice and promote social justice that affirms the
Dignity of every human being.
We call upon the grace and talents of all parishioners to
strengthen our living church.
Sacraments
We welcome those seeking the sacraments of the Church.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered Saturday from
3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., Wednesday during Lent at 6:30
p.m. or by calling the rectory for an appointment. For
information on celebrating the other sacraments, please
contact the rectory.
Please visit our full Vision Statement at our website.
Eucharistic Adoration
Pastoral Staff
Monday ~ 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The first Monday of the
month ends with Evening Prayer and Benediction. All
other Mondays end with a simple Reposition.
Rev. Scott A. Euvrard, Pastor
Rev. Mr. Michael Iwanowicz, Senior Deacon
Fabiola Aguilera, Volunteer & Social Coordinator
Jacqueline Baldino, Director of Faith Formation
Mary Herx-Morrill, Coordinator of Faith Formation
Susanne Osberg, Director of Music and Organist
Kerry Payson, Youth Ministry Director
Claire Ramsbottom, Staff Associate
The Rosary
Friday ~ 10:00 a.m.
Connecting
If you are housebound and would like to receive the
Eucharist, if you are in need of prayer or if you need
assistance from our community, please call the rectory or
send us an email. We want to hear from you.
Weekend Associates
Rev. Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Rev. Kevin Spicer, C.S.C.
Support Staff
Contact Us:
We welcome your ideas and involvement. Please contact
us. We also invite you to visit and contribute to our prayer
book in the rear of the church.
Rectory: 781-784-2265
Religious Ed. : 781-784-5091
Youth Ministry: 781-784-2206 FAX: 781-784-2540
Web: www.myolosparish.org Email: OLOSParish@aol.com
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Deborah Lafleur, Administrative Assistant for Pastoral
Staff and Special Projects
Christine Muldoon, Administrator
Larry Seggelin, Maintenance Coordinator
Parish Councils Chairpeople
Parish Pastoral Council: Rev. Scott A. Euvrard
Ann Marie Rosa
Parish Finance Council: Jim Spoto
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