FEBRUARY 18, 2001

7th Sunday In Ordinary Time

MASS INTENTIONS

Sat. Feb. 17 @ 4p.m

Gail Carol Medeiros Martin

Sun. Feb. 18

8 a.m. For the People of the Parish

9:30 a.m. Paul and Eileen Rezendes

11 a.m. Leo J. Telesmanick

Daily Mass is celebrated in the chapel at 9 a.m.

Mon. Feb. 19 Florence and Arthur Dube

Tues. Feb. 20 Florence and Arthur Dube

Wednesday, Feb. 21 Mary and Manuel Amaral, Jr.

Thursday, Feb. 22 Olive Anderly

Friday, February 23 Matthews Family

Saturday, Feb. 24 @ 4p.m.

Theresa Rodriques

Sunday, Feb. 25

8 a.m. Mary Regan

9:30a.m. John Medeiros

11 a.m. Lionel Robitaille

PARISH MEETINGS

VOCATIONS: EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS A special display of Pictures of Fr. Tom Washburn 's First Mass and Ordination to the Priesthood will be shown in the gathering area of the church during the month of February.

Saturday, February 24

There will be a parish supper at 5:30 p. »L in the church hall, It will be a meat pie supper.

Wednesday, February 28 Ash Wednesday Masses: 9 a. m. 3: 30 p. m. and 7 p. m. On the two Sundays before Ash Wednesday, the rice bowls and the sacrificial offering cards will be made available for those who want to use them during Lent.

Thanks to Deacon Larry St. Onge, St. James Parish now has a new home web page on the internet http://members.nbci.com/saintjames_nb

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Invites parishioners to donate certain food items each week during the weeks of Lent so that adequate bags of food can be given to the poor families of our parish. The poor will be a part of our Lenten journey to our renewal of our baptismal promises at Easter.

*Sunday, March 4 First Sunday in Lent spaghetti sauce and canned vegetables

*Sunday, March 11 Second Sunday in Len canned meat and fish (spam and tuna fish etc.) and jam / jelly

*Sunday, March 18 Third Sunday of Lent Canned spaghetti and pasta (macaroni, spaghetti, shells etc.

*Sunday, March 25 Fourth Sunday in Lent Canned tomatoes/ sauce and canned soups/beef stew.

*Sunday, April 1 Fifth Sundae in Lent Baked beans and peanut butter

*Sunday, April 8 Palm Sunday Canned fruit and macaroni and cheese dinner.

LENT IN OTHER CITY CHURCHES

Daily Masses in Lent.

St. Lawrence County St. 7 a.m.

St. Anne Brock Ave. 11 a.m.

St. John the Baptist County St. Noon

Mt. Carmel Rivet St. 5:30 p.m.

Lenten Devotions

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Mary's South Dartmouth on Tuesday afternoon

Stations of the Cross at St. Lawrence Church on Friday at 4 p.m.

LENTEN PARISH MISSION Will be held for all the churches in our city at Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church on Mt. Pleasant St. in New Bedford. March 26 ‑ March 29 at 7 p.m.

Celebration of Mass will be held at 11 a.m. each day during the Mission for people who cannot make the evening Mass. Lenten preaching will be part of this Mass.

Every evening at 7 p.m. Mass will be celebrated with Lenten preaching.

There will be a Penance Service on the last night of the Mission at 7 p.m.

Fr. Marc Montminy of St. Marie Parish in Manchester, New Hampshire will preach at both the morning and evening Masses.

Mt. Carmel, St. John the Baptist and St. James Parishes will be sponsoring a bus to bring people to and from the Mission in the evening.

This can be a very important part of our Lenten journey. We encourage parishioners to take part in this experience of the bigger church.

ASH WEDNESDAY, FEBR VARY 28

The Liturgical Committee suggested that we try something to include all parishioners in a special way. Parishioners are invited to write on a piece of paper one fault or spiritual barrier that they would like to diminish during Lent. As they come for the signing of ashes during the Mass, they are asked to place this paper (unsigned) into a bowl. These will be placed near the cross during the season of Lent and burned at the Easter Vigil.

The reason why these papers will not be burned on Ash Wednesday is so that we will not take away from the importance of the Easter fire on Holy Saturday night. The sign of dying to these faults by these papers being burned in the Easter fire will then highlight the resurrection in our lives.

EASTER FLOWER MEMORIAL ENVELOPES Will be available in the entrances of the church next weekend. Parishioners are invited to write the names of their loved ones. Please place this in the collection no later than Palm Sunday so that these names can be published on Easter Sunday.

In next week's bulletin the regulations for fast and abstinence will be included. Although it is not the law of the Church, parishioners are invited to extend the fast and abstinence of Good Friday to Holy Saturday until the Easter Vigil. This extra time is called the Paschal Fast and is a special way of preparing for the Vigil and Feast of Easter.