Saturday, June 14

Gail Carol Medeiros Martin

Sunday, June 15

8 a.m. George Ferreira

9:30 a.m. Michael P. Salmon

11 a.m. William Brocklehurst

Mon. June 16 Manuel Dupont, Jr.

Tues. June 17 Robert Lyle- O’Donnell Family

Wed. June 18 Special Intention

Thurs. June 19 Lynda Vasconcellos

Friday June 20 Robert Lawrence

Sat. June 21 Manuel Oliveira

Sunday, June 22

8 a.m. For the People of the Parish

9:30 a.m. Forest R. Bates

11 a.m. Angie Samoisette

Robert Lawrence

http://www.saintjames-nb.org

Festival Meeting Wednesday June 18 at 7 p.m. in the rectory.

This summer please write or email Sen. Mark Montigny and Rep. Antonio Cabral. Urge them to reaffirm marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Ask them to support H3190, the Marriage Affirmation and Protection Amendment when it comes up for a vote in November. Your legislators need to hear from you. Include your home address. Mail letters to Hon. _______ State House, Boston, 02133. Email:

Mmontign@senate.state.ma.us

Rep. AntonioCabral@hou.state.ma.us

To the parents of St. James and St. John the Baptist School:

Any parishioner who has their children at the school and would like to receive the school susbsidy for the coming school year is asked to help set up the parking lot for the Festival on Monday, August 4; Tuesday August 5, and Wednesday, August 6 at 6:30 p.m. each evening. Also, you are asked to take everything down on Monday, August 11 and 12 at 6:30 p.m.

Pope St. Pius X established the Diocese of Fall River in 1904. The year 2004 will be our centennial celebration. This celebration will be an opportunity to look back on what

the local Church has been in the last one hundred years and what it will be in the next one hundred years.

In the last one hundred years the parish of St. James contributed in many ways to the up-building of the local Church of the Diocese. The parish school, St. Mary’s School, staffed by the Sisters of Mercy, touched many families of the parish through the formation of the Faith.

The list of people from St. James who entered religious life and the priesthood is endless. Bishops Gerard and Donaghy began at St. James.

The parish always had a pastor and three assistants because the parish was so large and the needs were many.

All parishioners who lived some part of this time can remember how St. James Parish touched them.

Now as we enter the second century, the local Church of Fall River will look differently. St. James enters the second century of the Diocese a very, very small parish. People have moved away. Many of our faithful parishioners have died. The numbers of baptisms, confirmations, and marriages are very small. The number of people who attend Mass on the weekend has gone down significantly. The number of children in our religious education program is very small.

The number of children in our school is very small. Our collections have gone down.

What does all of this mean? It means we cannot be the community of the last century anymore. It can mean that we can be still a community. It depends what the parishioners who still want to actively participate in the parish want to do.