Saturday, July 5

Daniel M. Perry

Sunday, July 6

8 a.m. for the People of the Parish

9:30 a.m. Vincent Worden

11 a.m. Maria Cabral

Mon. July 7 James Meehan

Tues. July 8 Souls in Purgatory

Wed. July 9 Souls in Purgatory

Thurs. July 10 Raymond Furtado

Friday July 11 Ernest and Clotilde Correia

Sat. July 12 John and Mary Medeiros

Sunday, July 13

8 a.m. Ludjero Estrella

9:30 a.m. Gilbert Lopes

11 a.m. Alphonse J. Spoor

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FR. ENAN WILL BE STAYING WITH US FOR A MONTH. FR. ENAN NOW TEACHES IN THE SEMINARY UNIVERSITY OF HIS DIOCESE IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA.

Any parishioner who has their children at the school and would like to receive the school subsidy 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.

The second collection will be for Fr. Francis and his missionary work. The other scheduled collections will be collected in the first collection on that weekend.

PARISH FESTIVAL

AUGUST 8, 9, 10

We need parishioners who will be willing to give their time to work some of the booths on that weekend. There are lists in the gathering area for parishioners to sign up.

New Gifts Needed

for the Adult and Children’s Twistee Booths

and for the Chinese Auction. Please leave these gifts in the gathering area of the church on a table that are designated for them.

Baked goods needed

There is a sign up sheet for parishioners who would like to volunteer to make baked goods for the Festival.

is a coalition of Protestant and Catholic congregations in the cities of New Bedford and Fall River. ( The congregations in New Bedford are: St. James, Our Lady of Assumption, Mt. Carmel, St. Lawrence, Immaculate Conception, Primitive United Methodist Church, and Grace Episcopal Church.)

The coalition is organized to follow community organizing principles. Two full time community organizers help UIA. They are Ray Gagne and Fernanda De Souza. It is their role to help the members of UIA to hear what the concerns are in the community from the grass roots people in the two cities. Through house meetings and one on one contacts the concerns of people are put in order of importance (the concerns that people speak more about).

Work is done on these concerns by contacting city and state officials. A plan is then presented to address the problems.

The topics that will be discussed will be the growing problem of crime and violence in our neighborhoods; the addressing of the problem of a large drop-out rate at our high school; the need for job training by providing classes in English; and the concerns of the growing Brazilian and Hispanic communities in our two cities.

Parishioners are invited to attend to speak about any of these issues as they affect them and their neighborhoods.

These meetings are held in preparation for an ACTION meeting in the fall.

Because of the limited space, two tickets will be made available to each parish. If there are any parishioners who would like to go (and would go) to this celebration, please contact Fr. Ed.