Feb 22 2015 - Saint Agnes Parish

The Temptations of Christ
12th century mosaic at St Mark's Basilica, Venice
The First Sunday of Lent
February 2121-22, 2015
Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts
Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
Next weekend the Catholic Appeal will be taken up in our Parish.
In preparation, we invite you to consider prayerfully making a generous gift.
By supporting the Appeal, you support our Parish.
To make an online pledge, please visit www.bostoncatholicappeal.org.
Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this year’s Appeal.
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
Abstinence is observed on Fridays of Lent.
On these days, no meat may be
used at all. Catholics over 14
years of age are bound to the
obligation of abstinence.
Vespers: On Sundays during
Lent the Arlington Parishes
invite parishioners to participate in Evening
Prayer. Come and join in the Lenten prayer of
the Church. Today, Sunday, February 22,
Vespers will be at 4:00 P.M. at Saint Agnes
Church. Next Sunday, March 1, Vespers will
be at Saint Camillus Church.
Thank you to the family of the late William Doris, who
asked that donations in William’s
memory be made to Fidelity House.
We are grateful and ask parishioners
to remember William and his family
in their prayers.
No Class this week.
Classes March 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.
Works of Mercy: Thanks to the
students who raised $457.16 for
the Fund for the Unborn!
On Saturday, March 7,
students will serve at Cor Unum Meal Center. Spaces
are still available on the bus! Please call Nancy
Feeman at 781-641-6621 if you would like to sign up.
“The Light Is On For You”: On Wednesdays
of Lent, 6:30-8:00 PM, Saint Agnes Church and
all parishes and chapels of the Archdiocese of
Boston will be open for individual Confessions.
The
Archdiocese
has
a
website,
www.TheLightIsOnForYou.org, to help you
prepare. Please make plans to come on Lenten
Wednesdays and spread the word of this special
outreach of mercy to those you know.
Saint Agnes Month’s Mind Bereavement Mass
As an expression of sympathy, every month,
Saint
Agnes
Parish
celebrates a Month’s Mind
Mass to remember the
parishioners whose Funeral
Masses
were
celebrated
during the previous month.
Today the Month’s Mind Mass remembers:
Edythe Burke, Gerald Sweeney, Joanne
Santosuosso,
James
C.
McLaughlin,
Joseph M. Cauley, Sheila Griffin, Roselyn M.
Proulx, Cathleen E. Kerr, Henry A. Sheehan,
Kenneth Petrucci, Loretta Quinn, Marie
Dudley, John Geoghegan, Constance
Collins, John P. Kelly, Patricia E. Galluzzio
and Helen Donalds.
If you are a new parishioner, please
introduce yourself to one of our
priests, complete a census form and
drop it in the collection box. Census
forms are at the back of the Church.
Parish Coffee and Donuts: At the conclusion of the
9:00 Mass, hosted by the Saint Agnes
Parish Evangelization Committee.
Please join us in the Arlington Catholic
High School cafeteria for fun and
fellowship with other parishioners! We
need Parish families to help us
continue with this great ministry. If you wish to help
set-up/take-down the coffee hour, contact Marianne
Hudelson: [email protected]. We need
donations of coffee and paper goods, or gift cards to
Dunkin’ Donuts or Stop and Shop. Thank you!
Our Children’s Choir had to reschedule due to
snow, so our next rehearsal and Mass
will be next Sunday, March 1, at the
9:00 AM Family Mass with 8:15 AM
rehearsal. We welcome new singers,
all grades, starting in 1st grade on up!
Don't forget to put our Holy Week
dates on your calendar: Palm Sunday
March 29, Good Friday April 3 and Easter Sunday
April 5! Contact Michael Vaughan with questions:
617-833-0364, [email protected].
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
10:30 A.M.
12:00 Noon
Month’s Mind Bereavement Mass
Wayne Cooper
1st Anniversary
7:00 A.M.
5:30 P.M.
Genaro Laverde
Anniversary
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
7:00 A.M.
5:30 P.M.
Mary Hughes
Civitina and Salvatore Albano
Anniversary
Memorial
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
7:00 A.M.
5:30 P.M.
Thomas and Catherine Britt
James Rubino
Anniversary
Memorial
Thursday, February 26, 2015
7:00 A.M.
5:30 P.M.
Special Intention
James and Dorothy Bina
Memorial
Friday, February 27, 2015
7:00 A.M.
5:30 P.M.
James and Mary McGrath
Adam Culhane
Memorial
Anniversary
Saturday, February 28, 2015
7:00 A.M.
4:00 P.M.
5:15 P.M.
Mary Belair
Frances McLaughlin
John Lionetta and Catherine Santagate
Memorial
Anniversary
Memorial
Sunday, March 1, 2015
10:30 A.M.
12:00 Noon
James A. Judge
Joan Woodward
1st Anniversary
1st Anniversary
Monday, February 23, 2015
Amantha Samatis, Geraldine Oliver, Jean Johnson, Sister Mary Donovan, SC, Sister
Therese Francis Lorenz, SC, Sister Dorothy Stinson, CSJ, and Deacon Aubert Lauture,
whose Funeral Masses were celebrated last week.
Schedule for the Week
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
7:00 P.M. - Fatima Apostolate Prayer Hour
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
6:30-8:00 PM Confessions– Lower Church
7:00 P.M. - Bereavement Meeting - Parish Center
The Offertory Collection was $7,776. The amount is
very low due to last week’s snowstorm.
The Catholic Appeal will be taken up next week,
March 1-2, as the second collection.
Bulletin Announcements must be
received at the Parish Center by
Monday morning.
Mass Schedule for Next Weekend
Saturday, February 28, 2015
4:00 P.M. Lower Church Father Flatley
5:15 P.M. Lower Church Father Bennett
Sunday, March 1, 2015
7:00 A.M. Lower Church Father Flatley
9:00 A.M. Upper Church Father Graham
10:30 A.M. Upper Church Father Flatley
12:00 Noon Upper Church Father Graham
5:00 P.M. Lower Church Father Graham
Saint Agnes Parish offers Online Giving. This
service is safe and secure and
convenient! Sign up at our
website: www.saintagnes.net.
We encourage parishioners
who sign up for Online Giving
to discontinue their weekly envelopes.
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
Saint Agnes Family Group meets
Tuesday mornings at different parks in
the area. We let the kids play and
enjoy building community with other
parents from the Parish.
Next
playgroup this Tuesday, February 24,
at 10:30 AM.
Marianne Hudelson:
[email protected], SaintAgnesParish.blogspot.com.
Women’s Bible Study meets on
February 24, in the Parish Center
at 7:30 PM. Study guides are
available: suggested donation $20.
[email protected]
or SaintAgnesParish.blogspot.com.
Tuesday,
People living with depression: Next meeting of
the depression peer support and prayer group,
Thursday, February 26, Saint Agnes Parish
Center, 6:30-8:00 PM. We listen, share, learn, pray
and provide spiritual support to each other in our
journeys through depression. If you are struggling
with depression, please come to share your story in
a faith-based, confidential and safe environment.
For more information, please contact Karen Celano
at 516-946-6287 or [email protected].
Prayer Line - If you are in need of
prayers, call the healing and restoration
prayer line at 617-442-3938 (located at
Mission Church, 1545 Tremont Street,
Boston). Healing service is the last
Sunday of the month at 2:00 PM.
Jesus overcame the temptations to wealth, power
and esteem. As we begin Lent, may
we open our hearts to the grace of
prayer, fasting and almsgiving. This
month, through your gifts, the Society
of Saint Vincent de Paul was able to
assist families by providing food and
helping with rent and utility bills. God bless you!
Adult Education for the New Evangelization will
resume, with a new seminar topic on February 25
at 7:00 PM! This Spring and Summer we will
continue Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series,
using his study course specifically on the New
Evangelization and the call of the Church in the
modern world.
This topic will consist of six
meetings, on the fourth Wednesdays of the
month at 7:00 PM in the Parish Center, finishing
in July. You need not come to every meeting to
reap the benefits of fruitful discussion and friendly
faces. Join us when you can! Light discussion and
refreshments will follow the 90 minute program.
For more information, please email Tom Harvey
[email protected], or visit the parish Outreach
blog,SaintAgnesParish.blogspot.com.
Saint Agnes will participate in the Lenten 40 Days
for Life campaign in Boston! 40
Days for Life is a community-based
campaign that draws attention to
the evils of abortion through the use
of a three-point program: Prayer
and fasting, Prayer vigil and
Community outreach.
40 Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful
approach to showing local communities the
consequences
of
abortion
in
their
own
neighborhoods, for their own friends and families.
Saint Agnes will be leading a rosary hour each
Sunday afternoon from 2-3 pm at Planned
Parenthood in Boston during the campaign. For
carpooling, we will meet at 1:30 pm in the public
parking lot adjacent to the Church. If you have
questions, e-mail [email protected].
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that
your strength lies.” - Mother Theresa
Saint Agnes Parish Mass of Anointing and
Luncheon will be celebrated
on Saturday, April 11 at
12:00 Noon. Volunteers are
needed as drivers, nurses,
greeters, hosts/hostesses and
people
to
make/donate
sandwiches and desserts.
Please call the Parish Center,
781-648-0220, and leave your
name and number and how
you can help.
If you are
donating
sandwiches
or
dessert, please let us know
what and how many you will
donate. You may deliver your donations before the
luncheon on Saturday by Noon. Thank you for your
kindness. If you need transportation, please call the
Parish Center at 781-648-0220 before Monday,
April 6.
Boston Sock Exchange - On
the second Saturday of each
month, the Boston Sock
Exchange ministry serves our
homeless brothers and sisters
on Boston Common. Please
bring men’s and women’s
winter clothing donations to the
bin at the back of the church or to the Parish
Center. We are especially in need of new socks
and warm gloves as well as cases of bottled
water. Join us in the Parish Center next Friday,
March 13, 7:00 PM, to prepare sandwiches and to
help organize donations. We are in need of
volunteers to help with distribution next
Saturday, March 14 at 11:00 AM on Boston
Common. Please note that anyone under the age
of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. For
information on volunteering, please contact
Sheila O’Brien: [email protected].
Men’s Bible Study studying the book of First
Corinthians.
Next meeting,
Thursday, March 5, at 8:00 PM.
Study guides are by donation
(suggested $20) and are available
at meetings.
Charlie Bailey:
[email protected] or SaintAgnesParish.blogspot.com.
Arlington Catholic High School All 80’s Reunion
Join us to celebrate our classes,
our friendships, our lives and our
era….
On Saturday March 7, Arlington
Catholic High School will be hosting a Decade
Reunion celebrating all of the classes from 1980
through 1989. We are inviting all AC alum from the
80’s to come to the AC gym where we will have a
DJ, light refreshments and a full cash bar. The cost
is $35 per person. Please contact Erin Simmons in
the Development Office for more details at
[email protected] or 781-648-0316.
Unequal Justice: The Consequences of Race
and class in Our Criminal Justice System: The
timely and important topic of inequities in our
criminal justice system as they relate to Race and
Class will be the focus of a program in the Arlington
Town Hall organized by the Town’s Vision 2020
Diversity Task Group.
The free event is on
Saturday evening, February 28. All are welcome to
this panel discussion and community conversation.
Saint Agnes Parish is happy to be a co-sponsor of
this program.
Panelists include Fred Ryan,
Arlington Police Chief, Peniel Joseph, Tufts
University civil rights historian, Frank Rudy Cooper,
Suffolk Law School Professor specializing in race
and masculinity and Don Perry, parole reform
activist. The panel will be introduced by Bonie
Bagchi Williamson, Co-chair of the Vision 2020
Diversity Task Group and moderated by David
Whitford, editor-at-large for Inc. magazine. Doors
open at 6:30 PM. Program starts at 7:00 PM.
Refreshments will be available.
Day to Celebrate Consecrated Life: The West
Region of the Archdiocese of Boston invites
Consecrated Women and Men to attend a Day to
Celebrate Consecrated Life, Saturday, February 28,
2015, 10:00AM-2:15 PM at Saint Ignatius Church,
Chestnut Hill. Panelists will be Sister Suzanne
Fondini, MFIC, Sister Sofia Millican, OCSO, and
Brother Kenneth Homan, S.J. The theme is Wake
Up The World: Yesterday, Today and Forever. To
request a Registration form, contact: Office of the
West Regional Vicar at 508-647-0296 Extension 10.
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
No Classes today.
Classes resume on March 1.
Saint Agnes School News
Celebrating 125 Years of Academic Excellence
The Family Liturgy Committee
is looking for new members. We
do not have coverage for every
Sunday. The commitment is one Mass a month (one
hour) from October through June and 3 meetings
during the School year. Kindly contact the Religious
Education Office for more information: 781-646-7559.
The third grade classes enjoyed a
class field trip to the New England
Aquarium on Thursday February 12.
The students reveled in activities
such as an aquatic show, the penguin
exhibit, and a scavenger hunt. The
students will recap their adventures with a follow up
paper on animal life.
Parents Breakfast and Visit - On Thursday, February
26, Saint Agnes School parents are invited to a thank
you breakfast and a visit to classrooms. The breakfast
is 7:45-to 8:30 AM in the cafeteria. The parents will
then be able to view their children's classrooms in
action, 8:30-10:00 AM. Please mark your calendars as
this is a great opportunity to see your child at work.
AAU Basketball – Tryouts for the Fidelity House
AAU Boys and Girls Basketball
Program will be held over the
next few weeks. Teams will play
throughout the Spring in local
tournaments. More information
is available at Fidelity House or visit our AAU
website: www.eteamz.com/fihoaau .
The Daddy/Daughter Dance will be held on Friday,
February 27, 6:00–8:00 PM. This SASFA sponsored
event is a yearly favorite. The theme of the dance is
Hawaiian luau. Highlights of the night will include
dancing with music, provided by our own 6th grade
teacher, Mr. Palmer, games, raffle prizes and photo
booth for a picture with your favorite girl. Don't miss
this enchanted evening.
Preschool and Pre-K Registration - Fidelity
House’s Preschool (2.9 years-4 years old) is
accepting registrations for the current school year
and for September. Our Preschool was established
in 1976. Our Pre-K is now in its 18th year. Hours
are 8:30-12:30. Experienced staff. Option of 2-5
days.
Affordable program licensed by the
Department of Early Education and Care.
Saint Agnes $10,000 Raffle - Save the date! The
North End comes to Saint Agnes School for its annual
$10,000 raffle dinner on Saturday, April 11. Save the
Date Flyers will be distributed in the weeks to come
and you will have the opportunity to reserve your ticket/
raffle numbers early. We look forward to the success of
one of the biggest fundraisers of the year to help
support the children of Saint Agnes School. It is a great
night!
Email [email protected] with any
questions. Thank you in advance for your continued
support! See you in April.
Save the Date – Fidelity House’s 18th Annual
Fundraiser will be held Saturday evening, May 18. A
silent auction, live auction, food stations, music and
dancing will be part of the fun.
Donate Your Car or Truck- and benefit Fidelity
House.
Free pick up, tax receipt, and RMV
processing done through www.donateforcharity.com
or call (866) 392-4483 and designate Fidelity House.
We appreciate your support.
Please come visit our School to see what a Catholic
education can do for you. Some of our classes are
near capacity. If you would like a tour of our School,
meet the teachers, and see the School in action,
please call Patricia Crane at 781 643-9031 ext. 305 or
email at [email protected]. We also offer
Shadow Days for prospective students. Shadow Days
run from 8:30-10:30 AM on the first Wednesday of the
month. Please call or email to sign up for a day.
On Line Registration - Visit www.fidelityhouse.org
and set up an account to register on line. Programs
with new sessions starting include; Tot Sports,
Instructional Floor Hockey on Tuesdays, Cooking,
Basketball for grades K-5 on Friday, Neighborhood
Basketball League, Lego Club, Archery, Dodgeball,
5th -8th grade Floor Hockey and more. New
program ideas are always welcome.
Saint Agnes School offers so much. We offer classes
in Spanish, music, art, computers, engineering, library,
and physical education starting in K1(Pre-K) and
continuing thru 8th grade. We also offer Latin starting
in grade 6. All our programs integrate the
Massachusetts Common Core Curriculum standards
with an appreciation for the spiritual development of
each child. We feature small class sizes, cutting edge
curriculum, and updated technology all grounded in a
faith based Catholic tradition.
Please visit www.fidelityhouse.org to register online or call 781-648-2005 for more information.
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
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Saint Agnes Parish, Arlington, Massachusetts - The First Sunday of Lent - February 21-22, 2015
Rev. Brian M. Flatley, Pastor
Rev. John J. Graham, Parochial Vicar
Religious Education
781-646-5579
[email protected]
Joyce Patriacca, Director
Arlington Confirmation Program
781-641-6621
[email protected]
Nancy Feeman, Director
Saint Agnes School
781-643-9031
www.saintagnesschool.com
Saint Agnes Parish
Robert Penta, Principal
Sacrament of Baptism
Arlington Catholic High School
Baptisms are held on the first and third
Sunday of the month at 2:00 P.M. You
must attend Baptismal Briefings prior to
having your child baptized.
781-646-7770
www.achs.net
Stephen Biagioni, Principal
Saint Agnes Music Ministry
[email protected]
Sacrament of Penance
617-833-0364
www.agnesmusic.net
Michael Vaughan, Director
Saturday 3:00-4:00 P.M. and before the
5:15 P.M. Mass and also by appointment.
Please contact the Parish Center.
Fidelity House
781-648-2005
www.fidelityhouse.org
Edward Woods, Director
Sacrament of Marriage
51 Medford Street
Arlington, Massachusetts 02474
781-648-0220
Archdiocesan guidelines require that
couples planning to marry in the Church
make an appointment to see one of the
priests as far in advance as possible prior
to the wedding date.
E-mail address: [email protected]
Website:
www.saintagnes.net
Sacrament of Anointing
of the Sick
Facebook: Saint Agnes Parish Arlington, MA
Please call the Parish Office if someone in
your family is gravely ill and in danger of
death and you feel the grace and power of
the Sacrament would be helpful.
Monday-Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 AM-7:00 PM
Saturday, 9:00 A.M-2:00 P.M.
Office Hours:
Sunday Masses
Saturday
4:00 and 5:15 P.M. (Lower Church)
Sunday
7:00 A.M. (Lower Church)
9:00 A.M., 10:30 A.M., 12:00 Noon (Upper Church)
5:00 P.M. (Lower Church)
Our Family Liturgy is celebrated at 9:00 on Sunday morning.
Weekdays
Monday through Saturday
7:00 A.M. (Lower Church)
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