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St. Patrick Parish
Living Catholic Tradition in Nashua
29 Spring St., Nashua, NH 03060
Tel. 603-882-2262 Fax: 603-577-9817
Website: www.stpatricksnashua.org
PARISH STAFF
Rev. Michael Kerper
Pastor
Rev. John Healey
Priest-in-Residence
Rosemary Daly, Office Manager
Jean Dickson, Bookkeeper
Gary McDonald, Music Director
Rel. Educ. Paul & Jennifer Murano
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Help for those in Need
Tel. 603-821-5267
Mass Schedule
Mon. - Fri. 12:05 PM (Daily Mass)
Sat. 4:00 PM (Organ & Cantor)
Sun. 7:00 AM (Quiet Mass)
9:30 AM (Organ & Cantor)
12:00 PM (Organ & Choir)
Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form)
Sat: 8:00 AM
Second Sunday of each Month
at 12:00 PM
Confession
Sat. 3:00 PM
Sun. 9:00 & 11:30 AM
Tues. through Fri. 11:30 AM
Office Hours
Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Fri. - 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Cemetery Office
Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Tel. 603-881-8131
St. Patrick Parish
LITURGICAL CALENDAR
& INTENTIONS
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - Vigil ~ 4th Sunday in Lent
4:00 PM
Robert William Madigan
By Robert Narkunas
Sunday, March 6, 2016 ~ 4th Sunday in Lent
7:00 AM
Joseph G. and Eva C. Fariz
By the Family
9:30 AM
Benefactors of the St. Vincent
De Paul Society
12:00 PM
Patrick Terrin
By Ann Casey
Monday, March 7, 2016
12:05 PM
Ralph and Laurette St. Jean
By Paul and Sandy Statz
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
12:05 PM
Robert Wolfgang
By Carol Clancy
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
12:05 PM
Phyllis Guisso
By Lazarus Guisso
Thursday, March 10, 2016
12:05 PM
John T. Sullivan
By the Family
Friday, March 11, 2016
12:05 PM
Julien and Joan Belanger
By Pat and Roselle Belanger
Saturday, March 12, 2016 - Vigil ~ 5th Sunday in Lent
4:00 PM
People of the Parish
Nashua, NH
REMINDER!
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Begins March 13, 2016
TURN YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD 1 HOUR!
GIFTS FOR THE LORD’S WORK
Weekend of Feb. 27 &28
From (185) Envelope Users:
From All Others - Checks:
- Cash:
Electronic Giving Users (23)
Total Collection
Mass Count:
$6,281.50
$1,652.00
$1,118.50
$1,217.82
$10,269.82
800
Fuel Collection
$100.00
St. Vincent de Paul
Weekend of Feb. 28
$624.00
Poor Box money is used to assist people in temporary
need who approach our Parish for financial assistance with
clothing, food, utilities, rent, prescriptions, etc. Indirect assistance is also provided through funds given to several local charities, including the Corpus Christi Food Pantry and
the Nashua Soup Kitchen. Donations are never used for
parish expenses. Your continuing contributions allow our
Parish to fulfill the Lord’s command to help “the least of
my brothers and sisters.”
Our St. Vincent de Paul members conduct confidential
personal visits to provide spiritual and financial support as
necessary. If you know of persons, either in or outside the
Parish, who might benefit from our assistance, please encourage them to call our dedicated phone line at 821-5267.
THANK YOU!
Sunday, March 13, 2016 ~ 5th Sunday in Lent
7:00 AM
Francisco Santos
By Joseph A. Fariz
9:30 AM
Anne Murray
By the Members of the Sodality
of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
and St. Philomena
12:00 PM
Normand Caron, 1st Anniversary
By the Family
Thank you for respecting God’s Holy Presence by keeping mobile
phones and other electronic devices outside of this Sacred Place.
COFFEE AND DONUTS
The Knights of Columbus invite you to join them in the
Gym after the 9:30 AM Mass on Sunday, March 6th for
Coffee and Donuts. Enjoy a time of refreshment and community with other members of our parish family. All are
welcome!
ST. PATRICK & HOLY CROSS CEMETERIES
St. Patrick Parish has two beautiful cemeteries
located in Hudson, NH - St. Patrick Cemetery on
Derry Road and Holy Cross Cemetery on Ledge
Road. For more information on available lots,
please contact Margie Gray at 603-881-8131.
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Fourth Sunday in Lent
DOING MERCY AT
ST. PATRICK’S
On frequent occasions, Pope Francis has called on the
Christian faithful to perform the spiritual and corporal
works of mercy. We do those things here, but during the
“Jubilee Year of Mercy” perhaps we should examine what
we currently do and consider what still needs to be done.
We have many people who live alone, who are homebound, and who are in nursing homes. Let’s think together
about what we should do as a parish. If you have ideas or
are interested in helping, please join us.
Thursday, March 10
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Parish Center - Room 1
March 6, 2016
Music & Texts for Vigil Mass
at 4:00 PM
Liturgy of the Word Missallette
4th Sunday in Lent
Texts and Readings pgs. 81 - 83
Collegeville Hymnal
Processional: #242 40 Days and 40 Nights
Communion Antiphon:
You must rejoice, my son, for your brother was dead and
has come to life.
Luke 15:32
Recessional:
VISITING AND SHARING
THE EUCHARIST
We need to renew our group of Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist who bring Holy Communion to many
people unable to come to Mass. If you are presently a
Minister of Holy Communion or are interested in this
work, please join us for a review and update about this
important “spiritual work of mercy.”
Thursday, March 17
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Parish Center - Room 2
Lenten Stations of the Cross
Every Friday of Lent
3:00 PM
(Traditional: St. Alphonsus version)
7:00 PM
(Biblical version with organ)
ST. PATRICK EVENING MEAL
TOGETHER DINNER
#568 Holy God We Praise Thy Name
UPCOMING LATIN MASSES
12:00 Noon
March 13, 2016
Passion Sunday
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Saturday Mornings
8:00 AM
(Church opens at 7:30 AM)
March 12, 2016
Feria of Lent
March 19, 2016
St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary
March 26, 2016
HOLY SATURDAY
No 8:00 AM Mass
April 2, 2016
Easter Saturday
LATIN/ENGLISH MISSALS AVAILABLE
1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missals in Latin and English are
available for purchase for $50.00. Contact Jack McGreevy at
603-888-5824 for more information or to obtain your missal.
April 23rd - 5:00 - 8:30 PM
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN NOTE
St. Patrick Parish will host its next evening meal together on April 23, 2016 from 5:00 to 8:30 PM in the Parish Gym. Save the date on your calendars and join us for
fellowship, great food and fun! Tickets will go on sale in
April. Watch the bulletin for more info.
When making donations to the Capital Campaign, we ask that
you put your check or cash donation for this project in a separate
envelope marked Capital Campaign. Be sure to include your
name and address on the envelope for tracking purposes. Thank
you!
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“Building on Our Past, Securing Our Future”
Capital Campaign
REST IN PEACE
Yvon Nadeau
Yvonne Smart
Beverly McGinley
Capital Campaign off to a great start!
Last weekend was “Commitment Weekend” for our
capital campaign. We are off to a great start with many
families pledging their support.
EASTER FLOWER ENVELOPES
Please place your “Commitment Envelope” in the regular
collection at Mass. If you forgot to bring your pledge envelope to Mass this weekend, please mail it to the parish office
this week or bring it with you to Mass next weekend. Additional brochures and pledge envelopes are available at the
entrance to the church.
We are asking all parishioners to consider a sacrificial pledge of $4,000 or more. With a 10% down payment
($400) your pledge would be $100/a month for three years
or $75/month for four years. All pledges and gifts, no matter
the amount, are greatly appreciated! Only through sacrifice
throughout the community can we achieve our goal of raising $850,000. Therefore, all contributions, from the smallest to the largest, will be gratefully appreciated
If you have not decided on your gift to the campaign, we
invite you to prayerfully consider making your pledge this
week. Please review the suggested gift plans and continue
the success of our campaign by making your gift as soon as
possible!
As you make your pledge . . . please remember: Pledges
should be made over a period of 3 or 4 years. Pledge payments are in addition to your weekly offertory commitment.
Payment reminders and a special payment envelope will be
mailed in accordance with the selected payment plan. All
contributions are tax deductible.
Thank you for your generous support.
Special offering envelopes to defray the cost of
decorating St. Patrick Church with flowers for the
Easter Season are available on the tables at the back of
the church. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to
honor or commemorate a loved one, and to help St.
Patrick’s look its best for the Easter Season.
We will be accepting Easter Flower donations beginning this weekend. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
LENTEN FRIDAY FISH DINNERS
March 11 and 18
St. Christopher Church Hall - 62 Manchester St., Nashua, NH
“CONSOLING THE HEART
OF JESUS” RETREAT
The Knights of Columbus are sponsoring the
“Consoling the Heart of Jesus” retreat in the St. Patrick
Parish Center, Room 1, from 10:30 AM to 12:00 noon. The
retreat will be held on the following Saturdays: March 12,
19 and 26. The final session will be held on April 2nd. The
final session times and location will be announced at a later
date.
The St. Christopher and St. Patrick Knights of Columbus
invite you to join them for their annual Lenten Fish Dinners
held on each Friday evening during Lent. Doors open at
4:30 PM and dinner is served until 6:30 PM. The cost for
the meal is $11 for adults. Pizza is available at $2 per slice.
Take out is available by calling 717-4980. Stations of the
Cross and Confession are held in St. Christopher Church
following the dinners. All are welcome.
Weather cancellation policy: Dinners are cancelled when
Nashua schools are cancelled.
A second series of sessions, will be held at St. Christopher Parish in the Pennell Center from 10:30 AM to Noon
on the following dates: (Tuesdays) March 8, 15, 22. A final
session on April 2nd will conclude the retreat and the location of this session will be announced at a later date.
Volunteers are needed for all aspects of the Fish Dinner
program. Contact Jim Lockwood by phone at 603-548-2152
or by email [email protected] or you can call
Don Sherwood at (603) 438-9050 or email him at [email protected] for more information.
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Annual Divine Mercy Sunday
Family Celebration
Sunday, April 3, 2013 – 10:30am
in the Gym at the Parish Center
This Family Gathering Session for the Faith Formation Program will consist of reciting the Chaplet of the
Divine Mercy after sharing in a pancake breakfast!
While this is required for all students and families
in the Faith Formation Program, all parish members
are welcome!
Community News
BE A BOOKWORM!
Elise Roy is conducting a community service project
called, “Be A Bookworm.” She is collecting used, elementary age chapter books in the back of the church. The books
will be donated to area classrooms to benefit students who
don’t have adequate resources to obtain reading materials.
Your contribution to this project is greatly appreciated! For
more info, call Elise at (603) 321-8731.
RECOGNIZING AND DEALING
WITH CAREGIVER STRESS
WEEKLY READINGS
Monday, March 7 at 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM
Bridges by Epoch Welcome Center
547 Amherst St., Suite 102, Nashua, NH
March 7 through March 13
Monday: Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13b; Jn 4:43-54
Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn 5:1-16
Wednesday: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18; Jn
5:17-30
Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; Jn 5:31-47
Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:17-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10,
25-30
Saturday: Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12; Jn 7:40-53
Sunday: Is 43:16-21; Ps 126:1-6; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11
Acting as a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia can be challenging and
stressful. Learn about common signs of caregiver stress, as
well as the best ways to cope. Presentation by: EPOCH
Memory Care Director Alicia Seaver, an impairment specialist certified by the National Institute on Aging.
RIVIER PRAYER COMMUNITY EVENTS
The Rivier Prayer Community invites you to join them at
the following upcoming events:
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MEETINGS THIS WEEK
Below is a list of Parish meetings being held in the
Parish Center this week. (PAL uses the gym Monday
through Saturday, unless otherwise arranged in advance).
Sunday, March 6: Religious Education Grades 1 - 6 in the
Center classrooms (Rooms 1 - 4) and Outer Gym Area.
Sunday, March 6: Coffee and Donuts after the 9:30 AM
Mass in the Gym. All are welcome.
Monday, March 7: Religious Education Grades 7 - 12 in
Classrooms 1 - 4.
Thursday, March 10: Doing Mercy at St. Patrick’s Meeting, Classroom 1; 7:00 to 8:15 PM.
Thursday, March 10: Boy Scouts in Classrooms 3 & 4 at
7:00 PM.
Friday, March 11: Youth Group in Classroom 1 from 7:00
to 9:00 PM.
Saturday, March 12: Consoling the Heart of Jesus Retreat
in Classroom 1. 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Please note: Schedule is subject to change. To schedule
a meeting or an event in the Center, please contact Rosemary Daly in the Office at 603-882-2262.
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A Healing Mass will be held on April 1, 2016 at 7:00
PM at Immaculate Conception Parish, 216 East Dunstable Rd., Nashua, NH; Rev. Moe Larochelle, Pastor
Ste. Marie Parish, Manchester will be our Celebrant.
(Divine Mercy Chaplet begins at 6:30 PM).
A New Pentecost: 8 Teachings to Prepare for a New
“Life in the Spirit” is a series of 8 DVD presentations
that will inspire and challenge you to pray with fervor.
Sessions will be held on Friday evenings from 7:30 to
9:30 PM at Rivier University, Memorial Hall, Room
104 beginning on Friday, April 8 and concluding on
Friday, May 27th. Registration will be held on Friday,
April 8 between 7:00 and 7:30 PM. For more information call Joanne Charron at 603-889-3483.
ELDER CARE FAIR
Saturday, April 16 - 8:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Immaculate Conception Parish Gathering Hall
Come learn how to plan for a safe future for you or a
loved one. Topics will cover the spectrum from stay-athome services to long-term care. Keynote speaker is Kathi
Rice-Orshak, VP Mission Integration and Ethics, St. Joseph
Hospital. Please join us on Saturday, April 16th from 8:30
AM to 12:00 noon in the parish center. A continental breakfast will be served. The program is free and open to the
public. Please call 888-0321 to register.
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The only safe investment: Give it away!
At a time when many focus on economic instability, growth, and so on, the Church sets before
us the remarkable story of St. Katharine Drexel (1858-1955), whose feast occurred on March 3. Her
highly unusual approach to "investing" deserves renewed attention.
Katharine's wealth consisted of a trust fund that she inherited from her father, Francis Anthony
Drexel, the founder of the enormously successful investment bank that eventually became Drexel Burnham Lambert. For sure, Francis Drexel would not be pleased to know that the company he managed so
conservatively and honestly went bankrupt in 1990, largely through its involvement in the junk bond
market. But that's another story.
When Katharine, her father's sole survivor, eventually inherited the trust fund, it was worth $14
million -- about $3.2 billion in today's dollars. In the 1950's, the trust fund generated a daily income of
about $1,000 (roughly $20,000 in today's dollars). Indeed, Katharine was a very wealthy woman. However, Katharine had no interest in her wealth, except as something to give away.
She felt called to the religious life, was eventually professed after being formed by the Sisters of
Mercy in Pittsburgh, and then founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a congregation devoted to
working among poor Native Americans and African-Americans, especially in the South. As she prepared to enter religious life, she intended to relinquish the entire estate, however a bishop convinced her
to retain her wealth and use a portion of its income -- $50,000 per year -- to support her new community. Reluctantly, she agreed.
From her earliest days as a child, Katharine viewed money as something to give away to others
rather than to retain for herself. She acquired this attitude from her father and stepmother. Though extremely wealthy, Francis Drexel and his second wife Emma (his first wife died shortly after giving birth
to Katharine) lived rather modestly in Philadelphia. According to reliable reports, Emma Drexel, who
was much loved by Katharine, had the practice of joyfully dispensing money to poor people on three
afternoons per week. And she was not just tossing out spare change. Her casual handouts amounted to at
least $20,000 per year -- the equivalent of $450,000 (!) in today's money. To put it another way, every
time Emma Drexel opened the door, she handed out nearly $2,900 for rent, food, clothes, and medicine.
Katharine observed her stepmother's wild generosity and regarded it as quite natural.
Though Katharine had huge sums available for her own use, she herself lived like a pauper. Sister Carmella Marie Duffy, her biographer, reported that Katharine always booked the cheapest seat on
trains, packed her own lunches when traveling, avoided restaurants, and clipped off the blank sections
of letters so she could use the scraps for note paper. Even in her 90's, she was forever switching off
lights, rationing toilet paper, lowering thermostats, and conserving water. Following her death in 1955,
the Vatican newspaper published an article about Katharine with the headline, "The Daughter of Millionaire Drexel Gives Away Millions to Live a Life of Poverty."
St. Katharine Drexel -- and her family -- certainly lived out the somber maxim of many ancient
Church Fathers: The only wealth that lasts forever is the wealth we give away. And she heeded the
warning of St. John Chrysostom: "The most pitiable person of all is the one who lives in luxury and
shares his goods with nobody." Opportunities for such "safe investments" abound in our midst today!
Fr. Michael Kerper
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