Feb 26, 2012

1st Friday March 2

40 Days for Life - February 22nd to April 1st (Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday) “Keep watch with me” Mt26:38. Vigil held across the street from Planned Parenthood, 470 Pleasant St., Worc. 7am–7pm each day. “My soul is sorrowful even to death.

Feb 28 – St. Luke’s, Westborough (with simultaneous Adoration at parish)
7-8pm Stations of the Cross, Confession at St. Paul's Cathedral lower chapel
Feb 29 Wed 7pm Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, W.Boylston presents "Growing a Culture of Life, The Faith Explained", an overview of relevant Church documents concerning the beginning and end of life issues, and how these truths of the Church can be applied to specific issues such as IVF, embryonic stem cell research, and physician assisted suicide (which is on the Massachusetts ballot this November)

Mar 2 Fri 8PM 1st Friday Mass, Fr. Gallagher in the Problem Pregnancy Chapel, 495 Pleasant St. followed by all night Eucharistic Adoration. All hours could use backup. Offer it up. Scheduled Adorers 8:30 PM – Nina T. 9PM - Chris T. Dave G. 10PM – Julie S - Paul T. 11PM - Eileen D, 12 AM midnight – Shawn S. 1AM – Jim R 2AM – Fran W 3AM – Jay G 4AM – Jay G. 5AM – Fred M - Bob D 6:00 AM – Mike and Chris 7:00 AM Kathy L. Let me know if you cannot cover your hour.

Send a message to Congress on the HHS Mandate that forces Catholic Hospitals to violate their Catholic Faith.

Mar 3 Sat 8AM 1st Saturday Mass, Problem Pregnancy chapel with Fr. Roy.
Mar 3 Sat 11AM-1PM 1st Saturday Devotion, confession, adoration, Divine Liturgy. Our Lady of Mercy on June St. Worcester. Bishop Gregory Mansoor, Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn, will attend.
Mar 3 -- St. Paul’s, Blackstone
Mar 4 Sun 5:30pm Vespers, 5pm light supper, St. Paul's Cathedral
Mar 6 Tue 7-8pm Stations of the Cross, Confession at St. Paul's Cathedral lower chapel
Mar 7 – Grafton cluster parishes (PM)
Mar 8 Thu- Sacred Heart/St. Catherine, Worcester

Mar 10 Sat Mass canceled, no 10 AM Mass at the Problem Pregnancy Chapel, but there will be Prayer vigil protest on 470 Pleasant St. in front of Planned Parenthood in Worcester. There is an 8AM Mass up the street at Christ the King. Notre Dame du Lac Nursing Home has a 10AM Mass.
Mar 10 -- St. Anne/St. Patrick, Fiskdale
Mar 10 -- St. Gabriel, Upton
Mar 10 -- House of Prayer Auburn, Inc Church of God (10-11:30AM)
Mar 11 Sun 5:30pm Vespers, 5pm light supper, St. Paul's Cathedral
Mar 13 Tues 7-8pm Stations of the Cross, Confession at St. Paul's Cathedral lower chapel
March 14 – Mid-point Candlelight Vigil 6:00 p.m. Problem Pregnancy, 495 Pleasant St., Worcester. Bring a candle!
Mar 15 -- St. Mary's, Uxbridge
Mar 16 Wed 7PM Fatima Prayer Cell, Immaculate Conception Worcester
Mar 16 -- St. Joseph/St. Pius, Leicester (PM)
Mar 17 -- Good Shepherd, Linwood (AM)
Mar 17 Sat 8AM Mass to “save babies through prayer” in the Problem Pregnancy Chapel, celebrated by Fr. Adam Reid, Pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Webster. Prayer vigil protest on 470 Pleasant St. in front of Planned Parenthood in Worcester follows.
Mar 17 Sat 8AM Mass and Rosary to end abortion at Framingham Union Hospital, St. Stephen's Church.
Mar 18 Sun 5:30pm Vespers, 5pm light supper, St. Paul's Cathedral

Mar 20 Tue 7-8pm Stations of the Cross, Confession at St. Paul's Cathedral lower chapel
Mar 21 -- Our Lady of Czestochowa, Worcester (split shift)
Mar 22 Thu Our Lady of Czestochowa, Worcester (PM)
Mar 24 – Grafton cluster parishes (AM)/Cathedral of St. Paul (PM)
Mar 24 Sat 10am Mass Problem Pregnancy Chapel, Fr. Ken Cardinale
Mar 25 Sun 5:30pm Vespers, 5pm light supper, St. Paul's Cathedral

Mar 26 -- Sacred Heart, Hopedale/St. Mary of the Assumption and Sacred Heart, Milford
Mar 27 Tue 7-8pm Stations of the Cross, Confession at St. Paul's Cathedral lower chapel

March 29 Thu – End of Campaign Mass followed by Eucharistic Procession 4:00pm, Blessed Sacrament Church, 555 Pleasant St., Worcester
Mar 30 -- Grafton cluster parishes (AM), St. Columba (PM)
Mar 31 Sat - St. Bernadette's, Northborough, 5th Saturday of the month, no Mass scheduled at Problem Pregnancy Chapel

Apr 1 Palm Sunday
Apr 3 Tues 7-8pm Stations of the Cross, Confession at St. Paul's Cathedral lower chapel
Apr 6 Good Friday - No 1st Friday Mass or Eucharistic Adoration while Jesus is in the tomb
Apr 8 Easter Sunday

Apr 17 Tue 7pm - Hagen Center Assumption College - Fr. Ian Ker. Msgr. Tom Sullivan of Christ the King Parish will be hosting Fr. Ian Ker, the author of a great new book on Chesterton, for a week in April.

Apr 26, Thu Visitation House annual dinner: Ambassador Raymond L. Flynn keynote

As many of you notice when praying on Pleasant St. in Worcester, nearly all of the abortion-minded people entering the Planned Parenthood building do not see the Pro-Life prayers because of the iron curtain separating us. Massachusetts law allows the Buffer Zone in part because "Importantly, most, if not all of this expressive activity, can be seen and heard by people entering and exiting the buffer zone, and also by people inside the buffer zone." - McCullen v. Coakley, 573 F. Supp. 2d 382, 413 (D. Mass. 2008). Seems like a contradiction to me, but The First Circuit, in its de novo review of this court’s ruling, similarly found that:
"To begin, the 2007 Act places no burden at all on the plaintiffs’ activities outside the 35-foot buffer zone. They can speak, gesticulate, wear screen printed T-shirts, display signs, use loudspeakers, and engage in the whole gamut of lawful expressive activities" - McCullen v. Coakley, 573 F. Supp. 2d 382, 413-15 (D. Mass. 2008).

Maybe it's time for Loud Speakers.
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;

Rick Santorum best presidential candidate
There is still an America. There is still a huge number of us who believe our nation is good. We are not buying the liberal myth that tries to paint the United States as an imperialistic ogre...We believe in absolute truths, to be found in our Judeo-Christian faith. We believe the family, a man and a woman, is the unit designed by God to raise children. A village cannot raise a child. The village is the state.
We also believe that life begins at conception. Pro-choice means pro-abortion, and abortion is murder...The government cannot create or find a job, nor was it designed to...
We believe in our Constitution...We understand that those who will not learn from the failures of past nations who succumbed to utopian communist societies arrogantly believe themselves to be better than the leaders of those nations.

We submit that these people want freedom without God. That agenda will fail every time. We are looking for a presidential candidate that shares these ideals and is not afraid to voice them. That candidate is Rick Santorum. - BARBARA PEREZ, Chicopee

1 comment :

Paul Anthony Melanson said...

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