Oct 1, 2013

1st Friday Mass

What did the Pope just say? "Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us." But don’t worry, the Pope knows what he’s doing, (engaging in a conversation with an atheist journalist) and Jimmy Akin points out that in today’s language Proselytism is not Evangelisation – which the Pope is all about.

Oct 4 Fri 8pm First Friday: A Pro-Life Mass to “save babies through prayer” will be celebrated at 8:00pm by Fr. Eric Asante of St. George parish followed by all-night Eucharistic Adoration and concluding at 8am with 1st Saturday Mass celebrated by Father Michael J. Roy of St. Roch Parish, Oxford. Problem Pregnancy Chapel, 495 Pleasant St. Everyone is welcomed. Scheduled Adorers 9PM – Chris T. 10PM - Julie S - Paul T. 11PM - Eileen D, 12 AM midnight – Shawn, 1AM – Jim R. 2AM – Fran W 3AM – Jay G 4AM – Jay G. 5AM – Fred M - Bob D 6:00 – Adrian 7AM – Kathy L. Let me know if you cannot cover your hour.
Oct 5 Sat First Saturday Masses, 8am Problem Pregnancy Chapel,
Oct 5 Sat noon Mass St. Joan of Arc with 11am confession and Rosary before Mass.

Oct 5 Sat 7a-7p 40Days4Life coverage: St. Anne/St. Patrick + Blessed Sacrament 7am-noon
Oct6 Sun 2-3:30pm Life Chain Elm Park and Denny’s Lincoln St. Worc, White City Shrewsbury
Oct 7 Mon 1p-7p 40Days4Life coverage: St. Ann, N. Oxford
Oct 8 Tue 7a-1p 40Days4Life coverage: St. Luke’s; 1-7p 40Days4Life coverage: Grafton parishes

Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend by Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1947) – YouTube

Oct 11 Fri 8a-1p 40Days4Life coverage: OLC
Oct 12 Sat Mass 10am the Problem Pregnancy Chapel with Fr. Mark Rainville, Assoc. from St. Joseph's, Charlton. Prayers on the sidewalk before and after - Public Square Rosary
Oct 12 Sat noon St. Joan of Arc parish, 570 Lincoln St. Worcester invites you to join us for the 2nd annual public square rosary crusade. A huge balloon rosary will be launched. Sponsored by the Legion of Mary, Shower of Roses of and America need Fatima.

Oct 14 Mon (Planned Parenthood is scheduled to be closed for Columbus Day)

Oct 16 Wed 11a-12noon 40Days4Life coverage: St. Aloysius/St. Jude
Oct 17 Thu 11am Mass w/Bishop followed by Eucharistic Procession
Oct 18 Fri 7a-1p 40Days4Life coverage: St. Mary, Shrewsbury; 1-7 – Grafton parishes
Oct 19 Sat 8-11a 40Days4Life coverage: Good Shepherd, Linwood
Oct 19 Sat Sat 10am Mass to save babies with Fr. Adam Reid in the Problem Pregnancy Chapel, 495 Pleasant St. Worc, followed by Sidewalk prayerful protest in front of Planned Parenthood.
Oct 19 Sat 8am Mass and Rosary to end abortion at Framingham Union Hospital, St. Stephen's Church.

Oct 25 Fri 8am-1p 40Days4Life coverage: OLC
Oct 26 Sat 7am-7p 40Days4Life coverage: St. Bernadette
Oct 26 Sat 9am prayers on the sidewalk followed by 10am Mass to save babies with Fr. Ken Cardinale, Problem Pregnancy Chapel, 495 Pleasant St. Worcester

Good Movie, ‘The Encounter.’ Five strangers with nothing in common are forced to come together at a remote roadside eatery because of a road closure. They place their orders with the diner's omniscient owner, who seems to know everything about them... and claims he is Jesus. Low Production values but fairly lively dialogue that gets to the heart of belief in God, Jesus Christ, the Bible and Free Will.

Nov 1 Fri 8pm First Friday: A Pro-Life Mass to “save babies through prayer” will be celebrated at 8:00pm followed by all-night Eucharistic Adoration and concluding at 8am with 1st Saturday Mass celebrated by Father Michael J. Roy of St. Roch Parish, Oxford. Problem Pregnancy Chapel, 495 Pleasant St. Everyone is welcomed. Scheduled Adorers 9PM – Chris T. 10PM - Julie S - Paul T. 11PM - Eileen D, 12 AM midnight – Shawn, 1AM – Jim R. 2AM – Fran W 3AM – Jay G 4AM – Jay G. 5AM – Fred M - Bob D 6:00 – Mike&Chris S., Adrian 7AM – Kathy L. Let me know if you cannot cover your hour.

Nov 2 Sat First Saturday Masses, 8am Problem Pregnancy Chapel,
Nov 2 Sat noon Mass St. Joan of Arc with 11am confession and Rosary before Mass.

Nov 3 Fall, last day 40 Days for Life. http://40daysforlife.com/Worcester
Jay G.
Prayer Needs

4 comments :

Michael Cole said...

http://lasalettejourney.blogspot
.com/2013/10/the-worcester-
diocese-welcomes-heretic.html

This Pope, and especially this Diocese, makes me very nervous!

Tom said...

The Worcester Diocese welcomes a heretic….

Paul Anthony Melanson
10/4/13

lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-worcester-diocese-welcomes-heretic.html

An anonymous reader left the following at my last post:


From the Worcester Diocesan Dispatch of September 30, 2013:

On October 27 at 6 p.m., Dr. Thomas Groome will present “Passing on the Gift of Faith” at St. Rose of Lima Church, 244 W. Main Street (Rt. 20), Northboro. It will be preceded by Mass at 5 p.m. for all who would like to attend. This presentation, part of the parish’s Year of Faith efforts, will discuss how we can pass on our faith to children and other adults in challenging times. Professor Groome is chair of the Dept. of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College. All are welcome.

The following is taken from the Gospa Missions website:


The False Theology of Dr. Thomas Groome
Laicized priest, Boston College professor of theology and director of the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry and author of many books used in Catholic education

Introduction:
The purpose of this document is to present Dr. Groome’s views on a not insignificant number of topics that he has disseminated, in print or in lectures or in broadcast interviews, which are in serious conflict with the teachings of the Holy Father and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. It is by no means intended to be an exhaustive analysis of Groome’s dissent from the Doctrines of the Catholic Church as many additional examples can be found in his writings, interviews and lectures. But the examples included are more than sufficient to establish the fact that Dr. Groome’s theology is dangerously opposed to the consistent teaching of Catholic Scripture, the Holy Fathers and Doctors, Pope John Paul II and the loyal Magisterium of the Church.

The format of the document is to present a Dr. Groome’s views, in his own words, on a doctrine of the Catholic church followed by the consistent teaching of the Catholic Church through her Magisterium. I pray that all who read this document will subject Dr. Groome’s theology to a critical and discriminating analysis and will view them with the same “hermeneutic of suspicion” employed by him in his efforts to rewrite sacred scripture and to despoil Catholic Tradition.
Groome’s Position On the teaching authority of the Pope and the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church:
Groome argues that “Throughout his ministry, Jesus called together ‘an inclusive discipleship of equals’ to participate in his mission and to carry it on after him.” [Thomas Groome, Sharing Faith, A Comprehensive Approach to Religious Education & Pastoral Ministry, Harper, San Francisco, 1991, p. 301] op. cit. p. 444]
Expanding on this theme Groome insists that the Church “should be an egalitarian [i.e. Democratic] community.” [Ibid. p. 444]
In this same ‘the Church should be a democracy’ vein Groome insists, “If we remember that the Church is the whole community of the Body of Christ, including all baptized Christians and not just its leaders, then we recognize that the Church’s ‘teaching authority’ cannot be limited to the institutional Magisterium.” [Thomas Groome, Educating For Life, op. cit. p. 241.]

Tom said...

From the Worcester Diocesan Dispatch for September 30, 2013:

On October 27 at 6 p.m., Dr. Thomas Groome will present “Passing on the Gift of Faith” at St. Rose of Lima Church, 244 W. Main Street (Rt. 20), Northboro. It will be preceded by Mass at 5 p.m. for all who would like to attend. This presentation, part of the parish’s Year of Faith efforts, will discuss how we can pass on our faith to children and other adults in challenging times. Professor Groome is chair of the Dept. of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College. All are welcome.

Paul Anthony Melanson on his "La Salette Journey" weblog has an informative and comprehensive refutation of this ex-priest's heretical views at http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-worcester-diocese-welcomes-heretic.html

Tom said...

Holy Cross College welcomes dissenter from Church teachings. From the Holy Cross Events Calendar for October 29th:

Mary McAleese, the popular former president of Ireland, will visit Holy Cross to discuss 'Shared Responsibility: Re-imagining the Future of Governance in the Church.' McAleese served two terms as Ireland's president, from 1997 to 2011. More recently, she is author of 'Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law' (Columbia Press, 2013). She will bring her experience in civil law and governance and her study of canon (church) law to a discussion of how authority might be more effectively shared in the church for the sake of realizing the vision of Vatican II.
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She dissents from Catholic teaching on the priesthood and has viciously criticized Church leaders who uphold that doctrine. See "Catholic Univ. of San Francisco Honors Prominent Dissenter on the Priesthood"
www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/1774/Catholic-Univ-of-San-Francisco-Honors-Prominent-Dissenter-on-the-Priesthood.aspx#sthash.6rdRaJ2o.dpuf

Also, she has attacked the Church's teaching on homosexuality by caricaturing that doctrine. See "Ex-Irish President McAleese attacks Church with her travesty of the doctrine on homosexuality"

http://protectthepope.com/?p=5800