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MASS INTENTIONS
Mon., Feb. 6, 9 AM - Virginia Lee Kenworthy
3rd Anniversary
Tues., Feb. 7, 9 AM - Holy Souls in Purgatory
Sat., Feb. 11, 9 AM - All the Holy Souls in Purgatory from the Helpers of the Holy Souls
Sat., Feb. 11, 4 PM - Kasey Bryan
Sun., Feb. 12, 9 AM - Giovanni Minucci & Domenico Bianchi
Sun., Feb. 12, 11 AM - Jack Ryder
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY
Our Food for the Hungry Collection is this weekend. Please leave your contributions at the doors of the Church. We also send donations each month to various local organizations to assist the hungry and homeless. Thank you!
MONTHLY COLLECTION
Please remember that our Monthly Collection for the support of the Parish is next weekend. Your generous contributions each month help pay for the rising cost of bills that we are faced with. We can't do it without you! Thank you for your continued support.
FINANCIAL UPDATE
January 29, 2012
Offertory $4,289.00
Church in Latin America $1,419.00
Thank you for your continued support
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
All classes will meet as scheduled Sunday - Tuesday, February 5 - 7
EXCEPT GRADES 9 & 10
Rite of Calling to Confirmation
This Sunday, February 5 at the 11:00 AM Mass
Ninth grade students will be formally enrolled in the Confirmation. Grade 10 will be participating in the liturgy and will reaffirm their commitment made last year. We ask our St. Linus Parish Family to hold these young people in prayer as they continue their journey in faith formation.
ATTENTION GRADE 2 PARENTS
Meeting for 1st Reconciliation will take place on Feb. 6 from 4:15 to 5:30 in the upper church. Babysitting provided.
MOVIE NIGHT
Grades 3 & 4 are invited on Fri., 2/17, 6:30 to 8:30 pm to the Norton Center for the movie "Oliver and Company." Snacks are provided and the cost is one item to donate to the food pantry. Flyers are in the church. Hope to see you!
CATECHETICAL CONGRESS
The Catechetical Congress will take place on March 24, 2012 from 8:00 am to 3:30 PM at Boston College High in Dorchester. Flyers are available at the doors of the church.
BONNET MAKING
We will be having another bonnet making session on Thursday, February 9 at 9:30 am in the Norton Center. Anyone is welcome to join us and for those who are not familiar with this, the bonnets are given to our babies on their Baptism day here at Saint Linus. Come join us!
Please PRAY FOR Glen Murphy, Hazel Harte, Anibal Cosquete, Brian Barnicle, Thomas Keville, Felix Losco, Wendy Smith, Pearl Zaffino, Mike Ruiz, John VanTassel, Souls in Purgatory, Jodi Augustini, Robert Duffy, Cecil Ricker, Jacqueline Gagne, Connor Lee, John Ryan, Paul, Richard & Roger Theriault, Bettina Tarulli, Elizabeth McCarthy, Tim Schoener, Richard Schoener, Rudolphe Beaupre, The O'Brien, Gentile, Delisio & Veneziano Families, Rita Hayes, Joseph Barrett, Gracie D'Costa, Roy Lambert, Edna Lambert, Walter Schoener, Jeannette Schoener, Teresa Zaffino, Augustus Zaffino, Josephine Colonelli, Adelino Colonelli, Enio DiMatteo, Teresa DiMatteo, & living Steve Cooper, Calvin Meisner, Holly Frazee, Jane Leonte, Kathy Sorabella, Billy DeLorie, Marge McDonnell, Barbara Kalin, Carl Bates, Francis Enright, Owen McAndrews, John Middleton, Jennie Crane, Pat Sullivan, Cheryl Chagnon, Jack Doherty, Joan Kennedy, Ann, Dianne Band, Naomi, Jorge & Ana Calvo, Fr. John Wallace, John & Rita Carollo, Donna Winchester, Jack Hennings, Lois Smith, Richard DeMayo, Anna, Florence Parrinello, The Kszystyniak Family, Jean Quigley, Carol Considine, Stephen R. Capano, Anna Welsh, Elinor Hall, Marilyn Clancy, Keisha Liddell, Carmella, Britt Family, Marissa Fernandez, Wesley Hutto, Timothy Mack, Siobhan, John Ford, John McCabe, Marilyn Clancy, Baby Iliana, Baby Rene and her parents, Rose LaTremouille, Sean Mack, Joseph Rubsam, Nicholas Santiago, John Monahan, Olivia Moran, Christopher, Roy Clark, Donald Ungarelli, Susan Doherty, Leah MacLeod, Lauren Giardina, Scot & family, Valerie Rooney, Michael Chase, Michael, Karen Moynihan, Joan VanTassel, Julie Henderson, Dorothy Barrett, Ross Cigna, Pat Fennel, Steve Wilson, Claudia Reynaud, Liam Mack, Jen & Ryan, Vicky Kelly & Family, James Sanford, Mary DiCenso, Brian Keville, Dick Vitale, Dennis Sullivan, Lourdes Javier, Jeannette Parker, Kerry Hartwick, Anne Meisner, Lynn Wilson, Maura Rousseau, Kevin McEleney, Gregorio Sebastiano Giallonardo, Bob Boudreau, Ed Mulholland, Michelle Gagne Coburn, Kathleen, Barbara, Lina, Dominic.
'Holy Pause' - Women's Evening of Prayer
All women are invited to attend the monthly gathering of Holy Pause on Thurs. Feb. 9 from 7 to 9 PM in the Norton Center. Join us for an evening of prayer, scripture, music, sharing, and quiet time.
WORLD MARRIAGE DAY
World Marriage Day honors husband and wife as head of the family, the basic unit of society. It salutes the beauty of their faithfulness, sacrifice, and joy in daily married life. We will celebrate here at St. Linus next weekend, February 12, by inviting couples who wish to renew their marriage vows during all the masses. Let us pray, as a parish family for all couples that their love will continue to foster unity and generate the capacity to be life-giving and inspire others.
CHRISTIAN BOOK CLUB
The St. Linus Christian Book Group will meet on Feb. 21 at 7pm at the Morse Institute Library in downtown Natick. The book for February is Raymond Brown's An Adult Christ at Christmas: Essays on the three Biblical Christmas Stories Mt & Lk 2 New participants are always welcome. For info Karen Mallozzi at 508-651-9788 or KMallozzi@aol.com
Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick
For over 15 years, St. Patrick Parish has been blessed to have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration due to the commitment of parishioners and other worshipers from surrounding parishes. However, there is now a need for additional persons in order to provide necessary coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please consider signing up for a half hour or an hour of Adoration. Sign up with a friend for the same hour and alternate each week for the hour. Please contact Shirley & Ed Milch at 508-653-2941. Experience The Real Presence of Our Lord and enrich your relationship with Him in the Holy Eucharist.
HOW DO I RECOGNIZE THE CALL?
We are looking for a few good men on a Mission…God's Mission. Have you ever considered a life of service as a missionary beyond our borders? Are you between the ages of 18 and 30? Have you been part of a Service Week to the poor and wanted more. The first in a series of monthly days of information, discernment and prayer will be held at the Xaverian Missionaries at Fatima Shrine, 101 Summer Street in Holliston on Sat., Feb. 11 from 10 am to 7 pm. The Xaverians work in 20 countries worldwide, with a priority to countries of Africa and Asia. This month's theme will be: How do I recognize the Call? What does it take? For more information and to reserve a space, contact Fr. Rocco at frrocco@xaviermissionaries or call 508-429-2144.
Help yourself to the Rosary Beads at the doors of the church.
PASTORAL PLANNING 2012
A new structure for ministering to the faithful is being proposed that will affect all parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston. After ten months of planning and discussion, the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Commission (APPC) has begun a three-phase consultation process with clergy, religious and lay ecclesial ministers. This 18 member Cardinal-appointed Commission has been tasked with designing a Pastoral Plan "to form stronger Christian disciples by strengthening our identity as a Christ-centered, mission-minded, welcoming and evangelizing Eucharistic community of faith."
There are five "Mission Initiatives" each parish will use to accomplish this goal:
1. Becoming a Church that More Readily and Actively Welcomes Every Man, Woman and Child to conversion of Life in Christ Jesus;
2. Strengthening our Parishes as Primary Communities of Faith;
3. Growing the Church through Evangelization;
4. Developing Excellence in Faith Formation for Catholics of All Ages;
5. Re-energizing Pastoral Leadership.
Phase One and Phase Two of these consultations took place in January and focused on the second initiative - strengthening parishes. This proposed new structure will group parishes according to criteria into Pastoral Collaboratives of one, two, three or four parishes. Pastoral services will be provided by a Pastoral Service Team (PST), made up of clergy and laity who will work together to advance the mission of evangelization.
The 290 parishes currently in the Archdiocese will be grouped to form 127 Pastoral Collaboratives and Pastoral Service Teams. We were told this past Monday that our proposed grouping would be with St. Patrick's in downtown Natick.
The third phase of consultations for our region is scheduled for March 15th from 7-9PM at St. Edward's in Medfield. This third phase will seek advice and comments to these proposals from members of the St. Linus Parish Pastoral Council and Finance Council as well as other members of these committees from other parishes in the area. Members from the PPC and Finance Council will address the parish with more information regarding the Planning Process after the Phase Three meeting.
Please note that the Archdiocese has stressed that these are proposals and the consultation process is meant to be a way for voices, opinions and criticisms both positive and negative to be heard. All are invited to access documents and informational material at the Parish Planning Website at www.planning2012.com.
Please pray one Rosary per week to defeat the "Death with Dignity" 2012 ballot initiative in Massachusetts
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