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Father Ralph A. Bove Pastor
Letter from the Diocese
The Knights of Columbus would like you to join them in reciting the Rosary and The Chaplet of Divine Mercy at St. Paul’s Church on the first Wednesday of every month from 6—7 pm. Let’s pray for healing for our friends, family and the world. Thank you for supporting the Norwich Community Kitchen through the Hannaford Fight Hunger Bag Program during August! An update will be in a future bulletin on the amount raised for this program. The Norwich Community Soup Kitchen will be up and ready to serve dinners again starting Tuesday, September 10th. Doors will open at 4pm and start serving at 5:15pm. If you would like to volunteer please call the office at 607-337-2215.
The Sanctuary Lamp burns and the Bread and Wine are offered this week for Members of the Ave Maria/Rosary Society by the Ave Maria/Rosary Society
Altar flowers are for all members of the Ave Maria/Rosary Society living and deceased donated by the Ave Maria/Rosary Society
The Knights of Columbus is sponsoring a coffee hour today, Sunday, October 6th after the 9 am Mass. Altar flowers are for all members of the Ave Maria/Rosary Society living and deceased donated by the Ave Maria/Rosary Society
A Family Perspective by Bud Ozar Sept. 29, 2024: 26th Sunday (Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48) The words in today’s gospel, “Whoever gives a cup of water in the name of Christ will not lose their reward” hits us at home. As parents, we gain our “reward” when we bring water to a frightened child in the middle of the night, or Kool Aid to parched five-year olds, or hold ice chips to the fevered lips of a spouse. It is that simple and that sacred. In our homes, we give until it hurts “in the name of Christ.”
(PRACTICING) CATHOLIC - RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS By Colleen Jurkiewicz Dorman Bearing Witness I am fascinated by minor Gospel characters. These people — the rich young man, the adulterous woman, the teachers at the tem- ple — share the stage with Jesus only briefly. They bear passing but powerful witness to crucial moments of his earthly ministry. They breathe the air he breathes. They hear the sound of his voice. Some of them feel the touch of his skin. And then they go on with their lives and disappear into obscurity. They become just another one of us. I think of the child who sat in Jesus’ lap while he said those famous words: “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” What did the boy think? Did he understand the words, or did he only know that they were gently spoken? Did he only think to himself how kind was the face of this man, and how consoling and warm his embrace? I picture this child growing up. Perhaps he married and loved his wife and children. Perhaps he was happy, or perhaps he was not. Perhaps he became wealthy or was even wealthy to begin with. Perhaps he, like so many other children of that era, had only a very short life, and returned quickly to the arms that enveloped him that day in Capernaum. We don’t know. But we know he was there: he saw Christ, he felt him, he heard him. We sigh to think of it. How lucky. If only we could, too. Then it would be easier. Then we could be holy. But we are all this child in Capernaum. We are all the woman at the well. We are all the centurion at the cross. Every time we kneel before the Host and hear the words “This is my Body,” we occupy the same earthly time and space as the Messiah, and he fixes upon us the same gaze he fixed upon them. We all bear witness. We receive him, and then we go back to our lives, our ordinary lives. Do we carry him with us? Do we dare? “I will praise your name, O Lord, for its goodness.” — Psalm 54:6 ©LPi
The Knights of Columbus would like you to join them in reciting the Rosary and The Chaplet of Divine Mercy at St. Paul’s Church on the first Wednesday of every month from 6—7 pm. Let’s pray for healing for our friends, family and the world. Thank you for supporting the Norwich Community Kitchen through the Hannaford Fight Hunger Bag Program during August! An update will be in a future bulletin on the amount raised for this program. The Norwich Community Soup Kitchen will be up and ready to serve dinners again starting Tuesday, September 10th. Doors will open at 4pm and start serving at 5:15pm. If you would like to volunteer please call the office at 607-337-2215.
The Sanctuary Lamp burns and the Bread and Wine are offered this week for Members of the Ave Maria/Rosary Society by the Ave Maria/Rosary Society
Altar flowers are for all members of the Ave Maria/Rosary Society living and deceased donated by the Ave Maria/Rosary Society
The Knights of Columbus is sponsoring a coffee hour today, Sunday, October 6th after the 9 am Mass. Altar flowers are for all members of the Ave Maria/Rosary Society living and deceased donated by the Ave Maria/Rosary Society
A Family Perspective by Bud Ozar Sept. 29, 2024: 26th Sunday (Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48) The words in today’s gospel, “Whoever gives a cup of water in the name of Christ will not lose their reward” hits us at home. As parents, we gain our “reward” when we bring water to a frightened child in the middle of the night, or Kool Aid to parched five-year olds, or hold ice chips to the fevered lips of a spouse. It is that simple and that sacred. In our homes, we give until it hurts “in the name of Christ.”
(PRACTICING) CATHOLIC - RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS By Colleen Jurkiewicz Dorman Bearing Witness I am fascinated by minor Gospel characters. These people — the rich young man, the adulterous woman, the teachers at the tem- ple — share the stage with Jesus only briefly. They bear passing but powerful witness to crucial moments of his earthly ministry. They breathe the air he breathes. They hear the sound of his voice. Some of them feel the touch of his skin. And then they go on with their lives and disappear into obscurity. They become just another one of us. I think of the child who sat in Jesus’ lap while he said those famous words: “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” What did the boy think? Did he understand the words, or did he only know that they were gently spoken? Did he only think to himself how kind was the face of this man, and how consoling and warm his embrace? I picture this child growing up. Perhaps he married and loved his wife and children. Perhaps he was happy, or perhaps he was not. Perhaps he became wealthy or was even wealthy to begin with. Perhaps he, like so many other children of that era, had only a very short life, and returned quickly to the arms that enveloped him that day in Capernaum. We don’t know. But we know he was there: he saw Christ, he felt him, he heard him. We sigh to think of it. How lucky. If only we could, too. Then it would be easier. Then we could be holy. But we are all this child in Capernaum. We are all the woman at the well. We are all the centurion at the cross. Every time we kneel before the Host and hear the words “This is my Body,” we occupy the same earthly time and space as the Messiah, and he fixes upon us the same gaze he fixed upon them. We all bear witness. We receive him, and then we go back to our lives, our ordinary lives. Do we carry him with us? Do we dare? “I will praise your name, O Lord, for its goodness.” — Psalm 54:6 ©LPi
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