Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Bulletins

Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Bulletin for November 24, 2013

The Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Feast of Christ the King – This week’s bulletin for Mary Immaculate of Lourdes, Newton:

Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Bulletin for the week of November 24, 2013

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Front cover:  The sanctuary of Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church arranged for May devotions, circa 1950.  The look of the sanctuary here is much the same as it was at the church’s dedication on November 24th, 1910, Thanksgiving Day, with the decorations and frescoes of the church artist Gonippo Raggi.

Pastor’s Note:
CHURCH ANNIVERSARY AND AN ANNUAL REPORT
(Download: Annual Report for 2013)

More Parish Church Photos from 1910; Weekly Scripture Column on Luke 4:31-37; Art History lecture by Gwyneth Holston; Faith Formation class using the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Peter Kreeft’s Catholic Christianity; Benedictum Book Club; Parish Fellowship; Parish Religious Education; Music Program; Mass Propers; Calendar of Masses; Health of the Sick; Requiescant in Pace and more.

On Thursday, November 28th, Thanksgiving Day, we will have two Masses in the parish:

7:30 AM: Thanksgiving Day Mass
9:00 AM: (Latin Low Mass)

Mass on the Anniversary of the Dedication of a Church & Thanksgiving Day commemoration.

Our parish church was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, 1910.

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History, Pastor's Note, Photo Gallery

Silver Jubilee of Ordination: An Occasion of Grateful Thanks

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Father Charles Jeremiah Higgins, June 25, 1988
The Madonna by the artist Sassoferrato was the front of the prayer card for my priestly ordination.  The back of the card, together with the photograph taken for the Boston Pilot, appear above.  The words TOTUS TUUS (“Totally Yours”) are the motto from St. Louis de Montfort’s total consecration to Mary.  —Fr. Higgins

Ten years ago or so one of my former professors at the Seminary told an amusing story about himself with regard to the preparations for his 50th Anniversary celebration.  He was putting together a program and he brought the draft to the printer.  In it were two pictures: one of him at ordination and one as he was at 50 years ordained.  The woman at the counter pointed to the picture of the young priest and asked, “And who’s that?”.  “Uh, that’s me,” the priest replied.  After an awkward pause, the woman at the counter recovered cheerily: “It happens to us all!”

This past Tuesday, June 25th, I marked the happy occasion of my 25th Anniversary of priestly ordination.  This Sunday, at all the parish Masses, I am adding this thanksgiving intention, and asking you for the support of your prayers: for my perseverance and the perseverance of all priests, that we may be faithful, generous priests to the end of our days.

On Ordination Day, 25 years into the future seemed a long time out.  Looking back from now to then, it feels so quick, as do all of our markers in life.  “Time, how short; Eternity, how long…”

As the ordination Class of 1988, we celebrated the day of our Silver Jubilee together at St. Joseph’s Retreat House in Milton, with a concelebrated evening Mass just for us in the Lady Chapel and then a time of fellowship with dinner in the retreat house.  Our class preacher at this Mass was Fr. Steve Madden, pastor of St. Mary’s in Foxboro.  I think he spoke for all of us when he stressed the spirit of gratitude felt on this occasion, as we look back on the last quarter century of our lives as ordained priests, and look forward in hope to the future.

Fr. Higgins
(Fr. Higgins)

Pastor’s Note from the Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Bulletin for June 30, 2013

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Front Cover:  Bas-relief of the Puritan minister John Eliot, the “Apostle to the Indians”, preaching the Gospel to the Indians in their own Algonquin language at Chief Waban’s Wigwam (Newton), 1646.  The Praying Indians now worship at the Eliot Street Church in South Natick, located on the site of their original Praying Indian church.

Please visit the Mary Immaculate of Lourdes website and
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Mary Immaculate bulletins are available at miol.nu.