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SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Engaged couples are asked to contact the rectory at least eight months in advance and before they book a reception hall.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Parents are encouraged to call the rectory to make an appointment.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please notify us if someone is in danger of death due to serious illness or old age, to arrange a time to visit and confer the Sacrament of the Anointing.

COMMUNION FOR THE HOMEBOUND Parishioners who are unable to attend Mass, and would like to receive Holy Communion, please call the rectory.

PLEASE KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS All the sick of our parish especially for those who are homebound, in the hospital, nursing facilities and for all the faithful departed.

CONFESSION Tuesday 6:30-7:15pm Thursday 6:30-7:15pm, Friday 5:15– 6pm Saturdays 11 –11:45am (When priest available) and 3 - 3:45pm in Church

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Tuesday & Thursday 66:30 – 7:30pm Friday 55:15 - 6:15pm

Sr. Ng Krus, Jose Balanca, Grace Gonsalves, Henrique Trindade, Theresa Quintin, Nancy Paiva, Pat

Greene, Lucille Connolly. SANCTUARY CANDLE The Sanctuary Lamp that burns at the Tabernacle for the month of September is in Memory of J. Normand & Rhea Dumont Please keep them in your prayers.

MASS INTENTIONS SUNDAY –– SEPTEMBER 119

Twenty – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary time 6:30 am For the sick parishioners of St. Anthony 8:00 am For all members of the IVE 9:30 am Pedro, Teresa, Miguel, and Adriano

Carvalho 11:30 am Blessings for family company Veronica’s

Painting and children Ana, Miguel, Karen & Veronica

MONDAY –– SSEPTEMBER 20 Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gon, priest & Paul Chong-Ha-sang 7:00 am Teresa Gemme

Fernando Filipe & Fernanda Quardos TUESDAY –– SSEPTEMBER 21

Saint Matthew, Apostle 7:00 am Santos & Pinhancos Families

WEDNESDAY –– SSEPTEMBER 22 7:00 am Final perseverance of all the SSVM

members THURSDAY –– SSEPTEMBER 23

Saint Pius of Pietrecina, Priest 7:00 am Raoul & Alice Bergeron 7:30 pm Giancarlo Garcia

FRIDAY –– SSEPTEMBER 24 6:15 pm Jeremias R. Carreiro

Giancarlo Garcia SATURDAY –– SSEPTEMBER 25

9:00 am For the perseverance of all IVE priests 4:00 pm Antonio Alexander Carreira

SUNDAY – SEPTEMBER 226 Twenty – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

6:30 am Manuel Couto 8:00 am Deceased members of IVE 9:30 am Joao & Ana Batista

11:30 am For all the people

WELCOME If you are new to St. Anthony of Padua Parish, please know how welcome you are to worship God with us. The motto of our parish is written in Latin over the front entrance: “The hardworking people of St. Anthony have built this Temple to the Lord.” We know that we have been blessed with one of the most beautiful church most people have ever seen and that the Lord demands more of those who have been given more. Our goal is to is allow the Lord to build with us a parish community of “living Stones” even more beautiful than the physical edifice in which we have the awesome privilege to worship Him. We would love you to become part of that building project!

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HHARVEST BAZAAR! It is now September our annual Bazaar is only 2

months away. We need the Lottery scratch tickets to create the display board for this raffle. We need $1 - $2 or $5 tickets. In past years this

raffle is very popular making a profit over $1,000.00. Year may drop tickets in the collection basket or put money in an envelope marked “bazaar” and we will do the shopping.

HELP! We need gift cards to use in the Gift Card

Envelopes for the Bazaar. This is a popular game because everyone is a winner. The more we have the more we can make. Please purchase $5 gift cards from Burger King, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts, Honey Dew, CVS, Rite-Aid, Dollar Tree, Dollar General anywhere you shop! Just drop them in the collection Basket.

Community Bag Program Benefiting Month: October 2021 St. Anthony Food Pantry will receive a $1 donation from each purchase of the $2.50 reusable Community Bag at the Stop & Shop store located at 1001 Kings Highway, New Bedford MA.

For the month of October 2021, St. Anthony Food Pantry has been selected to receive a $1 donation for every $10.99 Bloomin' 4 Good Bouquet with the red circle sticker (pictured) sold at the store located at 1001 Kings

Highway, New Bedford MA.

INDOOR YARD SALE We will have an indoor yard sale Saturday September 25th from 9am to 3pm and Sunday September 26th from 9am to 1pm. If you have items, you would like to donate you may drop them off in the parish hall Monday September 20th thru Thursday September 23rd from 11am to 4pm. Please use the side door o Nye Street. You may call the rectory to make an appointment for a different time. GROCERY CARDS for Stop & Shop, and Trucchi’s are still available, the church receives 5% of every purchase. If you would like to purchase cards, please visit the Sacristy. These cards come in $5, $10, $25, and $50 denominations. You can purchase these for your own shopping or for charitable gift giving. WE WILL RESUME SELLING Sunday October 3, 2021 after the 8:00am and 9:30am Masses. Come join us in the hall for a cup of coffee.

Twenty--Fiifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Opening – BBB-7703 Take up your Cross KKyrie – BBB-p.6 #5 Gloria-p. 7 Offertory – BB-484 Where Charity and Love prevail Sanctus – Holy BBB-p.14 #9 M.A. -#A BB-16 #10 Amen – BB - 948 Agnus Dei - Lamb of God BB-p. 27 #14 Communion – BBB-592 Your Words are Spirit and Life, O Lord Meditation –NNEMB – P.48 Nearer My God to Thee Recessional –– BBB--374 Tell the Good News

FINANCIAL REPORT Parish Collection …………………………....... $ 4,561.00 Candles/Shrines …………...………………….. $ 260.16 Music Ministry ……………………………….. $ 2,072.30 Among this Week’s Bills and Expenses: Parish Staff Average Weekly Salaries $ 3,743.70 Parish Staff Average Weekly BC/BS $ 964.20

UPCOMING SECOND COLLECTIONS September 19 – Steeple Repair September 26 – Cardinal Medeiros October 3 – Liturgical Expenses

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MESSAGE OF VICAR, Father Marcelo

This phrase seems very hard: "Deny yourself carry your cross and follow Jesus" (Lk 9:23) but it will be harder to hear this final phrase "Get away from me, cursed and go to the

eternal fire" (Mt 25:41). See that everything consists in the cross, in dying everything ends, and there is no other way to life and true inner peace than the way of the Holy Cross and continuous mortification. Walk wherever you want, go wherever you like you will not find higher way at the top, nor safer at the bottom than the way of the Holy Cross. Arrange and organize all things according to your will and opinion and you will find that it is inevitable to suffer in some way, freely or by force, and so you will always find the cross. Because you will feel physical ailments or endure moral pains. Sometimes you will feel abandoned by God, sometimes you will be bothered by your neighbor and what is more serious, sometimes you will be heavy for yourself, and you will not even be able to find relief in a remedy or rest, but it is convenient that you endure everything until God wants. God desires that you learn to suffer hardship, without immediate comfort so that you submit to Him in full and recognize your limitations in adversity. No one feels the passion of Christ so deeply than one who suffers something similar. For the cross is always ready and anywhere awaits you. You cannot escape, run where you run because anywhere you arrive, you take yourself with you and always you will find yourself. Go outside, head inward, and everywhere you will find the cross; and therefore, you need everywhere to have patience if you want to have inner peace and deserve an

eternal prize. If you carry the cross in good spirits, it will lead you and lead you to the desired end where it will be the end of suffering, which is impossible here. If you get along with reluctance it will become heavier and more difficult every time for you and yet you are obliged to carry it. If you reject a cross, without the slightest doubt you will find another and perhaps heavier. If there were something better and more useful for the salvation of men to suffer, Christ would necessarily have demonstrated it by his teaching and example. But he clearly exhorts the disciples and all those who followed him to carry the cross saying: "If anyone wants to come with me, let him deny himself, carry his cross and follow me" (Mt 16:24). So, after reading and delving into all the above, this final conclusion is reached: It is convenient that we enter the kingdom of God through many difficulties (Acts 16:21). Tomas de Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. God bless.

Seeking Representatives from each Diocesan Parish and School. OOctober 9, 2021, 8:30 am to 1:30 pm at St. Julie’s Billiart Parish 494 Slocum Rd, Dartmouth, MA. RSVP required by October 5th Sign up at familyrespectlife.org $5 entrance fee at the door. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT: The Diocese continues to offer online support groups and hopes to begin offering live sessions in the Fall. These online virtual programs are being offered through Catholic Social Services on Tuesdays. The links to register for either of the one-hour sessions are as follow: 4:30 PM - https://bit.ly/SupportGroup4 or 7 PM - https://bit.ly/SupportGroup7. In addition to the online sessions, one-on-one sessions are also offered via phone. For more information, contact Rose Mary Saraiva at 508-674-4681 Ext. 1111 or 774-253-4097, or by email at rsarai va@cssdioc.org.Diocesan

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SST. JOSEPH MEN’S RETREAT OCTOBER 30, 2021

An invitation to all men from ages 13 and up to attend a one-day retreat with Fr. Roger Landry. Our modern world is filled with too many uncertainties, and we must prepare ourselves and our family to meet those challenges. This retreat is a great opportunity for all men including fathers and sons to get to live a unique spiritual experience and meet other men and youth. Christ is knocking on the door; will you open it? For information or to register call the parish rectory at 508.993.1691.

Returning in October Month of Holy Rosary

The International United Nations Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Will be visiting our church again this year in October the month of the Holy Rosary. Stay tune for updates.

Friday Night Outdoor Rosary We are still praying the rosary every Friday after the mass at Our Lady’s Grotto on Nye Street.

ADORATION FOR LIFE AN EVENING OF PRAYER & EDUCATION

CELEBRATION FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2021, 6:30 PM ST. ISIDORE PARISH

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PRO-LIFE SPEAKERS - KI MORRISSEY “CHANGING THE IMAGE OF THE BIRTH MOTHER”

KATHY HILL“SILENT NO MORE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN”

RITA & HENRY RONDELLI MUSIC MINISTRY

Can Faith & Fun happen together? YES! at the Museum of Family Prayer in North Easton, Mass. The Museum provides an immersive, inspiring, educational, and unique experience of prayer. Come for a few hours or the entire day and learn about the power of daily family prayer and be “The family that prays together stays together.” For more info call 508-238-4095 or go to www.MuseumofFamilyPrayer.org

We will have the baby bottles to help “Respect Life Baby Bottle Campaign” . Please be in the look for the baby bottles in the coming weeks

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MENSAJE DEL VICARIO, Padre Marcelo

Muy dura parece esta frase: "Niégate tú mismo carga con tu cruz y sigue a Jesús" (Lc 9,23) pero más duro será oír esta frase final "Aléjense de mí, malditos y vayan

al fuego eterno" (Mt 25,41). Mira que todo consiste en la cruz, en morir todo termina, y no existe otro camino a la vida y a la verdadera paz interior que no sea el camino de la santa Cruz y continua mortificación. Camina por donde quieras, dirígete a donde gustes no encontrarás vía más elevada en lo alto, ni más segura en lo bajo a no ser la vía de la santa Cruz. Dispón y organiza todas las cosas según tu querer y parecer y encontrarás que es inevitable sufrir de alguna manera, libremente o a la fuerza, y así siempre encontrarás la cruz. Porque sentirás dolencias físicas o soportarás dolores morales. A veces te sentirásabandonado por Dios, a veces te molestará elprójimo y lo que es más serio, a veces serás pesadopara ti mismo y ni siquiera podrás encontrar alivio enun remedio o descansar, pero conviene que todo losoportes hasta que Dios quiera. Desea Dios queaprendas a padecer las dificultades, sin consueloinmediato para que te sometas a Él íntegramente yreconozcas tus limitaciones en la adversidad. Nadiesiente tan hondamente la pasión de Cristo salvoquien sufre algo similar. Pues la cruz siempre estápreparada y en cualquier lugar te espera. No puedesescaparte, corras donde corras porque a cualquierlugar que llegues, te llevas a ti contigo y siempre a timismo te encontrarás. Dirígete al exterior, dirígete alinterior y en todas partes encontrarás la cruz; y portanto necesitas en todas partes tener paciencia sideseas tener interna paz y merecer un premioeterno. Si llevas la cruz con buen ánimo, ella te

llevará a ti y te conducirá al fin deseado donde será el final del sufrimiento, lo que aquí es imposible. Si te llevas con desgano se te hará más pesada y más difícil cada vez para ti y sin embargo estás obligado a cargarla. Si rechazas una cruz, sin la menor duda encontrarás otra y quizás más pesada. Si existiera algo mejor y más útil para la salvación de los hombres que padecer, necesariamente Cristo lo hubiera demostrado con su enseñanza y ejemplo. Pero claramente exhorta a los discípulos y a todos los que después lo siguieron, para que lleven la cruz diciendo: "Si alguien quiere venir conmigo, niéguese a sí mismo, cargue con su cruz y sígame" (Mt 16,24). Así que después de leer y profundizar en todo lo anterior se llega a ésta conclusión final: Conviene que entremos al reino de Dios a través de muchas dificultades (Hch 16,21). Tomas de Kempis, La Imitación de Cristo. Que Dios los Bendiga.

¡AYUDA PARA EL BAZAR!Ahora es septiembre nuestro Bazar anual es sólo 2

meses lejos. Necesitamos los boletos de la Lotería para crear el tablero de exhibición para esta rifa. Necesitamos boletos de $1 - $2 o $5. En años pasados esta rifa es muypopular haciendo una

ganancia de más de $1,000.00. El año puede dejar los boletos en la canasta de la colecta o poner el dinero en un sobre marcado "bazar" y nosotros haremos las compras.

¡AYUDA! Necesitamos tarjetas de regalo para usar en los sobres de tarjetas de regalo para el bazar. Este es un juego popular porque todos son ganadores. Mientras más tengamos, más podremos ganar. Por favor compre tarjetas de regalo de $5 de Burger King, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts, Honey Dew, CVS, Rite-Aid, Dollar Tree, Dollar General en cualquier lugar donde compre. Sólo déjelas en la canasta de recolección.

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VVENTA DE PATIO INTERIOR Tendremos una venta de patio interior el sábado 25 de septiembre de 9am a 3pm y el domingo 26 de septiembre de 9am a 1pm. Si usted tiene artículos, que le gustaría donar puede dejarlos en el salón parroquial del lunes 20 de septiembre al jueves 23 de septiembre de 11am a 4pm. Por favor use la puerta lateral de la calle Nye. Usted puede llamar a la rectoría para hacer una cita para un tiempo diferente.

¿Pueden la fe y la diversión ir de la mano? SÍ! en el Museo de la Oración Familiar de North Easton, Massachusetts. El Museo ofrece una experiencia de inmersión, inspiradora, educativa y única sobre la oración. Ven durante unas horas o todo el día y aprende sobre el poder de la oración familiar diaria y sé ""La familia que reza unida permanece unida". Para más información llame al 508-238-4095 o vaya a www.MuseumofFamilyPrayer.org

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