Pastoral Council: Dave Barnes, Anne Marie Bell, Liz Burmaster, Norma Bustamante, Tony Busta-mante, J.D. Koch, Cheryl Rafferty, Don Rafferty, Elva Ring.

PARISH LIFE DIRECTOR:

Deacon Joseph T. Tyrrell

�✁✂✄ ☎✆✝✞ ✟✠✡☛✞✁☞ Priest Associate

Location: 7 Goodman Avenue, Bolton Landing

Mailing Address: PO Box 266, Bolton Landing NY 12814-0266

Church Office: 518-644-3861

Email:

BlessedSacrament@nycap.rr.com

Website:

www.BlessedSacramentBolton.org

Parish Secretary: Dawn Faller, 518-644-3861 (Church Office)

Mass Intentions/Mass Cards:

Rita Whitney, 518-644-9545

Prayer Requests: Pat Nugent, 518-668-2765

Sunday Bulletin: Kathy Spahn, 518-636-5324, spahn@nycap.rr.com

BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH JUNE 24, 2018 BOLTON LANDING, NEW YORK

Summer Mass Schedule is in effect:

Saturday Vigil Mass 5:30 p.m. Sunday Mass 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Winter Mass Schedule starts after Columbus Day: Sunday Mass 11 a.m. (No Saturday Vigil Mass)

Liturgies and Devotions:

✌ Rosary - Tuesday 9 a.m.

✌ Liturgy of the Word with Communion - Thursday and Saturday 9 a.m.

✌ Eucharistic Adoration - First Saturday of the month 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

✌ Sacrament of Reconciliation - Before Saturday evening Mass.

Welcome! We realize that for many in Church today, we are not their

primary parish, but we hope you consider us your ✍✎☛✏✑✒✝ ✓✔☛✕ ✖✏✆✗ ✘✆✗✁✙

while you are here. We ask all regular visitors, seasonal and weekend residents,

and year-round parishioners to complete a Parish Registration Form (avail-

able in the Church vestibule) and indicate the Ministries of interest to you. Our

Ministries depend on the active involvement of all in our faith community.

Our Mission Statement: We at Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church,

as a community of faith, are guided by the Holy Spirit and the love of the Eucharistic Lord. We are committed to continue the modern day work and example of the North American martyrs to which this parish is dedicated.

Parish Motto: Unless someone offers a friendly smile, a helping hand, a

caring word, a listening ear, somebody somewhere loses the courage to live.

Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals: All arrangements are made through Deacon Joe Tyrrell, our Parish Life Director, including arrangements for a priest or deacon and/or organist, as appropriate.

North Country Ministry: Please call 518-623-2829 if you wish to donate ✚✛✜✢✣ ✤✥ ✦✧★✢✛✥✩✪✫✬ ✦✢✤✣✧★✪✭✮ ✧✤✜✬✩✧✤✢✛

goods, or furniture.

Food Pantry: Boxed or canned food, paper products, baby diapers, and personal hygiene items may be left in the Food Pantry Basket in the Church vestibule (no glass, please).

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Catholic School: 10-12 Church Street, Glens Falls NY 12801, phone 518-792-3178.

SERVICES THIS WEEK

Saturday, June 23

✌ Vigil Mass, 5:30 p.m. ❄ JoAnn Kittlestad ❄ Karen Nohilly ❄ Susan Norelli

Sunday, June 24

✌ Mass, 9 a.m. ❄ Germaine Vachon ❄ Tom and Nancy Sheehan ❄ Carole Bartley

✌ Mass, 10:30 a.m. ❄ Robert Downing

Tuesday, June 26

✌ Rosary, 9 a.m.

Thursday, June 28

✌ Communion Service, 9 a.m.

Saturday, June 30

✌ Communion Service, 9 a.m. ✌ Vigil Mass, 5:30 p.m. ❄ John and Angeline Valenty

Sunday, July 1

✌ Mass, 9 a.m. ❄ William Powers ❄ Nancy Sheehan

✌ Mass, 10:30 a.m. ❄ Henry Faller

❄ Denotes deceased.

NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST JUNE 24, 2018

WELCOME PARISHIONERS AND VISITORS!

�✁✂✄ ☎✆✝✞✆✟✁✠✡☛ ✁✆ ☞✡✆✌ ✁✍✎✁ ✏✎✁✍✆✑✠☎✄ ✎✟✒ conscious of their obligation to attend Mass, even when the sun is shining, the golf course is green, and the lake is beautiful.

Please join us as we pray the Rosary at 9 a.m.

on Tuesdays. Sister Lucia dos Santos (Fatima seer) said, ✓✔✔✔✕✖✗✘✗ ✙✚ ✛✜ ✢✘✜✣✤✗✥✦ ✛✜ ✥✧✕✕✗✘ ✖✜★

difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the ✢✗✘✚✜✛✧✤ ✤✙✩✗ ✜✩ ✗✧✪✖ ✜✛✗ ✜✩ ✫✚✦ ✜✩ ✜✫✘ ✩✧✥✙✤✙✗✚✬✕✖✧✕ ✪✧✛✛✜✕

be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer

✜✩ ✕✖✗ ✭✜✤✮ ✯✜✚✧✘✮✔✰

EVENTS HERE AT BLESSED SACRAMENT

TODAY WE CELEBRATE the birth of John the Baptist. We ✱✄✱✎✑✑✲ ☎✒✑✒✳✟✎✁✒ ✎ ✄✎✠✡✁✂✄ ✞✒✎✄✁ ✆✡ ✁✍✒ ✴✎✲ ✆✞ ✁✍✒✠✟ ✓✣✙✘✕✖ ✙✛✕✜

✖✗✧✵✗✛✰ ✶ that is, the day of their death. The birthdays of John the Baptist and of Jesus are the only two birthdays in the liturgical calendar that the Church celebrates. This shows how ✠✝✷✆✟✁✎✡✁ ✸✆✍✡✂✄ ✴✎✲ ✆✞ ✳✠✟✁✍ ✌✎✄ ✁✆ ✱✄✹ �✁ ✌✎✄ ✎ ✴✎✲ ✆✞ ✺✆✴✂✄

saving grace that we do not want to forget!

AS WE CELEBRATE TODA✻✼✽ ✾✿❀✽❁❂ we are reminded that God creates and fashions each one of us with intent and purpose. We are special creations and wonderfully made. We are not random accidents. Each of us brings a unique twist to the one shot at life that we are given. As people of faith and children of God, we are ✎✄☞✒✴ ✁✆ ✱✄✒ ✆✱✟ ✄✷✒☎✠✎✑✡✒✄✄ ✁✆ ✎✡✡✆✱✡☎✒ ✺✆✴✂✄ ☞✠✡☛✴✆✝✹ ❃✎☎✍ ✆✞ ✱✄ ✟✒❄✒✎✑✄ ✎ ✱✡✠❅✱✒ ✷✎✟✁ ✆✞ ✺✆✴✂✄ ✞✎☎✒✹ ❃✎☎✍ ✴✎✲

presents opportunities to communicate our faith to others and to ✟✒❄✒✎✑ ✺✆✴✂✄ ✝✒✟☎✲✹ ❆✒ ✍✎❄✒ ✁✍✒ ✝✒✎✡✄ ✁✆ ✷✆✠✡✁ ✁✍✒ ✌✎✲ ✁✆

Christ. How can we show Jesus to others today?

I WANT TO SUGGEST that God has a special name for each of us, one He calls us by in the depths of our heart. It is a name that ✶ if we can hear it and speak it with our lives ✶ will make us ✌✍✆ ✌✒ ✎✟✒ ✄✱✷✷✆✄✒✴ ✁✆ ✳✒❇ ✌✠✑✑ ✝✎☞✒ ✱✄ ✁✍✒ ☎✎✟✟✠✒✟✄ ✆✞ ✺✆✴✂✄

name itself to others. John Foley, SJ

LIKE JOHN, we are called to be the light of Christ. We are challenged to be different in a world of secularism, consumer-ism, and anti-everythingism. We are called to be a beacon of light in an otherwise dark world, always pointing the way to Christ. Do you dare to be different? Kathie Sousa

FAMILY PERSPECTIVE: ❆✍✎✁✂✄ ✠✡ ✎ ✡✎✝✒❈ ❉✆✴✎✲✂✄

Gospel tells the story of the naming of John, who becomes the Baptist. As parents we have the distinct privilege of naming our children ✶ at the time of their physical birth and again at their rebirth in baptism. Take the time to retell the story of how your ☎✍✠✑✴✟✒✡ ✌✒✟✒ ✡✎✝✒✴❇ ✎✄ ✌✒✑✑ ✎✄ ✟✒☎✎✑✑✠✡☛ ✲✆✱✟ ✆✌✡ ✡✎✝✒✂✄

story. It reminds us all that God calls us each by name. Bud Ozar

John the Baptist teaches us humility and knowledge of self.

❊ Are you humble and down-to-earth?

❊ Are there times when you are tempted to be snobbish, to ✎✄✄✆☎✠✎✁✒ ✆✡✑✲ ✌✠✁✍ ❋☎✒✟✁✎✠✡ ✷✒✆✷✑✒●❈

❊ Are you ever tempted to be someone you know you are not?

Self-knowledge and humility do not mean focusing on our faults and weaknesses, although it might include being aware of them.

Self-knowledge and humility mean knowing what we are good at, how we can help or improve a situation, developing our talents, and giving God the glory and thanks for them.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK IS JUNE 22-JUNE 29.

Please continue to pray for the preservation of religious freedom, both now and in the future, for Catholics and all people of faith. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, faith-based service providers are being denied the right to serve God and others freely in ministries like healthcare, adoption and foster care, education, and migration and refugee services, to name a few. Please visit www.usccb.org/ReligiousFreedomWeek to download the one-✷✎☛✒ ❋❍✟✎✲-Reflect-■☎✁● ✷✎✷✒✟ ✞✆✟ ✒✎☎✍ ✴✎✲✹These excellent resources are intended to inspire us to learn more about religious liberty from a Catholic perspective, help us to pray about particular issues, and provide us with tools to act on what we learn.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held

Saturday, July 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Our monthly Holy Hour is an opportunity to come before Jesus physically present in the consecrated

Host. Sitting before the Lord as the early disciples did, we can talk to Him and listen to Him. We can learn His will for us. We may pray familiar prayers, read Scripture, read a spiritual book. Or we may simply sit in His Presence and receive His love and peace.

Please join us as we celebrate Liturgy of the Word with

Communion at 9 a.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays. St. Vincent Ferrer said that one Communion does more ✞✆✟ ✁✍✒ ✄✆✱✑ ✁✍✎✡ ✎ ✌✒✒☞✂✄ ✞✎✄✁✠✡☛ ✆✡ ✳✟✒✎✴ ✎✡✴ ✌✎✁✒✟✹

Hearts Aflame Eucharistic Congress: Everyone is invited to a special gathering on Saturday, September 22, at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville.

Bishop Scharfenberger has said, ✓❏✖✙✚ ★✙✤✤ ✣✗ ✧spiritual event, hallowed in part by the very

❑✘✜✫✛▲ ✜✛ ★✖✙✪✖ ✙✕ ✙✚ ✖✗✤▲✔✰ �✁✂✄ ✎✡ ✒✄✷✒☎✠✎✑✑✲exciting opportunity for those who have never visited this historic site.

The event is free and open to everyone. Lunch will be available for purchase or you may bring your own. Mark

your calendar! ❆✒✂✑✑ ✍✎❄✒ ✴✒✁✎✠✑✄ ✎✄ ✌✒ ☛✒✁ ☎✑✆✄✒✟ ✁✆ ✁✍✒event, but in the meantime be sure to save the date!

CONGRATULATIONS to our parishioners Janelle Pelli and Brendan Murnane who were married here at Blessed Sacrament on Saturday, June 16.

Calendar for your refrigerator

Sat, Jun 23: Vigil Mass 5:30pm Sun, Jun 24: Mass 9am and 10:30am AA 7pm Community Room Tue, Jun 26: Rosary 9am Wed, Jun 27: AA 8pm Community Room Thu, Jun 28: Communion Service 9am Sat, Jun 30: Communion Service 9am Vigil Mass 5:30pm Sun, Jul 1: Mass 9am and 10:30am AA 7pm Community Room

Upcoming Event Sat, Jul 7: Eucharistic Adoration, 9:30am

Commentator/Lector Jun 30 5:30pm Annie S./Annie S. Jul 1 9am �✁✂✄ ☎✆�✝✞�☎ ✟✝ Jul 1 10:30am Dawn F./Sylvia P.

Bulletin prepared Tuesday, June 19.

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birthday was the position of the sun in the northern hemisphere. June 24 is just after the summer solstice, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. From now until December 24, the sun will get lower and lower in the sky. The days will get shorter and shorter. Then, at the birth of Jesus on December 25, just after the ✠✙✍✖✎✚ ✓✕✛✓✖✙✔✎✜ ✖✡✎ ✓✌✍ ✠✙✛✛ ✓✖✒✚✖ ✢✚✙✓✙✍✣✤ ✒✣✒✙✍✥ ✦✡✎ ✒✍✔✙✎✍✖✓

linked this greater sunlight after December 25 to the coming ✕✗ ✖✡✎ ✧✙✣✡✖ ✕✗ ✖✡✎ ★✕✚✛✩ ✒✖ ✪✡✚✙✓✖✫✒✓✥ ✦✡✎✚✎✗✕✚✎✜ ☞✕✡✍✘✓ ✬✙✚✖✡

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Please pray for those who are sick or homebound, especially: Francesca Adamo, Debra Andersen, Betty Berke, Jean Bureau, Matt Bury, Valerie Caldwell, Nicholas Clesceri, Father Bryan Dalton, Claudia Daubney, Pat Doyle, Barbara Field, JoAnn Foster, Cate Foy, Doug Goettsche, Jean Hall, Harry (3-year-old), M. Hayes, John Hopkins, Claire LoPreto, Bill Manion, Judy Mari, Donald and Lucille Maxwell, Juanita Morch, Jim Moshier, Liam Mukisa, ✮✯ ✰✱✲✳✴✴✳✵✶ ✷✳✸ ✰✹✺✴✻✶ ✲✼✵✳✽✾✴ ✿✼✵❀✻❀✶ ❁✳✺✽ ✷❀❂✺✵✼✶ ❃❄✺❅✼✴❀✺ ✷✳❆✺✽✽✶ ✷✳✴ ❃❇✺✽✽❀✶ ❈✸

Sheridan, Katie Speicher, Janet Tinker, and Sue Vanderpuy. Please call Pat Nugent (518-668-

2765) with any changes to our Parish Prayer List.

LET US PRAY

God bless all our graduates! Dear Lord, as You have led them in the past, lead them now into

the future. Give them focus and clarity, a calling from You to understand their purpose, and

the courage to respond and step toward that purpose. Amen.

THE FAMILY TABLE used to be a central place in any home, and dinnertime was sacred. This was a time set aside for family discussion. But these days, everyone is busy, and there never seems to be enough time to connect. Nothing fosters a sense of belonging, love, and self-esteem like family communication. It can generate confidence, pro-mote exploration, and result in discovery. It can even engage children with developmental disorders. As the level of commu-✴❀❉✼❄❀✳✴ ✵❀✻✺✻✶ ✾✳❊✱✽✽ ✴✳❄❀❉✺ ✼ ✵❀✻✺ ❀✴ ❄❇✺ ✽✺❂✺✽ ✳❅ ✾✳❊✵ ❋✺✴✺✵✼✽

family self-✺✻❄✺✺●✯ ❍✳❊✱✽✽ ✻❄✼✵❄ ❄✳ ❅✺✺✽ ●✳✵✺ ✽❀■✺ ✼ family than ever before. Try planning your week around a family meal.

We are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, covering over 10,400 miles. The northern border reaches to North Creek and Hague; the southern most town is Hancock on the Pennsylvania border.

And we are part of it all! We are not a stand-alone independent church. We are part of a universal Church. How can our parish help all that the Albany Diocese does? Through the ✼✴✴❊✼✽ ✮❀✻❇✳❏✱✻ ❑❏❏✺✼✽▲ ❍✳❊✵ ❋❀❅❄ ❄✳ ❄❇✺

✮❀✻❇✳❏✱✻ ❑❏❏✺✼✽ directly helps our parish to pay its share of the important work of the Diocese.

We ask for the financial support of our ▼◆❖P-◗❘❙❚❯❱❲ parishioners

who join us during the summer months as well as our ▼❳❨❘❙-❙P❩❬❭❲

parishioners. God bless you for your consideration.

MAKE TIME TO PRAY

STEWARDSHIP

Using Boxed Offering Envelopes is a way of saying, I am part

of this faith community. If you used a set last year, a new set is waiting for you in the vestibule. Please call the Church office (518-644-3861) if you wish to begin using a boxed envelope set.

❪✼✻❄ ✹✺✺■✱✻ Offering for our faith community was $2,603. The Catholic Communication Campaign national collection was $699. Thank you for your financial support.

Bicycles needed! Sacred Heart Church in Lake George is looking for good, usable adult bicycles and adult helmets for the foreign students working in our area. Please call the Sacred Heart Parish Center at 518-668-2046.

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Please help with the upkeep of our parish buildings, church and rectory, and necessary repairs to them, as well as maintenance of our grounds. Those using boxed Offering envelopes will find a separate Building Maintenance envelope. Thank you.

Please step forward as a Commentator, Lector, Usher, Greeter, Eucharistic Minister, Collection Counter, Singer, or Musician. Please speak with Deacon Joe or call the Rectory. Training provided. Thanks!

Our ❫❧r❣❞❡✐ s♠t ✉❛s✐ ❴❣✈✇ ❴♠❤❤❜✐ ❧❣①②❣❛❡❞❦ was a great success!. More than 100 bottles were returned! ③✺✱✵✺ ❀✴ ❄❇✺ ❏✵✳❉✺✻✻ ✳❅ ❉✳❊✴❄❀✴❋ ❉✳❀✴✻ ✼✴✸ ✹❀✽✽ ❇✼❂✺ the total soon. God bless everyone for your generosity

and concern for the women and families that are helped by the Open Arms Pregnancy Center in Glens Falls.

PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES ELSEWHERE

④ ❫⑤❣✇ s♠t ⑥✐⑦❤ ❣❞❝ ⑥✐❜❣♥❣❤❛♠❞ ❣❞❝ ⑥✐s❜✐❥❤❛♠❞❦ is offered at the Dominican Retreat and Conference Center in Niskay-una on Saturday, June 30. This is a time for praying, reflec-tion, sharing, and creating. Bring your journals, knitting, or whatever you enjoy doing. The art cart will be available for your use. Come and re-energize! Fee $30 includes lunch. Call 518-393-4169.

Courage is the apostolate of the Roman Catholic Church that ministers to those with same-sex attraction. Courage members strive toward five goals, including living chaste lives in accordance with the Catholic Church's teaching on sexuality. Courage of Albany meets monthly. The website is https://courageRC.org. Email courage.albany@yahoo.com or telephone 518-496-4771. Confidentiality assured.

Peter G. Young Foundation Benefit Concert

will be held Monday, July 16, at the Saratoga National Golf Club, and will feature a New Orleans Jazz Musical Tribute to PYHIT, its programs and staff. For tickets, contact Margie Reilly at 518-463-8109 or at marger@pyhit.org.

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◆❱❨ ⑩❘❶P❙❚◆❳ ❭❨❷❚❯❚P❬❸❲

Pope Saint John Paul II