February 9th, 2020| The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time | (865)

85 Main Street / Ashburnham, Massachusetts 01430

Saint Denis Parish

LORD’S DAY MASSES Saturday — 4:30 pm

Sunday — 8:00 & 10:30 am

DAILY MASSES

Monday — Wednesday 9:00 am

RECONCILIATION Saturday 3:30 — 4:00 pm

or by appointment

OFFICE HOURS

Monday — Thursday

10:00 - 3:00pm.

Office 24/7 available

on website:

www.saintdenisashburnham.com

Bulletin requests, Prayer requests

Mass Intentions, Event Tickets

Calendar requests, Join Parish

PRIEST ADMINISTRATOR Fr. Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa

Fatherochoa@gmail.com

DEACON Deacon Richard DesJardins

978-343-6367

SECRETARY/OFFICE Andrew W. Gage

StDenis@comcast.net

978-827-5806

RELIGIOUS ED. OFFICE Administrator of Rel ED

Kimberly Brown

978-827–4892

StDenisRE@comcast.net

SAINT VINCENT de PAUL

978-790-1923

BAPTISMS Deacon Richard DesJardins

978-343-6367

NOTIFY THE RECTORY 978-827-5806

Visitation of the sick & elderly

Weddings, Funerals,

Pastoral Care, etc.

St Denis Cemetery Kelton Rd

Ashburnham, MA 01430

978-827-5806

https://saintdenisashburnham.org/cemetery

www.SaintDenisAshburnham.com

Join Flock Notes: Text “StDenis85” to 84576

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“YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD” (MT 5:14)

Next Week: Feb 16th, 2020|The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time| Sir 15: 15-20, 1 Cor 2:6-10, Matt 5: 17-37 or 5: 20-22a, 27-28, 33-34a, 37

Sat 2/8 4:30 pm Cindy Gage

By Gage Family

Sun 2/9 8:00 am Cindy Gage

By Gage Family

Patricia M. Egan

By Mary-Beth & Leo Janssene

10:30 am Prayers for Successful Book Ministry

“Newborn into life with Jesus”

Sat 2/15 4:30 pm For the canonization of Audrey Santo

By Paul & Heather Theisen

SUN 2/16 8:00 am Thomasina Coutu

By Harry & Peggy Bellabarba

10:30 am

A new raffle is available from the Knights of Columbus.

This raffle will help fund the many projects we fund

throughout the year. As the ticket says, there are many

chances to win. Purchase tickets from a Knight or visit

the parish office.

Saint Denis Spaghetti Dinner this Weekend

Tickets are on sale at the door for this

Saturday evening's (February 8) Parish

Spaghetti Dinner in the Father Lacy

Hall at 5:30 p.m. Join us for good food

and the good company of your fellow

parishioners on Saturday of this weekend.

Tickets are $8 per person and $30 per family.

Many thanks to all who labor so hard to provide us with

this fun evening!

Contact Deb Mercier 978-827-5393 or timdeb.mercier@aol.com

Letter to St. Denis Parish

Fr. Reidy

Again this weekend, our readings are replete with references to light. "(Y)our

light shall break forth like the dawn" (Isaiah 58:8). "Light shines through

the darkness for the upright" (Psalm112:4). "You are the light of the world" (Mt 5:14).

Your light must shine before others" (Mt

5:16).

How is it that our light shall break

forth, pierce the darkness and shine before others? The psalmist tells us that it hap-

pens when we are gracious, merciful and just. Isaiah is more concrete. Our light will

break forth like the dawn when we feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the

naked and do not turn our back on our

own.

In his first encyclical, The Joy of the

Gospel, Pope Francis warned against a

"spiritual worldliness" which seeks human

glory, personal well-being and prosperity

detached from community life and respon-sibility for our brothers and sisters

(Evangelium Gaudium, 90, 93).

Jesus urges us in today's Gospel to let

our light shine before others that the world may see our good deeds (Mt 5:16). We do

this not that we might gain praise, garner compliments and be well thought of but

that those who see our good deeds may

glorify our Heavenly Father.

Thanks to you all for your support of

and sacrifice for the numerous charitable efforts of Saint Denis parish. They reflect

God’s light in our world and a solidarity with those in need. May we continue with

those efforts that others seeing those ef-forts may not only be fed, sheltered and

clothed today but by glorifying God, find

salvation forever.

Pope Francis Prayer Intentions for February:

During the month of February, Pope Francis

has asked us to pray that the cries of our

migrant brothers and sisters, victims of

criminal trafficking may be heard and con-

sidered.

February

Sun 2/9 10:30 am Confirmation Prep

6:00 pm Rel Ed Grade 9

Mon 2/10 3:00 pm Rel Ed Grade 3-5

6:30 pm CCD Grades 6-8

Tues 2/11 3:00 pm CGS Classes

3:00 pm CCD Grades K - 2

Sat 2/8 3:30 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4:15 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet 4:30 pm Saturday Mass 5:30 pm Spaghetti Supper Sun 2/9 8:00 am Sunday Mass 10:30 am Sunday Mass Daily Masses are canceled this week Tue 2/11 7:00 pm KofC Planning Meeting StEdwards Wed 2/12 9:30 am Ladies Spiritual Enrichment Group Thur 2/13 7:00 pm Kerygma Prayer/Bible Study Sat 2/15 3:30 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4:15 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet 4:30 pm Saturday Mass Sun 2/16 8:00 am Sunday Mass 10:30 am Sunday Mass

Special Highlights | Upcoming Events | RE Schedule| Offertory Update

Our society of Saint Vincent de Paul conference asks every parishioner to please serve as our “eyes and ears” to advise us of anyone locally such as a neighbor, relative, friend or acquaintance who might be struggling with economic issues as well as other

issues such as loneliness or illness and might benefit from a confidential helping hand. The members of Saint Vincent de Paul are willing to provide assistance as much as they are able while maintaining 100% confidentiality. The intent of our St. Vin-cent de Paul group is to exemplify the loving actions demonstrat-ed by the life of Jesus. Please call the St. Vincent de Paul dedi-cated phone line at (978) 790-1923 to request assistance for yourself or someone in need. A member of St. Vincent de Paul will be in touch with you.

Let us honor God with our first fruits rather than the leftovers

1/26/20 Sunday Offertory $ 2,827.23 Cemetery $ 38.00 Fuel & Maint $ 5.00 Parish Needs $ 174.00 1/26/20 Online Giving $ 260.00 Total $ 3,304.23

Thank you for your generous support of the parish. Your weekly financial support enables Saint Denis to provide

for the needs of our parish.

20th Annual Diocesan Catholic Men’s

Conference

Men (of all ages, including teens and

college students) are invited to this

important 20th Anniversary

conference scheduled for

Assumption College on Saturday, March 28th. Visit the

conference website at www.firstmensconf.org for

information and to purchase tickets. Come hear speakers

like Scott Hann, Luis Soto, and Bishop Robert Reed.

Priests will be hearing confessions and Bishop McManus

will say Mass at the end of the day. Adult ticket prices are

$45 until March 11th and go up to $60 afterward.

Classes for Boy Scouts in Westminster

Calling all Boy Scouts, age 13 and up, interested in earning

the Catholic Scouting Award, Ad Altare Dei. We will be

starting classes on Sunday afternoons at St. Edward Parish,

Westminster if we get 10 or more interested Scouts. Please

email Linda, office@stedwardconf.org or call 978-874-2362.

As we pray each day for Father Memo, you might con-

sider the following prayer for him and for all priests.

O Almighty Eternal God, look upon the face of Christ, and

for the love of Him who is the Eternal High Priest, have pity

on your priests. Remember, O most compassionate God,

that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them

the grace of their vocation which is in them by the imposition

of the bishop’s hands. Keep them close to You, lest the Ene-

my prevail against them, so that they may never do anything

in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.

O Jesus, I pray You for Your faithful and fervent priests; for

Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for Your priests laboring at

home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your tempted

priests; for Your lonely and desolate priests; for Your young

priests; for Your aged priests; for Your sick priests, for Your

dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in Purgatory.

But above all I commend to You the priests dearest to me;

the priest who baptized me; the priests who absolved me

from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assisted, and who

gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the

priests who taught and instructed me, or helped and encour-

aged me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other

way, particularly N.

O Jesus, keep them all close to Your Heart, and bless them

abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.

IMPRIMATUR +Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison