April 9, 2006
Palm Sunday
Weekend Mass Intentions
Saturday,  April 8
   6:00 PM  For the parishioners of St.Paul
Sunday,  April 9
   9:30 AM  Robert Lesmerises by Rene & Claudette Bessette
Saturday,  April 15
    6:00 PM  For the parishioners of St.Paul
Sunday,  April 16
    8:00 AM  Newnan by Fred Tobin
    9:30 AM  Carol Avellino – 9th Anniversary by Tom & Angel Bart

Parish News and Notes

Parish office hours
    Our parish office is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM. The Pastoral Associate is in most afternoons until 4:00 PM.  If you need to come in the PM please give us a call to make sure someone is here. Messages can always be left on the answering machine. 

Are you registered?
     Are you new to our parish?   If you are, please pick up a registration form in the vestibule of the church. Registration is very important.  Just drop it in the basket or mail it to our office.  Thanks!  We are always happy to receive new parishioners.  We welcome you and pray you will be happy here with us.

Please use church envelopes 
    Envelope users provide the bedrock of our financial support.  Please consider using them.  New packets of envelopes are mailed every three months. If you would like to receive some but you are not yet on the mailing list, please call Jeannine to give her your name and address. Thank you!

Envelope Request Form ____ I want to support our parish on a regular basis. Please add me to the envelope list. Name ______________________________ Address___________________________ Town ________________,NH Zip ________

Reconciliation Service
    If you have not yet had the opportunity to go to confession during this Lenten season and you wish to do so, there will be two services in the Manchester area this week.  Both sites will have several priests to choose from.  You are most welcome at either church.

Sunday, April 9, 2006,         6:00 PM
        St. Marie Church on Notre Dame Ave
Monday, April 10, 2006    7:00 PM
        St. Patrick Church on Coolidge Ave.

Liturgy Schedule for Holy Week Palm Sunday  (April 9)     Saturday        6:00PM     Sunday        9:30AM Holy Thursday  7:00 PM   St. Peter Church, Auburn  (April 13)   Good Friday    7:00PM   St. Paul  Church, Candia   (April 14)     Easter Vigil     8:00 PM  St. Paul Church,  Candia   (April 15)     Easter Morning both Masses in the Church    (April 16)       8:00    AM        St. Paul     9:30  AM        St. Paul

Christian Formation News

Grades K – 3     The children entering grades K- 3 this fall will be attending Lectionary Catechesis as they have been in the past. The program runs from mid-September to mid-May.  We do offer the program at all Masses .   Grades 4 – 10+  This year we are initiating a new program for the children in these grade levels.  The classes are held once a month and the program is geared to the entire family. Parents are asked to attend the sessions as there is an adult component to the program. Our first class was Sunday, October 16, 2005 from 11am – 1pm.  The last two classes of the school year are:  April 2, and May 21, 2006.    All classes will are held from 11:00 – 1:00 pm.  If you are new to the parish or if you child is just beginning his/her formation, please call the parish office for a registration blank.     Confirmation students will also meet one extra time per month.  The date for  March is as follows: March 5, 2006.  It will be held at 12:30PM immediately following the 11:30 Mass in Auburn.  All students from both parishes will meet together in Auburn for these meetings.

Congratulations to our Confirmation Class
This year the parish was pleased to prepare eleven of our high school students for the sacrament of Confirmation.  The students participated in a two years of Christian  formation.  They were Confirmed together with the young men and women of St. Peter Parish in Auburn on March 26, 2006.

Congratulations to the following:


Question of the Week
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
Theme: (The Obedience of Christ)
Reading I: Isaiah 50:4-7  (God is My Help)
Reading II: Phil. 2:6-11 (Christ Humbled Himself)
Gospel:  Mark 14: 1-15 (The Passion)

Question for Adults:    What encourages me about Jesus?
    This is a very loaded question.  We can look at it from a spiritual, a physical, a psychological or even a social perspective.  Perhaps we should take a few minutes to reflect on our present situation in life.  If we realize that we have one area that is most frail then this area is the one we could focus on.
    Once we have identified the ailing area in our life, we can take a good look at the Passion of Jesus and try to see what aspect of it best encourages us.  The Passion is long and is filled with many and varied experiences.  It deals with betrayal, unfair treatment, brutality, mockery, unfaithful friends,  physical pain, acceptance of inevitable death,  even spiritual weakness.  It seems as though the story of the passion is a microcosm of life’s hardships.      
    Perhaps one reason we often fail to see Jesus as a figure to model ourselves after is because we have difficulty believing that he was truly a human being.  We all too often think of him solely as God and forget that he was indeed human.  He was a man that walked the streets of Judea just like we walk the streets of New Hampshire.  He got tired, sick, and lonely.  He felt pain, discouragement and was sensitive to insults and betrayal just like us.  He was able to deal with it simply because he had a deep and intimate relationship with God.  He kept the line open through prayer.  He was open  to God’s views and willing to live out those views.
    Where do we stand and how can we see Jesus as a person that encourages us?

Question for Children?   How might I offer support to others this week? 
    We often neglect to realize that the events of the passion of Jesus offer us a good example of things we could do for others.  One way to help your children to do this is by encouraging them to put themselves in the place of the people Jesus meets on the way to the Cross.  We often forget that Jesus needed support just as we often do.  When he was weak and frail he needed his friends and disciples to be there for him.  Sometimes the smallest acts of kindness mean the most.   

  

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