January 17, 2010
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Weekend Mass Intentions
Saturday, January 16
    6:00 PM For the Parishioners of St. Paul
Sunday,  January 17
    9:30 AM  Francis Huard By Normand & Jeannine Fraser
Saturday, January 23
    6:00 PM For the Parishioners of St. Paul
Sunday,  January 24
    9:30 AM For A Special Intention By Normand & Jeannine Fraser

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 ________

Christian Formation News

All children from k – 10 must register for Religious Education each year.  The registration does not roll over from one year to the next.  We will be mailing a registration form through e-mail in the near future.  If you have not received a form by mid-August it is because we do not have your e-mail address or perhaps you are not yet registered in the parish so we do not have any pertinent information related to you family.  You can call the office between Monday –Thursday at 483-8481 to update your e-mail info or you can pick up a registration in the entrance of the church. Grades K- 3  The children in grades K – 3 attend classes during the weekend liturgies.  We use a Lectionary Catechesis which is based on the Gospel of the week.  Kindergarten students are not obliged to attend regularly. However beginning with grade 1, students must attend classes on a weekly basis during the Mass, as the program for 1st Communion is a two year program.  The program for the school year 2009-2010 will begin on the weekend of September 19th and 20th.  Classes are held during both weekend Masses. We would need some volunteers to help out as monitors during the classes.  Please contact the office if you can do this. Grades 4 – 10 +, Generation of Faith     This program is designed for both parents and children.  Parents who have children in grades  4 - 10 are asked to attend these monthly sessions. The adult session gives them an opportunity to refresh their memory on important matters of the faith as well as giving them the chance to share with other adults on pertinent issues of faith.  All GoF classes are held on Sundays from 4 – 6 pm.  Our next class will be held on February 14th. Confirmation Program:      The Confirmation students will begin their two year program on Sunday, September 27, 2009.  All students must be registered by September 27th.  Second year students must have completed year one in full, i.e., two classes per month from September through April.  Attendance at Generation of Faith only does not satisfy the requirements for Confirmation.  All students are also asked to attend Mass on a weekly basis.  If students have not yet registered they must now wait for next year’s program as it is too late to complete this year’s requirements.                      Schedule of Classes

Question of the Week
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Theme:  (Revealed Glory)
Reading: Isaiah 62:1-5 (The Lord Delights in You)
Reading II: Corinthians  12: 4-11(Spiritual Gifts)
Gospel: John: 2: 1-11 (the Wedding at Cana)

Question for Adults:  What do I need to do to let God’s communication, or revelation, come into my life?  There is a large majority of people who complain of having difficulty knowing or recognizing the times when God actually communicate or “speaks” to them.  Being attentive to God and his message is not an easy thing to do for human beings.  It becomes all the more difficult when we are overly stressed or anxious or too busy with a million things in our life.  “Listening” to God must be done within the quiet of our being.  This is what it means to listen with our heart.  Can we quiet ourselves long enough to hear God’s voice within us?  

Question for Children:  Where can I hear God talking to me?  How should I pay special attention to what God tells me?  Very often God talks to us through other people.  People such as our parents, our relatives, and our teachers  can all be instruments of God’s word.  Of course, we can always hear God speaking to us when we come to church.  For this to happen we must spend some time praying and then pay attention to what God may be telling us.

Community News

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
    This week we celebrate the week of prayer for Christian Unity.  The church Unity Octave, a forerunner of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, was developed by Father Paul Watson, SA, at Graymoor in Garrison, NY, and was first observed at Graymoor from January 18-25, 1908.  Today, the week of Prayer for Christian Unity invites the whole Christian community throughout the world to pray in communion with the prayer of Jesus “that they all may be one” (John 17:21).
    The theme for the annual celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2010 has been announced by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.  The theme for the 2010 Week of Prayer is You Are Witnesses of These Things.  It comes from Luke’s gospel chapter 24 verse 48.  This is also the theme which Scottish Christians have chosen to celebrate the centenary of the Edinburgh Mission Conference.
If you would like to join the world wide church in her prayer for unity this week, we will reflect each day on chapter 24 of Luke’s gospel stopping at the questions which it asks:  Jesus questions to his disciples; the questions the apostles ask of Christ.
Each of these allows us to highlight a particular way of witnessing to Christ.  Each invites us to think about our situation of church division and how we can remedy it.

Our Food Pantry  If you would like to help our food pantry, we especially need Canned Soup, Tuna, Instant Rice and Potatoes, canned pastas and Spaghetti sauce.  We can always use juice.  Thank you so much for your generosity.  You have no idea how appreciative people are when they come and we have something to offer.

A Look at Upcoming Events

Divorce Care video Seminars  and support Group meeting for separated/divorced persons will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Chuch Hall, Main St., Belmont on:
****Mondays at 6:30 – 8:30 pm****
The cost is $15.00 for the entire series.  This includes a guidebook also.  Scholarships are available.  Persons are welcome at any point in the series.  The topics are as follows:
Jan. 4th “What’s Happening to Me?”
Jan. 11th “The road to Healing:  Finding Hope”
Jan. 25 “Facing My Depression”
Feb. 1st “Facing My Loneliness”
Feb. 8th “What does the Owner’s Manual (Bible) say
Feb. 15th “New Relationships”
Feb 22nd “Financial Survival”
Mar. 1st “Kidcare”
Mar. 8th  “Single Sexuality”
Mar. 15th “Forgiveness”
Mar. 22nd “Reconciliation”
Mar. 29th  “Growing Closer to God”

Retrouvaille. . . a Lifeline  Rediscover a loving marriage with a retrouvaille (pronounced re-tru-vi) weekend.  If your marriage is tearing the two of you apart, if there is little or no meaningful communication, if you are considering separation or divorce, we believe Retrouvaille can help you.  The next New England Retrouvaille marriage weekends will be held January 15-17, 2010, and April 16-18, 2010.  To register for the weekend or for more information, visit www.HelpOurMarriage.com or call 1-800-470-2230.

Winter Events at Cathedral of St. Joseph  the Cathedral is located at 145 Lowell St. on the corner of Pine. 
  Sunday,  January 31, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.  The Cathedral concert Series presents organist Mary Copely as she plays works of J.S. Bach, Messiaen, Franck, Widor and Vierne.  There will be a free will offering

A Trip to the Holy Land   Msgr. John Quinn at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish is hosting a once-in-a-lifetime ‘Journey to the Holy Land’, April 12 – 23, 2010.  this trip which takes place after Easter, includes Mt. Tabor, Mt. of the Beatitudes, Jericho, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and more!  Space is limited.  For more information, please contact the St. Elizabeth Seton Parish office at 660-7444.         

A Companion Volunteer Training Program.  The Visiting Nurse of Manchester & Southern NH Association is starting a Companion Volunteer Training Program.  The focus of the training will be compassionate listening, concerns of the elderly, cognitive aging and setting boundaries.  Training is scheduled for Friday mornings January 8 through January 29 from 10:00am to 11:30am at VNA 33 So. Commercial St. Manchester, NH.
    The comprehensive training program will equip participants with the necessary skills to provide companionship to our homebound patients through visits and phone contact.
    The training will be led by Elizabeth Sheard, MA, and Professor of Aging.  Please contact Linda Krisch, Coordinator of Volunteer Resources at 663-4008 or lkrisch@elliot-hs.org to pre-register or for more information.

CURRENT PRAYER REQUESTS Please remember the following people and intentions in your daily prayers: Our sick parishioners and friends…    Please pray for the following people:  :  Josephine Stout, Cecile Gendron, Kimberly Mirolo, Rita Sullivan, Kathy Gauthier, Jean Swindler, Roger Plante, Joseph Gesel, Jacob Desrocher, Cindy Huard, Deborah McGovern, Ethel Thomas, Gordon Gladden and Carol Sheperd For peace in the world, especially in the Middle East… For those serving in the armed forces... For families experiencing stress due to financial, emotional or relational problems For our sister parish in Haiti... For vocations to full-time ministry, especially the priesthood, the deaconate, religious life lay ministry...     If you would like to add a person or intention, please let us know. If people on the sick list are no longer in need of prayers, please let us know.