MONDAY, APRIL 21

 9:00 AM  For Annabelle Brown

                  by St. Joseph Parish

 

TUESDAY, APRIL 22

 7:30 AM  For Mildred Kennedy

                 by Bobby Wooster

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23

 7:30 AM  For the Intention of Fr. Mike

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 24

NO MORNING MASS

 

 6:30 PM  Rosary

 

 7:00 PM  For Anna DeFlumeri by Chris Waters

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 25

St. Joseph Church

 7:30 AM  For Parishioners of St. Joseph

 

Adoration: 8:00 AM until 7:00 PM

 

Rockingham Nursing Home

 1:30 PM  Rosary

 

 2:00 PM  For all residents of Rockingham

                 Nursing Home

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

 4:00 PM  For Henry Fisher by his wife

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

 8:00 AM  For Rose O’Leary and James Covey

                 by M/M David O’Leary

 

10:30AM  For John Callahan by family

 

 6:00 PM  For all members of St. Joseph Parish

 

 

There will be no Religious Education classes next week Sunday, April 27^th to Wednesday, April 30^th. Classes resume on Sunday, May 4^th.

 

WOMEN’S GROUP

All the women of the parish are cordially invited to attend the Women’s Group which will meet this Monday, April 21^st at 7:00 PM in the parish hall.

 

We welcome into our parish family Bethann Judy Hartford, Samuel Thomas Ringleben and Emma Grace Steed who were baptized here this past Sunday.

 

NH CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL

Miracles Happen Everyday

Next weekend you will be asked to donate to the 2008 Catholic Charities Annual Appeal. Each year we ask you, as part of the Catholic community, to answer this call to help people who face hardship and unbearable challenges. For 2008, our parish donation goal is: $29,000. Your gift goes directly to feeding the hungry, healing the wounded hearts of children, comforting the elderly, and providing hope through our Parish and Community Outreach program. For instance, an elderly client in a mobile home park with limited retirement resources faced electrical disconnection. With advocacy by NHCC and a payment plan instituted, she was able to keep her electricity on and will probably try to stay in her home for another year. Meanwhile, linked with additional information by NHCC staff, she is applying for subsidized senior housing and should be ready to move as her name comes to the top of the waiting list for such housing.

 

Your generosity in this appeal offers an opportunity to truly make miracles happen for so many people in New Hampshire, some of whom may be from our own community.

 

 

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be."

- Jn 14:1-3

 

 

April 13, 2008

265 envelopes             $4,330.00

Non-envelopes                 931.00

Total                            $5,261.00

 

220 CLUB

Winners for April 13, 2008

$25      #040  Joe Lessard

$15      #088  Lora Chase

$10      #202  Marie Warner

$10      #104  Madeline Belanger

$  5      #209  Natalie Fanarias

$  5      #184  Dan Sweeney

 

Hospitality will meet next Sunday, April 27^th at 9:00 AM in the parish hall.

 

Parish Council will meet next Monday, April 28^th at 7:00 PM in the parish hall.

 

Liturgy Committee will meet next Sunday April 27 at the Rectory from 7:30PM-9:00 PM

 

MISSION DINNER

The Mission Dinner Committee will prepare and serve an Italian Feast after the 4:00 PM Mass next Saturday, April 26^th. Cost is $6 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

 

FLAG DRIVE

The Knights of Columbus will be selling American Flags after all the Masses beginning next weekend, April 26/27. The Assembly will also be collecting torn flags which will be retired at a service on Flag Day, June 14^th. Please call Ron Metevier at 895-2889 for more information.

 

EXETER HOSPITAL HEALTH VAN

The Exeter Hospital Health Van will be in our lower parking lot from 1:00 until 4:00 PM on Wednesday, April 23^rd.

 

OPEN HOUSE

Villa Augustina School in Goffstown will have an Open House on Thursday, May 15 at 6:00 PM for PreK through 8^th grades. We are here to stay, continuing a 90-year legacy of independent Catholic education dedicated to Christian values, academic excellence and loving service. See for yourself! Call 497-2361 or visit www.villaaugustina.org.

 

ADORATION

In his book “An Invitation to Faith” Pope Benedict XVI states that Adoration means entering the depths of our hearts in communion with the Lord, who makes himself bodily present in the Eucharist. In the monstrance, he always entrusts himself to us and asks us to be united with his Presence, with his risen Body. Please spend some time with the Lord at Eucharistic Adoration on Fridays from 8:00AM to 7:00 PM.

 

TRUST IN GOD

Quotes from the Saints

Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted Him.

--St. Paul of the Cross

 

The more you abandon to God the care of temporal things, the more He will take care to provide for all your wants; but if, on the contrary, you try to supply all your own needs, Providence will allow you to continue to do just that, and then it may very well happen that even the necessities will be lacking, God thus reproving you for your lack of faith and reliance on Him.

– Jean Baptiste de la Salle

 

I have started houses with no more than the price of a loaf of bread and prayers, for with Him who comforts me, I can do anything.

- Frances Xavier Cabrini

 

He who trusts in himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

-Alphonsus Liguori