Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel
Offering only the Latin Tridentine Mass
282 Still River Rd • Still River, MA • 01467 • 1(978) 456-8877
Mass Times:
Monday - Saturday: 8:30 a.m.
Sunday: 7:30 (Low Mass) & 9:15 a.m. (High Mass)
Holy Days of Obligation: Please call.
Devotions:
Daily: Rosary and Benediction 5:00 pm
Thursday: Benediction & Miraculous Medal Novena 7:30 pm.
Sunday: Vespers & Benediction 5:00 pm. Compline 7:30 pm.
Confessions:
Saturday: 4:15 - 4:45
Weekdays: after Mass
May 2008
Dedicated to Our Lady
Offering only the Latin Tridentine Mass
282 Still River Rd • Still River, MA • 01467 • 1(978) 456-8877
Mass Times:
Monday - Saturday: 8:30 a.m.
Sunday: 7:30 (Low Mass) & 9:15 a.m. (High Mass)
Holy Days of Obligation: Please call.
Devotions:
Daily: Rosary and Benediction 5:00 pm
Thursday: Benediction & Miraculous Medal Novena 7:30 pm.
Sunday: Vespers & Benediction 5:00 pm. Compline 7:30 pm.
Confessions:
Saturday: 4:15 - 4:45
Weekdays: after Mass
May 2008
Dedicated to Our Lady
Mary is wise: let us place everything in her hands. She knows how to dispose of us and all that we have for the greater glory of God.
Mary is charitable: she loves us as her children and servants. Let us offer everything to her and we will lose nothing by it; she will turn everything to our gain.
Mary is liberal: she returns more than we give her. Let us give her unreservedly all that we own without any reservation; she will give us a hundredfold in return.
Mary is powerful: nothing on earth can take from her what we have placed in her keeping. Let us then commit ourselves to her care; she will defend us against our enemies and help us to triumph over them.
Mary is faithful: she will not permit anything we give her to be lost or wasted. She stands alone as the Virgin most faithful to God and to men. She faithfully guarded and kept all that God entrusted to her, never allowing the least bit to be lost; and she still keeps watch every day, with a special care, over all those who have placed themselves entirely under her protection and guidance.
Let us, then, confide everything to the faithful Virgin Mary, binding ourselves to her as a pillar that cannot be moved, as to an anchor that cannot slip, or better still, as to Mount Sion which cannot be shaken.
Thus whatever may be our natural blindness, our weakness, and our inconstancy, however numerous and wicked our enemies may be, we shall never go wrong or go astray or have the misfortune to lose the grace of God and that infinite treasure which is Eternal Wisdom.
– From the writings of Saint Louis Marie de MontfortMary is charitable: she loves us as her children and servants. Let us offer everything to her and we will lose nothing by it; she will turn everything to our gain.
Mary is liberal: she returns more than we give her. Let us give her unreservedly all that we own without any reservation; she will give us a hundredfold in return.
Mary is powerful: nothing on earth can take from her what we have placed in her keeping. Let us then commit ourselves to her care; she will defend us against our enemies and help us to triumph over them.
Mary is faithful: she will not permit anything we give her to be lost or wasted. She stands alone as the Virgin most faithful to God and to men. She faithfully guarded and kept all that God entrusted to her, never allowing the least bit to be lost; and she still keeps watch every day, with a special care, over all those who have placed themselves entirely under her protection and guidance.
Let us, then, confide everything to the faithful Virgin Mary, binding ourselves to her as a pillar that cannot be moved, as to an anchor that cannot slip, or better still, as to Mount Sion which cannot be shaken.
Thus whatever may be our natural blindness, our weakness, and our inconstancy, however numerous and wicked our enemies may be, we shall never go wrong or go astray or have the misfortune to lose the grace of God and that infinite treasure which is Eternal Wisdom.
THURSDAY, MAY 1ST – ASCENSION THURSDAY. During May, encourage your children to show special devotion to the Blessed Mother. Daily recitation of the Rosary is one way of doing so; keeping fresh flowers before the painting of the Mother and Child in your home may be another. HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION… No School. Today is the 54th Anniversary of Ordination for Fr. Donovan! Please remember him in your prayers today!
FRIDAY, MAY 2ND – Saint Athanasius was one of the chief defenders of the Church against Arianism. Though firm and adamant in defense of the Faith, he was meek and humble, pleasant and winning in conversation, beloved by his flock, unwearied in labors, in prayer, in mortifications and in zeal for souls. Feastday of Sr. Mary Athanasius, MICM.
SATURDAY, MAY 3RD – Finding of the True Cross. First Holy Communion Day for: Hannah Bohane, Margaret Brooks, Olivia Chlebecek, Vincent Eramo, Simeon Ramey, Regina Ravesi, Tessia Ross, Peter Warhold and Clare Williams. Mass at 9:00 a.m.
SUNDAY, MAY 4TH – SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION. Saint Monica illustrates the fruits of persevering prayer. The fact that she prayed and suffered for eighteen long years should prove to us how difficult it is to win back to God a soul that has let itself go freely into sin.
MONDAY, MAY 5TH – Pope Saint Pius V. It was through the prayers of this holy pontiff to the Mother of God that the Christian forces were victorious over the Ottoman forces at Lepanto. In thanksgiving, he instituted the feast of the Holy Rosary on October 7th to be celebrated by the Universal Church.
SATURDAY, MAY 10TH – Blessed Damien of Molokai. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” is engraved on a monument to Damien on the island of Molokai, where he had worked among the lepers. His presence there made the world realize that those afflicted were not “unclean outcasts,” but vulnerable human beings whom God deeply loved and who were worthy of the same respect and dignity as anyone else. Pray for his canonization.
SUNDAY, MAY 11TH – PENTECOST SUNDAY. Come Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Thy Love! We should be filled with thanksgiving for the gift of the Holy Ghost, which is not so much the completion of the Redemption, as a continuance of it. We should try more earnestly to make good use of the time left to us, that with the aid of the Holy Ghost we may hold on to each grace as it is given to us.
MONDAY, MAY 12TH – Blessed Imelda, patroness of First Communicants, was a young child that joined the Dominican convent at the age of nine. She had great devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Eucharist but could not receive since she was not at the required age. So great was her love that while attending Mass for the feast of the Ascension, a consecrated Host miraculously hovered above her head until the priest gave it to her. Immediately after she died in an ecstasy of love and joy.
TUESDAY, MAY 13TH – Our Lady of Fatima. At Fatima Our Lady said that God wished to establish in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady said that many souls would be saved from Hell and the annihilation of nations averted if, in time, devotion to Her Immaculate Heart were established principally by these two means: 1) the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope together with the world’s bishops in a solemn public ceremony, and (2) the practice of receiving Holy Communion (and other specific devotions of about 1/2 hour in duration) in reparation for the sins committed against the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months–a practice known to Catholics as “the First Saturday” devotion.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH – Saint Boniface. The Blessed Virgin has a mother’s interest in each one of her children, following them in all their diverse difficulties, ever ready to come to their assistance when they call on her. EMBER DAY.
FRIDAY, MAY 16TH – Saint Simon Stock received the Brown Scapular from the very hands of the Blessed Mother. She promises that all who live a faithful life and die wearing this sacramental will not suffer eternal fire. EMBER DAY.
SATURDAY, MAY 17TH – Saint Pascal Baylon. EMBER DAY.
SUNDAY, MAY 18TH – TRINITY SUNDAY. Saint Venantius. Join us in honoring the Queen of the May, by participating in the May Procession. The procession will begin after the 10:00 Mass. Five statues will be crowned along the route, each followed by a decade of the Rosary, and the procession will end with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on the front lawn of the convent. Bring your favorite dish or dessert for the picnic following! (School children should attend early Mass at 7:30 a.m.)
THURSDAY, MAY 22ND – CORPUS CHRISTI. The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ is observed on the Thursday following the solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. This feast is both a doctrinal and devotional response to heretical teaching on the mystery of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the apogee of an ardent devotional movement concentrated on the Sacrament of the Altar. It was extended to the entire Latin Church by Urban IV in 1264.
SATURDAY, MAY 24TH – Our Lady Help of Christians. “Oh that the days were longer and would pass more slowly, that we might fill them fuller of that sweet enthusiasm for Jesus, whose natural outburst is devotion to His dearest Mother!” –Fr. Faber
SUNDAY, MAY 25TH – 2ND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Pope Saint Gregory VII.
MONDAY, MAY 26TH – Saint Philip Neri. Memorial Day … NO SCHOOL.
FRIDAY, MAY 30TH – SACRED HEART. Saint Joan of Arc, the simple shepherdess who was called to a tremendous mission, is the perfect example that “with God all things are possible.” EMBER DAY.
SATURDAY, MAY 31ST – Queenship of Mary. In his encyclical To the Queen of Heaven, Pius XII points out that Mary deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely associated as the New Eve with Jesus’ redemptive work, because of her preeminent perfection and because of her intercessory power. High Mass for the 25th Anniversary of Profession of Brother Peter Mary, MICM. Congratulations Brother! May God grant you many more years in the service of His sweet Mother!
In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary.
Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart.
And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps.
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart;
so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall;
under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary;
if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
– Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart.
And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps.
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart;
so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall;
under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary;
if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
– Saint Bernard of Clairvaux