1. religion and spirituality
2. christianity
3. catholicism

Blessed Sacrament Church
"I am the Living Bread come down from Heaven. If any man eats of this Bread,
he shall live forever; and the Bread I will give, is My Flesh." John 6:51-52
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
LORD'S DAY: Saturday: 4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
HOLYDAYS:
Vigil:
6:00 p.m.
Holyday: 7:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m.
WEEKDAYS: 9:00 a.m.
SATURDAYS: First Saturdays only: 8:00 a.m.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION:
Saturday 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. and by appointment
BAPTISM: As part of the preparation process an
interview with the Pastor and two instructional sessions
are required. Please contact the rectory to schedule.
ENGAGED COUPLES: Arrangements for your
marriage must be made at least nine months in advance
of the marriage date.
NEW PARISHIONERS: We welcome you and ask
that you register at the Rectory. We want to know and
serve you! We hope that you will favor your parish
with your prayers, your presence and your talents.
Pastor
Rev. Timothy J. Campoli
The Most
holy trinity
“There are Three Who give
testimony in Heaven:
the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these Three
are One.”
(1 John 5:7)
Church
Rectory
221 Federal Street
182 High Street
Greenfield, MA 01301
Greenfield, MA 01301
blessedsacramentgreenfieldma.org (413) 773-3311
Deacon
Deacon John J. Leary
(413) 219-2734 (C)
deaconjohnleary@gmail.com
Calvary Cemetery
Wisdom Way
Greenfield
773-3311
Director of
Religious Education
Laurie Tilton
774-2918
lltilton2@gmail.com
Organist
Choir Director
Stephen Glover
772-0532
Alternatives Pregnancy Center
P. O. Box 344, Greenfield, MA 01302-0344
Pregnancy Tests, Counseling and Support Services
Post Abortion Support
(413) 774-6010
Natural Family Planning
Ed & Suzi Cottrill
(413) 772-6062
Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place in the side
chapel twenty-four hours a day, every day. All are welcome to come and
worship and adore our Eucharistic Lord.
“Could you not watch one hour with Me?” Matthew 26:40
Blessed Sacrament Church
Greenfield, MA 01301
Weekend of June 6 & 7
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion:
Saturday, June 6
4:00
Judie McCarthy
Hannah Lively
Brian Luippold
Betty Howe
Holly Elmer
Francis Campbell
Monica McCarthy
Joanne Yestramski
Winston LaBelle
Sunday, June 7
Deacon John Leary
David Murphy
Helen Shea Murphy
Robert Earley
Ginger Baird
Kevin O’Neil
Liza O’Neil
Kevin O’Neil, Jr.
Lionel Martin
10:30 Mary Jane Bardwell
Joyce Thibodo
Bob Page
Pam Page
Judy Lapointe
Bob O’Connor
Elizabeth Zabawa
Amanda Zabawa
Marie Boynton
8:00
TH
SATURDAY, MAY 30
(Fr. Cullen)
4:00 Deceased members of the McCarthy Family
SUNDAY, MAY 31ST – The Most Holy Trinity (Msgr. Yargeau)
8:00 Mary Martin-Crum – by David & Helen Shea Murphy
10:30 Deceased members of the Knights of Columbus
Council #133
MONDAY, JUNE 1ST – St. Justin
(Bishop McDonnell)
9:00 Mildred McLeod – by Laurie Tilton
TUESDAY, JUNE 2ND – Sts. Marcellinus and Peter
(Fr. Campoli)
9:00 Kersavage – Toomey Family
WED., JUNE 3RD – St. Charles Lwanga and Comp. (Fr. DiMascola)
9:00 Special intention for Len Tilton – by Laurie Tilton
THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH
(Deacon Rabbitt)
9:00 Blessings for Susan Unaitis – by Betty Fritz
FIRST FRIDAY, JUNE 5TH – St. Boniface
(Fr. Bermudez)
9:00 Leslie & Trudy Worden – by Family
FIRST SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH – St. Norbert
(Our Seminarians)
8:00 Deceased members of the John E. Kiley Family
4:00 Geraldine & John Klima – by the Zilch Family
CORPUS CHRISTI SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH –The Most Holy Body and
Blood of Christ (Fr. Campoli)
8:00 Ann LaFleur – by Family
10:30 Jerry Cedrone & Baccari Family – by Loretta & Daniel
Cedrone
***************************************************
REMINDER:  Please join with us in praying the Rosary
before each daily Mass at 8:15 a.m., before the 4:00 p.m.
Saturday Mass and 8:00 a.m. Sunday Mass.
 Confessions after each weekend Mass.
 The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited Fridays at 3:00
p.m. in the Adoration Chapel. All are invited to come and pray
with us.
 Blessed Sacrament has a Prayer Chain which is available for
anyone. To utilize the Prayer Chain simply contact Annette
Canuel at 397-9803 or anet70@comcast.net with your petition.
 Sponsor Certificates - Many parishes require certificates of
sponsorship for Godparents and Confirmation Sponsors. These
will be issued only to those who are confirmed adult Catholics,
registered in the parish, regular participants at Mass, validly
married in the Church (if applicable) and providing for the
religious education of their own children (if applicable).
Poet’s Seat Nursing Home:
Sunday, June 7
Deacon John Leary
Lectors / Cantors:
Sat., June 6
Sun., June 7
4:00
8:00
10:30
Karlena Henry / Brenda Hill
Laurie Tilton /Jackie Jurewicz
Mary Anne Duda / Karlena Henry
Saturday, June 6
4:00
Luke Dillon, Siobhan Moore
Sunday, June 7
8:00
10:30
Cody Podlesney, Sarah Podlesney, Alex Bacigalupo
Lauren Ross, Lillian Ross
May 31, 2015
The Sanctuary Candle will burn this week in memory/honor:
Michael Dufraine – from Mother
The Adoration Chapel Candles will burn this week in
memory/honor of:
1.) In Thanksgiving for prayers answered –
from Marilyn Brozo
2.) Armando Bresciano – Health & Blessings –
from Bob & Pat Earley
3.) Edward Stratton – from James Patten
4.) Marie & Winston LaBelle – from Anonymous
Holy Hour for Nonbelievers
We will have a Holy Hour on Tuesday, June 2 nd from 8:00-9:00
a.m. and again in the evening from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the
Adoration Chapel to pray for nonbelievers. We encourage and
invite everyone to come.
Children’s Hour of Adoration
The guided children’s hour of adoration is held on the first
Thursday of every month at 4:00 p.m. Join us on June 4 th.
First Friday and First Saturday Masses
Friday, June 5th is the First Friday of the month in honor of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus. Mass will be at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, June
6th is the First Saturday of the month in honor of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary. Mass is at 8:00 a.m.
Food Pantry
Please remember to leave your non-perishable food donations at
the doors of the church for our Food Pantry. We especially need
peanut butter, spaghetti sauce, ravioli, cereal, baked beans,
crackers/cookies and jello or pudding. Thank you!
Pilgrimage to the Shrines of France
Visit Lourdes, Lisieux, Chartres Cathedral, Nevers, Ars, Paray
Le Monial, LaSalette and Paris from October 19-28, 2015.
These are associated with St. Thérèse, St. John Vianney, St.
Bernadette, St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart, Our Lady
of Lourdes, Our Lady of LaSalette, St. Catherine Labouré and
the Miraculous Medal. Fr. Campoli and Msgr. Yargeau will
accompany us for spiritual direction and Mass. The cost of
$3,999 which includes airfare from Boston, hotels, two meals a
day, bus transportation, and tour guides. For more information,
contact Helen Shea Murphy at helensheamurphy@verizon.net
or 773-8890. Visit www.pilgrimages.com/helensheamurphy.
Ordination Invitation
With Praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Springfield requests the honor of your
presence at the Ordination of Rev. Mr. Ryan T. Sliwa to the
Order of Priest by His Excellency the Most Reverend Mitchell
Thomas Rozanski, D.D., Ninth Bishop of Springfield on
Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at the Cathedral of St.
Michael the Archangel, State Street in Springfield. A light
reception will immediately follow the Ordination Mass in the
Bishop Marshall Center.
The Andrew J. Ahearn Memorial Pilgrimages
Two pilgrimages to the Canadian Shrines for 2015 are as
follows: First: 93rd Annual July Pilgrimage (12 days) to St.
Anne de Beaupre in Quebec from July 16-27. (Open to well and
disabled pilgrims). Second: The 61st Annual Fall Pilgrimage (8
days) to the major Canadian Shrines from Sept. 20-27. (Open to
all, however, disabled must be able to walk easily and to care
for themselves. Unlike the July pilgrimage, no provision is
made for special care for the handicapped.) For more
information, call Pilgrimage Director, Leonard N. DiVittorio at
(718) 274-2931 or (413) 782-2197.
The Most Holy Trinity
13th Annual Diocesan Eucharistic Rosary Procession
Come walk with Jesus on June 14th at the Thirteenth Annual
Diocesan-wide Eucharistic Procession in Northampton at St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Church on 99 King St. (rain or
shine). Doors to the church will open at 1:30 p.m. with prayer
beginning at 2:00 p.m. We will process from the church
through downtown Northampton and return to the church on
King Street for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and
Benediction, concluding by 4:00 p.m. A reception will follow at
the parish hall, on 10 Hawley St. (entrance on Phillips Place).
For more info., call: George or Brenda (413) 221-4372. To view
past pictures: www.eucharisticprocessionnorthampton.com.
Pilgrimage to St. Anne de Beaupre
There are still seats available for our 32nd annual three-day
pilgrimage. Travel dates for our pilgrimage are August 14 th thru
August 16th. We travel by Wilson Bus. Each year we pray for
our loved ones, living and deceased, and for our personal
problems and concerns. For information, please call Frank or
Kathy Schiappa at 978.544.6814.
Father’s Day Novena
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 21st. You may pick up a Father’s
Day Novena packet in the sacristy after Mass or at the rectory
during business hours. Print the name(s) of your loved one on
the envelope. Return the envelope to the rectory or place it in
the collection basket at Mass on or before Father’s Day.
Chalice of Salvation
Because of NBC programming, our weekly diocesan televised
Mass, the Chalice of Salvation, will air at an earlier time on
June 7. The televised Chalice Mass will air at 6:30 a.m. on
WWLP 22News. So spread the word, especially to our
homebound friends, and set your alarm clock early for June
7th Chalice of Salvation Mass at 6:30 a.m.
Catholic Communication Campaign
Today, our parish will take up the Collection for the Catholic
Communication Campaign. This collection communicates the
Gospel through our Catholic Communications ministry, helping
keep programs like the Chalice of Salvation and Real to Reel on the
air, as well as continue our outreach on social media and the
internet. This is a critical and essential way in which to share our
experience of faith, worship, and witness. Please consider doing
your part to help share the Good News and support this collection.
Thank you in advance!
Holy Hour for Priestly Vocations
We will gather on the Eve of the Priesthood Ordination, Friday,
June 5th at 7 p.m. in the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel
for a Holy Hour praying for priestly vocations in the
diocese. Bishop Rozanski will be the presider and
homilist. We invite all the faithful and priests of the diocese to
gather with our bishop, seminarians and Deacon Ryan Sliwa
who will be ordained the following day, to pray before Our Lord
in the Most Holy Eucharist.
Susan Unaitis
Please let Susie know we are praying for and thinking of her. If
you would like to send a card you may send it to: Susan
Unaitis, Ellison Building, 14th Floor, Massachusetts General
Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114.
News of Our Shut-Ins
If you know of anyone who is a shut-in and unable to attend
Mass, or if you know of any parishioner who is in the hospital
or nursing home, please notify the rectory at 773-3311. We
would be happy to bring them Communion on a monthly basis.
The Family as the Icon of the Holy
Trinity
My nephew Tom came home from first grade in anguish.
At dinner he could barely keep the tears out of his six year
old eyes. When his parents pressed him to find out what was
wrong, he replied that “this kid at school says I have a funny
name.” His parents glanced at each other, thinking, “‘Tom
Shea’ is a funny name?” So summoning their best parental
wisdom, they told him to ignore the kid and he would go
away.
Of course, this didn't work. The kid kept it up for another
day or two until Tom was really beginning to worry: maybe
he did have a funny name.
Finally, Tom's parents decided it was time to take action.
Reasoning that they would have to go talk to his folks, they
asked at dinner that night, “What's the boy's name, Tom?”
Tom looked at them, blinked his big blue innocent eyes
and said, “Farquhar Muckenfussen, Jr.”
Minutes later, after Tom's parents had crawled out from
under the kitchen table (whence they had slid in their
uncontrollable convulsions of laughter), wiped the milk off
the wall (don't laugh with your mouth full) and daubed the
tears from their eyes, they explained to their little boy what
other issues might be driving little Farquhar to bully Tom
about his name.
I think of this story often when I reflect on the place of the
Christian in the world. For like Farquhar, the world is
constantly trying to tell us Christians we have a funny name.
Worse still, it is constantly laboring to tell our children the
same. Children, say the worldly, should be called "Madonna"
or "Beavis" or "Dennis Rodman" or "Bart Simpson" or
"Trent Reznor" or "Ted Turner." They should be victims who
can only be helped by the State or consumers who exist to
service the machine of commerce. They should be so wealthy
they need nobody or they should be so obsessed with
equality that they are jealous of everybody. They should be
Imperial Autonomous Selves accountable to none or they
should be wards of the State dependent upon all. They should
be Rugged Individuals or Workers in the Hive. They should
join the herd of independent minds and accept the fact that
the basis of society is the State... or the Corporation... or the
Individual (we're not sure yet) and get with the program of
building the secular Tower of Babel. But they should not be
Christians. Christians are strange. Christians have a funny
name.
The reason Christians have a funny name is because we
are neither fish nor fowl. We think pleasure, wealth and the
created order are not gods but gifts. We think that the State,
the Corporation, and the Individual are nice things but not
ultimate things. And, supremely, we believe that the Family,
not the State, the Corporation, or the Individual, lies at the
very heart of a healthy social order and even points us to
eternity. For we believe that the Family is the Icon or living
embodiment of the life of the Holy Trinity Himself, who
created the social order and calls us to eternal life.
Catholic teaching says the Family is the basic building
block of society. It is the oldest human institution, according
to revelation. Older than the state, the Church, Israel, the
Patriarchs, paganism and Noah. It goes all the way back to
our first parents, Adam and Eve. And it is rooted in a God
whose oneness is the oneness, not of singleness but of love
between the three Persons of the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. Not surprisingly, then, the author of Genesis captures
this sort of oneness when he writes "in the image of God
created he man, male and female created he them" (Gen
1:27). For Genesis, it is male and female together who
express the image of God. And just as the union of love
between the Father and Son is a fusion of love so real that
from it proceeds the Holy Spirit, so we see a sort of shadow
of this in the sexual union of man and woman bringing forth
children. It is not good for man to be alone, because
humanity is in the image of a Trinitarian God. The family
images in flesh what God is in Spirit.
Which is, of course, entirely in keeping with the reality
that the Word became flesh. God is incorrigibly concrete. He
doesn't send us abstractions. He sends his Son in flesh and
blood, with real fingerprints and a definite shoe size. And he
crowds his way with a whole train of flesh and blood people,
of sacraments, stone altars, smoke, blood, fire and what not
to appeal, not just to our intellect, but to our eyes, ears,
noses, tongues, and hands as well. In the same way, he sends
us families as the very first embodiment of the grace of God
we ever meet. It is in the smell of baking bread, the touch of
our mother's hand on a fevered forehead, the stern look of
warning for hitting our little brother, the pleasure of a bath,
the cheers for our first successful potty training, the taste of
fish on long ago camping trip, the pain of facing the death of
a grandparent, the secret of an early October morning shared
only with your dad--it is in these things that we first
encounter grace and are ushered, all willy-nilly, into the life
of the family and discover that it is pregnant with the great
secret of the self-giving life of God.
The nature of the Trinity and the nature of the family are
then primordially linked in some unthinkable way. When we
are baptized, we are called by name into the life of the
Blessed Trinity. But it is our mothers and fathers who are
called to teach us our names, not just with word but with
their very being. Fathers and mothers are great high priests
who stand in the place of God in a way no Pope or bishop
could ever hope to do. Families--those great roystering
messes of praise and poop, panic and pleasure--give flesh to
the vision of the Trinity in the lovely, painful and beautiful
expression of real human beings living out the gospel under
grace. They are icons, windows on to a miracle. In their
faces, we see the first face of Christ we will ever meet. By
them, we are enrolled in the primal school of charity. Under
their fumbling caresses and awkward disciplines, we are
introduced to the touch of God's own hand. From them, we
learn our names and discover that we are not Wards of the
State, Slaves of the Corporation or Rugged Individuals but
sons and daughters called into the life of the Blessed Trinity
with a name we can honor, a home we can love and an
eternity we can rejoice in.
Copyright 2001 - Mark P. Shea