Upcoming Fuel Fund Collections

APRIL/MAY	AUGUST	NOVEMBER
30th & 1st	13th & 14th	5th & 6th
JUNE	SEPTEMBER	DECEMBER
11th & 12th	3rd & 4th	3rd & 4th
JULY	OCTOBER
2nd & 3rd	1st & 2nd

Click on the picture for more info
Pray for the Priests of the Day... Portland
This Week's Scripture Readings
Dec 18- Jan 02

Dec 18, Sat       Matt 1:18-25
April 10, Sun     Luke 19:28-40
Dec 20, Mon     Luke 1:26-38
Dec 21, Tue      Luke 1:39-45
Dec 22, Wed     Luke 1:46-56
Dec 23, Thu      Luke 1:57-66
Dec 24, Fri        Luke 1:67-79
Dec 25, Sat      John 1:1-18
Dec 26, Sun      Luke 2:41-52
Dec 27, Mon     John 20:1a & 2-8
Dec 28, Tue      Matt 2:13-18
Dec 29, Wed     Luke 2:22-35
Dec 30, Thu      Luke 2:36-40
Dec 31, Fri        John 1:1-18
Jan 01, Sat        Luke 2:16-21
Jan 02, Sun      Matt 2:1-12

Saying, "BLESSED is he who comes as king in the name of the Lord!” Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

Luke 19:38
Worship Sites

St Mary of Lourdes - Lincoln St Leo the Great - Howland
142 Main St.             18 River Road
PO Box 310 PO Box 22
Lincoln, ME 04457                                  Howland, ME 04448
Business Office: 207-794-6333             Rectory: 207-732-3495

MISSIONS

Sacred Heart - Winn                                  St. Anne's - Danforth
5 Route 168                                                           75 Houlton Road
Winn, ME 04495                                                    Danforth, ME 04424
(No masses held at present)                                Masses in Summer Only
(Memorial Day - Labor Day)
Mass - Sunday at 1:00 pm


Reconciliation/Confession
FRIDAYS @ 5:30 pm at St Leo the Great in Howland
SATURDAYS@ 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm at St Mary of Lourdes in Lincoln

Eucharistic Adoration / Holy Hour
Every MONDAY after 8:30 am Mass- St.Mary's - Lincoln
WEDNESDAY, April13th @ 6:30 pm St. Mary's - Lincoln
WDNESDAY, April 27th @ 6:30 pm St. Leo's - Howland
For more information, contact Dave Goolsby @ 731-7089

St. Matthew Cemetery
Jack Neel (Superintendent) 290-4490
The cemetery is open for burials from May 15 to Nov 01 during the year.
These dates are subject to change depending on weather and the cemetery conditons.

Mass Cancellations due to weather, etc...
     If the weather or road conditions are not good, we encourage everyone to stay safe and do not travel if it may endanger people's health. If Mass is cancelled due to the weather, road conditions, or other unforeseen reasons, we will post the cancellation on our website, ourladyoftheeucharist.org and on our Facebook page. You can also call the Rectory at 732-3495
Mass Schedule Changes
Please note the new mass schedule will be as follows:
Monday         8:30 am @ St Mary’s
Wednesday   5:30 pm @ St Leo’s
Thursday       8:30 am @ St Leo’s
Friday            8:30 am @ St Mary's
Saturday        4:00 pm @ St Mary's
                      5:30 pm @ St Leo's
Sunday          8:00 am @ St Leo's
                    10:00 am @ St Mary's

**THERE WILL BE NO WEEKDAY MASS From April 18th-May 27th**

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rosary before Mass
Saying the rosary is a devotion to the Blessed Mother and important for our parish named Our Lady of the Eucharist. Out of respect for those who wish to have Sacred Silence before mass, starting the rosary at the times listed below will ensure the opportunity for both the Rosary and Sacred Silence.

Saturday, 4:00 pm mass; rosary @ 3:25 pm    5:30 pm mass; rosary @ 5:05 pm
Sunday, 8:00 am mass; rosary @ 7:25 am          10:00 am mass; rosary @ 9:25 am
Monday, Thursday, & Friday,       8:30 am mass; rosary @ 8:05 am
Wednesday,                                      5:30 pm mass; rosary @ 5:05 pm

Attention Offertory Envelope Users
     The 2022 offertory envelopes are now available for pick up at the office. The envelope number that you were assigned for 2021 will be your number for 2022. Please call the office at 794-6333 with any questions you may have.

     If you would like an accounting of your church offerings for next year's tax return, you need to use envelopes (or WeShare). We do not keep track of other forms of giving.

Lincoln Regional Food Cupboard Needs Flour & Sugar
    The first weekend of each month is designated "Flour & Sugar for the Food Cupboard". Flour and sugar for the food cupboard can be left in the tote at St Leo's and in the lobby at St Mary's.

Check out the "NEW" Bulletin layout!

     The bulletin is going to be printed on a weekly basis again. The website will still be updated regularly, and we encourage all parishioners to check the website for up-to-date parish news and events.
Prayer Corner for the Living

We will be updating this on a regular basis- starting after EASTER, as well as adding "PRAYER CORNER FOR THE LIVING" to the bulletin!
Please contact Lynsey at the Church office to have your loved one added!

If you would like to add a name to the Prayer Corner for the Living,
please call the office at 794-6333
The Saints Corner
(This will be updated regularly with a different saint)

Holy Innocents, Martyrs
December 28- Feast
Third Day in the Octave of Christmas
Liturgical Color: Red

No one is less deserving of death than a Baby

Herod the Great was not great. He was evil. Herod the Sociopath, or Herod the Devil, would be more accurate titles. Herod murdered his own wife and preserved her corpse in honey. He had two of his own sons strangled to death. He routinely liquidated anyone suspected of disloyalty. He had a harem of five hundred women, a brood of illegitimate children, and a taste for the pages who served in his palace. The Roman Emperor Augustus, Herod’s patron, stood in awe of his bloodthirst. A contemporary historian wrote that Herod was “a man of great barbarity toward everyone.” Herod was simply the most ruthless king of his time. It was this Herod whose son beheaded John the Baptist. It was this Herod who frightened Joseph and Mary to flee into Egypt. It was this Herod whose fury would have hung each of the three wise men from a beam if they had not been warned by an angel to return home by another route. And it was this Herod whose savagery is commemorated today, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. He ordered the slaughter of numerous male babies in and around Bethlehem in the hope of eliminating just one. Weighed on Herod’s distorted moral scales, many deaths were worth one cancelled threat.

In the Old Testament, Pharaoh ordered the drowning of all Jewish baby boys in a desire to suppress the Israelite population and a possible threat to his rule (Exodus 1:22). As they grew to manhood, both Moses and Christ surely were made aware of the hard sacrifices others had endured so that they could live and fulfill God’s plan of liberation for their people. Moses and Christ are united by the twin effort of harsh rulers to snuff out their lives like a candle. Moses also stands at Christ’s side at the Transfiguration, which evokes Moses’ own transformational encounter with God at the burning bush. In many ways, then, Christ is a new Moses, the fulfillment of Moses’ prophecy that God would raise up a prophet like himself to speak all that the Lord commanded (Deuteronomy 18:15–19).

Today’s innocents are considered the first martyrs of the Church, although it is more precise to say that they died instead of Christ rather than for Him. In both Scripture and secular history, innocents die so that the hero survives to achieve his mission. We can only imagine mothers’ faces creased with pain and fathers’ eyes filled with horror as their babies were forcibly torn from their arms, never to be returned to the soft cradle of family life. Many of these Innocents never bounced on grandma’s knee, took a wobbly first step toward their mother’s open arms, or built castles in the sand. There is a more bitter sadness in the unknown of every “might have been” than in any “had and lost.” In dying so that Another might live, the Holy Innocents were other Christs. The fruits of many martyrs’ sacrifices are harvested long after their deaths, and today is no exception. Perhaps the Holy Innocents are very close to the altar of God in heaven right now. Perhaps they were the first to welcome Christ to His throne at His Ascension into heaven. Perhaps these first buds of Christian martyrdom flowered into adults in heaven. It is a truism of justice that it is better for nine guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be punished. No one is more innocent than a baby. Yet these babies died in the ultimate hate crime so that their own redemption could be accomplished.

Holy Innocents of Bethlehem, you died unnamed at the hands of a madman. May your pristine souls, washed in blood, give hope to all who suffer unjustly, that one day their sacrifice will be rewarded with triumph, if not for themselves, then for those who follow.

Holy Innocents are the Patron Saints of babies
Source: https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/28-december-holy-innocents-martyrs--feast/