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This Week's Scripture Readings
Mar 13 - Mar 28
Mar 27, Sat John 11:1-45
Mar 28, Sun Mark 14:1-15:47
Mar 29, Mon John 12:1-11
Mar 30, Tues John 13:21-33, 36-38
Mar 31, Wed Matt 26:14-25
Apr 01, Thu Luke 4:16-21
Apr 02, Fri John 18:1-19:42
Apr 03, Sat Mark 16:1-7
Apr 04, Sun John 20:1-9
Apr 05, Mon Matt 28:8-15
Apr 06, Tue John 20:11-18
Apr 07, Wed Luke 24:13-35
Apr 08, Thu Luke 24:35-48
Apr 09, Fri John 21:1-14
Apr 10, Sat Mark 16: 9-15
Apr 11, Sun John 20:19-31 -
Click on the image below to go to the Portland Diocese Special Lenten Season Website
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Bishop Robert Barron's
Lent Reflections-
Friends, our Easter Gospel contains St. John’s magnificent account of the Resurrection. Three key lessons follow from the disquieting fact of the Resurrection. First, this world is not all there is...
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"Do This In Remembrance of Me" 1 Corinthians 11:24
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Worship Sites
Due to the CoronaVirus restrictions, please contact the office @794-6333 for seating availability at masses.
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 - 1st Sunday at 1:00 pm
SC - 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sunday at 9:00 am
Stations of the Cross at St Leo's
@ 3:00 pm on Friday's during Lent
Reconciliation/Confession
Parishioners can call the rectory @ 732-3495 for an appointment
Eucharistic Adoration @ St Leo the Great Church in Howland
Wednesdays @ 6:30 pm – 7:30pm
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 -
Parish Happenings
Knights of Columbus Scholarship Fund Movie Night
2018 Maine Outdoor Film Festival award-winning documentary
WALKING HOME (pg-13) by Ryan Leighton
K of CHall in Lincoln on April 24, 2021
Matinee @ 1:00 pm Evening @ 6:00 pm
Each show attendance limited to 50 persons.
Feel free to bring a cushion or camp chair.
Admission: Donations greatly appreciated
Doors & Concessions open 1 hr before showAttention Offertory Envelope Users
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. If you need a box of 2021 envelopes, please call the office at 794-6333.
Lincoln Regional Food Cupboard Needs Flour & Sugar
The first weekend of each month is designated "Flour & Sugar for the Food Cupboard". All donations to the Food Cupboard can be left at the Johnston Dandy Company located next to St Mary's Church.
2021 Liturgical Year Missals Now Available
The Missals are for the 2021 liturgical year that began on the weekend of Nov 28 – 29, 2020. Please note that if you do take a Missal, they cannot be left in the pews. You can bring them to church when you attend a Mass, but you must take them home when you leave the church. We do encourage everyone to put their name & phone number on their missal.
If you would like to help defray the cost of the Missal, each of the missals cost to the parish is $7.00.
If you would like to obtain a copy, please call the office at 794-6333.March 28 bulletin now available on the website
Next Bulletin will be available April 11
There will also be an Easter Bulletin available April 03
Until further notice, beginning Nov 1, 2020, the bulletin will be printed on a bi-weekly basis. Even though a new bulletin will not be available every week, the website will be updated regularly, and we encourage all parishioners to check the website for up-to-date parish news and events.
Office Update
Please note that even though the office is closed to the public, the staff will be in the office during regular business hours and will be available to help you with all your needs. If you do need to contact us, please call the office at 794-6333.Temporary Office Hours
Monday & Tuesday: 9:00 am–3:00 pm
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Prayer Corner for the Living
Ashley Betty McGinn Calvin Ham Cecil Paradis Chris Donny & Janet Marin Daniel Noble Dicker Family Doris Carney Dominic Ed Plourde Joe Farinaro
Jennie Leighton Joel Jake & Marilyn Noble Jean Neel
Jimmy Corro John Henderson Joanne & Phil McIntyre
Karl McGillvray Kathy Lawrence Lionel Rodrigue Louise & Clarence McIntyre
Marie Kilbride Mariea Tricarico Matthew Norma Cottle
Penny Allen Ray Voisine Ricky Weatherbee Robin Barker
Ryan Barker Sandra Barker Stephen Cottle Stuart Kilbride
Stuart Smith Tyler Harriet Lester Spradlin
Dwight & Pam Osgood & family
James, Wayne, Jeannine, Cindy, RobertIf you would like to add a name to the Prayer Corner for the Living,
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The Saints Corner
(This will be updated regularly with a different saint)Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)
Bishop & Doctor of the Church
Feast Day - September 13A great preacher, writer, and intellectual suffers for the faith he elucidates
In the tug and pull of the theological disputes of the fourth and fifth centuries, today’s saint was a seminal figure. Along with other luminaries such as Saints Ambrose, Athanasius, Hilary, Basil and many others, he tunneled deep into Scripture and the existing Christian tradition to carve out what is today known as the deposit of faith. Saint John Chrysostom was from Antioch, that “Metropolis of heresy” in Saint John Henry Newman’s words, where Arianism was bred, incubated, thrived, and died in the period between the Council of Nicea in 325 and the Council of Constantinople in 381.
John received an excellent education in the liberal arts and was baptized at the age of eighteen, in keeping with the custom of adult baptism common to his era. He joined a rustic group of hermits in the hills outside of his hometown in his mid-twenties. The conditions were so physically and psychologically brutal, though, that he left after seven years. Living always isolated and mortified would not be his path. He was ordained a priest in 386. His bishop recognized his gifts and put him in charge of the physical and pastoral care of the poor of Antioch, a ministry in which he honed his natural gifts as a preacher. He was so skillful in preaching that, a century after his death, he was given the title of chrysostom, or “golden mouth.” John’s theological acumen was no less impressive. His sermons and letters display a refined understanding of the intricacies of the Holy Trinity and of the Gospels. His beautiful theological and spiritual reflections are referenced numerous times in the modern Catechism of the Catholic Church.
In 398 Saint John was consecrated the Archbishop of Constantinople, the New Rome, provoking jealousy among some contemporaries. John did himself no favors by his overaggressive reforms as Archbishop. He bluntly criticized women for wearing make-up, Christians for attending races and games on holy days, the imperial court for its extravagances, and the clergy for their laxity and wealth-seeking. Recriminations soon followed. He was falsely charged with treason and other crimes and was exiled in 402. He was reinstated after an earthquake in Constantinople was interpreted as divine punishment for his banishment. But John was exiled a second time shortly thereafter. Like other saints, his time of exile proved fruitful. He wrote numerous letters, specifically to bishops in the Western Empire, including the pope. But also like other exiled popes and bishops, assertions of support were only as sturdy as the paper on which they were written. Practical help never materialized. John died in exile in 407, a victim of cold, rain, a forced march and lack of food. Within a decade after his death, his reputation was restored by the pope, and his remains were transferred for burial in Constantinople. He was recognized as a Father of the Church at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1568.
Saint John suffered for his zeal. He was exiled by civil power in an age when correct theology was understood as a form of patriotism, and heresy as treason. He crossed the civil powers of his age, did not back down, and paid a severe price for his fidelity. When Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204, they stole John’s relics and carried them back to Rome. In 2004 Pope Saint John Paul II authorized the return of some of John’s remains to the seat of the Orthodox Patriarch in Saint George Church in present-day Istanbul, John’s own episcopal city.
Saint John Chrysostom, the heat of your words burned so hot that you were persecuted for your ardor. Inspire all Christian preachers to light a fire of faith in their congregations, without fear for their own reputations or of recrimination.
Saint John Chrysostom is the Patron Saint of preachers & SpeakersSource: https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/september-13st-john-chrysostom/
On Easter Sunday, in many Eastern Rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox parishes, this homily by St. John Chrysostom is read. Saint John, one of the Eastern Doctors of the Church, was given the name "Chrysostom," which means "golden-mouthed," because of the beauty of his oratory. We can see some of that beauty on display here, as Saint John explains to us how even those who waited until the very last hour to prepare for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday should share in the feast.
The Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom
If any man be devout and loveth God,
Let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast!
If any man be a wise servant,
Let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.
If any have laboured long in fasting,
Let him now receive his recompense.
If any have wrought from the first hour,
Let him today receive his just reward.
If any have come at the third hour,
Let him with thankfulness keep the feast.
If any have arrived at the sixth hour,
Let him have no misgivings;
Because he shall in nowise be deprived therefore.
If any have delayed until the ninth hour,
Let him draw near, fearing nothing.
And if any have tarried even until the eleventh hour,
Let him, also, be not alarmed at his tardiness.
For the Lord, who is jealous of his honour,
Will accept the last even as the first.
He giveth rest unto him who cometh at the eleventh hour,
Even as unto him who hath wrought from the first hour.
And He showeth mercy upon the last,
And careth for the first;
And to the one He giveth,
And upon the other He bestoweth gifts.
And He both accepteth the deeds,
And welcometh the intention,
And honoureth the acts and praises the offering.
Wherefore, enter ye all into the joy of your Lord;
Receive your reward,
Both the first, and likewise the second.
You rich and poor together, hold high festival!
You sober and you heedless, honour the day!
Rejoice today, both you who have fasted
And you who have disregarded the fast.
The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously.
The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
Enjoy ye all the feast of faith:
Receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness.
Let no one bewail his poverty,
For the universal Kingdom has been revealed.
Let no one weep for his iniquities,
For pardon has shown forth from the grave.
Let no one fear death,
For the Saviour's death has set us free.
He that was held prisoner of it has annihilated it.
By descending into Hell, He made Hell captive.
He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh.
And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry:
Hell, said he, was embittered
When it encountered Thee in the lower regions.
It was embittered, for it was abolished.
It was embittered, for it was mocked.
It was embittered, for it was slain.
It was embittered, for it was overthrown.
It was embittered, for it was fettered in chains.
It took a body, and met God face to face.
It took earth, and encountered Heaven.
It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen.
O Death, where is thy sting?
O Hell, where is thy victory?
Christ is risen, and thou art overthrown!
Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen!
Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is risen, and life reigns!
Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave.
For Christ, being risen from the dead,
Is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
To Him be glory and dominion
Unto ages of ages.
Amen.Source: ThoughtCo. "The Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom." Learn Religions, Aug. 25, 2020, learnreligions.com/easter-homily-of-st-john-chrysostom-542865