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This Week's Scripture Readings
Oct 16 - Oct 31

Oct 16, Sat      Luke 12:8-12
Oct 17, Sun       Mark 10:35-45
Oct 18, Mon      Luke 10:1-9
Oct 19, Tue     Luke 12:35-38
Oct 20, Wed      Luke 12:39-48
Oct 21, Thu       Luke 12:49-53
Oct 22, Fri         Luke 12:54-59
Oct 23, Sat        Luke 13:1-9
Oct 24, Sun       Mark 10:46-52
Oct 25, Mon      Luke 13:10-17
Oct 26, Tue     Luke 13:18-21
Oct 27, Wed      Luke 13:22-30
Oct 28, Thu       Luke 6:12-16
Oct 29, Fri         Luke 14:1-6
Oct 30, Sat        Luke 14:1, 7-11
Oct 31, Sun       Mark 12:28b-34
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"Do This In Remembrance of Me" 1 Corinthians 11:24
                                     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
Wednesday, Oct 27 @ St. Leo's     6:30 pm
Wednesday, Nov 10 @ St Mary's   6:30 pm
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

Journeying with the Dogmas of Blessed Virgin Mary
at St Leo's Rectory Chapel in Howland
     October being the month of The Rosary, Fr. Anthony is offering a program called “Journeying with the Dogmas of Blessed Virgin Mary” on every Friday during the month of October.
     There will be a Rosary Recitation followed by a mini-Teaching and Question Time on the Four Dogmas of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
     The Duration of the Program (Rosary and the Mini Teaching) will be for 30-35 minutes. This will take place in St Leo’s Rectory Chapel at 5:30 pm.

10/01/2021 - The perpetual virginity of Mary
10/08/2021 - Mary the Mother of God
10/15/2021 - Immaculate Conception of Mary
10/22/ 2021 - Assumption of Mary into heaven
10/29/2021 - A Revisit on the All the Dogmas of Blessed Virgin Mary

Weekday Mass Schedule Changes
Please note the new weekday mass schedule will be as follows:
Monday & Friday – 8:30 am @ St Mary’s
Wednesday – 5:30 pm @ St Leo’s
Thursday – 8:30 am @ St Leo’s

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. Any questions? Please call the office at 794-6333.
     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.

Oct 17 Bulletin now available on the website
Next Bulletin will be available Oct 24
     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

Addy Cole                   AJ MacEachern Ashley                         Anne Babcock                Beulah Peters             Betty McGinn              Calvin Ham               Chris
Daniel Noble               Dicker Family            Doris Carney               Donny & Janet Marin       Dominic                      Ed Plourde                 Joe Farinaro                 Jean Neel                   Jennie Leighton          Joel                             Jimmy Corro                 Jake & Marilyn Noble
John Henderson         Kathy Lawrence        Karl McGillvray       Lionel Rodrigue
Marie Kilbride Mariea Tricarico          Matthew     Norma Cottle
Penny Allen                Ray Voisine                Ricky Weatherbee        Phil & Joanne McIntyre
Robin Barker              Ryan Barker Sandra Barker              Stephen Cotter
Stuart Kilbride             Stuart Smith Tyler Harriet          Louise & Clarence McIntyre
Dwight & Pam Osgood & family          James, Wayne, Jeannine, Cindy, Robert

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

St. Luke, Evangelist & Gospel Writer
First Century
October 18- Feast
Liturgical Color: Red

A first-generation disciple of Christ gives the Church two foundational works

Saint Luke was one of the four Evangelists but not one of the Twelve Apostles. Like Saint Mark, Luke was not among that select group who walked step by step alongside Jesus as he journeyed through Palestine. Luke was more likely a disciple of Saint Paul, who mentions a Luke who accompanies him on his missionary journeys. Little is known with certainty of Luke’s life. What is known is that he wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles—over a quarter of the New Testament. The two volumes of Luke and Acts are foundational works for knowing Jesus Christ and the early Church.

The third Gospel does not name its author and does not even claim to be an eye-witness account. But the earliest known manuscripts of the third Gospel are attributed to Luke, and even Saint Irenaeus of Lyon, writing in the late second century, names Luke as its author. Every one of the four Gospels has a unique perspective, is written for a specific audience, and relates certain details and stories the other Gospels do not. Saint Luke likely wrote for a non-Jewish crowd. He translates into the Greek language words that the other Gospels leave in their original language, a hint that Luke’s readers were non-Jews who could not read Hebrew and Aramaic. Luke alone tells the story of Lazarus and the rich man who repents of having ignored him. To Luke alone do we owe our knowledge of the Incarnation. It is as if he is just behind the young Mary in the room when the Archangel Gabriel announces that she will be the Mother of God. Only Luke writes down the Virgin’s Magnificat and gives us the scriptural basis for the “Hail Mary.” Yet in all of this, Luke himself does not appear. He must have been humble, because he recedes into the crowd while the whole cast of the Gospel climbs on stage.

Luke’s Acts of the Apostles is a diary of the very early Church. Acts is often told from a first-person perspective with the use of the word “we.” Without this journal there would be yawning gaps in our knowledge of the nascent Church. It is to Luke, especially, that we are indebted for our knowledge of Pentecost and the workings of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. Luke is clearly on Saint Paul’s missionary team and remains at the great evangelist’s side until the bitter end. When Paul is imprisoned in Rome, with his beheading just over the horizon, he is abandoned by all his coworkers save one. From his prison cell, Paul writes “Only Luke is with me” (2 Tm 4:11).

Saint Augustine writes in the Confessions that the present tense of past things is called memory. The past is not really the past, then, if we remember it accurately. Memory can be ill-used when it carries a grudge and blocks forgiveness, or when it doesn’t let the past recede but allows it to invade the present so forcefully that no one is allowed to grow beyond their worst five minutes. Understood in a healthy way, memory makes the good past live again. When committed to writing, memory makes the past forever present for posterity. The written Gospels make Christ come alive. Their pages are not Christ in full, as no one can be reduced to just their documentary trace. But the Word made flesh, the Word alive today in heaven, was captured at a certain moment in time by the words of Saint Luke. Christians believe that the Gospels capture the essentials of the life of Jesus Christ which God desires the faithful to know. And when these Gospels are read in the light of the living Gospel of the Church and supplemented by the grace of the Sacraments, the witness of the saints, the governance of the hierarchy, and the teachings of the Catechism, we have all that we need to achieve heaven. The Evangelists make the original events of the life of Christ present today. Without these inspired records, God would not cease to be God, but He would certainly be less vivid to us living so many centuries after His Son became man.

Saint Luke, your words preserving the life of Christ make Him knowable and lovable to the world today. Through your intercession in heaven, we ask that the riches of your Gospel, especially your words about the Blessed Mother, may inspire us to be more faithful disciples.

Patron Saint of artists, physicians, and surgeons
Source: https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/october-18--st-luke/