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Upcoming 2nd CollectionsJun 05-06
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Pray for the Priests of the Day... Portland
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This Week's Scripture Readings
May 08- May 23
May 08, Sat John 15:18-21
May 09, Sun John 15:9-17
May 10, Mon John 15:26-16:4a
May 11, Tue John 16:5-11
May 12, Wed John 16:12-15
May 13, Thu John 16:16-20
May 14, Fri John 15:9-17
May 15, Sat John 16:23b-28
May 16, Sun John 17:11b-19
May 17, Mon John 16:29-33
May 18, Tue John 17:1-11a
May 19, Wed John 17:11b-19
May 20, Thu John 17:20-26
May 21, Fri John 21:15-19
May 22, Sat John 21:20-25
May 23, Sun John 20:19-23 -
Farewell & Best Wishes on your Retirement Fr Malo
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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
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
This event has been postponed until further noticeAttention 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.May 09 bulletin now available on the website
Next Bulletin will be available May 23
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. -
Prayer Corner for the Living
Ashley 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 Joanne & Phil McIntyre
Karl McGillvray Lester Spradlin 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
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 Damien de Veuster of Moloka'i, Priest
1840-1889
Feast Day - May 10A joyful celibate brings hope and dignity to the walking dead
It is often just one decision that releases the bolt, opening the door to a new life. The first step down a new road of a thousand smaller steps begins with one choice—to board the ship or to stand on the dock, to accept the marriage proposal or to wait for another, to sign the document or to leave it blank. Without that first choice, a different life would have been lived. Everyone, at some point, stands at this crossroad. But an impulse must be obeyed or rejected for untold other events, decisions, and influences to begin to unwind. This is one of the mysteries of life, how so much depends on one brief moment.
Young Jozef De Veuster (Damien was his religious name), growing up in a large family in rural Belgium, could never have imagined where and how his life would end. He was most likely going to follow the path of most other young men of his time and place—get married, have a family, go to Mass on Sunday, and take over the family farm. But an older brother was a priest, and two sisters were nuns, so a religious vocation was always a possibility. Damien eventually responded to the Lord’s call and his own impulse toward religious life and entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, just as his brother did before him. But just as his brother, Father Pamphile, was slated to leave for Hawaiʻi as a missionary, he had to abandon his voyage for health reasons. And thus a decision had to be made. A pivot point had arrived. Was Damien to replace his brother and go to Hawaiʻi or not? Leave family forever or stay home? Be a foreign missionary or stay among his own? Brother Damien walked the long plank upward and boarded the ship. He arrived in Honolulu in March 1864 and was ordained a priest in May. He would live his entire priestly life in Hawaiʻi. He never left the Hawaiʻian islands again.
Father Damien served in parishes for several years, learning to love his parishioners and being loved by them in return. Then, in 1873, the bishop asked for volunteers to go to an isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka’i. Father Damien volunteered. For the next sixteen years, he dedicated himself without reserve to this exiled community. He carried out more than a “ministry of accompaniment.” He accompanied, yes, but he also led, taught, inspired, and died to self. Father Damien’s robust health and farm background made hard work natural. He enlarged a chapel and built a rectory, a road, a dock, and numerous cottages for the lepers. He showed the people how to farm, to raise cattle, and to sing (despite his diseased vocal cords), and to play instruments (despite his missing fingers).
He was a vital force walking in a living graveyard. Life on an isolated leper colony was psychologically difficult for everyone, even the priest. But Father Damien brought faith and human dignity to a depressed population alienated from family and society. He treated the sick and the dying—and everyone was sick and dying—with the dignity of children of God. A proper cemetery was organized, funeral Masses were said with the accompaniment of a choir, and solemn processions bore everyone to their final resting place. This was a far cry from the inhuman chaos that preceded his arrival.
Father Damien carried out all of his pastoral work with fatherly concern. He was there, after all, because he was a celibate priest. No married Protestant minister would have dared to place himself, his wife, and his children in such a dangerous situation, and none ever did. Like all good fathers, Father Damien was both joyful and demanding. He was open. He smiled. He cared. He scolded. His source of strength was not merely his solid foundation in human virtue but primarily his Catholic faith. Father Damien’s love for the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary deepened through the years. His greatest non-physical sufferings were the lack of a priest companion with whom he could converse and to whom he could confess his sins.
Father Damien contracted leprosy after eleven years in the colony. He personally never wrote to his mother with the news. But when the old widow in Belgium learned of her son’s illness, she died of a broken heart. Father Damien lived five years with leprosy, continuing his priestly work, and died in 1889 at the age of forty-nine. He was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 after two medical miracles were attributed to his divine intervention.
Saint Damien of Moloka’i, intercede on behalf of all fathers to make them ever more generous in serving without reserve the families they head, making your life not only a source of inspiration, but also of emulation, to all who know of your heroic generosity.
Saint Damien of Moloka'i is the Patron Saint of those suffering leprosy
Source: https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/may-10---saint-damien-de-veuster-of-molokai-priest---usa-optional