Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church

     CRUSADE OF PRAYER ON FRIDAYS
                   7:30A.M.   Morning Mass
     8:00A.M. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
                 followed by Morning Prayer
     8 A.M. to 4:45 P.M. Individual Adoration and
                  Praying for Vocations all day in Church
     4:45 P.M.   Evening Prayer /Benediction/Closing

Please join this powerhouse of prayer to the Lord. We need additional members in the early hours of the afternoon.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION STUDENTS
The children of the Religious Education Program will not have Religious Instruction on Oct. 29 & 30 because of the Pilgrimage to France. Sister Mary Michelle and Mrs. Mary Grace Doherty will be participating in the Pilgrimage along with Bishop Michael Cote and Msgr. Thomas Bride.
Classes will resume on November 5th. God bless you.

Adult Education Classes
Monday, October 29, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall.

A MESSAGE FROM BISHOP HART
Thank you very much for all the prayers and Masses you have offered for me.
I’m grateful for this spiritual assistance.
Please continue to pray for me as I continue chemotherapy.
I pray that I will be faithful to God’s will.

“Thank you” reception
to Monsignor Bride on
this Sunday, November 4th,
from 2 to 4 pm.
Just over nine years ago our parish was blessed to have Monsignor Thomas Bride, come to us as his first assignment as pastor of a parish after thirty-one years ordained a priest. Come join in as a Parish Family to thank him for his guidance, his leadership and for breathing new life into our parish. Please plan on being present to say “Thank You”.

Eastern Standard Time begins next Saturday night,
November 3rd.
ALL MASSES ON SUNDAY,
November 4th,
will be on eastern standard time.

This Sunday’s Gospel tells the story of the sinner who sits in the back of the Temple seeking mercy and the Pharisee who sits up front reminding God what a great person he is. The parable deals with our perception of who we are before God.

Our Gospel today is about the sin of pride and how it leads to the sin of arrogance, which is often even more sinful than the sin of pride.

Both went to the temple to pray but only one prayed. Only one was humble enough to recognize his need for the healing hand of God. Only one prays because only one realizes that he really needs God. And that one leaves in the embrace of the Lord’s love.

MISSION COMBINED COLLECTION
Was last weekend for the World Missions, Black & Indian Missions, Missions in Latin America and Home Missions. If you were unable to bring your gift envelope, extras are available in the back of the church. Your support of the missionary needs of the Universal Church is greatly appreciated.

Crusade of Prayer for Vocations: Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life every day.

Choir Rehearsal - Thursday, November 1, 2007 after the 6:30 pm Mass. New Members are welcome. If interested, call Celeste Milukas at 447-0277.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
Father Lipton wishes to say thank you to the Ladies Guild who sponsored the beautiful Christmas Fair/Bazaar/Tag Sale on Saturday and for all the work that was done to bring about this wonderful event. For weeks the Ladies Guild committees have been working hard sorting, preparing, arranging, and placing the articles that were dropped off for the white elephant table. In addition, others were working to purchase the ingredients for the food, which was baked, served, and sold, especially the cinnamon bread and babka. Thank you to those who prepared food for the bake table, those who worked to prepare the lunch and serve it. Thank you to so many who worked so hard. All the preparation and the advance work took so much time and much “very hard” work. Thank you to all who did this. Thank you to those who came and to those who supported the fair. Thank you to those who restored the hall to its pre-bazaar state. We are all grateful for this effort, which means so much to us as a parish family.
May God reward your generous spirit!

Stewardship Month!
November is Stewardship Month in OLPH. Each November, every parishioner is asked to review his/her weekly contribution made to God in OLPH Parish. This is a most important time. Our budget is tight. We need to give to God what the work of God needs to be carried out here in OLPH. Our future depends on it.

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time                        October 28, 2007
5:00 P.M.   Frances Bride   (Deacon Ron & Donna Kitlinski)
8:00 A.M. Joseph Muscarella   (Family)
10:30 A.M. George E. Peabody   (Wife, Eleanor)

Monday, October 29TH    weekday of 30th of Ordinary Time
7:30 A.M. Al Nelson (Ed & Sally Krajewski)
Tuesday, October 30TH   weekday of 30th of Ordinary Time
7:30 A.M. Barbara Jean Donoghue (Ed & Sally Krajewski)
Wednesday, October 31ST weekday of 30th of Ordinary Time7:30 A.M. Frances Bride
Thursday, November 1st    ALL SAINTS
7:30 A.M. Parishioners of OLPH
6:00 P.M. Intention of Bishop Hart
Friday, November 2nd   ALL SOULS DAY
7:30 A.M. Faithful Departed

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time    November 4, 2007
5:00 P.M. Isabel Rosa (Friend)
Angeline Baio (Son, Robert Baio)
Guy W. Browne, Jr. &
                    Marjorie E. Brown (Linda J. Herstein & Daughter, Ruth)
8:00 A.M. M/M William V. Struzinski (Son)
10:30 A.M. Faithful Departed