Parish of the Incarnation of our Lord and Savior Jesus ChristNovember 3, 2019 FROM THE DEACONS’ DESK Greetings, As I enter into the 4th month of my assignment in our Collaborative,

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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

November 3, 2019

FROM THE DEACONS’ DESK

Greetings,

As I enter into the 4th month of my assignment in our Collaborative, I wanted to take a moment to clarify the role of the Deacon when assigned to a parish(es). Our role and what we have been granted faculties (permission from Cardinal Seán) to do and what we are not able to do can be unclear and even confusing.

After 4 years of formation, we receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders. We are ordained into the Order of Deacon which is the first of the Holy Orders. Some deacons are “Transitional” and will continue onto the Order of Presbyter and a few to Order of Bishops. Other deacons are “Permanent” and the majority are married. Some are single and have made an additional promise of celibacy. For those who are married, in the event that our wives were to die before us – we are unable to be in a relationship, get married and are celibate.

A deacon is ordained to the ministry of service and a ministry of Word. The faculties we are granted

enable us; to baptize, preside at funerals outside of Mass, preside at wake services, marriages; counsel and guide others in their faith journey; led others in faith formation, as well as work with others in entering the Church or completing their

Sacraments. We also are able to provide blessings of people, religious items, homes, etc. In service to the Word, if a deacon is present he always proclaims the Gospel and presents the petitions of the Prayers of the Faithful. We are also granted the faculty to preach at mass with the permission of the Pastor.

At Mass our role is to lead the Penitential Rite; proclaim the Gospel; preach, as assigned; present the Prayers

of the Faithful; prepare the Altar; encourage the exchange of the Sign of Peace; remove and repose the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle; serve as an Ordinary Minister of Communion; remove all items from the Altar and purify the vessels; and to provide the Dismissal after the Final Blessing.

Often it is easier to identify what we cannot do! We are not able to hear confessions nor provide absolution of sins; we do not consecrate the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus; we are not able to provide the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

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In a parish assignment, the deacon is a member of the Pastoral Staff, as well as usually an ex-officio member of the Pastoral and Finance Councils.

Finally, and most importantly, if anyone has thought about the diaconate at all or is perhaps discerning a call to become a Deacon, please reach out to me. I am more than willing to assist you in any manner. If anyone has any questions at all about the role of a Deacon please do not hesitate to reach out to me.

Your Brother in Christ,

Deacon Bob

CALENDAR

November 2 4:30 p.m. Lorraine Crovo

November 3 8:00 a.m. No Mass Intention

10:30 a.m. Maryann Romano

November 9 4:30 p.m. Florence Matteucci

November 10 8:00 a.m. Dave and Mary Boland

10:30 a.m. Kirby Lozyniak Alexander

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Please remember family and friends in need of prayer, especially Sarah Fradkin, Bill Connors, Maureen, Irene Lawless, Perry Brown, Betty Howard, Stephen Gaeta, Jim R., Ted Ayotte, Robert Burke, Sandra W., John Anderson, April Crouse, Adele Maciejowski, Colleen Sullivan, Debbie

Saschuk, Julia G., Donna Correia, Sandra V., Don Marsden, Georgia Rose Okerholm, Donna Page, Denise, Sr. Mary Shaun, Nicholas Ward, Frank Zizzo, Helen Staunton, Domenic DeLuca, Maia DeLuca, Joseph Connelly, Jeannette Bailey, Anita V., Leona Dewhurst, Jacqueline, Chuck Giorgio, Kathleen O’Neill, Ken Kartes, Joseph Distefano, Thomas M., Michael Lester, Sydni Simpson Garrity, Mary S. and Frank S., Carole R. , William L., Patricia Zibroski, Anthony S.,Janice T.,Mary Monticello, John Maciejowski, Bonnie Strudas, and parishioners facing surgery.

If there is anyone you wish to add to the prayer list, please contact the rectory. Please note: All names will remain on our Prayer List and will be prayed for unless our office is notified to remove an individual.

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CORI FORMS ARE DUE!IT’S CORI time again! All Choir Members, Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers are required to fill out an annual CORI form. The forms are available in the sacristy. The forms can be signed and returned to any staff member, or you can come by the Rectory office. Photo ID is required!

VETERANS DAY 2019Each year we observe two Federal Holidays to remember the men and women who have served in our military. On Memorial Day we honor the 1.1 million who have died in service to our country since the Revolutionary War. Veterans Day, observed next week on November 11 is the second Federal Holiday. Its purpose is to recognize the 6.5 million Americans, alive today, who have served honorably in one of our military branches. Almost 400,000 live in Massachusetts: they are our relatives, friends, coworkers, parishioners. In the coming week you may think of an appropriate way to recognize their service.

CHILDREN’S CHOIRAttention all parents and young singers! Children’s Choir will be starting rehearsals earlier than normal; November 24th, immediately following

the 10:30 Mass. This year, we will be performing a world premiere of Angels and Canticles: The First Songs of Christmas, an original Christmas Cantata featuring original songs and narration centered around the first hymns of Christmas as presented in the Gospel of Luke. Since this year’s concert is earlier in the season than last year’s Lessons and Carols and features a number of brand new, never-before-performed pieces, we need to get the ball rolling soon! Open to all children from grades 2-8, this fun and exciting activity not only promotes your child’s artistic side and furthers musical ability, but more importantly encourages our children and youth to take an active role in ministry and the joy of sharing their talents and gifts with others. No audition or experience is required, just a willingness to learn and an eagerness to sing! Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without the angelic voices of our Incarnation choirs – both our adult ensemble and our Children’s Choir! The Children’s Choir will also be singing at the 4:00 Christmas Eve Mass. Please call or email Shawn Gelzleichter ([email protected]) by November 21st to sign your children up to sing in order to ensure sufficient music, binders, and other material will be available.

GOF NEWS !!Upcoming Dates:

Sun 11/3 10:30 Grade 9 Mass & ClassWed 11/6 Grade 2

Tues 11/12 Grade 1

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WANT TO BE INVOLVED????MINISTERS NEEDED:Have you ever thought about becoming more involved in your parish? There are many ways to share your talents! If you love to bake or sing, you can sign up to bake bread for mass or sing in our choir! If public speaking is your thing, perhaps you would like to train to be a Lector at mass? Or you can serve at Mass as a Eucharistic Minister. We are also looking for families to help with Sunday Morning Coffee! Lots of ways to get involved!

If you would like to share your talents with the parish please speak to any staff member or email the rectory at [email protected]!

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MY BROTHER’S TABLEThe sign-up for My Brother's Table has been updated for 2019. Please use this URL to sign up: www.tinyurl.com/incarnationMBT. Signing up with this tool helps us to plan, and ensures that we have the right number of volunteers. Thank you!

BREAD BAKING MINISTRYIf you worship with us at the 10:30 Mass, you have experienced communion with our freshly baked eucharist. This is a special ministry that is made possible by a number of committed parishioners who take turns baking six loaves of bread each Sunday morning. We are grateful for the work of our bakers! If you would like to

become involved or to learn more about this enriching ministry, please contact Ann Lahiff at the rectory ([email protected] or 781-662-8844).

DIAPER BANK DROP OFF HERE!The Greater Lynn Postpartum Help Coalition has partnered with My Brother’s Table to open a diaper bank for the Lynn community! This diaper bank is open to anyone in need. The diaper bank is located at: Aspire Developmental Services176 Franklin Street Lynn, MA 01904

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Diapers can be dropped off here at Incarnation in the bins for our Food Bank collections, which are located by the Upham St. vestibule and the driveway side door.

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORAnnual Christmas BazaarSaturday November 99a.m.-4p.m.Jeanne Jugan Residence186 Highland Ave.Somerville, Ma 02143

You are invited to our very last bazaar!Join is one last time to celebrate the beautiful memories and communities that we have shared here in Somerville.

WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTERBuild faith through love in your marriage by attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. The next Weekends are Dec 13-15, 2019 in Duxbury, MA and Jan 17-19, 2020 in South Kingstown, RI. For more information, call Stephen & Michelle O'Leary at 800-710-9963 or visit them at https://wwmema.org/.

HOPE AND HEALING GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP FOR GRIEVING PARENTS OR ADULT SIBLINGS.(formerly Surviving Siblings Support Group)LAST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH-10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST OLD PARISH HALL115 MIDDLESEX ROAD, N. CHELMSFORD, MAWhen your child or sibling dies, everything changes in your family, in your life, your dreams. They are not only missing from your today, but from your future. Know you are not alone in your grief and loneliness. All are welcome to a safe place to share your sacred story, find comfort, hope and encouragement as you continue a new path in life

PATRIOTIC ROSARYCome and pray the Patriotic Rosary in Saint Eulalia Church, 50 Ridge Street, Winchester on Sunday, November 10, at 2:00PM along with members of the Saint Eulalia Men’s Fellowship Group.  The

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rosary, along with patriotic songs and readings, will be offered for our country, the intentions of our Pope, and for all of our personal intentions.  Come, and bring your family and friends.

Catholic School Information• Celebrate Catholic Schools Week by visiting the

Arlington Catholic/St. Agnes School Open House on Sunday, November 3 from 1-4 pm. For more details, visit www.achssas.org. (please include in the bulletin until November 4th)     

• The High School Placement Test for Catholic School Admissions will be offered at Arlington Catholic on Saturday November 16 at 8 am. To learn more about the HSPT, go to www.achssas.org/Admissions for details. (please include in the bulletin until November 15th)  

• Arlington Catholic/Saint Agnes School Admissions Season is off and running! To schedule a tour, a shadow day, or to register for our Open House, go to www.achssas.org/Admissions. Please contact Tricia Crane Director of Enrollment grade K0-8 at  (781) 643-9031 or Steve Barrett Director of Enrollment grade 9-12 at (781) 777-7014 for more information.

31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMENOVEMBER 3, 2019

Up a TreeOur universe is so tiny.

Wait! It cannot be tiny. The Hubble telescope tells us just the opposite, how terribly vast the universe is. There could be billions of galaxies just like our Milky Way out there. And get this: each one contains literally millions or even trillions of stars.

A billion billions of stars! The universe is tiny?

Ok, but the First Reading says, “the whole universe is as a grain from a balance or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.” I guess that writer had never looked through the Hubble!

Is the universe large or small?

Imagine this. Picture an old fashioned weighing scale (called a “balance” in the old days*). It has pans on either side. Now add just a single grain of sand to one of the pans. Does the scale move? No. Now add the vast totality of all that exists (in other words, the entire universe) on one side, but place God on the other side with the grain.

They balance. Or maybe God does outweigh this universe, big time.

Get ready for the worst part. Lodged within this miniscule universe are you and I. We are the size of microbes. Impossible that so huge a God could or actually would love microorganisms like us. We are smaller than small. Too small to make any difference whatsoever.

Alright, but don’t be discouraged. The greatest surprise in the universe is waiting for you. The First Reading reveals it, as it talks to God:

You love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for what you hated, you would not have fashioned. And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? … You spare all things, because they are yours, O Lord and lover of souls, for your imperishable spirit is in all things!

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God’s imperishable spirit is in each grain of dust and each one is beloved to God. Look, reader: you and I are beloved to God. We are cherished by the “Lord and lover of souls.”

Let us bring this lesson down to earth.

Look at Zacchaeus in Sunday’s Gospel. Notice that he was small of stature, just like each of us is in our own way. But he was so small he had to climb a tree in order to see over the crowd to Jesus. Jesus laughed as he noticed Zacchaeus up in the tree. Laughed out loud! Then he said, in effect, “Zacchaeus, you are up a tree! Come down quick. I want to have dinner in your house tonight. We don’t want to dine out here on a tree branch!”

Zacchaeus is not a man who “lives right and does right.” He is a tax-collector, selfish and held in bad repute. Does God therefore withhold love and grace from him?

No.

The Christ of God comes in person to his door and waits patiently for him to scramble down the tree. Christ wants to love the man’s goodness into existence. Are you and I bold enough to have the master of the universe over to dinner? Even though our clothes may be torn and dirty? Even small and unworthy as we are?

Let us try it.

God loves very well everything he has created. And the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the least specks in the universe.

You and me.

John Foley, SJ________ * A grain from a balance? A “balance” is a beam balanced on a central fulcrum. It has a pan hanging from each end. In the ancient world you placed something to be weighed in one pan and then added standard weights to the other. When the two pans came to an even balance you could count the number of weights and see how heavy the item was.

________Fr. John Foley, SJ, is a composer and scholar at Saint Louis University.

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HOW TO FIND USAs a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Boston, we are committed to excellence in liturgy, service, hospitality, and life-long learning, all centered in Christ. 429 Upham Street, Melrose, MA 02176 Office: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm1-781-662-8844 Office1-781-662-9340 FAX e-mail: [email protected] website: www.incarnationmelrose.org Follow us on Twitter @IncParish Like us on Facebook!

PASTORAL and SUPPORT STAFF Fr. Steve Madden,[email protected]. Michael [email protected] Bob [email protected] Lahiff, Director of Faith Formation [email protected] Gelzleichter, Director of Music [email protected] Gina Distefano, Business [email protected] David E. Wiggin, C.F.X., Bookkeeper Jim Guiry, Maintenance ManagerDottie Ahlin, Household Assistant

LITURGY Mass Schedule~ Saturday 4:30; Sunday 8:00 am & 10:30amDaily Mass ~Thursday-Friday at 8:00.

SCRIPTURE STUDYEvery Friday morning after Mass we share coffee and conversation about God’s Word for the week. Everyone is welcome in this lively and interesting forum.

RECONCILIATION Saturday, 3:30 - 4:15 pm, or by appointment at any time.

JOINING THE PARISHNo matter what your journey has been, we want to be your companions for the next steps, to share the Gospel together and to help each other along the way.Please introduce yourself to a staff member, or drop in for

coffee on Sunday. You can register as a parishioner online via our website, or stop by the rectory. ADULT INITIATION, RCIAWe are always ready to begin the process by which an adult or older child becomes a Catholic, either by full initiation in baptism, or by reception into full communion. We are also happy to prepare you for adult Confirmation. Contact Deacon Bob Breen.

BAPTISM FOR INFANTSCongratulations! The baptism of infants is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month, or within the Sunday assembly. Fr. Steve is the staff contact person for preparation.

GENERATIONS OF FAITHWe are a community of life-long learners. Our parish program of inter-generational learning and celebration of faith is called Generations of Faith. Contact:Ann Lahiff.

MARRIAGECongratulations! The engaged couple must contact the Rectory at least six months in advance, preferably a year ahead

CARE OF THE SICK To arrange for the Sacrament of the Sick, for Holy Communion for the home-bound, or Viaticum for the Dying, please contact the parish office. We normally send ministers out with communion after the eight o’clock on Sunday, and also schedule regular home visits during the week. It is always possible to anoint the sick during regularly scheduled liturgies. All you have to do is ask!

ORDER of CHRISTIAN FUNERALSWe will work with you to plan your own funeral liturgy or that of a loved one, and are prepared to celebrate the Vigil, also known as the “Wake,” in the Church building for those who choose.

BULLETIN INFORMATIONPlease contact Ann Lahiff at [email protected] with any questions, information or submissions for our bulletin.http://www.incarnationmelrose.orgTo view bulletin, click “bulletin archive,” and then, “Incarnation bulletins”

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