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Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. Romans 15: 7
WEBSITE: www.gateofheavennh.org
FR. SCHULTZ E-MAIL: [email protected]
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Winter Weekend Masses (Columbus Day to Memorial Day Weekend)
SATURDAY
4:00 P.M. St. Matthew Church
SUNDAY
8:00 A.M. St. Matthew Church
10:30 A.M. All Saints Church
5:00 P.M. All Saints Church
The Catholic Communities of ALL SAINTS CHURCH ST. AGNES CHURCH ST. MATTHEW CHURCH ST. PATRICK CHURCH OUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS SHRINE
163 Main Street 769 Presidential Hgwy 9 Jefferson Road 65 St. Patrick Church Rd 2470 Route 302 East
Lancaster, NH 03584 Jefferson, NH 03583 Whitefield, NH 03598 Twin Mountain, NH 03595 Bretton Woods, NH 03595
Gate of Heaven Parish Rev. Matthew Schultz, Administrator
Michael Johnson, Deacon Rectory Office Staff
KATHI MARSHALL Administrative Asst./Cemetery Administrator
SANDRA DOOLAN Secretary/Receptionist/Sacramental Records
SUSAN TIBBETTS Faith Formation Coordinator/ RCIA Facilitator
Main Office ALL SAINTS RECTORY
163 Main St. ❖ Lancaster, NH 03584
FR. SCHULTZ/RECTORY/EMERGENCY
603-788-5553
PARISH OFFICE
603-788-2083
Summer Weekend Masses (Memorial Day Weekend through Columbus Day
SATURDAY
4:00 P.M. St. Matthew Church
SUNDAY
7:00 A.M. St. Patrick Church
8:30 A.M. St. Agnes Church
10:30 A.M. All Saints Church
Daily Mass MONDAY — 8:30 A.M. All Saints Church
THURSDAY — 7:00 A.M. All Saints Church
TUESDAY & FRIDAY
7:00 A.M. St. Matthew Church
SATURDAY (Spring & Summer)
9:00 A.M. Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine
SATURDAY (Late fall & winter)
9:00 A.M. All Saints Church
Please consider remembering our parish in your will.
WELCOME TO GATE OF HEAVEN PARISH To every traveler who comes through our towns and stops to visit in one of our churches we say, “Welcome, friend, come
and worship with us.” You can join us at All Saints Church, Saint Agnes Church, Saint Matthew Church, Saint Patrick
Church or Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine. We are all one family, and you are welcome at our table. If you plan to move
on, we pray you safe travel. If you plan to stay, we hope you find peace and fulfillment. Regardless of your situation, we
thank you for stopping in to join our hearts with ours as we pray in our Father’s House!
SACRAMENTS Reconciliation/Confession
Saturdays 2:45 p.m. — 3:45 p.m. St. Matthew Church
Mondays 7:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m. All Saints Church
Half hour before daily Mass
For a personal appointment please call the rectory.
Baptism/Marriage
Please call the rectory to make arrangements. (For weddings,
please call six months in advance of your planned wedding date.)
Communion/Anointing the Sick
Due to privacy laws priests must be asked by the family mem-
bers to visit parishioners in the hospital or nursing home. Please
advise us of those in need of the Church’s ministry, whether
they are homebound or have been hospitalized. We are happy
to bring the Eucharist to those who cannot get out to attend
Mass. And if someone is ill or declining in health, the pastor is
happy to come to their home, anoint them and bring them
Holy Communion. Please call the rectory, and we will make the
arrangements for you.
Cemetery Arrangements
Gate of Heaven Parish has four cemeteries—Calvary
Cemetery, Water Street Cemetery, St. Matthew Cemetery and St.
Margaret Cemetery. You are always welcome to make arrange-
ments for your eventual burial in one of these cemeteries, as
three of the four have sites to lease. Please call the rectory in
order to ask about end-of-life preparations.
Rectory Office (788-2083)
Monday & Tuesday 9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Thursday 9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Closed Wednesday, Friday and Holy Days of Obligation.
Parish Bulletin
If you, or someone you know, is homebound, please call the rectory and let us know.
We’d love to send them the weekly bulletin so they can keep up with the goings-on in the parish.
Also, if you are a snowbird, and head south or west for the winter, we can also get the bulletin to your winter address.
That way you always know what’s going on here at home!
PARISH MINISTRY PERSONNEL
Faith Formation Coordinator
Susan Tibbetts 802-892-6170
Youth Ministry Coordinators
Daphne Cassady 802-892-6170
Jeannine LaBounty 603-991-9213
Finance Council Chair
Tyler Rancourt 603-244-6616
Pastoral Council Chair
Bob Rutherford 603-846-9896
The Tabernacle Society
Sandra Doolan, President 603-788-3315
Catholic Women’s Group
Carrie Morrill, President 603-869-3172
Men of Saint Joseph
Kurt Hall (Tuesday P.M Group) 603-631-4075
Knights of Columbus
Mark Frank, Grand Knight 603-788-4825
RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for adults)
Susan Tibbetts, Facilitator 802-892-6170
Boy Scouts
Kenneth King, Scout Master 603-636-5150
Cub Scouts
Bill Rutherford, Cubmaster 603-837-9895
Parish Bookstore/Gift Shop
Ruby Berryman, Manager 603-631-3608
Calvary Cemetery
John Brooks, Sexton 603-788-4030
St. Matthew & St. Margaret Cemeteries
Don Doolan, Sexton 603-788-3315
This Weekend SATURDAY, JUNE 15 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew Most Holy Trinity Raymond & Arthur Gooden by the family
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 7:00 a.m. St. Patrick Most Holy Trinity Harry Johnson by Deacon Mike & Elise Johnson
8:30 a.m. St. Agnes Most Holy Trinity Gate of Heaven parishioners
10:30 a.m. All Saints Most Holy Trinity Bob & Micky Brennan by their sons,
Tom & Terry Brennan
MONDAY, JUNE 17 8:30 a.m. All Saints Feria Jessie Phaneuf by the Phaneuf-Borgatti
family
TUESDAY, JUNE 18 7:00 a.m. St. Matthew Feria Rev. William J. Sullivan, O.S.B.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 7:00 a.m. St. Ramuald, abbot NO MASS
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 7:00 a.m. All Saints Feria For the persecution of Christians
NOON All Saints For the persecution of Christians
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 7:00 a.m. St. Matthew St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious For the persecution of Christians
NOON St. Matthew For the persecution of Christians
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 9:00 a.m. OLM Shrine St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop For the pour souls
St. John Fisher, bishop &
St. Thomas More, martyrs
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 4:00 p.m. St. Matthew Corpus Christi Charles Randolph Prezzano by Mr. & Mrs.
Joseph Sackett
SUNDAY, JUNE 23 7:00 a.m. St. Patrick Corpus Christi Gate of Heaven parishioners
8:30 a.m. St. Agnes Corpus Christi Roger Daigle by Bill & Lorraine Patnaude
10:30 a.m. All Saints Most Holy Trinity Charles Edward Maher by his wife
Daily Readings June 17, 2019 — June 23, 2019
MONDAY: 2 Corinthians 6: 1-10 / Matthew 5: 38-42
TUESDAY: 2 Corinthians 8: 1-9 / Matthew 5: 43-48
WEDNESDAY: 2 Corinthians 9: 6-11 / Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-18
THURSDAY: 2 Corinthians 11: 1-11 / Matthew 6: 7-15
FRIDAY: 2 Corinthians 11: 18, 21-30 / Matthew 6: 19-23
SATURDAY: 2 Corinthians 12: 1-10 / Matthew 6: 24-34
SUNDAY: Genesis 14: 18-20 / 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26 /
Luke 9: 11b-17
The Most Holy Trinity June 16, 2019
Your Weekly Offering Weekend of June 1-2, 2019
OFFERTORY: $2,693.68
E-GIVE: $2,897.00
$5,590.68
May the good Lord reward you for your generosity!
(There is no second collection next weekend, June 22-23.)
Corpus Christi
Believe that He loves you.
He wants to help you Himself
in the struggles which you must undergo.
Let yourself be loved.
BLESSED ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY
Our Lady Help of
Persecuted Christians . . . Created by Italian icono-
grapher Fabrizio Diomedi,
this icon depicts the Blessed
Mother, with the Child Jesus
over her heart, spreading her
protective mantle around a
representative gathering of
recent Christian martyrs—
men and women, young and
old, from East and West;
priests, religious and laypersons, including one of the six
priest-members of the Knights of Columbus who were
killed by the Mexican government in the first half of the
20th century. The four crosses represent an “ecumenism
of blood” among martyrs of Roman and Eastern Catholi-
cism, as well as those of Coptic, Armenian, Syriac and
Orthodox traditions. Our Lady Help of Persecuted Christians
icon is the centerpiece of the world-wide Knights of
Columbus Marian Prayer Program and during a private
audience with the Holy Sepulchre,
Pope Francis gave it his blessing.
The Our Lady Help of Persecuted
Christians icon will arrive at
Gate of Heaven Parish on
June 16 and remain through
June 30. On Thursday, June
20, Fr. Schultz will offer the
first of two noon Masses for
Our Lady Help of Persecuted
Christians. It will be celebrated at All Saints Church in
Lancaster. On Friday, June 21, the second noon Mass
will be held at St. Matthew Church in Whitefield. The
Knights of Columbus will pass out special Our Lady Help
of Persecuted Christians before each Mass. On Monday, June
24, there will be a Mass at 6:00 p.m. at St. Agnes fol-
lowed by the Rosary. On Tuesday, June 25, the Mass will
be at 6:00 p.m. at St. Patrick Church, followed by the
Rosary.
This beautiful icon is on a pilgrimage to promote awareness
of the plight of Christians persecuted for their faith and to
stand in solidarity with them. It is a reminder that we should
pray for Mary’s intercession for protection and deliverance
from persecution for Christians in the Middle East and
around the world. Our parish has been favored with this
special visit. Please add your prayers for these intentions.
Corpus Christi Eucharistic Procession . . . Dear Parishioners,
Next weekend, Sunday, June 23, is the Solemnity of
Corpus Christi (The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ).
Immediately following the 10:30 a.m. Mass, Gate of
Heaven Parish will have a Eucharistic Procession
down Main Street in Lancaster in honor of the im-
portant Solemnity. We will process out of All Saints
Church and head to the center of Lancaster where we
will have benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
The Feast of Corpus Christi dates to the 12th century
and soon after was often accompanied by Eucharistic
processions. Please join me in this holy event where
we will give witness to our faith in Our Lord’s true
presence in the Eucharist and ask him to bless us, our
parish and our land. After the procession, Izabela
Southworth has graciously agreed to put on a lunch-
eon in All Saints church hall. I am sure she would
appreciate any help you could offer!
In Jesus and Mary,
Fr. Schultz
Coffee and Conversation . . . For those of you who just can’t
wait for that morning cup of cof-
fee and the sweetness that goes
with it, you are welcome to stop in
following the 7:00 a.m. Mass at St.
Patrick in Twin Mountain or the
8:30 a.m. Mass at St. Agnes in Jefferson. Every Sunday
morning downstairs in the church hall you can fill up on
coffee, donuts and other incredibly delicious items these
early morning teams cook up for you! Could be coffee
cake, could be quiche! Just join us downstairs Sunday
mornings for coffee, food and casual visiting with friends!
Scheduled Events SATURDAY, JUNE 15
8:30 A.M. Confessions (Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine)
2:45—3:45 P.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church)
SUNDAY, JUNE 16
8:00 A.M. Coffee, Donuts & Goodies (St. Patrick church hall)
9:30 A.M. Coffee, Donuts & Goodies (St. Agnes church hall)
11:30 A.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (All Saints church hall)
MONDAY, JUNE 17
9:00 A.M.—8:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church)
6:00 P.M. Boy Scouts (All Saints church hall)
7:00 P.M.—8:00 P.M. Confessions (All Saints Church)
TUESDAY, JUNE 18
6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church)
6:00 P.M. K of C Meeting (St. Matthew rectory)
6:00 P.M. Men of St. Joseph Meeting (All Saints library)
6:30 P.M. Vocation Ministry Meeting (St. Joseph Room)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 [Rectory Office Closed]
11:00 A.M.—5:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (St. Patrick Church)
5:30 P.M. Praying the Rosary (St. Leo’s Church, Lunenburg, VT)
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
6:30 A.M. Confessions (All Saints Church)
5:00 P.M. COMMUNITY DINNER (All Saints church hall)
7:00 P.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (St. Matthew rectory)
8:00 P.M. Alcoholics Anonymous (All Saints church hall)
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 [Rectory Office Closed]
6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church)
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
8:30 A.M. Confessions (Our Lady of the Mountains Shrine)
2:45—3:45 P.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church)
SUNDAY, JUNE 23
8:00 A.M. Coffee, Donuts & Goodies (St. Patrick church hall)
9:30 A.M. Coffee, Donuts & Goodies (St. Agnes church hall)
11:30 A.M. EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION (All Saints Church)
11:30 A.M. Men/Women Cursillo Meeting (All Saints church hall)
MONDAY, JUNE 24
9:00 A.M.—8:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (All Saints Church)
6:00 P.M. Boy Scouts (All Saints church hall)
7:00 P.M.—8:00 P.M. Confessions (All Saints Church)
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
6:30 A.M. Confessions (St. Matthew Church)
6:00 P.M. Catholic Women’s Group (St. Matthew rectory)
6:00 P.M. Men of St. Joseph Meeting (All Saints library)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 [Rectory Office Closed]
11:00 A.M.—5:00 P.M. Eucharistic Adoration (St. Patrick Church)
5:30 P.M. Praying the Rosary (St. Leo’s Church, Lunenburg, VT)
The Trinity . . .
this is our dwelling, our home,
the Father’s house
which we must never leave.
BLESSED ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY
On behalf of Deacon
Mike and myself, I
would like to sincerely
thank all those who
planned and executed
last week’s festivities
at Our Lady of the
Mountains Shrine. In particular, I would like
to thank the Vocations Ministry team who did
so much of the work! Thank you! It was a
beautiful and grace-filled event and I was
especially blessed that my good parents were
in attendance as well! Thank you, dear parish-
ioners, for all of your support and especially
for your prayers. It has made this last year
such a blessing. May the Good Lord reward
and bless you for your kindness. Fr. Schultz
Vocation Ministry Meeting . . . Tuesday, June 18, there will be a meeting of
the Vocation Ministry at 6:30 p.m. in the St.
Joseph Room in All Saints church hall. This min-
istry serves to promote vocations to the priest-
hood or religious life, and includes the vocation of
marriage. If you are in the process of discerning
or would like to learn more, please join us.
Catholic Conference . . . Save the date for this JESUS aCROSS the
Border sponsored event! On October 5, 2019
there will be a Catholic Conference focused on
the INFINITE MERCY OF GOD in the
Lowell Memorial Auditorium. This powerful
day of grace includes four speakers, music,
Mass, Confession and Adoration. Check out
Weekly Readings The Holy Trinity, June 16, 2019 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Proverbs 8: 22-31 / Psalm 8: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 / Romans 5: 1-5 / John 16: 12-15
“The love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to
us.” With these words, St. Paul captures the essence of this solemnity and shows that the path to
understand the Trinity is through the experience of love. At the heart of God is a bond of love among
the Father, Son and Spirit. God’s love is communicated through the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Each of the readings today offers an insight into the life of the Trinity. While the precision of the Trin-
itarian language will only come to completion in later centuries, the foundation for this belief is evident
in today’s readings. In the Book of Proverbs God the Creator brings all things into being through his
wisdom like a master ‘craftsman.” The imagery of wisdom “playing before God” conveys God’s joy, excitement, and love over
his creation.
Paul’s letter to the Romans captures the essence of our Catholic faith by stressing that it is through our Lord Jesus Christ that we
have been justified and have been brought into a relationship of peace with God. God’s love for us is poured into us through the
Holy Spirit.
“Everything that the Father has is mine,” Jesus says in the Gospel. “The Spirit of truth” will take from what is Jesus’ and com-
municate it to his followers. The Trinity is a communion of love: God’s love comes to us from the Father through his Son Jesus
and is communicated to us in the Holy Spirit. The Church professed these New Testament thoughts at the Council of Constanti-
nople II: ‘one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy
Spirit in whom all things are” (DS, 421)
1.) If the Father, Son and Spirit are in a communion of love, what is our relationship to be to all of humankind?
2.) How does the concept of love guide you toward understanding the mystery of the Holy Trinity?
3.) Which Person of the Trinity do you relate to the most often?
Sanctuary Candle During the month of June the sanctu-
ary candle in all Saints Church will burn
in loving memory of all deceased
members of the Tabernacle Society
as requested by the TABS. At St. Agnes
Church the sanctuary candle will burn
in loving memory of Daniel Stiles as
requested by Don & Sandra Doolan.
Catholic Charities Appeal . . . Our annual Catholic Charities Appeal is in full swing. If
you would like to make a pledge or a donation to the
work that is being done in our community, you can find
an envelope at the entrances of the church. Your contri-
bution toward this wonderful Catholic organization helps
so many folks in our own back yard. We thank you for
your continued support throughout the years, and for
your gift toward this year’s appeal. Thank you.
Catholic Women’s Group . . . The Catholic Women’s Group will hold its monthly meet-
ing on Tuesday, June 25, at 6:00 p.m. in the rectory at St.
Matthew. We would love to have the women of the parish
join us. You are all most welcome!
