St. Patrick's Wareham

Golf Tournament

Fr. Ron — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:30:57 +0000

St. Patrick’s Youth Group is hosting a golf tournament at Little Harbor Country Club on September 25, 2010. This golf tournament is to raise money for the World Youth Day Trip To Spain in August 2011. The price will be $65 per person to play and a ticket to the banquet is $30 per person. The tournament is going off of Tee-Times starting at 9 o’clock in the morning; the play format of this tournament is best ball. Click here to download the signup form or email info@stpatrickswareham.org for more information.

Symbolism of the Pelican

Fr. Ron — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:08:46 +0000

Q. I was visiting a church, and I noticed a carving on the altar of a pelican feeding little pelicans. I have never seen this before. What does it mean?

A. The symbolism of the mother pelican feeding her little baby pelicans is rooted in an ancient legend which preceded Christianity. The legend was that in time of famine, the mother pelican wounded herself, striking her breast with the beak to feed her young with her blood to prevent starvation. Another version of the legend was that the mother fed her dying young with her blood to revive them from death, but in turn lost her own life.

Read on at: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0682.html

Christ’s Family Pictures

Fr. Ron — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:41:49 +0000

Have you ever wondered who that person was sitting next to you in the pew at Mass? In the Gospel Jesus says that whoever listens to my words and does the will of my Father in Heaven is my mother, and brother, and sister. As members of Christ Body the Church we are one family in Christ, even if sometimes we don’t act like it!

One of the initiatives for our parishes celebration of its centennial is a parish picture book, which will contain the pictures and names of every family in the parish. The books will be free to all those who participate and along with them you will get a complimentary 8×11 family portrait. Additional pictures will be available but there is no purchase necessary.

Come get your family picture taken, so next time you can say hello to your neighbors at Mass and know who they are! Sign-ups begin in the Church this Sunday, July 25th, on-line signups will be available Monday, July 25th at noon. You will also be able to sign-up on the weekends of August 1st and 8th and online Monday (12pm)-Friday(12pm)

Can priests wear a bathing suit at the beach?

Fr. Ron — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:19:56 +0000

No, priest must wear their clerics at all times….SYKE… Priests get this alot, although most people who know me quickly find out the answer. As my classmates once noted I am a fish, I love the water, and so for better or worse you will often find me in a bathing suit. Especially on Beach Day when for the last four years the St. Patrick’s Youth Group has travelled with me to Martha’s Vineyard.

This video is a perfect answer to the question:

Priests wear their clerics as a sign of their authority as well as their scholarship, and the death to this world that requires. Most importantly clerics advertise that a priest is “in service,” available to anyone who needs a priest. Although clerics are the normal dress for priests, a priest is a priest forever, and the clothing doesn’t make or break the priest. When a priest engages in sports or relaxing on ones day off with family or friends priest often wear secular clothing.

NO MORE PO BOX

Fr. Ron — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:05:42 +0000

Just a note:

Our address has changed just a little bit. We are now at just 82 High St. (NO PO BOX)

New Pictures and Video Available

Fr. Ron — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:29:35 +0000

New Videos Available on St. Patrick’s Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/StPatricksWareham

Also new pictures on our Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stpatrickswareham/

Bon Fire

Fr. Ron — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:15:24 +0000

Join the youth group for its June meeting, we will be having a Bon fire out by the water. Directions can be found below. Also in July we will be going on our annual beach day trip to Martha’s Vineyard. For more info check out the Youth group site.

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Beautiful Music for Beautiful Jesus

Fr. Ron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:48:03 +0000

One of Mozart’s most beautiful works perfect for the Feast of Corpus Christi

Feast of Corpus Christi

Fr. Ron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:35:19 +0000

40 HOUR DEVOTION

In honor of the Feast of Corpus Christ our parish will be hosting the forty hour devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament. Starting on Friday June 4th with our regular monthly First Friday devotions the Blessed Sacrament will remain exposed for prayer from 8am on Friday until midnight on the Morning of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Sunday June 6th. Two people are needed to stay with, praise and guard the Blessed Sacrament at all times, sign up lists are available at the exits to the Church or you can call or email Fr. Ron to volunteer for a time slot. Information is available on our website http://StPatricksWareham.org/Corpus-Christi/

Corpus Christi Procession

The annual Corpus Christi procession will be held on June 6th starting at 2pm. The procession throughout the streets is a great and fun way to express our love for the gift of Christ’s Body and Blood. Each year Catholics young and old walk the colorfully decorated streets of New Bedford carrying with them the Blessed Sacrament. Making visits at seven of the oldest and most beautiful churches around they return to the Chapel of our Lady downtown for refreshments and a celebration. Children who received first Holy Communion this year are invited to walk in the procession dressed in their Communion outfits and servers are welcome to process vested for Mass. For more information contact Fr. Ron< at the Rectory 508-295-2411 or by email or check out http://StPatricksWareham.org/Corpus-Christi/

Fr. Ron Floyd (deacon) assists the Bishop of Orvieto at the Annual Corpus Christi
procession in Balsano, sight of the Eucharistic Miracle, note the thurifer, Mr. Riley Williams
of the Diocese of Fall River, who will himself be ordained a deacon this fall.

The Feast of Corpus Christi, or the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (as it is often called today), goes back to the 13th century, but it celebrates something far older: the institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion at the Last Supper. While Holy Thursday is also a celebration of this mystery, the solemn nature of Holy Week, and the focus on Christ’s Passion on Good Friday, overshadows that aspect of Holy Thursday.

Thus, in 1246, Bishop Robert de Thorete of the Belgina diocese of Liège, at the suggestion of St. Juliana of Mont Cornillon (also in Belgium), convened a synod and instituted the celebration of the feast. From Liège, the celebration began to spread, and, on September 8, 1264, Pope Urban IV issued the papal bull “Transiturus,” which established the Feast of Corpus Christi as a universal feast of the Church, to be celebrated on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday.

At the request of Pope Urban IV, St. Thomas Aquinas composed the office (the official prayers of the Church) for the feast. This office is widely considered one of the most beautiful in the traditional Roman Breviary (the official prayer book of the Divine Office or Liturgy of the Hours), and it is the source of the famous Eucharistic hymns “Pange Lingua Gloriosi” and “Tantum Ergo Sacramentum.”

For centuries after the celebration was extended to the universal Church, the feast was also celebrated with a eucharistic procession, in which the Sacred Host was carried throughout the town, accompanied by hymns and litanies. The faithful would venerate the Body of Christ as the procession passed by. In recent years, this practice has almost disappeared, though some parishes still hold a brief procession around the outside of the parish church.