WQPH Day Trip by Bus to La Salette in Attleboro, MA

Sunday December 15, 2024 Departing at 1PM

from Mary Queen of Peace/St. Joseph’s, Medford MA Lower Parking lot on Rt 16

Tickets $40 per person by check/cash or $45 by Paypal

Tickets are non-refundable

Itinerary Details:

• 12:30PM: Registration at Mary Queen of Peace/St. Joseph’s Lower Parking lot on Rt 16
• 1PM: Departure to Shrine
• 3PM: Christmas Concert by Father Andre Patenaude, M.S. (Father Pat)
• 5PM see the Christmas Festival of Lights, themed “Christ Be Our Light,” featuring 135 new lights
• Return to Medford, MA

Note: No food or drink provided so please feel free to bring snack or food

To Purchase tickets:

• Mastercard or Visa: Go to wqphradio.org and click “Donate” button on the Donate page ; $45
• Check:  Payable to WQPH 89.3 FM/ELRN *60 Woburn Street* Medford MA 02155
• Zelle:  using code below

For questions Call or Text (617) 459-8735

Download this information as a flyer: https://wqphradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/LASALETTE.pdf

Lord, our lives are surrounded with passing things; set our hearts on things of heaven,— so that through faith, hope and charity we may come to enjoy the vision of your glory.Lord, share with us the treasure of your love.

Divine Office, morning prayer for November 23, 2024

A Plenary Indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even if only mentally for the dead from November 1st-8th (Octave of All Saints). The Plenary Indulgence can be gained on each on of these eight days. The indulgence is applicable only to the souls in Purgatory. On other days of the year this indulgence is a partial one.

The Handbook of Indulgences

So I’ve mentioned a couple of times, this Sunday we are beginning a Novena for Our Nation, and that will be happening immediately or shortly after this before a televised Mass at 7:00 AM Central. That’s when the Mass is. And shortly after that we will have this Novena that will begin on Sunday, up until the days of our National Election. So if you want to receive a text, or you can just listen, of course, when we are praying the Rosary and making this Novena. You can find them at ewm.com/novena, and in Spanish.

I encourage you to join us, especially this Sunday, as we begin these nine days of prayers before our National Election. Today also I would invite you and encourage you to join us for our holy hour of reparation at 2:00 PM Central Time, 3:00 PM Eastern Time, which will be happening live here in this chapel.

You may have seen in the news recently just a number of reasons why we need to make reparation. For example, this weekend in Toulouse, France, they are having a Satanic Festival, and the bishop there has consecrated that city to the Sacred Heart as a way of paying for protection. We also recently had a governor mock the reception of the holy Eucharist, and then today, as well, the archbishop of Atlanta has asked for prayers, reparation, holy hours to be made today because of a so-called “Black Mass” that will be taking place in Atlanta this evening. In light of all of these things, we need to pray and do the opposite, to express our love for God, to pray in reparation for those who offend him, who commit blasphemies. So I encourage you to join us at 2:00 p.m. Central time, live. We will have this holy hour of reparation. Today we are having a votive Mass in honor of the sacred heart of Jesus, and I’m also wearing a vestment which has the angels in adoration of Jesus, TRULY present in the Blessed Sacrament, our greatest treasure that we have here on earth. For this to be mocked and blasphemed is so offensive to all of us. In fact, a so-called black Mass is a desecration of an illicitly obtained Sacred Host from a Catholic Church. In response to that we offer our love and devotion, our reparative prayer.

Father Joseph Mary, M.F.V.A.

My brothers and sisters in Christ,

I have been alerted to very serious concerns about Question 4 on the Massachusetts ballot. If passed, this measure would legalize certain natural psychedelic drugs to be grown at home, e.g. magic mushrooms, and to be consumed and shared with others. The use of such natural drugs can alter one’s perception of reality, cause extreme feelings of euphoria or despair and can worsen mental health issues.

The President and President-Elect of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society testified before the Special Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature that this initiative petition is “…reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous to the public.” Please see the attached information sheet (attachment below) for more details.

As mail-in ballots are already being cast in Massachusetts, I am asking that you read the attached information as soon as possible.

We have not and cannot accept any money or donations for this effort.

Thank you for this very important educational effort to inform our Catholics of this important issue.

With every prayerful best wish, I remain,

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Robert J. McManus, Bishop of Worcester