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Posted 9/5/2020

A notice sent to Father John that Father John wanted posted:

Friends - The House Judiciary Committee has just voted by a margin of 10-8 to recommend HB 1659 for further legislation. Although this outcome is certainly unfortunate, this vote has no impact on HB 1659, which will die. It also has no bearing on whether assisted suicide legislation will be filed next year (any legislator may file any bill regardless of what the result of an interim study is). 

It emerged during the discussions this morning that the vast majority of people who contacted Committee members on this were opposed to assisted suicide. It is clear that the legislators heard from few if any people who supported this. It is also clear that the issues raised by the callers/e-mailers gave pause even to a number of the legislators who ultimately voted to recommend for further legislation. 

Next stop on this issue will be the new legislation that will be published sometime in December. We'll keep you in the loop as to developments.

Again, thank you for your great dedication, which for yet another year has helped to protect the people of New Hampshire against the danger of assisted suicide.

Bob

Posted 8/28/2020

A notice sent to Father John that Father John wanted posted:

"Please add this to the bulletin.

Posted 8/28/2020

A notice sent to Father John that Father John wanted posted:

"Hi,

Fr. Sartori is going on a pilgrim to Rome in 2021. Please forward to all your parishioner if you don’t mind.

Please note:

Have questions about this pilgrimage? Go to www.Unitours.com/questions. To book go to https://bit.ly/SartoriIlaly

With love in Christ,

Bernadette McLaughlin

Administrative Assistant

St. Patrick Parish

40 School Street

Newport, NH 03773

603 863 1422"

Posted 8/28/2020

A notice sent to Father John that Father John wanted posted:

"Friends - I want to alert you to two upcoming events in the NH House. 

The first is next Tuesday, Sep. 1, as the House Judiciary Committee holds a remote work session on HB 1659, the assisted suicide bill. Information on how to attend that hearing remotely may be found on p. 18 of the current House Calendar.

As you will recall, that bill was sent to interim study, which means that HB 1659 will die with the close of the session in December. All that the Judiciary Committee can do is to vote on whether to recommend for further legislation or not recommend for further legislation. Of course, we are advocating for the latter.

It is not clear whether the public will have an opportunity to speak during this work session. It is also possible that the Committee will vote on the bill at this work session. Accordingly, the only sure opportunity to weigh in is to contact the Committee in advance of the work session. Contact info for the Committee is here. As always, please be kind and respectful in your communications with the members. For a refresher on our position on HB 1659, this is the letter that accompanied our testimony in February.

The other upcoming event will be the convening of the House on Sep. 16 to vote on whether to sustain or override the Governor's vetoes. One of the bills that will be a subject of a vote that day is HB 685, the bill to mandate insurance coverage for abortion. Please contact your House members before the 16th and urge them to vote to sustain the Governor's veto of HB 685. You can find out who your House members are by going here.

Thanks very much. I hope you have a peaceful and happy last few weeks of summer.

Bob"

Posted 8/22/2020

From Father John: "Prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Vilma Harnet who has died. Her calling hours will be on Wednesday, August 26 from 6-8 pm at Fenton Hennessey Funeral Home, and her burial will be at 11am on Thursday, August 27 in St Peter’s cemetery. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon her."

Posted 8/13/2020

From Father John: "Prayers are requested for Makenna Day who is ill."

Posted 7/3/2020

THE FOURTEENTH SUDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JULY 4/5

MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday, July 4, 2020

4pm St Peter

Anthony/Zachary Byrnes by their family

Sunday, July 5, 2020

8:30 am St Peter

Fran Thibeault by Art, Teri, Liam Sullivan

10:30 am St Catherine

Mass pro populo

Monday, July 6 No Mass

Tuesday, July 7 5:30 pm St Peter

Elizabeth Balzak by the Lacasce family

Wednesday, July 8 5:30 pm St Catherine

Arlene Slachciak by her loved ones

Thursday, July 9 5:30 pm St Catherine

Alice B Beauregard by the estate

Friday, July 10 8:30 am St Peter

Deceased members of the Coffey Family

Saturday, July 11 4 pm St Peter

Christopher Kurkul and Elizabeth Chaisson

By the Kurkul Family

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 12, 2020

8:30am St Peter

Fran Thibeault by the Sullivans

10:30 am St Catherine

Theresa Ellis by David Jennings

Father is in need of more questions for the question boxes at the entrance of each church. Do you have a question about our faith? Please submit it anonymously and Father will answer it in a future bulletin