Please note that Father Schultz will not hold daily mass nor confessions the week of Thanksgiving. He will return for the vigil mass at St. Matthews on Saturday, November 28.

Our Faith Formation continues despite the pandemic. Our children are meeting after mass biweekly for adoration and a rosary followed by Catechesis. Please support these Catholics in formation as they prepare for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation and Holy Communion!



Catholic Inquiry Class
Have you thought about becoming Catholic?  Do you just want to ask questions with no pressures or expectations?  If you are not Catholic or know someone that wants to explore the Catholic Faith, Fr. Schultz has an invitation for you.  I am offering a Catholic Inquiry Class for anyone not Catholic with these questions.  Classes will be held on Mondays from 6:30 to 7:30pm at All Saints Classroom (off the sacristy).  If this date and time does not work for you, please call me at 603.788.5553 and we will find a time that works for you!

From Our Seminarians______________________________
My home parish family,
God is good! I hope you are all trusting in our Lord, especially during these testing times. There are many graces yet to be given! Seminary studies are off to a great start. I'm taking Latin, Philosophy of Knowledge, 17th Century Literature, Theology of Marriage, and a study on Plato. Though there is a lot of reading, the seminary schedule still permits us much (needed) time for prayer. We are also blessed this year to have a house of 21 seminarians (from various dioceses, but 5 of us are from NH!). Despite covid, our house is very unified, healthy, and at peace. I pray it remains so! Know that I keep all of my home parish family in prayer daily. Please continue to pray for us seminarians, and an increase of vocations. I will see you all again this December! Peace of Christ, 
Andre Nadeau 


To everyone at Gate of Heaven Parish, 
My junior year of college seminary is off to a very good start. I want to thank everyone so much as I have been receiving so much support from many different parishioners of Gate of Heaven.  To all of you, I hope that you all know that I am thinking of you every day at Mass and Adoration.
Most of my classes this semester are philosophy. However, I am also taking a theology class on the Catholic Church's view of marriage. These classes are very helpful to me and are currently going very well. I'm very blessed to be going to a very great school that has many teachers who are incredibly strong in our faith. And I am very blessed to have them as well as the faculty of the seminary guiding me through my discernment. 
I hope all of you are doing as well as I am. I will continue to pray for me as I will for you.
 
Guillaume Temkkit
 
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If you cannot  attend mass for a serious reason ask your Guardian Angel to go to mass for you at the specified time.  This way, even though you cannot be in mass in person, your very own Guardian Angel will be in attendance as "your representative".  (Too bad you can't ask them to put something in the collection basket for you!) Here is a charming prayer you and your children can say: 
 

O HOLY ANGEL at my side,
Go to Church for me,
Kneel in my place, at Holy Mass,
Where I desire to be.

At Offertory, in my stead,
Take all I am and own,
And place it as a sacrifice
Upon the Altar Throne.

At Holy Consecration’s bell,
Adore with Seraph’s love,
My Jesus hidden in the Host,
Come down from Heaven above.

Then pray for those I dearly love,
And those who cause me grief,
That Jesus’ Blood may cleanse all hearts,
And suff’ring souls relieve.

And when the priest Communion takes,
Oh, bring my Lord to me,
That His sweet Heart may rest on mine,
And I His temple be.

Pray that this Sacrifice Divine,
May mankind’s sins efface;
Then bring me Jesus’ blessing home,
The pledge of every grace. Amen

Let us not doubt the power nor goodness of God--He can do all things even giving us the power to command our Guardian Angels to go to mass for us when we cannot go.  "For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you."

Prayer to make a Spiritual Communion:

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if your were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen

May God bless you and Our Lady keep you,

Fr. Schultz

"If we are deprived of sacramental communion, let us replace it, as far as we can, with spiritual communion, which we can make every moment:  for we aught to have always a burning desire to receive the Good God."
--St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney, parish priest of Ars, France; Patron Saint of all parish priests.

Almighty Father, you have firmly established your love for Gate of Heaven Parish and for each of us.  We praise and thank you for placing us amid the deep beauty of the North Country, a beauty that speaks eloquently of your glory and calls us to acknowledge your greatness and love.

O Lord, you have given our parish the opportunity and challenge of coming together as family, to be ambassadors of your grace to one another and to our farthest neighbor.  Grant us to respond lovingly and obediently to your call to seek justice in all our actions, to serve the poor in body and soul, and to share the good news of your Son, Jesus.

O Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, inflame our hearts with your love.  Broaden our vision and open our hearts to what you are bringing about.  Set our parish and the whole North Country on fire with your Holy Spirit, to bring about a renewed flourishing of our Catholic faith.  Amen.

Memorare 

REMEMBER, O most compassionate Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother; to thee do I come; before thee I kneel, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.