Sunday, May 19 was the last Sunday 5pm Mass for the 2018-2019 school year.
The Sunday 5pm Mass will return in the Fall for the 2019-2020 school year.
Please visit Our Sunday 5pm Mass for more information.
Sunday, May 19 was the last Sunday 5pm Mass for the 2018-2019 school year.
The Sunday 5pm Mass will return in the Fall for the 2019-2020 school year.
Please visit Our Sunday 5pm Mass for more information.
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The Sunday 5pm Mass this Sunday, May 19 at St. John Church will be the last Sunday 5pm Mass for the 2018-2019 school year. We will be celebrating our graduating seniors – please join us!
The Sunday 5pm Mass will return for the 2019-2020 school year in the fall.
Please visit Our Sunday 5pm Mass for more information.
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We are pleased to announce that our seminarian, Matthew Norwood, has received his Call for Orders and will be ordained to the Transitional Diaconate on June 8, 2019 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. This day marks a definitive step before he is ordained to the priesthood in May of 2020.
On Sunday, June 9th, Matthew will serve as a Deacon for the first time and preach the homily at the St. Paul 9:00am Family Mass. Please keep Matthew in your prayers and join us for this special Mass on June 9th at St. Paul’s.
Mass will be followed by a reception in the St. Paul Parish Hall to which all are invited.
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All military veterans and their families are cordially invited to attend a special Veterans Memorial Mass and celebration in their honor at 4:00pm on Saturday, May 18 at St. Paul Church. Veterans are invited (but not required!) to wear their uniforms. Veterans will gather in the St. Paul foyer before Mass and process in with the celebrant to reserved seating at the front of the church. During the Mass we will remember those veterans from Wellesley who gave their lives for our country.
We also invite the families of our deceased veterans – those who gave their lives or their youth in service to their nation – to attend in honor of their loved ones. Families may, if they wish, bring a framed photograph of the person they are honoring to be displayed during the Mass.
There will be an informal reception in the Parish Hall following the Mass, and we warmly invite you to join us.
This annual event, initiated by the Wellesley Veterans’ Council, brings Wellesley veterans together as part of Wellesley Wonderful Weekend. This year, the Mass and reception are also being organized by a high school Girl Scout, Cecilia Rose, as part of her Gold Award project honoring our servicemen and women.
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Join us for an hour of prayer and reflection
Sunday, April 28, 2:00pm
St. Paul Church
The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us – all of us, and he wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others.
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May the joy and hope of this Easter Season be yours in abundance. And may the peace of the Risen Christ be with you always!
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Matthew 21:9
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The Parish Offices will be closing early today, at 10:15am, to allow the staff to attend this morning’s Funeral Mass at St. Paul Church for Tony Cirella, husband of St. Paul Music Director, Mary Lee Cirella.
The Collaborative Offices at 39 Washington St. will be open in the afternoon from 1:00 – 4:00pm, and you can always reach that office by calling either parish phone number (St. Paul 781-235-1060 or St. John 781-235-0045.)
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Saturday, April 6, 2019
Our Commonwealth is facing an issue that holds significant moral implications for all citizens. At this time there are two bills (HB 3320 and SB 1209) proposed in the Massachusetts legislature which have extreme consequences for the protection of life. These bills have been described as a means of protecting the provisions of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, but they go far beyond that decision and take us in dangerous directions. The bills are threatening to human life and dignity and should, in my judgement, be opposed even by those who support the Roe v. Wade decision.
The citizens of Massachusetts and their elected officials represent many faiths and also a secular position that does not embrace any particular religious tradition. I do not address the proposed legislation from a religious perspective but as an issue of human rights, in this case the right to life, as I also speak to other human rights issues such as welcoming immigrants to our country, supporting a strong social safety net for the poor and the call for racial justice. I do not seek to impose the Catholic Church’s teachings on a diverse society but wish to help build a society which protects human life from its inception to natural death.
The purpose of the proposed legislation is clear: in a time when state law may become a central focus in the larger debate about abortion, these bills seek to extend current Massachusetts law in unnecessary and unjustified ways. Specifically, the proposed legislation would produce the following consequences:
Collectively these changes have radical consequences for society. In the proposed legislation abortion is described as “any medical treatment intended to induce termination of a clinically diagnosable pregnancy except for the purpose of producing a live birth”. There are many clinical procedures which can satisfactorily be described in purely medical terms. Abortion is not one of them. While the procedure has significant clinical dimensions, there is also a human reality that deserves more adequate recognition at any stage of development. By depersonalizing the reality, the legislation dehumanizes the decision faced by women, their families and physicians.
Prior to and following the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision the Church has tried to provide care, compassion and assistance to women in crisis pregnancies. The Archdiocese of Boston today sponsors Pregnancy Help to provide spiritual and material assistance to women facing difficult choices about abortion. We also sponsor Project Rachel, a retreat program for women seeking counsel and healing after abortion.
We do not seek to judge or blame individuals, particularly women and families faced with excruciatingly difficult pregnancies. Our objective is to consider the implications of the proposed legislation, which among its provisions removes any limits to abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy. The legislation is being advocated on the basis of complex and emotionally wrenching medical cases, but the implications of these laws without limits can lead far beyond the hard cases.
The proposed legislation (HB 3320 and SB 1209) presents all citizens of the Commonwealth with a serious moral question concerning the protection of human life. Legislators, I hope, will not presume that broad support in Massachusetts for legal abortion automatically translates into willingness on the part of the public to embrace the extreme provisions of these bills. These realities deserve our serious consideration with the highest convictions of what is right and our full compassion. And the unborn children who will be most directly impacted by the proposals deserve to have their lives protected.
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7:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
followed by Adoration until midnight
St. John Church
3:00pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
St. Paul Church
7:30pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
St. John Church
8:00pm Mass of the Easter Vigil
St. Paul Church
7:30am Mass at St. John Church
7:30am Mass at St. Paul Church
9:00am Family Mass at St. John Church
(with simulcast in Powers Hall)
9:00am Family Mass at St. Paul Church
(with simulcast in Parish Hall)
11:00am Mass at St. John Church
(with simulcast in Powers Hall)
11:00am Mass at St. Paul Church
11:00am Mass at St. Paul Parish Hall
There is no Sunday 5pm Mass on Easter Sunday
12:00pm Walk with the Cross at St. John Church
(led by St. John Religious Education – all welcome!)
12:00pm Living Way of the Cross at St. Paul Church
(with St. Paul Religious Education – all welcome!)
3:00pm Stations of the Cross at St. John Church
10:00am – 12:00pm St. John Chapel
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