Celebrating St. John’s Parish… Past, Present, and Future

Posted on June 6, 2014 | Comments Off on Celebrating St. John’s Parish… Past, Present, and Future

AnniversaryIn 2015, St. John’s celebrates two significant milestones in the history of our Parish:

  • May 2015 is the 140th anniversary of the first mass celebrated in our church
  • November 2015 is the 125th anniversary of the founding of our parish.

Our goal is to make these anniversaries a parish-wide series of spiritual, historical, and social events that honor our past, celebrate the present, and welcome the promise of our future. The anniversary committee has begun gathering input for the best ways to celebrate these milestones.  Do you have ideas? Are you willing to volunteer to organize or assist with an event or activity? If so, we’d like to hear from you. You can share your suggestions with any of the committee members listed below, or send comments to our e-mail address: Anniversaries@stjohnwellesley.org

Ideas under consideration at this point include:

  • Liturgy celebration of our history
  • Brunch, picnic, formal dinner, “Decades” night
  • Update to our written history, memory book, time capsule, fun facts
  • Anniversary keepsake: possibly a quilt, plate, ornament, paver bricks with inscriptions, memory tree

We thank you for your consideration and look forward to hearing from you.

Anniversary Committee members:  Father Tom Powers, John Calcio, Rose Mary Donahue, Christian Rubio, Jan Schreiber, Jim Stokes, Christine Tierney

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Collaborative Question 6: How Will a Pastor Be Selected?

Posted on June 6, 2014 | Comments Off on Collaborative Question 6: How Will a Pastor Be Selected?

SJSP Collaborative Logo_SmallThe St. John and St. Paul Collaborative will be formally launched in the summer of 2015.  Following is a recently asked question and answer about the new Collaborative:

QUESTION 6.) Please discuss the process which will be used for selecting a Pastor for our Collaborative, and the role of the local Parish communities in that process.

Since we have now been selected as a Phase III Collaborative, Father Rafferty and Father Powers will send their letters of resignation in October 2014 to Cardinal Sean, to become effective in June 2015. St. John’s and St. Paul’s will be listed as “open” in the Officials section of The Pilot and any priest who wants to apply for the position of Pastor may do so. The Regional Bishop, the Vicar Forane, the Director of Clergy Personnel, and possibly a member of the Clergy Personnel Board, will come to a joint meeting of our Council and Staff members, to get their input regarding Pastor selection. The Clergy Personnel Board will then discuss the candidates and develop a list of names for Cardinal Sean’s consideration. Cardinal Sean will make his appointment, probably by mid-January of 2015.

More information can be found on the St. John’s web site  (St. John – St. Paul Collaborative News) and on the Archdiocese of Boston Pastoral Planning website (www.disciplesinmission.com)

The Inter Parish Collaborative Team welcomes your comments and feedback. Please email your questions or comments to: stjohn.stpaul@gmail.com  

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It’s Appreciation Weekend!

Posted on June 6, 2014 | Comments Off on It’s Appreciation Weekend!

All Masses this weekend, June 7-8, will be in Thanksgiving for you who make our parish all that it is and continues to become! Thank You All!

Please join us Sunday morning for refreshments after the 7:30am, 9:00am, and 11:00am Masses.

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Thank You from Religious Education

Posted on June 6, 2014 | Comments Off on Thank You from Religious Education

Teachers
A profound thank you to all the teachers who so generously volunteer their time and talent to the Religious Education Program. Their commitment is extraordinary as they graciously share their Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings or Wednesday afternoons to teach our children about our shared Catholic faith:
Abby Alden, Ben Bramley, Jackson Bramley, Niki Bramley, Christina Brooks, Susan Calcio, Lisa Calderone, Michael Calderone, Johanne Campbell, Marla Capozzi, Caroline Carroll, Izzy Caruso, Joanne Clark, Gina Cohen, Anne Connors, Fiona Corkhill, Sheila Corkhill, Peg Creonte, Amy Cuzzupoli, Katie Daley, Kerry Dario, Peter DeNatale, Barbara Donovan, Beth Dugan, Joyce Farah, Andrea Fay, Vicki Gockelman, Paula Gomez, Cecilia Gordon, Chrissy Harding, Christine Hayes, Nancy Hill, Cathi Jones, Maureen Jutras, Lucy Kapples, Ryan Kelley, Rick Kinney, Susan Logan, Anita Martin, Pam McMahon, Christina Messore, Linda Messore, Jim Miller, Mary Mullen, Catherine Murrey, Jill Oliver, Toni Oliver, Jo-Ann Patneaude, Mary Elizabeth Patti, Jill Purpura, Andrea Reilly Gaziano, Joe Restino, Stephen Scherrer, Kathy Skelly, Corinne Spinale, Jacquie Sullivan-Noel, Heidi Tobin, Maria Trachy, Claire Van Flandern, Katy Wallace, Chrissy Youngren

Additionally, we extend special thanks to the teaching assistants whose Sunday morning support is vital to the success of the program: Martha Betancour, Alicia Gockelman, Conley Jacobs, Liza Serrano, Matthew Scherrer, Andrew Scherrer

Peer Ministers
Thank you to all the peer ministers who are such an integral part of the religious education program for grades 7 – 10. Their faith, commitment, and service to their classmates are praiseworthy: Brendan Connors, Thomas Capozzi, Aidan Cort, Brian Creonte, Will Derrickson, Matt Eldridge, Luisa Escallon, Peter Fantozzi, Kathy Fortin, Emily Griffin, Jack Griffin, Lexi Jones, Caroline Kelliher, Alli Kelliher, Evan Megan, Ryan Noel, Dan Pino, Tim Rahill, Brian Rolincik, Peter Stabnick, Brielle Weiner, Elizabeth Young

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Collaborative Question 5: How will the Collaborative be Managed?

Posted on May 30, 2014 | Comments Off on Collaborative Question 5: How will the Collaborative be Managed?

SJSP Collaborative Logo_SmallThe St. John and St. Paul parishes will, in the near future, be joined in a Collaborative under a plan developed by the Archdiocesan Office of Pastoral Planning. The St. John and St. Paul Parish Councils, along with Father Powers and Father Rafferty, have requested that our Collaborative be included in the upcoming Phase III of the Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Boston. The Archdiocese is scheduled to announce the parishes that will be included in Phase III before the fall of 2014, and the Collaboratives for those parishes will be formally launched in mid-2015.

Following is a recently asked question and answer about the new Collaborative:

QUESTION5) Once the St. John and St. Paul Collaborative is underway, how will the Collaborative be managed?

The Office of Pastoral Planning for the Archdiocese of Boston has designed the following leadership model to implement the Pastoral Plan:

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More Frequently Asked Questions can be found on the St. John’s web site:  ST. JOHN-ST. PAUL COLLABORATIVE NEWS  In addition, the Archdiocese regularly updates a detailed website: www.disciplesinmission.com.

We welcome your comments and feedback.  Please email your questions or comments about Parish Collaboratives to – stjohn.stpaul@gmail.com.

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June 14-15: Men’s Clothing Drive for St. Francis House

Posted on May 30, 2014 | Comments Off on June 14-15: Men’s Clothing Drive for St. Francis House

stfrancishouseHappy Spring! Every year in June, St. John’s parish conducts a men’s clothing drive for St. Francis House, the largest day shelter in New England, serving over 800 men and women on a daily basis.  St. Francis House distributes clothing to the homeless in Greater Boston, clothing 30 to 40 persons per day on average.  To help meet this ongoing need, we are collecting men’s gently-used, everyday clothing such as jeans, T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats  and footwear, as well as new socks for their Foot Clinic, which provides foot care and socks to homeless clients. We hope you will take the time for a quick spring cleaning, and remember to bring the items to our church garage on the weekend of June 14-15.  Right now, the highest needed items include:

  • Men’s pants (especially jeans – given out on a daily basis)
  • T-shirts (extremely important – given out on a daily basis)
  • Footwear (extremely important)
  • “New” Socks
  • Sweaters & Sweatshirts
  • Backpacks/duffel bags
  • Coats, hats, gloves, and scarves (larger sizes in extreme needed)

Please do not send in children’s clothing, used socks, or any discolored items.

If you need to drop items off sooner due to travel schedules, etc. or have any questions please contact Shilan Yeung, either email shilanhappy@gmail.com or call at 508-801-7072.

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Monday, June 9 at 7:00pm: AFFC Lecture with Fr. Alejandro Bertolini, Ph.D.

Posted on May 27, 2014 | Comments Off on Monday, June 9 at 7:00pm: AFFC Lecture with Fr. Alejandro Bertolini, Ph.D.

Fr Alejandro BertoliniFr. Bertolini is a Visiting Scholar at Boston College and a professor and consultant at several universities and schools of lay formation and ecclesiastic movements.

“The Argentine Theology of the People: Some Clues to Understanding Pope Francis’s Thought”  While a Theology of the People shares a perspective with Liberation Theology, they not the same, with each relying on a distinct and different set of clues for their interpretations of texts and word. “Theology of the People” is best understood as simply, “Latinoamerican Theology.”

Please join us at 7:00pm in the Social Hall.

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Collaborative Question 4: What About Our Schools?

Posted on May 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Collaborative Question 4: What About Our Schools?

SJSP Collaborative Logo_SmallThe St. John and St. Paul parishes will, in the near future, be joined in a Collaborative under a plan developed by the Archdiocesan Office of Pastoral Planning. The St. John and St. Paul Parish Councils, along with Father Powers and Father Rafferty, have requested that our Collaborative be included in the upcoming Phase III of the Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Boston. The Archdiocese is scheduled to announce the parishes that will be included in Phase III before the fall of 2014, and the Collaboratives for those parishes will be formally launched in mid-2015.

Following is a recently asked question and answer about the new Collaborative:

QUESTION 4:  Both St. John’s and St. Paul’s have schools. How will our Parish schools be impacted by the Collaborative? 

Parish schools will remain Parish schools. St. John’s School will remain St. John’s School and St. Paul’s School will remain St. Paul’s School. The principals of both schools will be members of our Collaborative’s Leadership Team*. Both School Boards will take part in training programs and members of both school communities will be represented in our Local Pastoral Plan.

*The Collaborative’s Leadership Team will be comprised of the following individuals: the Pastor, Parochial Vicar(s), Deacon(s), Finance & Operations Manager, Pastoral Associate, Director of Ministries, and School Principals.

More Frequently Asked Questions can be found on the St. John’s web site:  ST. JOHN-ST. PAUL COLLABORATIVE NEWS  In addition, the Archdiocese regularly updates a detailed website: www.disciplesinmission.com.

We welcome your comments and feedback.  Please email your questions or comments about Parish Collaboratives to – stjohn.stpaul@gmail.com.

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Memorial Day Prayer

Posted on May 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Memorial Day Prayer

memorial-day-500x666We remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy every day.

We pray that God will hold our servicemen and women in His strong arms, and cover them with His sheltering grace and presence.

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Parish Choir News

Posted on May 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Parish Choir News

First Sunday Choir has ended for the season. Many, many thanks to those who joined with us in song, we were thrilled to have you with us. Please join us on Sunday, October 5 for our next FSC.
Music, ChoirSunday June 8 is Pentecost and our own Parish Appreciation Weekend. Any and all interested singers are invited to join us on this special day. It will be our final appearance for this season. We are preparing Thomas Goodall’s “The Lord is My Shepherd” (theme from the BBC series “The Vicar of Dibley”) and a song entitled “Alleluia” by Erik Gustafson, composed in honor of Boston Strong and premiered last month at the Boston Marathon Bombing Anniversary service in Boston. Please join our rehearsals at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 1 and June 8.

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