Category Archives: Family Mass

Family Cookies & Caroling Potluck – Friday, December 9 from 6:00 – 7:30pm

Posted on November 4, 2016 | Comments Off on Family Cookies & Caroling Potluck – Friday, December 9 from 6:00 – 7:30pm

very_merry_dickensPlease  RSVP and join us on Friday, December 9th from 6:00-7:30pm in Powers Hall for Christmas caroling, cookie decorating and Christmas crafts, a delicious potluck, and perhaps a visit from someone special from the North Pole! The Very Merry Dickens Carolers will lead us in Christmas cheer and we will have songbooks for all!  We need your help to make the evening a success – please take a look at the signup, RSVP and thank you for your help!

For this very special event, please RSVP to let us know you’re coming:  rsvp-red-button

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Our Regular Mass Schedule & Family Mass Program Resume This Weekend

Posted on September 10, 2016 | Comments Off on Our Regular Mass Schedule & Family Mass Program Resume This Weekend

Our Regular Mass Schedule resumes on Sunday, September 11 with Masses at  7:30am, 9:00am, 11:00am, and 5:00pm.

Family Mass_AltarOur Family Mass Program also returns from summer vacation. What does that mean? It means our music, readings, & homilies will be geared towards families with young children. There are also a lot of helpers – families and children bringing up the gifts to the celebrant, children helping with the collection baskets, parent lectors. If you think you or your child would enjoy helping during the Family Mass – we’d love to have your help! Please contact our Family Mass Coordinator, Chrissy Cassa.

And, yes, right after the Family Mass there is our Donut & Coffee Social Hour downstairs in Powers Hall. Please consider helping one Sunday this year. It’s easy – everything is delivered to the church you just need to set-up and clean-up. The kids love to help out! You can sign-up at:
stjohnwellesley.org/donuts

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Family Mass is on Summer Vacation!

Posted on May 30, 2016 | Comments Off on Family Mass is on Summer Vacation!

family-vacationThe Family Mass, along with Donuts & Coffee, is now on summer vacation! The 9:00am Mass will be a regular liturgy until the Family Mass returns on Sunday, September 11.

Thank you so much to all the families who volunteered this year for Donuts & Coffee set-up and clean-up. This time after Mass is a wonderful source of community and connection, and the help from our volunteers is greatly appreciated.

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Posted in Children, Family Mass, Important Announcements

Help “Perform” the Passion Play on Palm Sunday – Rehearsal Saturday, March 19

Posted on March 14, 2016 | Comments Off on Help “Perform” the Passion Play on Palm Sunday – Rehearsal Saturday, March 19

Passion PlaySeeking Actors/Actresses in Grade 3 and older to help “perform” the Passion Play at the 9:00am Family Mass on Palm Sunday, March 20. Attendance at one rehearsal on Saturday, March 19 from 9:00am- 12:00pm is required/mandatory. Confirmation candidates earn 5 hours of community service credit. Please contact Maria Wardwell (781-237-2148 or maria.wardwell@stjohnwellesley.org) for information and registration.

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Posted in Children, Family Mass, Music, Religious Education Program, Youth Choir

Attention Young Actors – Help “Perform” the Passion Play on Palm Sunday!

Posted on February 22, 2016 | Comments Off on Attention Young Actors – Help “Perform” the Passion Play on Palm Sunday!

Passion PlaySeeking Actors/Actresses in Grade 3 and older to help “perform” the Passion Play at the 9:00am Family Mass on Palm Sunday, March 20. Attendance at one rehearsal on Saturday, March 19 from 9:00am- 12:00pm is required/mandatory. Confirmation candidates earn 5 hours of community service credit. Please contact Maria Wardwell (781-237-2148 or maria.wardwell@stjohnwellesley.org) for information and registration.

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Posted in Children, Family Mass, Music, Religious Education Program, Youth Choir

Share Your Acts of Mercy

Posted on February 11, 2016 | Comments Off on Share Your Acts of Mercy

Acts_of_MercyPope Francis’ Year of Mercy calls us to know mercy and show mercy in a very intentional way. We are always doing acts of kindness and we’d like to raise awareness of this gift of mercy by having a Mercy Basket! We will have a table set-up with paper hearts and pens in the front foyer of the Church (or you can print your own at home using the “Printable Hearts” link to the right!) During the week adults and children can write down their acts of mercy on a heart and then on each weekend, place it in the basket that will be next to the offertory table at the back of the Church.

During Mass each week throughout Lent, we will carry the Mercy Basket up to the altar with the bread and wine presenting them as gifts of ourselves. So take time throughout this week to be mindful of ways you show mercy to others . . . through forgiveness or through acts of kindness to others in need.

The Adult Faith Formation and Service Commissions of St. John Parish facilitate our journey into the Heart of Mercy.

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Posted in Adult Faith Formation, Family Mass, Important Announcements, Service Commission, Year of Mercy

Family Mass Program Update: Thank You from “Coffee & Donuts”!

Posted on January 5, 2016 | Comments Off on Family Mass Program Update: Thank You from “Coffee & Donuts”!

coffee_&_donuts_DDA thank you to all the families who volunteered their time over the past four months for our Family Mass Coffee and Donuts hour.  Special thanks to: the Bohlin Family, the Cassa Family, the Foley Family, the Hamill Family, the Hill Family, the Notari Family, the McDonough Family, the Pearson Family, the Reidy Family, the Songer Family and the Sullivan Family. We would not be able to do it without the help of so many people! Coffee and Donuts will resume on Jan 10th. We welcome anyone interested in hosting a shift in 2016 to please sign-up at stjohnwellesley.org/donuts. Thanks!!

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Posted in Children, Family Mass, Volunteers Needed

2015 Christmas Mass Schedule

Posted on December 18, 2015 | Comments Off on 2015 Christmas Mass Schedule

30-Nativity_Window_CloseupChristmas Eve
Sacrament of Reconciliation
10:00am – 12:00pm in the Chapel
4:00 p.m. Masses
Upper Church* and School Hall
*Simulcast in Powers Hall (Lower Church)
5:30 p.m. Family Mass
10:00 p.m. Mass (9:30 Choir Program)

Christmas Day
10:30am (10:00 Choir Program)
(There is no 5:00 p.m. Mass at St. John on Christmas Day)

St. Paul Mass Schedule
Christmas Eve: 4:00 p.m. Masses Church and Parish Hall,
6:00 p.m. Mass (Children’s Pageant and Choir), 8:00 p.m. Mass (Adult Choir)
Christmas Day: 9:00am, 11:00am (Adult Choir)

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Grade 1 Christmas Pageant This Sunday, December 21 at the 9:00am Family Mass

Posted on December 18, 2015 | Comments Off on Grade 1 Christmas Pageant This Sunday, December 21 at the 9:00am Family Mass

The Religious Education 1st Grade classes will be in costume as they present the Christmas Gospel this Sunday, December 20 at the 9am Family Mass.

The Religious Ed Team wishes all our families, teachers and friends a special peace and joy at Christmas and throughout the New Year.  Thank you for sharing the gift of your wonderful children with us.

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The St. John-St. Paul Collaborative Thanksgiving Day Mass will be at 9:00am on Thanksgiving Morning at St. Paul Church

Posted on November 25, 2015 | Comments Off on The St. John-St. Paul Collaborative Thanksgiving Day Mass will be at 9:00am on Thanksgiving Morning at St. Paul Church

Give_ThanksGod bless you, and keep you, and walk beside you, at Thanksgiving. . . and always.

This year, our Thanksgiving Mass for the Collaborative will be at St. Paul Parish at 9:00am, and will feature music from both the St. John and St. Paul music programs. Please join us!

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Posted in Family Mass, Special Liturgies, Special Mass Schedule