During September, there is an opportunity to add new members to the Parish Pastoral Council. We ask that you carefully consider whom you believe would enjoy serving in this way. Having considered the qualifications and responsibilities and described below, we encourage you to nominate your self or another parishioner. Once we have collected and confirmed the nominations, we will draw four adult members for a three-year term from names submitted.
Qualifications: (1) Be a Catholic who is registered and active in the Parish, (2) Participate in the sacramental life of the Church, (3) Be 18 years of age or older.
Responsibilities: The normal term of a Parish Council member is three years. Meetings are usually held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. As a consultative body, the Parish Pastoral Council is responsible to the pastor, assisting and supporting him in his leadership role. It recognizes the varied gifts of the parish members and invites them to an active leadership role in the parish.
Please submit a nomination form with your nomination(s) to the ballot box at the Church entrance or to the Rectory office as soon as possible. Thank you very much for your consideration. Nominations will close on Monday, October 1, 2012. (A nomination form is available in the bulletin, or click HERE to download and print a form.)
Our Regular Mass Schedule resumes this weekend, September 8-9. However, the Sunday 9:00am Mass will not revert back to 8:45am, but will remain at 9:00am. Our regular weekend Mass schedule will be:
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will resume Thursday, September 13. Every Thursday afternoon, the Eucharist is exposed for Adoration from 2pm to 6pm in our Chapel, with Opening and daytime prayers from the Breviary at 2pm, Chaplet of Mercy at 3pm, and Benediction at 5:30pm.
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We need your help to provide hundreds of sandwiches this Sunday, August 26 for the Bristol Lodge in Waltham. Since 1995, St. John’s has helped serve the homeless by providing sandwiches on the 4th and 5th (when there is one) Sunday of each month. The sandwiches provide a nourishing mid-day meal for the residents of shelters which are closed during the daytime hours. Please bring sandwiches (wrapped and without condiments) to the church kitchen refrigerator. For more information please contact Liz Phillips at (781) 237-4430 or email 
Our Regular Mass Schedule resumes the weekend of September 8-9. However, the Sunday 9:00am Mass will not revert back to 8:45am, but will remain at 9:00am. Our regular weekend Mass schedule will be:
CONSIDER THIS: The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults offers you the opportunity to come and see what it’s all about. The RCIA is a journey that begins with your questions. There is no obligation to join as you discover more about our Catholic faith: the decision is ultimately yours to discern if this is to be your spiritual home. We will convene in October from ten to eleven in the Church Rectory on Sunday mornings. The Catholic faith community at St. John’s Church looks forward to your response. Please contact the Church Office at (781) 235-0045 or Svea Fraser at 
Next week we will resume our weekly notices of faith formation programs, events and activities. Our hope remains that through these notices we can provide members of the parish with helpful information about opportunities not only at St. John’s but at neighboring parishes and at Boston College and other colleges. Today we want to alert everyone that the St. John’s Book Discussion Group will gather in early September to discuss Flannery O’Connor and her first book, Wise Blood. Flannery O’Connor has become very popular since her premature death in 1964 at the age of thirty-nine. A Catholic writer of novels, short stories and essays and woman who carried on extensive correspondence with many leading literary and religious figures of the day, Ms. O’Connor has been seen as sometimes controversial, often inspirational and always extremely interesting. There is no formal “membership” in the book discussion group. To become involved simply send an email to the address below.
Please bring non-perishable items to assist our sister parish in Roxbury, Saint Katharine Drexel. This weekend (and every second Sunday) we gratefully receive your donations at our Glen Road entrance. Contact is Angela Spinale, 781-431-0008.
