Collection of non-perishable items to assist our sister parish in Roxbury will take place next weekend (and every second Sunday) May 12 & 13. Please bring your donations to our Glen Road entrance to benefit Saint Katharine Drexel Food Pantry. For more information, contact Angela Spinale at 781-431-0008.
To learn more about all the opportunities for service at St. John the Evangelist please visit the Service Commission page on our website.
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This Certificate of Appreciation was presented to St. John the Evangelist Parish by St. Katharine Drexel Parish at a special liturgy and fellowship brunch on April 29, with gratitude for your generous response to the needs of their Parish, especially stocking the Food Pantry every month and for your extraordinary gifts at Christmas time.
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We need your help to provide hundreds of sandwiches on Sunday, April 29 for the Bristol Lodge in Waltham. Please bring sandwiches (wrapped and without condiments) to the church kitchen refrigerator. 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. For more information please contact Liz Phillips at (781) 237-4430 or email Liz.phillips@comcast.net
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One hundred-thirty Easter baskets were delivered to St. Mary’s Women’s and Children’s Center in Dorchester during Holy Week. Many thanks to all the parishioners who so kindly and generously donated candy for the baskets. Thanks also to the Religious Education students in Grade 2 who decorated Easter eggs, and in Grades 7, 8 and 9 who took great care in assembling the baskets. The mothers and children who received the baskets were delighted. Thank you!
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To one and all who responded our Parish Lenten call to give, whose hearts traveled the distance to East Africa, entered the refugee camps and shared in easing the suffering. We thank you! Our parish gift of $14,450 holds a value not to be measured, as it becomes part of the CRS response to a famine and human suffering unspeakable proportions. Once again, as for so many years past, St. John’s Parish has given generously and thereby has once again Given Hope! Thank you!
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Dear St. John Parishioners: Over the years you have been very generous in your response to the needs of our Parish, especially every month with stocking our Food Pantry and for extraordinary gifts at Christmas time. On Sunday, April 29th we would like to say “thank you” to you and many others who have been so generous to the Parish. Please join us on Sunday, April 29 for liturgy at 11:30am in the Church at 517 Blue Hill Avenue followed by fellowship and brunch downstairs in the Hall. I hope that many parishioners are able to be with us on the 29th. Sincerely, Gerald J. Osterman
If you plan on attending, please RSVP the Business Office at (781) 235-0045 or st-johns@comcast.net by noontime April 25th.
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We need your help to provide hundreds of sandwiches on Sunday, March 25 for the Bristol Lodge in Waltham. Please bring sandwiches (wrapped and without condiments) to the church kitchen refrigerator. 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. For more information please contact Liz Phillips at (781) 237-4430 or email Liz.phillips@comcast.net
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This weekend, St. John’s Parish will again show its solidarity with people in need by collecting funds for our Lenten Gift – Giving Hope to East Africa. Our Lenten gift strengthens each of us individually and the parish as a community of faith, as we give witness to Christ’s call to…love one another; as I have loved you (John 13:34). We ask that you be as generous as you can as we designate our second collection to this effort. (You can also donate online, using ParishPay.) Continue reading
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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its partners are working frantically to respond to the unfolding crisis by distributing food, clean water and other emergency supplies. CRS is running relief operations at refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Working with church partners, they have also been bringing food aid into Somalia, where access is difficult due to conflict. The plan is now for a massive and sustained relief effort to save lives and prevent malnutrition and disease from taking hold in the drought areas. Continue reading
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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” Matthew 25:35
The recent drought in East Africa, coupled with insecurity in South Central Somalia, has drastically increased the number of Somali refugees coming into the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. Built to accommodate 90,000 people 20 years ago, the camps have now swelled to 400,000, with as many as 1,500 people arriving daily. Continue reading
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