Please join us at our first- ever Family Cookies and Caroling event on Friday, December 11 from 6-7:30pm in Powers Hall for Christmas Caroling, cookie decorating and Christmas crafts, 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 song books for all!
For this very special event, please RSVP to let us know you’re coming: 
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This Saturday, November 7, the 5:00pm Mass will be a Mass of Thanksgiving celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the founding of St. John the Evangelist Parish.
This special Mass, concelebrated by Rev. Kevin Sepe, Very Rev. Brian Kiely, Msgr. Peter Conley, Rev. John Connelly, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Msgr. Joseph Lind, Rev. Paul Soper, Rev. Arthur MacKay and Rev. Robert McMillan, SJ, will include music from our Parish Choir, Family Mass Choir and Musicians, and our guests, the Labyrinthe Choir. Please join us at this special Mass as we honor our past, celebrate our present, and welcome the promise of our future.
Following Mass, all are invited to continue the celebration with refreshments in Powers Hall.
To learn more about the history of our church and Parish, please visit: www.stjohnwellesley.org/anniversaries
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September 26-27
During “Welcome Weekend” we lift high the banner of WELCOME to one and all as we celebrate the life of this community and the countless ways this life continues to grow and deepen in faith and love and service. Each September is always a new beginning! Come, join us to make this year the best!
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Come celebrate the 140th Anniversary of the first Mass celebrated at our church and the 125th Anniversary of the founding of our Parish!
Click here to learn more about the history of our church and Parish.
Anniversary Masses
In addition to our regular Mass schedule, we are highlighting the following Masses:
9:00am Mass – Family Mass Celebration
11:00am Mass – with Cardinal Sean O’Malley
Food Truck Extravaganza
10:00AM – 2:00PM
Saint John School Parking Lot
Come be our guest and celebrate this special occasion!
Enjoy breakfast or lunch from one of our fabulous food trucks – Captain Marden’s Cod Squad, Whole Foods, Bon Me! – and dessert from Frozen Hoagies. For the kids, we’ll have music, games, and activities, along with pizza from Peter’s Pizza. VIEW MENU
Parking: Parking will be very tight due to the event taking place in our parking lot. Please look to park along Washington Street, Bank of America, Burke Funeral Home, or the Haynes Office Park parking lots at 36-40 Washington Street (if accessible.)
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Come help make this special anniversary celebration a wonderful and memorable event. Adult and teen volunteers welcome – please take a moment to see what’s needed and sign-up if you can: Anniversary Volunteer Opportunities
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Come gather with our Parish Community –
all ages, to honor and bless
Fr. Thomas Powers
as he retires after 22 years of ministry
at St. John the Evangelist Parish
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Come celebrate the 140th Anniversary of the first Mass celebrated here at St. John the Evangelist with special Masses and festivities throughout the day. In addition to our regular Mass schedule, we are highlighting the following Masses on this celebratory weekend:
Sunday 9:00am Mass
Family Mass Celebration
Sunday 11:00am Mass
With Cardinal Sean O’Malley
Anniversary Food Truck Extravaganza
10:00AM – 2:00PM
Be our guest and celebrate this special occasion by sampling fabulous foods from food trucks including Bon Me!, Captain Marden’s Cod Squad, Frozen Hoagies and Whole Foods! Saint John School Parking Lot
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Sunday, May 17
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Labyrinth Choir is celebrating their first CD release with a concert called The Heart of Music at St. John the Evangelist on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. The 16 voice professional choir, led by artistic director Dr. Anita Kupriss, will sing all fifteen songs from their first recording. The songs from the CD include Gjeilo’s Ubi caritas, Brahms’ Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee, our signature song Carrickfergus, as well as jazz tunes Come Sunday and I Wish You Love.
In September of 2014 Brad Michel, a professional sound engineer and parishioner at St. John’s, recorded our CD in the Sanctuary. Music Director Laurence Carson played organ on two tracks of the CD and will join Labyrinth Choir for this concert series. We are so grateful to Laurence Carson and the parish of St. John’s that we would like to offer comp tickets to all parishioners who would like to celebrate with us on Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 pm! CDs will be available at the concert: $15; 2 for $25. For more information, please contact labyrinthchoir@gmail.com or visit the website at www.labyrinthchoir.org.
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Please join us as we launch our efforts to mark this milestone with a lecture on Wednesday, April 8th, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the St. John Church Social Hall. Kathleen Fahey, the Curator of the Wellesley Historical Society, will present a comparison of the Wellesley of today with the (much smaller and more rural) Wellesley of 100 years ago. She will use a combination of modern photographs and older ones from the Society’s archives to show how our town has changed over the years. All ages are welcome! For further information contact the Parish Office at (781) 235-0045 or Mimi Eldridge at (781) 431-9510.
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Faith Working Through Love
Galatians 5.6
Revisiting “The Joy of the Gospel”
Monday, March 2 at 7:30pm
Upper Church
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The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a Holy Day of Obligation.
Masses at St. John:
7:00 am
9:00 am (with Saint John School – all welcome!)
12:00 pm
5:30 pm
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