Growing Our Faith: Gifts of the Holy Spirit – Sunday, April 7 at 3:00pm

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Grow Our FaithJoin us for an afternoon gathering to deepen our faith and encounter the Holy Spirit among us. We will “come away with Christ” and invite the Holy Spirit to inform, reform and transform us through our sharing with one another. What gifts have we already received and what gifts await us to discover, explore and embrace together? Come join us for this special gathering! All are welcome!
Facilitated by Linda Colozzi 3:00pm – 4:30pm Parish Center

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Volunteers Needed – Help Decorate the Church for Easter on Saturday, March 30

Posted on March 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Volunteers Needed – Help Decorate the Church for Easter on Saturday, March 30

easter-flowers-crossWe are looking for volunteers to help decorate the Church for Easter. If you are willing and available on the morning of Saturday, March 30, please contact the Rectory at (781) 235-0045 or st-johns@comcast.net.

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A Special Invitation – Holy Thursday, March 28 at 7:30pm

Posted on March 21, 2013 | Comments Off on A Special Invitation – Holy Thursday, March 28 at 7:30pm

footwashingAs you know, a part of this celebration is a sacred ritual, cherished for generations, a dramatization of Eucharistic love – Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. Each year this serving love of Jesus is re-enacted to enable each of us to enter into it more deeply. If you would like to participate, there is a sign-up sheet in our Church ‘gathering space’.  We encourage you to consider sharing in this graced experience.  For those who volunteer, further details will be sent to you before March 28.  For more information, please call (781-235-0045) or email the Parish Office.  Thank you.

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Schedule for Holy Week, The Sacred Triduum, and Easter Sunday

Posted on March 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Schedule for Holy Week, The Sacred Triduum, and Easter Sunday

WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, MARCH 27
6:30pm The Light is On For You 
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Chapel)
HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 28
7:30pm The Lord’s Supper Followed by Adoration until 10pm
GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 29 
12:00pm Walk with the Cross
Led by Religious Education Cluster Families – everyone welcome! (Church) 
3:00pm Stations of the Cross (Church)
7:30pm The Lord’s Passion
HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 30 
10am-12pm Confessions (Chapel)
7:30pm Mass of the Easter Vigil
EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 31 
7:30am Mass
9:00am Family Mass
11:00am Mass (Upper and Lower)

PLEASE NOTE: There is no 5:00pm Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday and no 5:00pm Mass on Easter Sunday.

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March 24: News and Events from the AFFC

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AFFC LogoSunday, April 7:Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  Sacred Heart Parish, Newton Centre at 7:30pm  Alice Rothchild, MD, co-chair American Jews for a Just Peace. Sponsored by the Sacred Heart Parish Justice and Peace Committee.
Wednesday, April 10:  Faith Maps Series St. John Social Hall at 7:00pm Shawn Copeland, Professor of Theology at BC and former President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, will speak in the Parish Social Hall on the German thinker Dorothy Soelle, whose Faith Map is described by Michael Paul Gallagher as providing a needed “…dimension of justice… and… theology of mystical resistance” to his book. Her talk will reference Soelle’s fellow German Johan Baptist Metz, whom Gallagher refers to as a member of Soelle’s “extended counter cultural family.”

For more information, please email us at AFFC@stjohnwellesley.org

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March 24: This Week in Religious Education

Posted on March 21, 2013 | Comments Off on March 24: This Week in Religious Education

Religious-Education-ContemporaryThis Week: Sunday, March 24
Grades 1 – 6 Class 10:00 – 10:45 AM
Grade 7 & 8 Class 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Grade 10 Friends for Good 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Grade 9 & 10 Class 7:00 – 8:00
Next Week: Sunday, March 31 – Happy Easter!

Every 9th and 10th grade student attending the full Friends for Good session will be credited with one-half hour of community service which may be applied to
the twenty-five hours required for Confirmation. Students will sign-in upon arrival.

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Lenten Lecture with Fr. Bryan Hehir – Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm in the Church

Posted on March 18, 2013 | Comments Off on Lenten Lecture with Fr. Bryan Hehir – Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm in the Church

Fr. Bryan HehirPlease join us on Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm in the Church for a  Lenten Lecture with Fr. Bryan Hehir:
Church and State: Here and Abroad
(Note Change of Date)

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March 17: News from the AFFC

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AFFC LogoMonday, March 18 – Lecture: The Challenge of Catholic Teaching on War and Peace in the Present Moment
Episcopal Visitor Lecture, Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy
Corcoran Commons, Heights Room, BC 4:30pm
Is war ever justified? What are its limits in an age of weapons of mass destruction? When is a nation obliged to end a war? In an America which is
embroiled in the longest war in its history, Bishop McElroy proposes that the Catholic tradition provides rich wisdom and challenges those who seek to
forge a pathway of justice in an age of terror.  FREE of charge – please register by emailing church21@bc.edu

Wednesday, March 20 – Book Launch: Encountering Jesus in the Scripture Presenters: Fr. Daniel Harrington, SJ & Christopher R. Matthews, Professors, STM
Theology and Ministry Library, BC, 5:30pm

Sunday, April 7 – Understanding the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Alice Rothchild, MD, co-chair American Jews for a Just
Peace; Sponsored by the Sacred Heart Parish Justice and Peace Committee
Sacred Heart Parish, Newton Centre 7:30pm

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Pope Francis Installation Mass on Tuesday, March 19 – The Feast of St. Joseph

Posted on March 15, 2013 | Comments Off on Pope Francis Installation Mass on Tuesday, March 19 – The Feast of St. Joseph

Francis IPope Francis will be officially  installed on Tuesday, March 19. CatholicTV Network will carry this event live at 4:30am ET, and will  rebroadcast it at 11am and 8pm.
The CatholicTV Network is available on Comcast Channel 268 throughout the Archdiocese of Boston and New England (in Plymouth and Amesbury, MA on Ch. 183), on Verizon FiOS Ch. 296, Charter Communications Ch. 101, RCN Ch. 85, on various other providers and on Roku and Google TV. Online coverage and a live stream may also be viewed at any time from any computer or device at www.CatholicTV.com.

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CatholicTV to Broadcast First Mass and Installation of Pope Francis

Posted on March 14, 2013 | Comments Off on CatholicTV to Broadcast First Mass and Installation of Pope Francis

Pope Francis First MassToday’s first Mass with Pope Francis and the College of Cardinals at the Sistine Chapel will be rebroadcast tonight at 8PM on the CatholicTV Network.  Commentary by President of the CatholicTV Network, Father Robert Reed, and Monsignor James Moroney will be provided.  Pope Francis will be installed officially on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The CatholicTV Network will broadcast this event live at 4:30AM ET with rebroadcast during the day.

The CatholicTV Network is available on Comcast Channel 268 throughout the Archdiocese of Boston and New England (in Plymouth and Amesbury, MA on Ch. 183), on Verizon FiOS Ch. 296, Charter Communications Ch. 101, RCN Ch. 85, on various other providers and on Roku and Google TV. Online coverage and a live stream may also be viewed at any time from any computer or device at www.CatholicTV.com.

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