St. John – St. Paul Catholic Collaborative

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new Director of Family Faith Formation, Rachel Sexton. Rachel studied Cognitive Science at Vanderbilt University while participating in the Army ROTC program throughout her four years there. Upon graduating, she commissioned as an officer and Chaplain Candidate in the U.S. Army Reserve and has served with her unit at Fort Devens, MA, for the past three years. Rachel recently completed her Master of Divinity at Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry, an experience she describes as transformative…

There may have been lots of rain outside, but nothing could dim the joy and love inside St. Paul Church and Parish Hall! We were blessed to celebrate Mass with Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of the Archdiocese of Bamenda, Cameroon, Fr. Gabriel’s home diocese. It is also where our 2025 Lenten Gift to Build the Faith has helped make the dream of a proper church for the St. John Paul II community a reality – the new church will be dedicated in early December! 

After Mass we enjoyed food, fun, and fellowship in the Parish Hall, thanks to the St. Vincent de Paul members who sponsored the cookout…

All are invited to bring their pets to our outdoor “Blessing of the Animals” on Sunday, October 4 at 2:30pm at St. Paul with Deacon Rick.

Sponsored by the SJSP Care for Creation Team in celebration of the Feast of St. Francis and the Season of Creation.

For their safety, all animals should eb leashed or in a carrier.

In June during his Apostolic Visit to Spain, our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV delivered an appeal to defend human dignity and protect life from conception to its natural end. “Every legislative task,” he said, “ultimately confronts a decisive question: what conception of the human person inspires laws, and what kind of society do those laws build?”

Just two months after the Holy Father’s address, Massachusetts passed one of the most expansive and permissive abortion laws in the nation, telling us what kind of society they desire for Massachusetts: one which leaves its most vulnerable citizens—children in the womb and their pregnant mothers—at perilous risk. This law is a tragedy, and the Catholic legislators who helped to enact it have caused grave scandal…