October 1: SJSP St. Vincent de Paul Celebration and Collection

October 1: SJSP St. Vincent de Paul Celebration and Collection

Each year, on the weekend closest to the Feast of St.Vincent de Paul, our Collaborative’s St. Vincent de Paul Society asks for your help in raising funds for our mission of providing urgently needed assistance to our neighbors for the basic necessities of life. This year, on the weekend of September 30-October 1, our Collaborative will take up a second collection at all Masses to seek your renewed assistance for the Society. Last year, you responded magnificently, and since then we have collected about $25,000.

As a result of your generosity, we have been able to help 37 different individuals and families…

Seasons of Hope – A Group for Those Who are Grieving

Seasons of Hope – A Group for Those Who are Grieving

If you have experienced the death of a loved one and are looking for meaning and consolation, we invite you to join our Fall Seasons of Hope group.  Seasons of Hope is a Christ-centered group where we will be able to share and learn from each other as we walk together in faith on our unique journey of grief.

The group will be facilitated by Kelly Meraw, Sr. Colleen Gibson SSJ,  and Anne Mears, and we look forward to welcoming you with great love. There will be 6 sessions on Mondays from 5:00-6:30pm at St. John the Evangelist Church (Powers Hall) beginning on Monday, October 9…

NPH Sponsorship Drive Update

NPH Sponsorship Drive Update

Thank you for all for your help last weekend in the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) sponsorship drive. With your help, we have 15 new children that are being sponsored through St. John/ St. Paul. Our goal as a parish was to have 24 children sponsored, so there is still time if you are interested! Please visit https://nphusa.org/godparent/ or reach out to NPH Donor Relations Director Andrea Nahigian at 617-206-4943 or anahigian@nphusa.org.

My family and I have supported NPH since its introduction by Father Jim to the St. John-St. Paul Parish Collaborative in 2017…

Our Collaborative Outdoor Mass is this Sunday, September 17 at 10:30am on the Lawn at St. Paul

Our Collaborative Outdoor Mass is this Sunday, September 17 at 10:30am on the Lawn at St. Paul

Please join us as we gather together as a community on the expansive lawn in front of St. Paul Church to celebrate our first Collaborative Outdoor Mass since 2019. Parishioners are invited to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. A section of chairs will be set up and available for those who require them due to mobility issues. We ask all others to please bring their own lawn chairs/blankets for seating. After Mass, please join us in the parking lot behind the church for fellowship, food, and fun! 

We will have a reduced Mass schedule on…

Sunday 9:00am Family Mass Music Opportunities

Sunday 9:00am Family Mass Music Opportunities

Children and adults blend voice and instruments to praise the Lord and enrich our Sunday 9:00am Family Mass with upbeat, child-friendly, hand-clapping hymns. 

We rehearse each Sunday morning at 8:30am in the church to prepare for that day’s 9:00am Mass (no need to commit to every Sunday), and we also prepare special liturgies for Grade Level Masses, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Palm Sunday and Easter. 

All ages, Grade 1 and older, are welcome! We are always seeking new singers and instrumentalists to join our ranks. 

Synod Update: Instrumentum Laboris and the Equal Baptismal Diginity of Women in the Church

Synod Update: Instrumentum Laboris and the Equal Baptismal Diginity of Women in the Church

October 2023 will begin a process of communal discernment in a month-long Vatican assembly of Bishops, Cardinals, Priests, Consecrated, and Lay People representing the experiences of the whole People of God at the Synod on Synodality. Throughout this two year process, their guiding document will be the Instrumentum Laboris, a document which was compiled from the sharing of millions of Catholics worldwide participating in the Continental Stage of the Synod… For the first time in history, women (more than 50!) will be voting delegates of the Synod. A significant area of focus for the Synod will be the equal baptismal dignity of Women in the Church…

Saint Phoebe

Saint Phoebe

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is also a minister (diakonos) of the church at Cenchreae,
that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the holy ones,
and help her in whatever she may need from you,  for she has been a benefactor to many and to me as well.

-Romans 16:1,2

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