Registration for “World Youth Day Lisbon 2023” is Now Open!

Registration for “World Youth Day Lisbon 2023” is Now Open!

The St. John-St. Paul Collaborative is sending a group of young pilgrims to World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 next summer!  

For more information and to sign up, please visit the World Youth Day page on the Religious Education website.

World Youth Day (WYD) is a worldwide encounter with the Pope which is typically celebrated every few years in a different country. St. Paul and St. John parishes have a rich history attending WYD. We have missed only the WYD in Panama in 2019 –  otherwise we have sent a decent sized group to every WYD stretching back to Rome in 2000! That’s 21 years of participation in this incredible life changing event! It has proven to be one of the best things we do for the youth of our community, and it energizes the parish as a whole…

Telling the Story Part Two: Jeremiah, Jackie, and Walter

Telling the Story Part Two: Jeremiah, Jackie, and Walter

This week, let’s turn to the individual stories of those who live in the shadows and whom the BHCHP seeks to help and share in God’s grace. There are many paths to homelessness including mental health, discrimination, addiction, and violence. However, many of us are surprised that the faces of the homeless often hide that they were once in a home and only a crisis or breakdown away from turning their lives upside down…

Jackie moved back and forth between Boston and North Carolina before she found herself a single parent with two children, no affordable housing and despondent with her choices. Fortunately, she found the St. Mary’s Center shelter and met the BHCHP Family Team who treated her family like their family – with the human self-worth they deserved. They watched her children while she went to interviews and went back to school. Jackie now works for the BHCHP as a medical assistant paying forward to those who come in despair and in need of a comforting welcome…

Special Collection for Ukraine March 19-20

Special Collection for Ukraine March 19-20

Due to the unprecedented needs brought about by the devastation of the attacks on Ukraine and the immigration of millions of victims fleeing the ravages of the war, Cardinal Seán has authorized a special collection to be taken up at all parishes this weekend, March 19 and 20.

The monetary donations collected this weekend for Ukraine will go to the Vatican agency for outreach to the Churches in Eastern Europe as well as Catholic Relief Services (CRS). CRS is the overseas relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops. The work of CRS in Ukraine is happening right now and includes field kitchens that provide hot meals; reception services at Caritas offices, train stations and other locations, providing displaced people with clothing, information, referrals, food, water, hygiene items and counseling support; work in evacuation centers and much more…

Telling the Story Part One: About Boston Health Care for the Homeless Project

Telling the Story Part One: About Boston Health Care for the Homeless Project

The St. John-St. Paul Collaborative Service Commission has chosen the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) as the beneficiary of our 2022 Collaborative Lenten Gift. We would like to tell you a little bit about this inspiring organization.

In July 1985, a small group of 7 professionals led by Dr. James O’Connell banded together to launch dedicated and coordinated clinical services for homeless people. This was the beginning of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (BHCHP). More than just providing medical care to the homeless in Boston, they implemented a broad approach bridging medicine, public health and social services…

From Cardinal Seán: Special Collection for Ukraine March 19-20

From Cardinal Seán: Special Collection for Ukraine March 19-20

Due to the unprecedented needs brought about by the devastation of the attacks on Ukraine and the immigration of millions of victims fleeing the ravages of the war, I am authorizing a special collection to be taken up at all parishes on the weekend of March 19 and 20. The proceeds from the collection will be sent to Catholic Relief Services, the overseas relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, and to the Vatican agency for outreach to the Churches in Eastern Europe.

Through news coverage of the war, we have witnessed the immediate human crisis needs, including those caused by the horrendous bombing of a maternity hospital. There will also be longer term needs, for rebuilding churches and hospitals, and other recovery and reconstruction programs…

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