All women of the Collaborative are invited to gather in the Chapel at St. John for our Advent Liturgy.
Followed by a pot-luck dinner in Powers Hall – please bring a dish to share!
To help us plan for the evening, please click this link to let us know that you’re coming: RSVP
Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem.
May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.
-Pope Francis
Saturday, December 10, 2022 from 10:00am – 2:00pm
Celebration of Holy Mass
Small Groups
Practical ways to grieve during the holiday season
St. John the Evangelist Parish – Lower Chapel
9 Glen Road, Wellesley, MA 02481
To register, click here…
Wednesday Mornings at St. Paul Parish
9:45–11:00am (following the 9:00am Mass)
November 30th – December 21st
Mary was an ordinary girl who was asked to become the mother of God. She chose to accept. She models the receptive heart, one of strength, conviction and compassion. Mary inspires us to develop our own gift of listening and experiencing God. We are otherwise tempted to live for ourselves and at the whims of our culture. In this five week Advent program we will reflect on select scripture passages in the Gospels of Luke and John. With prayer, sharing in the intimacy of a small group, and personal revelation, we can deepen our relationship with Mary and realize her extraordinary companionship in our lives.
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We are regretfully cancelling our Collaborative “Evening for Women” program scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday, November 8) due to the low numbers of RSVPs for the event.
We are looking forward to rescheduling our speakers, the Reverends Kate Layzer and Alex Steinert-Evoy, who will share with us about Friday Café (a ministry to those experiencing homelessness in Cambridge, MA) at a later date.
All women of the Collaborative are invited to gather to learn about the “Angels Among Us” who oversee The Friday Café at First Church Cambridge. Rev. Kate Layzer, Minister of Street Outreach, and Alex Steinert-Evoy, Community Minister, will share the work they do at this weekly, daytime drop-in program. The Friday Café offers a welcoming space where homeless and housed adults can gather and get to know each other. Serving an average of 150 guests a week (or as many as 300 on winter Fridays), it offers food, coffee, rest and resources to people living on the margins.
Reflection and presentation will be followed by a pot-luck dinner. RSVP to Carolyn Anderson at andersoncarolyn@verizon.net or 617-705-0456
On October 27, 2022, the Working Document for the Continental Stage – the fruit of the Syntheses resulting from the consultation of the People of God in the first phase of the synodal process – was released… The document, titled “Enlarge the Space of Your Tent” was produced by a team of 30 advisors who gathered in Frascati, Italy for two weeks in late-September and early October, the majority of whom were lay Catholics…
Please take some time to read the Working Document for the Continental Stage – you will find many of the major themes that were central in our own SJSP Collaborative Synod Synthesis Report are reflected in the document…
Becoming a Synodal Church: Issues and Challenges
Sr. Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ Undersecretary for the General Secretariat of the Synod
Thursday, October 27 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm – Corcoran Commons, Heights Room, Chestnut Hill Campus – Attend in person or virtually
The Synod on Synodality is a transformative process in which all the baptized are protagonists and discern together the calls of the Holy Spirit, uniting as a listening Church of participation and co-responsibility…
In a surprise announcement after reciting the Angelus with thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on October 6, Pope Francis has significantly lengthened the final Roman phase of the ongoing Synod on Synodality. It will now extend over two sessions from October 4-29, 2023, and in October 2024.
“I hope that this decision will favor the comprehension of synodality as a constitutive dimension of the church and help everyone to live it as a journey of brothers and sisters who witness to the joy of the Gospel,” the pope said when he broke the news.
“The fruits of the synodal process that has gone ahead are many, but in order for them to bear much fruit, we can’t hurry,” said Francis.
The 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council is a moment of particular grace also for the Synod, which represents a fruit of that ecumenical assembly, indeed one of its “most precious legacies” (Francis, Apostolic Constitution Episcopalis Communio, Sept. 15, 2018, 1). The Synodus Episoporum, in fact, was instituted by St. Paul VI at the beginning of the fourth and final period of the Council (Sept. 15, 1965), responding to requests made by many council fathers…
The synodal process currently underway, dedicated to “Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church,” is also within the Council’s wake…