4:00pm Mass at St. Paul Church
3:30pm Teen Music Group Prelude and Carols
4:00pm Mass at St. John Church
3:30pm Christmas Youth Choir Prelude and Carols
4:00pm Mass in Saint John School Philbin Hall
8:00pm Mass at St. Paul Church
7:30pm Choir Prelude and Carol
10:00pm Mass at St. John Church…
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This year, our Collaborative Thanksgiving Day Mass will be at St. Paul Church – all are invited to join together in thanksgiving for our many blessings. (The Mass will be livestreamed for those who may be traveling – please click the St. Paul Livestream link.) Please consider sharing your blessings by bringing non-perishable items for the Bristol Lodge Food Pantry. Suggested donations include: snacks for kids, pasta and sauce, tuna, peanut butter, rice, cooking oil…
We are thrilled to let you know that we finally have a date for the replacement of the old speakers at St. Paul Church! The sound system work will begin on Tuesday, October 17 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of the day on Friday, October 20. We will not be able to celebrate Mass (including funeral Masses) in the church while this work is taking place.
The 9:00am Weekday Mass will be celebrated at St. John the Evangelist Church on the following dates:
Wednesday, October 18: 9:00am Mass at St. John
Friday, October 20: 9:00am Mass at St. John
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…
Please join us on Sunday, September 17 for our first post-Covid Collaborative Outdoor Mass and fellowship event! Putting to use everything we learned (and all the equipment we aquired!) celebrating outdoor Masses during Covid, we will gather as a Collaborative community on the expansive lawn in front of St. Paul Church for Mass – recreating what Fr. Jim calls “our own Tanglewood East!” After Mass we’ll come together in the parking lot behind the church for fellowship, food, and fun!
Unfortunately, with the recent departure of several of our outside celebrants from Boston College, Fr. Jim is now on his own during the week. As a result, effective immediately, the weekday Mass schedule for the summer at the Collaborative will be:
Monday and Wednesday: 9:00am St. Paul Church
Tuesday and Thursday: 7:00am St. John Church
For those looking for a daily Mass on Friday, the Weekday Mass schedules for neighboring parishes is available on the Liturgy page of our website…
During the summer, we drop to four Masses on the weekend, two at each parish. Our Saturday Vigil Mass schedule remains the same. On Sundays we offer one morning Mass at each parish – one at 9:00am and one at 11:00am – and the location of the Sunday Masses rotate each year. This summer our schedule is:
Saturday
4:00pm Vigil Mass at St. Paul Church
5:00pm Vigil Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church
Sunday
9:00am Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church
11:00am Mass at St. Paul Church
Mass Schedule
7:00am St. John the Evangelist Church
12:00pm St. John the Evangelist Church*
7:00pm St. Paul Church*
*These Masses will be available to watch via livestream here on our website and on our YouTube channel.
It is our joy and privilege to assemble so that together we might enter into the Sacred Triduum: three days beginning with Holy Thursday evening, through Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and ending on Easter Sunday evening. Though chronologically three days, they are liturgically one day unfolding for us the unity of Christ’s Paschal Mystery. Our liturgies clearly illustrate this reality – you will notice that Thursday’s liturgy has no dismissal, and Good Friday’s liturgy has no entrance and no dismissal.
Once we have entered into this sacred space and time, even when we return home, our hearts and minds remain in a very real way with the Lord Jesus.
Due to the forecast for snow and ice and hazardous travel, all Collaborative Offices will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28.
In addition, the 7:00pm Confessions at St. Paul on Tuesday evening are cancelled.
Confessions have been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 1 at 7:00pm at St. Paul.
As always, these decisions are made with the safety of our parishioners, staff, and clergy always at the forefront of our minds. Please stay safe!