Please donate personal or small sized toiletry items to our collection for the guests of St. Francis House. Items may be placed in the boxes available at the back of both churches for collection on the weekend of October 26-27.
Suggested items include: shampoo, body lotion, soap, deodorant, shaving cream, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
Complimentary hotel items are totally acceptable!
Christmas in October??? Yes, that’s a scary thought!!!
But when it comes to fulfilling Christmas Wishes for 400 children we need to start thinking about Christmas in October! We have only 3 weeks to recruit volunteers to sign up to sponsor a child this Christmas – will you be one of them?
When you sponsor a child (or multiple children) through Christmas Wish, you will be given a wish list for clothing and a special gift that you will purchase and drop off at a local Wellesley home to be delivered to the families. Your instructions will be emailed to you the week before Thanksgiving and gifts will need to be dropped off the week after Thanksgiving.
We also welcome donations to help purchase gifts and gift cards for children not matched with sponsors…
The St. John-St. Paul Society of St. Vincent de Paul would like to thank our collaborative community for their tremendous support of our recent Fill-the-Truck event. The response to helping those in need was tremendous – may God bless you all!
We will be back next fall with our next Fill-the-Truck event!
Saturday, October 12: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, October 13: 9:00am – 1:00pm
St. Paul Parking Lot
(behind the church – enter from Atwood St.)
Items Needed:
Clothing: men’s, women’s, children’s, shoes
Accessories: hats, scarves, costume jewelry
Linens: bedding, towels, sheets, blankets, kitchen linens
All donations must be bagged and in good/clean condition.
Clean out your closets and help those in need – let’s fill the truck! Thank you for helping us help others.
Questions? Need pickup for your donations? Email svdp@sjspwellesley.org during the week of October 6.
Each year, on the weekend closest to the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul (September 27), our Collaborative Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) asks for your help in funding our mission – to provide urgently needed assistance to our neighbors in need for the basic necessities of life.
Our Second Collection this weekend supports this on-going work. Special SJSP SVdP envelopes are available in the churches, and checks may be made out to the “SJSP Conference SVDP Society” and placed in the collection or mailed/dropped to either parish office. Gifts may also be made online at sjspwellesley.org/svdp
Please help us to help the many friends in need in our community with your generous donations.
The St. John-St. Paul Collaborative has been a part of the Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos (Our Little Brothers and Sisters) family since 2017. NPH provides periodic updates that we share in the bulletin and on the website to help us stay current on their amazing work!
My name is Chris and I am a senior at BC High School. Today, I would love the opportunity to share my recent experience on a trip to NPH Guatemala, what I experienced at Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (“our little brothers and sisters”) and how we all play a part.
Last November, 19 Juniors and Seniors from my school traveled to NPH Guatemala for what I thought would be a generic service trip. To my surprise, it was far more than that. Our group toured the home, lived and ate rice and beans like the pequeños, visited other parts of Guatemala such as Antigua, and helped build an ecological recreation park for the children at the home, which honors a former pequeña Yocari – who recently passed away. Most importantly, our group spent a lot of time interacting with all the Pequeños at the home and seeing all that NPH provides them day in and day out…
Saturday, October 12: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, October 13: 9:00am – 1:00pm
St. Paul Parking Lot
(behind the church – enter from Atwood St.)
Items Needed:
Clothing: men’s, women’s, children’s, shoes
Accessories: hats, scarves, costume jewelry
Linens: bedding, towels, sheets, blankets, kitchen linens
All donations must be bagged and in good/clean condition.
Clean out your closets and help those in need – let’s fill the truck! Thank you for helping us help others.
Questions? Need pickup for your donations? Email svdp@sjspwellesley.org during the week of October 6.
Please join us on Sunday, September 22 at 10:30am on the St. Paul Lawn for our annual Collaborative Outdoor Mass and fellowship event!
NEW THIS YEAR! Our SJSP Society of St. Vincent de Paul chapter is sponsoring a cookout after Mass, providing hotdogs, hamburgers, and veggie burgers for all! Please plan to bring a side dish/salad to share if you are able!
So that as many members of our community as possible can join together for this special liturgy and fellowship event, there will be a reduced Mass schedule at the parishes on the weekend of September 21-22…
BUILD THE FAITH is a nonprofit organization inspired by the unwavering faith exhibited by Christina Dangond Lacouture, a member of St. John the Evangelist Parish who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on December 12, 2012, at the tender age of 6.
A primary focus of the organization is the construction of Catholic churches in economically distressed areas… They are now assisting a church community in Cameroon where Fr. Gabriel served as pastor.
Please consider supporting Build the Faith’s efforts by attending this four-course fundraising dinner on Saturday, September 14 in Weston…
The St. Katharine Drexel Food Pantry Collection will take place as scheduled this Sunday.
As always, please double bag your donations and drop at the Glen Road entrance to the church any time before 11:00am on Sunday morning.
Thank you for your continued generous support of our Food Pantry Collections, especially during the summer months when other resources such as school-based programs are unavailable and the need is great!