This Sunday, December 31 is the 5th Sunday of the month, so our Sunday 9am Family Mass and Sunday 5pm Youth Mass will be celebrated at St. John the Evangelist Church.
(And because next Sunday, January 7 is the first Sunday of the month, we’ll be back at St. John again!)
Just a reminder that this Sunday, November 5 is the first Sunday of the month, and that means that the Sunday 9:00am Family Mass and 5:00pm Youth Mass will be celebrated at St. John Church.
Yes, we were at St. John last Sunday too, but that’s because October had three Sundays and we’re at St. John on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of the month. And yes, it’s a little confusing, but luckily it doesn’t happen too often!
Did you notice flags on the parish lawns this week? When you see a green flag flying on the lawn, that means the Sunday 9AM Family Mass and 5PM Youth Mass are being celebrated at that church…
We’re having a Middle School Youth Ministry Event on Saturday evening, November 4 from 7-8 pm at St. Paul Parish Hall.
Join us for “Mystery” games, activities and refreshments – and bring your friends!
All Middle School students are welcome and encouraged to attend!
High School students please join us after the Sunday 5pm Youth Mass on October 15 from 6-7:30pm outside the St. John Parish Center and inside in the Regan Room for our High School Youth Ministry Launch Event! We will have food, fun and a bonfire to kick off the year and find out what other events you are interested in!
Please join us on Friday evening, September 29, from 7:00-8:30pm at St. Paul Hall for apple themed snacks, fun, and games! This is our very first Middle School Youth Ministry Event and we want you to come and tell us what other events you’d like us to plan. ALL Middle School students are encouraged to attend!
This weekend we welcome back our Sunday 9:00am Family Mass (and Coffee & Donuts!) and our Sunday 5pm Youth Mass!
It’s the 2nd Sunday of the month, so we’re at St. Paul this weekend – please join us after the 9:00am Family Mass for Coffee & Donuts in the Parish Hall, and after the Sunday 5pm we’ll celebrate with “Make Your Own Sundaes”!
All registered families should have received an email with program information for the upcoming year. This email has detailed information about each program, schedules and a link to the Religious Ed website. If you have not received the email please check your spam folder and if it is not there please contact Linda at Linda.Messore@sjspwellesley.org to resolve any communication issues. Please note that we are still looking for teachers for Sunday morning and Wednesday afternoon classes… Please consider sharing your faith with the young people in our program…
Hundreds of you supported our 11 Pilgrims and their chaperones by your prayers and donations as we journeyed these past few weeks to Lisbon, Portugal for World Youth Day 2023. We were joined by over 1.5 million other pilgrims from all across the globe. The physical embodiment of both the diversity and magnitude of our Church was a witness these teenagers will never forget…
The summit of the experience was a 6+ mile pilgrim walk (in almost 100 degree heat!) to the Vigil and overnight camp out culminating in Mass with the Holy Father. Pope Francis preached these words to the 1.5 million pilgrims: “As young people, you want to change the world and work for justice and peace. You devote all your energy and creativity to this, yet it still seems insufficient. Yet the Church and the world needs you, the young, as much as the earth needs rain.”
After more than a year of planning, preparation, and hard work, our pilgrims depart this Friday, July 28! We are so grateful for your generous financial and spiritual support!
Please continue to pray for us as we embark on this journey, and know that we will be praying for you!
Sponsors, check your mail in the coming weeks for a postcard from your pilgrim(s)!
We hope you will follow our journey online – we will be posting daily updates and photos on our WYD 2023 blog…
It’s official! Pope Francis’ itinerary for his apostolic visit to Portugal for World Youth Day has been released!
Our journey begins with an overnight flight on Friday, July 28 from Boston, arriving in Portugal early Saturday. After spending Saturday in Santarém, site of a Eucharistic Miracle, we travel to Fatima where we will celebrate Mass with Cardinal Sean on Sunday. On Monday we head to Lisbon – here’s the preliminary schedule for the week…