Floral Arranging Workshop and Potluck Supper with Ellie Mears and Grace Davis
6:30pm at St. John the Evangelist Church (Lower Level)
Join us as we celebrate the beauty of spring and the Easter season by creating beautiful floral arrangements and growing in community with one another! Please bring a main dish, dessert, or drink to share!
RSVP appreciated to plan for supplies but not required…
Join Us this Sunday, April 12 at St. Paul following the 5pm Youth Mass for an Information Session with the SJSP Youth Ministry Team
St. John-St. Paul Collaborative Youth Ministry is going to South Korea next summer for WYD Seoul 2027! Interested in joining? All current high school students and their parents/guardians are invited to this information session to learn more – the session will be held immediately following the 5pm Youth Mass in the Parish Hall at St. Paul (food provided!)
Come learn more about this incredible opportunity to deepen your faith and connect with youth from around the world!
For those who are unable to attend, Fr. Hehir’s lecture will be recorded and available on our website a day or two after the event.
Our “Knit Together with Care” group has been gathering regularly to support one another in their knitting efforts for our Collaborative Baby Shower to benefit Pregnancy Help Boston – building community and making baby blankets!
If you’d like to join the group, they will gather this Saturday, April 11 from 1:30-3:30PM in the Collaborative Boardroom at the St. John Parish Center.
Easter morning the greeting rings out: “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia!” Indeed, nearly two millennia removed, we rest in the certainty of the Resurrection.
Yet, as the sun rises on this Easter Sunday, before rattling off a string of alleluias, we might do well to remember what gripped the disciples that first Easter morning: confusion. Greeted by an empty tomb, they did not know what to believe. As John’s Gospel clearly conveys, they saw and “they did not yet understand.” Had Jesus’ body been taken, or had he risen to glory like he said he would?
A few weeks ago, I spent much of my Monday at Wellesley Middle School. The sixth graders are doing a unit in Social Studies on world religions. You may not be surprised to hear that I was on a panel representing Christianity! Along with a Greek Orthodox priest and a Protestant minister, over the course of four periods, we gave presentations on our Christian denomination, highlighting both unique elements of our traditions as well as the many more beliefs and practices we share in common. Then the students were given the opportunity to ask questions. This was by far the most interesting part of the classes. I found it particularly fascinating as we fielded questions from students who clearly had little knowledge of Christianity outside of this social studies class. It allowed us Christian leaders to see our faith from the perspective of those who had never before heard the Gospel.
Our St. John-St. Paul SVdP brought palms, flowers, friendship, and prayer to members of our Collaborative community who are homebound for Palm Sunday.
A prayer service that included the blessing of the palms and special guest speaker, Tom Dwyer, Executive Director of A Faith That Does Justice, sent volunteers forth into the community.
We are singing on Easter Sunday, April 5 at the 9:00am Family Mass at St. Paul Church .
We will rehearse this Saturday, April 4 from 3:00 – 4:00PM at St. Paul Church, and will meet at 8:30AM before Mass on Easter Sunday at St. Paul.
To learn more or ask questions please email William Endicott, Music Director
By the time Lent comes to a close, we can feel worn down and ready to simply turn the page on an all-too-familiar story. Yet, to truly enter into Holy Week, we must confront the power of paradox. We must grapple with the Paschal Mystery and its ever-present invitation to us: to die and rise with and in Christ.
This is the story, not only of this holiest of weeks, but of our entire lives of faith. Opening our eyes to the world around us, we witness the betrayal; we intuit the suffering; we account for the lengths to which faith and fear can push us; and we find that Christ, our companion and our guide, is with us always… beckoning us to new life. Be it the washing of feet, the breaking of bread, the sting of suffering, or the quiet of grief: Christ is there…
In these final sessions of Family Faith Formation for the 2025-2026 year, we have been talking about living vocation – recognizing and becoming who God has called us to be in this world.
Fr. Jim, Sr. Colleen, and Kelly shared their own unique experience of the call to vocation, and we talked about how each of us can think about and nurture our own vocations in the context of faith, family and community.
If you missed the session or would like to hear about Fr. Jim’s story of the first inkling of his vocation to the priesthood at the age of 5, or Sr. Colleen’s story of life with 400 sisters, you can watch the recording here on our website.