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…
This past weekend we bid a fond farewell to Fr. Borja Miró Madariaga S.J. Fr. Borja has completed his studies in Moral Theology at Boston College and is returning to Spain for his new assignment teaching at a Jesuit secondary school.
Over this past year, following his ordination to the priesthood last June in Spain, Fr. Borja has celebrated weekday and Sunday Masses, baptisms, and funerals with us, and we have been infinitely blessed by his ministry…
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
Would you like to be an altar server at Collaborative Masses?
Please join us on Wednesday, May 31 at 1:30pm (early release day) at St. John or Tuesday, June 6 at 3:30pm at St. Paul for altar server training. Training will run about 45 minutes; children may be dropped off at the church or caregivers may stay for the session. Children who have trained previously but would like a “refresher” are also welcome!
We offer tremendous thanks to everyone who has responded so generously to our WYD Sponsorship Program! Almost 100 individuals and families have made financial donations in honor of our pilgrims and committed to lending their spiritual support in the form of prayer. As you can imagine, the expense of participating in this pilgrimage is significant, and we recently learned that the original projected cost of $4,000 per pilgrim has risen by $200 per pilgrim…
As we wrap-up our fundraising efforts, please consider sponsoring one (or more!) of our pilgrims by making a financial donation in their honor and lending your spiritual support in the form of prayer…
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.
Last month, the Vatican announced that for the first time, lay people – including women – will serve as full members of the Synod of Bishops with voting rights, as part of a broader series of changes to the rules governing these papally convened summits. Under the previous norms, a synod was defined in canon law as a gathering of members, of which “the greater part are bishops” elected by their national bishops’ conference. Other members, usually bishops or male religious, were either appointed by the pope or by their religious institutes.
The month of May is dedicated in a special way to the Blessed Virgin Mary. We will celebrate Mary with May Processions at our 9:00am Family Masses on:
Sunday, May 7 at St. John Church
Sunday, May 14 at St. Paul Church
We invite all children to bring a flower and participate in the procession and crowning at the end of Mass.
Just a reminder that this Sunday, May 7 is the first Sunday of the month, and that means that the 9:00am Family Mass and the 5:00pm Youth Mass will be celebrated at St. John Church.
Yes, we were at St. John last Sunday too, but that’s because April 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!
Congratulations to the 77 students from our Collaborative who received this Sacrament of Confirmation this month!
Holy Spirit, strengthen our students with your gifts of Wisdom, Understanding, Right Judgment, Courage, Knowledge, Reverence, and Wonder and Awe.
Fill them with the joy of your presence and increase in them the fruit of your Spirit. Help them to experience and trust your dwelling within, so that they can count on your guidance today and every day.
Show us the way to help one another become better disciples of Jesus Christ, sharing your love with our world and with each person we meet.
Come, Holy Spirit! Come!