St. Anne-St. Patrick Parish will hold outdoor weekend Masses beginning Sunday, May 25. Masses will be celebrated in the parish’s spacious, covered pavilion—rain or shine: 4 p.m. Saturdays; 10 a.m. and noon Sundays. The parish is home to St. Anne’s Shrine, Hall of Saints, a Russian icon exhibit, a Memorial for the Unborn and a gift shop. Visit stannestpatrickparish.com. CLICK FOR MORE.
St. Andrew Bobola Parish, 54 West Main St., welcomes pilgrims to Sunday Masses with a blessing with the St. Andrews Bobola relic, 10:30 a.m. in English, followed by coffee shop and at noon in Polish. For information, call the rectory at 508-943-5633.
Blessed Sacrament Parish, 551 Pleasant St., will celebrate its Blessed Sacrament Novena, for 9 Sundays (3 p.m.) April 27 - June 22, the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi).
St. Mary of the Assumption Parish will celebrate a multilingual Mass 9 a.m., Monday, at our parish cemetery on Cedar St. Bring protection from the sun and a chair. In the event of rain, Mass will be held in the main church, 19 Winter St.
Bishop McManus will celebrate Mass at 10 a.m., Monday, May 26, at St. John Cemetery Chapel of the Resurrection, 269 Cambridge St. and Msgr. Robert K. Johnson will celebrate 10 a.m. Mass in the Mausoleum Chapel of Notre Dame Cemetery, 162 Webster St.
In a letter shared with parishioners this weekend, Bishop McManus announced that he is accepting the recommendations from parish committees and the Diocesan Pastoral Planning committee to merge the parishes of St. John the Baptist, East Brookfield, St. Joseph in North Brookfield and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in West Brookfield into one new parish. The new parish will have worship sites at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in West Brookfield and St. Joseph in North Brookfield MORE
For the past five years, Mr. Ayim has volunteered for the African Ministry. He runs a program in a few parishes in Worcester called the “Star Program” that teaches financial literacy and financial education to African teens involved in athletics.
“It’s amazing,” Father Flynn said of the interest in this pilgrimage church. “People are coming during the day, wanting to get the stamp,” a rubber stamp they can apply to their “Jubilee 2025 Pilgrim’s Guide,” like a passport. “If I’m not busy, I’ll come up and talk to them.”
DUDLEY – Bishop McManus officially established the Shrine of St. Andrew Bobola, as a shrine attached to St. Andrew Bobola Parish here, on Sunday before a standing-room-only congregation said to have come from at least 10 states.