Make Plans to Join Us for Christmas The Christmas Mass schedule will remain as it has been for the past several years with the additional 4:30 pm Vigil Mass at St. John’s High School where there are more handicapped parking spaces and easy accessibility.

LIGHT OF THE WORLD RETREAT Parishioners who attended our first Light of the World Retreat weekend were truly renewed in their faith and are now taking part in four post retreat sessions. We are grateful to Clare Ossman, Karen Coleman, Alfonso Martinez who came from the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois to lead our retreat along with Dennis Featherstone from St. Mary’s in Uxbridge. Talk to parishioners who participated and they will share their experience with you and encourage you to attend the next retreat in the Spring of 2018.

Our annual Senior Luncheon is a long standing St Mary School tradition and a meaningful way for our school to thank the Seniors within our community for all they do to support our school. With our students serving as greeters, servers and entertainers, it was a lovely day to celebrate friendship and share gratitude for our St Mary community. Special thanks to Mary Beth Kolosi Connors and our parent volunteers for hosting this special event!

On Monday, our Pilgrims (First Graders) welcomed our Natives (Kindergartners) for our annual Thanksgiving Feast. The morning was filled with prayer, welcoming songs, kind words of thanks and favorite foods shared with friends!

Cardinal Chibly Langlois, the bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti, the first Haitian cardinal in the Catholic Church and Bishop of Les Cayes visited the Diocese of Worcester the weekend of September 2-3, to renew the twinning relationship between parishes in the Diocese of Worcester and the Diocese of Les Cayes, Haiti. Accompanied by Bishop McManus, Cardinal Chibly visited St. Mary's and concelebrated the 4:30 Mass with Bishop McManus.

In addition to being Pastor of St. Michel’s in Roche-a-Bateau, Fr. Serge is also responsible for 11 surrounding chapels, the majority of which are in hillside communities accessible only by foot or via donkey.  We were excited to visit Boklo, a mission chapel that had suffered greatly from hurricane damage.

Members of our Hatiain Ministry spoke at all Masses this weekend to share an update on our sister parish in Roche a Bateau following the devastating hurricane.