We pray you all are well and getting plenty of rest as summer begins to dwindle down... We have lots of news in this email as we begin to rev up again for the fall! We remind everyone that our cemetery clean-up continues and we thank you all for your patience.

Mr. Thomas Mason has been hired to join the St. Isidore Parish Administrative Team as the Finance and Operations Manager. This is a fulltime position.

Thomas has both a Law and Accounting degree and has practiced in both. He does have experience with finance and property management. He is a parishioner of St. Isidore Parish and has been a member of the Parish Pastoral Council.

      The start date in this role will be September 6, 2022. 

     We welcome Tom to his new position and wish him well in this assignment.

Fr. JT, Pastor

Sr. M Caterina, who has been the local superior here in Lakeville of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, has been reassigned to another community in France. Sr. Mary Claire Kenneally has been appointed as the new local superior for their Lakeville community.

     It has been a joy to have Sr. M. Caterina to be part of St. Isidore Parish. We thank her for her services in the Archdiocese of Boston and wish her well in her new assignment in France.

     We welcome Sr. Mary Claire to St. Isidore Parish and to their Lakeville community and wish her success in her new assignment as local superior. 

     Fr. JT., Pastor

This Tuesday, August 23, is the Feast day of one of our Parish churches, St. Rose of Lima church. Parishioners are invited to the Mass at 6pm in Rochester.  An Ice Cream Social follows in the church hall.

For many years Sacred Heart Church has been home to a small community of Deaf worshippers. In the past we were able to offer ASL-interpreted Masses every week prior to the world-wide pandemic. Following the pandemic we have been unable to find ASL interpreters to continue having an ASL interpreted Mass at our parish. We are currently working with the Boston Deaf Apostolate (Archdiocese of Boston) to find an interpreter. In the meantime Fr. Shawn Carey invites Deaf worshippers to St. Jude's Parish in Waltham where he celebrates the Mass fully in ASL. Fr. Shawn is also the Chaplain for the Boston Deaf Apostolate and is part of a team ministry at St. Jude's Parish in Waltham. Fr. Shawn offers ASL Masses recorded each weekend on YouTube. For more info please checkout our webpage for our Deaf and hard-of-hearing community at: https://cranberrycatholic.org/deaf-community

 We wish to restart weekend hospitality at Sts. Martha and Mary and at Sacred Heart. We are looking for leaders and volunteers for one Sunday per month. The schedule would be: 

--First Sunday of Month: at Sts. Martha and Mary after the 7:30 am Mass

--Third Sunday of the Month: at Sacred Heart, after the 11am Mass.

--(Second Sundays are at St. Rose of Lima who are already up and running but are on hiatus for the summer.)

Please note that per the Archdiocese of Boston policy we do not give out letters of exemption. For more info see attachment.