Ushers needed.
Can you help?
We are in need of people to act as ushers for the Mass they attend on the weekend. Ushers would keep track of people entering the church and keep the limit to 180 people. Ushers would also squirt the hands of parishioners with hand sanitizer as they line up for Communion. If you can help us with ushering, please contact the office @ 508-473-2000 or email us at kathymoran328@gmail.com to let us know which Mass you will be available to help. Thank you !
If you are able to help wipe down pews after the Mass you attend, it would be greatly appreciated.
At the conclusion of Mass please go to the Sacristy. We have paper towels, gloves and bottles of spray cleaner. If you have already contacted our office to offer to clean, thank you very much.
We thank you in advance for your time and effort.
The God Minute - Concert Friday - It Will Be Alright!
Breaking in the Habit
Casey Cole, OFM, is a Catholic priest and vowed religious in the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as "the Franciscans." Casey serves as the associate director of campus ministry at the University of Georgia, and is the founder of Breaking In The Habit Media, a production company that produces online content for evangelization and catechesis. He is also the author of the book, "Called: What Happens After Saying Yes to God."
Saving a Dying, Shrinking Church
St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts
North of the town of Spencer, Massachusetts, at the crest of a steeply sloping hill blanketed in oak, maple and pine, but bared in part by farmed meadows and broad pasturelands, rests Saint Joseph’s Abbey, a cloistered Roman Catholic monastery of monks of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, popularly known as Trappists. Set apart from the actions and trends of most of their neighbors, they live a contemplative life, dedicating themselves to the praise and worship of God in a hidden life within their monastery. Following Saint Benedict’s sixth century Rule for Monasteries, the monks live in silence and solitude, in prayer and penitence, thus rendering God “a service that is at once humble and noble.” Since the brothers are of one heart and one mind, they have everything in common for the monastery is a school of love.
The Lord Jesus, revealed in scripture and holy tradition, is their strength. The monks are guided in the practice of the spiritual life through the direction and counsels of their abbot.
The Order began in France in 1098 as a reform stressing simplicity of life and careful fidelity to the Rule. God’s wonderful grace has sustained this endeavor through the centuries including our own history as a religious community beginning in 1825.
The history of a monastic community, like the story of any family, is a narrative of perseverance and adaptation. The monastic reformers who founded the Cistercian Order in 1098 identified themselves as “lovers of the Rule and of the place.” The monks of Saint Joseph’s Abbey rejoice in their legacy and try to embody that same love.
George Hirsch Goes Behind The Scenes of Trappist Preserves ( 2013)
REAL TO REEL - TRAPPIST ALE - 2015
Catholic Communications Programming
THE TRAPPIST MONKS IN SPENCER, MASSACHUSETTS HAVE THE FIRST TRAPPIST BREWERY IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE THEY PRODUCE SPENCER TRAPPIST ALE.
Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they embark together on a journey of spiritual formation.
Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realize how exhausted she is.
Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her past.
Mara, a woman who has experienced a lifetime of rejection and is now trying to navigate a difficult marriage.
Charissa, a hard-working graduate student who wants to get things right.
You're invited to join these four women as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation.
Along the way, readers will be taken into a new understanding of key spiritual practices and find tangible support for the deeper life with God.
