let us pray that in this New Year our resolve is boosted with Sacramental Grace to serve the needs of the poor, lonely, alienated and poor. Unfortunately for a Pastor, Christmas goes by too quickly and you don’t get to…

I hope each of you had as wonderful a Christmas and New Year Celebration as I had. Our Christmas Eve Masses were packed with standing room only in the main church and chapel. We began with the return of the…

This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 1800’s by St. François de Laval, the 1st bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity. The Feast of the Holy Family…

PASTOR’S  COLUMN This week we the Fourth Sunday of Advent. If you missed our Parish Advent Service and would like to have your Confession heard prior to the Christmas feast I will be happy to hear it after Mass; please…

PASTOR’S  COLUMN Please welcome Fr. Richard Curran to our Vigil Mass; he was kind enough to celebrate this Mass which affords me an extra day of vacation, traveling on a Saturday than the rush of a Friday return. Fr. Curran…

Let us recall in this feast we recall that the Blessed Mother conceived in her mother Anne’s womb was conceived without original sin. I’ll be travelling out of town for this week and will be returning late Saturday evening 12/14….

This year we are going to concentrate on supporting our ministries with increased training and retreat support.  This weekend we celebrate the 1ST SUNDAY IN ADVENT,  beginning the new liturgical year. This year we are going to concentrate on supporting…

I need your help. Can you get word about our upcoming CHRISTMAS CONCERT? It is set for Friday, December 6th at 7:30pm. This weekend on Saturday, November 23rd, we held our ANNUAL COOKIE WALK. I want to thank everyone who…

PASTOR’S  COLUMN This Friday, November 22nd, I will be celebrating the CATHOLIC TV MASS in Watertown at 9:30am. Ed Neary will be joining me for this Mass as our Lector. Once again, I want to invite anyone who is interested…