Sunday: 8 am at Our Lady's, 9:30 am at Sacred Heart (Livestream), 10 am at Our Lady’s, 11:30 am at Sacred Heart, 6 pm at Our Lady's
Confessions: Saturday 2:45 - 3:30 pm at Sacred Heart (in February)
Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the penitential season of Lent, is approaching quickly! Please tell your friends and neighbors and invite them to join us!
Ash Wednesday Services in the Collaborative:
- 7:00 am Mass at Our Lady’s
- 9:00 am Mass at Sacred Heart
- 12:00 pm Mass at Our Lady’s
- 12:00 pm Mass at Sacred Heart
- 3:30pm Service of the Word with Ashes at Our Lady’s
- 7:00pm Mass at Sacred Heart
And please save the date for our first Lenten event—Soup & Stations on March 7 at Sacred Heart. A more extensive overview of Lent will be in next weekend’s bulletin (Feb 22-23).
You Are Chosen—Called by Name!
This Lent, we invite you to join a special 6-week faith-sharing initiative inspired by Season 1 of The Chosen, a TV series about the life of Christ. Through viewing The Chosen and coming together to reflect and share in small groups each week, we hope to deepen our love for Jesus and each other, making this a truly meaningful and fruitful Lent.
In the words of the program’s creator, Dallas Jenkins, “We believe that if you can see Jesus through the eyes of those who met him, you can be changed and impacted in the same way they were. If we can connect you with their burdens and struggles and questions, then ideally, we can connect you to the solution, to the answer to those questions.” We will be creating small groups for you to join; however, if you are currently part of a faith-sharing group, we invite you to adopt this curriculum over Lent.
In the first episode of The Chosen, Jesus calls Mary Magdala by name—and that made all the difference. This Lent, we call you by name, for we are all “The Chosen”.
We invite you to be a part of this powerful Lenten experience. Will you join us for an hour to 90 minutes on this journey each week?
Please email garpino@sholnewton.org with interest and questions.We look forward to walking this Lenten journey with you!
Next Weekend's Second Collection
February 22-23 at all Masses
Next week’s second collection will support the Church in Africa and in Central and Eastern Europe and three important national Catholic missions: The Military Archdiocese, Home Missions, and the Black and Indian Missions. Your generosity will help fund the spiritual, educational, and humanitarian needs of the Church around the world. For more information about each of these organizations go to their websites:
- Catholic Relief Services www.usccb.org/catholic-relief
- Church in Africa www.usccb.org/africa
- Church in Central and Eastern Europe www.usccb.org/ccee
- Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA www.milarch.org
- Catholic Home Missions www.usccb.org/home-missions
- Black and Indian Mission Collection https://blackandindianmission.org
Please make your check out to your parish with the collection name in the memo line.
IN THE NEWS: Immigration and our Catholic Faith
This past week, Pope Francis wrote a letter to US bishops (which is printed in this week's bulletin), and Archbishop Henning wrote a column in the Pilot, each addressing the topic of immigration:
This Weekend
- California Wildfire Relief Collection: Feb 15-16 at all Masses. Please address your checks to “Sacred Heart” or “Our Lady’s” with “LA Wildfires Relief” in the memo. On behalf of Archbishop Henning, thank you for your attentiveness to this important collection and for your expression of our solidarity with those who are suffering.
- President's Day: Monday, February 17. Both parish offices will be closed and there will be no Communion Service at Our Lady’s. The offices will reopen as usual on Tuesday, February 18.
- Young Adults Ministry Faith Fellowship: Thursday, Feb 20, 7-9:30 PM at the Sacred Heart Parish Office. Fr. Michael Mohr, SJ will be the speaker. Contact Leslee Ambrosio.
Coming Up
- Young Adults Ministry Ice Skating Event: Saturday, Feb 22, 1-3 PM at the Daly Rink in Brighton. Contact Leslee. Sign up HERE.
- Cor Unum Meal Center: Saturday, February 22, 4-7 PM in Lawrence. No experience necessary and students receive three hours of community service credit. Contact Jared Blake or sign up HERE.
- Middle School Life Teen Edge Night: Wednesday, Feb 26, 7 - 8 PM in Our Lady's Lower Church Hall. For those in grade 5-8. We need high school and adult volunteers to help with this program. Contact Jared Blake.
- SHOL Book Club Meeting: Thursday, Feb 27 at 7 PM on Zoom. We will be reading Hope is a Decision: Selected Essays by Daisaku Ikeda. Please email Barbara and Jim Allaire at barbara.allaire@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
- Care for Creation Event: Food & Plastics: Rescheduled to March 6, 7:30 PM at Our Lady's Lower Hall. Please plan to join us for a presentation and panel discussion featuring Dr. Philip Landrigan on the health impacts of food and plastic. Register HERE (if you had registered for the original event, you do not need to register again). Contact Alexander Lee.
February Food Drives
Thank you for your generosity.
Prayer for peace based on Pope Francis' February 12 General Audience
Let us pray...
Loving God, as sisters and brothers we pray for peace. Open our hearts so that we might do everything we can for peace. We ask for the peaceful resolution of conflicts around the world: for Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, Congo, South Sudan, so many countries at war. Let us remember that war is always a defeat. Help us to help people thrive so that they may walk the path of peace. Please, we ask for peace. Let us do our all for peace in the name of Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Happy Valentines Day to one and all
Sunday, February 16 at St. Ignatius (Chestnut Hill) 5pm Mass and after featuring Meyer Chambers
The Archdiocese of Boston’s Black History Month Mass will take place on Sunday, February 23, 11:30am at St. Katharine Drexel Church, 517 Blue Hills Ave, Roxbury (also streamed on their website)
