Dear Parishioners,
Our parish feast day is here! On October 1st the Church celebrates the memorial of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, also known as St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Even though October 1st falls on a weekday this year, the Church allows us to celebrate St. Teresa during the weekend Masses as a solemnity. We distinguish three different types of celebrations: Memorials, feasts, and solemnities. Each have different liturgical elements (for instance, we pray the Gloria and Creed on a solemnity, but only the Gloria on a feast day). As our patroness, we celebrate St. Teresa as a solemnity, decorate her statue, and ask for her intercession this weekend. Click the title to read more.
Dear Parishioners,
The lift is back! As the painting project continues, you will notice a lift in the parking lot. This is needed to reach the higher areas of the church and rectory such as the two crosses on the church and the tops of the columns. I am happy to say that work is going well. Click the title to read more.
Dear Parishioners,
Last week we celebrated Labor Day. The Church’s mission entails the good of humanity. Work is an essential part of human life. So, the Church’s social teaching necessarily discusses and elaborates on the dignity of work. From the beginning work was a part the very fabric of creation. “On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken” (Genesis 2:2). In God’s original plan, mankind was meant to participate in the work of God; caring for creation. This past May Pope Francis elaborated on this participation. He said: “Human labor is the vocation that mankind received from God ever since the creation of the universe. It is work that makes us similar to God, because through work men and women act as creators, and are capable of creating many things, even of creating a family.” Even the Son of God worked during his time here on earth as the crowd asked: “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?” Click the title to read more.
Dear Parishioners,
I forgot to mention in last week’s bulletin that our school email addresses were not working for the months of July and August. Fortunately, the emails are up and running once again (and just in time). We took the opportunity to make the emails slightly easier to remember and type into an email client. The new ending for the emails is now @stspawtucket.com. If you sent an email to any school email address over the summer I apologize that you did not get a response, but that was the reason. Click the title to read more.