Traditionally, Lent has been a time of renewed prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Of these three disciplines, almsgiving is probably the least understood. After all, works of....

As we begin Lent once again, I want to invite you to see this season not as routine, but as personal. This is not just another Ash Wednesday, not just another set of resolutions. This is Jesus Himself inviting you-today....

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture....

Ash Wednesday is less than three weeks away, and our schedule of Masses and prayer services for that day has been announced. While it is mostly the same as last year, there is one significant change in response to a request from Catholics who work in our towns. To provide people with an opportunity to prayerfully receive ashes during the lunch hour, we moved the prayer service at St. Mary to Noon. We still have....

Like all aspects of our lives, our spiritual life is a journey. Accordingly, the final period in the process of adult initiation into the Catholic Church is called mystagogy—a word that may sound unfamiliar to many, but it holds profound meaning for all of us. Mystagogy means “to lead into the mystery.” It is the time after the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist when the newly....

This week, as the Church throughout the world gathers with hearts full of both sorrow and Easter joy, we remember and give thanks for the life and ministry of Pope Francis, who has now passed into the loving embrace of the Risen Lord. It is fitting that we mourn him during this Easter season and, in this weekend in particular, on Divine Mercy Sunday — when the Church rejoices....

My brothers and sisters, Easter is not a single day. It is not just an event to be remembered—it is a reality to be lived. Like the eight-day feast of Easter overflows into a season even longer than Lent, the joy of the Resurrection is not a fleeting feeling but a living flame that the Risen Jesus lights in our hearts. As Pope Francis reminds us, “Christ is alive. He is our hope, and in a wonderful way He brings youth to our world.”....

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.. Congratulation! St. Martha has surpassed our Boston Catholic Appeal goal of $21,300. We are truly grateful to the 97 families that helped us reach this important mile-stone. The Boston Catholic Appeal makes....

We are grateful that our new Archbishop Richard Henning has taken the time to write words of spiritual encouragement to all of us. It is always good to hear him in his own words as our new shepherd and successor of the apostles who cares for us and our needs - especially in Holy Week and Easter Week, the most sacred weeks of the Church year. This is the time for each of us....

Before we look ahead to Holy Week, I want to take a moment to give thanks to God for the communal and personal blessings of this Lenten journey, and for the many people who contributed to all the Lenten opportunities in our collaborative parishes. From the Exodus 90 fraternity and Ash Wednesday, the men’s day of reflection and the women’s pilgrimage to La Salette, Father Abraham’s presentations on sacred icons, Lenten exercises....

A paraphrasing of the Parable Son. (Also known as the Parable of the Forgiving Father: Lk 15:11-32)