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St. Mary Parish is proud of its longstanding commitment to quality music for our liturgical celebrations. Our Sunday Masses, weddings, funerals, Christmas & Easter would not be such faith-filled and joy-filled celebrations without music and without the organ.

Fr. Marcin, St. Mary's former associate pastor, stopped by for a visit on Saturday and con-celebrated the 4:30pm Mass with Fr. Mike.

Our school community was honored to welcome Sister Judith Dupuy, Director of the Diocese of Worcester Haitian Apostolate, and students from Haiti to our school on Thursday. After a photo with Trax and lunch (hamburger, chips and fruit!) with our students, our special guests visited our classrooms, learned about our curriculum, our traditions and our commitment to our faith, thanks to Sister Judith's detailed translations.

Despite the frigid weather this past Saturday, sounds of clicking needles and warm conversation amongst the Prayer Shawl Ministry filled Mary’s room in the Pastoral Center. The purpose of this ministry is to offer a symbol of God's love for those who are ill or others who are in need of comfort and prayer through the gift of a prayer shawl. From the first moment a new shawl is started, the knitter begins praying for the recipient. Once completed, they are blessed and placed in a bag with a beautiful tag and prayers of comfort. Recipients are then wrapped in the prayer shawls that are created with love and intended to give its wearer a big hug from God through their hands.

The reconstruction of the Bokolo Chapel is well underway.  This chapel is one of the 11 chapel communities served by Fr. Serge and St. Michel's parish in Roche-a-Bateau, Haiti. The chapel had been completely destroyed in Hurricane Matthew in October of 2016.