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SAINT GREGORY PARISH 2223 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester Lower
Mills, Massachuse s 02124
Tel: 617-298-2460, 617-298-0478 † Fax: 617-298-9232 † Office
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm Email: [email protected] †
Website: www.stgregoryparish.com
PASTOR: Fr. Jack Ahern
Email: [email protected]
IN RESIDENCE: Fr. Brian F. McMahon
BUSINESS MANAGER: Julie A. Hayes
MUSIC DIRECTOR: James Busby
SUNDAY MASSES: Saturday: 4:00 PM Sunday: 7:00 AM, 10:00 AM and
5:00 PM
DAILY MASSES: Monday - Friday: 6:45 AM
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Second Sunday of every month at 11:00 AM,
in the upper Church. Please call rectory in advance to
register.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturday: Noon—1:00 pm on Saturdays
to allow both the celebra on of the Sacrament weekly and to
schedule funerals.
SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Couples planning to be married should
contact Fr. Jack at least six months prior to the date
requested.
SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: Any me by request.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: First Saturday of the month from
Noon—1:00 pm. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Classes begin in October each
year. Please contact the rectory for more informa on.
ST. JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC ACADEMY - LOWER MILLS Lisa Warshafsky,
Principal Tel: 617-265-0019, Website:www.sjp2ca.org
BULLETIN DEADLINE: Monday morning.
Please turn off cell phones and pagers upon entering the
church.
WELCOME, WE’RE GLAD YOU ARE HERE! We extend a warm welcome to
all guests and parishioners. We are delighted that you have come to
worship with us, and we very much hope that you feel at home here!
Newcomers are encouraged to register as members of the Parish.
Registra on forms are available in the entryways of the Church and
in the Parish Office and can be placed in the offertory basket or
mailed to the Parish Office.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 4:00 PM Eileen M. Kelleher (Birthday
Memorial)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 7:00 AM Helen & John Knadler and John
& Catherine Sellon (Memorial) 10:00 AM Denis McLaughlin (1st
Anniversary) 5:00 PM Nervan Joshua Luc (2nd Anniversary and
Birthday Memorial)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 6:45 AM Parishioners of St. Gregory
Parish
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 6:45 AM Margaret Lipfin (Memorial)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24 6:45 AM Due e Rodney and Daniel Rodney
(Mem) 3:00 PM Christmas Eve Mass (upstairs & downstairs) 5:00
PM Christmas Eve Mass
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25 7:00 AM Christmas Day Mass 10:00 AM
Christmas Day Mass
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 4:00 PM Kathleen O’Sullivan (14th
Anniversary)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 7:00 AM Leo J. Gulinello (Anniversary) 10:00
AM Howard & Paul Camden (Birthday Mem.) 5:00 PM Anna Crowe (1st
Anniversary)
Please keep in your prayers Please pray for Jennifer Simpson,
Marian Mahoney and all those who have died recently that they may
rest in God’s peace. Please also remember their families and
friends that they might know the gi of God’s loving consola on.
Parish Offertory—Sunday, December 13, 2020 $6,410.00 (includes
online and mailed in giving).
To give online go to stgregoryparish.com and click on the green
bu on “Get Started”. For help, call Julie at the rectory.
Christmas Masses Clearly, I am worried that a endance at
Christmas Masses tend to be higher and that many who are concerned
about their health and well-being might be safer to watch Mass on
TV. We have added two Masses to assist us in keeping state
guidelines on the number allowed in various gathering and social
distancing. But again, be safe. Saint Gregory Church Christmas Eve:
3:00 p.m. (upstairs and downstairs) 5:00p.m. Christmas Day: 7:00
a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
Christmas Mass TV Schedule
December 24th 8:00 pm ●Christmas Midnight Mass from the Va can
(CATHOLIC TV Channel 268 Cable) December 25th - Mass with Cardinal
Sean 8:00 am on WLVI-TV and 9:30 am on CATHOLIC TV
CHRISTMAS COLLECTION Each Christmas, the parish collec on
benefits the Clergy Health and Re rement Trust which cares for the
health and wellbeing of our priests in good standing. By suppor ng
the collec on, you can show your apprecia on for the priests like
Msgr. Paul Ryan who have made a difference in your life, the life
of our parish, and the lives of countless others in our community.
Please consider asking parishioners to remember these faithful
priests in their prayers and when contribu ng to the Christmas
Collec on this year.
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F S A D 20, 2020
Do you see what I see? The Christmas Star
2020 has been a year like no other in our life mes. Since early
spring College Hype in Adams Village has been selling Resilience
2020 Items to support both Boston Medical Center and South Shore
Hospital. I just purchased an ornament for my Christmas Tree.
Resilience is perhaps the most appropriate word to describe 2020.
My word for 2021 is hope and a sign of hope will light up our skies
this week. As the year comes to a close, a once-in-a-life me sight
will appear in the night sky just in me for the holidays. A star, a
star will dance in the night on December 21st. Actually, it won’t
be a star, but the so-called “great conjunc on” of two planets —
Jupiter and Saturn — crea ng something similar to what some
astronomers suggest the Magi may have seen in the biblical of the
birth of Jesus. According to the Gospel of Ma hew, Magi, or wise
men, came to Jerusalem a er Jesus’ birth, asking, “Where is the one
who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose
and have come to worship him.” The last me such a close pairing was
observable to the naked eye was in 1226. For me, the Christmas Star
of 2020 is a reminder that Christ is with us and that there is a
light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. With Christ by our side
may we decide that 2021, no ma er what happens, will be a year of
light over darkness, hope over despair, peace over anger, community
over division. To you and those you love a safe and blessed
Christmas!
FFr. Jack
Pope declares Year of St. Joseph
On December 8th Pope Francis issued a decree launching a special
year dedicated to St. Joseph. In an apostolic le er issued Pope
Francis said the figure of St. Joseph has been on his mind in a par
cular way during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis he said showed
how “our lives are woven together and sustained by ordinary people,
people o en overlooked. People who do not appear in newspaper and
magazine headlines, or on the latest television show, yet in these
very days are surely shaping the decisive events of our
history.”
He said, “How many people daily exercise pa ence and offer hope,
taking care to spread not panic, but shared responsibility. How
many fathers, mothers, grandparents and teachers are showing our
children, in small everyday ways, how to accept and deal with a
crisis by adjus ng their rou nes, looking ahead and encouraging the
prac ce of prayer,” he said.
With the backdrop of the pandemic, Francis said the faithful can
rediscover St. Joseph, “the man who goes unno ced, a daily,
discreet and hidden presence,” as an intercessor and source of
support and guidance. Saint Joseph, he said, “reminds us that those
who appear hidden or in the shadows can play an incomparable role
in the history of salva on. A word of recogni on and of gra tude is
due to them all.”
When Pope Francis announced the Year of St. Joseph today, he
also gave us a new prayer.
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son;
in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father
and guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy and
courage,
and defend us from every evil. Amen.
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