Saint Cecilia. Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. 30 December Christ among the Doctors. Paolo Veronese

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1 Saint Cecilia P A R I S H Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph 30 December 2018 Christ among the Doctors Paolo Veronese

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3 r e w s n a e call th S! R E H T O E TO SERV HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: JOIN US WHAT IS YNIA? on the Saint Cecilia summer service-learning trip to WASHINGTON, D.C, July 13 21! All spring we ll have opportunities for community service, building our community, and exploring our faith in preparation for the trip. And while you ll net dozens of service hours, the real reward is in how your life will be impacted in amazing ways through serving others! Young Neighbors in Action is a national Catholic organization that hosts service programs all through the US. The mission of YNIA is to empower young people to encounter Christ through serving others, engage in meaningful work that feeds, clothes, and provides resources to the most vulnerable, and grow in their faith. Saint Cecilia has been sending students to YNIA for years! GET ON BOARD! HOW TO SIGN UP: Contact John Glynn, The deadline to sign up is FEBRUARY 25 but sign-ups are first-come, first-served, so don t wait until then! A deposit of $50 is due at sign-up. Fundraising will happen throughout the spring to make sure the trip is affordable for everyone, regardless of financial situation. In January, there will be info sessions you can attend to find out more details stay tuned! tl;dr: Director of College & Youth Ministry, to register for the trip or with any questions! You can him at jglynn@stceciliaboston.org, drop by his office off the parish hall, or find him at the 6 PM Mass on any given Sunday. For more info on YNIA s national program, check out youngneighbors.org WHAT: Young Neighbors in Action Service Trip WHERE: Washington, DC WHEN: July 13 21, 2019 WHO: Rising Sophomores to graduating Seniors HOW MANY? 25 spots Register by February 25

4 OUR COMMUNITY NEWS MINISTERS OF THE LITURGY Saturday, December 29 5:00 p.m. Rev. Peter Grover, OMV, celebrant Catherine Horsley, lector Sunday, December 30 8:00 a.m. Rev. James Shaughnessy, SJ, celebrant Jim Dougherty, lector SPECIAL INTENTIONS Sunday, December 30 8:00 a.m. Manuel Sylvia, Memorial Sunday, December 30 11:15 a.m Alma Fitzpatrick, Memorial Sunday, December 30 9:30 a.m. Rev. Peter Gyves, SJ, celebrant Nicole Boyce, Mary Kane, and James Paradis, lectors Sunday, December 30 11:15 a.m. Rev. William Joy, celebrant Mark Richburg, Chika Offurum, and Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM, lectors THE FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY TODAY'S READINGS 1 Samuel 1:20-22, John 3:1-2, Luke 2: NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3A, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 On the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, we celebrate a feast in honor of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. This is a modern feast, instituted by Pope Leo XIII in 1893 and extended to the whole Roman Church by Pope Benedict XV in Strains of family life in those post war days were enormous. From its inception, this feast was meant to inspire people with an image of family harmony even amidst hardship. At one time this feast was celebrated on the Sunday following Epiphany (now the Baptism of the Lord), but since 1969 the feast is celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas. The Gospels chosen back in 1969 all depict stressful times in the family of Jesus: the flight into Egypt; the presentation of the Child Jesus in the temple with its warning of future sorrow; and Mary and Joseph's frantic search for their young son in Jerusalem (today's Gospel for Year C). 4

5 Prayers & Occasions Our Sick Please pray for all our sick and for those who are in need of our prayer, especially Mary Pickering, Caeden Boyce, Margo Bromfield, Matt Strazzula, Marie Deignan, Brother Bob Donovan, Stephanie Brown, Alice Kane, and Gloria Kianoury. Welcome to Saint Cecilia Parish We are pleased to welcome the following new members of our parish who have recently registered: John Genco and Kaitlyn Rok of Boston, Kathryn Nolan of Boston, John Vallely of Boston, Anne Marie Carden of Boston, John and Martha Lynch of Boston, Ellen O'Donnell of Kingston, the Moeller Family of Boston, Autumn St. Hilaire of South Boston, and John Mulcahy of South Boston. If you have not previously registered with the parish, there are forms in the narthex for this purpose or you can register online at www. stceciliaboston.org. Weddings at Saint Cecilia Congratulations to Megan Dolan and Andrew Koczo who were married here December 15 and to Rita Han and Andrew Lam married here on December 16. May God bless the happy couples as they start this next phase of their lives together. The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God On January 1 we celebrate the most ancient Marian feast of the Roman Church. It honors Mary as Theotokos, or "Mother of God," the title accorded her at the Council of Ephesus in 431. This day is observed as a holy day of obligation and Mass will be celebrated at ten o'clock in the morning. World Day of Prayer for Peace Tuesday, January 1 is the World Day of Prayer for Peace. Pray for peace in all the troubled parts of our world. For Those Without the Love of Family Pray for all who have no families, for those who are alienated from or rejected by their families that they may experience love and acceptance through this Christian community. For Those Who Are Grieving Pray for all who are grieving, particularly children who have lost parents and parents who have lost children to violence that they may know that God is with them and draw strength and hope from the Holy Family who experienced great loss and pain. Six O'Clock Mass Note There will be no six o'clock Sunday Mass tonight. The six o'clock Mass will resume next Sunday, the Epiphany of the Lord. There will be evening prayer at 6:00 in commemoration of the Holy Family. Parish Office Closing The Parish Offices will be closed on December 31 and January 1. Happy New Year! We are seeking our next Director of Music We are starting the search for our permanent Director of Music at Saint Cecilia. The Director of Music is responsible for nurturing the prayer life of the community through music, particularly in coordinating music for liturgical celebrations, and fostering the growth of our music ministry. Through utilizing a variety of musical styles, the Director of Music helps the parish broaden its understanding of and appreciation for the role music can play in deepening our relationship to God. Should you or anyone you know be interested please send resumes to Mary Kaye at mkaye@ stceciliaboston.org. 46TH Annual MLK, jr. memorial breakfast Monday, January 18 I 8:15 a.m. Boston Convention & Exhibition Center The 46th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast to commemorate the noble legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be held on Monday, January 21, 2019 at 7:45. This event features delicious food, live music and a diverse gathering of over 1,000 people, including business, civic, and religious leaders from across Massachusetts. We need to reserve tables for this breakfast prior to December 31. Tickets are $50 each. If you would like to join us and sit at one of the Saint Cecilia tables, please call the parish offce or Leah Bennett at lbennett@stceciliaboston.org. If you've attended this breakfast before, you know what a moving and hope filled way this is to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 5

6 Saint Cecilia CARES Pastoral Training Program January 2 Parish Hall In January we will have the opportunity for the next training group for the CARES pastoral visiting team. The upcoming workshop entitled Pastoral Care to the Sick and Homebound is the first step toward expanding your pastoral skills to become a member of our CARES team of visiting ministers. This team responds to the growing need for support to the most vulnerable members of our parish, local hospitals, and the surrounding community. CARES ministers visit the sick, homebound, and isolated individuals to offer their pastoral presence and support. The six-week training program will be offered starting on January 2 right here in our Parish Hall. It will provide the foundational skills to companion individuals through emotional/spiritual challenges of loss, grief, and suffering. We are fortunate that Matthew Jacobson, Palliative Care Chaplain and fellow parishioner, will be our teacher this year. If you are feeling called to this discipleship and want to discuss the program and your gifts, please contact Jeanne Bruno, (Chaplain, Coordinator of Pastoral Outreach) at or jbruno@stceciliaboston.org. Jeanne will also be availbale after Masses to sign people up. Help Care For those in need Occasionally we give gift cards to our sisters and brothers in need. We need to replenish our supply of gift cards to Shaw's Supermarket. If you would like to help out in this way, simply purchase a gift card and place it in the collection basket at Mass, give it to a member of the staff, or mail it to the Parish Office. We are very appreciative of your help as we attempt to offer some assistance, especially around the holidays, to those who struggle. Mass Simulcast Each Sunday, the 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. Masses are simulcast on our large screens in the Parish Hall. Join us for Mass in the church or in the Parish Hall. Faith and Film: "The Rider" Saturday, January 5 6:00 Parish Hall What happens when life intervenes and that purpose is no longer possible? The Rider tells the true story of a South Dakota rodeo rider who suffers a head injury falling from a horse, and is told never to ride again. At the tale s center is a man struggling to put aside the one thing that gave his life meaning, even though he knows it could kill him if he doesn t. A short discussion will follow the movie. Please bring $5 to cover the cost of pizza, and RSVP to Judy Castaldi at judycastaldi@hotmail.com so we know how much pizza to order. Marriage Ministry Upcoming events Register now for Pre Cana at Saint Cecilia on 1/26 and 2/2 Registration is now open for our first session, which will be held on two consecutive Saturdays on 1/26 and 2/ For more information or to register stc.marriage@ gmail.com. A Save the Date: Couples Mixer February 2 5:00 p.m. Parish Hall We are hosting a mixer for all couples in the Parish Hall. Please join us as we celebrate with our engaged couples who just completed their Pre Cana! Refreshments will be provided. Please register here or by ing stc.marriage@ gmail.com. 6

7 Christmas Cards for Saint Cecilia Cares At the beginning of the Christmas season the Saint Cecilia CARES ministry team gives sets of holiday cards to all participants. While many stores are having 50% off sales, please consider picking up a box of cards for us to use next year. Given that many of those the CARES team visits are experiencing poverty or have mobility issues, these cards are greatly appreciated. There will be a bin in the narthex for this purpose. Adult Faith Formation Events FAITH FORMATION EVENTS AT SAINT CECILIA OFTEN APPEAR ON PAGES 4-7 SAINT SUSANNA PARISH DEDHAM For further details on these presentations, please check their website: Prison Ministry Presenter: Deacon Frank Tremblay Monday, January 7, :00-9:00 p.m. Saint Susanna Parish Hall Free Will Offering Powr Program Info Session Evening Prayer Please join us during this Christmas Season! Please join us Tuesday January 22nd in the Parish Hall for a presentation by Grace Gaskill from Catholic Charities on the People Organized to Welcome Refugees (POWR) program and. The POWR program was started in 2010 with the goal of recruiting parishes and volunteers to help refugees adjust to transitioning to the US. If you are interested in attending this presentation, please sign up by January 14. For more information or to register please Anthony Ishak at anthonymishak@gmail.com/ Wednesday, December 26 at 6:30 p.m. St. Stephen Thursday, December 27 at 6:30 p.m. St. John the Evangelist Friday, December 28 at 6:30 p.m. The Holy Innocents Sunday, December 30, 6:00 p.m. The Holy Family Wednesday, January 2 at 6:30 p.m. Saints Basil & Gregory Thursday, January 10 at 6:30 p.m. Thursday after Epiphany Liturgy lasts approximately half an hour. All are welcome! This day Christ is born; This day the savior has appeared; This day angels are singing on earth, archangels are rejoicing; This day the just are glad and say: Glory to God in the highest, alleluia! Magnificat antiphon, Divine Office of the Roman rite 7

8 Christmas Flowers Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the dead; to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen. (Rev. 1:5-6) Kathleen A. Ridini Abruzzi Family Tony Abruzzi Tony Andrade Mary Dennehy Anzivino Sharon Appelman Cora Arnold Catherine Aylward Maria Barbosa Romania Barclay Esther Barker Bob Baron Pauline Baron Barbara Bates Maurice Bates Krikor Baytarian Joanne Bean Robert Begg Phyllis Bellevue Eleanore Bienkowski Julius Bienkowski E. Peter Blanchfield Betty Botosh Chuck Botosh Gary J. Bowen Ralph J. Bozza Mary Bradley John Brait Gerard Brennan Patricia Brennan William W. Brown Jane C. Brown Costigan George A. Brown Jr. Sergio Bru Ursula Bruer Francisco Bucasus Bufalini Family Burke Moylan Family John Butts JoAnn Cammarano Charles M. Campion Joan Capitula Michael Capitula Ann Coleman Delia Conlon Michael Conlon Joe Contilli Mickey Contilli Cooney Family Richard K. Corcoran Patrick S. Corrigan Francis Cotton Madeline Cotton Robert Crawford Daniel Curley Daniel T. Curley Jeanne Curley William J. Curran Mark Czestochowa Mr. & Mrs. Saheed W. Dahar Sr. Sean Dalton DeMers Family Jack Demmer John Zekas Dennehy Mr. & Mrs. Philip F. Dennehy Sr. Richard Desmond Kathy Devin Mario Diaz James T. Dillon Susan Marie Dillon Anthony Distasio Edwin Dobson Michael Doherty Walter Doherty Alida Dommermuth William Donahue Edmond Donlan Rosella Donlan Daniel Dosovito Hugh Dougherty Madeleine Dougherty Arthur Dunnett R. Margaret Dunnett Stephen Ellis Maria Caridad Escanaverino Alfonsina Faldetta John P. Faldetta Jack Falranzo Ann Farinelli John Farinelli Tony Farinelli Mary Fazio Emma Fischer Fitgerald Family Robert Fleming Walter Fletcher Arthur Fornier Msgr. John F. Fox Franchi Family

9 Kimberly Vanessa Francis Nora Frank Ruth M. Frost Donald A. Frost Jr. Donald A. Frost Sr. Robert Gaffny Rudy Garza Frank Gens Timothy Gens Winifred Gens Anne M. Giles William E. Giles Alfred Goughan Barry Goughan Katherine Goughan John Greene Mary Greene Griffith Family Mary Hall Per Hall Charles Heaslip Nancy Heaslip Michelle High James T. Hollyer Bryce Holton Leah Holton Thomas Holton Agnes Horsley Edmond Horsley Smudge Houle Carol Howland Richard Howland Fred D. Iannazzi Christopher Iannella Virginia Iannella Brian Jennings Johnston Family Mary Kakas Donna Kanapesky George Kane Rita Kane Anne Cronin Kelley Robert Kenney John Kiernan Brig. Gen. Leo A. Kiley John Kiley Joseph Kiley Nadia Kiley Kent A. Kissinger Sr. Elsa Enriquez Klaric Nedeljko Klaric Kline Family Daniel Kolander Dottie L'Abbe Rene L'Abbe Robert F. Lally Ruth M. Lally Peter Lanzetti Kristine Lashley Susan Levinsky Kenny Liebling Claire Lippolt Joseph Lippolt Alice Littleton Carmen Lombardo John Lopez Mr. & Mrs. Dell Love Lorraine Lyon Barbara MacDonald John MacDonald Mary MacEvoy Msgr. Vincent MacKay Bill MacNeill Carol MacNeill Fred Maglero Ilda Maguire Paul Maguire Peter Maguire Thomas Malone Bridie Maloney Gerald Maloney Mancini Family Mary Manley Robert Manson Catherine Marshall Eleanore Marshall Frederich Marshall Frederich Marshall Jr. Alexander Mathurine Josephine Mathurine Manuel Matos Stephen Matteson Fred Mazloom Robert McCarrick Bill McCarthy Vivian McCarthy McClosky Family Elizabeth McCrohan James McCrohan McEvoy Family Louis P. McGuirk Rose P. McGuirk Bill McLaughlin Jim McLaughlin John McLaughlin James Patrick McManus Mary McVey Frederick Meagher Peter Menansche Joe Michalski Bill Miller Rita Miller Moffatt Family Jeff Monroe

10 Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Mooney Sr. Deceased Members of the Mootos Family George Morales Beverly Morris Maizie Mullen Bill Mullin Dorothy Mullin Frank Mullin Betty Murphy Bob Murphy Ed Murphy Marilyn Murphy Ed Murphy Jr. Grace Nisbet Sr. Jeanette Normandin, SSA Marisol Liliana O'Brien Jerry O'Connor Eleanore O'Rourke Ernesto Palermo Apolonio Peña Msgr. Francis Phelan Jovelino Pinto Ligia Pinto Jack Pirani John Pirani Phyllis Pirani Eve Piros Lisa Potts Polito Julia Powell Mary Powell Richardson Deceased Members of the Power Family James Price Sadie Price Quigley Family Peter Read Alfred Reilly Donald Reilly Geoff Reilly Janet Reilly Richard Reilly William Reilly Kathleen A. Ridini Cecilia Riley Mr. & Mrs. Jose Rodriguez Grace Romasanta Edgar Roy Josephine Roy Dorothy Ryan Marianne Sa'ghy Michael Sabato Donald P. Schnorr Judy Scott Marvin Scott Elizabeth Shatswell John Shatswell Peter Shatswell Susan Shaughnessy Mary Siebert Paul Siebert James J. Skeffington Sr. Pil-Yun Son Soon-Ok Bae Son Dorothy Starzyk William Starzyk Jr. James Sullivan Lucille Sullivan Anne Swegle Susan R. Szum Joseph Ehueni Tanny Ray Tolubiak Mary Tomasi John Troppy Nadine Troppy A.J. Trustey Anna Trustey Joe Trustey Claire Tutein Frank J. Unni Lola Uribe William Uribe Brian VanNostrand Gregg VanNostrand Annie Verderaine Frank Verderaine Anne Volk Elizabeth Volk Nancy Walent Francis Walley Jr. Frank Williams Barbara Wladyszewski John Wojnas May-Soon Yee Walter Yee Robert Yobaccio Xiaobin-Paul Zhao Janet Zick 10

11 WE CAN BELIEVE THIS: A MEDITATION ON JANET MCKENZIE'S "THE HOLY FAMILY" By JAMES MARTIN, SJ It is impossible to paint the Holy Family realistically. We do not know what they looked like. Their contemporaries left us no record of their appearance, and the four great theologians who wrote the Gospels were completely uninterested in the personal details that we long to know. Their minds were wholly set on what Jesus was, his significance. He was fully man but also fully God; he offered humanity the truth of his Father, and no externals could be allowed to clutter up the strong, deep lines of this message. Artists, though, are forced to imagine for us the appearance of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and over the centuries they have done so with great enthusiasm. Yet when we look at these pictures from the Middle Ages on, beautiful as they are, we may not realize their relative untruth. They all show us a fair-skinned Jesus with a fair-skinned mother. If St. Joseph is in the picture, he is hovering shyly in the background, usually aged, heavily bearded and fair. These are European families, usually rather aristocratic of aspect (except for poor Joseph), whereas the true Holy Family were Jewish peasants. The jolt many will feel when they look at Janet McKenzie s painting The Holy Family forces us to recognize the vast stretches of time and culture that lie between us. The people in McKenzie s painting, which hangs in the chapel of Loyola School, a co-educational high school in New York City, are not Palestinian. She shows us a group of poor people who have the features of the African or perhaps the Mexican or Peruvian. Jesus, Mary and Joseph did not look like this. But this is a wonderful equivalence, forcing us to recognize both difference and similarity. The whole painting is a marvelous interplay of realism and symbolism. We are compelled to think again and to look twice. All three have dark skin, a flat nose, dark, short curled hair (though Mary s is longer) and full lips. It is as if the unknown reality of those first-century peasants has been transposed into another key, one to which we can genuinely respond. We are aware of their poverty. The couch on which Mary sits is patched, but its realism is set in an abstract context. Behind the family arises a geometrical patterning of lattice, palest pink in color and decorated with a flamboyant pink lily. The same touch of pink is visible behind Joseph s shoulder. Where are they? It would seem they are in some symbolic setting, where the lattice subtly suggests the cross, a theme picked up in the larger of the patches on Mary s couch. I am calling it a couch because its true definition is deliberately obscure. Mary is seated aslant, which inevitably recalls the side-saddled journeys that we know the family took together. The family vehicle, the donkey, seems to be present, even if only in subliminal fashion. It is with these journeys that the Holy Family is most associated. On the first, when they traveled to Bethlehem, 11

12 Jesus was only present in his mother s womb, as secure and warm as he appears to us in the painting. But he will sit on her lap, as here, when they flee Herod and they travel to Egypt, and when they return after Herod s death and live in Nazareth. Always Mary sits sidesaddle, holding the child to her heart, while Joseph either leads the donkey or walks beside her, a protecting presence. When next we see the Holy Family, they are in Jerusalem, and we are about to have a demonstration of the impossibility of parents and children ever fully understanding one another. We know the story, one with which many parents will empathize. When they leave Jerusalem, Joseph thinks the child is with Mary, Mary thinks he is with Joseph, and it is only when they gather around the fire in the evening that they realize to their horror that Jesus is missing. It takes them three days of frantic search before they find him in the Temple, talking about his heavenly Father. Even in this closest and most loving of relationships, the parents are wounded at what seems their child s thoughtlessness. (Thoughtlessness? Jesus, the Son of God? Yes, but a human Jesus who could make innocent mistakes.) Mary reproaches him: Did you not know your father and I have sought you, sorrowing? The 12-year-old Jesus is astonished. How could they have sought him? Where could he have been except in the house of his heavenly Father? No matter how deep the love, every human being is essentially a mystery. Here we see, for our comfort, Mary and Joseph accepting the disappointment that all parents must feel on realizing the unknowability of their child. Jesus, too, must experience the sadness of coming to terms with the truth of the human condition. But if the Holy Family did not always understand one another, their mutual love and dependence was unshaken. McKenzie makes it beautifully clear that here is a family unit, three individuals bound together. We notice that both Mary and Joseph look not at us or at each other, but at Jesus. Highlighted by the glancing sunlight, Joseph s body language makes it unmistakably clear that he is devoted, body and soul, to the support of his beautiful wife, resolute to share with her the extraordinary responsibility of raising the child Jesus to manhood. This was most definitely not a one-parent family. It took the church a long time to understand the significance of St. Joseph. In the very early church it was only Mary who was shown with Jesus, and she appeared very much as merely the means by which he comes to us. For centuries she was not seen as a person in her own right. To safeguard the doctrine of her virginity, St. Joseph was relegated even more to a background figure. Perhaps not until Murillo in the 17th century, devoted believer that he was, do we have an artist who understood that a family needs a father a role model, to use modern jargon and St. Joseph was the man God had especially picked for this. We can believe this of McKenzie s Joseph. We notice his sturdy shoulders, his lack of interest in anything but the mother and child. We see how gently and tenderly his broad workman s hand touches Mary s veil. (The veil itself, diaphanous and white, subtly recalls the bridal veil of a virgin.) Mary does not touch him there is no physical contact but there is emotional contact, beautifully understated. We see Joseph s fingers on the veil, but not his thumb; we see Mary s thumb but not her fingers. It is as if together they form a hand. If Mary and Joseph have eyes only for Jesus, Jesus has eyes for us. Like any child who is completely secure in love, he looks out with an eager and innocent curiosity to an unknown world. Snuggled up in his warm jacket, he cannot imagine threats or danger. This, of course, is how it should be with every child, and a striking feature of this painting is how it appeals to the ordinary experience of a young family. The silent awe that Joseph feels is that of any young father faced with the wonder of raising a child. Mary s immense dignity, her majestic inwardness, is surely that of a young mother holding her gift from God. The closeness and the sense of unexpressed devotion, which gives any family its stability, are here made visible. The artist wants us to see the Holy Family as writing large for us the holiness of the family, any family, our family. The halos of the Holy Family, as McKenzie depicts them, are not the traditional gold, but rather a very pale purple that fits in unobtrusively with the subdued pinks and browns of the background. The dominant impression is of warmth, a deep and glowing inner radiance, at its brightest in the face of the small Jesus. Although McKenzie does not set herself to teach, still less to preach, this painting has a special relevance for our contemporary world. So many of our tragedies and discontents seem to stem from the decline of family life. All too often there is no father, or there is an absent father, and the child suffers from insecurity. Here we see the ideal: a man who loves his wife and her child and will devote himself to their protection; a woman who is secure in her husband s affection and in their joint responsibility for her baby; a baby who feels completely safe. The family is holy. 12

13 Faith and Justice in Society: Jewish, Christian & Muslim Perspectives The major religious traditions find it imperative to work for social justice. Learn each religion s perspective on social justice from prominent Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders and deepen your awareness of our shared religious and social heritage. PLEASE JOIN US! Tuesday, January 15, :15PM 8:00PM Marriott Courtyard Boston Downtown 275 Tremont Street Boston MA (near the Boylston St./Green Line and New England Medical Center/Orange Line T Stations) We look forward to having you with us for what promises to be an enriching program. Space is limited. Please register at or by phone, (857) , for admission to the meeting. We are grateful for your financial support of our program. Please donate at or by mail to: A Faith That Does Justice, 300 Newbury Street, Boston MA

14 PARISH RESOURCES Parish Office & Mailing Address 18 Belvidere Street, Boston, MA Hours Monday Friday, 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Phone Fax Website Parish Staff Rev. John J. Unni, Pastor Mary Kaye, Pastoral Director of Operations, Colleen Melaugh, Finance Director, Mark Donohoe, Pastoral Associate, Scott J. MacDonald, Director of Faith Formation and Parish Visibility, John Glynn, Director of College and Youth Ministry, Jeanne Bruno, Chaplain, Pastoral Associate, Coordinator of Pastoral Outreach, Timothy Zimmerman, Director of Music and Organist, Lisa Pickering, Events and Facilities Manager, Leah Bennett, Communications and Operations Coordinator, Assisting Clergy Rev. Peter Grover, OMV Rev. Peter Gyves, SJ Rev. James Shaughnessy, SJ Schedule for Liturgy Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday 8:00 a.m. Lord s Day Sat 5:00 p.m.; Sun 8:00, 9:30, 11:15, and 6:00 p.m. Holy Days 8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Reconciliation The sacrament of reconciliation is available by appointment. Please call the Parish Office. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is the communal process through which non-baptized men and women become members of the Catholic Church. It is also suitable for those baptized in different faith traditions who are interested in becoming Catholic, or, for those who were baptized Catholic, but have yet to receive the sacraments of Eucharist and confirmation. Baptism for Infants Infant baptism is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month. For more information, please contact Mark Donohoe in the Parish Office. Faith Formation for Children To register your child for our Faith Formation Program, please contact Scott MacDonald in the Parish Office. Marriage Couples who wish to prepare for marriage should contact Mark Donohoe in the Parish Office at least six months in advance. Care of the Sick To arrange for the Sacrament of the Sick, for Holy Communion to be brought to those unable to attend the Sunday celebration, or for Viaticum for the Dying (Holy Communion for those in danger of death), please contact the Parish Office. It is always possible to anoint the sick during regularly scheduled liturgies. Order of Christian Funerals The parish is prepared to celebrate the Vigil (wake) in the church. Please contact the Parish Office for more information. Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Team The CAP Team is responsible for training all parish staff and volunteers in mandated reporting laws and the Protecting God s Children program (VIRTUS). They also provide consultation and support to anyone in the parish who has concerns about reporting child abuse and neglect. Please contact Lois Flaherty (loisflaherty@gmail.com), Maria Roche (maria.roche15@gmail.com), Letitia Howland (l_howland@hotmail. com), or Erin Young (erin.t.young@gmail.com) if you have any questions or concerns. The Archdiocese of Boston has in place a vigorous program to protect children from harm and to educate its ministers and faithful about the nature of abuse, with a goal of increasing knowledge, creating a safe environment for children, and recognizing and reporting potentially dangerous situations. The full text of the policy is also available in the narthex and Parish Office, as well as on our website. For Those with Celiac Disease If you have celiac disease, please let us know. We have a supply of lowgluten altar bread available for those who cannot tolerate gluten. Hearing Assistance in Church The church is equipped with an FM listening device. Small receivers are available for anyone who may have trouble hearing the sound system. Simply request a receiver from any one of our greeters before Mass. Access for the Disabled Both the church and Parish Pastoral Center are accessible by elevator. Parking There is reduced rate parking for $11.00 at the Hynes Auditorium Garage located on Dalton Street on Sundays until 3:00 p.m. and every evening after 4:00 p.m. Please be sure to ask one of our greeters for a parking validation ticket before leaving the church. There is also reduced rate parking on Sundays only at the Prudential Center South Garage (enter at Huntington Avenue or Dalton Street); up to 4 hours: $14.00, up to 5 hours: $ Joining Our Community We re happy that you re with us! Our community offers a warm, spiritual home for a diverse group of Catholics. We come from many neighborhoods in and around Boston but also have parishioners from as far afield as Marlborough, Newburyport, and Stow. Please introduce yourself to a staff member, drop in for coffee on Sunday, or fill out a new parishioner form in the narthex.. No matter what your background, please know that you are always welcome at Saint Cecilia. 14