Saint Cecilia. Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. 14 June The Red Vineyard at Arles (1888) Vincent van Gogh

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1 Saint Cecilia P A R I S H Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 14 June 2015 The Red Vineyard at Arles (1888) Vincent van Gogh

2 our community news Ministers of the Liturgy Saturday 5:00 p.m. Rev. Peter Grover, OMV, celebrant Cole Young, lector Sunday 8:00 a.m. Rev. James Shaughnessy, SJ, celebrant Dave Curry, lector Sunday 9:30 a.m. Rev. John Unni, celebrant Molly Lomenzo, Tom Nicolini, & Peter Lomenzo, lectors Special intentions Sunday, June 14 8:00 a.m. Edward and Delia Powers, Memorial Sunday, June 14 9:30 a.m. Maria Montagano, Memorial Pietro Montagano, Memorial Sunday, June 14 11:15 a.m. Michele Sullivan, 6 th Anniversary Thursday, June 18 8:00 a.m. Kitty McGee, Memorial Sunday 11:15 a.m. Rev. John Unni, celebrant Rosemary Walker, Maggie Dolan, & Joe Castellano, lectors today s readings Ezekiel 17: Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 next sunday s Readings Job 38:1, Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41 FOOD DONATIONS FOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES This week's featured donation item is: TUNA! Next week's featured donation item is: MACARONI & CHEESE! Donations of pasta, sauce, cereal, tuna, & other canned food are always also accepted. Please leave food donations in the narthex baskets. 2

3 Prayers & Occasions Our Deceased Kim Leone's stepfather died on June 3. Pray for the eternal repose of Gregory A. Capano. Pray also for the consolation of Kim, Steve, Jessica, Jacquelyn, and Michael. Susan Donnelly's brother died on June 9. Pray for the repose of the soul of Michael Donnelly as well as for the consolation of Susan and her family. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Our Sick Please pray for all our sick and for those who are in need of our prayer, especially Jennifer Serpico, Rudy Kikel, Annette Kulas, Steven Whitkens, Lisa Caputo, Anthony Simboli, Anne Frenette Handly, Ruth Frost, Roséa Aubrey, Brenna Smith, Mildred McLaughlin, Domenic Iannaccone, Cameron Robinson, Ken Bennett, Paul Claveau, Jaheel Robinson, Robert Lupis, Michael Claveau, Max Tubman, David Worster, Derek Schall, Susan Noll, Jennifer Murdock, Julie Downey, Donna Thagard, Penny Maynard, Robert Kimball, Owen Kyes, Mark Schatzl, Hugo Collamati, Chris Novosielski, Gayle Haley, Michalina Maniscalco, Niall O'Shaughnessy, Javier A. Sattler, Annie Flaherty, Pattie Geier, Colin Landry, Jake Mercier, Michael Patrick Kelly, Pilar Estrada, Mark Anderson, Matty Goddard, Stephanie Merenda, Carlo Pagani, Shea Hammond, Bill Downing, Skyler Stevenson, Rob Morrissey, Nimet Yousif, Rev. Robert Quinn, CSP, Boris Chermak, Dennis Heaphy, Mary Yanez, Roberta McMann, Silvia Basagni, Brian Donnelly, Peter Webster, John Farris, Karen Thoresen, Theresa Wier, Lena Bryant, Silvana Franco, Bill Ahern, Michael Steffen, Kenny Borum, Kevin, Lisa Anzalone, Joseph Pierre, George Driscoll, Bill Pennington, Rose Rizzo, Lisa Mazzanti Cox, George Morales, Richard Smith, and Judy Gallo. The pope's prayer intentions ~ june ~ Universal: Immigrants and refugees That immigrants and refugees may find welcome and respect in the countries to which they come. Evangelization: Vocations That the encounter with Jesus may arouse in many young people the desire to offer their own lives in priesthood or consecrated life. Welcome to Saint Cecilia! We are pleased to welcome the following new members of our parish who have recently registered: Patrick Callahan of Swampscott, Steven Robson of Allston, and Carolyn Ketterer of 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 TWEETS FROM THE POPE We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us. The light of the Gospel guides all who put themselves at the service of the civilization of love. 3

4 Commonweal Readers Meeting The topic for the next Commonweal Readers meeting, to be held on June 21 at 1:00 p.m. in Classroom 4 of the Parish Hall, is Jesus Was Not an Actor. The discussion will be lead by Jerry Ryan, the author of the article. You are cordially invited to read the article and attend the discussion. The article may be accessed at the Commonweal website via Golfing for a Cause Nativity Prep will host its annual Golf Classic on Monday, June 15 at Brae Burn Country Club. We'd love to have you join us for the day, or just for dinner and drinks. Golf foursomes can be purchased for $3,000, and individual tickets for the dinner/cocktail hour can be purchased for $75 by contacting Brooke O'Donnell at x21 or bodonnell@nativityboston.org. Play Ball with The Red Sox and Pine Street On Wednesday, June 24 Saint Cecilia parishioners, for the fourth year, will be hosting residents of Pine Street's scattered-site, independent-living projects at a Red Sox game! The Sox will be playing the Baltimore Orioles. We will be asking parishioners to pay for their own Grandstand 2 bleacher seat (a covered area) and to subsidize half the cost of a Pine Street guest's ticket. The cost will be $45. Also included is a hot dog and hamburger dinner in the Parish Hall before the game. This event will be entirely alcohol-free and we are expecting that parishioner attendees will engage with and provide a nice social event for our Pine Street guests. There will also be a basket in the narthex if you cannot attend the game, but would like to make a donation toward the pre-game dinner. If you would more details please Mark Lippolt at mlippolt@hammondre.com. A REQUEST FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES Sunset Point Camp, located in Hull, serves as a dream "vacation" for 300 children each summer. The goal of the camp has always been to provide a free vacation for at-risk, low-income children from the Greater Boston area, without regard for their race, nationality, or religious affiliation. Sunset Point Camp is supervised by our friends at Catholic Charities' Yawkey Center in Dorchester. They have mentioned to us that they always need donations of sunscreen for the kids at the camp. So the next time you're at CVS or Walgreen's or your local supermarket, please consider picking up an extra tube of sunscreen and dropping it in the plastic bin identified for this purpose in the narthex. We have been told the higher the SPF number, the better. The Camp also needs kids' flip flops for boys and girls age 6 to 12. Annual Parish Summer Picnic - July 26 It beginning to feel like summer outside and that means it's almost time for the annual Saint Cecilia Parish Picnic. The picnic will be held on Sunday, July 26 following the 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. liturgies. For newcomers and regulars alike, the Parish Picnic is a great way to spend a sunny Boston afternoon. Our volunteers take over Belvidere Street and fill it with tables and chairs, balloons, the sound of live jazz from the church porch, and other surprises. Volunteers will be serving coffee and pastry following the 9:30 a.m. liturgy and starting at noon will be grilling and serving hot dogs and hamburgers, ice cold lemonade, popcorn, and watermelon. This is a great opportunity to eat, listen, dance, or simply spend time getting to know the people you see each week at Mass. If you would like to be part of the picnic planning committee or would like to lend a hand on the day itself, please contact Kevin Dumas: or kjdumas1@aol.com. HELP OUR FRIENDS AT PINE STREET Our next volunteer event at the Pine Street Men s Inn will be Sunday, June 14. We will be providing table service that evening and can, therefore, accommodate up to twenty volunteers. We will be at the Inn from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. At that same time we will also have the opportunity to have 2 volunteers serve at the Women s Inn. Please me if you prefer this opportunity. If you are interested in helping with either of these Pine Street opportunities, please Mark Lippolt at mlippolt@hammondre.com. donate baby items Do you have a second hand pack & play (with a bassinette) and a stroller in good condition and are interested to donate them? A fellow parishioner is in need of these baby essentials. If interested, please contact Caroline Gélinas at cgelinas@stceciliabostron.org. Thank you for your kindness! PRAYERS FOR OUR SICK & EUCHARIST FOR THOSE AT HOME If you or someone you know is sick and would like to be added to our weekly prayer list, please telephone the parish office or Scott MacDonald. If you know someone who cannot be present at the Sunday celebration but would like to receive the Eucharist, please let us know. We are always happy to arrange for Holy Communion to be brought to individuals who are homebound. 4

5 SAINT CECILIA YOUNG ADULTS! VOLUNTEER: Prison and After Ministry Potluck Team Mondays, July 13, August 10 I 6:00-8:00 p.m. Parish Hall We need five more volunteers to help us with this. The men who come to the program have been very grateful for those who have helped them, but it takes a village to feed a great meal to 40 people! Setup is from 6:00-7:00 p.m. and then taco fiesta-themed dinner and fellowship from 7:00-8:00 p.m. Ideas for what we need: large quantities of salads, chips/salsa, guac, beans, grilled veggies, shredded beef/chicken/pork, seasoned rice, etc. Please RSVP to scyoungadults@gmail.com. Cambridge Rehab Wednesday, June 17 I 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Cambridge Rehab Nursing Home Share the gift of time with elderly folks at this nursing home by chatting with them to keep them company after a short prayer service. RSVP to t.davoli@gmail.com. Evening Prayer and Happy Hour Wednesday, June 24 Prayer - 6:30 the parish Happy Hour - 7:15 Dillon's We'll all walk over to Dillon's together after the prayer is finished. Please RSVP to scyoungadults@gmail.com. Community Servings - Volunteer opp Saturday, July 11 I 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 10 Marbury Terrace (JP) Save the date. More details to come. Red Sox - Tickets now available Wednesday, July 29 I 7:10 p.m. Last weekend to buy $30 bleacher seat tickets against the Chicago White Sox. You will receive a ticket via closer to the date. You may PayPal the money to ckc1025@gmail.com or purchase tickets after Masses. Camping Trip Friday, July 31 to Sunday, August 2 Shawme Crowell State Forest - Sandwich, MA We've reserved a group site that can fit 25 people. We need people to drive (with gas money reimbursement) and bring tents. We'll likely go in waves - leaving from church on Friday or Saturday to go down. We'll see what the group wants to do, but we'll probably hit the beach one day and hike the other. Cost: $15. Please RSVP to scyoungadults@gmail.com and send PayPal payment to ckc1025@gmail.com ( for other payment options). DONE TIME? Men who have been incarcerated are invited to join the Prison & After group which is designed to provide participants with a sense of welcome and support. The meetings are held on Monday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall. We will begin with a group session followed by a simple meal. For information, please contact Peg Newman at sc.prisonandafter@gmail.com. WANT TO GO FOR A WALK?! Gregg Ramsey, a Saint Cecilia parishioner and electric guitarist at our 6:00 p.m. Mass, provides dog sitting and dog walking services in the area. Anyone in need of these dog services can contact Gregg directly at HELP US CARE FOR THE POOR At least a few times each week, homeless men and women come to the parish office or approach a staff member after Mass looking for something to eat or a donation. While we do sometimes give out small amounts of money, we prefer to offer people a gift card to a local supermarket or fast food establishment. You have always responded generously to our appeal for gift cards, but once again, we are in need of having our supply replenished. If you are interested in helping out in this way, simply purchase a gift card and drop it in the collection basket at Mass or give the card to a staff person. At this point in time, gift cards to Shaw's and CVS would be most helpful. We are very appreciative of your assistance as we attempt to offer aid to the less fortunate in our midst. SEMI-RETIRED or RETIRED? EAGER TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK? The Ignatian Volunteer Corps is currently accepting applications for women and men age 50 and over. Volunteers for the Jesuit-sponsored program have the opportunity to serve the needs of people who are poor, to work for a more just society, and to grow deeper in Christian faith by reflecting and praying in the Ignatian tradition. Volunteers serve two days a week, and meet monthly with a Spiritual Reflector and other IVC members. For more information, contact Dave Hinchen, New England Regional Director, at or dhinchen@ivcusa.org. You may also visit their website at love the bulletin?! We are happy to announce that Pilot Printing is starting a new online initiative for the bulletins of the Archdiocese. Parishioners will now be able to get the electronic version of our weekly bulletin via on Saturday mornings. If interested, you can sign up at our parish page on the Boston Catholic Directory at Web_Parish.asp?ektronid=4338 by clicking on "Sign-up" button. 5

6 (Article continued from page 8) been a poet had I had the skill or the gift. What I have is a very little skill and a very moderate gift. She s also chewing over another big picture book on what she sees as a rapprochement between Western Judaism and emergence Christianity, and just musing on the idea starts her on a riff on the transformation of religion after the Reformation, which she then seamlessly links to the blockbuster Pew Forum survey earlier this month that showed Christianity quickly losing ground in the U.S. as the number of unaffiliated nones spikes sharply. It s all grist for Tickle s mill. Christianity isn t going to die! she exclaims, almost offended at the suggestion. It just birthed out a new tributary to the river. Christianity is reconfiguring, she says. It s almost going through another adolescence. And it s going to come out a better, more mature adult. There s no question about that. For Tickle, the most interesting cohort in the survey is not the usual spiritual but not religious, but the neither spiritual nor religious who get lost in the shuffle but are in fact the key to the future of faith. There is an honesty in their conversation and selfunderstanding that, it seems to me, makes them much more open to conversation and analysis and perhaps, ultimately, to persuasion than is true for other groups, she writes in a follow-up . I may be wrong, but I am, as I say, fascinated. Yet, that will have to be another book for another author. If that makes me a mystic, so be it As she reflects on her life, Tickle says she has always seen herself as a listener, something she admits may surprise those who know her literary output and her gift of gab. It s an inner voice, she says, that has always told her what to do, what was coming next in a life filled with so much variety. And it s a voice she has always obeyed. It s the truth. Just like I m told to do this, she says, referring to her terminal illness. Which is why it doesn t bother me. The dying is my next career. You can call it whatever you want to. Spooky? I hate the word mystical. It has such a cachet now. Like an exquisite and high-priced perfume. But if that makes me a mystic, so be it. A New Serenity Prayer By James Martin, SJ God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, which is pretty much everyone, since I m clearly not you, God. At least not the last time I checked. And while you re at it, God, please give me the courage to change what I need to change about myself, which is frankly a lot, since, once again, I m not you, which means I m not perfect. It s better for me to focus on changing myself than to worry about changing other people, who, as you ll no doubt remember me saying, I can t change anyway. Finally, give me the wisdom to just shut up whenever I think that I m clearly smarter than everyone else in the room, that no one knows what they re talking about except me, or that I alone have all the answers. Basically, God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I m not you. Amen David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and an award-winning religion journalist, author and filmmaker. He has written several books on Catholic topics. His latest book is on biblical artifacts: "Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery," which was also the basis of a popular CNN series. 6

7 Author Phyllis Tickle Faces Death As She Enjoyed Life: 'The Dying Is My Next Career' By DAVID GIBSON Over the past generation, no one has written more deeply and spoken more widely about the contours of American faith and spirituality than Phyllis Tickle. And now, at 81, she s working on her final chapter: her own. On Jan. 2, the very day her husband, Sam, succumbed to a long and debilitating illness, Tickle found herself flat on her back with a high fever, as sick as I ve ever been and racked by the cough from hell. The fever eventually subsided, but the cough wouldn t let go. When she finally visited the doctor last month, the diagnosis was quick, and grim: Stage IV lung cancer that had already spread to her spine. The doctors told her she has four months to live, maybe six. And then they added: But you re very healthy so it may take longer. Which I just loved! she says with her characteristic sharp laugh. Indeed, that s the kind of irony that delights Tickle, even in sober moments like this, and it embodies the sort of dry humor and frank approach that leaven even her most poignant, personal reflections. It s also central to the distinctive style, delivered in a rich Southern register, that has won her innumerable fans and friends who will be hard-hit by the news of her illness. Tickle has been writing almost since she can remember, with poetry the focus of her earliest efforts. At 21 she married Sam Tickle, a medical student and childhood friend from Johnson City, Tenn. He went on to become a doctor; she took a variety of teaching jobs and launched the first of what would become a series of publishing ventures. But Tickle really began to achieve prominence when she was recruited by Publishers Weekly in the early 1990s to start its religion division. Then her first big book, Re-Discovering the Sacred: Spirituality in America, came out in 1995, followed two years later by God-Talk in America. In poems and essays, homilies and memoirs, countless public talks that explored sociology and history and the next big thing, Tickle has diligently mapped the pathways of the heart and the demographics of the soul while becoming one of the nation s leading public intellectuals on all things religious. Am I grateful for this? Not exactly. But I m not unhappy about it. Even after she wound down her career on the lecture circuit last year at 80 she decided she d rather not spend up to 40 weeks a year on the road and away from her ailing husband and their beloved farm north of Memphis Tickle was still in good form. Her puckish humor and youthful vigor always pulled her beyond the travails of the day and kept her focused on future writing projects and a couple gigs as a visiting professor. She s best-known for a range of essays and books on faith and life, most notably and successfully her series on The Divine Hours, about the power of daily fixed-hour prayer. (Raised a Presbyterian, Tickle was drawn to the Episcopal Church and its liturgy and has called herself the world s worst, most devout evangelical Episcopalian. ) In 2008, her landmark work, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, probed how a new and vibrant Christianity is recovering elements of the past and carrying them into a whole new future. That s a theme she continued to develop in a 2013 book, The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church. She has yet more to say on that, cancer permitting. Taken together, Tickle s works combine the sprawling scope of historian Karen Armstrong with the finegrained command of sociologist Robert Bellah and the rural sensibilities of poet Wendell Berry. Throw in a dash of Thomas Merton s sense and spirituality for good measure. Tickle has earned her place as one of the modern spiritual masters of the late twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries, her friend and occasional collaborator Jon Sweeney writes in the introduction to an upcoming selection of Tickle s writings in Orbis Modern Spiritual Masters Series. What s just as impressive is that she did all this and raised six children a seventh, a son, died just two (Article continues on page 8) 7

8 (Article continued from page 7) weeks after he was born mostly on a 20-acre working farm, where the family moved in It was a big change for the kids after living for years in the upscale Central Gardens neighborhood in Memphis. They hated it, Tickle says in her Tennessee drawl. But they love the country life now, and the Farm in Lucy, as she calls it, has always been a backdrop, or even a character, in much of her work. In spite of this impressive literary lineage, however, it is the cancer that is shaping the last chapter of Tickle s life. And yet, she displays a remarkable equanimity in the face of this final, and most merciless, deadline. At 81 you figure you re going to die of something, and sooner rather than later, she says, sitting at her kitchen table for her first interview about her diagnosis. I could almost embrace this, that, OK, now I know what it s probably going to be, and probably how much time there is. So you can clean up some of the mess you ve made and tie up some of the loose ends. I am no more afraid of dying than I am of, I don t know, drinking this coffee, she continues, pointing to her mug. (It s actually filled with Postum since she s had to give up caffeine. She remains, thankful, though, that she can still drink a nightly whiskey. Jack Daniels, of course! she says, shocked at the suggestion that a Tennessee native would drink anything else.) During a morning-long conversation, Tickle is regularly interrupted by a nagging, sometimes racking, cough that alternates with her signature laugh. This is part of it, she says matter-of-factly. Her once boundless energy starts to fail by midday. She started radiation treatment on Thursday (May 21), mainly in an effort to forestall the possible collapse of her spine, which would leave her helpless and in intractable pain. That sounds a little formidable to me, she says. I was never much for suffering. She goes on, her words carefully chosen. Am I grateful for this? Not exactly. But I m not unhappy about it. And that s very difficult for people to understand. It s a gift How then, did Tickle reach such a state of grace so quickly and, seemingly, easily? Is it the wisdom of age? Years of religious practice? Or the relentless attempt, as Sweeney has written of her, to come to terms with the essentially and elusively spiritual in the world about her? Tickle s answer is as surprising as the revelation of her diagnosis: She had a near-death experience at 21, she says, thanks to an experimental drug she was given to try to prevent a miscarriage. In the middle of the night, she stopped breathing; her husband, a medical student at the time, was able to revive her long enough to get her to the hospital. Mine was a classic near-death. So, not much to say, she begins. I was dead. I was like a gargoyle up in the corner of the hospital room, she continues. And I remember to this day looking down and watching Sam beat on me again and screaming for the nurses, and the nurses coming with the machines and the whole nine yards. And then the ceiling opened and I just went out the corner and into a tunnel, which was grass all the way around. Ceiling, sides, the whole thing. And I went to the end of the tunnel to this incredible people call it the light. I guess that s as good a name as any. But an incredible peace, a reality, unity, whatever. The voice, which was fortunately speaking in English she laughs again said, Do you want to come? And I heard myself saying, No, I want to go back and have his baby, meaning Sam. She recalls that she turned around and went back down through the hole in the ceiling and into her body. It s a startling story coming from Tickle, and one her husband admonished her never to speak about, much as she wanted to. For him, a medical professional, it was simply a result of hypoxia, or lack of oxygen. That s not religion, he would say. Years later, he himself had a few uncanny spiritual experiences that softened his opposition, and in recent years she began to speak a bit about her episode, most recently and expansively to a television crew that s making a documentary on end-of-life experiences. You re never afraid of death after that, Tickle says of her long-ago taste of mortality. I m sorry. You could work at it but you d just never be afraid of it. You don t invite that kind of thing. It s a gift. It s not like you can prepare for it or anything. It s part of the working material you re given. Christianity isn t going to die! Yet it isn t material she has ever used though that could change. Tickle had been mulling a book on aging before her diagnosis, and she hopes to finish it, knowing that it will probably be informed by her new perspective. I hope it won t be another model, this-is-how-we-die thing, she says. If it veers over to that I ll be the first to burn the manuscript. Or pull the plug. She is also assembling a collection of her poems, though she is not as high on them as others are: I would have (Article continues on page 6) 8

9 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 Mark Donohoe, Pastoral Associate for Administration, Scott J. MacDonald, Director of Faith Formation and Leadership Development, Jeanne Bruno, Coordinator of Pastoral Outreach, Richard J. Clark, Director of Music and Organist, Caroline Gélinas, Executive Assistant, Maureen Sullivan, Special Projects Manager, Assisting Clergy Rev. Arthur M. Calter Rev. Mr. Ryan Duns, SJ Rev. Thomas Gariepy, CSC Rev. Peter Grover, OMV Rev. James Shaughnessy, SJ Rev. Michael Simone, SJ Rev. George Winchester, 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 a.m. Holy Days 8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Reconciliation Available at St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine ( x221), St. Francis Chapel in the Prudential Center ( ), and St. Anthony Shrine ( ). Please call for scheduled times. 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. For more information, please contact Scott MacDonald. Baptism for Infants Infant baptism is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month. For more information, please contact Mark Donohoe. Faith Formation for Children To register your child for our Faith Formation Program, please contact Scott MacDonald. 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) or Letitia Howland (l_howland@hotmail. 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 low-gluten 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 The church is accessible by elevator. Sunday Parking Reduced-rate parking is available on Sundays at the Prudential Center parking garage and at the Hilton Boston Back Bay. Be sure to have a greeter validate your parking ticket before returning to your car. Saint Cecilia Rainbow Ministry Saint Cecilia Rainbow Ministry is a GLBTQ community at Saint Cecilia. For more information, contact stceciliarainbowministry@gmail.com. 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 gathering space. 9