Our parishioner Steven Booth will soon be finishing his summer assignment at St. Pius X Parish in Falmouth and starting Major Seminary in September. Steven recently graduated from Providence College with a degree in Philosophy minoring in Classics. During his time at PC Steven attended Our Lady of Providence Minor Seminary. Steven is studying for …
During the months of August and September St. Francis Xavier will be holding a Bible Drive to ensure that our parishioners have a good version of Sacred Scripture in their homes. Not all Bibles are the same we recommend the Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition. During the coming year we will holding Bible Study …
In July 2016 St. Francis School was notified by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges of its continued accreditation. SFX was first accredited in 2006. Every ten years an accreditation teams visits the school and evaluates a series of criteria to determine accreditation. Accredited schools have proven their compliance with a certain set …
This year’s Altar Boy Boot Camp (ABBC) took place 27-29 June. ABBC is a three day event for the altar servers of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet MA. It involves the training of new servers and the honing of skills for accomplished servers. There is also training for MCs who are our older young …
Thanks to all who donated blood this past Sunday, July 17th. We had 33 donors show up that day with 8 deferrals and 25 units donated. Monsignor O’Connor and the Events Committee extend their gratitude for your participation in this great Pro-life effort.
St. Francis Xavier School teaches Latin in the 7th and 8th Grades. Each year students along with some other 154,000 students throughout the United States and various other countries take the National Latin Exam. The Philosophy of the NLE is as follows: The philosophy of the National Latin Exam is predicated on providing every Latin …
In Rwanda there is a shortage of footwear among many communities. This leads to all sorts of illnesses and sometimes can exclude the children from attending school. In the build up to Christmas 2015 we asked our parishioners to donate $10 to buy a pair of shoes for our friends in Rwanda. These donations could …
THE ORIGINAL IMAGE OF DIVINE MERCY A DOCUMENTARY A team of documentarists travel through Europe and the United States uncovering the details of the untold story about the little-known Original Image of Divine Mercy. In 1934, at the request of Jesus himself, Saint Faustina and her confessor, Blessed Fr. Michal Sopocko, secretly began working with …
Men’s Day of Recollection with Guest Speaker Dr. Anthony Esolen. Saturday 27th Feb 2016. Starts at 9:00am with Holy Mass in the parish church and then we move up to the school for refreshments and our 1st Conference. Our first speaker (10:00am) is our own Pastor, Msgr. Gerard O’Connor, the topic of his talk is: …
Dr. Anthony Esolen the well-known speaker and professor of English at Providence College will give two talks at the upcoming Men’s Day of Recollection organized by the Men of St. Joseph at St. Francis Xavier parish in Acushnet, MA. The day is Sat 27 Feb from 9:00am – 3:00pm. Dr. Esolen’s two talks entitled The Imagination …