Thank you to all who came to give blood on Sunday, April 23rd. We had 29 individuals come to donate and 20 units drawn. We look forward to our next drive which will be in the summer. We will have more information as the time approaches. Thanks again to all for your participation in this life-sustaining and life-saving effort.
Join us on Monday 10 April at 7:00pm in the Parish Center as we begin our preparation for the Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary which will take place after the 9:00am Mass on Saturday 13 May, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. This date is especially important this year as it marks the 100th anniversary of the First Apparition of Our Lady at Fatima on 13 May, 1917.
The consecration will take place after Mass. There will also be an opportunity to be enrolled in the Brown Scapular and there will be the usual Saturday morning confessions.
This preparation to the Marian Consecration will follow the text by Fr. Gaitley, MIC “33 Days to Morning Glory” and is open to all men and women of the parish and their guests.
For more information call Janine Hammarquist in the parish office or email her at jlh@sfxparish.com.
Please join us for our annual School Gala on Friday 28th April, 2017 at 6:00pm at the Century House in Acushnet. This major school fundraiser will feature live and silent auctions and many other fun activities which will raise funds for our beloved school. Please support your school by reserving your place. Call our school at 508-995-4313.
Click here for an article in the Anchor about our Rosary Parties: http://www.anchornews.org/news/march-2017/03-10-17-1.html
A Message from Mary Cardoza
In October 2017, the church will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. Our Lady gave many messages to the three children and the one message that repeats in many apparitions is pray, pray, pray especially the holy rosary. God wants us to intercede for each other, and by doing so with persistent prayer, God can change any situation.
In my own family, I find urgency for intercessory prayer. My nephews and nieces are not getting married and the one’s that did 2 out of the three marriages ended in divorce. They are having children and some are not getting baptized and the ones that did get baptized will never see the inside of a church or learn any formal prayers. I do my best to invite them to come to church and they sometimes say they will come but don’t.
Their children will have children and anyone that had any knowledge of God to share with them will be gone and their children will have no knowledge of God at all. This is truly a crisis of faith! We as a parish can stand in the gap and pray with fervor and sacrifice that will bring God to do the miraculous. Here at Saint Francis we want to take Our Lady’s advice and fight back with the power of the rosary. With that said, I invite the whole parish in preparation for the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima to commit to coming once a month to the rosary parties at Saint Francis Xavier School.
What is a rosary party you ask? Glad you asked, we meet at the school auditorium once a month for 6pm and we use the living rosary for you and your whole family to say the rosary as a parish with all our petitions. After, we have refreshments and socialize. We will start November 27th and end in October 2017.
Seize this opportunity to pray as a parish, not only for ourselves, but also for our friends, families and neighbors to come back to the faith and turn to Our God so we can all enter His kingdom!
Rosary Parties
2016 -2017
6:00pm – SFX School
Sunday 27 November 2016
Sunday 15 January 2017
Sunday 19 February 2017
Sunday 5 March 2017
Sunday 2 April 2017
Sunday 21 May 2017
Sunday 25 June 2017
Sunday 16 July 2017
Sunday 13 August 2017
Sunday 17 September 2017
Sunday 15 October 2017
Join us as we pray the Holy Rosary
followed by Fellowship, Fun and Dessert.
So far the Rosary Parties have been extremely well attended. It is a beautiful thing when the parish comes together and prays together. Please join us.
Our next Parish Blood Drive, the first of the New Year, will be held from 7:30am to 1:30pm on Sunday, April 23rd 2017 in the parish parking lot (east-side). A very new and comfortable mobile-clinic will be parked to receive your donations which help sustain and save lives. October is especially a month in which the Church celebrates the dignity of human life in its image of God and its inviolability from conception until natural death. We thank all parishioners (and all others) who come to donate through their commitment to caring for others and upholding life. Please sign up after the Masses in the parish church entrance or call the parish office to select a time slot.
