Please click here to find the Cardinal's November 17th statement on Massachusetts MACATHOLIC.ORG

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Say No To Roe- Call Now! The state legislature has extended the session until January 5th, 2021. Please remind the members of the Joint Committee on Judiciary that you oppose the expansion of abortion in Massachusetts. Please call the Committee at 617-722-2396 and let them know you are opposed to H3320 and S1209 – the ROE legislation. Every telephone call helps! Remember these bills would remove: The requirement that young girls obtain consent before an abortion The requirement that efforts be made to save a living baby who survives abortion. The requirement that late term abortions be performed in hospitals And the bills would allow abortion on demand for all nine months of pregnancy. For more information about how the ROE legislation would expand abortion in Massachusetts visit www.macatholic.org View Cardinal's Sean's Statement by clicking the title of this article.

Drive Thru/Drop Off Community Food Drive . This Saturday, June 27 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in St. Mary's Parking Lot. Donations of groceries & grocery gift cards are greatly appreciated. The Food Drive is in support of the Hanover Food Pantry and the Hanover Schools Outreach program. For more information, please contact Rita Foley at RitaFoley@gmail.com.

Join us online for Holy Week! We will be livestreaming the Sacred Triduum and Easter Sunday Mass from St. Mary's. Tune in on YouTube.com/LifeTeenSMASH or our Facebook pages ( St. Mary's, St. Helen's, or Life Teen SMASH).

Holy Thursday at 7:15 p.m.
Good Friday at 7:15 p.m.
Holy Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Easter Sunday at 11 a.m.

You can also access the livestreams by using the videos below.

There will be no 9:00AM Daily Mass on Tuesday, December 24.

If you did not get a Pilot newspaper you can still catch up with the Mercy Sews clothing delivery to Bishop Dennis in the Central Republic of Africa here! Or come to our next meeting, Saturday January 28 at 10:30AM at St. Mary's Parish Center.

When school is cancelled in Hanover OR Norwell, there will be no 9 a.m. daily Mass. In such instances, it is unsafe for parishioners to be on the roads. If there is an intention, it will be moved to the next available daily Mass. CatholicTV televises daily Mass, which makes for a great alternative on these infrequent occasions. Thank you for understanding!

Thursday, November 3rd at 7:15PM in St. Mary's Parish Center, we will hold a training session for ministry volunteers. It is mandated by the Archdiocese that all ministers see the Protecting God's Children video at least once. Also we need to do a CORI form (background check) every year. If you have already seen the video, please stop at the beginning of the evening and fill out a new CORI form for 2017. If you have any questions, please contact Maura Dowling at mdowling@holymothers.com or call (781) 826-2351. Future daytime training session are planned and will be posted when dates and times are set.

Thank you to the over 270 children who participated in Summer CCD these past 2 weeks as well as all the teachers and helpers. It was AWESOME!!

VOTE!! Ballots for the Parish Council Elections will be at all Masses this weekend. Please select 6 nominees from each parish to represent you on the Holy Mothers Collaborative Parish Council.

2016 vacation Bible Camp registrations are now being accepted online. Camp will run August 15-19 at St. Mary's Parish Center from 9 to Noon each day. This is a 1 week camp for campers age 4 going into Grade 4 (in Sept). Join us for a fun-filled week of bible stories, music, and crafts. Please call the Parish center with questions or email Ellen McDonough at emcdonough@holymothers.com

Due to the illness that has been around town the last few days, it has been decided that the Family Rosary should be canceled for tonight. Thank you for your understanding!

Response to the request for nominations to the Parish Council for the Holy Mothers Collaborative has been very good. We will be publishing information about the nominees shortly and have therefore removed the blank nomination papers from our website. Thank you for your participation and stay tuned!

Our Grade 3-5 Summer Religious Education registration form has been turned off as we have filled the program to capacity including a wait list registrations. We will be confirming current registrations and will notify wait listed families if there is room for your child(ren). We expect to get back to those on the registered wait listed this week. Thank you!

By request of the Cardinal, this weekend we kicked off the Catholic Appeal at all our Masses. Pledge envelopes are available at the back of our churches as well as in our parish office if you did not receive one. You can also learn more or donate by going to www.bostoncatholicappeal.org. Thank you for your generosity!

Lent is a time of renewal - not only a spiritual renewal, but also a physical renewal. The "Walk to Jerusale" program exercises souls and bodies throughout Lent with an “imaginary trip” to Jerusalem, ending this Sunday, March 20 (Palm Sunday). Our goal is to accumulate enough miles collectively to reach Jerusalem by Palm Sunday, March 20. We will collectively travel 14,717 miles to Jerusalem. Four Parishes are joining together to complete our epic journey through North and South America, across the Atlantic Ocean, up Africa and into Jerusalem by Palm Sunday, the day Jesus rode into the ancient city. Our way points along the trek are Catholic Churches. Participating parishioners log miles in many ways: walking, participating in any physical activity, and dedicated prayer (for those unable to physically exercise). More to come on mileage equivalents and ways to log miles… We will publish weekly prayer cards to Pray and reflect as you walk but you can also find a copy here if you click on the title of this article. For more information contact Judy Nicotera at (617) 827-1908 or djn4@verizon.net

With the winter weather upon us, we encourage you to sign up for our text alert system. Many of you may already use this messaging system with your 6 - 9th graders in LifeTeen. We plan on only using the system for cancellations or major changes to the schedule (ie: if drop off and pick up is at the church instead of the Parish Center) You can sign up for as many days as are appropriate for your family. Just text the code of your child's religious ed day/days to 81010. The codes are as follows: Monday = @HMCMon Tuesday 3:00pm = @HMC Tues300 Tuesday 4:30pm = @HMCTues430 Thursday = @HMCThur . Please be sure to include the @ symbol or you will get an error message.

The 6th and 7th Grade Edge class originally scheduled for January 24 has been cancelled.

Preparation for adults who are baptized Catholics and who have received their First Holy Communion but were never confirmed are scheduled to be held at Saint Mary’s on the following dates: Sunday, March 6 from 11 a.m. to noon Sunday, March 13 from 11 a.m. to noon Sunday, April 3 from 11 a.m. to noon Sunday, April 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those interested must attend all four sessions. All confirmandi need a sponsor who must be a confirmed Catholic; often a godparent or someone in their life who is a witness to the faith. It is preferable that the sponsor not be a spouse or parent. Those attending these sessions will be confirmed by Bishop John Dooher on Sunday, April 17 at 1 p.m. at Saint Jerome’s, 236 Pleasant St, Weymouth, MA. For more information and to schedule a mandatory initial appointment, please contact Ellen McDonough at (781) 826-4303 or emcdonough@holymothers.com.