St. Francis Xavier/St. Theresa Parish Announcements
 

WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE
JULY 5/6 - AUGUST 30/31

Saturday Vigil:
4:30 P.M. St. Theresa Church

Sunday Masses:
7:30 A.M. St. Theresa Church
9:00 A.M. St. Theresa Church
10:30 A.M. St. Francis Xavier Church
 Remember that St. Theresa’s is air conditioned in the event of a heat wave.

Coffee Shop will reopen 
following the 7:30 A.M. Mass at St. Theresa’s on Sundays beginning July 6. 
However, there will be no coffee shop after any of the other Masses during the summer months.

Please register your child for Religious
Education Class Fall 2008.
If you have questions, contact Loretta DiPietro at 978-456-8807 or dipietrodre@aol.com. Forms may be downloaded from our website: www.st-theresas.org or www.stfrancisbolton.org or use this Link  Registration Form

Congratulations
...to Brad Guinta Eagle Scout, Troop 1, Bolton, MA 
...to Jessica Guinta on receiving the Girl Scout Gold Award;
...and in other Guinta news, Best Wishes to Mark and Kathy Guinta on their 25th Wedding Anniversary!

SAVE THE DATE
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
PARISH PICNIC

 

Baccalaureate Mass Attendees Class of 2008

Lauren Andrews ~ Marissa Bilancieri ~ Mary Collett ~ Colin Costello ~ 
Ariel Geist ~ Kylie Gordon ~ Julie Heislein ~ James Jarvis ~ Catherine Johnson ~
Kathryn Kennedy ~ Samantha Leahy ~ Amelia Mazzola ~ Sarah Muzyka ~
Hillary Rowse ~ Jordan Schnipke ~ Tyler Swearingen ~ Andrew Walter ~ Elizabeth Zayka

We are very proud of all our altar servers in both Churches. We are especially grateful to the four senior altar servers who are graduating this year and who were honored at the Baccalaureate Mass Kathryn Kennedy, Hillary Rowse, Tyler Swearingen and Andrew Walter. We thank you for your years of service.

 

About the Fr. Normand Gaumond Memorial Award

Within weeks of the death of Father Norm on March 6, 2005, a committee of parishioners formed to choose ways to celebrate his life while honoring his memory. Richard Blinn painted a poignant visual rendering which hangs in Deacon Hall. The children of the parish raised funds to buy a tree which was planted in the front yard of the rectory and marked with a plaque.

The Father Normand Gaumond Memorial Awards are given to graduating seniors who exemplify faith in action both within our parish community and the community at large; are in good academic standing and have chosen to go on to higher education.

Congratulations to 
Kathryn Kennedy and Hillary Rowse, 
this year’s recipients of the Father Normand Gaumond Memorial Award.

Kathryn Kennedy has been a member of St. Theresa’s Parish since she was five and she relates her faith journey to this parish and the teachers and mentors who have helped her form her sense of faith. Kathryn has been visible to all of us as an altar server for the past 7 years and as someone who is always here, usually tending to a younger sibling as she arrives in the pew. Kathryn has been very involved in the life of the parish helping out wherever she sees a need or opportunity to serve, especially assisting with religious education of the younger kids and helping with our Living Nativity on Christmas Eve and the Town Christmas pageant as choreographer. Kathryn is known as a young woman of great patience, commitment, humility and organizational ability. We are proud to have her as a member of this parish. We congratulate Kathryn and thank her for her service to St. Theresa’s and we wish her well as she continues her education nearby at the College of the Holy Cross.

Hillary Rowse has been with us at St. Theresa’s since birth. She has a real appreciation of the parishioners who have helped her on her faith journey through its ups and downs. She is not afraid to question, and will seek answers to her adult faith questions. Hillary has been visible in the sanctuary as an altar server for many years and also did a stint in the Children’s Choir. Hillary has also enjoyed helping with children’s activities for the parish picnic. She is known as a hard worker, sincere, mature and fun loving. As a young adult she has witnessed to her faith by participating in the Mexico mission trip last year and by volunteering at Camp Sunshine. These experiences gave her a real sense of faith and what it means to be a committed Christian. We congratulate Hillary; we thank her for her many years of service to St. Theresa’s and we wish her well as she continues her education a little further north at Colby College.

Thank you to the following contributors who have helped to perpetuate and make this award possible:

2007 Contributors:
Jerry Callahan, Loretta DiPietro, 
James Ellis, Tina Folia, Susan and Peter George, 
Chris and Rick Hoeske, Paula and Mike Noga, 
Barbard Radtke and Andrew Hodyke, 
St. Theresa Parish High School Youth Group, 
The Estate of Rita Wargo, Carol Lee and Tom Tonge. 
Also, donations were made 
In Memory of Rita and Ed Wargo by Virginia Lee 
and In Memory of Vernabelle Sanders 
by Kathy and Sy Brule, Mary and Steve Keville and Father Dennis.

Loaves & Fishes Food Baskets
Need Replenishing
At the entrances of St. Theresa Church there are baskets for Loaves & Fishes. Folks anonymously leave non-perishable food products in these baskets, then volunteers bring these to the food pantry at Devens, once a week. We are told that the past several weeks there was not much to bring. They are always looking for cereals, hamburger helper, canned goods, pasta, etc. Can you help?

This year at the July 4 Parade in Harvard
we would like to enter a float representing St. Theresa’s Church. If you might be interested in organizing this project, please speak with Father Dennis.

A special thank you to Tom Lynch for the beautiful
ambry he built and installed at St. Theresa Church.

 

Prayer Shawl Group
        Will Meet Wed., at 10 a.m.
            in Deacon Hall Library

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
St. Theresa Church Mondays 9:30 - 11:30 A.M.
St. Francis Xavier Church Thursdays 5 - 7 P.M.
There are sign-up sheets in the back of both churches.

 

Bible Study
Mon. evening, from 7 - 8 p.m.  
St. Theresa’s Deacon Hall
 Study materials are supplied and include the Gospel reading with commentary 
as well as a booklet of questions used as a guide for our discussions. 
All are welcome, and feel free to join us whenever you can. 
For more information please call Connie Grabowy at 978-456-6822.

 

Parishioners at St. Francis and Saint Theresa are always welcome to invite relatives or friends who are priests to celebrate baptisms, weddings or funerals.

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Last Updated on 07/01/08
By Loretta DiPietro