ST. PATRICK PARISH CHRISTMAS EVE CONCERT
St. Patrick’s Choir will be holding a Christmas Concert
at 9:30 pm on Christmas Eve
just prior to the 10:00 pm Mass.
All are welcome!
CASH CALENDARS
St. Patrick School will be sponsoring Cash Calendars once again. Cash Calendars will be sold following each Mass, in the foyer of the Church, next weekend on December 13th and 14th. Daily drawings will be held January 1-31st prizes are $50. or $100. Additional calendars may be purchased at the Parish and School offices.
All proceeds benefit St. Patrick School.
Thank you for your support.
Holiday Helpers Christmas
Plant Deliveries
December 13th & 14th
Once again this Advent Season, we would appreciate your help with delivering plants to our homebound parishioners. During the weekend of December 13th and 14th, please stop by the Parish Council Room on the ground level of the Parish Center to pick up a plant and delivery sheet as you leave Mass. Please only deliver plants to the people at the addresses shown on the delivery sheets. **If you are unable to deliver the plant, please either return it to church or attempt delivery on another day. Be sure not to leave the plant out in cold weather.**
We truly appreciate your help in bringing our parish community’s prayers and loving concern to our homebound friends and neighbors.
Important Note Regarding
Scheduling Memorial Masses
Memorial Masses may be scheduled for your loved ones by calling the parish office. You may choose a weekday or weekend Mass. Additionally, we offer a Communal Memorial Mass Saturday at noon, where several people will be prayed for together.
We recommend that you call the office well in advance of the particular date you would like to schedule.
Our large parish size means that dates fill up quickly. The Mass calendar for next year is available.
Catholic Men
Iron sharpens Iron
Join your brothers for our next
St. Patrick Men’s Group series:
Men of Virtue
Join us Saturday mornings from 7:00-8:15 am
Thank You! We are very grateful to the 316 parishioners and families who have thus far generously contributed $109,992. toward our goal of $130,000. The average family gift has been $348.
The Grand Annual—which is entirely for our St. Patrick Parish—is a necessary part of our yearly budget. Our goal is to have participation from 100% of our parish family!
All registered parishioners will have received the mailing from us. Please fill out the pledge card and return. If you are not registered but are part of our family, you can make a pledge by mailing a check payable to Saint Patrick Parish Grand Annual, to 71 Central St., Stoneham, MA 02180, sending a check from your online banking account or clicking on the "Give" button or using our QR code here.
We are so grateful for your generosity!
On Christmas, the collection will be to support the retirement, medical and financial needs of priests in good standing throughout the Archdiocese of Boston. On behalf of all of our priests, thank you in advance for your generosity. For more information, please visit
www.clergytrust.org.
Parish Office Holiday Hours
The Parish Office will closing at noon on December 23. We will be closed Christmas Eve, December 24 through December 26th. The office will also close at noon on December 31 for New Years and will re-open Monday, January 5, at 10:00 am. Wishing all our parishioners a blessed Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year.
Registration is now OPEN for the 2025-2026 Religious Education School year! Go to Religious Education to learn about our In-Person Classes or Homeschool options for Grades 1-6 and our new two year Confirmation Program for Grades 7 and 8+. Older students or students who have missed a grade or a sacrament are asked to email the office to create a custom plan for getting back on track. Register today!
Students enrolled in the Confirmation Program are expected to attend the 6 pm Mass (families are encouraged to attend with them) and then stay for a class from 7-8 pm in Our Lady of Providence Hall. Dates of classes and the chapter to be covered at each class are available here.
The Confirmation Program this year is using the Confirmed in the Spirit book by Loyola Press. This 8-chapter book includes text, written response questions, and chapter reviews to be completed by the student. Students are expected to have read the chapter and completed the questions BEFORE attending class. This will ensure they have thought about the topic that will be discussed that week and be ready to fully participate.
During class the students will review the chapter and then break into small groups for guided discussion with the catechists. Finally, students will move back to the church for the last five to ten minutes of class where they will be led in a prayer activity before being dismissed.
Students should make every effort to attend every class. However, if a student is unable to attend class for a legitimate reason, he or she must complete the following and turn in the writing assignment by email before the next class:
The writing assignments can be emailed in PDF format to us at
reled@stpatrickstoneham.org. Please
do not send as Google Docs as we are unable to open them.
In Jesus, Friend of My Soul, each two-page daily reflection brings our attention to the Lenten season, providing reflections for growth and inviting us to follow Jesus and become more like him.
“As Christians,” Joyce Rupp writes, “we look to the person of Jesus to learn from him.” Because our lives are filled to the brim with activity, it is easy to drift away from trying to live as Jesus did, and we find ourselves in need of time to focus on drawing close to him again and learning from his example.
We will meet to share and discuss our experiences with these reflections on Monday evenings from 7:00 – 8:00 pm on March 3, 24, 31 and April 7 & 14. Registration is required. Please contact Diane McCarthy at 781-438-0200 or dianemccarthy@stpatrickstoneham.org. Cost of the book will be approximately $10.
Registration:
Registration is open now through September 30th.
Religious Education Registration is currently closed. If you need to complete your child(ren)’s registration, please email the office at
reled@stpatrickstoneham.org.
We want you to feel comfortable. After all, we are thrilled that you're joining us and want you to be more focused on the service than what you're wearing. In the summertime, it's not uncommon to see people wearing sandals, shorts, and a shirt. Others prefer to still put on their "Sunday best," and that's fine too! However, we do request that shorts be of a conservative length (no “short-shorts”) and that in general, clothing be respectable and conservative.
Our parish is located at 71 Central Street, Stoneham, MA 02180. Here is a map.
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There’s no need to be self-conscious about the postures and responses used during worship. Most visitors just follow the lead of the our parishioners. However, we do have worship aids located in each pew that provide you with the order of the mass, the postures, and the words to each prayer. If you don't see a worship aid in your pew, ask an usher, and they will be happy to bring you one.
Communion, or The Eucharist, is the most intimate expression of our faith. Catholics believe that the host is literally the body of Christ, transformed from bread by the priest presiding over the service. Most evangelicals think of Communion as symbolic, so it makes sense that they are not as strict about having the right relationship to it as Catholics and Orthodox Christians who believe it is a sacrament and the true presence of Christ. So, if you are not Catholic, we ask that you not receive communion. However, those not receiving the Body of Christ and Precious blood are invited to come forward with their hands crossed over their chests for a special blessing.
If you are visiting with us, we don't expect you to put money in the offering, and you are welcome to just let it pass you by. If you consider our parish your church home, we'd love for you to prayerfully consider giving to our parish on a weekly basis. You can give by check or cash during the service, or you can sign up for online giving here.
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