Enjoy yourself this Summer - Renew your spirit this Fall!  As you pack your bags and head out to your summer destinations, the ARISE Together in Christ Parish Planning Team wishes you a peaceful and relaxing summer season. 

While you are soaking up the summer sun and fun, we will be busy planning our parish's first season of the new spiritual renewal process that is sweeping the Archdiocese of Boston - ARISE Together in Christ.

When you get back, look for more details on how you can get involved in this process that offers the opportunity for new friendships, stronger faith, and a deeper relationship with God through prayer and the Scriptures in a small-group setting.  Sign-up Weekend is September 13-14, 2008.

For the journey, please take an ARISE prayer bookmark from the vestibule of the church to tuck into the pages of your favorite summer reading.  Please contact Bill Kirby (978-821-2556) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Don Wark (978-744-6338) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with more questions on getting involved.

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What is Arise Together in Christ?

The Arise process begins with a period of formation for the Arise parish team, a group of 8-10 parishioners who will lead the parish through a process of spiritual renewal.  Next fall there will be an opportunity for parishioners to participate in small faith-sharing communities tht meet in homes and other locations throughout the parish over the course of six weeks.  Over the next three years we will have the opprotunity to reflect on these basic Gospel themes:

About RENEW International

RENEW International is a canonically-recognized Catholic organization based in Plainfield, NJ, in the Archdiocese of Newark. RENEW International fosters spiritual renewal in the Catholic tradition by empowering individuals and communities to encounter God in everyday life, deepen and share faith, and connect faith with action. RENEW International has a 27-year record in revitalizing parish life in over 130 dioceses in the United States, touching the lives of 25 million people through its renewal processes. RENEW International also reaches many thousands outside the United States, having served people in 23 countries, across six continents and in 44 languages.

http://www.renewintl.org/