The Faith Connection
Our sponsor for the month of July: Ralph, Judy and Marie Ware.
Deficit Collection
Deficit collection total to date: $6,066.
Lectors
Please consider donating your time and become a Lector! For further information, contact Bill Kirby, here.
Altar Servers
If there are any boys and girls who have made their First Holy Communion and are interested in becoming Altar Servers, please contact Lucia Majeski or leave a message at the rectory.
Seamstress/Tailor Needed
We are in great need of a volunteer to make baptismal bibs. We have the pattern to follow and some that are ready to be stitched up. Please call Marianne (978-532-5832) or the rectory (978-744-1930).
Eucharistic Ministers
There is a need for additional Eucharistic Ministers. If you are able to help with this ministry, please call the rectory at 978-744-1930 to leave a message for Marianne Laffy.
Bulletins
Please access our bulletins from previous Sundays. They contain important temporal information about our church, not necessarily available on this web site. Read more...
Cardinal Seán O'Malley
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Written by Ricard O'Jardin
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Saturday, 17 March 2007 |
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 Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially - but to some a derogatory term - Paddy's Day, is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (386-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17.
Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated worldwide by Irish people and increasingly by many of non-Irish descent. Celebrations are generally themed around all things green and Irish; both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food, imbibing Irish drink, and attending parades. 
As well as being a celebration of Irish culture, Saint Patrick's Day is a Christian festival celebrated in the Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland and some other denominations. The day always falls in the season of Lent. In church calendars (though rarely in secular ones) Saint Patrick's Day is moved to the following Monday when it falls on a Sunday. It is traditional for those observing a lenten fast to break it for the duration of Saint Patrick's Day whenever March 17 falls on a Friday.[1] 
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Rectory
Provides the administrative support for the parish and coordinates all catholic collaborative and secular community initiatives.
Coming Events
July 26th St. Anne's Feast Day Annual French Mass, 11 am August 17th 500 Club, 9:30 am Family Room September 13th-14th Sign-up Weekend for ARISE after all Masses September 17th Small Community Leader Training for ARISE program St. Adelaide's Parish, Peabody 7-9 pm September 21st Catechetical Sunday CCD Begins, Grades 1-5 October 4th-5th St. Anne's Bazaar October 19th CCD Begins, Grades 6-10 November 8th-9th Salem Catholic Schools Homecoming
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