centennial celebration of St. elizabeth’S CHURCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 16TH AT 11:00 AM WITH bISHOP EDGAR DA CUNHA

We are currently asking our parishioners to help us with collecting any history or photographs taken inside or outside of St. Elizabeth’s. We are gathering this information to publish a centennial book for this event. Others are getting business ads for the publication along with any other communications. Would you like to be involved? Please call the office. A social gathering with light refreshments will follow the 11:00 am Mass on the lawn. Please join us!

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Fed by Word and the Eucharist, we are the Body of Christ called to WELCOME, WORSHIP, and GROW in relationship with Christ who leads us to SERVE and INVITE others to DISCIPLESHIP.

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Financial Support for the O’Connell House & the Sisters of Good News
 

This is the first 13-room residence in MA which provides comprehensive services to women who have been sex trafficked. These women may be pregnant and/or have a small child. It is a place where dignity will be restored and healing can occur. The unique 24/7 “Sister Care Model” delivers trauma-informed care which supports their complex needs with compassion, while being the loving nurturing presence the women so desperately need.

The November Gala was a huge success! See the difference your support has made this year (January – October 2025):

Parishioner Deb O’Hara-Rusckowski, co-founder of The O’Connell House and delegate for the United Nations representing the Order of Malta said: “Many thanks to our friends and supporters on Martha’s Vineyard! We so appreciate all of you!!  Thank you for keeping our women, and their children, in your prayers as they heal from the horrors of being trafficked.” 🙏 

Visit their website: http://theoconnellhouse.org or follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheOConnellHouseMA

Checks can be made out to The O’Connell House, Inc. and mail to: The O’Connell House, P.O. Box 9568, Lowell, MA. 01853. 

Please keep them and all victims of human trafficking in your daily prayers!

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Prayer for Priests – St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Join us every Thursday in praying for priests.

Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;
for your unfaithful and tepid priests;
for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields;
for your tempted priests;
for your lonely and desolate priests;
for your young priests;
for your dying priests;
for the souls of your priests in Purgatory.
But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:
the priest who baptized me;
the priests who’ve absolved me from my sins;
the priests at whose Masses I’ve assisted and who’ve given me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion;
the priests who’ve taught and instructed me;
all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way, especially our pastor Fr. Joseph, Fr. Edivar, & all priests who have served on Martha’s Vineyard.
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen.

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