Saint Charles Borromeo Parish Collaborative November 14, 2021

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PARISH OFFICE Parish Center, 8 Summer Street, Woburn, MA. 01801

781-933-0300; www.sccwoburn.com PARISH CLERGY

Rev John Capuci, Pastor x233, pastor@sccwoburn.com, 781-460-9502cell Rev Raphael Pinto, Parochial Vicar x234, parochialvicar@sccwoburn.com Rev Gilbert Ezeugwu, Resident scholar Rev Paul Mukasa, Resident Scholar

PARISH OFFICE Kathy Keady, Business Manager x230, businessmngr@sccwoburn.com Linda LaFauci, Secretary x229, admin@sccwoburn.com Joanne Campbell, Director Faith Formation & Music x242, faithformation@sccwoburn.com x501, musicdirector@sccwoburn.com

SAINT CHARLES SCHOOL 8 Myrtle Street Woburn, Principal Mrs Donna Cargill Our school enrolls students from pre-school through eighth

grade. 781-935-4635 x 226 or saintcharleswoburn.com SCHOOL OFFICE

Mrs Donna Cargill, Principal x226, principal@scswoburn.com Lisa Looby, Principal’s Assistant, x222

SACRAMENTS Baptism: Celebrated on the 3rd Sunday each month. To schedule, please contact the parish office.

Marriage: Please contact the parish office at least a year in advance. Reconciliation: by appointment, please contact a priest.

Sacrament of the Sick: First weekends of the month at after the 4pm Mass. Please remain in the front pew.

Care of the Sick & Elderly: Call the office to arrange a home or hospital visit or for the sacrament of the sick.

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL E-mail ppc@sccwoburn.com. Maryann Dellinger, Marcelo

Alves, Renata Alves, Sharon Black, Barbara Callahan, Tony Colon, John Coviello, Isela Donovan, Susan McNary,

Cynthia Pinto, Fr Raphael Pinto, Hilda Quiles, Alessandra Ribeiro, Bruny Ruiz, Kevin Young ST. CHARLES THRIFT SHOP

Currently not open—please do not drop off items. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRY

Tuesday 10am - 12pm , Wednesdays 6-7pm in the Parish Center. *Please call 781-404-5839 for an appointment.

St. Charles Borromeo Parish Collaborative

WEEKEND MASSES

Saturday 4:00pm, English, upper church Sunday 8:00am, English, upper church 9:00am, Portuguese, lower church 10:00am, English, upper church 12:00pm, Spanish, lower church

WEEKDAY MASSES

Tuesday - Friday: 11:30am in the lower church and live on our website sccwoburn.org

MASSES ARE LIVE STREAMED

Facebook Pages • English: Facebook.com/scbpc/ • Portuguese:

Facebook.com/comunidadecatolicawoburn • Spanish:

Facebook.com/hispanoscatolicadesancarloswoburn

PRAYER AND DEVOTION Eucharistic Adoration: • Tuesdays 7:30pm in the lower church. Rosary Group: Monday 6:30pm, lower church, Parish Center grotto in good weather. during the months of May & October M-F at 6:30pm St Charles Prayer Group: Wednesday after 11:30 Mass. Prayer line 781-933-0300 x 228

CHURCH ADDRESS 280 Main Street, Woburn, MA. 01801

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MASS INTENTIONS Saturday 11/13 4:00 pm Sunday 11/14 8:00 am Maria F Silva 10:00 am Augustine & Pauline Miele, Carolyn

Agostino, Henry & Charlotte Connolly Monday 11/15 No Mass Tuesday 11/16 11:30 am Buccelli Family Wednesday 11/17 11:30 am Kenneth Brophy Thursday 11/18 11:30 am Special Intention

11:30 am Friday 11/19

Pie Sale Relax and leave the baking to us!! We will be selling delicious (taste tested by Father John) Apple, Pumpkin and Blueberry pies for your Thanksgiving festivities after each Mass on the weekend of 11/13 and 11/20. Rumor has it there is a shortage on blueberry pies this year, we have them, so come and get them!!

Advent Fair Sat December 11th, 9am-2pm Look at what is coming back- St. Charles Advent Fair will be held in our Parish Center first floor on Saturday December 11 ,2021 from 9-2pm. There will be Christmas gifts. jewelry, a raffle and on this day the Thrift Shop will be reopened. Nancy Drinan asks for volunteers, and your dona-tions of jewelry only.

Spirit of Christmas Ministry The St. Charles Spirit of Christmas Ministry offers help to those in need at Christmas. Founded 33 years ago by our late parish secretary Karen Whitcomb, the Spirit of Christmas Ministry’s main objective was always to help the less fortunate parishioners of St. Charles get toys for their children for Christmas morning. Over the years St. Charles’ parishioners’ generosity has never failed her most neediest. We are now collecting giftcards to be distributed to families in need who have applied for help. December 1, 2021 is the deadline for gift card return. We wish to offer our families gift cards to local stores and online retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, along with Market Basket/Stop & Shop or any other local shop that could be of help to them. There are gift tags available in the churches and can be returned in the weekly collection. Also, the gift-cards can be dropped off to the Parish Center at 8 Summer Street, or the outside drop box on the front of the building. Please consider helping out our faith community with this effort. St. Charles provides for the needs of so many of its families. Please return giftcards by the deadline of De-cember 1st. As always, thank you !

Preschool– Grade 8 Open House St. Charles school will host an in-person Open House on Wednesday, November 17, from 5-7 pm. All inter-ested families interested in Preschool through Grade 8 are welcome! We ask those who attend to wear a mask in the school buildings.

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New Bulletin Company We are moving to a new bulletin company Pilot Bulletin. During the next few months, we would like to recreate our bulletin. It’s important to keep you all up to date as to what is happening in our Parish and school but we thought it might be a great time to hear what is happening with you!! News to Share? If you have something to share about Saint Charles, please reach out to Linda. It’s a great opportunity to hear what is going in our pews!

Grand Annual Campaign The FY2022 budget and Grand annual letter has been mailed. As you all know, this campaign is an extremely important request for support to our Par-ish. We have a goal this year of $110k and it is all earmarked for much needed repairs on the campus. Brian O’Donnell, Vice Chair Finance council will be presenting at each Mass. Thank you for your support in helping maintain this historical property.

A View from the Pew News from the Pews is a bulletin section we will dedicate to hearing from you! Each week we will hear from a parishioner about their faith walk. My faith journey began at birth and my faith educa-tion began in Kindergarten in a parochial school. I was diligent and focused on my faith throughout high school and college. My faith was formed a great deal by my grandparents example of going to church dai-ly as well volunteering and creating strong bonds with all clergymen and nuns. Around 2003, I did turn away from going to church for a myriad of doubts and frustrations both person-ally as well as with some with actions of the church but never lost my faith in God. In 2010, my husband and I started to feel we were losing our faith and needed to find a way to reconnect. While attending a funeral for my father in law we were really moved by the homily. Later that month we decided we needed a more dedicated path in our faith as well as with our son and our soon to be born daughter. We recommit-ted to weekly Mass as a family and it strengthened our faith, rejuvenated our commitment to each other and fostered new habits and traditions of our Catho-lic faith. One aspect of my personality has always been volunteering. As a child I enjoyed being a classroom helper and as a young teen I often was asked to be a mother’s helper with Moms with new babies. I felt called to volunteer where people needed help. I knew my whole life how important helping others was as a huge way to be like God. We joined St. Charles Parish about 3 years ago. Presently I volun-teer both at St. Charles Elementary School, St. Charles Church and St. Vincent de Paul. Volunteer-ing to me is a way of taking pride in St. Charles as well welcoming others to St. Charles and making their experience welcoming and warm. Volunteering also helps me feel closer to God and to be a good example to my children as well as to those around me. Being active in a community like St. Charles al-lows me to know more people as well to help people. From simply saying good morning as a Greeter at the door on Sundays to serving on the altar and per-forming the act of Eucharistic minister I feel closer to God. For me volunteering is the easiest way to express my love and appreciation I have for our St. Charles community. Kathleen Trowbridge

Church Ministry Volunteers Needed We need you and we cannot be a welcoming com-munity without you! • Mass ushers, welcoming ministry, to welcome

people to Mass • Regular Mass and funeral Mass assistants and

servers for all Masses. • Decorators for liturgical season changes in deco-

rations. • Catechists and helpers for our Faith Formation

program. Call the Parish Center 781-933-0300 x 229

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Registration Forms are now available online, in the churches and in the Parish Center 1st floor office for the coming year 2021-2022 for Faith Formation. *The focus is on family catechesis and getting families to Mass, prayer, and loving God’s Commandments.* If you would like to volunteer to assist the program, please contact Joanne Campbell our Faith Formation Director at 781-933-0300 x 242, or by email: faithformation@sccwoburn.com. Catechists and other volunteers are always needed and are our treasure. Upcoming dates: ♦ Family Mass Sunday November 14th at 10:00am. All students and parents should attend. ♦ Class dates are Sunday November 7th, Wednesday November 17th and Sunday November 21st

St Vincent DePaul St Vincent DePaul offers many different opportuni-ties for parishioners to use their skills. Are you going through some financial difficulty? Call us to see how we can help you. Currently, we have a need for funds to assist us in assisting you . We rely 100% on donations, from you! We have clients with rent arrearage, those who may need to get their utilities back on, obtain a supply of oil, or purchase clothing. Half depend on our food pantry for weekly shortages. Saint Vincent de Paul serves our community as a source of life improvement. For a large percentage of individuals and families in the city of Woburn, financial stability is more a dream than a goal. Our clients are struggling with hunger, keeping their home, clothing their children, and even getting medicine. Please consider a weekly or a monthly donation commitment. Please donate!!! No amount is too small. Take an envelope and drop it in the weekly collection bag. Envelopes are always available. Website: https://svdpwoburn.org/ Email them: svdpwoburn@gmail.com Follow them on facebook: @svdpwob

CORI forms and Protecting God’s Children Protecting God’s Children is an initiative taken by all the faithful. The protection of all God’s people is the priority of the Church . 2022 CORI forms are available for all our volunteers and servers. CORI Forms are located at the sacristy bulletin boards and can be returned to the Parish Center with valid picture I.D. Thank You ! Thank you to all our volunteers who so generously and graciously serve us in serving the wider commu-nity. We depend on you !

The one time Protecting God’s Children Trainings are still available virtually and have proven to be a blessing to those with busy schedules. In the conven-ience of your home you can attend one of these one-time trainings to better serve everyone. Take ad-vantage while this option is available and be trained in child protection. Virtusonline.org

Thank you for helping us to fulfill our commitment to our children.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

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New Organ! We had a truly beautiful beginning to the St Charles Organ dedication and blessing. Due to the great generosity of Mr & Mrs John Flaherty we have a new organ in the upper church. On Saturday November 6th at the 4:00pm Mass Bishop Mark O’Connell blessed our new organ and Wesley Hall played a great selection of some historic pieces of music that show off the exceptional quality of this new treasure of St. Charles. We are very thankful for everyone’s enthusiasm and participation in this historic event!