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Our Sunday Visitor and other events
June 19th, 2008
Serra Boston was featured In the June 8th edition of Our Sunday Visitor. Page 3 had a sidebar article telling of our “Pray for Our Priests” car magnets, with an accompanying photo. Fr. Mike Harrington, Assistant Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese of Boston, was quoted in the article. To date we have received requests for the magnet from Missouri, Indiana, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Maryland and Massachusetts. Clearly, the word is spreading fast!
Serra USA is looking into the possibility of getting involved with the distribution of the magnets on a national level. Two of our club members, Loretta Gallagher and Michelle Dickson, will be attending the national Serra conference in South Bend, Indiana from June 19-22, meeting Serrans from all over the country and attending various Serra workshops. We have been asked to present a short report on Serra Boston to the Vocations Committee; they are impressed with all we have done in so short a time.
Serra Boston was also in the news recently in the Vocations issue of the Pilot issued the weekend of the ordinations (May 23). We took out an ad congratulating the new ordinandi, and there was an accompanying article about Serra Boston. We have received several thank you notes from the seven newly ordained priests, thanking Serra Boston for the gift of a clerical shirt and collar. We are only too happy to have provided them, thanks to the donation of a generous benefactor!
Next meeting
At our next meeting on June 21, Fr. Dan Hennessey will give a talk on the recent Vatican document describing deep prayer and Eucharistic Adoration for an increase in vocations and the sanctification of the priesthood. There will be a day of Eucharistic Adoration in St. Mary’s chapel following the Serra meeting until 7:00 PM, sponsored by the St. John Vianney society. Why not invite some friends to join and spend some time in prayer in front of the Blessed Eucharist?
That’s all for now. Thanks for all your wonderful support and encouragement — we ARE making a difference in helping to create the culture of vocations that we all desire so deeply for our beloved archdiocese.
See you Saturday, God-willing!
June meeting: Saturday, June 21
May 31st, 2008
Our next meeting will be Saturday, June 21 at St. Mary’s Church at 133 School St., Waltham, MA.
The St. John Vianney Society is helping to organize an all day Adoration at St. Mary’s on June 21. Any Serrans able to cover some hours and spend time in front of the blessed Eucharist are invited to contact us at information@serraboston.org.
We hope to see you there!
Congratulations to Boston Ordinandi 2008
May 28th, 2008
Last Saturday, May 24, seven men were ordained to the priesthood. We congratulate the ordinandi on their choice to follow their calling to the priesthood! Several Serra Boston members attended the ordination at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.
As a sign of Serra’s commitment to affirm priestly vocations, each of the newly ordained priests for the archdiocese of Boston will receive a clerical shirt and collar from Serra Boston, along with assurance of prayer from club members.
Serra Boston is also planning to introduce an “Adopt-a-Priest” Apostolate, whereby every diocesan priest would be spiritually adopted by a layperson of the archdiocese.
Congratulations again to all our new priests!
Click here to view the ordination on Catholic TV.
You can read Cardinal Sean’s account of the ordination on Cardinal Sean’s blog.
“Vocations” episode of CatholicTV
May 10th, 2008
Brian and Loretta Gallagher of Serra Boston appeared on the May 6 episode of “This is the Day” on CatholicTV.
The May 6 episode was devoted to “Vocations,” and Brian and Loretta discussed the ways in which Serra Boston promotes vocations in the Archdiocese of Boston. They also bought “Pray for our Priests” car magnets for hosts Jay Fadden and Fr. Robert Reed.
If you missed this episode of “This is the Day,” you can see it on the CatholicTV web site.
- Click here to view the video.
- Let the video load a little - notice that the bar at the bottom gets darker as more of the video loads.
- Drag the white arrow below the long bar from left to right (about 1/2 of the way along the bar, after the cooking segment) to see the segment on Serra Boston.
Let us pray that this episode helps spread the word about Serra Boston, and provide more information on the ways people can support and encourage vocations to religious life.
Apr 26 meeting: The Papal visit
May 10th, 2008
Special thanks to those who attended our April 26 meeting.
Fr. Dan Hennessey shared his experiences during the weekend of the Papal visit, as well as his time at the Papal Mass in Yankee Stadium. Fr. Dan even got to kiss the pope’s ring, and told how powerful it was to kiss “the ring of the Fisherman.”
You can use the slideshow below to see video stills of Fr. Dan kissing the pope’s ring. The first photo was taken by a photographer at the event; all video stills are taken from EWTN’s video footage of the event.)
As a reminder, our next meeting is this Saturday, May 17. We will begin at 8:30am with Mass, followed by our monthly meeting at 9:30am.
We hope to see you there!
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