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[3-22-2020] Letter from Fr. Scott (please click below)

Letter From Fr. Scott Euvrard (March 23-2020)

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Peace be with you. As municipalities, states, countries, and global organizations continue to battle the threat of COVID-19 (coronavirus), please know the priority of our parishes is to promote the health, safety, and well-being of our parishioners, members of our staffs, and everyone in the local communities in which our parish communities exist. ...Read more

Friday, March 13, 2020 4:00 p.m. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we continue to follow the guidance of public health officials - local, state, national, and world - and the directives of the Archdiocese of Boston in the effort to contain COVID-19 (coronavirus), the Church's unique contribution to this effort is our spiritual resources. Please join in praying thi ...Read more

Fr. Scott's Thoughts: A brief word about how I am setting my weekend schedule... In a two-parish collaborative with only one assigned priest, seven Masses between Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening can be daunting. Add to that any Saturday morning funerals, weddings, whether with Mass or without Mass, and baptisms and it can be overwhelming. These parishes (and I!) are b ...Read more

Father Scott’s Thoughts: Something well begun is half done! Let’s have a good beginning. During Lent we focus on repentance and baptism. Those who are not yet baptized enter final preparations for Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist. We who are baptized devote ourselves to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving and embrace a spirit of repentance as we prepare to r ...Read more

Fr. Scott's Thoughts: Lent's Two Priorities: Repentance and Baptism As you read this, I am either preparing for, or amid, the return trip from my first-ever pilgrimage to Italy. What a blessing it has been that my sister Lynne, who has lived with her family in Madrid, Spain for over 25 years flew to Rome and joined me for the pilgrimage. The first part of the pilgrimage ...Read more

Fr. Scott's Thoughts: My Key Responsibility Areas Part II Last weekend I shared with you my belief that, with the ongoing decline in the number of priests available for assignment in the Archdiocese of Boston and the resulting increase in responsibilities for priests, often based on outdated expectations, it is important for me to focus on my key responsibility ar ...Read more

Fr. Scott's Thoughts: My Key Responsibility Areas Part I Though the number of priests available for assignment in the Archdiocese of Boston continues to decline and, as a result, the responsibilities landing on the priest’s plate continue to increase, the expectations people have for priests are often based on days gone by when the number of priests available for  ...Read more

As Death Comes Close: Approaching the moment of earthly death is an uncomfortable time for most of us. God gives us the Sacraments in our life so that we have a concrete real experience of God’s presence with us. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is the Sacrament that God gives us to experience His comforting presence when we are seriously ill or approaching death. “Ap ...Read more

Last weekend I had the privilege of traveling to Colorado to preach a spiritual retreat for Permanent Deacons and their wives. As you know, in our Church there are two kinds of deacons: Permanent and Transitional. Deacon Paul and Deacon Jim are Permanent Deacons. To be a deacon is the call they have received from God. A Transitional Deacon is someone who is going to be a priest, is in “t ...Read more