Our Lenten journey with Our Lord has brought us to Palm Sunday with his entrance into Jerusalem and Way of the Cross.  In our first half of Lent, we were called to Gospel conversion through penitential practices with a particular focus on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.  In the last couple of weeks, the Church shifts its attention to the mystery of Jesus Christ, Son of God, who is the source of eternal life for all who believe in him.  As our Catechumens prepare to enter into full Communion with the Church by receiving the sacraments of initiation, so the Faithful, similarly, ever more attentive to the word of God and prayer, prepare themselves by penance for the renewal of their baptismal promises at Easter.

And it has been a busy Lent at that!  We have strived as a parish staff and volunteers to offer a full complement of spiritual practices and community events to enter more deeply into the season of Lent and grow in our knowledge, discipleship, and love of Our Lord.  The intensity of our schedule reflects the fact that we are still strengthening as a parish and adjusting to the reality of yet another turnover of individual staff members.  Thank you all for your participation in making our Lent an enriching experience and a special thanks to the many helping hands that made our variety of gatherings work.  May the Lord continue to bless the Parish of the Transfiguration as we enter Holy Week and celebrate his Paschal Mystery.

May is a Marian month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary who always walks with us at our side and teaches us to believe as she believed. 

The Ladies Sodality meeting will be held on Thursday, May 1st from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at St. Dorothy Church.  We will begin with the rosary and the crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary upstairs followed by our meeting and fellowship downstairs.

The Ladies Sodality Mother's Day Flower Sale 

Saturday, May 10th - 9:30am - 5:30pm

St. Dorothy's Church Hall.  

We will have beautiful potted and hanging plants along with cut flowers at great prices!  We will also be selling rosary bracelets for only $5 each. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted.  All proceeds will benefit the Ladies Sodality. We appreciate your support!

Please click here to watch a short video on the Catholic Appeal

FIRST SATURDAY MASS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

9:00AM IN ST. THOMAS CHURCH 

Rosary begins at 8:30am.  Guided meditation and Confession follows Mass. 

To keep the First Saturday Devotion in reparation for the sins and blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart and to receive the graces promised from it, one must attend Mass and receive Holy Communion, pray the rosary, and meditate on a mystery on the Rosary for 15 minutes. All are welcome to join us in this devotion to honor the Blessed Mother

Father in heaven, may the faith you have gifted us in your son Jesus Christ, our brother,

and the flame of charity kindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom. 

May your grace transform us into diligent cultivators of the evangelical seeds that make humanity and the cosmos rise unto the confident expectation of the new heavens and the new earth when,  with the powers of Evil overcome, your glory shall be manifested eternally. 

May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, the yearning for heavenly treasures  and pour over all the earth the joy and peace of our Redeemer.

To you God blessed in eternity, be praise and glory for ever and ever.  

Amen.

A CORI FORM must be completed EVERY YEAR BY ALL VOLUNTEERS,  The new year began July 1, 2024 and will continue through June 30, 2025  

NEW (FY) 24/25 CORI FORMS are available in the sacristy of both churches and at the Parish Office.   

A Code of Conduct will be given to All New volunteers when the Cori is returned to be verified. 

Again all volunteers must complete a CORI background screening prior to beginning ministry and annually after that. 

All  Staff and Volunteers including all those in worship ministry, must complete a Protecting God’s Children VIRTUS TRAINING CLASS . 

The Training class is only needed to be taken once.. 

A Training class will be held: 

Sunday, July 28th after the 8am (9:15am)Mass in the downstairs of St. Thomas Church and

Thursday, Aug 22nd in the downstairs of St. Dorothy Church at 6pm 

Please sign up by going to:
www.VIRTUSonline.org 

Do you like to carve wood?  We create handcrafted ornaments that we sell to provide money to vets and other people in need.  We meet on the first Saturday of every month in the basement of St. Thomas Church from 10AM to 4 PM. For More information, contact:   darren_boehm@yahoo.com

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Faith Formation Registration is now open for 2024-2025. Click here for the registration form. We also offer an adaptive faith formation class for students that need more assistance in the classroom. We also offer a heritage faith formation session class for students that have missed 1 or more years of faith formation and would like to return. If you have any question please email jeaniep@parishofthetransfiguration.org or call 978-658-6040.

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Looking for spiritual help and support from addiction? Click here to learn more.

SATURDAY MORNING MEN'S PRAYER GROUP MEETING. Click here to learn more.

CATHOLIC TV DAILY AND SUNDAY MASS

Cardinal Seán encourages Catholics to participate in the daily and Sunday Masses broadcast from the CatholicTV chapel.

• Daily Mass airs live at 9:30am and is rebroadcast at 7pm and 11:30pm.
• Sunday Masses air throughout the day at 10am, 4pm, 7pm, and 11:30pm.
• The Sunday Spanish Mass airs live at 8am and is rebroadcast at 5:30pm and 10pm.

Viewers can watch these Masses on demand at any time at www.WatchtheMass.com. For more information about CatholicTV and where you can watch it, visit http://www.catholictv.org/.

Forgive us for the war, Lord. Lord Jesus, son of God, have mercy on us sinners. Lord Jesus, born under the bombs of Kyiv, have mercy on us. Lord Jesus, dead in the arms of a mother in Kharkiv, have mercy on us. Lord Jesus, in the 20-year-olds sent to the frontline, have mercy on us. Lord Jesus, who continues to see hands armed with weapons under the shadow of the cross, forgive us, Lord. Forgive us if, not content with the nails with which we pierced your hand, we continue to drink from the blood of the dead torn apart by weapons. Forgive us if these hands that you had created to protect have been turned into instruments of death. Forgive us, Lord, if we continue to kill our brother. Forgive us, Lord, if we continue to kill our brother, if we continue like Cain to take the stones from our field to kill Abel. Forgive us if we go out of our way to justify cruelty, if, in our pain, we legitimize the cruelty of our actions. Forgive us the war, Lord. Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, we implore you to stop the hand of Cain, enlighten our conscience, let not our will be done, do not abandon us to our own doing. Stop us, Lord, stop us, and when you have stopped the hand of Cain, take care of him also. He is our brother. O Lord, stop the violence. Stop us, Lord. Amen.          Pope Francis