Please join us each Sunday after the 8:45 AM Mass in O'Connell Hall for coffee hour. Good coffee, good food and good fellowship!!  

THERE WILL NOT BE COFFEE HOUR EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 21ST. 

PLEASE JOIN US
Saturday, April 27, 2019
5:30 PM in O’CONNELL HALL
Refreshments will be served
Guest Lecturer
Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ
Parkman Professor of Divinity and
Professor of Comparative Theology
Harvard Divinity School
“Being Catholic Interreligiously:
A Personal Insight into the Coming Church”

May 5th after the 8:45 AM Mass
Education Funding Crisis: A Call to Family and Community Education
Funding inequality has led to a crisis in our public schools. Education bills are on the current agenda of the Massachusetts legislature. Join us for a discussion of:

· WHY? Education funding is in the news: a brief history
· HOW? Current $$ levels have impacted our school systems
· WHERE? Sharon fits in; moral and economic perspectives
· WHAT? Are the major issues to be negotiated
· WHERE? You can make a difference: an invitation Presented by Sharon Interfaith Action

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Seniors, please join us on Wednesday, May 15th from 12:30 to 2 PM in O’Connell Hall for lunch and discussion. The discussion will be led by Sister Rosemary Mulvihill, CSJ regarding “The Seasons of Our Lives”. 
Please RSVP to Teresa Coda (781-784-2265 or  tcoda@olocssharon.org) by May 8th.

On Sunday, May 19, 2019, youth and adults in the parish will have the opportunity to volunteer at the Special Olympics Track & Field Competition at Milton Academy.  We will meet as a group in the Bullock Center at approximately 7:45 a.m. (time subject to change) and travel together to Milton, and will return to OLOS around 4:00 p.m.  Many volunteers are needed to make this event happen, and we especially need adult chaperones/drivers. To sign up, visit the service page. For more information about this event , please contact Teresa Coda at tcoda@olossharon.org.  Thank You!

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PASTOR’S DESK

The Easter celebration and those of the days leading up to it were the result of the hard work of so many people. They were above all great expressions of faith by the OLOS Community. Thank you to all those who took part in the preparations and to those who helped in any way to make these celebrations meaningful and beneficial to the life of our spirits. Thanks especially to all of you whose faith made these days cause for "Alleluia."

Of course the day was clouded by the bombings of hotels and churches, mostly Catholic in Sri Lanka. We pray for the reportedly 350 people who died and for their families. 

Christianity has an ancient presence in Sri Lanka possibly back to the time of the apostle Thomas. Thomas, the so-called doubting apostle is known to have travelled outside the Roman Empire to spread the gospel. He travelled to south India and possibly to what is now Sri Lanka where Christianity is thought to have been introduced as early as 72 AD. In any case, travelers to Sri Lanka in the fifth century testified to an established Christian presence there.

More Catholics are suffering persecution in our times at various places around the world than at any other time. Let us stand in solidarity and in prayer with our brothers and sisters as they attest with their lives to the person and message of the Risen Christ. The document of  Vatican II on religious liberty is entitled "Dignitatis Humanae" "Of Human Dignity." We make this biblical reality our own when we stand in solidarity with anyone anywhere who suffers because of their beliefs.

Again to all who participated in any way in our Easter, thank you for this great celebration of faith and for help in deepening my own. God bless you all.
 
~ Fr. Frank