Please join us on Sunday June 24th after the 8:45 AM Mass in the Bullock Garden for the final coffee hour until the fall.
Come enjoy the beautiful space we are blessed to have at OLOS.

Beginning June 30th we will begin our summer mass schedule as follows:

Saturdays ~ 4:30 PM

Sundays ~ 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM

Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays ~ 9 AM

ALSO BEGINNING JUNE 30TH WEEKEND THERE WILL NOT BE A COFFEE HOUR ON SUNDAYS FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS. 

Do you ever find yourself wishing that you could hear what other parishioners seated in the pews think about the Gospel message of the day, share your thoughts about the daily readings or talk to the presider about the day's homily? Now is your chance to engage more deeply with the Liturgy of the Word through dialogue in community. All parishioners are invited to stay in the church after the 10:30 AM Mass on Sunday, July 15th to Continue the Conversation about the readings for the day and the homily with a discussion led by Fr. Clooney. The readings for Sunday, July 15th are Amos 7:12-15, Ephesians 1:3-14, and Mark 6:7-13.

Join us Saurtday, August 11th for the Annual Parish Cook Out in the BUllock Center Yard. Fellowship and fun for all parishioners and guests. OLOS will provide hamburgers, hor dogs, dessert and non-alcholic beverages. Please bring your favorite side dish to share (serving for 8-10 people). Cost is $7 per person and children under 5 are free. For more information or to volunteer contact Lynn at the parish office (781-784-2265) or email ljacobs@olossharon.org. 
PLEASE RSVP WITH NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND THE DISH YOU WILL BE BRING (JUST TO ENSURE WE HAVE ENOUGH) BY CLICKING HERE. 
IF YOU WISH TO PAY ONLINE PLEASE GO TO PAYPAL AND SEND TO LJACOBS@OLOSSHARON.ORG AND SELECT FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN THE PAYMENT TO OPTION.  

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PASTOR’S DESK

NEW CARDINALS SHOW UNIVERSALITY OF THE CHURCH
On next Friday, June 29, 2018, the Feast of St Peter and Paul, Pope Francis will create 14 new Cardinals. He will follow a pattern that he started early in his pontificate; choosing Cardinals that reflect the “universality of the Church that continues to preach the merciful love of God throughout the earth.”
 
The custom in the past has been to choose Archbishops predominantly from major cities mostly in the western world and officials of the Roman Curia, the administrative arm of the Church in Rome. Here in the United States, that generally meant the Archbishops of Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Today, only three of those Archbishops are Cardinals.
 
Pope Francis has departed from this custom in the recent past appointing a bishop from a small diocese in Haiti, an auxiliary bishop of San Salvador and in this new list a priest from a Spanish religious order. Those chosen to become Cardinals next Friday include Archbishops from Iraq, Pakistan, Madagascar and Japan, places with a very small and sometimes persecuted Catholic population.
 
A Christian leader in Japan commented on the appointment of Archbishop Maeda of Osaka, Japan. “The Church in Japan is extremely small, so the appointment of the bishop of Osaka as a cardinal is yet another example of Pope Francis’s emphasis on reaching out to the church on the peripheries, on the margins, and embracing a truly universal church. It is also a sign of this Pope’s particular commitment to Asia…  This appointment is in keeping with previous appointments of new cardinals in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Tonga,”
 
Reading this, I couldn’t help but think of our own ordination to the priesthood here in Boston on May 19, 2018.  Last Saturday evening I had dinner with two African priest guests and three of my classmates ordained for Boston in 1968. We were Hickey, Sullivan, Kelley and Daly.  This year’s those ordained were named Garza, Kim, Moreno, Nieme, Povera, Rora, and Velasquez and they represent Asia, Africa, Latin America as well as the US.
 
I concluded that the universality of the Church is not limited to exotic special events like a consistory of Cardinals. It is a phenomenon right here in our midst. In fact, it is a phenomenon here in our parish. Look around.
 
While we honor the contributions of those who built up the church here in the past, we are immensely enriched by the church’s universality, its catholicity and the Pentecostal promise that though we speak many languages and have different backgrounds, we are one family in the faith. What a great gift! What a great Blessing! Alleluia!
 
~Fr. Frank