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!!  

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@olossharon.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

MOTHER’S DAY
We want to ask special blessings for all mothers on this day dedicated to them.  None of us need to be told what joy and goodness they bring to our lives. Frequently people talk of their mothers in conversation even long after they have gone home to God.
Of course, our model is the Mother of God, Mary. As a young woman, she became the model for all believers because of her courage and acceptance in the face of being asked the impossible. Like our mothers, she cared for the Savior through all the adversity he faced in his life and endured the pain and heaviness of heart that made her Our Lady of Sorrows.
Like her, our mothers are there in good times and in bad, loving us no matter what and calling out in us qualities that make us more than we would be if they were not in our lives. Even when mothers due to human limitations that affect us all, may not live up to Mary the model, we are still bound to them by bonds of affection and care.
Today, to mothers and all women in our lives, thank you. We are so much more than we would be without your love and care.
 
FIRST COMMUNION
 
We congratulate those who are receiving their first communion this week-end. The Eucharist is at the heart and center of our faith and to have them join us in the fullness of communion is a great joy. Thanks also to their parents and all those on our staff and volunteers who helped prepare them for this signature event in their lives.
 
PASTORAL PLAN
The group developing our three year Pastoral Plan has received initial positive  feedback from the Archdiocese  and will now be moving to develop specific actions to flesh out the plan. Next week we will include it in the bulletin again and I will talk about it in the “Pastor’s Desk” column.
 
SACRAMENTAL SEASON
 
In addition to Communion and Confirmation, it is also time for ordination of priests which will take place in the Cathedral on May 18. This is the largest class Boston will ordain in a number of years.
Recently, I visited Pope St John XXIII National Seminary where I spent an academic year prior to return to ministry. One of the men who came as a first year student the year I was there was ordained for the diocese of St Augustine, Florida last Saturday. It was a joy to see him as a priest and I know he will be a good one. Another friend from Pope John will be ordained next weekend. He is a good friend, half my age. What a gift it is to have some of your friends be that much younger. In any case, it is another reason to give thanks to God when his sacramental presence is popping up all over the place like the new life of spring.
~Fr. Frank