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An important Meeting for all Parents of Confirmation Level 9 and Level 10 Students will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 in the Upper Church from 7:00-8:00 PM. This mandatory meeting will include all of the information parents will need to prepare their child for this sacred Sacrament.
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The next monthly meeting and Halloween Costume Party will be held on Thursday, October 18 **note the date change** at 7 p.m. in the Parish Hall.
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Cribs have been set up at all church entrances for gifts and cash donations during the entire month of September. Baby Bottles are available to take home during the month to collect your coins and spare cash, while we encourage contributions of unwrapped baby items to be placed in any of the cribs during the month. All proceeds and gifts will be donated to First Concern Pregnancy Resource Center right here in Clinton, MA. The Baby Shower will conclude on September 30th with a Pro-Life Rosary at 1:00 pm in the Lower Chapel. Please be as generous as you can for the blessing of LIFE. Thank you.
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Don't forget! Religious Education Classes start the weekend of September15th. This year, we will offer the following classes: Level K - First Saturday of the month 9-10 AM Level 1 and Level 2 - (two-year First Reconciliation and First Communion Preparation) - Saturday Morning 9-10 AM only Level 3, Level 4, and Level 5 - Sunday Morning 8:00-8:45 AM OR Monday 3:30-4:30 PM Level 6 and Level 7 - Sunday Morning 8:00-8:45 AM OR Tuesday 3:30 - 4:30 PM Level 8 - Sunday Morning 10:00-11:00 AM OR Tuesday 3:30 - 4:30 PM Level 9 - (First year of Confirmation Prep.) - Sunday Morning 9:00 - 11:00 AM (Mass and Confirmation class) Level 10 - (Second year of Confirmation Prep.) - Sunday Morning 9:00 - 11:00 AM (Mass and Confirmation class) until Christmas. Then, on January 6, 2019, Level 10 Immediate Confirmation Preparation begins and the class time moves to Sunday EVENINGS from 6:00 -7:30 PM. Please register immediately if you have not done so. Registration forms can be found at all of the entrances of the Church and downstairs in the Hall. A downloadable form is also available on our website at www.stjohnsclinton.org. See you soon!
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We are very excited to offer a NEW Preschool Program for children ages 3, 4, 5 on Sunday mornings from 10-11 AM. Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a Montessori based religious education program specifically designed to lead the little child and his/her entire family to a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus through Scripture and the Sacraments. Mary Pat Heelan will be offering this program beginning in October. If you are interested, please come to an CGS Open House on Sunday, September 30 from 10-11 AM in Room 4 in the lower Church Hall. For more information, please contact Mary Pat Heelan at mheelan@worcesterdiocese.org or Mary Anne Kennedy at mkennedystjohnsclinton@gmail.com
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The CARE Food pantry is having its 3rd Annual Chicken Shoot Meat Bingo fund raiser on Saturday, September 29 at its new location at The Church of the Good Shepherd, 209 Union St. In addition to the bingo games there will be raffles including Patriots tickets and theme gift baskets. Tickets will be sold after all Masses the weekends of September 8th/9th, 15th/16th and 22nd /23rd. Come join the fun and support the food pantry.
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Prayer, fasting, listening and teaching are among pastoral responses in the Worcester Diocese and elsewhere to the clergy sexual abuse crisis. This week Bishop McManus told The Catholic Free Press that sexual abuse is a terrible, embarrassing, dark part of the Church’s history and “people want to know that we’re doing something about it.”
Bishop McManus is among four people from the Worcester Diocese attending the fifth National Encounter of Hispanic/Latino Ministry, or “V Encuentro,” in Grapevine, Texas, near Fort Worth. (Encuentro is Spanish for encounter.)
“To Know Him, to Love Him, to Serve Him,” is the theme of the upcoming Worcester Catholic Women’s Conference. With this year’s slate of speakers and a variety of exhibitors, the organizers of the conference expect it to be sold out. The conference will take place Nov. 10 in the Tsotsis Family Academic Center at Assumption College.
This fall, Gloria Josephs, who’s the youth ministry director at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Westborough, will help the Worcester Diocese’s Haitian Apostolateattempt to bring at least 17 new regional parishes into the apostolate’s successful twinning program that serves the Diocese of Les Cayes, Haiti.