Dear Friends,

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The Choir School’s annual Spring Concert is this Sunday, May 17 at 3:00. The theme of the presentation is “Alleluia.” It is a great way to continue to celebrate the Easter season and to help the school in a much-needed way. Come along and bring a friend or eight!!

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The academic term is coming to a close. Next Sunday on the Feast of Pentecost, the 24th, we will celebrate our Baccalaureate Mass at 11:00. Graduating students and faculty are encouraged to dress in academic robes. Come and support our graduates! The 5:00 Sunday Mass and Thursday afternoon confessions have concluded and will return in September.

Two Harvard Alumni have recently been named bishops. Bishop-Elect Robert Boxie III and Bishop-Elect Michael Castori, SJ both had affiliation with St. Paul’s Parish and the Harvard Catholic Center. We offer them our congratulations and our prayers.

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We are happy to welcome Fr. Matthew Lambert, OSB to St. Paul’s. He will be here with us until early August. FR. Matthew is a Benedictine monk from the Archabbey of St. Vincent in Latrobe, PA. He will be continuing his research in Sacred Scripture during this time. Welcome Fr. Matthew!

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May has traditionally been dedicated to Our Blessed Mother. We have a small Shrine to Mary set up in our St. Joseph’s Courtyard, inside the Parish Center lobby entrance. Thank you to the children of our Religious Education Program for this! May is a good time to consider a few simple practices: pray a decade—or the full Rosary—each day; listen to Marian chants and other sacred music; view religious artwork of the Blessed Mother; read a book about Mary, perhaps C. Houselander’s classic The Reed of God or S. Hahn’s Hail Holy Queen; and ask her to deepen our love for the Mass and the Eucharist. As one of Mother Teresa’s Sisters once said to me, “Mary never says ‘no’!”

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Mary, Stella Maris, pray for us.

Fr. Kelly