Next Tuesday, June 16th, is RHAM High School Graduation. Congratulations to RHAM Class of 2020 graduates and to all the other high school graduates in our community. What a glorious accomplishment and we look forward to seeing your wonderful mark on this world and where your new paths take you! 

We are beginning a book club this summer with the first book being chosen by Father Sas: The Passion and the Cross, by Ronald Rolheiser. For those interested, we will meet on Tuesday, June 30  from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Father asks that we read the introduction and Chapter 1 prior to our first meeting. We will meet outside at church; please bring your book and an outdoor chair. 

The annual Catholic Social Justice conference is being offered free of charge, but virtually this year. The theme of Rooted In Faith, Opening Wide our Hearts is especially meaningful as our nation deals with issues of racism and inequality. This virtual conference references and learns from the U.S. Bishops Letter Against Racism. The next session is offered on July 8 at 7:00 p.m. with Chris Doucot, the founder of the Hartford Catholic Worker Community.  The conference features monthly speakers through April 2021. Please access this link to see the entire speaker line up and to register for the July offering. Registration is required to access the online presentation. 

Before you were even formed, God knew you.
While in your mother’s womb, God named you.
At your birth, God’s breath filled you with life.
Today we celebrate what you have become
at this moment in time.

Father Sas will be offering online Mass, Sunday, June 7, The Most Holy Trinity. Thank you to Gil Thompson and Nancy Aniolek for recording, David Lenihan for reading, and Kathleen Filosa, Carolyn Henderson, and Janice Reska for providing music. The Mass will be available on this website on Sunday morning.

NEW! Beginning Tuesday, June 9, St. John Fisher will be offering Daily Mass every Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Appropriate social distancing, disinfecting and use of masks will be in place. The pews are marked for social distancing, with a maximum attendance of 44 parishioners available. We are looking for volunteers to serve as greeters and readers. Greeters will be asked to count the attendees and help ensure parishioners are wearing masks. To volunteer, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

The Marlborough Girl Scouts have asked St. John Fisher to join them in decorating "kindness rocks" and placing them along the stone wall in the Marlborough Town Center Green. Lets spread some much needed faith and love during these difficult times. Thanks to Stella Boutilier and the Marlborough Girls Scouts for this great idea! 

Every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.  Therefore we must no longer pass judgment on one another.  Instead you should resolve to put no stumbling block or hindrance in you brother’s way.  The kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or drinking but of justice, peace and the joy that is given by the Holy Spirit.  Whoever serves Christ in this way pleases God and wins the esteem of men.  Let us, then, make it our aim to work for peace and to strengthen one another.

Bishop Peter Rosazza Social Justice Conference Webinar Series 

There is still time to Register for Our First Webinar!

Marlborough Youth Athletic League and St John Fisher

Virtual Road Race Winners

 As I look out my window I see people walking by singly or in pairs. I recognize more and more

because I have been meeting these neighbors on my daily walks. Faces now have names and addresses. I have come to appreciate the waves and smiles. We comment on the weather and joke about altering our usual routes.

Looking out my window, I marvel at God’s creation. I love the world He created, and I thank Him for keeping the Earth spinning, and the sun rising and setting every day. In these times of uncertainty, I am grateful that I can rely on God to be in charge.

In spite of spring’s reluctance to appear this year, leaves and buds are opening, birds are making nests, and the resident rabbit is watching to snatch whatever springs up in the garden. These days, the world seems to be upside down. Is spring keeping a “social distance?”

6^th Sunday of Easter A20

There’s always at least one who shows at a party with a black cloud over their head.

A Seder or Passover meal was meant to be a happy occasion when Jewish people remembered the angel’s passing over their homes, the lintel of the doors marked with blood of a lamb and the subsequent miraculous crossing of Red Sea, leaving their slavery in Egypt, and making their way to the Promised Land.

But tonight was different, very different, as Jesus tried to prepare his disciples for what was going to happen. The atmosphere was somber as he was trying to console them. “Do not let your hearts be troubled”; “I will not leave you orphans”. And then he said, “In a little while the world will no longer see me.” The Apostles were going to lose their master in whom they had placed all their hopes and dreams. What anguish they must have felt even though he said he would come back. He was promising them another Advocate who will be with them to guide and protect them, who would be the Spirit of truth given them by the Father at Jesus’ request.

How would you feel and react to all these words and promises? Better yet, how are you reacting and feeling right now during this pandemic when Jesus is not present to you in the Sacrament of the Eucharist (Holy Communion) and you don’t have the wider faith community to support, encourage, and give you strength, when some are questioning God’s presence and power?

Now we know, in the depths of our being, how the Apostles felt as they listened to Jesus: abandoned and at loose ends despite the promises of his, the Father’s and the Spirit’s presence to them. It may have been they didn’t even hear that reassurance because they felt overwhelmed with sorrow by having Jesus taken from them and wondering how they would go on.

But the Resurrection happened! And the Holy Spirit came! They were overwhelmed again, this time with joy, hope, and confidence. They were changed people!

May it be so with us!