Join us on Sunday, November 18th from 9 AM to Noon in O'Connell Hall. Make an Advent Wreath for $10, shop for holiday gifts at the Ethical Trade Shop, partake in children's crafts and activities, and enjoy coffee and cookies. 

For any one who works in any way with the youth in our parish a one time training class is required. We will be offering this class on Tuesday, November 20th from 6:30 to 9 PM in The Bullock Center. Anyone is welcome. If you have an questions or would like to sign up for the class please contact Lynn Jacobs at ljacobs@olossharon.org or call 781-784-2265.

We will be having our annual Memorial Mass on Sunday November 25th at 11 AM. If you have had a loved one die in the last year and would like them remembered in the bulletin and during this mass, please contact the Parish Office at 781-784-2265 or parish@olossharon.org by Monday, November 19th. 

The annual Sharon Interfaith Thanksgiving observance will be held this year on Sunday evening, November 18 at Temple Sinai. The theme this year is “Civility and Differences.” It is scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm. The keynote this year will be given by Rev. Francis Balla, Pastor of HOPE Church. If you would like to be part of the “pick-up choir” at the service, come at 6:00 pm and learn the songs. This is a very worthwhile community gathering and I hope that many of you will be able take part. 

The Sharon/ Foxboro K of C will be hosting a community blood drive on November 17th at St. Mary’s Church in Foxboro. THE NEED IS CONSTANT. THE GRATIFICATION IS INSTANT. SO PLEASE HELP BY GIVING BLOOD ON SATURDAY, November 17th at St. Mary’s R.C. Church, 58 Carpenter Street in Foxboro. Hours are 9 AM to 2 PM.

The OLOS Book Group will meet on Sunday, December 9th from 2-3:00 PM in the Bullock Center. All are welcome. We will be discussing The Cloister Walk, by Kathleen Norris. Please come ready to discuss the book. If you have any questions, be in touch with Teresa Coda (tcoda@olossharon.org) Monica LaFond. Our January meeting will be on Sunday, January 6th and we’ll be discussing My Mother’s Secret, by J. L. Witterick.

Evelyn House is a a transitional shelter in Stoughton that services displaced families in our area. There are 16+ families, mostly women and children, that will spend their holiday season at Evelyn House. OLOS and the Christian Services Commission (CSC) host an annual Christmas activity for the Evelyn House residents. This year it will be on December 13. Santa will arrive with your gifts for the residents; there will be refreshments and EH will take family pictures with Santa! On the weekend of November 17-18, the Giving Tree will be in the alcove with tags for gifts, activities and supplies. Please take a tag with a set of gift guidelines and return the items wrapped to the Giving Tree before December 2. Members of CSC will be at each Mass to answer questions. Thank you in advance for your generosity! If you have any questions, please contact Kate Mason at 781-784-6163

On August 19, instead of preaching on the daily readings at Mass, Fr. Daly read excerpts of Cardinal Sean’s statement regarding the most recent exposure of clergy abuse through the PA Grand Jury report released on Tuesday, August 14 and spoke about it in the context of OLOS.  Following the Mass, parishioners gathered to share in fruitful discussion about the statement, the trifecta of abuse current scandals in the church (McCarrick, St. John’s Seminary, PA Grand Jury Report) and the appropriate response of the laity.  Click here for notes from the homily and the conversation.

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Join us at Our Lady of Sorrows for a special Mass with the Children's Choir on sunday, November 18 at 8:45 AM. 

SHARON INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING SERVICE

The annual Sharon Interfaith Thanksgiving observance will be held this year on Sunday evening, November 18 at Temple Sinai. The theme this year is “Civility and Differences.” It is scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm. The keynote this year will be given by Rev. Francis Balla, Pastor of HOPE Church. If you would like to be part of the “pick-up choir” at the service, come at 6:00 pm and learn the songs. This is a very worthwhile community gathering and I hope that many of you will be able take part.

MEETING WITH THE CARDINAL

Cardinal Sean met with the priests of this region on the “Church Crisis” on Wednesday, November 7 at St Timothy’s in Norwood. It was a wide ranging discussion at which Cardinal Sean listened and responded. Priests expressed concerns about the effect on their parishioners, looked for and shared ideas how best to respond and worried about their pastoral outreach and their spiritual lives. The Cardinal is under no illusion as to the seriousness of this. When combined with an increasingly secular society, it is a perfect storm. I will be meeting with a team of parishioners next week to see what further steps we might take to be responsive here at OLOS and we’ll keep you informed. In the meantime, if you have concerns or suggestions, please don’t hold them in, share them with me as a number of you already have.

TREE

n the next few weeks we will remove the large tree on the parking lot side of the Church. These trees called “Weeping Cherry Trees” or sometimes “Umbrella Cherries” are unsuitable for a small lot with a building because their main direction of growth is not up but out. Consequently, this one is growing into the building on one side and encroaching on the parking lot on the other. The result is that the leaves are brushing the building and depositing oils etc. on the paint. It also darkens that side of the church when in full bloom, blocks the effectiveness of the parking lot lights and costs hundreds of dollars to trim on an annual basis. In the middle of an open meadow, this tree would be a joy; where it is now, it’s an expensive nuisance.

~Fr. Frank