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We offer an opportunity to come together in a small group to learn more about our faith. Sessions focus on the relationship with God, the teachings and experience of Church, and prepares individuals to celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist during the Easter season.
You are welcome to participate in the process with your questions, your insights, and your faith story in a warm accepting setting. For information, please contact the Parish Office at 508-987-8987
For More InformationCLICK HERE!
Open
Thursdays
4:30-6:30 PM except holidays
Donations of non-perishable food items can be put in the DROP BOX located on the first floor of the Oxford Community Center
(in front of the office)
at 4 Maple Road, Oxford MA 01540.
Please call 508-987-6002 to check hours open.
Check donations can be mailed to:
Oxford Ecumenical Food Shelf
PO Box 448 North Oxford, MA 01537
[email protected]
Please contact us if you have any questions.
For anyone in need of a meal or companionship. Sponsored by the
St. Vincent De Paul Society
of St. Roch Church
When: 2ND TUESDAY EACH MONTH
Next February 14th
Time: 5:00—6:00 PM
Where: St Roch Parish Hall
334 Main Sttreet, Oxford
Come Join Us
for a Delicious Free Meal & Friendship! Spread the word to those
who you think may be interested.
Our next retreat
date
is
scheduled March 17-20, 2023
St. Roch Parish, Oxford & St. Ann Parish, North Oxford join Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Webster for future retreats, team meetings will be alternate on Tuesdays at Sacred Heart of Jesus, Day Street, Webster, and Thursdays at St Roch Parish Hall, Main Street, Oxford...
All meetings begin at 6:30 PM.
Tuesdays: Feb. 7, 21, Mar. 7
at Sacred Heart of Jesus
11 Day Street, Webster
Thursday Feb. 2, 16, Mar. 2
at St Roch Parish Hall
334 Main Street, Oxford, MA
To register click on Religious Education above then click on Adult Education and fill out the form or
call 508-987-2382 for more details.
Thanks for praying about joining the evangelist team,
as shepherds, witnesses,
on hospitality team, as part of the adoration team, or especially as a retreatant.
Please know that we are praying to the Holy Spirit, that you discover
what your role in the retreat
is meant to be.
Cannot come to the retreat?
You too can help, become an Intercessor for the Success of our Light of the World Retreat for St. Ann &
St. Roch, & Sacred Heart Parishes.
The success of every parish program truly depends on prayer, so, consider becoming a prayer intercessor for the success of the retreat,
by praying for the success of the retreat before, during & after.
For details call 508-987-2382
or email [email protected]
Light of the World retreat
for all teens.
March 24-26. Anyone who has taken part in the retreat or are interested in becooming part of the team, call 508-987-2382.
This Relection from Our Blessed Mother's statue points to the Light of the World in Jesus!
Jesus is waiting!
Come visit Him in the tabernacle
share His Holy Eucharist.
During a vacation trip 2 of our members were praying for the retreat; they took this shot while away.
February
4-13 The Office of Religious Education is closed but there are all class sessions on the 5th
5 K-8 9:40-10:50 AM
5 HIGH SCHOOL 6:30-8 PM
11/12 Souper Bowl Collection for St Vincent de Paul
12-19 Winter break no classes
22 Ash Wed all families attend mass
26 K-8 9:40-10:50 AM
26 HIGH SCHOOL 6:30-8 PM
March
5 K-8 9:40-10:50 AM
12 K-8 9:40-10:50 AM
12 HIGH SCHOOL 6:30-8 PM
17-20 Light of the World Retreat, Teens Service
24-26 Teens Ignite Retreat
26 K-8 9:40-10:50 AM
PLEASE NOTE:
Excuse the correction for K-8, Classes meet March 26 9:40-10:50 AM focusing on the Lenten Lessons and Reconciliation.
April
2 Passion Sunday
Family Holy Week Festival
K-8 9:40-10:50 AM
2 HIGH SCHOOL 6:30-8 PM
6 Lord’s Super Washing of the feet
(teens meet at the sacristy
15 minutes before mass sign in)
7 Good Friday Stations out of doors
(Dress appropriately)
11:45 AM meet Father at church)
9 Easter Sunday no classes
16- 23 School vacation no classes
30 K-6 9:40-10:50 AM
Jr/Sr HIGH SCHOOL 6:30-8 PM
(Gr 7-12 Youth Night 6:30-8pm)
May
7 1st Sacraments rehearsal 9:40-10:50 AM Confirmation Rehearsal 7:15 PM
at Sacred Heart of Jesus, Webster, for
Sponsors & candidates only at the church
14 Mother’s Day no classes
15 Confirmation 7:00 PM details tba
at Sacred Heart of Jesus, Webster,
21 K-8 families Spring Festival
Pope Francis' Prayer for the month of January is for Educators
We pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than competition & helping the youngest & most vulnerable above all.
January
30 St. Hyacintha of Marescotti
31 St. John BoscoFebruary
Month of the Passion of Our Lord
Pope Francis' Prayer for the month of February is for parishes
“We pray that parishes, placing communion at the center, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity and welcome towards those most in need.”
1 Saint Ansgar
2 Presentation of the Lord
3 Saint Blaise
4 Saint Joseph of Leonissa
5 Saint Agatha
6 Saint Paul Miki and Companions
7 Saint Colette
8 Saint Josephine Bakhita
9 Saint Jerome Emiliani
10 Saint Scholastica
11 Our Lady of Lourdes
12 Saint Apollonia
13 Saint Giles Mary of Saint Joseph
14 Saints Cyril and Methodius
15 Saint Claude de la Colombière
16 Saint Gilbert of Sempringham
17 Seven Founders of the Servite Order
18 Blessed John of Fiesole
19 Saint Conrad of Piacenza
20 Saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto
21 Saint Peter Damian
22 Chair of St Peter
23 Saint Polycarp
24 Blessed Luke Belludi
25 Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio
26 Saint Maria Bertilla Boscardin
27 Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
28 Blessed Daniel Brottier
Lord God of peace, hear our prayer! We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers & by the force of our arms.
How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced? how much blood has been shed? how many lives have been shattered? How many hopes have been buried?
But our efforts have been in vain. Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, & give us the courage to say: "Never again war!"; "With war everything is lost".
Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace. Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us & you call us to live as brothers and sisters.
Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness. Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, & may the words "division," "hatred," & "war" be banished from the heart of every man & woman.
Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues & our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother," & our way of life will always be that of Shalom, Peace, Amen.