SUNDAY MASS will now be at 11:00am at the outdoor altar by Fatima Hill. The Covid-19 restrictions remain: masks must be worn and social distancing must be observed. Confessions have resumed on Saturday at the Martyrs Grove from 3pm to 5pm. Bring your lawn chair.

The last of Marian Devotions will be held Tuesday, October 13th at the outside altar by Fatima Hill (weather permitting). It will begin at 6:30pm and Fr. Carl Chudy will preside and preach. Rosary will be prayed immediately after the Mass there in the altar area. COVID-19 precautions apply.

A new biography has recently been published about Fr. Francis Signorelli at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine. We wanted to share with you the expression of the gift of his missionary priesthood over many years all over the world. If you would like a copy let us know. We are asking for a minimum donation of $10 to help fund the work of the shrine. Email or call 508.429.2144.

The Fatima Shrine Gift Shop is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Masks are required. Due to the fact we cannot host our Annual Banquet this year, there will be a raffle during October to help support Fatima Shrine.

Join our religious and nonreligious neighbors for a fascinating book talk around honoring the gift of our diversity. Register by Email or on the website.

COVID-19 has caused many heartaches and disruptions in our lives but the call to help those in need doesn’t cease. View a beautiful video here. Please consider participating in Xavier Knoll's online auction here. If you are using a mobile device, please click here.

Listen to the latest podcast from Pietro Rossini SX, "Antiracism - A Baha'i Perspective"

Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., is the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.

In this episode, she shares with us with us a powerful approach to racism.

Six years have now passed since the afternoon of 7 September when our sisters, Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici, and Bernardetta Boggian, were brutally killed in their home in Kamenge, a suburb of Bujumbura, Burundi. To this day, we are still waiting to know the full truth about their death. Learn more from Sister Elena Conforto, MMX.

World Mission Sunday, our annual worldwide Eucharistic celebration for the Missions and missionaries of the world, will be celebrated on October 18 this year. This collection on the next-to-last Sunday in October is a unique, global effort for the entire Church to provide for the building up of over one thousand local churches in Asia and Africa, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Latin America and Europe. Through the work of these churches, and their witness to Christ, the poor receive practical help and experience God's love and mercy, hope and peace. Learn more.

Give us, O God,

leaders whose hearts are large enough

to match the breadth of our own souls

and give us souls strong enough

to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.

In seeking a leader, let us seek

more than development of ourselves—

though development we hope for,

more than security for our own land—

though security we need,

more than satisfaction for our wants—

though many things we desire.

Give us the hearts to choose the leader

who will work with other leaders

to bring safety

to the whole world.

Pray more.

The Black Lives Matter is a movement that has emerged out of recent racially charged tragedies, where black men and women have suffered unjustly death and injury at the hands of the white majority... Too many black sons, black daughters, black wives, black mothers, black husbands and black fathers have been lost to the infected hands of bigotry, with no end to these atrocities in sight. Supporting Black Lives Matter does not denote that other causes are of less importance. Rather, the Black Lives Matter movement affirms that we need our cries for justice answered also. Learn more from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Access more USCCB resources on how to address racism here.

Find Jesus in our midst! Work for racial justice and equality. Respond to the "Cry of the Earth." Learn about a survey for disaffiliated Catholics. Pray with the Xaverian Missionaries celebrating their Centennial Jubilee Year of their first Constitutions and Testament Letter. Read it here.

St. Guido Maria Conforti, founder of the Xaverian Missionaries. Our "missionary to the world" became a saint on World Mission Sunday, October 23, 2011. Now there is a mobile friendly version of our website dedicated to him. Learn all about him here. 

Mother Celestina Bottego, founder of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary. Read about her here. Read the latest about her in The National Catholic Register.