Weekly Digest

Welcome everyone!
This week at the parish:

• Tuesday - Saint Agnes Playgroup (10:30 am), Choir Practice and Fatima Apostolate (7 pm)
• Wednesday - Bereavement Meeting (7 pm)
• Friday - Prep for Boston Sock Exchange (7 pm)
• Saturday - Virtus Training (9:30 am), Boston Sock Exchange (11 am), Arlington Rosary for America (noon)
• Sunday - Knights of Columbus to collect donations for children with disabilities at all Masses.  Support their tootsie roll drive by bringing your donation along!

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Now that we are in summer mode, we will be holding Tuesday playgroups outdoors at nearby parks. To print a written schedule of our summer playgroup locations, please click here. To see a map of our summer park schedule, please click here.

This Tuesday, October 8th, we will meet at Magnolia Playground (36 Herbert Rd., Arlington) at 10:30 am.  This park has a some play structures, sand to dig in, a sidewalk for bikes, as well as a large field good for kites or soccer balls.  It is located RIGHT ON the bikepath, too!  Bring a lunch and join us!

**NOTE THAT our outdoor summer schedule is highly dependent on good weather. If the weather seems questionable, please check your email or the blog page before you leave for playgroup. In case of rain, our usual rain location will be at Fidelity House, 25 Medford St., Arlington. Thanks!**

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This Saturday, October 12th is the Boston Sock Exchange at 11:00 am! This ministry helps the homeless men and women of Boston, by distributing gifts of sandwiches and clothes near the Park Street T-Stop on the second Saturday of the month. Prep and packaging for the day is held in the parish center on Friday night, October 11th at 7:00 pm. Help and/or donations is a wonderful way to put your faith in action!  For more information, see the calendar to the right, or email Jennifer Hermanski at jennifer.hermanski [at] gmail.com.  The Boston Sock Exchange is currently in need of lots of SOCKS, baseball caps, tote bags, long sleeve shirts, jackets, umbrellas, and ponchos.  Thank you! 

"Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe of what the poor have

to carry, rather than stand in judgement of how they carry it." Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ

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Virtus Training
Do you volunteer in the parish? Volunteers are required to attend a training program as part of our efforts to protect our children. The Parish Child Abuse Prevention Team has scheduled a training session this Saturday, October 12th from 9:30-11:30 am.  Please register by calling the Religious Education Office at 781-646-5579.

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Arlington Rosary for America

Join us in a public outdoor Rosary for the conversion of America and world peace through the 

intercessions of Our Lady of Fatima on Saturday, October 12 at 12:00 Noon in front of Arlington Town Hall. Last year over 9,000 rallies took place across America for this intention. This year marks the 96th anniversary of the miracle of the sun, which was witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people at noon in Fatima, Portugal on October 13, 1917. Folding chairs encouraged; some on-street parking available. For more information, contact Ginny Giurleo at 781-646-3958.

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Fall Clothing Drive - Saint Vincent DePaul Society
Do you have clothes which your children have outgrown, or which you no longer wear?  Would you like to see them be used for something meaningful and helpful?  Save them and bring them to the Fall Clothing Drive AT CHURCH, on the weekend of October 26-27th.

Representatives will be in the front of the Church to receive donations. Warm clothes, new socks, new underwear and toiletries are needed. Thank you for your generosity. May our tender God bless you, keep you and fill you with His abundant love. 

Jesus told His disciples, “When you have done all you have been commanded, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have only done what we were obliged to do”. Please help the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul to bring the love and mercy of Jesus to those who feel left out and abandoned, for indeed we are only doing “what we are obliged to do".