Weekly Digest

Welcome, EVERYONE!
This week at the parish:

• Monday - Respect Life Meeting (7 pm)
• Tuesday - Family Playgroup (10:30 am), Fatima Apostolate (7 pm)
• Thursday - Mom's Night In (8 pm)
• Friday - Prep for Boston Sock Exchange (7 pm)
• Saturday  - Boston Sock Exchange (11 am at Park Street T-stop), Confessions (3 pm)
• Sunday - Father Graham's 25th Jubilee (following noon Mass, Saint Agnes School Hall), Coffee and Donuts (after 9:00 am Mass)

Respect Life Meeting and Boston's March for Life
Join us on Monday night, June 8th, at 7:00 pm for Saint Agnes Parishioner's for Life Meeting, held in the Parish Center!  You can learn about upcoming Pro-Life events, and discuss important issues and ways to pray for and evangelize for life!

In addition, don't forget to add the Boston March for Life to your calendar!  Invite a friend and bring your family for a walk around the Common!

MCFL March for Life

Sunday, June 28, 2015, Boston Common

Rally 1:00 pm, March 2:30 pm

Massachusetts Citizens for Life has sponsored the Walk to Aid Mothers and Children for almost 30 years.  This year we will still raise funds for beneficiary groups but we have expanded the focus to a March for Life. More than 1.2 million babies in Massachusetts alone have died through abortion since 1973.  We must give witness! Rally speakers include legislators. post-abortive women, clergy, youth, and many others, all led by the music of Lift Ministries.

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Parish Social Day! - Saturday, June 27th
Saint Agnes Outreach will host a day of children’s Bible activities and crafts from 3:30-6:00 pm on Saturday, June 27th, culminating in an Ice Cream Social for the Parish at 6:00 pm, following the Saturday evening Masses. All events will be held in Saint Agnes School Hall and on the lawn outside Saint Agnes School. We would especially like to thank and extend this invitation in a special way to all of the dedicated parishioners who have volunteered in the past year in order to make education and social outreach ministries work. Thank you!

The sign up form for children's activities is printable here. If you are interested in helping with the Parish Social Day, please email Marianne Hudelson SaintAgnesFamilies@gmail.com

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Saint Agnes Family Playgroup - CHECK THE BLOG BEFORE YOU LEAVE!

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, June 9th, we will meet at Buzzell Field Playground (46 Summer St., Arlington).  This park has a playground, a sandbox, and a basketball court. Please bring your own lunch or snack 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, playgroup will be cancelled for the day. Thanks!**

Here's a friendly reminder that Mom's-Night-In is THURSDAY, June 11th

We will get together for a stress-free evening, enjoy feminine fellowship, maybe play a game or two, and pray a devotion together.

I will not publish the hostesses address online, so please email me at saintagnesfamilies [at] gmail.com if you plan to come.

Please bring a snack or drink to share!

 We will kick it off at 8:00 pm.

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Boston Sock Exchange

This Saturday, June 13th is the Boston Sock Exchange at 11:00 am at the Park Street T-Stop.  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, June 12th 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 Sheila O'Brien (ObriensMo [at] hotmail.com).

The Boston Sock Exchange is currently in need of small 8 oz. bottled water, SOCKS, and men's and women's summer clothes.  We also need rain gear: ponchos and umbrellas.  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

FALL 2015 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR OUR WONDERFUL PARISH SCHOOLS!

FIDELITY HOUSE - Preschool and Pre-K

SAINT AGNES GRAMMAR SCHOOL - Pre-K through Grade 8

ARLINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Links to these websites are located at the top right-hand of the blog page.

When you invest and involve your family here, you can participate

in the evangelical mission and service of these community resources,

which are offered by - and in the long tradition of - our very own Catholic Church.

Financial Aid is available.  WOW!