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Le MEJ – Mouvement Eucharistique Des Jeunes or YEM – Youth Echaristic Movement of St. Matthew’s Dorchester. MEJ – MOUVEMENT EUCHARISTIC DES JEUNES OF ST MATTHEW’S will celebrate their 24th Anniversary at the 11AM Mass at St. Matthew’s Dorchester next Sunday 5 May 2013. The following Saturday 11 May 2013, they are inviting you to a cultural night of festivities that include folkloric dances, songs, poems, live music and refreshment. Click here for more details about MEJ – Mouvement Eucharistic Des Jeunes. Contact Jovenel Alphonse at 617-436-3590 or 617-298-0080.

Divine Mercy Devotion, Prayers and Chaplet – click play button below to listen. The Divine Mercy is a Roman Catholic devotion to the merciful love of God and the desire to let that love and mercy flow through one’s own heart towards those in need of it. Learn more Through St. Faustina, the Merciful Savior has given the aching world new channels for the outpouring of His grace.  These new channels include the Image of The Divine Mercy, the Feast of Mercy (Divine Mercy Sunday), the Chaplet, the Novena to The Divine Mercy, and prayer at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the Hour of Great Mercy. Although these means of receiving God’s mercy are new in form, they all proclaim the timeless message of God’s merciful love. They also draw us back to the great...

From Our Pastor’s Desk – at Easter — HE IS RISEN ALLELUIA! These are the words that proclaim Easter. This is the feast that brings new life and hope to Christians throughout the world. Today we celebrate Jesus’ triumph over death. Our Lenten journey this year was unique for Catholics. We saw the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis. This Lent has made us all more aware of our Catholicity and the rich Tradition that is ours. Easter provides us with that spiritual boost to renew our efforts to live out the Gospel. The Church provides us a communal context in which we can serve one another and bring the Gospel of Jesus to life. Easter is also the time when we welcome new members into the Church and our Parishes...

St. Angela’s Mattapan and St. Matthew’s Dorchester Parish Family has several youth, teens and young adults groups ministries. These various ministries provide youth/teens and young adults of the parish with a wide variety of ways of connecting with the community. Through these ministries they learn and grow as an individual, meet others who share the same values, and reach out to serve the larger parish and our city:  Mattapan, Dorchester, and Boston at large.  We hope there’s something for everyone here.  If not, contact our Pastor Father William P. Joy in creating future ministries.  Here a few: Pastoral Ministries for St. Matthew’s Dorchester and St. Angela’s Mattapan – Youth/Teens & Young Adults Faith...

Originally posted on 21 August 2012 – updated. << I’ve been a parent for a long time now, and I have heard many, many parents — in real life, in print, and on television — talk about their ultimate hopes for their children:  “I just want my child to be happy.” “I want my child to be successful.” “I want my child to have a good education, a good job and good relationships.” I never hear:  “I want my child to be virtuous.” Virtuous? Who talks about virtue anymore? Well, outside of the Church, not many. (Okay, let’s be honest, even most Catholics today don’t talk about virtue.) In general, talk of being virtuous has been replaced by talk of having  “values” — even though virtues and values are not synonymous. Here’s...

Holy Mass of Fifth Sunday of Lent Lectionary: 36 or 34, Year A Saturday Vigil Mass of 16 March 2013 at St. Angela’s Parish www.StAngelaParish.org 1-617-298-0080 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts. On Saturday afternoon 16 March 2013, Father Bill Joy and Father Sandry Matondo administer the Sacrament of Reconciliation (First Penance) to the Children of the parish with the presence and participation of their parents, Mrs. Obas and their teachers. Reconciliation, the sacrament of healing, is a sacramental celebration in which, through God’s mercy and forgiveness, the sinner is reconciled with God and also with the Church, Christ’s Body, which is wounded by sin. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1422, 1442-5, 1468 link) When should my child...