Saturday: 8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 12:00 PM
Monday–Friday: 8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 5:30 PM
Tuesday, July 8
4:00 PM
Tuesday, July 22
4:00 PM
Tuesday, July 29
4:00 PM
Saturday: After 12:00 PM Mass til the 4:00 PM Mass
First Fridays: After 12:00 PM Mass til the 5:30 PM Mass
Monday–Friday: 10:30 AM–11:45 AM, 4:30–5:15 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
First Wednesdays: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
First Saturday of the month, July 5, after all Masses :
8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM
July 4th—Independence Day at the Shrine
The Oblates and staff of St. Joseph the Worker Shrine wish you a happy and safe 4th of July!
In observance of the holiday, the Business Office and Gift Shop/Bookstore will be closed on July 4th.
Masses on the holiday will be at 8 AM and 12 noon. No confessions. The Shrine will close for the day after the noon Mass.
Archbishop Henning has designated St. Joseph the Worker Shrine as a “Holy Site” for the Jubilee year. Under certain conditions a plenary indulgence may be obtained by those who take Sacramental Confession and the Eucharist and fulfill certain other prescriptions.
@BostonCatholic #JubileeYear
Fr. Luis Roís Alonso OMI, the Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, visited with us here at the Shrine on June 30th. He has been in the United States for the past several weeks, attending the U.S. Province Convocation and then visiting some of our Oblate foundations Stateside.
He presided at our noon Mass on the 30th, toured the Shrine and Museum, had lunch with local Oblates and later that evening, met with Oblate Associates at our Oblate Retirement Residence in Tewksbury. He presented the Oblate Cross of St. Eugene deMazenod, our Founder, for veneration at every stop during his visit with us.
From left: Fr. Gene Tremblay, Fr. Dan Nassaney, sacristan David Lazu, Fr. Alonso, Bro. Richard Coté, Fr. Mike Amesse and Fr. Emmanuel Mulenga.
June 29, 2025
While I was away recuperating, I got so many cards and letters! It was good to read them all. I thank everyone who reached out. I have written about HOPE a few times while I was sick. Hope is what keeps us moving forward. Our souls need hope. Without hope where would the world be? It would be dark. Hope is what helped me return to you and the Shrine. There is so much to say about hope.
We are in the middle of Jubilee Year. Every 25 years the Church celebrates a Jubilee. The theme of this Jubilee Year is: PILGRIMS OF HOPE. That is not news to you. But I think it is important to reflect on how important the Jubilee Year is. How can we bring HOPE to others? Those of you who sent me letters and cards were bringing hope to me. The little things we do in our lives, every day—that is how we bring hope to the hopeless. It is through our actions that we make the world better. We do not need to do fancy things. No. It is the little things that bring light to a dark world.
One person would send me stories with lessons when I was sick. They are good stories. Stories are a good way to teach. Jesus knew this. This is why he taught with parables. I want to share these stories with you. The first one is in this week’s bulletin. Tell me what you think.
And remember—HOPE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!
I remember you at Mass!
Christian Worker Recognition Award – 2025
Each year St. Joseph the Worker Shrine selects a person in the community at large
for recognition. Established in 2016, the 60th anniversary of the Shrine’s formal dedication, the award celebrates an individual who exemplifies the virtues embodied by St. Joseph in the home, in the workplace and in the civic community.
We ask for your recommendations in helping us make this year’s selection.
The recipient(s) will be selected by a designated committee appointed by the Shrine Director, Fr. Michael Amesse, OMI.
Please submit your recommendations in the coming weeks. Nominations will close on Saturday, August 9 th , 2025.
The person(s) selected for this year’s award will be announced in the Bulletin on Labor Day weekend. The award will be presented on the following Saturday, September 6 th at the 4:00 pm Vigil Mass.
For additional infomation, to access the Nomination Form, and to view past recipients, click on the buttons below.
Additional nomination forms are also available in the confessional lobby.
Can You Help Us?
Many of us regularly receive unsolicited religious items in the mail - along with requests for the support of various charitable activities. After contributing to one or two of our choosing, those endless monetary requests can be declined in good conscience. Oftentimes, however, folks are puzzled as to what they should do with the accumulated religious tokens they were sent.
If you or your friends have a stockpile of such religious items, please bring them here to the Shrine and we will make them available as gratis religious tokens for folks to take home during the Folk Festival (coming this July!). We use these items to fill and refill the “Basket 0’ Haloes” in our sidewalk welcoming tent. Please give the to Sacristan David Lazu or with the Giftshop staff.
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The Shrine in Bloom
Not since the days of Fr. Pat Hollywood’s green thumb expertise has the walkway fronting the Shrine blossomed so beautifully for the summer!
Thanks go to Oblate Associate Neil Desmond and his wife Krissy for their dedication to the tasks of clearing away the winter detritus, hoeing the ground, installing new plantings, refreshing old ones and re-mulching the beds.
The flower boxes attached to the walkway railing and the potted plants leading to the front entrance have added the final touches to an impressive array of natural beauty adorning the Shrine for the summer months – “curb appeal in spades” so to speak!
Hopefully, the squirrels will keep away and not convert the plantings into an “all you can eat” salad bar. Shoo them away when you seen them anywhere near the “bar.”
Praying with the Stained Glass Windows of
St. Joseph the Worker Shrine
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St. Joseph the Worker Shrine
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