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Dear Friends, There are certain passages of Scripture that seem to speak directly to the times we live in. This weekend, we hear one of them from St. Paul: “Do not conform yourselves to this age but...
PLEASE NOTE NEXT weekend, September 5 & 6, is the last weekend for the expanded summer schedule. Mass Schedule beginning SEPTEMBER 12 & 13 , 2026: Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday: 8:00 am and 11:00 am and...
Registration for our Religious Education program will open in September. Please make sure to register and check our weekly bulletin and website for additional information, registration dates, and...
Dear Friends, Summer is a time for taking a break. I am taking a little break from writing a column this weekend. However, since Friday was the Memorial of Pope St. Piux X, I thought it would be...
Dear Friends, One of my favorite Psalms is Psalm 139. The verse that speaks so clearly to me is, “You knit me together in my mother’s womb.” The great care God takes in creating us, with the...
Dear Friends, This past Tuesday I gathered with the priests of our diocese and Bishop Edgar da Cunha. August 4 is the feast of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, and each year we come...
Dear Friends, Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR (Franciscan Friars of The Renewal) has offered 6 Challenges for Catholics to rethink how we go to Mass. I really think they are helpful; so, as a result, my...
Dear Friends, Our Fall River Diocesan Vocation Office has been very busy this year. Thanks to your prayers and the dedicated work of our Vocation Office, I’d like to share some encouraging news....
Dear Friends, On the weekend of July 25–26, we will be welcoming our Bishop, Edgar da Cunha, to St. Mary – Our Lady of the Isle. A bishop’s visit is always a special moment in the life of a parish...
Summer Mass Schedule ~ Continues through September 6 Saturday: Mass at 5 pm Sunday Masses: at 7:00(quiet Mass-No music), 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30 am and 6:00 pm in Spanish in church and 8:45 am at the...
Saints at St. Mary’s Paintings of the Saints: we again have an artistic display of the saints in our church for the summer. The artist, Nancy Merek Cote, is local to our diocese. Nancy ‘s hope is...
Dear Friends, Like many of you, I’ve been paying a bit more attention to soccer this summer. Even if you are not a huge soccer fan, it is hard not to notice the energy, excitement, and sense of...
This was in the bulletin a couple of weeks ago; many commented on it and now that we are at July 4th Weekend, I figured it was worth a rerun! Dear Friends, Every summer, our little island fills with...
Dear Friends, When you enter the Church this weekend you will notice that the images of the Stations of the Cross have been temporarily replaced for the summer by a series of portraits of saints and...
Dear Friends, I have a confession to make. I rely heavily on my cell phone. I check the weather, my email, the parish calendar, the news, social media, directions, and, of course, whether the Red...
Dear Friends, Every summer, our little island fills with people looking for rest, relaxation, and perhaps the perfect lobster roll. As Catholics, we’re invited to find something even better: a...
PLEASE NOTE: THE SUNDAY SPANISH MASS WILL NOW BE AT 6:00PM. It will at 6 pm until our winter season. Thank you.
Summer Choir at St. Mary’s Are you interested in joining the St. Mary’s Choir? Are you visiting Nantucket for the summer and enjoy singing? Beginning June 28, Dr. Eddie will lead two “Come As You...
Dear Friends, I am writing this column on May 13, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. The message of Fatima is just as important today as it was 109 years ago. Mary invited the children to whom she...
Dear Friends, We celebrate Motherhood this weekend on Mother’s Day. Where would we be without our Moms? All mothers deserve more than one day. There are not enough days in the calendar to set aside...
Dear Friends, All too often the news—and the lives of celebrities and public figures—run on headlines, scandal, and sound bites. It’s easy to stay at the surface. But every now and then, someone...
85 th Annual Catholic Appeal The 85th Catholic Appeal is here. Please join with your fellow parishioners in helping those in need in our communities. Take this action to support others, and bring...
Dear Friends, This Sunday is Good Shepherd Sunday—a day when we reflect on Jesus as the shepherd. Now, some people don’t love this image because… well… sheep aren’t exactly known for their...
Dear Friends, In these days, so much of our common life is seen through the prism of politics. This can make it easy—almost automatic—to place every public figure into familiar and limiting...
Dear Friends, Last Sunday we celebrated the Resurrection. The tomb is empty. Christ is risen. Everything has changed. And yet today, we find the disciples not out in the world, but locked in a...
Dear Friends, Christ is risen! He is truly risen! For these fifty days of Easter, we rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus Christ—the victory that changes everything. The powers of this world—sin,...
Dear Friends, The greatest spiritual pilgrimage of the year begins today—Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. This Holy Week, culminating in the Sacred Triduum, is the holiest time of the year for us...
Two Shout- Outs to our Knights We would like to thank our Knights of Columbus for moving the parish office back to Orange Street. They made it very seamless and easy and they were so organized. It...
Dear Friends, You will notice this weekend that the statues and crucifix are covered; this marks the beginning of “Passiontide.” This is the Church’s way of telling us that Lent is now entering its...
Celebrating Sacraments with Our Youth First Communion: Will be celebrated on Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 11:00 am. Confirmation: Will be celebrated on, Friday, May 8, 2026 at 6:00 pm . Please pray for...
