St. Agatha Parish 

Abundant thanks to the many parishioners who donated their empty bottles and cans last weekend to our Youth Ministry Program. I think that the donations of last weekend were the most numerous in my five years here. Near the end of this week’s bulletin you can find a picture of some of the donations. In the words of the famous Irish comedian Hal Roach, many of our St. Agatha parishioners “have a thirst you could photograph!”
Thank you in advance for your contribution to this weekend’s second collection to benefit the Archdiocese of Boston Clergy Health and Retirement Trust. Your donations support our senior priests, including Fr. Pat McLaughlin and Fr. Tom Powers, and the numerous other senior priests who have served at St. Agatha’s, and help fund the healthcare of senior priests and all other Archdiocesan priests in good standing. We are all very grateful. As you might recall from pre-pandemic years, there used to be a Celebration of the Priesthood Dinner which also supported the Clergy Health and Retirement Trust. Once again this year it will be a virtual event, on Tuesday the 21^st from 7 to 8pm. We’ll post a link on our parish website for anyone who would like to view the event. Last year the virtual event featured some wonderfully inspirational speakers, so I expect more of the same this year. On the website for the event my good friend Fr. Tom Nestor who is pastor of St. Paul’s Parish and Resurrection Parish in Hingham is the first person you see, and he has a big smile on his face. The picture must have been taken right after he beat me in a game of golf!