News - October 2009 RSS Feed

As you know, our primary concern is the health and well-being of your children.  Due to a dramatic increase in flu-like symptoms, and a resulting increase of absenses with both students and staff, I want to inform you that we have made the decision to close St. Catherine of Siena School. 

(Braintree, MA) - Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley will celebrate Mass with more than 1,000 altar servers and their families from across the Archdiocese of Boston on Saturday, October 31, 2009. 

Braintree, MA -- The Archdiocese of Boston Office of Worship, in consultation with local health authorities and the Archdiocesan Office of Risk Management, continues to encourage the clergy and faithful to observe necessary standard precautions to protect the health of others during this flu season, and especially with the risks related to H1N1 influenza.

Watertown, MA -- The full Rosary prayer is now available at Catholic.net every day with the corresponding mysteries of the day. The online Rosary, which is produced by CatholicTV, can be seen at Catholic.net by clicking on “Rosary” on the right side of the home page in the blue menu.

Watertown, MA -- Catholics now have an online source for Catholic catechesis available to them at anytime at www.CatholicTV.com.

(Watertown, MA) -- iPhone/iPod Touch owners can now download the world’s first iPhone application by a Catholic television network, courtesy of CatholicTV. CatholicTV began broadcasting the Mass over 50 years ago (Now there are over 60 programs available).

(Brockton, MA) --  Addison Atanga of Abington, an eighth grade student at Trinity Catholic Academy in Brockton has been awarded the 2009 Saint Elizabeth Seton Scholarship.