The Catholic Parishes 

of Stoughton 

Magnificat (Click Here): Magnificat is honored to provide complimentary access to its online version and resources to help people pray from home.

Catholic Current (Click Here): The USCCB is offering prayers and resources for engagement during this difficult time.

The Word Among Us (Click Here): The Word Among Us, a Catholic devotional magazine designed to help people to pray and read Scripture, is offering its entire website, including daily Mass readings and countless resources, free of charge.

Give Us this Day (Click Here) : Give Us this Day is centered on the Word of God and provides a relevant and trustworthy understanding of Scripture, including daily Mass texts.

Dynamic Catholic (Click Here): Each of the 84 episodes will engage your children’s sense of wonder and take them on an unforgettable adventure into the story of Jesus and the life-giving truths of his Church.

Links and other Resources regarding COVID-19

CDC Website

Workplace Guidance

Novena for Protection Against Coronavirus

Vatican Decree on Virus Indulgences 

Pope annouces extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing
 

Immaculate Conception and St. James depend on the weekly offertory to help run the daily operations of our parishes. The directive by Cardinal Sean O’Malley to suspend Masses until further notice will have a major impact on our financial stability; which will impact the Church’s mission. We are asking you to please consider signing up for Online Giving to help support our churches during this time. Please click on the link below to sign up for online giving. Thank you again for your continued support and generosity.
 

This website is updated daily with the most current information. 

Peace be with you! 
 

Welcome to the Catholic Parishes of Stoughton. We are a Roman Catholic community of faith, nourished by the Eucharist and committed to living out our faith in service to others. It’s our hope that no matter where you are on your life’s journey, you will find a home here. Please join us as we worship our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the source of all our faith, hope, strength and joy.

              Peace and blessings!
              Fr. Joe Mazzone
              Pastor of St. James &                    Immaculate Conception 

“The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint,
knowing that I shall not be put to shame” (Isaiah 50:7)
 
 
These powerful words come from the First Reading of Palm Sunday. May the words of the Prophet Isaiah be our words, too. May we, too, “set our faces like flint”. The etymology of this phrase — “to set your face like flint” — is both interesting and relevant to us in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic. When flint is struck against a stone, it is both sharpened and produces sparks (or fire.) The stone symbolizes the obstacles, the challenges we will have in living out our faith. When we come into contact with those obstacles — “when the flint is struck against the stone” — it sharpens the flint, makes it finer, cleaner. Hard times do that to us, too. If we approach our obstacles — and we are certainly experiencing them now — with a heart full of faith, it will sharpen us, focus us, make us finer and purer. We will also, like the flint against the stone, produces sparks, fire and light; for a Christian, the light of faith.
 
This is what the world needs now, my friends, for us to let these challenges sharpen us, to let them focus us on what is important and forget what is not. If we do, our faith will produce light, the light of Christ, which the world so desperately needs right now. May we take to heart, then, Isaiah’s words and make them our own.
 
As we celebrate Palm Sunday, I encourage us all to watch the Mass broadcast on our website and, if possible, to do it as a family. While we will not be able to distribute palms* this year, please know that your prayers are with the priests as we bless them and celebrate Mass. I am grateful in these times that we have so many resources that we can offer to you via the website and social media to make this Holy Week meaningful. I encourage you to visit our website and our Facebook page each day for new content and information. May God bless you and your loved ones.
 
Peace,

Fr. Joe
 

*This is in response to a directive from the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Boston. It states “As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts rapidly increases, the Archdiocese will continue to do all this is possible to limit transmission of the virus and new infections. For that purpose, in the interests of public health and safety, there many not be any form of distribution of palms on Palm Sunday or at any other time . . .[t]hank you for your assistance your many prayers during these challenging times.”

O Mary,
you always shine on our path
as a sign of salvation and of hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick,
who at the cross took part in Jesus' pain, keeping your faith firm.
You, Salvation of the Roman People,
know what we need,
and we are sure you will provide
so that, as in Cana of Galilee,
we may return to joy and to feasting
after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform to the will of the Father
and to do as we are told by Jesus,
who has taken upon himself our sufferings
and carried our sorrows
to lead us, through the cross,
to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.
Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.