Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church



A two-form Roman Catholic parish of the Archdiocese of Boston

270 ELLIOT STREET •  NEWTON, MA 02464 • 617-244-0558

 

+  November is the month of the Holy Souls +

 

Mass, Adoration and Confession Times:

Sunday Mass Schedule:

Novus Ordo: 4:00pm (Saturday Vigil), 7:30, 9:00am 
Traditional Latin: 11:00am & 5:30pm

Weekday Mass Schedule:
Novus Ordo: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 7:30am.
Traditional Latin: Mon, Wed, Fri 12:30pm; Thurs 5:30pm, Sat 9:00am

Eucharistic Adoration:
Fri: 6:30-7:30am, 11:30am-12:30pm
Sat: 8:00-9:00am

Confession Schedule:
Sun: 10:00-11:00am, 5:00-5:30pm
Mon, Wed, Fri: 12:00-12:30pm
Thurs: 5:00-5:30pm
Sat: 8:00-9am,  3:30-4:00pm 

Thanksgiving Day:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th, 2025

PARISH MASSES:

7:30 AM (Novus Ordo)

Mass of Thanksgiving Day


9:00 AM (Traditional Latin Mass)

Mass for the Feast of the Dedication of the Church

Please note that there will be NO 5:30PM Mass on THANKSGIVING DAY.


You are invited to bring food items which you will be using at your Thanksgiving Day Dinner table to be blessed at the end of each of these two Masses. A special table will be set up for the Blessing outside the altar rail.

Christmas Giving Tree

November 23th - December 7th

Please join us in buying requested gift-donations from the tags on our parish “Giving-Tree”, which will be set up on Sunday, November23rd.
To participate:

1) Choose an ornament/card off the "Giving Tree"

2) Purchase the requested gift

3) Please return the gift to the church by December 7th

Nota Bene-- For a gift card, please put in the collection; all other gifts should be new, unwrapped, in plain bags and placed in the front-vestibule of the Church under the Giving Tree.

Thank you and God Bless!

Adventide Gift & Bake Sale

Sunday, November 30th

Please support our Adventide Gift & Bake Sale on the First Sunday of Advent. The sale will take place after each of our Masses, beginning with the 4:00 P.M. Mass on Saturday, November 29th. Can you help us by donating a baked good for sale? All proceeds will go to the support of our parish. Please contact Margie Bibbo at the rectory office during the work-week or speak with Patti Strom or Jean Johnson.

Continuing Catechesis

Book study series with Fr. Stephen LeBlanc

Next Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 2

Please read pages:

To purchase on Amazon - Click here

All are welcome, including seekers and candidates for any of the Sacraments

Book: "Theology for Beginners" by F.J. Sheed

Time: 7:00-8:00pm.

Location: Lower Church.

Welcome

Welcome to our Parish, a canonically open parish of the Archdiocese of Boston. Both the ordinary form of the Roman Rite (1970 Missal) and the extraordinary form (1962 Missal) are celebrated here with the blessing of His Eminence Sean Cardinal O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston. We are always glad to welcome Sunday visitors to our beautiful, historic church.  We invite you to register with us.

Parish Bulletin

Weekly Pastor's Note

Centenary of the Feast of Christ the King: 1925-2025

By Fr, Higgins • October 24, 2025
This year’s Feast of Christ the King marks the 100th Anniversary of the institution of this liturgical feast by Pope Pius XI during the Jubilee Year of 1925. The purpose of the feast was to draw attention to the Social Kingship of Christ and to re-assert it against the modernist errors which were seeking to push religious life out of the business of human society and relegate it to the purely private spiritual domain. This situation has only gotten worse over the last century.  In his Encyclical Quas primas explaining the purpose of a new feast of Christ the King, Pope Pius XI wrote: To repair the crime of lesedivinity, which denies God’s rights over the human society whose Author He is, we must exalt Jesus Christ as King over all individuals, families, and peoples. If His universal royalty be proclaimed and His reign in society recognized, one of the principal evils of the modern world—the secularizing of public and private life—will be attacked at its roots.

Parish Bulletin

Weekly Pastor's Note

Centenary of the Feast of Christ the King: 1925-2025

By Fr, Higgins • October 24, 2025
This year’s Feast of Christ the King marks the 100th Anniversary of the institution of this liturgical feast by Pope Pius XI during the Jubilee Year of 1925. The purpose of the feast was to draw attention to the Social Kingship of Christ and to re-assert it against the modernist errors which were seeking to push religious life out of the business of human society and relegate it to the purely private spiritual domain. This situation has only gotten worse over the last century.  In his Encyclical Quas primas explaining the purpose of a new feast of Christ the King, Pope Pius XI wrote: To repair the crime of lesedivinity, which denies God’s rights over the human society whose Author He is, we must exalt Jesus Christ as King over all individuals, families, and peoples. If His universal royalty be proclaimed and His reign in society recognized, one of the principal evils of the modern world—the secularizing of public and private life—will be attacked at its roots.

The Miracle of Lourdes

Beginning on February 11th, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto of a large rock outside the town of Lourdes, France.   All in all there were 18 distinct apparitions, the last one occurring on July 16th of that same year.

In the News: "60 Minutes" recently featured a report on the miracles at Lourdes, viewable here.

Saint Mary's Cemetery

Located at:

1 Wellesley Ave., Needham Heights, MA 02494


The Cemetery Office is located at the parish rectory on:

270 Elliot St., Newton Upper Falls

and is open Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 3:30pm
Telephone: 781-235-1841


New cemetery space available as of March 2025, contact office for info.

For directions, services, and information about the cemetery click below:

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