As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, that Pilgrim feast, let us reflect on the value – indeed the necessity – of community.

WORCESTER – Just before Veterans’ Day, Father Robert E. Gariepy, a Worcester Diocesan priest who served in the U.S. Army for 20 years, 18 of them as a chaplain, was honored for his service.

SHREWSBURY – Day of the Dead celebrations were held at St. Anne Church and its cemetery on Halloween, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day – Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and Nov. 2.

WORCESTER — Rev. Thomas B. Fleming, 71, a retired priest of the Diocese of Worcester, died Monday, November 1, 2021 at St. Vincent Hospital.

Thirty-four couples, with a total of 1,371 years of marriage, registered for the diocese’s annual wedding anniversary Mass, held Oct. 31 at St. Paul Cathedral in Worcester.

An estimated 250 people attended the 8th annual Celebrate Priesthood! Gala, held Oct. 28 at St. Paul Diocesan Junior/Senior High School.

The St. Thomas More Society of Worcester County honored four individuals at its Sixty-third Annual Red Mass on Oct. 24 at St. Paul Cathedral in Worcester.

WORCESTER – Sister Ann Marshall, a Religious Sister of Mercy for 72 years, passed away peacefully on Friday, Oct. 29. Her funeral is Wednesday at St. Peter Church, 931 Main St.

EUCHARIST SERIES Part 2: To empower regular churchgoers to invite family, friends, and others to come back to Mass.

For more than 40 years Robert Dymon has been tending to Jesus and his cross atop the holy stairs at St. Anne Shrine in Sturbridge. On his own time. At his own expense.

WORCESTER – Neither personal ailments nor a worldwide pandemic have stopped a determined group of women.

WORCESTER – Vincent D. Rougeau was installed Oct. 22 at the College of the Holy Cross as its 33rd president – the first lay and first Black president to lead the 178-year-old institution.

St. Peter-Marian Junior/Senior High School is closed for good and is scheduled to be torn down to make room for a retirement community. But an important part of St. Peter-Marian will live on.

WINCHENDON – Faith can be resurrected, Bishop McManus told members of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish.

EUCHARIST SERIES: Introduction

EURCHARIST SERIES: Part 1 Do you remember when our churches were essentially closed at the start of the pandemic? No more than 10 people were allowed to enter for Mass and then the doors were locked.

Bring the Good News to a world in desperate need of a message of hope

Bishop McManus has a dream – that local Catholics’ love for the Mass will be renewed and they’ll want to participate in it each Sunday.

The purpose of the Office for Vocations video is "to show that we have a very ethnically diverse diocese and vocations come from all these different communities.”