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Summer brings an abundance of sunshine, warmer weather, and longer daylight hours, creating the perfect environment for outdoor activities. This creates an opportunity to switch up your routine to enjoy what the season has to offer. Here are 5 tips for a healthy summer:

Please find a one page insert to be included in each of your parish bulletins the weekend of June 22nd and 23rd. You may also access the translated versions of the bulletin at Massachusetts Catholic Conference website at www.macatholic.org. You will be able to print the insert in the following languages: Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.

When the temperature starts heating up, so does our demand for service volunteers. At the Cor Unum Meal Center at St. Patrick Parish in Lawrence, tens of thousands of men, women, & children will eat free, nutritious meals this summer. Will you consider volunteering your time through Summer Service 2024

As a reminder, Open Enrollment ends on Monday, June 10. If you want to make changes to your Health and/or Dental Plan elections, you must make them by 5:00 p.m. through the MyEnroll system, which can be accessed at myenroll.com. You can access information about Open Enrollment, including all documents which were included in booklets mailed to you, at catholicbenefits.org/2024oe. Any changes or enrollments are effective as of July 1 and any terminations are effective as of June 30. Any changes requested outside Open Enrollment MUST be made within 30 days after a qualifying life event and include supporting documentation. Instructions on how to submit a life event request in MyEnroll can be found on the main page of the Benefits website at catholicbenefits.org (select Life Event User Guide). As always, please feel free to contact the Benefits Department at (617) 746-5640 or [email protected] if you have any questions.

The newly ordained Bishop Cristiano Barbosa sat down with Chris Donoghue from the Secretariat for Evangelization and Discipleship for an interview, discussing his childhood in Brazil, his call to the priesthood, his move to the United States, his time teaching in seminary, and his recent episcopal ordination. Watch the full interview now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/arAmoq2uYQQ.