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Letter to Parish from Vicar General Bishop Mark O’Connell: August 4, 2025
Bishop Mark O’Connell sent this letter saying he was encouraged by the increase in our average Mass Attendance. He ends with “Thank you for your consistent efforts to grow the community of faith and pray for the continued growth in the results of these efforts.”
Volunteers put out the call: Dot food pantries need more support: August 20, 2025
Earlier this year, the Friends of Saint Brendan realized that the St. Vincent DePaul (SVdP) Food Pantry could have a greater impact if it were supported by those outside of the parish too. “The larger community is not always going [to church] on Sunday anymore,” said longtime St. Brendan parishioner John Parsons. “When you’re making a plea for food or a plea for donations, you’re only reaching a few hundred people, the same people every week. If we’re serious about getting food, we have to get the message out deeper into the community.”
With that in mind, the group partnered with John Stenson, the owner of the Eire Pub, and collaborated with the Irish Pastoral Center (IPC). The pantry is now taking donations of non-perishable items, all of which can be dropped off directly at the church or at IPC.
St. Brendan’s ‘Gathering for Good’ raises in excess of $200,000 on 90th anniversary: April 16, 2025 The Friends of Saint Brendan hosted the ‘Gathering for Good’ to celebrate the congregation’s 90th anniversary and at the same time undertake a very successful fundraiser to help meet goals set up by the Archdiocese of Boston to keep the church open and operating…preliminary totals show that they raised in excess of $200,000, and all agreed the event did well in celebrating the past and building momentum for the future. The Palm Sunday weekend (continued) with Boston Archbishop Richard Henning visiting the church on Saturday to say a Palm Sunday Vigil Mass that drew more than 500 to the pews. “We want to thank our supporters and community partners and the community itself for getting to that number,” said O’Toole. “It’s just been a series of events right now that are very encouraging for us. Our new motto is ‘Our best days are yet to come.’”
Dorchester Reporter: The goal: Keep St. Brendan’s open: March 20, 2024 A grassroots effort to support St. Brendan Church has gained momentum in recent months, as volunteers have channeled their hours, their skilled labor, and their dollars into an all-volunteer effort to keep the Gallivan Boulevard worship space open and busy…John Parsons, who attends St. Brendan’s church, volunteers his time to hand-paint donor names on its walls, one of many ways that a committee is raising the funds needed to keep the worship space open.
Cardinal’s Letter to Parishioners: May 20, 2022 The Cardinal issued a reprieve, preventing Fr Palladino from locking our doors the end of this month. Read the letter here
Dorchester Reporter: Cardinal halts planned closure of St. Brendan Church May 20, 2022 Cardinal Sean O’Malley today issued a reprieve for a Dorchester Catholic Church that was due to close its doors at the end of this month…
Dorchester Reporter: A St. Brendan parishioner asks the cardinal: ‘Keep a beacon of our faith’ on Gallivan Blvd.
