St. Ambrose Catholic Parish

St. Ambrose Church
Vigil Mass - Tuesday, December 7 at 6:30pm
Wednesday, December 8 at 7:30am

St. James Church
Wednesday, December 8 at 8:30am

Beginning Pentecost Weekend, May 22-23, 2021, Weekend Masses will no longer be live-streamed
on our Facebook page.  In addition we will no longer be live-streaming weekday masses.
 
If you are not able to attend mass in-person, there will be one weekend mass live-streamed
from St. James Church on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
You can view that mass live or at a later time on their Facebook page at:
St. James Office of Faith Formation

The St. Ambrose Giving Tree is set-up in the Church vestibule.  The Giving Tree is decorated with gift tag ornaments which will indicate the gifts needed.  If you are able to shop for the Giving Tree, please take an ornament to purchase the gift needed and then return the wrapped gift with the ornament gift tag taped to the wrapping paper or gift bag.  Wrapped and tagged gifts may be placed in the Church vestibule and will be collected before and after weekend Masses.  The last collection will be the weekend of December 18/19, so that the gifts can be transported to
St. John Baptist in Pawtucket. 

Please note that this year we have also included our gift card collection bin next to the Giving Tree.  If you are able to donate any Supermarket Gift Cards or Gas Station Gift Cards please place them in the Gift Card Collection bin.
 
 
Your one small act of kindness during the Christmas season means more than you know to someone in need.
 

The St. Ambrose Annual Collection is underway.
Envelopes for the Annual Collection can be found in your monthly budget packs and have also been sent by mail to all parish families.  
Thank you for opening your hearts, minds, and spirits to the 2021 Annual Collection.

May the Lord bless you for your generosity. 

What is Flocknote?

Flocknote is a new and improved way of communicating that will help us to quickly reach our St. Ambrose Parish “flock”.
Through Flocknote we will be able to send you important updates,
 information regarding special events, inclement weather announcements, and more.
 
Totally free.  Nothing to download.  No passwords needed. 
All you will need is a couple of minutes to sign up so that you can start receiving email messages from St. Ambrose Church.
 
Text STAMBROSE to 84576

OR Connect with us online at stambrosechurchri.flocknote.com

OR use the Sign-up link below.

Beginning this weekend, Pentecost Sunday, we will be live-streaming the 10:00am Mass only from St. James Church.

We are suspending live-streaming of all other weekend masses and weekday masses at St. James and St. Ambrose Churches.

Both St. James and St. Ambrose Churches are open to welcome the community safely back to communal worship. We certainly understand if some of our parishioners are still hesitant to return in-person and if so, we encourage you to participate in the Sunday 10:00am mass virtually on the St. James Office of Faith Formation page. Please know that we are here to welcome you back in-person whenever you feel ready to re-join us.

We thank all parishioners, family and friends near and far who have joined us for our live-stream masses during this past year. We hope that we were able to provide you with some connection to each other and the parishes as we prayed together, apart.

May 9, 2021
A message from our Pastor...

We are slowly returning to our daily and weekly pre COVID activities.  That is good news.  We will do this safely by taking to heart the recommendations and guidelines of our health officials and the assistance of the Bishop’s office.

In the parishes of St. Ambrose and St. James I have asked that ministers serving in the sacred liturgy – Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors, Altar Servers and Ushers – consider returning to full participation on Pentecost Sunday Weekend.  Does that mean that we will have everyone returning?  Probably not!  But I encourage all who can to join us.  I want everyone to stay safe and keep proper 3 foot social distancing, wearing of a face mask while indoors for large gatherings, use of the hand sanitizing dispensers at the vestibule of the church and avoiding all unnecessary crowding at the church entrances. 

We need to return to our communal worship of the Lord God who is the source of all blessing.  I like the way John Newton in the 19^th century expressed this need to come to our communal worship:

“Safely through another week
God has brought us on our way;
Let us now a blessing seek,
Waiting in his courts today:
Day of all the week the best,
Emblem of eternal rest.”

May this Pentecost Sunday find our communities expectantly waiting the Lord God to renew the earth with the love, peace
and joy of His Holy Spirit!