Community Dinner to support our friends and neighbors in Lewiston, Maine Heaven’s Kitchen will be holding our next fundraising dinner to support the Catholic Parishes located in Lewiston, Maine. We will be partnering with the Parishes there to prepare and serve a Heaven’s Kitchen meal to first responders and medical workers who have been impacted and involved during the recent mass shootings there. This fundraiser will be to help with the cost of offering this meal there for about 400 people so we appreciate your generous support as always. Heaven’s Kitchen, a ministry of St Anne’s Food Pantry and St Anne’s Parish continues to look for ways in which we can help our communities during times of need. There seems to be no better time than now for all of us to wrap our arms around this grieving community. On Thursday, December 14th from 4:30-6:00pm we will be offering a homemade Maine themed dinner for pick up behind St Anne’s Parish. We will offer individual size meals. Meals will include our own chicken pot pie, baked beans with brown bread, cole slaw and Maine grown apple crisp for dessert. We will have a vegetarian version of the pot pie available. In lieu of a set cost, we ask that you instead donate at the time of pick up. We encourage you to be as generous as you can at this time. In the spirit of our service to others, please consider fund Please place your order by the end of the day Sunday, December 10th by providing the last name and number of dinners you’d like to order. Please feel free to order a meal that will be offered to a guest of St Anne’s Food Pantry. Orders can be texted to 603.339.3731 or by calling the Parish office at 603.329.5886. Please make checks out to St Anne’s Community Outreach or you can pay with cash. As you know, the ministries of St Anne’s Community Outreach do a variety of work with our local communities and beyond throughout the year. Thank you for your generous support.
Mark209 will perform their annual Christmas concert at Saint Anne's on Friday, December 8th. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $10. with all proceeds to benefit Mark209. Due to the concert, there will be a Vigil Mass for the Holy Day (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) at 6:30 PM on Thursday, December 7th as well as Mass at 9:15 AM on Friday, December 8th.
Saint Anne Parish members assist the homeless at the Warming Station in Manchester throughout the winter. Please click on the title link for information about donating socks.
Winter Coat Drive The Knights of Columbus will be holding their annual Winter Coat Drive the weekend of November 11th and 12th. Give your gently used, ready-to-wear (and clean) coats new life by donating them to those in need. We are especially looking for children’s coats. The Knights will be collecting coats after all Masses during the November 11th weekend.
We are often asked, What do Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope do? The simple answer is that we follow those who lived their lives helping others in their attempt to follow Jesus Christ every day of their life. This is not a new idea for it was handed down from the very beginning when God broke in on the life of mankind as recorded in Genesis, “take care of the widows and the orphans, and the alien.” Saint John, the Apostle, in his first letter tells us, “This way we came to understand love was that He laid down His life for us: we too must lay down our lives for our brothers. I ask you, how can God’s love survive in a man who has enough of this world’s goods yet closes his heart to his brother when he sees him in need? John 1 (3:16,17). The early Church turn to Mary, the Mother of God for inspiration and guidance. It has given us this lesson in prayer on the celebration of her visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. Pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary on the occasion of Her visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. Help me to strive to imitate your wonderful charity by aiding those in need, by sympathizing with those afflicted, by opening my heart and applying my hands to relieve every form of distress. Give me love like yours, which recognized in every human being a brother or sister in Jesus Christ, to be treated with respect and tenderness and to be aided according to the measure of my power. Teach me that the test of my following your Devine Sonis practical charity. Help me, above all, so that by my good example I may enrich and ennoble every human being whose life I touch. (Mary My Hope, 1977, Fr. Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D., Divine Word Missionary, Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York) And in our times we are reminded once again in the words of Bishop Robert Baron. “Friends, our Gospel for today features the parable of the mustard seed. How does God tend to work? From the very small to the very great—and by a slow, gradual process. God tends to operate under the radar, on the edges of things, quietly, clandestinely, not drawing attention to himself. C.S. Lewis speaks to this principle. How, he asks, did God enter history? Quietly, in a forgotten corner of the Roman Empire, sneaking behind enemy lines. How was European Christianity established? Through the handful of people that listened to St. Paul in Philippi and Athens. How did the mighty Franciscan movement come to be? One odd, mystical kid who heard a voice coming from a crucifix: "Francis, rebuild my church, which is falling into ruin." A handful of followers joined him in his quixotic project, then dozens, then hundreds, then thousands. So don’t be afraid to do small things at the prompting of God! Plant the seed, make the move, take the risk—take even the smallest step, and don’t worry about who notices or how much attention you’re getting. Sow the seed and leave the rest to the mercy and providence of God.” Bishop Robert Baron 02-01-2020 So we, as Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope humbly put the command to, “love your neighbor as yourself,” into action in our daily life, every day, with the help of God!
The Hampstead Knights of Columbus will hold their annual Veteran's Day Dinner on Saturday, November 4, 2023 starting at 6:00 PM. The dinner is free but reservations are required no later than October 26th. Please click on the title link for more information.
St. Anne Parish will host a flu vaccine clinic, sponsored by Walgreens, on Sunday, October 15, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the Parish Hall. Please click on the title link for more information.
Join us for a fun-filled afternoon of Bingo, Socializing, Snacks, and fun Saturday, October 21, 2023 2:00 to 3:30 PM St. Anne Parish Hall 26 Emerson Avenue Hampstead, NH RSVP required by October 16th Regina Kuhl reginakuhl@comcast.net 603-548-7075 Pam Walsh pwalsh@saintannechurchnh.org 603-329-6886 x105
Saint Anne Food Pantry will be starting a lending library for all volunteers and guests of the Food Pantry. Donations of gently used fiction and nonfiction books for adults, teens and children are welcome. Please click on the title heading for more information.
Heaven's Kitchen will hold a community Pasta, Meatball and Sausage Dinner To-Go on Thursday, September 28, 2023. Please click on the title link for more information.
Saint Anne Parish will be hosting a Social event with wine and food at LaBelle Winery on Route 111 in Derry, NH on August 2, 2023 starting at 5:30 PM. Tickets available in the Parish Office from June 26th through July 24th. Click on the heading for details.
Saint Anne Parish Outreach and Heaven's Kitchen have two new online stores, where proceeds will help to fund our mission to assist those in need. Click on the heading to find out more about our new Cheese Store and Heaven's Kitchen clothing! Thank you for your support!