A Message from Fr Bill

Forget about Waldo! Many of you have been wondering instead ‘Where’s Fr. Bill?’ I can finally provide an answer to that question as I returned to full-time ministry at Saint Michael Parish, Hudson at the beginning of Advent. I will be assisting Father Ren Tocci who was a parishioner of Saint Patrick Parish, Stoneham when he discerned his vocation to priesthood. I was honored to vest him with his priestly vestments on his ordination day. We have come full circle as he has now welcomed me warmly to Hudson.

I am grateful to the parishioners of Saint Martha Parish and Saint Mary Parish for their support in prayer over the past seven months when I was dealing with a depression that began with the diagnosis of my mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease twenty years ago and increased over the course of the tragic course of events that unfolded within the Archdiocese of Boston over the past twenty years. I am grateful for the therapeutic treatment I received at Saint John Vianney Center in Pennsylvania and I return to ministry in perfect health. I feel better physically, emotionally and spiritually than I have in many years!

Please continue to remember me in prayer as I return to the parish ministry that I love. You are in my prayers during this Advent Season as we prepare to welcome Jesus ever more fully into our hearts at Christmas. God is so good!