A Generous Way of Life

The stained glass window on the left side of the church (2nd from last) depicts the story of the "Widow's Mite". Jesus uses this story to teach about sacraficial giving.

As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
(Luke 21:1-4)

St. Luke the Evangelist Parish is a Roman Catholic community in the Diocese of Worcester. We strive to learn, teach and joyfully live the fullness of our Faith and serve God and our neighbors in charity and truth. We faithfully celebrate the Sacraments, pray together as a community and give generously of our time, talent and treasure to live and promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our daily lives. 

We do this by trying to live A Generous Way of Life via

Our Outreach Initiatives
Ministries that Serve our Faith Community

Outreach - Helping Those going through Difficult Times

• We feed the hungry through our Mustard Seed outreach. Our Parish provides a meal on the first Friday of every other month. We solicit, collect, deliver, and serve the meals at the Mustard Seed soup kitchen.

• We visit the sick. Over 50 of our parishioners visit nursing home residents, Whittier rehabilitation hospital patients and our homebound each week.  In addition our pastoral associate Julie Basque checks in weekly with the three Worcester hospitals to see if any of our parishioners requested a visit.

• We help the poor through the Appalacia Service Project (ASP). The ASP is a Christian ministry, open to all people, that inspires hope and service through volunteer home repair in Central Appalachia. Our annual giving tree program provides Christmas presents to families in need. The Women of St. Luke's provide Thanksgiving baskets and other food donations to those in need.

• We comfort the sorrowful through our breavement support groups. These groups provide support those griving over the loss of a loved one.

• We provide instruction through our youth faith formation and adult studies programs.

Ministries - Serving our Faith Community

Our numerous Liturical, Music, Pastoral, Youth and Adult Faith Formation ministries help us live the fullness of our Faith and serve God and our neighbors in charity and truth. These ministries help us to faithfully celebrate the Sacraments, pray together as a community and give generously of our time, talent and treasure to live and promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our daily lives.

"We give thanks to God always for all of you,
remembering you in our prayers,
unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love
and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God, our Father"
(I Thessalonians 1: 2-3)

"Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar
and to God what belongs to God."
(John 22: 21)