St. John of God Parish, Somerset MA
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Book a Mass
Masses for the entire year are booked once a year on a Saturday afternoon in December.  The date for the Mass Booking Day will be announced in the bulletin well in advance. On this day you can book Masses for the entire year. The doors to the Hall will open at 7am on this day to receive a ticket which will secure your place in the line. You must be present when your number is called. If you are not present you will lose your turn in line,  and have to get a new number. With weekend Masses we ask that a family book only one Mass per month. After this day, you can book a Mass by calling the Parish Office  during business hours (8:30am to 3:00pm), or by emailing the Parish Office. 

We also have a group Mass on the first Sunday of the month at the 9:00 & 10:30am Masses.  There is no limit to the number of names that will be read at a Group Mass, and there is no offering. 


Get a Sponsor Form for Baptism or Confirmation
To be a sponsor for Baptism or Confirmation your must have received all three sacraments of Initiation including Confirmation, be a registered member of the Parish, go to Mass on a regular basis, and if married be married in the Church. The reason for these requirements is that a sponsor is a witness or example to the Catholic faith for the newly baptized or confirmed. To put it in contemporary terms,  they are a mentor in the ways of faith. How can a person be a witness to the faith if they are not living the faith them self?.

To be a sponsor you have to get a sponsor form from your Parish priest. You get a sponsor from the Parish where you are registered, and attend Mass on a regular basis today. Thus if you received your sacraments at St. John of God, but no longer attend Mass there you would not ask to get a sponsor form from us. You would get it from the Church were you worship today.

The procedure to get a sponsor form is to first called the rectory, and speak with Lydia our Parish secretary. She will check to see if  you are registered. You then see Fr. Babiczuk after one of the weekend masses to get the form itself. Fr. Babiczuk mainly gives out sponsor forms before or after weekend Masses. There is no need to make an appoint to see him during the week. Simply see him after a weekend Mass.