West Bridgewater MA
Website: stannswb.com
The Church of Saint Ann
"The Little Church That Could...and DID"
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Parish Office: 508-586-4880
Religious Education Registration Form 2025-2026
Registration is also now open for 2025-2026. There are 2 changes to note from the 2024-2025 schedule.
The first is that the Sunday morning class will move from St. John to St. Ann to correspond with the annual
changing of the Mass schedule. The 9:30 Mass will continue to be our Family Mass, so it is important that our
morning class be at the same location.
The other change relates to our ongoing implementation of the Archdiocese's directive to lower the age of
Confirmation to 8th grade. All students in grades 9 and 10 will receive Confirmation in the spring of 2026. Their
classes will remain on the same every other week schedule.
Catechists are also needed for all grades. No experience required, just a love of God and our young people!
Please contact Matt Brady if interested.
Religious Education Registration Form 2025-2026
Registration is also now open for 2025-2026. There are 2 changes to note from the 2024-2025 schedule. The first is that the Sunday morning class will move from St. John to St. Ann to correspond with the annual changing of the Mass schedule. The 9:30 Mass will continue to be our Family Mass, so it is important that our morning class be at the same location.
The other change relates to our ongoing implementation of the Archdiocese's directive to lower the age of Confirmation to 8th grade. All students in grades 9 and 10 will receive Confirmation in the spring of 2026. Their classes will remain on the same every other week schedule.
Catechists are also needed for all grades. No experience required, just a love of God and our young people! Please contact Matt Brady if interested.
Religious Education Registration Form 2025-2026
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
VBS: True North
July 21-25 at St. Ann
9 am-noon
Students entering grades preK-5
Cost: $75/child
One of the most important things we can do is trust in Jesus. Join us for a fun week of games, activities
and Bible stories as we learn to grow our faith in Jesus. Each day we will explore a new reason to trust
in Jesus, make new friends, and have a lot of fun! To sign up, please fill out this registration form.
VBS 2025 REGISTRATION FORM
Volunteers also needed to help out! Students entering grades 9 and up and all adults welcome. Contact Matt Brady for more information.
VBS: True North
July 21-25 at St. Ann
9 am-noon
Students entering grades preK-5
Cost: $75/child
One of the most important things we can do is trust in Jesus. Join us for a fun week of games, activities and Bible stories as we learn to grow our faith in Jesus. Each day we will explore a new reason to trust in Jesus, make new friends, and have a lot of fun! To sign up, please fill out this registration form.
VBS 2025 REGISTRATION FORM
Volunteers also needed to help out! Students entering grades 9 and up and all adults welcome. Contact Matt Brady for more information.
APRIL FAMILY MASS
Our final Family Mass of the school year is April 6 at the 9:30 Mass at St. John. We invite our kids to do
the readings and bring up the gifts, and Fr. Paul has the kids join him around the altar for the homily.
There is also coffee and donuts in the back of the church after Mass. If your child is interested in
bringing up the gifts or doing a reading, please email Matt Brady.
APRIL TEEN MASS
Our final Teen Mass of the school year is April 13 at the 6:15 Mass at St. Ann. Similar to Family Mass, we invite
our teens to do a reading or bring up the gifts. Fr. Paul also tailors his homily to be relevant to their life and
there is contemporary music at the Mass. If your teen is interested in bringing up the gifts or doing a reading, please email Matt Brady.
REGISTRATION FOR FAITH FORMATION FOR 2024-2025 IS NOW OPEN
Classes will begin on September 22 and run until April 16. Payment is not due until classes
start, so the online system will not be open until August. It's not listed on the form, but you
do have the option to homeschool your child(ren) if the scheduled classes do not work with your
schedule. If you have any questions, please email Matt Brady at directorofministries.tic@gmail.com
Grades/Time/Location
Grades 1-5 Sundays 8:20-9:20 am @ St. John
Grades 1-5 Mondays 4:30-5:30 pm @ St. Ann
Grades 1-5 Tuesdays 4:30-5:30 pm @ St. John
Grades 6-8 Sundays 5-6 pm @ St. Ann
Grades 6-8 Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 pm @ St. John
Grade 9 Sundays 7:15-8:15 pm @ St. Ann
Grade 10/Confirmation Sundays 7:15-8:15 pm @ St. Ann
*** SCHEDULES ***
***REGISTRATION FORM 2024-2025***
A note on Confirmation- as many of you are aware, the archdiocese made the decision a few months
ago to change the grade of Confirmation from grade 10 to grade 8. In making this decision,
they have given us until 2027 to fully implement this change. Therefore, we have decided not
to make any changes to our Confirmation program for the upcoming year while we work to build
a program that is designed for 8th graders and develop a high school youth ministry program.
Confirmation will remain in 10th grade for this year, and we will update you on the process as we develop our plan.
*** INTRODUCING THE KID'S SHELF
The newest addition to our Lending Library at St. John is a whole shelf of books for our young parishioners.
Right now we have some books about the saints, Pope Francis and some lent things, but we hope we will be able
to add to our collection.
Stop by and check it out and borrow a book! If you have any religious kids books you
would like to donate, please email Matt Brady.
*** INTRODUCING THE KID'S SHELF
*** CHRISTMAS PAGEANT - 2024
*** CHRISTMAS PAGEANT - 2024
*** FIRST COMMUNION - 2024
*** FIRST COMMUNION - 2024
*** EASTER EGG HUNT AT ST. ANN'S - 2024
EASTER MARCH 31st 2024
*** EASTER EGG HUNT AT ST. ANN'S - 2024
July 26th St. Ann's Day Celebration
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
This was our first Christmas Pageant since covid, and it was a smashing success! Thank you to all the cast and
their families for all their hard work. All the kids did awesome! Special thanks to Tina Anthony for her work
as our director, and to her assistants Chris Baker and Karla Berlo. And to Santa and Mrs. Claus for making the
trip down from the North Pole. We had so much fun we are already planning to go bigger and better next year!
DECEMBER 4th FAMILY MASS
MATT BRADY - DIRECTOR OF MINISTRIES
"Hello everyone! My name is Matt Brady and I am very excited to be joining you as the new Director of Ministries.
I have a master's degree in theology from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and an undergraduate degree from
Salve Regina University. I spent the past three years at St. Denis in Westwood, where I led a revitalization of
their faith formation program and family ministry and helped guide the parish through Covid.
I am looking forward to working with all of you, especially the families, to grow and strengthen our Together in Christ Collaborative."
Mission Statement
The goal of the Religious Education Program at the Together In Christ Collaborative is to bring, through
catechesis and prayer, the message of Jesus Christ and His Church to all members of the community.
It is its aim to help students acquire and develop their own Catholic, Christian faith, so that our parish
community and its members may truly witness to the Good News of Our Lord, Jesus. All of our efforts are meant
to support parents as the primary religious educators of their children. We provide formal religious
education that builds upon the everyday lived experience of the faith that is shared in your homes and at Sunday Mass.
We are a welcoming Parish, with our doors open to all God's children.
Matt Brady
Director of Ministries
774-533-2002
directorofministries.tic
@gmail.com
Weekday Office Hours @ Rectory – 9:00am to 5:00pm Mon-Fri
Matt Brady
Director of Ministries
774-533-2002
directorofministries.tic
@gmail.com
Weekday Office Hours @ Rectory – 9:00am to 5:00pm Mon-Fri