Father George Evans, Pastor

After graduating from Boston College and St. John’s Seminary, Fr. Evans was ordained on May 21, 1977 in Boston. He celebrated his first Mass in St. Catherine of Genoa Church, Somerville. He has been assigned as parochial vicar of St. James the Great Parish, Wellesley/Natick, from 1977 to 1981, as a graduate student in the Department of Theology of The Catholic University of America from 1981 to 1985, and as a member of the faculty of St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, from 1985 to 2003. He holds the Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University. He is an experienced spiritual director of seminarians and a teacher of courses in the Catholic spiritual tradition, theology, ordained and lay ministry, and local Catholic history. He has led retreats for priests, deacons, sisters, laity and parishes. Father Evans began as pastor at St. Julia Parish in September, 2003. He is supported in the celebration of seven Masses at our two churches each weekend by a group of dedicated visiting priests. Email Fr. Evans

Fr. Joseph M. Hennessey, Parochial Vicar

Fr. Hennessey, was born in Dorchester and raised in Braintree, MA. He is the oldest of 6 children, with three brothers and two sisters, and from them having nine nephews and three nieces. Fr. Hennessey’s mother Sally lives in Braintree and his father Paul is deceased. Father Hennessey attended Boston College for one year, and then transferred to St. John’s Seminiary in Brighton, from which he was ordained a priest in 1988. He has served the Archdiocese of Boston in the following parishes: St. Margaret, Dorchester; St. Ann, Dorchester [in residence only]; Blessed Sacrament, Saugus; St. Joseph, Kingston, and St. Theresa, Billerica. In addition, Father was assigned to the Metropolitan [Marriage] Tribunal in Boston for nine years, examining marriages for possible declarations of nullity. Fr. Hennessey is an enthusiastic fan of virtually every sport, and an avid reader, primarly of church, world and American history. Email Fr. Hennessey

Guy St.Sauveur, Permanent Deacon

Deacon Guy has been assigned to us, effective May 1st. Guy is a deacon different from those we recently have welcomed for short stints of service on their way toward priestly ordination. Deacon Guy is a permanent deacon and is not preparing for priesthood. He, like most permanent deacons, is a married man who works a full-time job apart from his volunteer Church service. A father of four adult children, Guy lives with his wife, Sheila, in Bedford, where he has served his diaconate in St. Michael Parish since his ordination in 2006. In the coming weeks you will have the chance to greet him as he begins what we and he hope will be a stay of many years. He will serve our entire parish, and so he will be an occasional deacon and preacher at all our Masses in both our churches. Guy is eager to serve, and ours should be a ripe field for his service. Email Deacon St.Sauveur

Susan Bayard, Pastoral Associate

Susan holds a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Ministry and a Post-Masters Certificate in the Practice of Spirituality from Boston College. She began as Pastoral Associate here in 1995, and serves the St. Julia community by helping nurture and support the parish’s developing faith life through our many organizations, programs and outreach opportunities. A former high school teacher and mother of four children, Susan resides in Wayland. Email Susan

Anne Marie Mahoney, Pastoral Associate for Faith Formation

Anne Marie comes to St. Julia’s from her home parish, St. Joseph in Belmont, where she and her husband raised a son and three daughters who are now grown, out of college, and living on their own. Anne Marie served as the DRE at St. Joseph’s for six years, overseeing faith formation for Grades K-10 as well as adults and the RCIA. She has a background in municipal government and has been a high school English teacher. Anne Marie earned her Master’s degree in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College where she developed a particular interest in virtue ethics. When not creating curriculum for St. Julia’s faith formation programs, Anne Marie enjoys baking anything chocolate, sewing, traveling with her family, and Army football. Email Anne Marie

Cathy Capizzi, Religious Education Assistant

Cathy has been involved in religious education for over twenty years, as a volunteer teacher and, for ten years until 2004, as part-time Administrator of Religious Education for St. Joseph Parish. Since then she has served as part-time Religious Education Assistant for St. Julia Parish, helping in many aspects of the program. In addition, she is the mother of four children and resides in Concord with her husband Michael. Email Cathy

Ann Bere, Religious Education Secretary

Sylvia Kennedy, Parish Wedding Cordinator and St. Joseph Church Sacristan

Brian Moll, Music Director

Brian joined St. Julia Parish in the fall of 1993. A magna cum laude graduate of Hamilton College, he also has a Master of Music Degree from the University of Michigan School of Music, as well as performance diplomas in piano and organ from the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria. While in Austria he taught as a Fulbright teaching assistant. Before coming to St. Julia Parish he spent a year of post-graduate study at the University of Notre Dame, where he also taught undergraduate piano. He has given recitals as a soloist and accompanist throughout Europe and Japan, as well as in many cities in the U.S. Brian is currently Music Director of the Opera Studio at the Boston Conservatory as well as Chair of the Collaborative Piano Department at Longy School of Music in Cambridge. Email Brian

Mary Lou Sallee, Organist and Choir Director for St. Joseph Church

Mary Lou, currently organist and choir director at St. Joseph Church, has served as organist at Sacred Heart in Lexington and was organist and music director at St. Cecilia in Ashland and St. Mary in Lynn. She has a B.A. in English from Boston College and an MAT from Simmons College. She was head of the English Department at Newton Country Day School for ten years and currently teaches in the English Department at Weston High School. Email Mary Lou

Sister Mary Anne Doyle, C.S.J., Business Manager

Sister Mary Anne belongs to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston. She grew up in Medford and attended Mount St. Joseph Academy and Regis College. She initially served as a teacher in St. Theresa School, West Roxbury, and of high school mathematics at Mount St. Joseph Academy. After receiving her doctorate in Physics from Ohio State University, she began teaching at Regis College and directed the research center there. She subsequently was elected by her community to its leadership council. Sister was also part of the team that planned and oversaw the Archdiocesan Synod, and she has served in the planning offices of the Archdiocese of Boston and of the Catholic School Office. She recently was awarded the certificate in accounting from Bentley College. She lives at Casserly House in Roslindale, where the Sisters of St. Joseph provide tutorial and community service to newly-immigrated area residents in a cheerful, neighborhood setting. Sister also teaches college physics part-time. Email Sister Mary Anne

Kathy Dolan, Administrative Assistant

Kathy helps keep the busy parish with two worship sites organized and on schedule. She is often the important first contact for St. Julia visitors, parishioners and friends. Email Kathy

Greg Smith, Facilities Custodian/Weston

Greg, a Natick High graduate and a member of St. Linus Parish in Natick, lives in his home town with his wife and sons. He has worked in restaurant management and in supervisory capacities in painting and cleaning services for many years, including many years of service in both Catholic and Jewish houses of worship. Email Greg

Christopher Connell, Resident Assistant, St. Joseph House

Visiting Priests

We are blessed to be served by other Priests from the Diocese at our two churches. Their faith and leadership in prayer builds up the Body of Christ.

Fr. Joseph Casey, S.J., a Jesuit who resides at Campion Center, has helped at St. Julia Church for over 50 years. Father Casey taught ethics in the Boston College Philosophy Department from 1956 to 2005. Ordained in 1949, he is a Lynn native. Father is also a published author, and his latest book is Life, Love and Sex: A Search for Answers to Today’s Moral Issues.

Fr. Gerard Demers of the Marist Fathers has returned to assist in both our churches. From 2005 to 2010 he was pastor of a Marist parish. A Lawrence native, Fr. Demers has served as a high-school teacher at a Marist-taught high school in Detroit, as a parish priest in Massachusetts and Maine, as provincial superior for a number of years, and as director of the Lourdes Center in Boston.

Father Lawrence Drennan is a Senior Priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, ordained in 1961. He has served as Parochial Vicar and Pastor in many parishes, including St. Joseph Parish, Lincoln. To may of our parishioners from Lincoln, Fr. Drennan needs no introduction. His dedication to the parish and his planning for the St. Joseph Church renovation are well remembered.

Fr. Gregory Hoppough, C.S., former provincial superior of the Stigmatine Fathers and Brothers, is a professor of liturgy and a formation advisor to seminarians at Blessed John XXIII Seminary in Weston. A Pepperell native and a priest since 1974, he has been a pastor at Sacred Heart in Waltham and in Northern Virginia.

Fr. Christopher O’Connor, a Boston priest ordained in 1998, is a native of Dorchester and recently completed graduate studies in Philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He serves at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton. Fr. O’Connor has also served at St. Mary in Chelmsford.

Father Paul Rouse will be helping us on some of this summer’s weekends. Ordained in 1967, Father Rouse is a South Boston native, and now a Senior Priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. He has served as Parochial Vicar and Pastor in many parishes. Father Rouse completed graduate studies in liturgy at Notre Dame University and has served as Director of Music at St. John’s Seminary, Director of the Office for Worship of the Archdiocese and Director of Liturgy for the Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan.

Fr. George Vartzelis, a senior Boston priest, was ordained in 1953. He has been pastor of St. James the Great in Wellesley, most recently, and of parishes in Nahant, Roslindale and Cambridge. Father Vartzelis currently lives at Youville House in Cambridge.