Front of St. Monica Church

Welcome!


St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church is a parish of the Archdiocese of Boston, located in Methuen, Massachusetts. Our life as a parish is centered on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacraments of the Church instituted by Jesus Christ. We are faithful to the Gospel and to the Magisterium, and we are loyal to the Church and to Her Pastors - Pope Benedict XVI, our Holy Father, and Sean Cardinal O'Malley, our Archbishop.

St. Monica, our patron, spent her life in prayer for her family. We seek to follow her example and to offer our lives in prayer, sacrifice and good works for the salvation of the Family of Man.

We invite you to look around our website and to see what we can offer you and your family. We hope that you will want to join us - for worship, for sacramental life, for education and for fellowship and community in Christ.
Please know that you are most welcome!


What then is a parish?
It is the smallest section of the one universal flock which has been entrusted to Peter by the Lord. Under the authority of a responsible priest who has received the care of souls from his bishop, the parish is, within the Church of Jesus Christ, the first community of Christian life; it is a community cut to human dimensions, in which the shepherd can know his flock and the flock can know their shepherd … At the heart of this area, we find the parish church with its bell-tower, its baptistery, its confessional, its altar and tabernacle, a symbol of unity and the centre of community life.

— Pope Paul VI