Remembering Our Pastor, Fr. John Sassani

Fr. John Edward Sassani was Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish from 2013 until his death on April 21, 2019.
He was Pastor of Our Lady Help of Christians Parish from 2006 until his death.

Father John Edward Sassani
Born October 29, 1954
Ordained a Priest June 14, 1980
Died in Christ April 21, 2019

Obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=john-e-sassani&pid=192634679&fhid=3735

Fr. John's Easter Homily from 2013: Click to read his comforting words

Memory Book of Stories and Photos about Fr. John's impact

Eulogy Given by Mary Ann McLaughlin

Good friends of Father John Edward Sassani's: We have been privileged
all of us to know a disciple, a priest, a soul-friend. He lived with joy, generosity of spirit and great serenity. He was filled with gifts of God's granting and gifted all of us in turn. He loved and lived in the Easter light. May that same light fill him now in God's presence with the life of Christ Risen. Alleluia. 

The full content of Monsignor Dennis Sheehan's homily.

Fr. John's Favorite Scripture for Funerals:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 New American Bible (Revised Edition)

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words.