The 9th Annual Novena to St. Joseph will take place at Christ the King Parish on Monday evenings this fall. There will be prayer for the seriously ill, for improvements in palliative care, for the end of the pandemic, and to raise awareness about all attempts to end human life unnaturally as in the case of physician assisted suicide or euthanasia. Beginning September 14 the Novena will be celebrated nine consecutive Mondays from 7:15 to 8 pm. This year’s dates and homilists/speakers are: Msgr. Thomas Sullivan (Sept. 14); Msgr. F. Stephen Pedone (Sept. 21); Bishop Robert J. McManus (Sept. 28); Fr. Stephen Gemme (Oct. 5); Fr. John Gavin, SJ (Oct. 12); Msgr. Peter Beaulieu (Oct. 19); Catherine Pimley (Oct. 26); ‘Jo’ Massarelli (Nov. 2); and Msgr. Thomas Sullivan (Nov. 9). The names of those people who are terminally or critically ill, and who will be prayed for during the Novena, can be mailed to Msgr. Sullivan at the parish (1052 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602), or you can call them in (508-754-5361), or you can email them to tsullivan5@mac.com.