Third Annual Pancake Breakfast at St. Maria Goretti Parish

St. Maria Goretti Parish held its third annual Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, Sept. 17. This event has become the parish's signature kick-off to the new school year.

Three years ago, SMG undertook a fundraiser specifically for the purchase of a commercial stove for its parish hall kitchen. Organizers hoped it would provide more opportunities for gatherings for fellowship and food. Since the installation of the stove, the church's beautiful hall has hosted pancake breakfasts, catechist appreciation dinners, Christmas parties, Lenten suppers, baptismal receptions, funeral receptions, council meetings, and dozens of collations.

While the church is the spiritual home for its parishioners, this hall has definitely become its metaphorical "kitchen table" where celebrations, family meals, meaningful conversations, neighborly chatter, teary farewells, and happy reunions take place.

Photos by Marie Lagman; Father Tony Luongo (Lynnfield Catholic Collaborative's Parochial Vicar) got a "special" pancake made for him; Aaron, Sintia, Joel, and Edward Attubato; Meredith, Peter, Katherine, and Lisa Cash; Ann and Bob Miller with Deacon Patrick Grode (seminarian at Pope St. John Paul XXIII Seminary in Weston)