Contact Information | Saint Mary's Episcopal Church

Physical and Mailing Address

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church • 258 Concord Street • Newton Lower Falls, MA 02462

Sunday Services

10:00AM is our primary service from September thru June, with Sunday School for elementary aged youth and childcare available for younger children. We also have a quiet, intimate 8:00AM service September through June. (In July and August, we have one service only at 9:00AM.)

Office Hours

Our administrative offices are generally open Monday to Friday from 8:00AM to 2:00PM (with a reduced schedule in July and August.)

Mailing and E-Mailing Lists

We use Constant Contact to provide weekly email updates and other notices to parish members as well as friends and neighbors. You can sign up or manage your subscription here.

If you wish to be placed on our postal mailing list, please contact Denise Flanagan.

Contacting Our Office Staff

Main Phone: (617) 527-4769

Interim or Bridge Priest [email protected]

Administrative Assistant: Denise Flanagan [email protected]

Music Director: Kirsten Johnson [email protected]

ANNOUNCING THE NEW RECTOR OF ST. MARY’S

We are very pleased and blessed to announce that the Reverend Ann Bonner-Stewart has been called to be the new Rector of St. Mary’s in Newton Lower Falls. This is the culmination of over a year of hard work, discernment and prayer by the Search Committee, who identified a number of excellent candidates. Ann was ultimately recommended on the basis of her abilities as pastor, preacher, community leader and as a woman of deep faith in God in Christ. Ann is returning to the area after serving as chaplain at Saint Mary’s School, an independent Episcopal all-girls boarding and day high school, in Raleigh, North Carolina since 2009. She was originally ordained in Boston in 2006. Rev. Bonner-Stewart was born in and raised in South Carolina. She attended Duke University, where she earned a degree in Economics and studied abroad in China and France. After college, Ann moved to Boston to be in the third cohort of Micah interns in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. As a Micah intern, she served at Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church in Dorchester, who sponsored her for ordination. She earned a Master of Divinity, summa cum laude, from Yale Divinity School and a certificate in Anglican Studies from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Ann was ordained to the transitional diaconate in June 2006 at the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in Boston. Ann’s first parish call was as associate rector at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, North Carolina, where she introduced new worship services and created new systems for communication and administration. Ann has also served as a hospital chaplain in Bridgeport, Conn.; a guest theology instructor in Maseno, Kenya; and on the staff of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas. Ann will start her rectorship at St. Mary’s in late November with an official date to be determined and shared shortly.

About St. Mary’s

Saint Mary’s is a multi-generational, family-friendly parish located near the Newton-Wellesley border in eastern Massachusetts, drawing members from surrounding communities including Weston, Sudbury, and beyond. We celebrate traditional Episcopal services in a relaxed atmosphere, complemented by strong music and youth Christian education programs. We also emphasize outreach to worthy causes our members feel strongly about, with initiatives in the local community as well as nationally and internationally.

Our church building and adjacent graveyard are over two hundred years old – we celebrated our 200th anniversary in 2013 – and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Its physical beauty adds to our worship experience and our sense of community. More importantly, it reminds us that we are part of a heritage that goes back over two hundred years, and of a larger community that goes back nearly two thousand years.

We invite you to explore this site, as well as to visit our church, meet our people and learn more about our community.