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Pastor
Rev. James J. Laughlin
jlaughlin@saintann.org
Pastoral Associate
Sr. Roberta Rzeznik, SND
Sister Roberta is a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur and has recently become a staff member at St Ann Parish bringing with her 20 years experience as a Pastoral Associate. Previous ministries include high school teacher, missionary teacher in Japan for eight years, Associate Director for the former Archdiocesan Office for Spiritual Development and parish Director of Religious Education. Sister Roberta earned her BA degree in the Russian language from Emmanuel College, Boston and a Master of Christian Spirituality degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
rrzeznik@saintann.org
Coordinator of Youth Ministry
Paula Flanagan
pflanagan@saintann.org
Coordinator of Religious Education
Jane R. Asber
Jane was born and lived in Miami, Florida for 37 years. The family moved to Texas and then to Massachusetts for job related business. She is married and a mother of three grown children. She has been involved with Religious Education for the past 20 years. She started out by volunteering in the classroom and office when her first child started school and has participated in every aspect of this ministry since then. While in Texas she was Sacramental Coordinator for First Reconciliation and First Eucharist and Parish Secretary in a large parish. Most recently Jane was Parish Secretary at Infant Jesus-St. Lawrence Parish in Brookline, which was closed. She has taught here for the past 4 years and is looking forward to working with parents, teachers and the children of our Religious Education Program.
jasber@saintann.org
Parish Office Coordinator
Karen M. Mallozzi
Karen
is a 1981 graduate of the University of Rhode Island where she earned
a BA in History with concentrations in Political Science and English while
participating in the Army ROTC program. Prior to graduation she resigned
her Army commission in order to marry and raise a family. She and her
husband, also a graduate from URI, married and moved to Watertown, MA
in 1981 where he began work as an electrical engineer with Raytheon.
In 1990, Karen and her family, which now included a daughter, relocated
to Natick. To keep busy, she became active in the newly formed Friends
of the Morse Institute Library raising funds and later serving as the
group's vice president. Upon returning to the work force, Karen joined
the staff of the Morse Institute Library for four and a half years. During
the construction of the new facility she was a circulation supervisor
as well as the administrative assistant to the director of the library.
It was during this time that Karen began taking computer courses to better
address the many new functions the library began to fulfill for the community.
The year 1999 found Karen working again as an administrative assistant,
this time for the director of religious education at Temple Shir Tikva
in Wayland, a busy congregation of around 1,000 families. Karen completed
her Basic Catechist Certification through the Archdiocesan Echoes of Faith
Program in 2001. Currently, Karen serves as a nineth grade catechist at
her home parish of St. Linus. Karen's daughter earned her masters in biology
from Tufts University in May 2007, is currently doing research on Alzhiemer
Disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was married on 9/15/07. Karen
is a senior working on a MA degree in Worship, Theology and the Arts at
Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton, MA.
For relaxation she practices tai chi.
kmallozzi@saintann.org
Music Coordinator
Dianna Daly Betit
Dianna Daly Betit began singing at Saint Ann's as a substitute cantor in 2003, and was thrilled to become coordinator of music ministries here in 2004. Prior to coming to Saint Ann's, Dianna served as Director of Music Ministries at Saint Mary of The Assumption Church in Dedham for 11 years, as well as serving as a guest/substitute cantor at many churches throughout the diocese of Boston, beginning as a child in her home parish of Saint Jeremiah's in Framingham.
Dianna earned her B.A. from Smith College and holds a Master of Music degree from the Longy School of Music. In addition to her work in church music ministry, Dianna works as a freelance soloist, singing with regional choral and orchestral organizations and opera companies. Lately however, a lot of Dianna's performing is for a very special audience of 1, her one-year-old son Samuel, and she and her husband John are looking forward to the birth of their second child in September.
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