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Pastor
Rev. James J. Laughlin
jlaughlin@saintann.org
Father Jim Laughlin was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston
in 1991. He served in parishes in Braintree and Winchester before becoming
pastor of St. Ann's in 2006. He is a canon lawyer and judge of the Metropolitan
Tribunal and served for five years full-time in this role before his arrival
in Wayland. In 2008, he became pastor of St. Zepherin's Parish, serving
Wayland and Natick, in addition to his role as pastor of St. Ann's. In
2008, Fr. Jim was also appointed Vicar Forane of Vicariate I of the West
Region of the Archdiocese of Boston. He is active in prison ministry at
MCI-Framingham. Fr. Jim has an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College (1985),
where he majored in Russian Language and Literature. He also studied at
Leningrad State University. He earned an M.Div. from St. John Seminary
in Boston and a J.C.L. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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
Sue Muldoon
smuldoon@saintann.org
Sue is a graduate of Boston College with degrees in Theology and Psychology and has a Masters degree in Counseling. She has spent 15 years in various educational and ministerial settings including serving as a youth minister, a director of scholarship programs for high school youth and director of a college counseling center. She has been a member of St. Zepherin's parish for the past three years after relocating back to Boston with her husband and two young daughters. While at St. Zepherin's she has served as a catechist and as a member of the Family Religious Education Committee. Sue is looking forward to getting to know the St. Ann families and partnering with the parents and catechists in sharing the faith with our children.
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 tenth grade
catechist and on the Parish Pastoral Council at her home parish of St.
Linus in Natick. She also facilitates St. Linus' Christian Book Group.
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
Cantor
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.
Music Director
Carol Abel
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