The Saint Maria Goretti Parish, one of Lynnfield's two Catholic churches, was founded in 1960, and since then has expanded to serve more than a thousand Lynnfield families with weekday and weekend mass services. The church, a large building with ample parking space, regularly hosts about 700 families each weekend and provides baptism, confession and marriage services, religious education for adults and children, an adult choir program and a six-week Bible-study course called "Arise."