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DIRECTORY
Parish Office: 3 Massaco Street, PO Box 575 860-658-7627 Fax: 860-658-7626
Office Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:30-4:00 PM
Friday: 8:30- 12:00 PM
Rev. Frank Matera: x301
Rev. Ramon Garcia: x305
Deacon Arthur Miller: x113
Parish Office: x306 [email protected]
Business Manager: x303
[email protected] Bookkeeper: x307 [email protected]
Religious Education Grades 1-6: x304 [email protected]
Religious Education Grades 7-10: x302 [email protected] Youth Ministry: x302 [email protected] Stephen Ministry: x114 [email protected]
St. Mary’s School: ( 860) 658-9412
www.stmarysimsbury.org MASSES:
Monday - Saturday: 8:00 AM
Sunday Vigil (Saturday Evening): 5:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 AM
CONFESSIONS: Saturday 3:00 - 4:00 PM BAPTISMS: First Sunday of the month (during the 11:00
am Mass) and third Sunday of the month by appointment.
Required Baptism Preparation Program, please call the
Parish Office.
WEDDINGS: Couples please call for appointments at
least six months in advance.
SICK CALLS: Please notify the Parish Office if someone in your
family is hospitalized and would like a visit. Under HIPAA
Regulations, hospitals are not allowed to notify us.
VISITORS: Thank you for worshipping with us. If you would
like to join our parish, please give us a call or email us at
PASTOR
Reverend Frank J. Matera
PAROCHIAL VICAR
Reverend Ramon Garcia
DEACON
Mr. Arthur Miller
ST. MARY’S PARISH, SIMSBURY
Saturday OCTOBER 31
8:00 AM Patrick Joseph O’Neill
By: Joe Carroll
5:00 PM Arthur J. O’Grady
Remembrance
By: Kathy & Chris Rohrs
Sunday NOVEMBER 1
All Saints
Monday NOVEMBER 2
All Souls
Tuesday NOVEMBER 3
8:00 AM Joseph Matera
By: Father Matera
Wednesday NOVEMBER 4
8:00 AM No Mass
Thursday NOVEMBER 5
8:00 AM No Mass
Friday NOVEMBER 6
9:00 AM School Mass
Saturday NOVEMBER 7
8:00 AM Frank Barcelo
By: His Family
5:00 PM James Carabillo
By: His family
Sunday NOVEMBER 8
8:00 AM People of St. Mary’s Parish
9:30 AM Ryan Duff
10th Anniversary Remembrance
By: His Family
11:00 AM Nancy Elliott Richard
2nd Anniversary Remembrance
By: Charles & Linda Mullane
MASS INTENTIONS
School Mass: There will be a Mass for the students of St. Mary’s School this Friday, Nov 6th, the First Friday of the month at 9:00 AM. All are welcome to this Mass.
Book of the Deceased: During the month of November you may inscribe the names of your beloved departed in our Book of the Deceased (on the pulpit side of the sanctuary) and we will remember them at Mass.
Sacrament of the Sick: Are you or someone you know sick, either at home or in the hospital? Please notify the Parish Office (860) 658-7627 and one of the priests of the parish will administer the Sacrament of the Sick and bring Holy Communion.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions will be
heard this Monday, November 2, the first Monday of
the month, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM.
Thanksgiving Senior Luncheon: St. Mary's School invites senior citizens to a full Thanksgiving luncheon on Wednesday, November 18th at 12:00 PM in the Parish Center. Served by our 8th graders, it is a lovely luncheon complete with entertainment. Please contact the Simsbury Senior Center at (860) 658-3273 to reserve a spot. Seating is limited, reservations are required.
St. Mary’s Website: Our website contains important information about our parish, its activities, as well as links to other important sites. The Parish Web page is constantly changing and being updated with new information. If you haven’t visited us lately, visit us at www.stmarysimsbury.org.
Bulletin: Announcements for the bulletin should be 50 words or less. All bulletin announcements should be sent to the Parish office by Monday at noon. Please email [email protected].
Prayer Shawl Ministry: Join us this Monday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM in the Lower Church. Beginners to experts welcome. We are able to supply yarn if you would like to make a shawl. For information, call Cheryl (860) 651-9525 or Rhoda (860) 651-4027.
Music Group: Make a Joyful Noise with the 9:30 music group at St. Mary's. Please contact Patty Lepak at [email protected] for more details information!
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
November A Time to Remember
All Saint & All Souls Day (1)
The month of November is a time when Catholics remember and pray for the faithful departed.
And so throughout this month I will be writing a series of essays on death, eternal life, and the funeral lit-
urgy that so beautifully expresses our Catholic belief in the resurrection of the dead. This month begins
with two important feasts: (1) the Feast of All Saints that we celebrate this Sunday, and (2) the Feast of
All Souls that we celebrate on Monday.
In the Creed that we recite every Sunday, we profess that we believe in “one, holy, Catholic
Church.” The holiness of the Church is not the result of our own effort or goodness but a gracious gift
from God. God makes the Church holy by consecrating and sanctifying her through the blood of his Son,
Jesus Christ. This is why St. Paul regularly addresses the recipients of his letters as “the holy ones,” or
“the saints.” Every member of the Church is “holy” and is a “saint” because God has chosen and conse-
crated us to be members of the Church through the death and resurrection of his Son.
To be sure, not all of us live as the saints and holy ones God has called us to be. But there have
been, there are, and there will always be members of the Church who faithfully live their vocation to holi-
ness. We celebrate the feast days of many of these saints throughout the year, for example, St. Francis, St.
Dominic, St. Catherine, St. Margaret Mary, etc. These are the great saints we know about. But in addition
to these great saints there is a vast company of other saints, faithful Christians who have responded to
God’s call to holiness. These are the people we celebrate today. I think of those mothers and fathers who
have given so generously of themselves in raising a family. I think of the unmarried men and women who
devoted their lives to others. There is no lack of saints because God has communicated the holiness of Je-
sus Christ to us, and many have and continue to respond to that grace.
The feast of All Saints reminds us of what the Second Vatican Council calls the “universal call to
holiness.” It reminds us that “holiness” is the vocation of every Christian without exception. Since God
has already sanctified us in Christ, all of us are called to be saints. This is what we celebrate today.
Tomorrow we celebrate the Feast of All Souls, a day on which we pray for the faithful departed
who are still in the process of being purified before entering into the presence of the All Holy God. We
pray for the souls in Purgatory. That there should be such a moment of purgation makes perfect sense.
How else could we—sinners that we are—stand in the presence of God who is Holy? What the moment of
purification is, we will not fully know until we experience it. But what we do know is that we can and
should pray for the dead, not only to remember them but to assist them by our prayers in their final mo-
ment of purgation before they stand in the presence of the All Holy God with the vast chorus of saints we
celebrate today.
Today we remember the saints that have gone before us and our vocation to holiness. Tomorrow
we pray for our loved ones and all the faithfully departed, assisting them by our prayers, so that they may
join the vast company of saints.
Father Matera
November 1, 2015
Sunday Morning Adult Enrichment Program:
Please join us before or after the 9:30 a.m. Mass for coffee (usually Starbucks and Duncan Donuts are served!) baked goods, and a relaxed time talking with friends. And for the daring…challenge yourself to meet a parishioner you don’t know.
Tuesday Evening Bible Study: Come join us on Tuesday, November 3rd at 6:45 PM. Prayers for heal-ing and special intentions will now begin at 6:45 PM in the Parish Center immediately followed by Bible Study with Deacon Art Miller at 7 PM. Please bring your Bi-ble and a friend. All are welcome! Book Study: Join us Thursday, November 5th at 9:30 AM as we continue to study "The Joy of the Gospel". For more information contact Joanne Russell at ([email protected])
St. Mary Contemplative Prayer Group: Will meet Sunday, November 1. We meet from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM in the Lower Church on the first and third Sunday of each month. A newcomer orientation will start at 6:30 p.m. For more information please contact Mike Smoolca ([email protected]) at (860) 798-8992, Ellen Graham ([email protected]) or visit the St Mary's website.
A Day of Honor: SMS will be having a Veteran's Day Prayer Service at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, November 11, 2015. All veterans are welcome to attend. Please contact Mrs. Gore via email at [email protected]. Music to Our Ears: Congratulations to our students who participated in the FMI Regional Band Concert this October. These students are now eligible to audi-tion for All State Band which will perform outside of Lincoln Center in the spring of 2016.
Grade Level Mass: On Sunday, November 8th Grades 4-6 will be featured at the 9:30 Mass.
Memorial Mass for the Deceased: Our annual Me-morial Mass for those who have died this past year will be held on Thursday, November 12th, at 7:00 PM. If you have lost a loved one during the past year, please join us at this Mass.
Simsbury Interfaith Thanksgiving Service: Please join your neighbors in giving thanks at this year’s Simsbury Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, which will be held on Sunday evening, November 22, at 7:00 PM, at St. Mary’s Church. Our annual Interfaith Service is sponsored by the churches, synagogues, and houses of worship in Simsbury. The Reverend Woody Eddins, Pastor of the Simsbury United Methodist Church will deliver this year’s message. Choirs from area worship communities will participate. There will be fellowship gathering in the Parish Center after the service.
Eucharistic Adoration: Come spend quit time in the presence of Jesus at the Church of St. Timothy, West Hartford. Place yourself before the Eucharistic dis-played in the monstrance on the altar. Drop-ins are welcome but if you are able to sign up please call Bar-bara Carpenter at (860) 371-7170. Northwest Catholic Fundraiser: The tickets are now on sale for Northwest Catholic High School’s 2nd an-nual $10K Raffle fundraiser, to benefit the Northwest
Catholic Fund. The NWC Fund annually supports the school's operating budget and the educational pro-grams and significant aid program which distinguish Northwest Catholic. Tickets are $20 each and only 3,000 tickets will be sold. The grand prize is $10,000, with a second prize of $3,500 and a third prize of $1,500. Visit www.NorthwestCatholic.org/Raffle for information or contact [email protected].
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