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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
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 - Thursday: 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
DEACON
Mr. Arthur Miller
ST. MARY’S PARISH, SIMSBURY
Saturday DECEMBER 26
8:00 AM No Mass
5:00 PM Norman Bourdon
In Memory
By: Paul Fitzpatrick
Sunday DECEMBER 27
8:00 AM Paul Dlubac
Birthday Remembrance
By: The Family
9:30 AM People of St. Mary’s Parish
11:00 AM Louis & M. Emile Leonka
By: The Carroll Family
Monday DECEMBER 28
8:00 AM Mary Ann Moran
By: Jim & Paula Gallagher
& Family
Tuesday DECEMBER 29
8:00 AM Jerry Pfau
By: Teresa Pfau St. Denis
Wednesday DECEMBER 30
8:00 AM Patrick Ryan
By: The Hark Family
Saturday JANUARY 2
8:00 AM No Mass
5:00 PM Normand J. Bourdon
(Father of Peter Bourdon)
In Memory
By: The Rohrs Family
Sunday JANUARY 3
8:00 AM David Harrigan
In Loving Memory
Vic & Mary Lou Daley
9:30 AM People of St. Mary’s Parish
11:00 AM Normand Bourdon
By: Marsha Payne
MASS INTENTIONS
No Saturday Morning Mass: Given the Christmas
schedule, there is no Saturday morning Mass this
Saturday, Dec 26th or next Saturday, Jan 2nd.
Come and Practice the Works of Mercy: Join Father
Matera and the residents of Governor’s
House December 30th for Mass at 2:00 PM. All
Parishioners are invited to attend, but a special
invitation is extended to our fourth grade religious
education classes who are making prayer beads and
stationary for the residents as part of their service
project. By visiting these residents you show them that
they are not forgotten and you practice the Corporal
and Spiritual Works of Mercy of visiting the sick and
the homebound. After the Mass at 2:00 PM, the
children will be caroling through the halls as they give
out gifts from the parish. If you have questions, contact
Sandy Everett at (860) 214-6557 by either text or call.
Governor’s House is located at 36 Firetown Road. We
will be meeting on the stairs at 1:45 PM.!
Seating for People with Special Needs: We have
moved one of the pews from the north wing of the
church (by the choir) to the south wing of the church
(on the rectory side of the church). This has allowed us
to make the first two pews of the south wing more
accessible to people with special needs. If you have
special needs, we invite you to sit in the first or second
pew in the south wing.
Mercy Shelter: Desserts and fruit are needed to take to
Mercy Shelter in Hartford this Sunday, December 27th.
All items can be dropped off in the Lower Church
before 3:00 PM. Thanks for all the donations!
Prayer Shawl Ministry: Join us on Monday, January 4
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 the ministry. For information, call
Cheryl (860) 651-9525 or Rhoda (860) 651-4027.
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Baptized: We welcome Seraphina Duprey who
was baptized into Christ last week.
Please Remember St. Mary’s
in your Year End Charitable Giving!
If you are interested in gifting
appreciated securities
or securing a company match,
please contact Bill Heiden at (860) 217-9303
Thursday DECEMBER 31
8:00 AM No Mass
4:00 PM People of St. Mary’s Parish
Friday NEW YEAR MASS
9:00 AM People of St. Mary’s Parish
11:00 AM People of St. Mary’s Parish
Christmas 2015
The Word Was Made Flesh
On behalf of Deacon Art and myself, I wish all of you a most holy and blessed Christmas. May the
Spirit of joy and peace that comes with the birth of the Savior fill your lives this Christmas season and the
entire year.
The mystery of Christmas is the mystery of the Incarnation: the mystery of the Word made Flesh.
Saint John proclaims this mystery when he writes at the beginning of his Gospel: “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word became flesh and made
his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth” (John
1:1, 14).
The eternal Word of God entered the world in which we live by taking on our human flesh. This
means that Jesus Christ is true God and true Man. Jesus of Nazareth was a human being like us in every
way but sin. He experienced our emotion and pain; he experienced our suffering and disappointment; he
shared fully in our human nature. But Jesus was not only human; he was the incarnate Son of God. To see
Jesus, therefore, is to see God. To hear Jesus is to hear God. To be in Jesus’ presence is to be in the pres-
ence of God.
The mystery of the Incarnation is so profound that we can never fully comprehend or understand
it. This is why we celebrate Christmas over a period of several weeks rather than on a single day. It takes
time to absorb the mystery of Christmas. It takes time to grasp the enormity of God’s gift to us. It takes
time to reflect upon and enter into the mystery of Christmas.
For us who believe in the mystery of Christmas—the Incarnation—there is no room for doubt and
despair. There is no room for pessimism. The world in which we live, God’s good creation, has been sanc-
tified and made holy by the appearance of God’s Son in the flesh.
Merry Christmas Father Matera
Mass on New Year’s Eve 4:00 PM
Masses on New Year’s Day 9:00 & 11:00 AM
Our Mission Statement:
We are a faith-filled community centered in Christ that gathers in our Father’s love to celebrate in Word and
Sacrament. We seek to grow in that love, to be guided by the Holy Spirit and to share an atmosphere of warmth
and hospitality with all.
December 27, 2015
Sunday Morning Adult Enrichment Program: The Adult Enrichment committee wishes you a most won-derful holiday with your family. Stay tuned for new pro-grams coming in 2016! Tuesday Evening Bible Study: Join us on Tuesday, December 29h for Bible Study with Deacon Art in the Parish Center beginning at 7:00 PM. Bring a Bible and a friend - all are welcome!
* Prior to Bible Study join us at 6:10 PM for Lectio Divina in
the portable classrooms and/or 6:45 PM in the Parish Center
for prayers for healing and special intentions.*
Please go to our website stmarysimsbury.org, click on Faith Formation, then click on Bible Study for further details. St. Mary’s Annual Retreat: Our annual retreat week-ends are scheduled for February 26-28 at our Lady of Calvary and March 18-20 at the Holy Family. Look for more information about the themes and registration at www.stmarysimsbury.org and click on Faith Formation. !
!
The Knights of Columbus Museum, at 1 State Street in New Haven, is featuring a Christmas exhibition, “Joy to the World: Creches of Central Europe,” with 75 Nativity scenes on loan with origins from Austria, Czech Repub-lic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. The museum and it’s gift shop are open 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily (except Christmas Eve and Christ-mas) with free admission and parking. For more infor-mation please call (203)865-0400.
Church of St. Ann: The St. Ann Social Justice Com-mittee needs your help in advertising our 8th Annual Winter Reading Used Book Sale on Friday, January 8 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM ($5.00 admission for adults), then Saturday, January 9 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Free Admission) and Sunday, January 10 from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM (Free admission). It will be held at ST. Ann Church at 289 Arch Road. This function will bene-fit the St. Ann Scholarship Program.
Mass for Families: Archbishop Blair will celebrate a Mass for families on the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, this Sunday, December 27th, at 11:00 AM, at St. Joseph Cathedral. The Archbishop invites you to attend the event for families.
No Religious Education: Due to the New Year’s Hol-
iday there will be no Religious Education on January
3rd. Classes resume January 10th.
Confirmation: The Archdiocese has notified us that Archbishop Blair will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation at St. Mary’s on Thursday, April 28th, at 6:00 PM, and that Bishop Macaluso will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation the next day, Friday, April 29th, at 6:00 PM. Details about rehearsal dates and how the classes will be split will follow soon.
Winter Break: School will resume on Monday, Janu-ary 4. We look forward to celebrating Catholic Schools Month on our return. Open House: Have you explored all of your educa-tional options? Please join us on Wednesday, January 27 at 6:30 PM for our Open House. Meet our faculty, students and families and learn more about the ad-vantages of a Catholic education. Save The Date: Enjoy an evening of art, food and wine on Friday, January 29 at the Hillstead Museum in Farmington, CT.
Mass on New Year’s Eve:
4:00 PM
Masses on New Year’s Day:
9:00 AM & 11:00 AM
ST. MARY’S SCHOOL
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