Pastor: Reverend Thomas J. Barry Deacon Robert Barry Deacon William Farrell (Ret.) Parish Office Office: (860) 677-2639 Fax Number: (860) 677-2672 Email: office@stpatsfarm.org Website: http://www.stpatsfarm.org Hours: Monday through Thursday………………………………….…...…...…8:30am - 4:00pm Friday…………………………………………………………………….…...…...……….....………9:00am - 2:00pm Religious Education Director, Eileen Dignazio Telephone: (860) 676-0253……………………………………..…….….....eileen@stpatsfarm.org Monday - Thursday…………………………………………………………...…………….......9:00 am - 1:00 pm Confirmation Director, Curtiss Stella Email:……………………………………………………………………….……………………………..curtiss@stpatsfarm.org Peer Ministry Coordinators, Fernando & Winnie Macaro Email:….……………………………………………………..……………………….macaro.fernando@gmail.com Music Ministry Director, Michael Carney Email:.………...……………………………………………………..……………….mikecarneymusic@gmail.com Parish Council Monica Blum, Chairperson ……………………….….....monicaprokop@comcast.net Fernando Macaro, Vice Chairperson …. macaro.fernando@gmail.com Secretary Lisa McEnery (860) 677-2639 x20 ……………….………………………..lisa@stpatsfarm.org Coordinator of Ministries Sally LaBonte (860) 677-2639 x19………….,………………………….sally@stpatsfarm.org Parish Trustees Jeffrey Pingpank, Beverly Montresor SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturday Vigil Mass………………………………….…..5:00pm Sunday Mass…………………………………………….………..7:30am, 9:30am and 11:30am Weekday Mass…….……...………………………...…..……. 8:30am (Monday through Thursday) SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION/CONFESSION: Monday: 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm or by appointment.

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: Requests are due Mondays at noon. All materials are subject to approval from Parish Office. Please contact Parish Office at office@stpatsfarm.org for more details.

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The Faith Community of

The Church of Saint Patrick

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Families need to complete a pre-baptismal program. Baptisms are celebrated the 4th Sunday of the month at 12:30pm & may be scheduled after completing the pro-gram. Please contact Parish Office at office@stpatsfarm.org for more details. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: Please contact Parish Office at office@stpatsfarm.org six months in advance to begin preparation. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: Reverend M. Ernest Wilson Council #20. Meetings are held the 2nd Monday of each month in the Church Hall. Contact: Ray Liudzius, Grand Knight at 860-202-8256 or email him at rayliud@gmail.com. 6:00 pm Officers Meeting …………………………. 7:00 pm General Meeting HOSPITAL & HOME VISITATION: Please contact the Parish Office when a serious illness occurs or when the sick, aged or incapacitated are confined to home or hospital.

September 23, 2018

Saturday, September 22nd 5:00pm Stefan Req. by: Family

Sunday, September 23rd 7:30am Raynald Albert - 50th Anniversary Req. by: Rena & Susan

9:30am Ann Corbett Req. by: the Tharpe family

11:30am Pamela Mills - 10th Anniversary Req. by: parents, Don & Dot

Strickland

Monday, September 24th 8:30am Anna Casasana Req. by: friends, Franca & Teresa

Tuesday, September 25th 8:30am Deceased Members of the

Simonetta & Bigazzi families Req. by: Anna Bigazzi Wednesday, September 26th 8:30am Betsy Delaney Req. by: her parents

Thursday, September 27th 8:30am

Friday, September 28th No Mass

Saturday, September 29th 5:00pm Elsie Shanahan Torres Req. by: the Crowley family

Sunday, September 30th 7:30am Wladyslaw Merchel Req. by: his family

9:30am Dr. Judith Hriceniak Req. by: Family

11:30am Joanne Randall Req. by: her family

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St. Patrick Church

Welcome If you are a visitor to Saint Patrick Church, we want you to know how welcome you are – whether you have come here from another part of the country, from across the world, or simply from another parish here in the Archdiocese of Hartford. Thanks in part to the generosity of visitors like yourself, we are able to celebrate the Church’s liturgy here in a fitting and beautiful way. We are also able to offer a wide range of services to individuals living in our parish and community.

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Grace Dunn, Charlotte Egan, Lynn Daley, The Chorzempa Family, Trisha Elliott, Frances Capodiferro, Ann Stankoski,

Tess Drezek, Helen Battista, Ethan Edwards, Anne DeNuccio, Theresa Turbie,

Violet Frascarelli, Loreen Markie and family, Michael Timura, Clara Cellino,

the Morley Jr./ Sr. families, Brad Ragaglia, Helen Rogers, Belynda Reidda, Betty Franceus,

Bill Millerick, Frank Celeste, Roger May, Ellie Carle, Martene Macaro, Dianne Easdon,

Janet Dunning, Marilyn LoRusso, Jean Kaczynski, Nathan A., Greta Stifel, Bill Chesanek,

Ron & Renanna, Sandy Therrien, Ralph Bozza, Carol Liepis, Jackie Pezzulo, George Jones,

Jack Lembo, Robert Sutkowski, Elisha Yeager, Lauren Cappola, Jim Oswald,

Sue Ann Massey Williamson, Mario Reyes, Thomas Dignazio, Joseph Blancato, Linda

DeZenzo, Ivan Franceus, Angel Jones, Brett Boissonneault, Olivia Kevorkian,

Cece Corrado, Madison Barbieri, John Zmijewski, Jerry Haverty, Michael Dunning

As members of the Body of Christ, we need to

pray for each other & we encourage you to let us know of any parishioner

who is ill or hospitalized,

The Christ in Blessing Candle, The St. Joseph Candle, The Blessed Mother Candle & The Eucharistic Candle

are available in remembrance of your loved ones. You can contact the Parish Office at 860-677-2639

or office@stpatsfarm.org for details.

St. Patrick’s Church

Capital Campaign Newsletter

September 22nd & 23rd, 2018

Capital Campaign Begins!

St. Patrick’s is proud to announce the beginning of the Remembering Our Past, Building Our Future Together Capital Campaign to finally address our long awaited renovation and expansion of our parish facilities. Everyone that calls St. Patrick’s home will be receiving information about the campaign from the pulpit, through the mail, in the bulletin, at campaign receptions (see details below) and from your fellow parishioners. We ask that everyone give their fullest attention and cooperation to the efforts of this campaign, as it is vital to our mission here at St. Patrick’s. During this campaign, all parishioners will be asked to offer their sacrificial gifts of stewardship and prayer in order to ensure our success in our Capital Campaign.

If you have any questions, please contact the campaign office at 860.677.2639 or campaign@stpatsfarm.org

All parishioners will be invited to a Campaign Reception

In the coming weeks, all parishioners will receive an invitation to attend one of a series of campaign receptions. At these receptions, Fr. Barry and the Campaign Committee will share our vision for the future as well as show the 3D project overview. This is your opportunity to learn firsthand about the campaign, ask questions, receive your campaign materials and meet with your fellow parishioners. Because this is an important time in the life of our parish community, we ask that all parishioners take the time to attend a reception. Please RSVP as soon as possible so that we can plan for your attendance. See you there!

This is Recruitment Weekend!

As explained during Mass today, this weekend is Volunteer Recruitment Weekend for the Capital Campaign. Over the coming weeks, we will be reaching out to every family to spread the word about the campaign. We need your time and talent to be successful! With a parish of more than 1,400 families, we need a number of volunteers to assist with phone calls, receptions and preparing mailings. The more people we have involved, the easier our task will be! Please give your prayerful consideration to volunteering in this effort. For those that volunteered someone will be contacting you.

Stewardship thought from this week’s gospel

“If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” MARK 9:35

Jesus teaches us that we are called to serve one another, to sacrifice for the good all. Sacrifice can be a complicated matter. Biblically, we often think of the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus made, or maybe the story Abraham and Isaac. We think it means that we must give up something that something dear to us or even something that we may want. However, the literal meaning of sacrifice is “to make holy,” from the words “sacer” = sacred and “facere” = to make. In other words, we make our lives holy by sharing our gifts (of time, talent & treasure) in the service of God.

Farmington, Connecticut

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FOR WEEKEND OF SEPT 16

OFFERTORY

Masses: $ 8,793.00 Online: $ 770.00 WEEKLY OFFERTORY: $ 9,563.00

Thank you very much for your continuing support and generosity.

There are four ways of giving to St. Patrick’s Church: 1. Making contributions through your bank in person or

online. 2. Making gifts to church of appreciated securities. 3. Making a one time or an annual end of the year gift. 4. Establishing a legacy gift as part of one’s estate planning.

In preparation for our long awaited campaign, each parishioner is asked to pray for its success.

Below is our “Official Campaign Prayer”:

Campaign Prayer

Heavenly Father, we glorify you and we thank you

for all the many blessings you bestow on us as members of the one Body of Christ, your Son.

By the power of the Holy Spirit

inspire us with a vision of the future of St. Patrick Parish,

one filled with hope, confidence and trust, a vision that we pledge to support

for re-igniting our faith and the faith of those who will come after us.

Give us the grace to live fully our Christian calling,

to strengthen the life of our parish, to impart and deepen the faith among all age groups,

especially our youth, to expand our charitable outreach in the name of Christ,

and to plan wisely for the future.

We make our prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.

For details, please contact Fernando Macaro, Coordinator of Peer Ministry

at macaro.fernando@gmail.com

St. Michael, the Archan-gel, defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for ruin of souls. Amen

St. Patrick Religious Education 110 Main Street, P. O. Box 523

Farmington, CT. 06034-0523 Phone: (860) 676-0253

Important Dates to Remember September 2018 Liturgy of the Word for Children continues at the 9:30 & 11:30 Masses. (Classes are held in church hall.) September 24 6:00-7:00 p.m. Classes for grades 3,4,5,6,7 at IAR School September 25 6:00-8:00 p.m. Virtus Workshop-Church Hall September 30 9:30 -11:00 Sacraments 2 Class September 30 11:30 -12:30 Preschool/Kindergarten/Sacraments 1 Class September 30 12:30-1:30 Mrs. Greco’s Grade 8 Class **For more specific dates/times please check the calendar that is posted on the parish website: www.stpatsfarm.org

Religious Education Classes Beginning

Sept. 24 @ IAR 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

School Safety & Dismissal Policy 2018-2019 1. 6:00 p.m. Parents will br ing their children, grades 3,4,5,6 into the school building. Students in grade 7 can come into the building without their parents, since this is their school. Grade 8 is not being held at IAR this year. Mrs. Greco is teaching the class on Sundays. The Room Assignments will be posted on the wall as you walk down the hallway to the classrooms. If your child is not on any list that means that he/she has not been regis-tered. Please do not randomly take them to a classroom, before checking in with Eileen Dignazio. Thank you. 2. On the first day of class only, parents may walk their children down the hallway to help them find their class-rooms and leave them there with the catechist. Please iden-tify yourself to your children’s catechists and thank them for their service to your family. 3. Hallway Monitors are needed! Hallway Monitors stand at the Cafeteria Doors of the building to allow you to enter the locked doors. After bringing your children to class, please consider staying and becoming a Hallway Monitor. (You will need to have a Background Check and attend 1 Virtus Training, that Eileen will facilitate at the Church Hall.) Hallway Monitors also sit outside the bath-rooms in the hallway, to keep the children safe as they come out of the classrooms to use the bathrooms or get a drink from the fountain. 4. Dismissal at 7:00 p.m. – All Parents will wait at the top of the ramp near the cafeteria doors for their children to come up the ramp with their Catechist and classmates. Sign out sheets will be on the table near the door, when you enter the building to pick up your children, with the excep-tion of grade 7. Just initial the space near your child’s name, just as you did for the Sacrament Classes. You may take them when you see them in the hallway, but check with the catechist, so that she knows with whom the children are leaving. Any questions or concerns, please contact Eileen Dignazio.

VIRTUS - Safe Environment Program Archdiocese of Hartford

Tuesday evening, September 25th, Eileen Dignazio will fa-cilitate a Virtus Workshop for all volunteers who will serve as Hallway Monitors for IAR, Catechists and Eucharistic Ministers for Outreach. Please register online for this work-shop at: www.virtusonline.org. Have you filled out the Survey prepared by the ELM Team for St. Patrick Parish? It is online on the Parish Website: www.stpatsfarm.org and hard copies may be found at the doors of the church. We are asking each adult, over the age of 18, to fill out a survey and submit them to the Parish Office by October 1, 2018. This is your chance to share your thoughts and wishes for the parish. Please fill out the survey today!!!

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Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 23, 2018

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Sept 23……………………... Immaculate Conception Shelter Sept 25………..Yoga Sept 27………..New Horizons Dinner Sept 28 ……………..…….. Prayer Shawl Ministry Meeting Oct 2…………..Yoga Oct 7…………. Peer Ministry Meeting Oct 9…………. Yoga Oct 12 ……………………… Prayer Shawl Ministry Meeting Oct 13-14 ……………. Monthly Food Drive (Malta Food Pantry) Oct 13-14 ……………. Monthly Meatloaf Oct 14 …………………..…. House of Bread Oct 14……….. Peer Ministry Meeting Oct 16………...Yoga Oct 17………...Young Adult Ministry Oct 23………...Yoga House of Bread Kim Gencarelli kgenco@me.com All Women Invitation Teresa Janiszewski 860-676-0091 Knights of Columbus Ray Liudzius 860-202-8256 Monthly Food Drive Knights of Columbus 860-986-2201 Monthly Meatloaf Lorraine Stec 860-506-4238 Parish Council Monica Blum monicaprokop@comcast.net Prayer Shawl Barbara Sutkowski 860-747-8427 Immaculcate Conception Shelter Allison Rose & Ann Jett 860-674-1202

Visit www.stpatsfarm.org/ministries

Parish Calendar MINISTRIES CORNER Sally LaBonte - Coordinator of Ministries

sally@stpatsfarm.org 860-677-2639

Our Fall Yoga Series Begins Tuesday, September 25 at 10:30a.m. Back by popular demand our gentle yoga series is retuning for seven weeks. Please join us every Tuesday from

September 25-November 6 at 10:30-11:30 in the church hall. Bring your own yoga mat and a heart full of gratitude and mindfulness. If you don’t own a yoga mat we will pro-vide one for you. If you are a certified yoga instructor and would love to help with our yoga classes please let us know. Sally LaBonte, Coordinator of Parish Ministries sally@stpatsfarm.org

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Interested in helping others and being with your friends at the same time? Come to the next Peer Ministry meeting and see what it’s all about! It will be on Sunday, October 7th after the 9:30 Mass in the Hitchcock Room of the church office. It’s a great opportunity to hang with your friends while helping your church and community at the same time! Also, the snacks are usually pretty good!! Contact Fernando at macaro.fernando@gmail.com for more information.

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Discover why St. Paul Catholic High School has become the choice for more and more families for a truly great Catholic education experience! If you or someone you know has a prospective 6, 7, or 8th grade student, visit us at our Open House any of the following dates at 10:00 a.m.: Saturday, October 13, or November 10. Tours of our campus, meeting our faculty and visiting our family are all part of our open houses. WELCOME HOME! Pre-registration is suggested, but not required. To pre-register please visit www.spchs.com/openhouse. Also, on Saturday, November 17, 2018 we will hold our Placement Exam for prospective 9th and 10th grade students. You may register online at www.spchs.com/placement-exam-registration. Pre-registration for these events is suggested because spaces fill up quickly, but it is not required. If you have any questions, please call or email Matthew Crowley, Director of Admissions at 860-584-0911 Ext. 34 or mcrowley@spchs.com.

Northwest Catholic High School invites prospective students and parents to attend our annual Open House on Sunday, Oc-tober 28th from 1-3 p.m. NWC will offer an entrance exam on Saturday, November 17th at 8 a.m. A completed applica-tion serves as registration for the exam. Walk-ins are wel-come! You can apply online at www.northwestcatholic.org/apply. Please contact Andrew Selig at aselig@nwcath.org

A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “amen I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other con-tributors to the treasury.” Mk 12:42-43 Readings for the Week of September 23, 2018 Sunday: Is 50:5-9a/Ps 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 [9]/Jas 2:14-18/Mk 8:27-35 Monday: 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33/Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17 [1 Cor 11:26b]/Lk 7:1-10 Tuesday: 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a/Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5 [3]/Lk 7:11-17 Wednesday: 1 Cor 12:31--13:13/Ps 33:2-3, 4-5, 12 and 22 [12]/Lk 7:31-35 Thursday: 1 Cor 15:1-11/Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28 [1]/Lk 7:36-50 Friday: Eph 4:1-7, 11-13/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [5]/Mt 9:9-13 Saturday: 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42-49/Ps 56:10c-12, 13-14 [14]/Lk 8:4-15 Next Sunday: Wis 2:12, 17-20/Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6-8 [6b]/Jas 3:16--4:3/Mk 9:30-37

Join Our Team!! Southington Catholic School has current openings for the fol-lowing professional positions: Part Time Spanish Teacher: Qualified teacher for grades pre-k through grade 8 foreign language instruction. Curricu-lum guidelines provided. Please call (860) 628-2485 for more information. Substitute Teachers: Southington Catholic School is look-ing for substitute teachers to be called upon as need. Interested individuals please call (860) 628-2485 for more information.

On October 8th a team from Outreach to Haiti will start its 4th annual bike ride—a 5-day, 337 mile ride that will touch five of the six New England states. The goal is to raise awareness and funds to support our ission in Haiti. Outreach to Haiti has been in Haiti for 30 years serving the poor in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas with a healthcare clinic, nutrition programs, education programs, developing and maintaining twinning relationships and cultural immersion trips. Tom Campbell and Jim Hubert, parishioners of St. Pat-rick’s, will be participating in the ride. We ask for your prayers for a safe and successful ride. More information, including a link to donate to this cause, can be found at www.outreachtohaiti.org or you can contact Tom Camp-bell at thomas.campbell@outreachtohaiti.org.