schedule ass “be opened!”
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SCHEDULE
MASS Saturday (Vigil) 4:15pm Sunday 6:30am, 8am, 10am, 12pm & 6pm (EXTENDED until further notice) Monday - Friday 6am, 7am & 12:10pm Wednesday & 1st Fridays ONLY 5:30pm Saturday 6am & 12:10pm
CONFESSION Saturday 11am - 12pm & 3 - 4pm Sunday 7:15 - 7:45am, 9:15 - 9:45am & 11:15 - 11:45am Monday - Friday 6:30 - 7am & 11am - 12pm Wednesday & 1st Fridays ONLY 5 - 5:25pm
A glorious refuge where faith, hope & charity are awakened, replenished and shared.
via waterburybasilica.org
Schedule
12:10pm Mon-Fri - Audio only 4:15pm Saturday Vigil Mass
10am Sunday Mass
5 Sep 2021 | 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 74 West Main Street | Waterbury, CT 06702 | 203.574.0017 | waterburybasilica.org
“Be opened!”
To sign-up, go to waterburybasilica.weshareonline.org
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+ = Deceased L/D = Living/Deceased
203.574.0017 Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
www.waterburybasilica.org
Rector Very Rev. James M. Sullivan
Temporary Parochial Vicars
Rev. Daniel Wojtun Rev. Joseph MacNeill
Senior Priest-in-Residence Rev. John Mariano
Secretary Kim Halmose
Communications/ Parish Liaison
Aurora Daly [email protected]
Music Reuben Barnes
Pastoral Associate Dan Mathews
Pastoral Outreach Nicole Plasky
Religious Ed Jackie Tiul
To sign-up, go to waterburybasilica.weshareonline.org
Please note our MASS SCHEDULE is on the front cover
Sat, Sep 4 4:15pm +Donald George
Sun, Sep 5 - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 6:30am +Pasquale Guerrera - 10th Anniversary 8:00am +Teresa Lacaria - Anniversary
10:00am +William Murray Jr & +William Murray III 12:00pm +Christopher Brown - 15th Anniversary 6:00pm +Yvonne Montemeat
Mon, Sep 6 6:00am Sons & Daughters of the Immaculate Conception 7:00am NO mass 12:10pm +Sophie C Sampieri
Tue, Sep 7 6:00am +Michael C Rocco 7:00am +Robert Paquette Sr - Anniversary 12:10pm Brandon McKenzie & Mikey Hayes
Wed, Sep 8 - The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 6:00am Mary Corden 7:00am Sons & Daughters of the Immaculate Conception 12:10pm +Ralph R Capuano Jr 5:30pm +Jennifer Coughlan
Thu, Sep 9 - St. Peter Claver
6:00am Curt & Cindy Burr - Anniversary 7:00am +Aleksandra Zacharko 12:10pm +Joyce Hutt
Fri, Sep 10 6:00am Fanny Falcone 7:00am Sons & Daughters of the Immaculate Conception 12:10pm +Jane & George Galullo
Sat, Sep 11 - Patriot Day 6:00am Victims of 9/11
12:10pm Victims of 9/11
4:15pm Victims of 9/11 Sun, Sep 12 - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
6:30am Noura Bila - Birthday Blessings 8:00am +Mary Bolan Cotter
10:00am +William Genovese Sr 12:00pm +Wyatt Shea Levandoski 6:00pm +Raymond Shea
Please note, only 12 Mass Intentions left for 2021 mostly for the 6am mass time
Welcome to the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception!
We invite those who attend Mass regularly but are not officially registered to join and belong!
Please go to waterburybasilica.org for the online new parishioner form or call the parish office 203.574.0017 for a copy to be emailed to you.
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Questions? Please contact Adoration Coordinators listed below (by time slots):
6am -12pm: Carmen F @ 203.568.5523 12pm -6pm: Chuck A @ 203.223.0322
6pm -12am: Sydney VO @ 203.768.0043 12am -6am: John W @ 203.509.3506
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Chapel from 6am Mon to 6am Sat Please note, during the hours of
6pm to 6am Adoration will be in our newly restored
multi-purpose room downstairs which can only be accessed by a FOB.
These are available in the parish office, a $10 refundable deposit is required. Week
ending
Aug 29
Weekly - 15,887.81 Thank you for your generosity!
If you would like to have a community praying for your needs or those of your loved ones, please feel free to
email your prayer requests to [email protected]
If you would like someone from the Basilica to call you, please indicate that as well and
we will gladly reach out to you.
We also have a telephone prayer line! All are invited to call in their prayer requests
to the following volunteers:
JO ANN: 203.879.1399 SARA: 203.893.9342 BOB: 203.573.0032
To our prayer warriors, would like to join
our new online Prayer Chain, please contact Dan Mathews at 203.574.0017
or via email: [email protected]
All are most welcome!
May we pray for you?
By overwhelming majority, we have decided to KEEP the 6pm Sunday evening mass until
November 7 the end of daylight saving time. We will revert to the 4pm time during the late fall
and again will return to 6pm in the spring when we are back to daylight savings time.
We apologize to those who prefer the 4pm Mass on Sunday, however the vast preference to keep it at 6pm cannot be ignored. Attendance at this mass
has essentially doubled and with an informal hand raising poll, the response was approximately
20/1 for keeping it at 6pm.
6pm Mass Time
EXTENDED!
6 September 2021 PARISH OFFICE
CLOSED
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RC IA
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN DISCOVERING THE MEANING OF LIFE?
Do you ever find yourself asking questions like: “Who is God?” “Who is Jesus?” “Why am I here?” “What was I meant to be?”
“What happens when I pray?” “How can I make my life more fulfilling?” “How can I deepen my relationship with other people?” “How can I have hope?” “What happens after we die?”
“Would you like to be forgiven for all of your sins?” “Would you like to experience a one-on-one, personal encounter with Jesus Christ?”
If you answered, “YES!” to any of these questions, then it’s time for you to consider becoming Catholic! We will soon be accepting registration for our RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) classes for anyone who would like to be brought into our Church. For those who have already been baptized but have never received their First Holy Communion or Confirmation, classes will be available as well.
The weekly, hour-long RCIA classes will be starting on Sunday, 3 October 2021 after the 10am Mass and will culminate on Saturday, 16 April 2022 (Easter Vigil). There is NO fee to attend these classes.
This program is open to anyone over 17 years old
We certainly look forward to welcoming you into the Church. The commitment is joyful and the rewards are everlasting!
For more information, please contact our Pastoral Associate, Dan Mathews at 203.574.0017 or via email: [email protected]
20th Anniversary
MEMORIAL MASS Saturday, 11 September 2021
@ 8:46am Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
All are welcome
Religious Education 2021-2022 Class Registration is now open!
Classes will begin on 26 Sep 2021 All classes are held on Sundays
in the church hall from 9am to 10am &
11am - 12pm (1st year Confirmation) 2nd year confirmation students begin on 12 Sep 2021
For more information, please email Jackie Tiul, Director of Religious Education
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From the desk of Fr. Sullivan Dear Friends,
Work, work and more work! For many of us it seems impossible to catch up. Once a series of projects approach completion, an entire new list of responsibilities and initiatives are on the horizon. Work as we all know, can be both a curse and a blessing. In the book of Genesis, the first book of the bible, we see the work of God in creation as “good” (Gn 1). After the fall of Adam, work is still good but toil is attached to it. Men will toil at “the sweat of his brow” (Gn 3:19). Work often involves challenge, difficulty, exhaustion and struggle. Anyone who takes their job seriously will experience all of these things. God in his love for us, has also attached to work, the possibility of experiencing great joy and a sense of accomplishment. Work is participating with God in the act of creating. This includes every aspect of work: arts, sciences, literature, service professions and all forms of manual labor. Pope John Paul II in his encyclical on work, “Laborem Exercens” (On Human Work) describes work as “any activity of man whether manual or intellectual”. A scholarly Benedictine monk once explained to me that if God is pure act (the earth always in motion, plants growing, animals moving, cells active, moving tides etc.), and we are to imitate God, then we too are called to act, to move, to grow, to do, to create. We are all created to work in one way or another, according to our particular calling and vocation. We received a gift from God to per-form a particular act while on earth. So much more can be said, however in speaking about work, we need to also recognize significant weaknesses of human nature that can easily lead to laziness, selfishness and unproductiveness. This diminishes us as persons and never gives a feeling of accomplishment or satisfaction. A person who is all about relaxing and kicking back after every opportunity will never fully live out his potential. He/she may experience comfort but never true happiness. All these being said, a person also needs to rest. It is not all about work. The Sabbath (the Lord’s day) is a day of rest. We can find God profoundly in our work but even more in our worship and our rest. Both are necessary to live a fully-balanced life. God, who is the creator of all, built into the human person the need and desire of both work and rest. Labor day celebrates work and its achievements. Our country has accomplished so much for the advancement of the world in which we live. As we hopefully relax a little bit this weekend, we thank God for the gift of our vocation. May our Lord be always the center of our lives including our work. Happy Labor Day! Fr. Sullivan
Welcome to Dan Mathews, our newest Basilica staff member! He will have many duties but will concentrate on the needs of our youth and young adults.
And we bid farewell to Fr. Joe MacNeill, He heads back to Rome to complete his two years of studies.
Remember him in your prayers and pray he will return to our parish. We are confident his brief stint with us will bear abundant fruit!
Hello &
Farewell
Blessed Michael McGivney Center for Renewal (formerly the Pope Francis Center for Renewal)
43 Cole Street, Waterbury CT New Hours of Operation: 9am - 12pm Mon -Thu
Contact: Nicole at 203.574.0017 x204 or [email protected]
The ABCs of Annulment September 18 @ 10am - 12pm
St. Augustine Parish Hall 10 Campbell Ave, Hartford, CT
FREE ADMISSION Fr. Thomas Walsh, Pastor of Saint Augustine Parish, in collaboration with Fr. George Mukuka, the Judicial Vicar of the Metropolitan Tribunal will host “The ABCs of Annulment” Updates of the process initiated by Pope Francis as well as those made in the Archdiocese of Hartford will be presented by Br. Larry Lussier CSC in English and Deacon Ramon Rosado in Spanish. To help participants write their applications, Follow-up Annulment Workshops will be offered the following Saturdays: Sep 25, Oct 2 and Oct 9, from 10am to 12pm at the same location. Deacon George Frederick and Jim Tottenham of the Annulment Team, will join Br. Larry and Dcn Rosado for the Workshops.
The “ABCs of Annulment” event is open to all at NO cost.
Participants will receive a folder with the required printed materials.
No registration is required. For more details, please contact
Br. Larry: call 475-221-8464 or email: [email protected]
CT Retrouvaille Weekend 17 - 19 September 2021
Has your marriage has become troubled and stressed, unloving or uncaring? Are you thinking
of divorce or separation? The Retrouvaille program can help.
Retrouvaille provides tools to improve communication, better,
resolve conflicts fairly, and re-discover why you fell in love.
For more information: call confidentially 1-800-470-2230, email: [email protected]
or go to our website: www.helpourmarriage.com
Beyond the Basilica EVENTS
Thank you so much to one of our devoted and caring volunteers who generously donated our new Blessed Michael McGivney Center for Renewal sign!
Our center is ALWAYS in need of these items for our guests, such as:
local bus passes, men’s t-shirts, food items, gift cards for groceries,
and of course items for our food pantry. Please contact Nicole for more
specific needs. Thank you for your generosity!
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