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Westerly, Rhode Island
St. Clare Church 4 Saint Clare Way, Westerly, RI 02891
401-348-8765
NEW PARISHIONERS
Welcome! Please register with the parish by contacting the Parish Office or on our website. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
The schedule for the celebration of Baptism is arranged with the Pastor. (Baptisms are not celebrated during Lent.) Please call the Parish Office after the child is born. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Confession is offered on Saturdays from 4 to 4:30 PM or by appointment. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
Couples planning to marry should contact the Marriage Coordinator at 401-348-8765 at least one year before the wedding. MINISTRY TO THE HOMEBOUND
The Eucharist will be brought to the home of any person permanently or temporarily homebound. Please contact the Parish Rectory. PARISH CHOIR
The choir, under the direction of Parish Organist & Music Director Bruce Coon, meets for rehearsal on Thursday nights at 6 PM in the choir loft.
STAFF
Rev. Kenneth J. Suibielski, Pastor
Rev. Mr. Stephen Cote, Deacon
Rev. Mr. John D. McGregor, Deacon
Rev. Mr. Carl LaFleur, Retired Deacon
Mrs. Jennifer O’Connor, Parish Secretary
Ms. Alice Duffy, Campus Manager
Mrs. Diana Huff, Parish Accountant
Mr. Bruce Coon, Music Director
Mrs. Ellie Cote, Marriage Coordinator
Ms. Pamela Salimeno, Religious Education Director
MASS SCHEDULE Weekday Mass: 8 AM
Saturday Vigil Mass: 5 PM Sunday Masses: 8 AM & 10 AM
Holy Days: 8 AM & 6 PM
WATCH HILL CHAPEL Last weekend of June through Sunday of Labor Day
Sunday Mass 8:30 AM ONLY
RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 2 PM
Rectory and Office Phone 401-348-8765 Fax 401-315-5273
[email protected] Website: stclarewesterly.com
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION stclarewesterly.com
Religious Education 2016/2017
Class schedules are available on the Calendar and Education tabs of the St. Clare website, stclarewesterly.com .
Class for Grades 1 - 5
Monday, January 23 & 30 at 6 PM in the Parish Center
Class for Grades 6 & 7
Sunday, January 22 and 29 after the 10 AM Mass in the Parish Center
Confirmation - Grade 8
Sunday, January 22 and 29 after the 10 AM Mass in the lower rectory
Questions? Please contact Pam Salimeno at 401-952-1239.
2017 MARCH FOR LIFE
The Office of Life and Family Ministry is sponsoring a bus trip to Washington, DC for the 44TH Annual March for Life, a peaceful and prayerful march to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The cost for the overnight ride is $80 per person. The bus will be leave Rhode Island on Thursday, January 26, from various locations beginning at 7:30 PM.
This year’s trip will take us to the Verizon Center for the Youth Rally and Mass. There will be confession, Rosary, popular Catholic recording artists, presentations and a Mass for Life.
For more information and to register, call Carol Owens at 401-421-7833 Ext. 218.
New York Bus Trip
May 24, 2017
The show is BANDSTAND. This new show opens in April.
The bus will leave the St. Clare parking lot at 7 AM and will leave Bryant Park,
New York, at 7:30 PM.
Cost for bus and Orchestra seat is $136. Cost for bus ride only $41.
Contact: Jane Holdredge 401 596 5866
Or by email at [email protected]
Cancelled Masses
If a Mass is cancelled due to weather conditions, the mass
intention will be said or included the next day.
Tax Tips
1. If you use E-Giving for your contributions, you can print a
statement at any time that coincides with your bank or credit card
statement.
2. Contributions made for masses booked are not tax deductible.
Stewardship Mee ng
Monday, January 23, at 6:30 PM in the Parish Center,
not the lower rectory. All are welcome.
Congratulations are offered to Christopher & Katherine Sisco,
on the Baptism of their son,
Benjamin Robert Sisco, who was baptized on January 14, 2017.
We welcome him to the St. Clare
Catholic community.
Columbiettes Auxiliary of Narragansett Council #21
Looking for new members!
The Columbiettes are a group of Catholic women dedicated to our Patroness Saints:
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Teresa, the Little Flower
and St. Joan of Arc.
Columbiettes support our community by donations to local organizations to help families
and individuals in need.
Any Catholic woman from the age of 17 or older is encouraged to join.
For more information, contact Deb Hobba at 401-207-8792
or Dorothea Tedaldi at 401-596-3319.
Mass Time Changes
The Mass schedule for St. Vincent DePaul in Bradford and Our Lady of Victory in Ashaway has changed.
The new schedule,
St. Vincent dePaul Saturday at 5 PM
and Sunday at 9 AM
Our Lady of Victory Saturday at 4 PM
and Sunday at 10 AM
SAVE THE DATE
Sunday, April 30 at 4 PM
Italian Food - Wine Tasting and Silent Auction
The Hospitality Ministry of St. Clare Church
will be hosting an Italian Food and Wine Tasting and Silent Auction. More info about the food and
wine will be coming in a personal letter to each member of the parish.
The Silent Auction is in need of volunteers to donate services or goods for the auction.
The items can be as large as a cruise on a sail boat or as small as a basket of goodies.
If you are interested in making a donation, please contact Cathy Larsh at 401-322-0043, or by email
at [email protected] or Carolyn Longolucco at 401-596-2964, or by email at
Stay Connected!
St. Clare Stewardship Ministry Corner
• The Stewardship Ministry will meet on Monday, January 23, 2017. Please read Chapter 4, “Witness,” from the
book, Living Your Discipleship: 7 Ways to Express Your Deepest Calling.
• The Prayer Ministry is dedicated to those who request our prayers. To join this ministry or to send a prayer intention, please write in the Book of Intentions near the Baptistry or e-mail [email protected] .
• The Respect Life Ministry seeks to promote and protect the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. The ministry meets the Third Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM from April - November in the
Parish Center. Rosary is said before the 8 AM Mass on the first Friday of every month, weather permitting. All are welcome.
• The Hospitality Ministry provides a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere for members of the St. Clare community and visitors, as well as new parishioners, to meet and interact with one another in a positive way. This ministry provides opportunities to promote parish fellowship and, when necessary, to assist the Pastor with special events. Meetings take place the first Thursday of every month at 8:30 AM in the Parish Center. The next meeting will be on Thursday, February 2. All are welcome.
• The Helping Hands Ministry reaches out to those who are needy, elderly, sick or in need of bereavement consolation. This ministry meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 4 PM in the Parish Center. Enter through the door in the rear parking area. Please feel free to come to these meetings; new faces are always welcome. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 7, 2016.
We will meet on Monday, March 6
at noon in the Parish Center.
We will be discussing 2 books
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
and
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Be sure to bring a bag lunch. All are welcome to join.
2017 Pilgrimage to Ireland September 11 through 20
Join Fr. Ray Suriani and Fr. Brian Sistare
for a pilgrimage to Ireland In the footsteps of St Patrick.
Cost is $3699 and is all inclusive.
If the deposit is paid by February 15, 2017, the cost is reduced to $3499.
Contact Valerie Sistare for more info at [email protected]
Rediscover and Celebrate
It’s still months away, but parish ministers, especially if they are involved in the catechumenate, have their eyes on Lent and the Easter Triduum. Until fairly recent times, the last few days before Easter were shaped by an awareness of the Passion, but the faithful were left to their own devices about how to engage with these mysteries. A thousand years ago, the Easter Vigil as a solemn and central moment of initiation had vanished. By the early 1950s it was a minor moment in parish life, celebrated on Holy Saturday morning, usually with only the priests and a handful of invited guests. Most people understood it as necessary only for blessing the paschal candle and preparing the Easter water. People who were children during World War II sometimes remember that the weekly noontime test of the air-raid sirens on Holy Saturday signaled the end of Lent. Today, of course, we see Holy Saturday as entirely within the paschal fast, and hardly the time for children to be tearing through the plastic grass looking for jelly beans and chocolate eggs. These memories point to a total collapse of the once-central liturgies of the Christian year. This impoverishment of the liturgy was mostly an accident of history. The root cause was the loss of Lent as a time focused on the final formation of catechumens for the Easter sacraments. By 1880, scholars began to piece together a vision of what once had been, and slowly, at first in a handful of monasteries in Europe, pieces of the tradition were rediscovered and celebrated.
Monday - 1/23/17 Server - G. Schackner
Lector - Trainor Eucharistic Minister Schwager-Schwager
Tuesday - 1/24/17 Server - G. Schackner
Lector - Nolan Eucharistic Minister
Visgilio-Wright
Wednesday - 1/25/17 Server - L. Schackner
Lector - Gordon Eucharistic Minister
Visgilio-Wright
Thursday – 1/26/17 Server - L. Schackner
Lector - LaFleur Eucharistic Minister
Sylvestre-Trainor
Friday - 1/27/17 Server - Slusarczyk Lector - Longolucco
Eucharistic Minister Sylvestre-Trainor
Lay Minister Daily Mass Schedule for January 23 - 27
Altar Server Schedule
Sat. - January 28 - 5 PM CB - Peter Fiore
IB - Sun. –January 29 - 8 AM
CB - Devin Kazarian IB - Brayden Kazarian
Sun. - January 29– 10AM CB - Charles Morrison
IB -
Private Homes A - Barbara Bar tkiewicz
B –Lynn Piola
Nursing Homes WHM –Madeline Whewell
Saturday January 28 5 PM Mass Lectors - Mario Celico & Lorry Sanchez Tabernacle - Eucharist - Jo Schwager Cup 1 - Fred Schwager Cup 2 - Carol Piezzo Baptistry - Eucharist - Betty Britton Cup - Ellie Cote Sunday January 29 8 AM Mass Lectors - Peter Meyer & Claudia Luszcz Tabernacle - Eucharist - Alice Chudecki Cup 1 - Alice Visgilio Cup 2 - Lorraine Devault Baptistry - Eucharist - Bob Sylvestre Cup - Mary Capalbo Sunday January 29 10 AM Mass Lectors - Frances Myszka & Celeste Santilli Tabernacle - Eucharist - June Hartford-Alley Cup 1 - Marianne McGregor Cup 2 - Camilla Gordon Baptistry - Eucharist - Mark Gordon Cup - Sandra Abbott
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Daily Readings
Communion to the Sick
The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, January 22, 2017
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Monday, January 23 Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children/St. Vincent, Deacon & Martyr; St. Marianne Cope, Virgin 8:00 AM +Lou Vallone by Bob & Janice Sylvestre Tuesday, January 24 St. Francis de Sales, Bishop & Doctor of the Church 8:00 AM +Carolle Kemp by sister Janice & Ron Gulluscio Wednesday, January 25 The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle 8:00 AM +Norm & Lennie Reeves by Pat & Austin Murphy Thursday, January 26 Saints Timothy & Titus, Bishops 8:00 AM +Timothy R. Crowley by James & Jean Crowley Friday, January 27 St. Angela Merici, Virgin 8:00 AM +Cheryl Mayhew Smith by Angela & Arthur Smith Saturday, January 28 The Vigil of the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 11:30 AM Baptism of Jaxson William Blum 5:00 PM +Mary & Willard Drummond by their daughter Carol Sunday, January 29 The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 AM In Gratitude of Mr. & Mrs. Doug LaFleur & Family by Deacon Carl LaFleur 10:00 AM +Louis Stefanski by John & Anna Maria Streips 11:15 AM Baptism of Giuliana Margaret Giordano
Monday: Heb 9:15, 24-28; Ps 98:1-6; Mk 3:22-30, Tuesday: Heb 10:1-10; Ps 40:2, 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 Thursday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 4:21-35 Friday: Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Zep 2:3; 3:12-13; Ps 146:6-10; 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12a