THE COMMUNITY OF SAINTS ISIDORE AND MARIA ALL ARE WELCOME IN THE PARISH COMMUNITY OF SAINTS ISIDORE AND MARIA St. Augustine Church 55 Hopewell Road South Glastonbury, CT 06073 Masses Sunday 7:30am Monday, Wednesday, Friday 7:30am St. Paul Church 2577 Main Street Glastonbury, CT 06033 Masses Saturday 4:00pm Sunday 9:30am and 11:15am Tuesday, Thursday 7:30am Main office located at 2577 Main Street Glastonbury, CT 06033 860-633-9419 860-633-0040(fax) Faith Formation office: 860-659-3029 “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one” St. Teresa of Calcutta
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THE COMMUNITY OF SAINTS ISIDORE AND MARIA
ALL ARE WELCOME IN THE PARISH COMMUNITY OF SAINTS ISIDORE AND MARIA
St. Augustine Church 55 Hopewell Road
South Glastonbury, CT 06073
Masses
Sunday 7:30am
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 7:30am
St. Paul Church 2577 Main Street
Glastonbury, CT 06033
Masses
Saturday 4:00pm
Sunday 9:30am and 11:15am
Tuesday, Thursday 7:30am
Main office located at
2577 Main Street
Glastonbury, CT 06033
860-633-9419 860-633-0040(fax)
Faith Formation office: 860-659-3029
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one” St. Teresa of Calcutta
CLERGY
Rev. Mark S. Suslenko, Pastor William G. Dziatko, Deacon Stephen L. Weaver, Deacon
THE COMMUNITY OF SAINTS ISIDORE AND MARIA TORRIBIA
Collections and Parish Finances We are grateful for your generous support of our
Sacrificial Giving Program.
Report for the week of 11/5/17:
Weekly collection (St. Paul): $ 6,325.60 Extra: 697.00 Online Giving: 155.00 All Saints 1,689.35 Total St. Paul: $ 8,866.95 Weekly collection (St. Augustine): $ 1,565.00 Extra 1,497.00 Online Giving 326.00 All Saints 802.00 Total St. Augustine: $ 4,200.00 Total before Assessment $ 13,066.95 Chancery Assessment: 5.5% : (718.68) Catholic School Assessment: 5.5% (718.68) Total Offertory $ 11,629.59 Parish Annual Appeal Collection St. Paul $ 35,403.00 St. Augustine 36,933.97 Total Parish $ 72,336.97
In your prayers please remember our sick parishioners and friends:
Stephen Allen Suzanne Allen Susan Bowhall Anne DeNuccio Ashley Flanagan Brenda Flanagan
Leah & Dan Hebert Barbara Nowacki
Roger Yost
To add a prayer intention, please contact our rectory office. Due
to privacy laws we limit the requests to immediate family
members only. We cannot publish names of friends.
Thank you for your understanding.
Main Office Tel: (860) 633-9419
Fax: (860) 633-0040
Melissa Lacafta, Admin. Assistant to the Pastor [email protected] Paula Pantano, Secretary
Inspiration for the Week Are we ready and prepared for what life will ask of us? The answers to life's challenges, especially those that involve purpose, meaning, and happiness are not found in material things or by searching the Internet. Many things in life re-quire a journey of the heart and the acquisition of wisdom. When one acquires wisdom, one acquires priceless wealth. Sadly, pursuing wisdom is not valued by our world these days. Examining our lives, pondering the bigger questions, reflecting on where we have been and where we are going, are invaluable exercises that not only bring us wisdom but open our eyes to God's presence. Those who seek wisdom shall not be disappointed and will always be ready for whatever comes their way.
LITURGICAL SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS
Date Church Time Intention Requested by
Saturday, November 11
Thirty-second Sunday in
Ordinary Time
St. Paul
St. Paul
3:00p.m.—3:30p.m.
4:00p.m.
Reconciliation
Amelia & Lucien Daignault
Family
Sunday, November 12 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
St. Augustine
St. Paul
St. Paul
7:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
11:15a.m.
Jennie & Peter Tyczkowski
Cecile Senna, 3rd Anniversary
Urbanski Family
Family
Family
Felicia Noetzel
Monday, November 13 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin
St. Augustine
St. Paul
7:30 a.m.
7:00p.m.
Albert B. Pellegrino
Eucharistic Adoration
Kathy & Gerry
Brookes
Tuesday, November 14 Weekday
St. Paul
St. Augustine
7:30 a.m
7:00p.m.
Catherine & Stanley Slivonick
Rosary
Family
Wednesday, November 15 Weekday
St. Augustine
7:30 a.m.
Frances Dzialo Family
Thursday, November 16 Weekday
St. Paul
7:30 a.m.
Thomas L. Dwyer Donald Martin
Friday, November 17 St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious
St. Augustine
7:30 a.m.
Fr. Ryan Sliwa Suzanne Allen
Saturday, November 18
Thirty-third Sunday in
Ordinary Time
St. Paul
St. Paul
3:00p.m.—3:30p.m.
4:00p.m.
Reconciliation
Robert Shepherd
Family
Sunday, November 19 Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
St. Augustine
St. Paul
St. Paul
7:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
11:15a.m.
Edward & Diana Kamis
Fico Behrens
Frank & Camille Russo and
Ann Sopel
Michael & Joanna
Kamis
Mother & Sisters
Family
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Sunday: Wis 6:12-16/Ps 63:2-8/1 Thes 4:13-18 or 4:13-14/Mt 25:1-13 Monday: Wis 1:1-7/Ps 139:1b-10/Lk 17:1-6 Tuesday: Wis 2:23—3:9/Ps 34:2-3, 16-19/Lk 17:7- 10 Wednesday: Wis 6:1-11/Ps /Ps 82:3-4, 6-7/Lk 17:11-19 Thursday: Wis 7:22b—8:1/Ps 119:89-91, 130, 135, 175/Lk 17:20-25 Friday: Wis 13:1-9/Ps 19:2-5ab/Lk 17:26-37 Saturday: Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9/Ps 105:2-3, 36-37, 42 -43/Lk 18:1-8 Saturday: Dedication: Acts 28:11-16, 30-31/Ps 98:1- 6/Mt 14:22-33 Next Sunday: Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31/Ps 128:1-5/1 Thes 5:1-6/Mt 25:14-30 or 25:14-15, 19-21
Eucharistic Candle
At St. Paul Church
is dedicated this week for
Dennis Letendre
Requested by
John Murray
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
East Catholic High School
The Entrance Exam for 8th graders will be given on Satur-day, December 2nd, at 8 a.m. at East.Catholic Pre-registration for the exam is advised but not required. Visit www.echs.com or call our Admissions office for more in-formation! Dorota Debski,ECHS Admissions Assistant
860-649-5336, ext. 6456
Northwest Catholic High School will offer its Entrance Exam (HSPT) on December 2. A completed application will serve as registration for the exam. To apply, go to www.northwestcatholic.org/apply. Please contact Andrew Selig at [email protected] with any questions.
Next week, our second collection will be for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Over 46 million peo-ple in the United States live in poverty. This collection sup-ports programs to empower people to identify and address the obstacles they face as they work to lift themselves out of poverty. By supporting this collection you give people a hand up, not a hand out. Learn more about the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at www.usccb.org/
cchd/collection.
The Mercy/Xavier Drama Club will be performing “You
Can’t Take it with You” on Wed. Nov. 29 and Thurs. Nov. 30 at 7pm at Mercy High School. Please call or email me if you plan to attend and I will hold a ticket for you at the box office. We appreciate your support of the Mercy/Xavier Drama Club & look forward to seeing you at the play! Diane Santostefano , Director of Admissions 860-346-6659 [email protected]
Saints Isidore and Maria Pastoral Council
I am very happy and excited to announce that I have recent-ly formed a new Pastoral Council for our community. The Pastoral Council functions a little differently than the tradi-tional Parish Council. The Pastoral Council is charged with assisting me in leading our parish community in the dis-cernment and expression of its mission. The primary focus of the parish Pastoral Council is to ensure that the pastoral and spiritual needs of our community and beyond reflect our parish mission. This involves ongoing pastoral plan-ning, assessment of needs and discernment. It is also the task of the parish Pastoral Council to connect with the wid-er mission of the Archdiocese and Universal Church. Our focus will be on the seven elements that form the essence of parish life: evangelization, worship, word, community, ser-vice, stewardship and leadership. In practical terms this translates into developing a parish Mission/Vision State-ment, evaluating current parish ministries, developing new parish ministries in conjunction with the parish mission and ensuring that parish efforts harmonize with, contribute to our mission and more! Both former communities of St. Augustine and St. Paul have incredible gifts and charisms to share. All of us have a vision of the kind of community we would like to be and are called to listen to the Holy Spirit as we are guided and led in living the mission of the Gospel. Those initially assisting me in this task are: Jon Sozek (Faith Formation Director), Donna Berger, Phil Lohr, Mary Kate Hallissey, Tod Umback, Sarah Johnson, Tricia Quinn and Robert Howley. Our deacons, Bill Dziatko and Steve Weaver are also asked to participate. I am grateful for their willingness to serve and eager to see our work and dialogue bear fruit in our community.
Saints Isidore and Maria Finance Council
I am also very happy to announce my gratitude to those I have asked to assist me on our parish Finance Council. The parish Finance Council is primarily charged with advising the pastor regarding parish temporal needs, monitoring and assisting with the parish budget, reviewing income and ex-penses and long-range planning. With the Pastoral Council focused on the pastoral and spiritual needs of our communi-ty, it is the role of the Finance Council to assist with our financial concerns. Until we can officially and formally incorporate into our new community of Saints Isidore and Maria, the parish Finance Council will continue to monitor each entity separately, with members whose original affilia-tion was in their particular parish focusing primarily on that entity. Those who graciously accepted my invitation to help with this work are: Bob DeLucia, Michael Ferris, John Ruggiero, Patrick Treacy, Deb Warren, Paul Nowosadko, Sandy Scalon, David Berger, Christopher Johnson and Joan
Faustman.
Father Mark
“When the World is Sparkling, I Feel like Crying”
a two-part grief holiday support group
for people who have lost a loved one to opiate overdose
(or other substance-related death) Be around other people who understand the same kind of loss. Share emotions in a safe space. Learn coping skills and coping strategies to get through the holidays and beyond. Groups are facilitated by licensed alcohol and drug counselor (LADC), who are grief-counseling-certified (GC-C). Participants may attend one or both sessions, held at St. Paul Church classrooms on 11/19 and 12/17 from 12:15-1:30 (or thereabouts after 11:15AM Mass) Program is free of charge, but registration is required. Please register with Melissa at 860-633-9419 or [email protected]
PARISH HAPPENINGS
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT ON:
Palmer and Associates Insurance
(see our ad on the back cover)
ADULT CHOIR Choir rehearsal, Thursday 11/16 at 7:30. Sing 11:15 Mass, Sunday 11/19 rehearsal at 10:45. NO REHEARSAL, Thursday 11/23 (Thanksgiving). Sing 11:15 Mass, Sunday 11/26 rehearsal at 10:45. Choir rehearsal, Thursday 11/30 at 7:30.
The HEALTHCARE MINISTRY still has one WALKER available for any parishioner who might be in need of one. Please contact the rectory office at 860-633-9419 if you are interested.
The Knights of Columbus & the Health Care Ministry in collaboration with the Glaston-
bury Social Services Department will be collecting new and gently used coats, mit-tens, gloves, scarves and hats for needy fam-ilies in Glastonbury. We will be collecting
these items until December 15th. You will see large blue
bins near the entrances to the church. Please place your items in these bins. Distribution of these items will be on December 19th. We thank you for your generosity. E-mail any questions to [email protected] and
we will get back to you.
ARENU PRESENTS JESUS IN LANCASTER, PA October 15 – 17, 2018
Flyers are now available in the church for this amazing mu-sical. JESUS!is an action-packed musical stage adventure – a journey alongside the most important person to ever walk the earth. Please pick up a flyer and registration form and register as soon as possible. If you would like me to email you a flyer and registration form, please call me at 860-657-3407 or email me at [email protected].
Thank you and God Bless.
Linda Yost
Men's Club Thanksgiving Turkey BINGO The Saints Isidore and Maria Men’s Club will be having their annual Thanksgiving Turkey BINGO at 7:00PM on Thursday Nov. 16th, at Father Fleming Hall. All members are invited to join the fun and win a Thanksgiving Turkey (gift certificate). There will be a booster club drawing. Snacks and refreshments will be served. New members are welcome to join the Men’s Club by calling Membership Chairmen Joe Melzen at 860-633-8639, Peter Tyczkowski at 860-633-5611 or by joining the night of the event. Mark the date and see you there.........
Holiday Bulletin Submission Schedule
For the November 18/19th issue, all submissions must be received in our office by 10am on Monday, November 13.
For the November 25/26 issue, all submissions must be re-ceived in our office by 10am on Thursday, November 16.
Will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, November 16th at 10am.
Anyone wishing to obtain a shawl or lap blanket, or join us in this ministry, please contact Rosemary Nemecek at (860) 659-4899
We are looking for a couple of people to help with watering the Sanctuary Flowers for the Christmas Season. If you are willing to assist please call the parish office 860-633-9419. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanksgiving Interfaith Service To Focus on Sharing
The traditional Glastonbury Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held at the Lutheran Church of St. Mark on Tues-day, November 21 at 7:00 p.m. This year’s theme is Shar-ing the Bread, Together We are Fed. People are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food for the local food pantry as well as a loaf of bread to share as part of the service. Presented by the Glastonbury Interfaith Leadership Group, the service includes readings, reflections, and music from many spiritual communities, among them Hindu, Christian, Bahai, Muslim, and Jewish. “Thanksgiving is the time of year when all of us can come together in gratitude to uphold both our unity and our diversity on the theme of sharing bread,” explained Denise Cabana, minister of St. James Episcopal Church and a member of the leadership group. Everyone is welcome.
