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110 MAIN ST, FARMINGTON, CT 06032 | (860) 677-2639 | [email protected] | STPATSFARM.ORG
AUGUST 2, 2020
THE EIGHTEENTH
SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturday Vigil Mass—
Sunday Mass—9:00am and 10:30am
Weekday Mass—8:00am (MON through THUR)
Monsignor Thomas J. Barry, Pastor
Robert Barry, Deacon
William Farrell (Ret.), Deacon
PARISH OFFICE Fax Number: (860) 677-2672
MON through THUR—9:00 am - 4:00 pm
FRI—9:00 am - 12:00 pm
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Eileen Dignazio, Director
(860) 676-0253
CONFIRMATION Curtiss Stella, Director
PARISH SECRETARY Lisa McEnery
(860) 677-2639 x20
COORDINATOR OF MINISTRIES & SOCIAL MEDIA Miranda Norris
(860) 677-2639 x19
MUSIC MINISTRY Michael Carney, DIrector
PEER MINISTRY Ryan Gorham, Coordinator
PARISH COUNCIL Thomas Lyons, Chairperson
Nirav Pravasi, Vice Chairperson
PARISH TRUSTEES Beverly Montresor, David O’Leary
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION/CONFESSION Monday—by appointment
The Church of St. Patrick is a community of people in the Roman Catholic faith
tradition who come together to accept and embody the example and teachings
of Jesus Christ. The Parish is empowered and encouraged to work together in
an atmosphere of openness and caring to learn and spread the teaching of
Jesus Christ and to serve the spiritual and corporal needs of its members and
the larger community.
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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 par-
ish 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. - Monsignor Thomas J. Barry
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, so we can include them each week. Grace Dunn, Charlotte Egan, Lynn Daley, Chorzempa Family,
Trisha Elliott, Ann Stankoski, Ethan Edwards, Anne DeNucci,
Theresa Turbie, Loreen Markie & family, Clara Cellino, the Morley
Jr./Sr. families, Brad Ragaglia, Betty Franceus, Bill Millerick, Rog-
er May, Ellie Carle, Martene Macaro, Dianne Easdon, Janet Dun-
ning, Marilyn LoRusso, Bill & Carmen Chesanek, Ron & Renanna,
Carol Liepis, George Jones, Jack Lembo, Elisha Yeager, Lauren
Cappola, Jim Oswald, Sue Ann Massey Williamson, Mario Reyes,
Thomas Dignazio, Joseph Blancato, Linda DeZenzo, Ivan Fran-
ceus, Angel Jones, Olivia Kevorkian, Madison Barbieri, John Zmi-
jewski, Jerry Haverty, Michael Dunning, Louise M., Richard M.,
Anne Fritze, Frances Cresenzi, Angela Martin, Josephine Corso,
Lorraine Douglass, Ann Lysaght, Astolfo & Iva Scardacchi, Fran
St. Pierre, Henrietta Hayes, Angela Lawler, Sandy Therrien,
Russell Kerchis, Rena Charette, Kenneth Borden, Al Tee, Mary &
Bob Pysar, Lorraine Stec, Dana & Branden Goldberg
The Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, Christ in Blessing and Eucharistic Candles are available in memory of a loved one or special intention. Please call the Parish Office for more infor-mation or to request a candle.
BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS Requests are due Mondays at noon. All materials are subject to approval from the Parish Offi ce.
Please contact the Parish Office at [email protected] for more details.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST NO MASS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2ND 9:00am Adelino & Celestina Scardacchi | Req. by: Astolfo, Iva &
Ron Scardacchi 10:30am Patty Glass | Req. by: Kathy & Paul Frega
MONDAY, AUGUST 3RD 8:00am Amelia & Viscardo Neri | Req. by: Anna Bigazzi
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH 8:00am Dr. Henry Mannix, Jr., 31st Anniversary | Req. by: his
wife, Peggy
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH 8:00am Eileen Crean | Req. by: her niece, Peggy Mannix
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6TH 8:00am Special Intention| Req. by: Kaci & Tim Frost
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH
NO MASS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8TH NO MASS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH 9:00am Oiero & Eliade Scardacchi | Req. by: Astolfo, Iva &
Ron Scardacchi
10:30am Patty Glass | Req. by: Kathy & Paul Frega
Weekend Masses have resumed. Masks are required
and social distancing must be followed. Please call or
email the Parish Office if you wish to attend a Sunday
Mass.
Mass intentions are taken on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays between 9am and 12:00pm. If you wish to re-
quest a Mass or a candle, please try to call during those
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Families need to complete a pre-baptismal program. Baptisms are celebrated the 1st Sunday of the month at the 11:30 Mass and will be scheduled after completing the program. Please contact the Par-ish Office for more details.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Please contact Parish Office six months in advance to begin prepara-tion.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Reverend M. Ernest Wilson Council #20. Meetings are held the 3rd
Monday of each month in the Church Hall. Contact: Geno Tilley,
Grand Knight at 860-202-4166 or email him at [email protected]. -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 hospi-
tal.
AUGUST 2, 2020 | EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 3
FROM THE PASTOR
OFFERTORY WEKEND OF JULY 26th
Regular Offertory: $ 6,468.00
Total: $ 6,468.00
Thank you very much for continuing to support our
parish, especially during this difficult time.
There are four ways of giving to St. Patrick’s
Church:
1. Making contributions through your bank in person
or online or through online giving on our website .
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 plan-
ning.
ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL
Readings for the Week of August 2, 2020 Sunday: Is 55:1-3/Ps 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 [cf. 16]/Rom 8:35, 37-39/Mt 14:13-21
Monday: Jer 28:1-17/Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102 [68b]/Mt 14:22-36
Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22/Ps 102:16-18, 19 -21, 29 and 22-23 [17]/Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14
Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7/Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13 [cf. 10d]/Mt 15:21-28
Thursday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14/Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9 [1a, 9a]/2 Pt 1:16-19/Mt 17:1-9
Friday: Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7/Dt 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41 [39c]/Mt 16:24-28
Saturday: Hb 1:12—2:4/Ps 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 [11b]/Mt 17:14-20
Next Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal helps provide the criti-
cal funding needed to feed the hungry, shelter the
homeless, counsel those in despair and offer much-
needed assistance to the unemployed, especially today,
as the Coronavirus has affected so many of our neigh-
bors. Your gift to the 2020 Appeal will help to continue
these and other vital ministries, services and programs
that reach out to so many in need. Please visit
www.archdiocesofhartford.org/appeal/.
All funds contributed to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal
are used exclusively for the purposes outlined in the
Appeal literature, No Appeal funds are ever used for
legal fees or settlements.
Phase I is Complete!! Thank you to everyone who contributed to
our campaign and made this possible.
There’s still time to support the missionary work of the
Church. This year’s collection supports the work of the
Dominican Friars in Kenya, East Africa. The missionaries
were unable to join us in person because of the Corona-
virus pandemic; nonetheless, we seek to assist them with
our prayers and financial support toward expanding space
for a chapel and provision of pastoral services to a growing
Catholic community, ministerial outreach to youth living in
very poor conditions and support for Kenyan Dominican
seminarians’ studies.
We ask for your generous response, especially in these
difficult times. Checks can be made out to The Catholic
Mission Aid Office and mailed to the Parish Office. Thank
you for your kindness.
IMPORTANT NOTES TO REMEMBER Liturgy of the Word for Children is taped on Thursdays and can now be found on our YouTube page (any day/time of the week) by using the following link: https://youtu.be/B0P02ggB59g
Please gather the children around the computer or iPad
when it is convenient for your family and join them in
watching the LWC video on YouTube. This will be the
format until further notice. If you have any questions,
please contact Eileen at [email protected]. Thank
you for your support.
Registration for Fall Classes - We will begin
registration for Fall classes on August 3rd. Since we are
unable to hold classes at Irving A. Robbins this coming
academic year, classes will be held here at the church
and partially on Zoom. The fees for this year are $50/
child to cover the expenses of the Pflaum Gospel
Weeklies and digital access. Payments can be
submitted online through WeShare or by mail to the
Parish Office. More information will follow via emails to
parents. Please register by August 20, 2020 so that
materials can be ordered for classes to begin in mid-
September. Please watch the bulletin and our website
for any further details and updates. If you have any
additional questions, please contact Eileen Dignazio,
Director of Religious Education, at
[email protected] or call the Parish Office.
Another reason to try to get our new addition
completed as soon as possible!!
ST. PATRICK RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
110 Main Street, P.O. Box 523
Farmington, CT. 06034-0523
Phone: (860) 676-0253
Email: [email protected]
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Welcome back! Southington Catholic School anticipates a
return to the classroom and is working to secure a safe and
healthy environment for all our students from Pre-K to Grade 8.
Our large classrooms and small class sizes will assist in the
providing social distancing. The health and safety of each stu-
dent is paramount in planning for our reopening. Please con-
tact us at (860) 628-2485 for more information on our full time,
5 day a week reopening. New registrations for the upcoming
school year are welcome. Join our team: Southington Catholic
is seeking a responsible and caring adult to supervise students
in the before school program and the popular afterschool pro-
gram. Please call (860) 628-2485 for more information about
this part-time 5 days/week position.
Please gather the family around the computer and
join Monsignor Barry for live streaming of the Sun-
day Masses at 9:00 and 10:30am.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR WATCHING MASS
If you are going to watch from a personal computer
or laptop, you can access from our homepage on
our website. Simply click on the “live stream” button
on our home page (middle of the page and far right).
It will take you to the Facebook homepage. If it
prompts you to log in or join, you can select “not
now” and scroll down. You will see the video of the
Mass and be able to click on it to watch. If you’d like
captions on, simply click on the “settings” button in
the bottom right corner of the video. You can also
enlarge to full screen by clicking on the double ar-
row button (next to the settings button). This will
allow you to view the Mass without the comments.
If you are going to watch from a cellphone, you can
still access from our website home page. Simply
scroll to the “live stream” button. Once you click on
that, it will take you to our Facebook page. Again, if
you keep scrolling down, you will see the video and
should be able to watch by tapping on the play but-
ton.
Of course, if you have a Facebook account, you can
go to our page The Church of Saint Patrick Farming-
ton, CT and watch from there.
AUGUST 2, 2020 | EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 5
August 1-2………………..Monthly Food Drive (Malta House)
PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ON THE MEATLOAF COLLEC-
TION, MONTHLY FOOD DRIVE AND OTHER
PARISH EVENTS
.
HOUSE OF BREAD
Kim Gencarelli 860-470-7878
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SHELTER
Allison Rose & Ann Jett 860-674-1202
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Geno Tilley 860-202-4166
MONTHLY FOOD DRIVE
Knights of Columbus
Michael Blum 860-604-9139
MONTHLY MEATLOAF
Lorraine Stec 860-508-9650
PARISH COUNCIL
Tom Lyons 860-729-8286 PRO-LIFE Ed Gales 860-508-3035
PRAYER SHAWL
Barbara Sutkowski 860-747-8427
Visit www.stpatsfarm.org/ministries
Walking has resumed!! Every
Tuesday morning after the
8:00am Mass. If you are
interested, meet up in the church
parking lot (masks on) and walk.
Any questions, please contact
Miranda Norris at
Nursing Opportunities
Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care is seeking a full
time Registered Nurse for its home care program and an
on-call Registered Nurse for its hospice program.
Candidates must have a RN license, home care and
hospice care experience, driver’s license and understand
computers. Nurses and staff uphold the mission of
caring for individuals and families in their homes. Visit
franciscanhc.org for more information or send resume
to: Marie Laffin, RN,Clinical Director at
[email protected] or Laura Borrelli, RN, Hospice
Director at [email protected].
MINISTRIES’ CORNER - SOUL WALKERS
Updates Regarding the
Coronavirus
The Archdiocese of Hartford has re-opened weekend Masses. Instructions for attending Mass are posted on the doors to the church. Weekend Masses at St. Patrick will resume the weekend of July 11th and 12th, with a 9:00 and 10:30am Mass on Sundays.
The Parish Office has re-opened. Face masks must be worn before entering the office and only 1 person at a time will be allowed in the common area of the office.
Penance service can resume at the discretion of the pastor with several safety guidelines. We have not yet resumed confessions.
Priests are free to continue to live-stream their Masses.
Please continue to follow the guidelines as set forth by the CDC.
If you would like your tax
contributions for 2019,
please call or email the
Parish Office to request it.
Statements are not sent out unless requested.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
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SAVE THE DATE St. Paul Catholic High School 1001 Stafford Avenue Bristol, CT 06010 8:30am to 4:00pm (includes lunch) - Get ready for a relaxed day with extra time to experience the ca-maraderie of your fellow Catholic men.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have turned to
online shopping for groceries, toiletries and other day to
day necessities. It’s not too late to shop AmazonSmile.
We certainly see a lot of Amazon delivery trucks every-
where! Won’t you consider switching to AmazonSmile
and have a portion of your sales donated by Amazon to
St. Patrick Church? It doesn’t cost you anything and it
doesn’t cost St. Patrick’s anything!
Simply select St. Patrick RC Church
from the drop down list of charities
and Amazon will send us a percent-
age of total sales for the quarter!
Thank you for considering this.
SPAM EMAIL ALERT
Once again, there have been a few spam emails. Please
be assured that neither Monsignor Barry, nor the Par-
ish Office will email asking for gift cards of any sort. All
of the staff emails are from —[email protected]. If you
see any other email address, it is not from any of the
parish staff. Please call or forward the email if you have
any doubts as to the validity of it. Thank you very
much!
This weekend we will hold
our first monthly Food Drive
in a very long time!! Please
leave your donations outside
the doors of the church hall.
This month’s collection will
benefit the Malta House
which serves the sick and the
poor in the Greater Hartford
region. Any questions, con-
tact Mike Blum at (860) 604-
9139. Thank you for your donations!!
Franciscan Sports Banquet & Silent Auction
Rescheduled
The 35th Annual Franciscan Sports Banquet and Silent
Auction benefitting the Franciscan Life Center and Fran-
ciscan Home & Hospice Care is cancelled for this year
due to COVID-19. The new date is Tuesday, June 1, 2021
at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville. Honorees returning
next year include:
Saint Francis Award, Eli Manning Legendary Quarterback, New York Giants Saint Clare Award, Jackie DiNardo Head Girls’ Basketball Coach, Danbury High School Jim Calhoun Community Service Award Andy Bessette, Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Travelers Nathan Grube, Executive Director, Travelers Championship Dean of Sports Award, Rich Marazzi Author and MLB Rules Consultant/Analyst Mother Shaun Appreciation Award Thomas & Donna Finn, Marriage and Family Advocates Athletes
Special Olympics Connecticut
Visit flcenter.org for more information
The Office for Catholic Social Justice Ministry has
scheduled a series of webinars and events based upon
the U.S. Bishops’ Pastoral Letter against Racism. The
next event is Wednesday, August 5, 2020.
Rooted in Faith, Opening Wide our
Hearts
On Wednesday, August 5th at 7:00pm, The
Office for Catholic Social Justice Ministry of
the Archdiocese of Hartford will continue
its conference series with the webinar:
The Black Catholic Experience and Racism in the
Catholic Church
All too often leaders of the Church have remained si-
lent about the horrific violence and other racial injustic-
es perpetuated against African Americans and others.
In this webinar Deacon Arthur Miller will share some of
his Black Catholic experiences and suggestions to help
us move forward as one body of Christ. The webinar is
free; advanced registration is required and available at
www.catholicsocialjustice.org.