Save the Date: Saturday, May 19 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. We are inviting those of you who would like to participate. Please contact Dn. Steve Genovese for details at 203-943-1352. Estamos invitando a todas las personas que deseen participar en el Festival coordinando su respective pais que no esta representado. Si tiene preguntas, por favor…
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Religious Ed: Registration/First Communion & Confirmations
Registration for the 2018–2019 school year will begin on Sunday, April 15, 2018, until Sunday, June 3, 2018. Please make sure to come in and register your children in grades 1 through 8 to ensure a spot in the classes next year. All classes will be filled on a first come first serve basis. *There…
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Holy Family Prayer Group
Our next group meeting will be Sunday, April 22, at 5 p.m. in the Religious Education building. For more information please call Myrna or Priscila at 203-505-6115.
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St. Mary’s Parish Meal Ministry
New Baby? Loved one hospitalized? Other temporary difficulties? St. Mary’s Parish Meal Ministry would like to help you with warm, home-cooked meals. If you have a need, please contact the parish office with your information, and we will be in touch with you. If you would like to volunteer for this service, please contact Kimberly Garcia at…
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Renovations at St. Mary’s
Some parishioners have asked where are the two statues in the chapel, namely Mother Cabrini and St. John Vianney are. They are being painted by a talented restorer who has done wonderful work for St. Mary’s in the past. This restoration is being paid for by two parishioners who wish to remain anonymous. May God…
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Supporting the Annual Catholic Appeal
The Annual Catholic Appeal has begun for the year 2018. Each year our parish supports this Appeal that itself supports and makes possible many Diocesan programs that are important to the life of the Church. Each parishioner at St. Mary’s has an obligation to support the Diocese as well as our parish, since the head of…
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The Beauty of Thy Peace
One of the recent “movements” is the Slow Food Movement. This began as a protest against “fast food”. This protest is not merely against fast food on culinary grounds but also against the whole notion of eating on the run, eating fast. Slow Food takes food seriously and in a sense religiously, recalling, at least…
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Music for the Third Sunday after Easter, 22 April 2018
Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Missa Surrexit Pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: Surrexit Pastor bonus (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Surgens Jesus (Lassus)
Postlude: Rapsodie Sacrée (from L'Orgue mystique) (Op. 56, No. 19) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Introit: Misericordia Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Redemptionem misit Dominus (plainsong, mode ii)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above
Music for a Feria of Paschaltide, 18 April 2018
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for a Feria of Paschaltide
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Postlude: Improvisation
Gospel of Life Society: Sat. April 14
Saturday, April 14, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. - Alexandra and Paul McLaughlin will present their professional and personal perspectives on fulfilling the inherent beauty of female sexuality through fertility awareness based training. Alexandra McLaughlin is a certified Fertility Care Practitioner based in Norwalk, CT. On site child care will be available. Contact John Juhasz for more details:…
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