My previous assignment as Spiritual Director and religion teacher at Kolbe Cathedral High School in Bridgeport offered me many opportunities to discuss the Catholic faith with my fellow faculty members and my students, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. During one Lenten season one of my non-Catholic Christian students wanted to discuss a sermon she had heard…
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Learn Your Faith: Lent/Cuaresma
It is not often that we enter the realms of higher mathematics in our column on the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. However, the forty days of Lent pose a thorny arithmetical “story problem” for our consideration. If we calculate the number of days in Lent beginning from Ash Wednesday (celebrated this year on…
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Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Wednesdays and Fridays from 8:30AM to 5:30PM. Please come and stay with the Lord for an hour, half hour or any time you have. To volunteer please call...
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Talleres de Oración: Miércoles a las 6
Aprender a orar para aprender a amar: con Padre Ignacio Larrañaga. Los talleres tendrán una duración de 15 semanas y se impartirán los miércoles de 6:00PM a 8:00PM en la Escuela de Religión de la Iglesia Santa María.
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Golden Agers Luncheon: Wed. March 20
GOLDEN AGE LUNCHEON CELEBRATION OF SAINT PATRICK’S DAY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019 AFTER THE 12:10 MASS RSVP BY MARCH 17 TO ESTHER FLYNN: 203-866-0040
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Ash Wednesday/Miércoles de Ceniza: March 6
Masses at 8:00am (EF Low Mass) and 12:10pm (English); 6:00pm Liturgy of the Word (Spanish and Imposition of Ashes); 7:00pm Solemn High Mass (EF)
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Learn Your Faith: Matrimony and Annulment
Pope Benedict XVI, in an address to a group of Italian priests some years ago, encouraged parishes to continue to welcome divorced, civilly remarried Catholics to the celebration of Mass even though those Catholics may not receive Holy Communion. The Pope’s address reminds us of the painful situation which exists for those Catholic parishioners who…
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Aprenda su Fe: Planificación Familiar Natural
Esta semana nuestros estudiantes de RICA y Educación Religiosa están estudiando el Sacramento del Santo Matrimonio. Con esto en mente, ofrecemos una breve reflexión sobre las enseñanzas de la Iglesia acerca de la planificación familiar natural (PFN). Con el acto de la creación del mundo, el Dios Trino, el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu…
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Learn Your Faith: Euthanasia/La Eutanasia
One of the fundamental moral precepts of the Catholic Church, derived from Revelation and the Natural Law, is that the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being at any stage of life from conception to natural death is always gravely immoral. Euthanasia, or “mercy killing” as it is sometimes called, is “an action…
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Holy Family Prayer Group: Sun. March 10 at 5PM
The Holy Family Prayer group will meet on Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 5:00PM. For information call Mila at 203-866-2156 or Honi at 203-286-6978.
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