Welcome to Gianna St. Brigid Church St. Helena Church St. Mark the Evangelist Church St. Brigid St. Augustine Partnership School

November 18, 2018 The Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Reverend Joseph Devine, Pastor Reverend William R. Metzler, Senior Parochial Vicar Reverend Joseph Pullikattil, Parochial Vicar Rev. Francis P. Johnson, Pastor Emeritus Raymond J. Fugere, Robert J. Hilliard and James J. McCormack St. Brigid Church St. Helena Church St. Mark the Evangelist Church Rectory: 1088 New Britain Avenue 30 Echo Lane Church Office: Elmwood, CT 06110 West Hartford, CT 06107 467 Quaker Lane South Phone: 860 236-5965 Phone: 860 521-1921 West Hartford, CT 06110 Fax 860 233-8016 Fax: 860 521-1129 Phone: 860 233-1269 Karla Dalley, Administrative Officer Fax: 860 233-5791 Marie Tofeldt, Administrative Asst. Website: Marion Valenti, Secretary Office hours: 8:00 am-4:00 pm daily saintgiannaparish.org Office Hours: 10-12 and 1:00-2:30 Email: Monday, Wednesday and Friday Website: [email protected]

saintgiannaparish.org Website: Email: Religious Education www.stmarkwesthartford.com [email protected] Donna Wolcott, Coordinator Email: [email protected] (860) 521-3661 Religious Education Religious Education Donna Wolcott, Coordinator Music Ministry LouAnn M. Warren, M.A., Director (860) 543-2607 Rebecca Michel [email protected] www.stbrigidCCD.com Music Director Sheila Litchfield, Secretary Mario Petrella, Cantor [email protected] Music Ministry Laure Welch, Cantor Natasha Ulyanovsky, Music Director (860) 236-3545

Kelly Boudreaux, Cantor Music Ministry David Boudreaux, Cantor St. Brigid St Augustine School See inside the Bulletin for details Greg Flower, Director of Music

The Celebration of the Grace of God Through The Sacraments : Please call our respective church offices in advance to make arrangements. Reconciliation: By appointment, or on Saturday St. Brigid 3-3:30; St. Helena 4-4:30; St. Mark 3:15-4:00. Communion: For parishioners who are homebound or hospitalized, contact our respective church offices. Marriage: Please call our respective church offices one year in advance of proposed marriage date to make arrangements. Holy Orders: Please call the Office of Vocations (860) 242-5573 or www.hartfordpriest.org. You may also visit your parish priest or call our respective church offices for more information.

Saturday , November 17, 2018 4:00 PM Francis and Mary Tubeck and William and Mary Virginia Auld by James and Virginia Drozd—SB 4:30 PM Angelina Spadola by Norma Spadola—SM 5:00 PM For the People of St. Gianna Parish —SH

Sunday, November 18, 2018 8:30 AM Jaymeson Santo Motta, Mass of Healing, by the Family—SB 9:30 AM Joseph Plompen by His Wife, Ann—SH 10:30 AM Deceased Members of the Freda and Whalen Families by Jerry and Karen Freda—SM 11:00 AM The Marcikonis Family by Frankie Marcikonis—SB 11:30 AM Syro-Malabar Mass—SH 2:30 PM Vietnamese Mass—SM

Monday, November 19, 2018 8:30 AM John Hoczyk by Sharon Tarantula—SB 9:00 AM John David Zehr by Celeste, John, Elizabeth and Catherine—SH 9:00 AM For All Those Whose Names Rest on Our Altar—SM

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:30 AM Deceased Members of the Mirabelli, Cardamone and Rovella Families by Flora Rovella—SB 9:00 AM Healing of the Marceau Family Tree—SM 6:00 PM Vietnamese Mass—SM

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 8:30 AM Zbigniew Mlodecki by His Wife—SB 9:00 AM Jacqueline Palmer by Her Sister-—SH 9:00 AM Healing of the Marceau Family Tree—SM

Thursday, November 22, 2018 8:30 AM No Mass at St. Brigid today—Mass will be held at St. Helena at 9:00 am 9:00 AM SH 9:00 AM Healing of the Marceau Family Tree— SM 6:00 PM Vietnamese Mass—SM

Friday , November 23, 2018 9:00 AM Helen Runde, 41st Anniversary, by Her Family—SH 9:00 AM For All Those Whose Names Rest on Our Altar—SM

Saturday, November 24, 2018 8:30 AM John and Joan Millot by Their Children—SB 9:00 AM Rev. Michael Huang Phu Bao by the Nguyen Family—SH

4:00 PM Teresa Cardone by Her Nephew Victor Cardone and Family—SB 4:30 PM Maurice Mulcahy by Margaret Mulcahy—SM 5:00 PM All the Deceased Family and Friends of the Calabrese, Koropatkin, Martone & Mancini Families by Maria Martone and Family—SH

Sunday, November 25, 2018 8:30 AM Giuseppi Corpaci by Rosa Corpaci—SB 9:30 AM For the People of St. Gianna Parish —SH 10:30 AM Catherine F. Grzesiuk by Ken, Ann and Michelle Bach—SM 11:00 AM Nicola Mancini, 2nd Anniversary, by His Wife and Daughter—SB 11:30 AM Syro-Malabar Mass—SH SB=St. Brigid; SH=St. Helena; 2:30 PM Vietnamese Mass—SM SM=St. Mark the Evangelist TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION ENCOURAGEMENT November is a month of remembrance for the This Sunday’s Gospel is our final selection from dead, and cemeteries have long been a focus for Mark for this liturgical year. It is taken from the end prayer. Our tradition holds great respect for bodily of Jesus’ teaching in Jerusalem immediately remains, since the body was created and redeemed preceding the account of his arrest and passion. In it by God, was once the “dwelling place of the Holy Jesus gives his disciples hope to sustain them Spirit,” and has a destiny of life with God in glory. through his passion and death and any persecution or The funeral practices of the early church contrasted suffering that they would encounter after his greatly with those of the pagans, who had a great resurrection. dread of the dead body. The ancient Christian funer- The words from the book of Daniel also al liturgy ended with the relatives and friends giving provided hope and encouragement to the people of a final kiss to the body. It expressed affection and Daniel’s time. The encouragement in these showed their faith that the grave would not be the scriptures is meant for us as well, for none of us will last word. This kiss horrified pagans, who thought escape tribulation in our lives. Followers of Jesus that any contact with the dead was degrading. will be able to endure suffering with joyful hope, Every year on their loved one’s “birthday to life,” knowing that Christ’s love will lead us along the the Christians would return to the place of their burial way of discipleship and give us eternal life with to mark their profound communion with those whose God. lives were hidden in Christ. Typically, they buried the Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. dead with their faces turned toward the east, symboliz- ing the rising of the Sun of Justice, Christ, at the end of days. They were attracted to the catacombs or burial grounds just as we are today. They would often cele- brate the Eucharist at the tomb. Before long, as soon as Christians were allowed to build places for worship, they relocated cemeteries from beyond the city walls to surround the church. This was not so much because the church made the ground holy, but because the bod- ies of the hallowed the ground on which the church was built, a subtle but beautiful difference. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

FINANCE COUNCIL will meet Monday 19 November 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in the St. Mark Pastoral Center.

WANTED – OLD PHOTOS In preparation for the 100th Anniversary of St. Brigid Church in 2019, we are looking for any photos of events that occurred at St. Brigid to be posted in the back vestibule of the church. We are especially looking for any photos that may have been taken at the old church. All photos received will be copied and returned to those who have submitted them. Please drop off any photos to St. Brigid Rectory. If you have any questions, please contact Donna Wolcott at 860.543.2607. St. Gianna Parish Events THE TURKEY VAN! St. Mark November Food Collection The Annual Turkey Van will be The Thanksgiving Food Collection will replace the parked outside St. Helena near Fr. monthly food collection for November. Please bring Murphy Hall on Saturday groceries to the church the weekend of November November 17 before the 5:00 pm 17th/18th . Mass and November 18th before and after the 9:30 Mass. These turkeys will be sent to St. Mark Thanksgiving Food Worker House and given to parishioners in Baskets need. Please help us with a donation of a frozen Please join us to pack our turkey or monetary donation! The Social Action Thanksgiving food baskets for Committee thanks you in advance! local families in need on Sunday, Happy Thanksgiving to all. November 18th at 11:30 a.m. TURKEY DRIVE Come and volunteer with us in the St. Mark Pastoral Our St. Brigid Knights of Center for this service event! Columbus council is sponsoring a turkey and cash drive November SAINT BRIGID LADIES GUILD NEWS 17 & 18. With your generosity, we LADIES GUILD NEWSLETTER DEADLINE— are attempting to assist the Catholic Worker House in collect- NOTE NEW DATE ing turkeys. Please bring your turkey or cash The deadline for the December St. Brigid Ladies donations to our drop off spot in front of the church Guild Newsletter is Wednesday November 21. on Saturday from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm or on Sunday Please call Sheila at 860 232-6915 or email her at from 8:15 am to 11:15 am. You can contact Chris [email protected] if you have any news to Randall at 860-232-3315 with any questions. report. Thank you.

LADIES GUILD CHRISTMAS DINNER HATS, GLOVES & WHITE SOCKS DRIVE Please join the St. Brigid Ladies Guild for a great The St. Brigid Social Action Committee is having a evening and the annual Christmas Dinner at Hats, Gloves & White Athletic Socks Drive. The Rockledge Grille on Monday, December 3rd. Dinner drive will benefit local shelters. There is a box in will be served at 6:30 PM and entertainment TBD. the vestibule for donating new hats, gloves & Payments can be made at the Rectory or by white athletic socks. The drive will run from contacting Sharraine at (860) 841-1711. The Entree November 10/11 through November 24/25 (after the choices are: Rosemary Grilled Chicken or Stuffed 11 am Mass). Please contact Steve at 860-236-1475 Chicken Breast $30; Stuffed Sole $31; or Rick at 860-236-4210 if you have questions. Prime Rib $36. Prices include gratuity.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SOUP KITCHEN PANCAKE BREAKFAST & VISIT Members of the parish will be WITH St. NICHOLAS! preparing and serving dinner to 150 On Sunday December 2nd the St. homeless men at the Immaculate Brigid Knights of Columbus will Conception Soup Kitchen Tuesday, November 27. If host their traditional Pancake breakfast you would like to make a monetary contribution to in McMahon Hall following the 8:30 help with the cost, please put it in an envelope am Mass. St. Nicholas will be there to greet the marked “soup kitchen” and drop it in the collection children and hear their "Wish List" —bring your basket or bring it to the Administrative Center camera. Breakfast is $6.00; all children under 12 are during normal business hours. free. Breakfast includes pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, hash browns, coffee and juice. FOOD SHARING PROGRAM TO IT’S GIVING TREE TIME! SUPPORT HARTFORD The St. Helena Social CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE Action will be collecting gift The St. Helena Food Sharing cards and items for local program will collect items and can be charities and families within brought in at any time and left in Fr. our church. The gift cards allow families to purchase the correct size for their child. Please take Murphy Hall. It is delivered on the 2nd and 4th a tag and return an unwrapped gift or gift card under weekends but is gratefully accepted anytime during the tree between Saturday, Nov. 24th and Sunday the month. Items needed are: Peanut butter, tuna Dec. 18th. Thank you for your ongoing generosity fish, beef stew, juices, low sugar cereals, pastas, and have a very Merry Christmas, knowing that you pasta sauce, soups, and macaroni & cheese. Please have made it brighter for others! leave your donations in Fr. Murphy Hall. Thank you for your continued generosity to all who have kept Sheehan Hilborn Breen will Continue as a St. Helena’s Food Sharing program going for almost Food and Personal Care Collection Site to 40 years. Benefit the West Hartford Food Pantry 1084 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford

Saint Mark’s Giving Tree Based upon the incredible success of the food drive and the enormous generosity of area residents Our “Christmas Giving Trees” will be (including many St. Gianna parishioners from St. at both Church entrances starting the Brigid, St. Marks and St. Helena), Sheehan Hilborn weekend of November 24/25. Please take Breen will continue collecting non-perishable food a tag or two, and provide a gift for a local family in and personal care items in a box just inside their need, a senior at St. Mary’s Home, or those back door at 1084 New Britain Avenue in West transitioning to a better life at Chrysalis Center. Hartford from 9 am-4 pm Monday - Friday. Return the wrapped gift, with the tag attached, to the corresponding bin, church vestibule on Saturday, "Since we are beginning our Operation Elf Toy and December 15 or Sunday, December 16. Timing is Gift Card Program later in November, we had critical - Gifts must be returned no later than planned on ending the Food Drive; however due to 11:30 AM on Sunday December 16th as they are the success and at the request of some West distributed to families immediately after the Hartford Residents, we will continue to be a 10:30 mass. (Note: There are usually 2-3 tags for collection site for the West Hartford Food Pantry each child—your gift is not the only item that they until further notice," said Charlie Hilborn. "I will receive.) thought that our setting might be an unusual If you have questions or need to arrange for an collection site, however, it turned out to be quite earlier gift drop-off , please contact: convenient. Several people said that it is easy to Karen Noel-Freda [email protected], drive in and out to drop off food and personal care 301-318-9159 items at our back door," Charlie added. "Anything Heather McGann [email protected], you can do to help out and to promote this Food 860-306-1655 Drive is greatly appreciated." Thanks for participating in the Christmas Outreach

Program to benefit families in need in our Most needed items: (canned fruit, canned meats, neighborhood. pasta, pasta sauce, rice, peanut butter, cold cereal, St. Mark Knights of Columbus soups and personal care products) Please be sure The St. Mark Knights of Columbus items are not expired. Pancake Breakfast with Santa Bring your items to Sheehan Hilborn Breen Funeral Sunday, December 9 Home, 1084 New Britain Avenue. Please place the 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM items in the container just inside the Back Door. Or St. Mark Pastoral Center if you prefer, call us and someone will come out to Tickets $3 your car to pick up the items. 860-561-3800. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AT ST. MARK

ST. MARK CHILDREN’S LITURGY Be sure to send your little ones downstairs during Children’s Liturgy at the 10:30 Mass on St. Brigid/St. Helena Religious Education Sunday. They are getting ready to sing for us during

Reminder Mass on the first week of Advent. 9th & 10th Grade Confirmation Retreat ST. MARK THANKSGIVING FOOD This Saturday, November 17, is our 9th & 10th Grade COLLECTION AND PACKING EVENT Confirmation Retreat for both students and par- Please bring your donations to the church on the ents. The retreat will be held at St. Helena Church, weekend of Nov. 17/18. Join us at the St. Mark Father Murphy Hall from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 Pastoral Center for sorting and packing food boxes p.m. Our guest speaker will be Sean Forrest. after the 10:30 Mass on Sunday, November 18.

The children in our Saturday St. Brigid Religious Advent Wreath Making Education Program need you! Join us! In order to keep our class sizes down, we need 1 more Sunday, November 26 at 6:30 p.m. teacher for grades 4-6. Everyone benefits from smaller class sizes—our children, our teachers and our par- in the St. Mark Church center ents—so please help by volunteering! If you would Come and make a Boxwood Ivy Advent wreath on like more information about teaching, please call Sunday, November 26th at Donna Wolcott at 860.543.2607. 6:30. The only cost is a dessert to share with everyone. We will provide all READINGS FOR THE WEEK the fixings, candles and the Monday: Rv 1:1-4; 2:1-5; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 18:35- Advent wreath prayers. 43 Tuesday: Rv 3:1-6, 14-22; Ps 15:2-5; Lk 19:1-10 Call LouAnn or Sheila @ 860 Wednesday: Rv 4:1-11; Ps 150:1b-6; Lk 19:11-28 -236-3545 to sign up for a Thursday: Rv 5:1-10; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 19:41- wreath. 44 Thanksgiving Day—Suggested: Sir 50:22-24; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19 Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Friday: Rv 10:8-11; Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, November 18, 2018 131; Lk 19:45-48 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will Saturday: Rv 11:4-12; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; not pass away. Lk 20:27-40 — Mark 13:31 Sunday: Dn 7:13-14; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Rv 1:5-8; Jn 18:33b-37

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Those who lead the many to jus- tice shall be like the stars forever (Daniel 12:1-3). SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Psalm — You are my inheritance, O Lord! (Psalm Sunday: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time 16). Wednesday: The Presentation of the Blessed Second Reading — Where there is forgiveness, Mary there is no longer offering for sin (Hebrews 10:11- Thursday: St. Cecilia; Thanksgiving Day 14, 18). Friday: St. Clement I; St. Columban; Gospel — Heaven and earth will pass away, but my Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro words will not pass away (Mark 13:24-32). Saturday: St. Andrew Dũng-Lạc and Companions The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lection- ary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. St. Brigid St. Augustine Partnership School 100 Mayflower St. West Hartford, CT 0110 (860) 561-2130, ext. 106

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HELP WANTED LAY : Meet monthly on 4th House cleaning and cooking employment at St. Wednesdays at Sacred Heart Church, Wethersfield, Gianna Rectories. Position is available in 5:30-9 p.m. Cultivate the interior life with like- December. Please call Karla at St. Gianna minded adults. Information: Susan Okamoto, 860- Administrative Center at 860 236-5965 for further 231-8893. information.