ST. ANDREW ROMAN

128 Norwich Avenue Colchester CT 06415

Phone: 860-537-2355 --- Fax: 860-537-2356

Website: www.standrewcolchester.org

Parish Office E-mail: [email protected]

Faith Formation Office E-mail: [email protected]

SERVED BY Fr. Mark Masnicki, Pastor Fr. Richard Breton, Parochial Vicar Michael Puscas, Deacon

WELCOME TO OUR PARISH New parishioners are asked to call or stop by to register at the Rectory. If you have a change of address or phone, please notify the Rectory office.

ST. ANDREW RECTORY OFFICE HOURS BAPTISM Monday-Friday: 9 AM to 2 PM Please call the Rectory Office. Baptisms take Secretary: Annette Hochdorfer place on Sunday’s following the 11:00 AM Mass. Baptism classes are held on the 3rd SAINT ANDREW CHURCH MASSES Sunday of each month. Sunday Vigil (Saturday): 4:00 PM Confession: 3:00 - 3:45 PM MARRIAGE Sunday: 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM, 5:00 PM Arrangements should be made 1 year prior to Weekdays: Tuesday, 7:00 PM Mass, the date. A marriage preparation program is Wednesday - Friday, 8:00 AM absolutely necessary. Holy Day Masses: 8:00 AM, 7:00 PM HOSPITAL VISITATIONS ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH MASSES Please inform the Rectory if anyone from your 67 West Town Street, Lebanon, CT 06249 family is hospitalized. 860-642-6711 Sunday Vigil (Saturday): 5:00 PM FAITH FORMATION OFFICE - 537-5415 Confession: 4:00 - 4:45 PM Director of Religious Education: Ron Krystofik Sunday: 8:00, 10:30 AM Office hours: Monday - Thursday, Weekdays: Wednesday & Friday, 9:00 AM 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

CONVALESCENT HOME MASSES Apple Rehab: 10:30 AM, second Wednesday Harrington Court: 11:15 AM, third Thursday

BULLETIN DEADLINE

Please submit all articles for the bulletin in writing by Monday at noon. Articles may be put in the offertory basket or e-mail to [email protected]. Epiphany of the Lord Today the Church celebrates the January 3, 2021 Solemnity of the Epiphany. "The Lord Intentions of the Week and ruler is coming; kingship is his, and government and power." With

these words, the Church proclaims Saturday, Jan. 2, Vigil – Epiphany of the Lord that today's feast brings to a perfect 4:00 PM – † Alice Daggett R/b Caroline Whaley fulfillment all the purposes of Advent. Sunday, January 3, - Epiphany of the Lord Epiphany, therefore, marks the 8:00 AM – Healing for Ed & Marie Fusco R/b Barbara liturgical zenith of the Advent- Cubanski Christmas season. — Pius Parsch 9:30 AM – † Tina Ashley R/b Bear family Epiphany means manifestation. What the Church 11:00 AM – † Peter Petro R/b wife, Bonnie celebrates today is the manifestation of our Lord to the 5:00 PM – † Joyce Eberle R/b Marrara family whole world; after being made known to the shepherds of Bethlehem He is revealed to the Magi who have come Tuesday, Jan 5 – St. from the East to adore Him. Christian tradition has ever 7:00 PM – † William Christenson R/b Ladies Guild seen in the Magi the first fruits of the Gentiles; they lead

in their wake all the peoples of the earth, and thus the Wednesday, Jan 6 –Christmas Weekday 8:00 AM- Special Intention for Stephen Haefs & family Epiphany is an affirmation of universal salvation. St. R/b Pam Roberts Leo brings out this point admirably in a sermon, read at Matins, in which he shows in the adoration of the Magi Thursday, Jan 7 –Christmas Weekday the beginnings of Christian faith, the time when the great 8:00 AM – † Gaston Soucy R/b Barbara Palmer mass of the heathen sets off to follow the star which summons it to seek its Saviour. Friday, January 8 – Christmas Weekday 9:30 AM – † Gaston Soucy R/b Gai & Charles Savitski Christmas Flowers given in Memory/Honor of: Josefa & Stanislaw Kirej, Karol & Walerja Lichaj, Mary Pizzitola, Saturday, Jan. 9, Vigil – Baptism of the Lord Joseph Pizzitola, Arthur Breault, Catherine Prue, Richard B. 4:00 PM – † Anastasia Conshick & June Kane R/b Morin, Richard E. Morin, Annette, Rita, Marcel, Gaston & family Claudette Soucy, Daigle family, Soucy Family, Antonine & Maurice Soucy, Andre Soucy, Mom & Dad Demniak, Richard Sunday, January 10, - Baptism of the Lord Odell, Sam & Julia Boluck & family, Thomas W. Lenkeiwicz 8:00 AM – † Jason Girard R/b Mom & Dad & family, Earl Mills, Dorothy Mills, Jules Deshaies, Rose 9:30 AM – † James Ashburner R/b Fiducia family Deshaies, Fran & Tom Russi, Cecelia & George Lambert, 11:00 AM – † Ed & Helene Fusco R/b Gai & Charles Deus & Lillian Russi, Rita & Wilfrid Cote, Albert Tays, Hilda Savitski & James, Sr., James Tays, Jr.,Ronald Blain, Theresa Gadoury, 5:00 PM – † Joyce Eberle R/b Karen & Larry Bouley Alfons & Mary Paczkowski, George Stula, Harasimowitz family. OFFERTORY December 20, 2020 - $5,464.00 If you use parish envelopes, your 2020 Tax E-Giving – December 20, 2020 - $1,975.00 Contribution Statements will be mailed to you. Christmas - $18,221.00 If you donate through “Parish Giving”, your December 27, 2020 - $4,447.00 statements will be provided directly by that E-Giving – December 27, 2020 - $2,260.00 program. Thank you

Holy Hour for Vocations SCHEDULE FOR LECTORS FOR THE WEEKEND OF On Thursday, January 21, 2021, come join in praying January 9-10 with Bishop Cote a Eucharistic Holy Hour for 4:00 PM Mass Vocations. This month the holy hour will be at St. Lector – Walt Smolenski 8:00 AM Mass Joseph Church, Chester, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Lector – Deb Leone Come pray for those who are called to priestly or 9:30 AM Mass consecrated religious life. Pray for our seminarians and Lector – Steve O’Connor those in the process of applying to the Diocese. 11:00 AM Mass Lector – Ken Fargnoli

2021: Beginnings that Look Very FAITH FORMATION NEWS WebSite:www.standrewcolchester.org Different E-Mail: [email protected] A new year brings hope and expectation – the FAITH FORMATION OFFICE LOCATED IN wonder and anticipation of many joy-filled THE PARISH HALL moments yet to come. It gives us a fresh start and a Office Hours – Monday thru Thursday different perspective that motivates us to try new 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM – or by Appointment things and be better people. This year, we have a Telephone: (860) 537-5415 slightly different attitude as we usher in 2021; the world is still grappling with a pandemic and all the LIFETEEN (HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY) uncertainty that goes along with it. We are all trying EDGE (MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY) to stay positive and hopeful despite the constant Bruce & Carol Pettit – 860-537-1286 barrage of negativity and a feeling of general [email protected] exhaustion. This is not the best way to welcome a new year, but we know that God is journeying with us every step of the way and that gives us courage and fortitude. As the psalmist writes, Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8. As we look forward with hope, we know that the 40-day journey of Lent will bring us the resurrection of Christ at Easter, the day where we celebrate Christ’s saving love and grace. It is a day that gives us new life and a renewed spirit. Until then, we will journey together in prayer and through our virtual offerings to support one another ST ANDREW CHURCH REPLICA MADE BY the best way we know how. May God continue to “THE CAT’S MEOW VILLAGE” bless you and your families with health and a $15 each positive outlook for the future. God’s blessings and Please call the rectory at 860-537-2355 peace to all of you. ~Andrea Hoisl, director, Office

of Faith Events Mass Intentions Mass Intentions are available for weekday and weekend Masses. Mass can be requested for any deceased Help us keep our records up-to-date! individual(s) or family or special intentions that will be Do you need to register with the parish? Have you published in the bulletin. The requested stipend by the changed your address, moving out of the parish, or Norwich Diocese is $10.00 for a weekday Mass and would like to receive envelopes? Please call the office $20.00 for a weekend Mass. Please call the office to at 860-537-2355 or you can fill out the following and schedule a Mass. – 860-537-2355 return via the collection basket, drop it at the office or mail to: 128 Norwich Avenue, Colchester CT 06415 Saturday, February 6, 2021, Together We Rise men’s NAME ______online retreat with the Holy Family Retreat Team from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. During these months of isolation and ADDRESS ______separation, we have felt a longing to gather together as a community. Many of us are struggling with loneliness and PHONE ______mourning a sense of normalcy in our lives. Join us as we come E-Mail ADDRESS ______together to process this experience on our journey of reconnection. Together We Rise – as a community of Christ’s ___New Registration followers and as interdependent human beings. Visit ___ Change of Address/New phone number holyfamilyretreat.org for more info and to register or call ___ Envelopes us at 860.760.9705. Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center - West Hartford.

Saint John Neumann, Bishop, 1811–1860 Saint , January 5—Patron

Religious, 1774–1821 Saint of Catholic January 4 -Patron Saint of Catholic education schools, widows, loss of parents This saint worked like a In late 1803 Elizabeth Ann Seton, mule. He studied, he wrote, he prayed, he preached, he with her husband, left the United traveled, he built, he founded, he guided, he taught. And States for Italy, as a confident, high- then one day, carrying construction plans for his born, wealthy, educated Yankee Protestant. She returned Cathedral in Philadelphia to an office, he collapsed and in June 1804 bankrupt, a widow, burning with love for died in the street. He had worked himself to death. He the Holy Eucharist, tenderly devoted to Mary, and with was 48 years old. the heart of a Roman Catholic. She was received into the St. John Neumann was born in central Europe in what is Church the next year. Her upper class friends and family today the Czech Republic. Like many people born in abandoned her out of anti-Catholic spite. small countries, he had to learn more than his native Our saint was an unexpected convert. She was, well into tongue in order to become a success. But St. John outdid adulthood, a serious U.S. Episcopalian. She loved the himself. He learned seven languages in addition to his Lord. She loved the Bible. She loved to serve the poor native Czech. He had a gift. Yet he found it hard to find and the sick. Her excellent Episcopalian upbringing a bishop to ordain him after he had completed his provided sufficient preparation for not being theological studies. He wrote to numerous bishops Episcopalian any longer. She took that faith as far as it throughout Europe and to one on the other side of an could go. She probably never suspected her faith was ocean he had never seen. The other-side-of-the-ocean lacking until she experienced the abundance of bishop wrote back: If you can get here I’ll ordain you. Catholicism. After her husband died of tuberculosis in Saint John got there and was ordained in 1836 by Bishop Italy, Elizabeth and her daughter were taken in by family John Dubois of New York, himself a transplant from friends from that country. In God’s providence, this , France. Italian family lived their faith with relish. Elizabeth was He was assigned to rural areas in upstate New York and not only consoled and cared for by them in her grief, but was outstanding in his zeal for souls. But the isolation also saw how engrossing their faith was. The longer she was a burden, and he felt the need for priestly stayed in Italy, the more its Catholic atmosphere community. So he joined the Redemptorist Order and enveloped her. She wept at Italians’ natural devotion to began many years of priestly service in Maryland. His Mary. She wondered at the beauty of a Corpus Christi intelligence, ability to preach and hear confessions in procession through the streets of her town. She multiple languages, extraordinary work ethic, life of understood the Holy Father’s link to the early Apostles poverty, good nature, and general holiness were traits with clarity. And so she came to see the gaps in her that all observed and all admired. He was named the native religion. She hadn’t noticed them before. Having fourth bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. The city’s growth seen the real thing, she knew that she held a replica. was exploding, especially its Catholic population of After her conversion, Elizabeth spent the rest of her immigrants. Saint John threw himself into his work with short life dedicated to Catholic education. She started a no concern for his own well being. He was a tornado of Congregation of sisters in Maryland which taught girls, apostolic activity. He was everywhere. He did especially poor girls who could not afford an education. everything. The Church benefitted and grew at an She was the first of tens of thousands of teaching sisters extraordinary pace. But St. John did not benefit. His only to operate Catholic schools in the United States. She is gear was overdrive. Zeal for His house consumed him. rightly considered in the United States as the foundress Zeal for His house killed him, in fact. That is probably of Catholic parochial education. Besides her husband, the way that he wanted it. Saint John was buried in a she also lost two of her five children during her lifetime. Redemptorist Church in Philadelphia. His reputation for She struggled, like all founders, to build up her holiness spread after his death. The faithful asked. The Congregation. But her intelligence, charm, and drive faithful received. The miracles were documented and paid off. Her Order thrived and thrives still. The Philadelphia had its saint. Saint John Neumann was Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul gather each canonized by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1977, an immigrant year on this feast near her tomb inside an immense who was the first male American citizen to be raised to Basilica in northern Maryland to thank God for their the altars. foundress, for a life so well lived.

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