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Administrator: Reverend Miled Jreig [email protected]
Deacon: Steven P. Marcus [email protected]
Subdeacon : Paul J. Comeau [email protected]
David C. Leard [email protected]
Religious Formation Helen Piechocki
Office Staff : Lani Celadon
Sunday of the Righteous & the Just February 1, 2015
Liturgy Schedule
Saturday Vigil Sunday 4:30 PM 10:00 AM
Holy Days As listed in the bulletin
Confession Half hour before all liturgies FEBRUARY 1, 2015
We pray God’s Choicest Blessings for the Healing and Well- DIVINE LITURGY INTENTIONS Being of our Sick and Shut-In Parishioners Please pray for: SUNDAY OF THE
Rita Pacheco Denise Riccucci Tcjn Anter Schmael RIGHTEOUS AND THE JUST
Bev & Al Michalowski Kathleen Lenihan Jeanne Barrio SATURDAY – JANUARY 31, 2015 Margaret Jacob Deirdre Ivain Lynn Matthews
4:30 PM † DONALD J. LATAIF, JR & SR. (Ann. Memorial) Torrington Towers Requested by Lorraine and Bob Meyer Emma McMilleon † ANTOINETTE KEREGYARTO (Ann. Memorial) Requested by The Family Valerie Manor † NICK & GENEVIEVE ZAMPAGLIONE (Ann. Memorial) Virginia Renzullo Dena Lanza Requested by Daughter Linda Rinaldi & Family SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 Torrington Health & Rehab Eleanor Rubino Doris DiLaurenzio 10:00 AM † CAMILLE & LATIFY ABOU ARRAGE (Ann. Memorial) Requested by Son Tony and Family Shut-Ins † NAJLA NEJAIME (Anniversary Memorial) Requested by Daughter Afaf and Family Barbara McCurdy Stella Corey † JOHN CHAPMAN (1st Anniversary Memorial) Requested by Kathy, Jay and Jen Zbell
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE SUNDAY OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED The Fundraising Committee is planning a dinner at SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 7, 2015 P.Sam’s on Saturday evening, March 7th to correspond with Bishop Gregory’s visit to Saint Maron The menu 4:30 PM † JOSEPH & CELIA VASKO (Anniversary Memorial) Requested by Ronnie Vasko includes a mixed green salad, chicken picatta, herb † JULIETTE SMITH crusted cod, penne pasta with spinach in a garlic tomato Requested by Ray & Madeleine Hubert cream sauce, roasted red potatoes, medley of vegetables, SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 8, 2015 rolls, caramel apple cheesecake and coffee and tea. The 10:00 AM † ALL FAITHFUL DEPARTED PARISHIONERS AND cost is $35 per person, only 150 tickets will be sold. To FRIENDS OF OUR PARISH COMMUNITY purchase tickets please contact Jack Leifert (860-482- † SOPHIE GANEM (Anniversary Memorial) Requested by Joseph & Linda Ganem and Family 1141), Mike NeJaime (860-404-0012) or the rectory (860- † MARSHALL & JEAN GEORGE (Anniversary Memorial) 489-9015). Requested by The Family † ELIAS NOUJAIM (Anniversary Memorial) Requested by Wife Linda and Family WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS !
CHURCH SUPPORT Is anyone interested in coming forward and volunteering to be in charge of our religious education program? Please consider this rewarding ministry. We also are looking for Weekly Offertory for: an organist to enhance our liturgies with the gift of music. Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:30 PM...... $391.00 Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:00 AM...... $748.00 Monthly ...... $530.00 We would also like to start a choir and are looking to de- velop a youth group for ages 14 to 18 and also one for Weekly Total...... $1669.00 young adults age 18 to 28.
If you are interested in any of the above please talk to Fa- OFFERING ENVELOPE SCHEDULE ther Miled, or call the rectory. Sunday, February 1 Weekly Sunday, February 8 Weekly NEW BINGO COMMITTEE FORMING Sunday, February 8 Feast of Saint Maron Sunday, February 15 Weekly We are looking to revive and continue our bingo games as Monday, February 16 Ash Monday/Wednesday they are important to the financial well being of our par- Sunday, February 22 Weekly ish.A new Bingo Committee is being formed to help with Sunday, February 22 M onthly this process. How many times can we tell you that we NEED you? Please take some time to consider being a part of this important committee. Speak with Father The Sanctuary Candle is offered Miled or Tom Ferrarotti if you have questions or are will- In loving memory of ing to be a member of the committee. We look forward to you stepping up and joining with us to make our bingo SOPHIE GANEM games be the best they can be. Thank you! Requested by Joseph & Linda Ganem and Family SUNDAY OF RIGHTEOUS AND THE JUST
Saint Charbel Rites of the Catholic Church as written by Paul Daher The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Saint Maron’s Monastery Church is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.3 Saint Charbel Tomb billion members worldwide. Annaya, Byblos Lebanon Continued from last week The word Catholic literally means “universal”, as in the “universal church”. The word “Catholic” was first used to Joseph made numerous trips to see his uncles who lived describe the Christian church in the early 2nd century to in seclusion in a monastery dedicated to Mar Boula (St. emphasize its universal scope. The term has been Paul) in the hermitage of Quzhaya. There he prayed with incorporated into the name of the largest Christian them and eagerly listened to their counsel. On different communion, the Roman Catholic church, which consists of occasions, Joseph heard the call to “Leave everything 23 churches sui iuris, in full communion with the Bishop of and follow Me.” Rome (our Pope).
Early one morning in 1851, Joseph slipped out of the
Makhoulf house before dawn and headed to the west in Eastern Rite: search of the Monastery of Our lady of Mayfouk. He told Antiochian Rite -> Maronite Church no one—he know he had to follow the cal. His intention Syro-Malankar Church was to join the monastic order. He set out across the Syrian Church mountains without a map or food or a guide. Alexandrian Rite -> Coptic Church Along the way, he heard another voice giving him doubt Eritrean Church about where he was going and what he was about to do. Ethiopic Church Remembering the wisdom of his uncles: Armenian Rite -> Armenian Church “Look for God, Joseph. Here on earth all is vanity. God is the only happiness. Worldly pleasures are only Chaldean Rite -> Chaldean Church temporal. Their desires quickly fade away and death will Syro-Malabar Church all too soon be calling. The wise man is he who prepares his soul for the day of reckoning.” Constantinian or
When Joseph saw the Monastery of Our Lady of Byzantine Rite -> Albanese Church Mayfouk, his heart lit up. This was where he would Belarussian Church spend the first year of his novitiate (1851-1852). HE Bulgarian Church refreshed himself at the well and noticed a monk gazing Croatian Church at him. He respectfully kissed the monk’s hand and Greek Church asked to see the Father Superior. The Father Superior Italo-Albanese Church explained the rigors of the kind of life Joseph was Macedonian Church seeking. Joseph was not dissuaded. Father Superior, in Hungarian Church the presence of other monks asked Joseph, “My son, Romanian Church what are you seeking from this place?” Joseph gave his Russian Church answer, “The glory of God and the salvation of my soul.” Ruthenian Church Slovak Church During his first eight days at Mayfouk as a postulant, Ukranian Church before being accepted as a novice, it was his duty to learn the rules and join the novices in their various Western Rite: Latin Rite -> Roman Rite activities. When Joseph donned the habit of a novice, he Ambrosian Rite chose the name Charbel. Mozarabic His family was desperately searching for him. When they Anglican Rite questioned his uncle, Father Augustine, the hermit of Carthusian Rite Quzhaya, they learned that Joseph went to the Submitted by Fr. Miled monastery of Mayfouk to become a monk. The family made the trip to bring him back home. His mother asked MARONITE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION him what made him think he had a vocation to the priesthood. The Superior intervened with this reply: “ Religious Education classes meet at 9:00 AM on Sundays. The religious way of life does not temp those not suited Remember that all students should be attending liturgy for it.” Joseph, now Brother Charbel told his family immediately following class.
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