SAINTSAINT PETERPETER CLAVERCLAVER Welcome to our Parish Family! Office: 47 Pleasant Street, West Hartford, CT 06107 Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Phone: 860-561-4235 Fax: 860-561-0552 Email: [email protected] Web: www.stpeterclaverparish.com PARISH MEMBERSHIP Through baptism we become God’s sons and daughters, and brother and sisters of each other in Christ. Every family in the parish should be properly registered and each family should receive a set of envelopes or sign up for WeShare. New parishioners should register at the Parish Office. Single adults over 21 years of age should register separately from parents. This registration is our only means of certifying anyone as a member of our parish family. “Speak to them with your hands before SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturday Vigil ..................................................................... 4:30 p.m. you speak to them with your lips.” Sunday ............................................................................... 9:30 a.m. ~ St. Peter Claver Weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday ........... 7:00 a.m. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Families preparing for Baptism must attend a Baptismal Preparation class. Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements. Pastor ..................... Reverend Robert Kwiatkowski Baptisms are celebrated on the first, second and third Sundays of Senior Deacon ......................... James E. Hickey, Jr. the month by appointment only. Deacon ....................................... Robert M. Pallotti SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Deacon ............................................. Robert E. Kiley Saturday ..................................3:15 - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment Pastoral Associate ................................. Gigi Frailey SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Admin Asst/Plant Manager ................. Marie Carr Those preparing for the Sacrament of Marriage should schedule Bookkeeper ...............................Jeannine Stimson an appointment with Fr. Bob at least six months in advance. Music Director ......................................... Tim Stella FUNERALS Cantor .................................................Ray Hardman For funeral information, contact our Pastoral Associate, Gigi FAITH FORMATION OFFICE Frailey at 860-561-4235 or by email at [email protected]. DRE & Youth Minister ................... Laurie Janecko 860-521-2904 REGISTER [email protected] Please call the Parish Office to register or to update your current [email protected] information. CHURCH OF SAINT PETER CLAVER WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT June 27, 2021 Saturday, June 26 4:30 PM Memorial: Dr. Peter & Clementine Amato and John & Eleanor Costello Sunday, June 27 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 9:30 AM Memorial: Joseph Forte Memorial: Mary Martinelli First Reading: Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 Monday, June 28 This reading relates how death of the spirit entered 7:00 AM Memorial: Joseph F. O’Leary the world by the envy of the devil, but those not in Tuesday, June 29 his possession will not experience it. 7:00 AM Memorial: Maureen Guite Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Wednesday, June 30 Paul exhorts the Corinthians to contribute to the poor NO MASS of the Jerusalem church in accordance with their Thursday, July 1 means. He explains that if people help each other, 7:00 AM For the People of St Peter Claver they will one day be helped when they are needy. Friday, July 2 7:00 AM Memorial: Lisa Benjamin Gospel: Mark 5:21-43 Saturday, July 3 “Do not be afraid, only have faith.” Jesus’ power 4:30 PM Memorial: Vincent and Theresa Ponti over sickness and death requires absolute trust and absence of fear. Sunday, July 4 – Independence Day ©1999 Bon Venture Services, Inc. 9:30 AM Memorial: Mary Kate O’Connor READINGS FOR THE WEEKEND OF July 4 First Reading: Ezekiel 2:2-5 UPDATED INFORMATION: Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 The dispensation from the Sunday obligation granted Gospel: Mark 6:1-6a to all Catholics of the Archdiocese of Hartford by the nd Archbishop has been lifted effective May 22 . PETER’S PENCE The Archdiocese of Hartford has modified safety th th practices regarding COVID-19 as follows: effective This weekend, June 26 and 27 is June 9th, for those who are vaccinated, wearing masks the Peter’s Pence Collection, a will now be optional while at Mass, at other liturgies, worldwide collection that supports and at any indoor or outdoor events held at churches. the activities of the Holy See Those who remain unvaccinated should continue to through which Pope Francis governs the Church and wear masks, with particular attention being given to exercises his charitable works. When used for the safety of young, unvaccinated children. charitable outreach, funds from this collection help those most in need. Take this opportunity to join with Two sections of the church pews will be reserved for Pope Francis and be a sign of mercy. Please be families with unvaccinated children. Ushers will be generous today. For more information, visit available to guide families into these sections. They http://www.peterspence.va/en.html. will be taped off for social distancing, masks must be worn, and a Eucharistic Minister will bring communion to the families and children. Our current Mass Schedule will continue: Follow us on Facebook @stpeterclaverwh Saturday Vigil at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Follow us on Instagram @stpeterclaverwh THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME DONOR KIDNEY REQUEST Please consider helping our son Ron who is in need of a kidney transplant. Ron has had Type I Diabetes since he was 16 years old and now, in his 50’s, is in end stage kidney failure and in need of a transplant. A living Are you, or is someone you know, interested in learning more about the Catholic faith? donor kidney is Ron’s best hope for a successful, long term, healthy outcome. Will you please People are drawn to explore the Catholic faith for many consider getting tested to see if you are a match for different reasons. Perhaps they experienced a Catholic Ron for a kidney transplant? And even if you were Mass at the time of a wedding or funeral and were not a direct match for Ron, you could still donate on attracted by the prayer and ritual. They may have his behalf and he would get a living donor kidney that witnessed the source of hope and comfort a Catholic is a match to him in return. So you would be saving relative, friend or co-worker found in their faith at a not just one life, but two. If this is something you time of difficulty or crisis. God invites us into a deeper relationship in both ordinary and extraordinary ways. would consider pursuing, please contact Annie Landeen of Hartford Hospital Transplant at 860-972- You may be experiencing the first stirrings of interest 9727 or [email protected] for more in the Catholic faith or you may have thought about information. All costs are covered by Ron’s medical becoming a Catholic for a very long time. Whatever led insurance. Our family firmly believes in the you to this moment, we hope that you will respond to goodness of people to help one another in times of God’s call and learn more about the process of need. Please consider giving the gift of continued becoming a Catholic known as RCIA (the Rite of life to our son Ron. God Bless You. Christian Initiation of Adults). This process is often ~Bob and Lorraine Rheaume described as a journey. It takes place within a welcoming setting where people explore the Catholic ST. TIMOTHY MIDDLE SCHOOL faith, share their faith experiences and help one another St. Timothy Middle School is still identify how God is at work in everyday life. St. Peter looking to grow our family! We Claver Parish offers RCIA to anyone interested in look forward to this new school learning more about the Catholic faith, for those who year as we continue our commitment to academic are not baptized and wish to become members of the excellence through the light of faith. If you or a Catholic faith, and for individuals who never family you know is looking for a change, introduce completed the Sacraments of Holy Communion and them to St. Timothy Middle School for the 2021- Confirmation. For more information please contact 2022 school year! Please contact the Main Office or Gigi Frailey at 860-561-4235 or email at [email protected]. email [email protected] with inquires. ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal helps provide the New families who have moved into critical funding needed to feed the hungry, shelter the our parish recently and have not yet homeless, counsel those in despair, offer much- registered are welcome to call the needed assistance to the unemployed, and make Parish Office at 860-561-4235 for a medical care available to those without health Registration Form. This form will officially register insurance. Your gift to the 2021 Appeal will help to you and your family with St. Peter Claver Church. continue these and other vital ministries, services, Please complete the Form and return it to the Parish and programs that reach out to so many in need. All Office or drop in the collection box. In addition, funds contributed to the Archbishop’s Annual families who have recently had a change of address, Appeal are used exclusively for the purposes e-mail or phone number are asked to please call or outlined in the Appeal literature, which can be found email the Parish Office to let us know so we can at archdioceseofhartford.org/appeal/ No Appeal update our database. We thank you for helping to funds are ever used for legal fees or settlements. keep our records current. Parish recently painted by Jim Schulz Painting, LLC INTERIOR · EXTERIOR · POWERWASHING MARTIN COURSEY 860.810.8880 860-674-2400 Chris Molloy, Parishioner Parishioner 860-232-1322 906 Farmington Avenue • West Hartford, CT 06119 See Our Work At GOD BLESS The Church COREY SHAGENSKY Veterinarian / Parishioner AMERICA Venora Electric 860-325-2124 860-242-8081 & Social isolation is more L M than feeling lonely.