310 WESTFIELD STREET, MIDDLETOWN, CT 06457 FIND & LIKE US ON FACEBOOK WWW.SAINTPIUS.ORG MASSES FRIARY OFFICE Sunday Vigil: 5:00 pm P: (860) 347-4441 (Saturday) F: (860) 347-3001 Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 am Office Hours: & 12:00 Noon Sun: 8:30 am - 2:30 pm Weekdays: 7:00 & 9:00 am Mon-Fri: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Saturday: 9:00 am Only Sat: 9:30 am - 6:30 pm Vigil of Holy Days: 5:30 pm FAITH FORMATION Holy Days: Please see CENTER schedule (860) 346-9100 inside bulletin. STAFF SACRAMENTS Rev. Martin Curtin, OFM Cap. Baptisms: Twice a month at Pastor 1:30 pm for registered parishioners. Instruction for Rev. Ernest Bedard, OFM Cap. parents is required. Arrangements Parochial Vicar must be made in advance. Marriages: Arrangements Kathy Lampron must be made at least one year Administrative Assistant in advance. Peggy Wichowski Care of the Sick: Please advise us Receptionist of anyone from your family who is sick or hospitalized that we may David Rogalski keep them in prayer, visit them Supervisor of Maintenance and bring the sacraments. Reconciliation: Kimberly Molski Saturdays at 3:30 - 4:30 pm CRE (Pre K - Grade 5) Thursdays before First Fridays Carol Butler at 4:00 - 4:30 pm WELCOME CRE (Grade 6 - Confirmation) Other times by appointment TO ST. PIUS X Andrew Berezowski Michelle Donahue WE ARE A TITHING PARISH Gail Saltus We extend a warm welcome to all who Music Ministry attend our church. We hope that you find our parish community a place where your life of faith will be nourished. We also hope that you will share your special gifts with the community. Your prayers, your presence, and your talents are most welcome. Please introduce yourself after Mass. May God bless all of you. SɄ. PȹɅɃ X, MȹȴȴȼȵɄȿɇȾ St. Pius Parish Mission Statement: We, a community of faith, have come together to respond to God’s invitation to become holy by living the Gospel. We strive to do this through our awareness of God’s presence, our sense of responsibility to one another, and our response to needs within and beyond the parish of St. Pius X. “Love one another, as I have loved you.” (John 13:34) Stewardship Is Our Way Of Life Tithing (Stewardship) is an important way to consecrate ourselves to the Lord. Our gift is made holy because we give thanks and praise to God without strings or conditions. (F7I3D6E:;B A8 )D73EGD7 >> 3D7 3E=76 FA BD3K7D8G>>K 5A@E;67D F;F:;@9 3@6 D7FGD@A8AGD;@5A?7FAF:7!AD6FAF:7 Saturday, August 7 B3D;E: FA A6E AF:7D 5:3D;F;7E ;@ 9D3F;FG67 5:00 PM Dec. Gerald McAuliffe, Sr. ):7EB;D;FG3>BD35F;57A8F;F:;@96;EBAE7EGEFAB>357 Sunday, August 8 A68;DEF;@7H7DK3D73A8AGD>;H7E# 7:30 AM Dec. Paul Miano 9:00 AM Dec. Stanley Bish ,77= G9GEF 10:30 AM Dec. Cristina Dino 12:00 NN Dec. Felix, Evelyn, Nancy & Karen Sheehan 5FG3>(G@63K$887D;@9 >75FDA@;5;H;@98ADF:7,77=!"#$!#% Monday, August 9 7:00 AM Dec. Jeannie from Texas $"# 9:00 AM Capuchin Benefactors “TithingVPung God First” R Stewardship “Get up and eat or the journey will be too much for Tuesday, August 10 you!” 1 KINGS 19:7 7:00 AM Living & Deceased Parishioners 9:00 AM Dec. Eileen Kelly God knows that comming to a stewardship lifestyle is Wednesday, August 11 difficult. However, we were not designed to do it on our 7:00 AM Special Intention Dastoli Family own, we need His help. Fortunately, God gave us the 9:00 AM Special Intention Thomas Olszewski greatest gi of all, His son, Jesus. Through the gi of the Thursday, August 12 Eucharist we join our sacrifice with the sacrifice of the Holy 7:00 AM Dec. Yessa Militante Reyes Mass and receive the strength and courage to be His joyful 9:00 AM Dec. Fr. James Hammer, OFM Cap. disciples. Friday, August 13 7:00 AM Dec. Jean Bysiewicz Stewardship of Time and Talent 9:00 AM Special Intention Zoraida Jimenez Spending Time with God in Prayer: Don’t have time for reading? Listen to the Word with an Audio Saturday, August 14 BibleNanytime, anywhere, on your commute, eating lunch etc. 9:00 AM Dec. Esther & Eli Hart Talents in Service to God and Others 5:00 PM Dec. Pauline Neyer Amazing Grace Food Pantry has requested donations of pasta, pasta sauce, baked beans, peanut butter and tuna. Donations may Sunday, August 15 be left in the baskets in the foyer of the Church 7:30 AM Dec. Fr. Thomas Schmitt & David Schmitt, Jr. 9:00 AM Dec. Fred & Jeanne Ide, Richard & Robert Oros 10:30 AM Dec. Ann Loffredo Readings for the week of August 8, 2021 12:00 NN Dec. Margaret & Arthur Starrs Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:48/Ps 34:23, 45, 67, 89 [9a]/Eph 4:30N 5:2/Jn 6:4151 Monday: Dt 10:1222/Ps 147:1213, 1415, 1920 [12a]/Mt 17:2227 Tuesday: 2 Cor 9:610/Ps 112:12, 56, 78, 9 [5]/Jn 12:2426 Wednesday: Dt 34:112/Ps 66:13a, 5 and 8, 1617 [cf. 20a and 10b]/Mt 18:1520 Congratulations and best wishes to Mr. & Mrs. Kyle Thursday: Jos 3:710a, 11, 1317/Ps 114:12, 34, 56/Mt Shea who were recently married here at St. Pius. May 18:21N19:1 God bless them with a lifetime of happiness together. Friday: Jos 24:113/Ps 136:13, 1618, 2122 and 24/Mt 19:312 Saturday: Jos 24:1429/Ps 16:12a, and 5, 78, 11 [cf. 5a]/Mt 19:1315 NȹȾȵɄȵȵȾɄȸ SɅȾȴȱɉ ȹȾ OɂȴȹȾȱɂɉ TȹȽȵ The Feast of St. Clare August 11th, vigil August 10th St. Clare of Assisi is called the greatest Franciscan. St. Francis isn’t a Franciscan, he is Francis. St. Clare embodies his spirituality with a disnct power and fidelity. While Francis was the son of a Merchant (a ridiculously wealthy one), Clare was of noble lineage on both her mother’s and father’s side. Some historians have speculated her connecons were important in Francis geng access to the Bishop of Assisi and maybe even later on the Pope. Her family, parcularly her mother, were pious people. They also gave Clare room to develop her own mind. She was allowed to turn down a marriage match at age 15 and had kept herself unspoken for unl she was 17. She hears Francis preach about the Gospel and the radical trust in God which was to be his regular message. She arranges to give him a sign on Palm Sunday that she will meet him that night to start a new life. Leaves Assisi through the “Door of the Dead” and meets the brothers. She changes her fine clothes for a course pilgrim habit and a rope belt. She cuts her hair as a sign of leaving the world behind. His father and her uncles catch wind of the escape and storm to the lile chapel of the Porcuncula and start to drag her off. Her veil falls off and they see her shaved head, they retreat confused. Later two of Clare’s sisters, an aunt and her very mother join her in the community of Poor Women of Assisi. Francis gave Clare a ruleR very simpleR they will be dedicated to prayer, they will live simply, they will be cloistered, they will keep mes of silence, they will own nothing at all. They will bring no doweries to help support the convent. They will own no buildingsR the Benedicnes let them use San Damiano, other buildings belonging to the Pope. They will be dependent day to day of what people bring to their door or what the friars get for them. Bishops and Popes won’t approve the rule. They ask Clare to so en it. One of the Popes tells Clare that he could “absolve her of the demand for complete poverty”. She responds, “I need absoluon for my sins, I don’t need absoluon from living the Gospel”. As a FranciscanR the greatest Franciscan Clare knew that the Good News of the Gospel was that God would not let us down. We could not take too big of a risk in believing that he would provide. Two days before she died the Pope sent Clare a leer confirming the Rule that Francis had given her. St. Clare reminds us of the beauty and risk of the Gospel. She was cloistered and others could be trusted to bring she and her sisters what they needed. We can trust God that he will provide in our lives. Others might have to help more; we might have to adjust our desires and ambions according to God’s desire and plans. God will make himself manifest to us all. We have a special prayer service on Tuesday August 10th at 7pm in honor of St Clare. Come be renewed by the Franciscan spirit. Feast of St. Clare Wednesday, August 11, is the Feast of St. Clare. With St. Francis, she founded a contem- ST PIUS GOLF OUTING plative order of nuns that has played a major role Thursday, September 30 in the life of the Franciscan Order until this very Portland Golf Club day. On Tuesday evening, August 10th, we will Save the Date have a special prayer service to mark her More information will follow in upcoming bulletins death. The Service will begin at 7:00 PM. Come join us to honor this great woman of the Franciscan Order and the Church.