eleventh sunday in ordinary time—june 17, 2018
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Weekend Masses
Saturday Vigil Masses:
4:00pm St. Bridget Church
5:00pm St. Thomas Becket Church
Sunday Masses: 7:30am St. Bridget Church
9:00am St. Bridget Church
10:00am St. Thomas Becket Church
11:00am St. Bridget Church
4:00pm St. Bridget Church (Sept thru May only)
Weekday Masses
(All weekday Masses in St. Bridget
Church)
7:00am Monday through Friday 9:00am Monday, Wednesday,
Friday & Saturday
Eucharistic Adoration
In St. Bridget Church
Fridays 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Confessions
In St. Bridget Church
Saturdays 3:00 pm—until heard
Where Christ is our Light
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time—June 17, 2018
SAINT BRIDGET OF SWEDEN PARISH OFFICE
175 Main Street, Cheshire, CT 06410 203-272-3531 www.stbridgetcheshire.org
Mr. Paul Iadarola, Deacon ● Dr. Richard Wilber, Deacon
Sister Patricia Cigrand, A.S.C.J., Pastoral Associate
Mrs. Julia Atwood, Music Director Mrs. Donna Yatcko, Religious Education Director
Mrs. Jennifer Furlong, Saint Bridget School Principal
Mrs. Judith Rowinski, Saint Bridget School Assistant Principal
The Reverend Jeffrey V. Romans, Pastor
The Reverend Philip T. O’Neill, Parochial Vicar
ST. BRIDGET CHURCH
175 Main Street, Cheshire, CT
ST. THOMAS BECKET CHURCH
435 North Brooksvale Road, Cheshire, CT
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time — June 17, 2018
Saturday June 16th
9:00 a.m. SBC Harold Tarini & Garry Fuoco
Requested by Sandra & Vin Fuoco
4:00 p.m. SBC Helen C. Lane
Requested by Dorothy Cadden
5:00 p.m. STBC Anthony & Diane Bergami
Requested by Family
Sunday June 17th: Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary
Time
7:30 a.m. SBC Amelia, Frank, & Ann Proto
Requested by Family
9:00 a.m. SBC Joseph Triano—3rd Anniversary
Requested by Mike & Nancy Rasmussen
10:00 a.m. STBC Harold J. Nichols & Brian D. Nugent
Requested by the Family
11:00 a.m. SBC Luisa Porto
Requested by Daughters, Tina Rotondo
& Rose Porto
Monday June 18th
7:00 a.m. SBC The People of St. Bridget of Sweden Parish
9:00 a.m. SBC Pasquale & Mary Errico
Requested by Jerry & Charlotte Devine
Tuesday June 19th
7:00 a.m. SBC Keith Candelora
Requested by His Parents
Wednesday June 20th
7:00 a.m. SBC Mary Ann Damiani
Requested by Friends at Coffee Shop
9:00 a.m. SBC School Mass—Julia Sherlock
Requested by the MacGillivray Family
Thursday June 21st: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga,
Religious
7:00 a.m. SBC Mary Ann Damiani
Requested by the God Squad
Friday June 22nd
7:00 a.m. SBC John & Philomena Mongillo
Requested by Peter & Mary Mongillo
9:00 a.m. SBC Helen DeLibero
Requested by John & Judy Rowinski
Saturday June 23rd
9:00 a.m. SBC Kenneth Demers
Requested by SBoS Women’s Society
4:00 p.m. SBC Gisela & Karl Bayer
Requested by Elizabeth Miller
5:00 p.m. STBC Robert Murano
Requested by Family
Sunday June 24th: The Nativity of Saint John the
Baptist
7:30 a.m. SBC Patrick Thomas, Jr.
Requested by Jim & Karen Thomas
9:00 a.m. SBC Adeline Triano—Birthday Remembrance
Requested by Mike & Nancy Rasmussen
10:00 a.m. STBC Tom Patterson
Requested by the McKiernan & Davey
Families
11:00 a.m. SBC Jennifer Velleca & Christian Cunningham
Requested by Family
SBC = St. Bridget Church STBC = St. Thomas Becket Church
The Tabernacle candle at St. Bridget Church shines this week for
Jim Buckheit, Albert & Richard DeJohn Requested by Joanne Buckheit
The Tabernacle candle at St. Thomas Becket Church shines this week for
Joseph Vitello Requested by the Vitello-Fischer Family
Parish Informa-on!
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Mass intentions and intentions for the Tabernacle candle can be reserved by calling the rectory at 203-272-3531 or by stopping by the rectory during office hours, Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm. The offering for Mass intentions is
$25 for Sunday Masses and $15 for daily Masses. The offering for the Tabernacle candle is $25.
STAY CONNECTED!
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Download the myParish app by texting App to 88202
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Baptisms Parents are required to attend a baptismal prepara-tion class. Please call the rectory for information.
Marriages Consult a priest 6 months
in advance.
Sick Calls To arrange for Holy Communion for homebound
and hospitalized, please call the rectory.
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From the Pastor’s Desk Dear Friends in Christ:
First and foremost…on this Father’s Day Weekend I offer to all fathers, grandfathers, uncles, Godfathers, Spiritual Fathers, and to all who fill the role of father in other people’s lives a very Happy Father’s Day! Please know that each of you are in our prayers.
For some in our parish this is a difficult day; some may be alone on this day away from their children, others may be mourning the recent death of their father or grandfather, and others may be struggling with the reality of not be-ing able to be a father. I assure all of you of our prayers as well.
This weekend each year I think of my own father, of course, and I thank God for being blessed with such a great man as my father. My father is genuinely a good man, a devoted husband, a great mentor, a man of sound advice, and a true exam-ple of what it means to be a father. Besides the usual things one can say about their father, or certainly those things I can say about my own dad, I have to say my father’s greatest gift to me and my brothers was his example. He truly lives his life putting others first whether it be his family, his friends, his neighbors, and even his coworkers. His example taught us, his sons, the importance of putting God first, others second, and yourself last. For this lesson, above all, and for his love, I am forever grateful to God for the gift of this man I am honored to call dad.
May Saint Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the adopted father of our Lord Jesus Christ, patron of fa-thers pray for us all. Happy Father’s Day!
THANK YOU to the Saint Bridget of Sweden Women’s Society…this past Monday evening we celebrated our Wom-en’s Society. We gathered together for the celebration of the Eucharist to give thanks to God for all that the Women’s So-ciety has done this past year, and to ask His guidance upon them in the coming years. We then went to the Manor Inn for a dinner. At this dinner they awarded their scholarships to three of our parishioners; Ashley Amarante, Elizabeth Lurz, and
Caroline Mayer. What extraordinary young women these girls are! After listening to all that they are involved with I joked, “I am not sure how they have time for their studies.” Following the scholarship presentations we inducted the slate of officers for the coming year. We congratulate and promise our prayers to Patti Flynn-Harris, President, to Gail Rogers, Vice-President, to Kathy Kirby, Secretary, and to Kathy Demers, Treasurer.
At the dinner the Women’s Society also made a substantial donation to the parish. I am most grateful to the members of the Women’s Society for this gift and we will use it to purchase additional altar cloths for our altars. Since we have begun distributing
Holy Communion under both species we have had a few incidents of spillage in preparing the gifts that have made us real-ize we need additional altar cloths for our altars. So this year their gift will help us to ensure we have additional cloths for both churches. Thank you!
As was announced in the bulletin recently The Saint Bridget of Sweden Parish Pastoral Council is now continu-ing the work of developing a mission statement, vision statement, and a Strategic Plan for our parish family. I am very pleased with the preliminary outcomes of their meetings. The Holy Spirit is indeed at work! In just a few short weeks the council has already written a mission statement and vision statement for our parish family.
Please keep in mind the basic understanding that a mission statement is what drives us, it is what we do, and it is about whom we serve and how. Of course the guiding principle for any church’s mission statement is the mandate of Jesus in the Gospels to “go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
The Mission Statement of Saint Bridget Sweden Parish:
We, the Family of Saint Bridget of Sweden Parish, Cheshire, Connecticut, building on our rich heritage of Catholic Faith, center ourselves in the Eucharist and honor God in proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ.
The vision statement, meanwhile, is what gives us direction as we live out our mission, it explains what are our hopes and
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From the Pastor’s Desk (continued) dreams in living out our mission, and it describes what matters most to us as a parish family as we live out our mission.
The Vision Statement of Saint Bridget of Sweden Parish:
Saint Bridget of Sweden Parish Family is a spiritual home and a center of missionary outreach where all may come to be nourished in the midst of their journey. All who come are welcomed with warmth, harmony, belonging and will know they are home.
Please keep the Parish Pastoral Council in your prayers as they now begin the important work of developing a Strate-gic Plan to ensure that our mission and vision are realized in the life of our parish as we continue to grow together in faith. Pray that the Holy Spirit will guide this important work for our future as a Parish Family. Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
As always remember to pray for our parish families and ask God’s blessings as we build His kingdom here. Please know that I am praying for you, and I ask for your prayers for me, that together through the intercession of Saint Bridget of Swe-den, our new Patron, and united in the Eucharist, we will reflect the presence of Jesus to the world.
Our collection for the week of June 10th:
Weekly Offertory ............................ $16,849.00
Online ..................................................... $2,615.37
Catholic Relief Services (addl.) ......... $458.00
The second collection this weekend will be for
Father’s Day intentions.
Thank you for your kind generosity!
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our family of faith.
See insert in next week’s
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Please watch your email for information regarding registration for the upcoming 2018-2019 Religious Education Program
Registration forms can be found at the entrances to the churches.
Home School Families
All work should be submitted as soon as possible.
Seventh and eighth grade students must complete the Post Test in the textbook and submit it to the office as
soon as possible.
Religious Education Donna Yatcko, Director ! Elsa Loehmann, Admin. Asst.
Office hours M-F 8:30am - 1:30pm
203-272-6504
Father’s Day cards are available at
the doors of the churches. Remove
the card inside and give it to your
loved one. Return the outside enve-
lope with your intention offering to
the collection basket. Intentions can
be for living or deceased fathers,
grandfathers, uncles, husbands,
friends, etc. These envelopes will be
placed on the altar for the month of
June.
Nurses – your help is needed! In his earthly minis-try, Jesus healed body and soul. The Church has from our beginnings followed Jesus and ministered to the sick. An important and common illness in this coun-try is high blood pressure (hypertension). Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicate
that about one-third of the US population over the age of 20 has hyperten-sion, and this condition contributes to the prevalence of significant illness and associated death rates. In keeping with the mission to care for the sick, nurses in St. Bridget of Sweden Parish volunteer on a monthly basis during “Coffee And” to provide a service to help parishioners to know their blood pressure. This service can detect unknown high blood pressure or can assist a person in monitoring known hypertension between health care visits. Additional volunteers are needed to serve at both the St. Thomas Becket and St. Bridget locations. Please contact Kathy Wysoczanski at (203) 272-8494 or [email protected] if you are interested in joining this ministry.
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Our U.S. Military Prayer List Captain Cassandra Andrea USAF
Captain J. Michael Andrea USAF
Captain David B. Beale, US Army
Specialist Alan Bell, US Army
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Betts, US Navy Lieutenant Kevin Briskin, US Army
Sergeant Brian Caouette
Captain Leslie Ann Capuano, USMC
Lieutenant Hollis Ann Capuano, US Navy
Staff Sergeant Edward J. Clark, Jr, USAF
Airman First Class Aaron Desjardins, USAF
Lieutenant Benjamin DiTota, US Navy
STS-1 Jake Ford, US Navy
PFC Owen C. Fowler, USMC
Private Dominic Anthony Giampietro, US Army
Petty Officer 2nd Class Martin Houston, US Navy
Cdr. Thomas A. Ianucci, USN, Chaplain
Petty Officer 3rd Class Neil P. Kenefick, US Navy
AWO2 Kyle (DeVylder) Kohl, US Navy
Sergeant Gregory J. Kowalski, USMC
Airman First Class Benjamin M. LeClerc, USAF
Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian McGrath, US Navy
ENS Derek Molkenbuhr, US Navy
LTJG Marisa Molkenbuhr, US Navy
ENS Trevor Molkenbuhr, US Navy
Airman First Class Anthony Nero, USAF
Lt. Christopher Nguyen, US Army
Specialist Eric Normand, US Army
Captain Denis L. O’Reilly, USMC
Private 2nd Class Christopher Paier, US Army Natl. Guard
LTJG Jake Patrick Reid, US Navy
Lt. Jack David Senft, US Army
Private 1st Class Kevin Stevens, US Army
Captain Alexander James Topitzer, US Army
1st Lt. Matthew Neil Topitzer, US Army
Captain Ryan Van Wie, US Army
Private 1st Class Connor Valinsky, US Army
Senior Airman Joe Villano USAF
Corporal Bernard Vitti, Jr. Marine Corps
LCpl. Matthew Voelker, USMC
If you have a name to place on our U.S. Military prayer list, please contact Mary Beth in the Rectory at 203-272-3531 or
[email protected] with the names of family & friends who are on active duty. Please provide name and branch of
service. In this way, our whole parish community can help bring
Through the grace of God, parishion-
ers continue to be very generous with
donations to the Community Food
Pantry. The needed items vary, but
this week we have a particular need
for: jarred pasta sauce, pasta & rice sides, juice boxes.
Please continue to donate any items you would like to do-
nate. PLEASE DELIVER PERISHABLE GOODS
WHEN WE ARE OPEN. We cannot use large indus-
trial canned goods. The Food Pantry CANNOT AC-
CEPT EXPIRED or OPENED items. The Pantry is lo-
cated at 175 Sandbank Road, Cheshire, CT . Hours are:
Monday-Wednesday-Friday mornings, 9:00 a.m. – 12:15
p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00 p.m.– 6:15 p.m. The
phone number is 203-699-9226 and the mailing address for
any monetary donations you wish to send is:
Cheshire Community Food Pantry, P.O. Box 457,
Cheshire, Connecticut 06410.
Thank you for your continued support of the
Food Pantry and for helping our fellow
neighbors!
Eucharistic Adoration Schedule Friday, June 22nd
1-2pm – Gail Glazewski & Mary Alyce Lee
2-3pm – Mary Catherine Meacham & Helen Tine
3-4pm – Marian Brennan & Joseph Tiriolo
The Adoration Schedule can be found on the parish website at
https://www.stbridgetcheshire.org/eucharistic-adoration/
PARISH BINGO THURSDAY EVENINGS
The doors to the Parish Center open at 5:30 p.m. and BINGO begins at 7 p.m.
The jackpot for June 21st is $1,375.00!!Volunteers are needed to help in kitchen with food
sales or in the dining room with winning calls and
payouts. In you are interested in volunteering, call
Kathy Mahmood at 203-592-7677.
We are looking for volunteers to be
scheduled for Eucharistic Adoration.
If you can donate an hour weekly, bi-
weekly, or monthly on Friday after-
noons to silent prayer in the presence
of the Blessed Sacrament, please call the rectory at
203-272-3531 to be put on the schedule.
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a�end a Catholic High School or College this fall. A
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