Welcome to the parish community of St. Mary's Church. As you learn about our parish, it is our hope that you will join us for the many activities that happen throughout the year. We are blessed with enthusiastic, dedicated and faith-filled members and look forward to having you join us.
Mission Statement:
We are a faith-filled community centered in Christ that gathers in our Father's love to celebrate in Word and Sacrament. We seek to grow in that love, to be guided by the Holy Spirit and to share an atmosphere of warmth and hospitality with all.
All high school students are welcome! THIS FRIDAY, March 24 in the Parish Center from 6:30-8:30pm it's time to Bring on the Madness for our Youth Ministry Dodgeball Tournament.
Join us for an evening of fun as St. Mary's High School Youth Ministry and St. Catherine's High School Youth Ministry battle it out for the coveted dodgeball trophy.
Pizza and refreshments will be served! Please select the Parish your teen is representing for dodgeball in the available sign up slot. Sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0949AAA82CA0FDCE9-bring
St. Mary’s warmly welcomes all parishioners and school families to join us for a Lenten Soup and Bread Dinner on
Friday, March 31st prior to the Stations of the Cross at 7 PM. Our Faith Formation families are hosting this dinner.
Date: March 31
Time: 5:30 – 6:45 PM
Location: Parish Center
We need donations of both meatless soup and bread. Please bring your hot soup in a crockpot and/or loaf of bread by 5:30 PM to the Parish Center.
Please RVSP!!
Please sign up using the link below (or by calling the parish office)
(Note: The sign-ups do show what soups people are bringing)
Praying the Psalms in the Voice of Christ A Christological Reading of the Psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours Frank J. Matera In Praying thePsalms in the Voice of Christ, Frank J. Matera offers a way to pray the psalms within the Liturgy of the Hours rooted in the New Testament and the great writers of the early church. Taking his cue from Saint Augustine, Matera demonstrates how to hear the voice of Christ in the psalms so that they can be prayed in the voice of Christ and his Body, the church. In addition to this introduction to a christological reading of the psalms, Matera also provides a commentary on the psalms as they occur in the four weeks of the Divine Office.
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God of peace and justice,
we pray for the people of Ukraine today.
We pray for peace and the laying down of weapons.
We pray for all those who fear for tomorrow,
that your Spirit of comfort would draw near to them.
We pray for those with power over war or peace,
for wisdom, discernment and compassion to guide their decisions.
Above all, we pray for all your precious children, at risk and in fear,
that you would hold and protect them.
We pray in the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Amen.
St. Mary’s School is the Farmington Valley's only Catholic school for grades K-8 and in 2018 was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School (the only non-public school in New England to receive the designation!)
Offering a unique blending of traditional academics and 21st century technology, St. Mary's challenges today's students to actively master subject matter. Encouraged to lead and taught to serve, students graduate with confidence, well prepared for secondary education and to assume the rights and responsibilities of Christian young adults.
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World Marriage Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of February.
On February 13, at our 9:30 Mass, Monsignor Frank Matera offered a special blessing
for the couples of our parish to honor their lifelong commitment as husband and wife.