This year because of the pandemic, there will be limited seating at all the Christmas Masses.
If you and your family wish to attend one of the Christmas Masses, it is necessary for you to sign up in advance.  Sign-ups started on 11/28.

Christmas Mass Schedule

December 24th: 
4:00 PM (Church) - FULL
4:00 PM (Parish Center)
 6:00 PM - FULL
10:00 PM

December 25th: 
8:00 AM
9:30 AM
11:00 AM

Sign-Up Options (starting on 11/28):
1 - Online. Click HERE.
2 - Visit or Call the Parish Office (860-658-7627)
3 - Email the Parish Office (parishoffice@stmarysimsbury.org)

*** All Christmas Masses will be available via Livestream
for those choosing to worship remotely ***

We continue to extend generosity to the less fortunate for our home bound parishioners, Governors House and Virginia Connolly residents, shelter families and Simsbury Social services. Please help us collect items for those in need.

Two ways to partipate in 2020:

1) Take a tag off the Giving Tree, which is set up in the Magowan Center.
2) Use this online sign-up link

Giving Tree - Online Gift Tags

Purchase the item or gift card and please return it
along with the tag by Sunday, December 13th. 
(There is a table in the lobby)

For more information, please contact
   Kathy Brignac 860-490-4958
   Peggy Day 860-306-4230 or
   Sandy Everett 860-214-6557.

Thank You for your support!

To view, simply press the play button on the Rose Window below.  
If there is not a current live broadcast, you may select the option of "Previous Broadcasts" to view the recent archives, which are available to watch at your convenience.

The 2020 Archbishop's Annual Appeal is in the homestretch with this week marking Commitment Weekend. The need is real, and even more so during this pandemic-impacted year.

This past May the AAA sent $322,000 to 91 food pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens across the archdiocese. This fall, an additional $782,620 was disbursed and sent to 218  organizations for a total of $1,104,620. This has been possible only due to generous donors to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. During this very difficult time of Covid, so many of our neighbors, some for the first time ever, are finding themselves in the need of assistance.

"Whereas I used to be a person who would donate and contribute
with a full heart, I am now the recipient with humbleness and gratitude."

- Kathryn Lee-Reeve, New Britian

Archbishop Blair has included this short video with his appeal this week:

Click the link below to donate.
Please respond as generously as your means permit
so programs like this can continue.

All gifts can be paid through December 31, 2020.
Thank you in advance for your support.

We began welcoming parishioners back to Mass in July and are now following our regular schedule.

Below are the guidelines from the Archdiocese regarding public masses:

• Archbishop Blair has again extended the dispensation from the Sunday obligation, with the dispensation now extendiung until Tuesday, February 16, 2021 (the eve of Ash Wednesday).
  • No Catholic is obligated to attend Sunday Mass at this time.
• Those who are ill, have a temperature, have symptoms of Covid-19, or are in high risk categories should not attend Mass.
• Those attending Mass must wear face masks, apart from children under the age of two.
• The church is cleaned daily.
• Hand sanitizer is available at the entrances.
• The maximum number of people allowed to attend Mass at St. Mary's is 100.
• Pews in the church have been roped off to ensure social distancing of at least six feet between those attending who are not members of the same family.
• Hymnals and Missalettes have been removed from the pews.
• Congregational singing remains suspended
• Collection boxes have been placed at the doors of the church, as there will not be an offertory collection (please consider e-Giving)
• Those receiving Holy Communion will approach in single file, keeping a space of six feet apart, as marked on the floor, and receive communion in their hands. Before consuming the Eucharist, step to the side (X is marked on the floor) then remove their mask and consume.
• Those administering Holy Communion must wear face masks and will sanitize their hands before and after distributing communion

Saturdays:  3 - 4 PM
Mondays During Advent 6 - 7 pm

Confessions take place in the south wing
of the church near the piano and organ.

A prayer composed by Pope Francis:

A Prayer to Mary
in Time of Trial