The Church of the Incarnation 544 Prospect Street Wethersfield, CT 06109

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1 The Church of the Incarnation 544 Prospect Street Wethersfield, CT Rev. James M. Moran Pastor Mrs. Noranne Wamester Pastoral Associate Mrs. Audrey Saharek Pastoral Assistant Mrs. Teri Aiudi Rectory Office Assistant Faith Formation Secretary Mrs. Theodora Niver Director of Music Robert & Diana Hamel Musicians Vanessa Crowley Lorissa Heath Rosanne Sweeney Gowdy Andrew Russo Heather Picard Bonney Cantors Toni Munoz Sacristan Mass Schedule Confessions on Saturdays from 3:45-4:30p.m. Vigil Mass: Saturday at 5:00p.m. Sunday Masses: 8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. Daily Mass: (Mon. - Fri.) 9:00 a.m. Recitation of the Rosary before 9:00 a.m. daily Mass Sacrament of Baptism By previous appointment Sundays at 1:00 p.m. in the Baptistry of the Chapel. Weddings Please contact a priest 6-10 months prior. New Parishioners and Faith Formation Registration The Church of the Incarnation welcomes new parishioners. All forms are available at the main entrance of the church. Please mail or place in the collection basket. You may also visit our website for printable forms at: Rectory Hours 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Rectory Church Fax Incarnation Church Address Office of Faith Formation (860) (860) cincarnation@sbcglobal.net (860) gotellit@aol.com Website address:

2 Page Two Third Sunday in Ordinary Time....January 22, 2012 SATURDAY, JANUARY 21ST 5pm - Frank Mandile SUNDAY, JANUARY 22ND 8:00am-Lillian Vasquez 9:30am-Frank & Vincenza Bulanti & Silvia Bulanti 11:00am Flora Colasacco MONDAY, JANUARY 23RD 9:00am Russell Leyden & Dolores Arico TUESDAY, JANUARY 24TH 9:00am Albert J. Delverne WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25TH 9:00am For all our parishioners THURSDAY, JANUARY 26TH 9:00am Frances D Onofrio FRIDAY, JANUARY 27TH 9:00 am-leonard D Onofrio SATURDAY, JANUARY 28TH 5:00 pm-paul DiMascio SUNDAY, JANUARY 29TH 8:00 am- Sebastian & Concetta Boscarino, Doris Boscarino & Tony Boscarino 9:30 am Domenico Anzelotti 11:00am Cassandra Elisa Pagliuca The Sanctuary Candle will burn from 1/16/2012 1/22/2012 in memory of Flora Salvatore. The Blessed Virgin Mary Candle will burn from 1/16/2012 1/22/2012 in memory of John Carpino. The Second Collection this weekend is the Diocesan Catholic High Schools collection. The legacy of Catholic high school education is a rich one that has strengthened our Church for 180 years in the Archdiocese of Hartford. Your support will help to sustain and enhance this important legacy. Thanks for investing in the ministry of Catholic high school education. There is a House of Bread collection this weekend. Coffee & sugar are requested. Thank you to all who donate to this cause. We recently received two lovely thank you notes from Sister Mary Kelly, Director of the Office for Religious for our recent donations to the Retired Religious collection and from Sisters Maureen and Theresa from the House of Bread for our recent donations to the House of Bread Kids Café. Blessing of the Throats, in Honor of St. Blaise will take place next weekend after all the Masses. This blessing is a sign of thanks for the gift of breathing, speech, and taste. We are trying to close out our 2011 Mass Book. If you have any Mass Offerings that you wish to make for 2011, please send them in a.s.a.p. Thank you so much!

3 Page Three Third Sunday in Ordinary Time....January 22, 2012 Children s Liturgy of the Word will be held this Sunday at the 9:30am Mass. Maura Buyak and Michael Stefano will be our presiders. Thank you to the Marotta Family for hosting the refreshments. We are still in need of Children s Liturgy of the Word refreshment hosts for the following Sundays; February 19th, March 4th, March 18th, April 29th and May 6th. If you would be willing to host the juice and munchkins please call Audrey at the rectory at (860) for complete and easy instructions. Thank you!! Faith Formation for Grades 7 & 8 will take place next week, January 24th & 25th in Fr. Crawford Hall. Faith Formation for Grades K-6 will be held at Emerson-Williams on Sat., January 28th. Parish Family Home Communities will meet at their scheduled times. The Church of the Incarnation awards two scholarships annually for parishioners entering area Catholic High Schools. The deadline to submit applications is April 1st. Please call Noranne Wamester for more information or for an application at For storm related cancellations please log on to our website: or tune into WFSB, WVIT or WTIC AM. Please do not call the rectory. Thank you. Enrollment Coordinator Wanted: SS. Cyril & Methodius School is seeking a parttime Enrollment Coordinator to reach out to the Hartford community and beyond to recruit prospective students for the Pre-K to Grade 8 elementary school. Preference will be given to candidates familiar with Catholic school education and with the city of Hartford. Candidates interested in working in a safe, nurturing, multi-cultural environment where children receive an exceptional faithbased education are urged to submit their resumes no later than January 30th to Joy Chlus, Interim Principal, SS. Cyril & Methodius School, 335 Groton St. Htfd., Corpus Christi School of Wethersfield encompassing grades Pre-K-8 will host an Open House on February 1st at 8:30am at the School, 581 Silas Deane Highway. Call (860) for more information.

4 Page 4 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time....January 22, 2012 Stewardship Message: There is a certain urgency in today s Gospel as Jesus calls His first disciples -Andrew and Simon, James and John. Each one follows Jesus immediately, unhesitatingly abandoning nets and boats and father and fellow-workers. To what is Jesus calling me -- at this moment, in these circumstances? What will I need to abandon in order to follow Him? LILY SAGE GILBERTSON Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 22, 2012 The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. Mark 1:15 Incarnation Men s Retreat, February 24-26th.Attend a retreat at Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center in West Hartford. Rest, reflect on life, and renew your relationship with God, your family, and friends. This weekend Bill Carroll will speak about these retreats at all of the Masses. Call John Ewaski at (860) or Bill Carroll at (860) or visit Holy Family s website at: TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Ordinary is not always a desirable adjective. Who would not be insulted to receive a thankyou note for your ordinary birthday gift, or the ordinary hospitality at the dinner party? No restaurant advertises its ordinariness, no car dealer seats a customer at the steering wheel and whispers, Look how ordinary it is! Yet here we are in Ordinary Time. The word carries a different meaning here: it does not mean these days are dull, boring or uninteresting. It means ordinal, or numbered Sundays, a season of the year when we follow the story of Jesus life and ministry in an ordered way, with each Sunday assigned an ordinal number. You can amaze your friends with this example of Catholic arithmetic: the Ordinary Sundays begin with the last Sunday of Christmas, the Baptism of the Lord, continue until the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and resume after a cluster of feasts following Pentecost Sunday. The numbers are calculated by counting backwards from the Solemnity of Christ the King, the 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Now you know there is nothing ordinary about Ordinary Time!

5 Page Five Third Sunday in Ordinary Time....January 22, 2012 Beginning this weekend 1/22 & 23rd, our new Eucharistic Acclamation will be We proclaim your death O Lord which can be found in your Missal. It is Hymn #912. Fourth & fifth grade boys & girls interested in becoming Altar Servers at Incarnation are invited to meet with Fr. Moran at 11am on Saturday, January 28th in the Church. The meeting will last one hour and will be the first of four consecutive sessions that will prepare those interested in serving at our Eucharistic celebrations. The Church of the Incarnation Employment Support Group meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 9:30am in Fr. Crawford Hall. If you or someone you know is in need of employment, you are invited to attend a meeting. Please bring your resume. When visiting the rectory, there is a doorbell located on the brick wall. Please ring the bell so that we will hear you. Thank you! Wethersfield UNICO s 33rd Annual World Famous Macaroni Dinner will be on Sunday, February 12th from 11:30am-4:30pm at the Wethersfield Community Center. Please join us for a delicious dinner of pasta with homemade sauce and meatballs, garlic bread, salad, soda, wine, coffee & ice cream. $9.00 for adults and $4 for children 12 & under. This is UNICO S primary fundraiser for all their charitable activities. Call Morris at (860) See you there! Come after Me. Jesus called Andrew and Peter and James and John. He calls still in our day. Are you willing to drop your nets and follow Jesus? If the answer is yes, call Fr. Michael Dolan, Director of Vocations, Archdiocesan Center at St. Thomas Seminary, (860) or e- mail him at vocations@stseminary.org, or you may also visit the web at The Blessing of the portrait of Reverend John F. Edwards will be rescheduled to a later date. If you are leaving Wethersfield for the winter, please notify the rectory so that we can place your envelopes on inactive. When you return, kindly call and we will re-activate them. Thank you. Wethersfield St. Patrick s Day Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, January 28th from 6pm-11pm at the Wethersfield Community Center. Tickets are $30.00p.p. Corned beef & cabbage dinner. Call Maria Sullivan for tickets at (860) or Rynagh Peak at (860) Town Honoree is Chuck Flynn. Town Marshal is Mary Burke.

6 Page Six Third Sunday in Ordinary Time....January 22, 2012 A NEW DAY DAWNS Today we hear how Jonah, sent by God to warn the people, storms through the streets of Nineveh, scaring the citizens out of their wits. And it works! God has a change of heart, seeing by their actions how the people turn from evil (Jonah 3:10). A new day dawns. Next we hear Paul telling the Corinthians, The world in its present form is passing away (1 Corinthians 7:31). He calls for a change of heart. Stopping short of telling them to stop carrying out their everyday activities, he urges them rather mysteriously to live as though they aren t doing the things they are doing. A new day has dawned. Finally, Jesus stands on the shore and cries, The kingdom of God is at hand! (Mark 1:14). Simon and Andrew abandon their nets and even their father and follow him. A new day had dawned. Everyone has to change when a new day dawns: the Ninevites, the Corinthians, the apostles, even Jesus! Didn t a new day dawn today for us as well? TODAY S READINGS First Reading The people of Nineveh believed God and turned from their evil ways (Jonah 3:1-5, 10). Psalm Teach me your ways, O Lord (Psalm 25). Second Reading The world in its present form is passing away (1 Corinthians 7:29-31). Gospel This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:14-20). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10; Mk 3:22-30, or any readings from the Mass For Peace and Justice, nos Tuesday:2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Mk 16:15-18 Thursday:2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Mk 4:21-25 Friday:2 Sm 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday:2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday:Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children; St. Vincent; Tuesday: St. Francis de Sales Wednesday: The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle Thursday: Ss. Timothy and Titus Friday: St. Angela Merici Saturday: St. Thomas Aquinas GIFT What I am is God s gift to me. What I become is my gift back to God. Anonymous WORRIES The greatest of worries can t pay the smallest of debts. Anonymous