We are the hands and feet of Jesus! Join us for an engaging panel discussion on Immigration & Catholic Social Teachings, March 3rd, 2019 from 7-8pm in the church hall. Panel members include: A DREAMer, a mom, Al Dornan from Rocky Hill who walks 2 miles every day for DREAMrs & Arturo Iriarte , Parish Social Ministry & Ed Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Hartford. We will remove the lens of judgement and engage in an eye-opening discussion.

Our St. John Fisher community has embarked on the Helping Hands project, a fun, educational, inspirational, and tangible way for us to answer Jesus’s call to love our neighbor. In partnership with Catholic Relief Services and Rise Against Hunger, Helping Hands provides us the mechanism to serve our neighbors in two ways: we will package 10,000 meals to provide immediate hunger relief in Burkina Faso, West Africa; and, we will fund income-generating projects to prevent hunger in order to make a lasting change in the lives of the poor. We ask you to prayerfully consider extending a helping hand to your neighbor in one or more of these ways: *Mark your calendar to help at the food packaging event (you do not need to commit to the entire time): Saturday, April 6, at St. John Fisher Church (Morning-Midday timing, pending CRS confirmation) *Get tickets to attend our Helping Hands Community Coffee House on Saturday, March 2, from 6:30-9pm in the Church Hall.

Save the Date!!  Soup for a Cause is just around the Corner! Come join fellow parishioners for the Confirmation Community’s annual soup dinner scheduled for Saturday, March 9th, following the 4:00pm Mass. Tickets to go on sale, March 2 and 3rd. Hope to see you there!

Mrs. Polochanin's 6th grade Faith Formation class is starting a service project to collect pet supplies (food, toys, shampoo) for the Marlborough Food Bank and local shelters. We will be collecting supplies January 27th through February 20th. Last weekend to collect is February 16th and 17th.  We are so excited to be working on this and hope that you will support our project!  Any questions, please contact Mrs. Polochanin at 860-977-7660.

Photo's of some of our teens at Book Club with the kids at the Catholic Worker House.

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We ask you to prayfully consider extending a helping hand to your neighbor in one or more of these ways:

Mark your calendar to help at the food packaging event (you do not need to commit to the entire time):
Saturday, April 6 at St. John Fisher Church (Morning-Midday timing, pending CRS confirmation)

Get tickets to attend our Helping Hands Community Coffee House on Saturday, March 2 from 6:30-9 pm in the Church Hall.
Enjoy the talent of parishioners and local musicians; sample local beer, wine or soda; enjoy delicious snacks; bid on silent auction prizes from The Bushnell, It’s So Ranunculus, Hartford Yard Goats, Essex Riverboat Cruise, Thomas Hooker, KidCity Museum...and more!! (Do you want to perform? Have an item to donate?)

Try your luck with tickets for our themed basket raffle. Tickets will be sold at Faith Formation on 2/12, after all three Masses 2/23-24, and at the Coffee House event on 3/2, or use the order form below.

Become a Helping Hands Sponsor in three nourishing levels:
Appetizer ($25 sponsorship) ~ Entrée ($50 Sponsorship) ~ Dessert ($100 Sponsorship)

Buy a Helping Hands t-shirt, designed by senior Ellie Packer. Order at www.stjfchurch.org or via order form.

Support our Monks’ Bread and Biscotti fundraiser after all Masses on 2/23-24 and 3/16-17, or order below.

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Many thanks to all parishioners, including our Confirmation Community, who have spent the last few weeks reaching out and offering hospitality to others in our community by serving dinner at Immacare Shelter and the Drive through Café, sandwiches for St. Vincent de Paul, toiletry bags for House of Bread and South Park Shelter, donating groceries for the
Marlborough Food Bank and making and distributing bagged lunches in Bushnell Park.

The Catholic Graduates Club of Greater Hartford is once again offering three $2,000 scholarships to any Catholic student in Hartford County who plans to attend a four college beginning in 2019.

Scholarships will be awarded based on need, scholarship, character, leadership and achievement.

The deadline is March 15. Additional information and applications may be found at www.catholicgraduatesct.org.

The Christian Outreach Committee would like to extend a big thank you to the parishioners who cooked meals, baked
cookies and worked the assembly line at the Marlborough Congregational Church Drive-up Cafe on Sunday, January 27. The event was a great success and much appreciated by the dinner recipients from the Marlborough Food Bank and Florence Lord Housing. The Congregational Church is always very grateful for our help in hosting its Monthly Café.

Please mark your calendars for our next Drive-Up Café on Sunday, March 31. We will be serving a barbequed chicken
dinner. Both familiar and new faces are always welcome!

Many thanks again.

Our CRS Helping Hands Global Food Packaging Event will be held on Sat., April 6, 2019 in the church hall.

All parishioners are welcome to help. Please save this date and join our community as we gather to serve God by serving others.

Commemoration of St. Bakhita Prayer and Reflection Vigil against Human Trafficking – Friday February 8, 2019, 7-8 pm. Feb. 8 is the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, who was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Sudan and Italy. She is considered the patron saint of human trafficking victims. The event will be held at St. Josephine Bakhita Parish at St. James Church, 767 Elm Street, Rocky Hill, CT. No registration is required.