The Admissions Office is still accepting applications for the 2021-22 school year. There is still an opportunity to apply for Financial Aid. Also, we continue to offer private family tours.

To schedule a tour, obtain general information, or fill out admissions and/or financial application, please visit our website: echs.com/Admissions.

Pentecost B21

This Pentecost, 2021, begins a restart of our community of faith after not getting together fully from March 15, 2020 until May 21, 2021. Like the 120 men and women we have gathered for the celebration of the Eucharist and prayer in much smaller numbers, steadfastly hoping for the day when others would be welcomed back. And now, thanks be to God, the medical community, those who worked so hard and quickly on the vaccines, those who distributed them to a willing population, here we are celebrating that the time has come!

Online Mass ~ 7th Sunday of Easter ~ May 16, 2021
Available as of Saturday, May 16, 4:00PM

Are you wondering if your child is on track academically after this past year?
You are not alone. Perhaps you’d like to consider some other educational options. Corpus Christi School of Wethersfield, a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, will host a special Spring Open House on Tuesday, May 18th from 6 7:30 P.M. at Corpus Christi School, 581 Silas Deane Highway. Prospective students and their families are welcome to attend. Corpus Christi School offers students MORE:

~ MORE personalized attention with an average class size of 16 students
~ MORE specialized after school help
~ MORE opportunities to get your child back on track

Come and see how much MORE we can offer your family!! Tours will be available; teachers and parents will be on hand to answer questions. The school encompasses PreK through 8th grade. To register, please visit our website https://corpuschristischoolct.org/ or call 860-529-5487.

Special thanks to our high school volunteers who recently turned over the garden and planted the first crop of lettuce. Our garden was started seven years ago, by three young women, after their
Confirmation, with five donated plastic kiddie pools. These women wanted to provide fresh vegetables to our local food bank and succeeded in starting the St. John Fisher Community Garden, a tradition that thrives today. All teens are invited to come volunteer in the garden or join the watering team.

Please remember to hold in prayer our college and continuing education students as they approach the end of their semester. Special congratulations to all those graduating from trade school, college or graduate school.

Lord God,
All creation is yours, and you call us to serve you by caring for the gifts that surronnd us. May the example of Saint lsidore urge us to share our food with the hungry and to work for the salvation of mankind. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen

7^th Sunday of Easter B21

When Jesus ascended to his Father, he left no master plan how his Church would be. However, the Apostles and the rest of the disciples were promised another Advocate, one who would strengthen them and is the Spirit of truth who would guide them to all truth, teaching them everything and reminding them of all that Jesus told them.

Last Sunday we heard about the question of whether or not the Gentiles had to embrace the Jewish faith in order to become a follower of Jesus.  The negative answer would become a monumental change in the infant Church’s practice which took the Jewish Christians some time to embrace.

The Holy Spirit Novena for the Seven Gifts is traditionally prayed leading up to Pentecost to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles.

https://catholicnovenaapp.com/novenas/holy-spirit-novena/#

Hard copies will be availalble at the entrances of the church.

Online Mass ~ 6th Sunday of Easter ~ May 9, 2021

Good and gracious God, We pray in gratitude for our mothers who have joined with you in the wonder of bringing forth new life.

You, who became human through a woman, grant to all mothers the courage they need to face the uncertain future that life with children always brings.

Give them the strength to live and to be loved in return, not perfectly, but humanly.

Give them the faithful support of a husband, family and friends as they care for the physical and spiritual growth of their children.

Give them joy and delight in their children to sustain them through the trials of motherhood.

Most of all, give them the wisdom to turn to you for help whenthey need it most.

All teens and young adults are invited to follow the St. John Fisher Youth Instagram Ministry account at sjf_youthministry. Stay connected, grow your faith and be informed!

Congratulatcons to the following children who made their First Holy Communion, Saturday, May 1st

Cora P., Christian B., Owen C., Lydia D., Jamison K., Gianna T., Rory T., and Harrison W.

God Bless them All!!

6^th Sunday of Easter B21

Dreams are very important because they reveal to us our fears, desires, our stresses, our happiness, and occasionally solutions to problems. Dreams are God’s vehicles of revelation in both the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, witness Joseph, he of the many colored coat in Genesis and Joseph in Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus.

The early church was having a crisis dealing with the ethnic and religious tensions that could have been the death knell of Jesus’ command to teach all nations. As more and more Gentiles believed in Jesus, the Jewish disciples were becoming concerned. Jesus was a Jew and believed by them to be the Jewish Messiah. So logic dictated the Gentiles had to enter into the Jewish faith tradition and follow all the Jewish prescriptions especially circumcision and dietary laws. Were they a requirement to be a follower of Jesus? The church in Jerusalem said yes; Paul, however, vehemently disagreed.

Online Mass, Sunday, May 2, 2021

Available as of Saturday, May 1, 4:00PM