Special Mass cards for Father’s Day weekend Masses are now available. These cards may be given to fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers, godfathers, uncles, or any special man you would like to recognize on Father’s Day. Memorial envelopes for those who are deceased are also available. Baskets with these cards and the memorial envelopes are available at both exits. Please return your donation in the intention envelope.

JUNE 12TH AND 13TH

Please mark your calendars:  Our monthly Food Drive is the 2nd full weekend of every month.

Suggested donations: Cereal, oatmeal, hearty canned soups, baking supplies, canned meats, canned fruits and toiletries. Please check that the "Best By" dates have not been exceeded; otherwise, the Food Bank will need to dispose of them. The Food Bank does not distribute overthecounter medicines for either adults or children, and so we cannot accept donations of these items. 
For the Home Goods Room: Used items in good condition such as pots and pans, towels, pillowcases, sheets (especially queen), lamps and new bed pillows. 

Thank you for assisting our brothers and sisters in Christ. Please keep all those impacted by hunger in your prayers.

Peter began to say to Jesus “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said “Amen I say to you no one has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake or the sake of the Gospel that who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age.” (Mark 10:28-30) Jesus asks nothing less than everything from us to make room for that which is better. What are you willing to give up today to make room for more peace? To make room for more justice? To make room for more love?

Father Sas, Homily

Mass ~ The Most Holy Trinity ~ May 30, 2021
Available as of May 29, 4:00PM

Trinity Sunday 2021

Can anyone tell me what we are celebrating today? (There are three persons in one God.) Can anyone go further? (It’s a mystery.) That’s it, end of discussion. At the Gregorian University in Rome I endured a required course on the Trinity. Our Latin textbook, written by the Jesuit professor, was 800+ pages long. At the end of the course, the Trinity was still a mystery to me, my classmates- and the professor.

Last week we celebrated the end of the Easer season with Pentecost where the gifts of the Holy Spirit fortified the apostles to go out and spread the gospel.  These same gifts fortify us to go out into the world today and spread God’s light.  Each week we will focus on a different gift and provide you conversation starters or activities for you and your family to share at home.  These are amazing gifts – let’s be sure we open them up and utilize them to grow closer to God by becoming the person he created us to be!

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.