Worship Offerings: New OUTDOOR and Livestream, starting May 31
Livestreamed and NOW In-Person!
Announcing our new Outdoor Mass and new Online Live Platform
We have made plans for the first phase of opening up the Parish. Mass will be celebrated following the posted schedule, however, the obligation to attend Mass in person continues to be dispensed. We will be adding an outdoor Mass at our St. Agnes campus on Sunday mornings, starting May 31. Per state guidelines, we can only gather 40 people at a time for Mass, so it is necessary to sign-up for attending Mass in person.
Please find the Mass Schedule, Attendance Guidelines and SignUpGenius link on the Home Page of our website at:
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We are also excited to be Livestreaming our Masses via our new, professionally produced platform, LocalLive. Starting May 31, we will no longer be using ZOOM and our Masses will be broadcast live from the newly installed cameras in our St. Catherine of Siena Church. You will find the link to our Livestream Masses at the link below and on the Home Page of our website. Once on our LocalLive landing page, click the “Watch” button for the Mass you would like to view. Please note that our new Outdoor Mass on our St. Agnes Campus will NOT be livestreamed for viewing online.
VIEW THE LIVE STREAM (when scheduled) HERE
View / Print Sunday Worship Aid with Music here (or on Home page of website).
Pray the Holy Spirit Novena: through May 31
To celebrate Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church, we are going to pray the Holy Spirit Novena through May 31st. It is a powerful and moving novena that is meant to help us open ourselves up to the third person of the Holy Trinity. Even though we pray this novena as a preparation for the feast of Pentecost, you can also pray a novena to the Holy Spirit any time that you want. So, let us pray with great confidence and trust in our God who is all Good and Loving.
Find/click the novena prayers at this link (https://www.praymorenovenas.com/novena-to-the-holy-spirit) for the Novena to the Holy Spirit that we will be praying together for Pentecost.
NeedUndies Campaign: through May 31
For the past several years our Social Justice Committee has sponsored Undies Sunday in May. We are going to do the same this year, electronically, because the need for new underwear for struggling families and people is great and continues to grow.
Please consider either making a donation to the NeedUndies campaign, https://needundies.givesmart.com, or purchasing a pack of underwear from our Amazon Wish List (here) that could be delivered directly to the Undies Project. 100% of donations from NeedUndies will be used to purchase underwear. Thank you for your generosity!
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP Resumes on Zoom: June 3
The Universal Christ,
by Richard Rohr
Please join us if you have the book. Our next meeting is:
June 3, 7:00-8:00 PM
Chapters 14 & 15
via Zoom link here
Contact Lori Wilson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.for questions and information.
No-Contact Food Drive: Starts May 26
No-Contact Food Drive: 2 Ways to Help
The Social Justice Committee of the Parish of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Agnes will be helping Neighbor to Neighbor in their growing need by collecting food in a no contact format. Starting on May 26 there will be a car or SUV with an open trunk in the parking lot across from St. Catherine’s church on Tuesdays from 9:00 AM to Noon. Please drop your bagged grocery donations in the trunk, and we will take them to Neighbor to Neighbor.
Items Needed:
Peanut Butter and Jelly, Oatmeal
Canned Meats (Chicken, Chili, Vienna Sausages, Chef Boyardi Ravioli)
Tuna Canned Fruit Black or red kidney beans (dried or canned)
Cereal. Rice. Soup. Brown paper grocery bags
We are also asking for donations towards food gift cards to Stop-N-Shop or Shop Rite. Please only mail donation checks to the Parish Office made out to
“The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Agnes” with “Food Gift Cards” in the Memo line.
Thank you for your generosity!
Save the Date: Dinner with a Cause--June 17
SAVE THE DATE
Dinner with a Cause
"Hope for Haiti"
June 17, 2020: 7:00 PM
Details to come.
Join Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/99112279003
Congratulations to Fr. Philip Pitya
Congratulations to Fr. Philip Pitya!
On May 19, 2020, Fr. Philip Pitya celebrated 50 years of priesthood!
He was well loved by the parishioners of St. Agnes when he lived among them.
They can send hello greetings at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Supporting your Parish Gets Easier with Text-to-Give!
Online Giving (OLG) and Automatic Electronic Giving (AEG) are simple ways to make your Offertory donations with your VISA, MasterCard, American Express credit cards or by Check. Now, our new, convenient Text-to-Give enhancement feature for OLG users provides you an even easier way to give to our collections. You can now text any amount to our parish-specific number: 203-633-7524 to donate to our regular Offering (default Fund)—special collection fund donation options coming soon. Simply follow the prompt instructions to complete your text transactions!
Please visit our parish website: www.stc-sta.org/giving/online-giving or contact the Business Office for further details on our Online Giving program.
Update on Giving
Sunday Offertory
(for the last four weekends)
May 2 & 3 SC & SA .....................……....$17,692*
Easter Collection ………................….....$1,075
Special Donations ……................….....$1,420**
May 9 & 10 SC & SA ..................……....$12,640*
Easter Collection ………................….....$2,050
Special Donations ……..................…...$1,396**
May 16 & 17 SC & SA .................……....$12,163*
Easter Collection ………..................….....$100
May 23 & 24 SC & SA ….................…....$11,135*
Easter Collection ……..................………...$50
Special Donations …….................…...$1,100**
*Offertory includes Monthly, Annual (AEG) and Online Giving (OLG).
**Special Donations to Parish for help with ongoing Operating Budget
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If you are able, please continue to support the work of the parish financially by either signing up for Online Giving HERE or mailing in your weekly donations.
Favorite Pix of the Week
Share your Pix for our Pews
Share Your Pictures for our Pews!
A huge thanks goes to Liz Peldunas for organizing the collection of parishioner photos we’ve had posted in the pews at St. Catherine’s since Easter Sunday! If you haven’t already joined us there, we invite you to help our virtual parish community continue grow by printing an 8” x 10” picture of yourself/family, identifying yourselves the front/bottom and mailing or dropping it into the milk crate box (only—NOT the mailbox) on the stoop of the Rectory. Filling the church in spirit with your smiling faces is an amazing inspiration to all those celebrating here in isolation. . . Join us today!
PARISH Partners offers Hotline & Daily Prayer
Offering You:
PARISH PARTNERS HOTLINE
ALL PARISHIONERS IF YOU NEED TO TALK, CONTACT PARISH PARTNERS HOTLINE:
203-637-3661 EXT 375
MESSAGES CHECKED DAILY
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PARISH PARTNERS IN PRAYER
LET US ALL JOIN IN PRAYER. . . WE ARE PRAYING NOW SILENTLY, WHEREVER WE ARE
8:00 AM and 8:00 PM
Spiritual Direction: Available Now via ZOOM
Our Sacred Space (until further notice)
In order to protect everyone’s health and well-being, all worship spaces at both of our campuses are locked and all staff are working from home. We have created a sacred space on our St. Catherine's campus in the vestibule of our Chapel to be viewed from outside.
We have also moved Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to this sacred space. You might want to say this prayer while you are visiting this space:
Spiritual Communion Prayer
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there, and unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.
Vatican II Revisited: Series Parts 1-6 (Final)
not just for the 20th century, but for this new millennium as well
On January 25, 1959, Pope St. John the XXIII announced to everyone’s astonishment, his intention of convoking an ecumenical Council!! But what would this Council do? Read more here. . .
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