Notice to All Office Visitors
At this time, we would like to continue to limit the traffic in the Rectory due to the continued high level of Covid-19 cases in our community. If you would like to submit a 2023 MASS INTENTIONS request, please download the form on our website (link here), mail or drop-off in mail crate on Rectory stoop, leave a check with the form, and make sure that your e-mail and phone number is Included (and legible). For MASS CARDS, please call the Office to provide all information and set the date; we will then put the MASS CARDS outside in the mail crate with the name—payment can be left in the crate when cards are picked up.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP & COOPERATION!
Advent Worship Special Events Schedule
St. Catherine's Players Auditions: December 7 & 8
Advent Scriptural Rosary: December 8
St Catherine's Support Circle Meeting: December 8
Giving Tree is Back: Deadline December 18
Sounds of Christmas Concert: December 18
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Food & Essentials Drive-- the Need Continues!
Food & Essentials Drive for Neighbor to Neighbor Continues!
Please continue to be generous in your donations to Neighbor-to-Neighbor of non-perishable foods and personal care items. Our drives at St. Catherine’s continue every Tuesday from 9:00 - 11:00 AM as does the need!
Each week, donations can be dropped-off in the parking area across the street from the Rectory. Please drop your bagged grocery donations in the trunk, and we will take them to Neighbor to Neighbor. Or, if more convenient, drop-off your donations in the church vestibule and leave them on the steps.
Some people have invited guests at parties to bring food donations in lieu of presents— truly a gift!
Food 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
Non-Food Items Needed (which cannot be purchased with food stamps):
Brown paper grocery bags, toilet paper, paper towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, sanitary products, cleaning products, etc.
New hats and scarves are being knitted and collected as part of our donations as winter approaches.
Empty egg cartons can also be donated again to help with the distribution of eggs to individual families.
Please Note:
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 100 Riverside Ave, also collects these items for Neighbor to Neighbor on Thursdays, from 10:00 -11:30 AM in their parking area.
Visit https://www.ntngreenwich.org for details on how your donations are helping!
Thank you to ALL for your ongoing dedication to this critical mission!
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Youth Faith Formation Program
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Join our Choirs!
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2023 Mass Intentions Book Open Now
Hispanic Ministry of Greenwich: Schedule Update
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New Day Bereavement Programs: Fall Schedule
Synod Report Available Now
Thank you to all who participated in our parish Synod which was requested by Pope Francis. The final report has been sent to Bishop Caggiano’s office and will be included with reports submitted by other parishes in the Diocese. The report submitted on behalf of our parish can be viewed by CLICKING HERE.
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Worship Schedule Update
SACRAMENTAL SCHEDULE
Update
Our Mass Schedule and Attendance Guidelines are posted here on the top right of the Home Page of our website: www.stc-sta.org
A Note from our LIVESTREAM Mass Provider, LocalLive:
In order to view Masses appropriately, we recommend using Google Chrome or Firefox as your Internet Browser. Using Safari is hit or miss and Internet Explorer almost never works with our player. We will keep you updated on any changes on our Browser availability.
Music Videos Posted for Viewing
Watch and listen to the recently released videos of our Music Director, Dr. Liya Petrides, singing and playing the Moller organ at St. Catherine's Church now!
You can find the links to the videos on our Music Ministry page by clicking here.
Concert Under the Tent August 8, 2021: View Recordings
Click on links below to view recordings:
1. Richard Smallwood Total Praise - https://youtu.be/qoqP6qgVOFY
2. Capua O Sole Mio - https://youtu.be/c8wY5uI7Y5g
3. Curtis Torna a Surriento - https://youtu.be/EtcQBHONGq8
4. Verdi Va Pensiero - https://youtu.be/fbGsYZhfllg
5. Mozart Papagena, Papagena - https://youtu.be/ELPm-L7Nzr8
6. Lara Granada - https://youtu.be/q5VYKqfhDzg
7. Gardel Por Una Cabeza -https://youtu.be/iGlI-RqqYLk
8. Faure Cantique - https://youtu.be/DDnSj_ThVqc
9. Massenet Memorare - https://youtu.be/5JmjouxOsqQ
10. Debussy Lia’s Recitative and Aria - https://youtu.be/lAc0N_o2i0k
11. Faure Apres un reve - https://youtu.be/l_ZoRrMphjE
12. Paulus Road Home - https://youtu.be/psVOe0CCLYY
13. Dvorak - Songs My Mother Taught Me - https://youtu.be/a9MvGE4LZss
14. Schumann Er, der Herlichste von Allen - https://youtu.be/2g_Osyh531A
15. Scallon Lady of Knock - https://youtu.be/nsQdWgYaAHA
16. Danny Boy - https://youtu.be/QrxhAbwOMbM
17. Berlin God Bless America - https://youtu.be/lyb0Xo2Qh1w
Virtual Music Celebrations: View Recordings Here
“Virtual Choir” Premiere:
Gabriel Faure, Requiem,VI. Libera Me, Domine
Click here to enjoy the virtual recording.
Click Here to enjoy our (July 2020) Traditional "Quarantine" Choir & Flute Virtual Recording:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, J. S. Bach
Find the Livestream (December 13, 2020) recording here and the Worship Aid here.
Find the Livestream (December 8, 2020) recording here and the Worship Aid here.
Deacon Robert Henrey's Presentation Series: How the West came to Encounter the East
Deacon Robert Henrey presents a new Spring series via Zoom
How the West came to Encounter the East
In his latest series of illustrated presentations, Robert’s goal was to share his interest in Asian cultures, their histories, religious traditions and languages– an interest stimulated thanks to several years living and working in South East Asia and to ongoing opportunities for professional contacts, travel and study. He describes the process whereby adventurers, traders and scholarly missionaries brought back home a growing awareness of the richness they had encountered.
April 28 - Part One: Early Days: from Ancient World Traders and Medieval Adventures to the Age of Sail
--Click here to view April 28 recording.
May 12 - Part Two: India prior to the Arrival of the Portuguese: a rich religious and linguistic inheritance with Hindus, Arabs and Persians at the crossroads
--Click here to view May 12 recording.
May 26 - Part Three: The Portuguese Century of Discovery, early Missions and the aftermath of cutthroat competition among European Traders
--Click here to view May 26 recording.
June 2 - Part Four: The Rise and Fall of the Mughals and how rival Europeans stepped into the void, and in the process became aware of India’s great cultural richness
--Click here to view June 2 recording.
The Fall Series will continue with the story of how the Portuguese made early inroads into both Japan and China thanks in large part to the remarkable achievements of Jesuit missionaries – with dramatically different and unforeseen outcomes. The presentations will also address how East and West gradually became aware of their each other’s cultures leading to our increasingly interconnected world.
Deacon Robert Henrey's Presentation Series--The Ancient Near East: Land of Babel
In Case you missed it:
Deacon Robert Henrey presented his four part series. . .
In this series of presentations, Robert Henrey shared his interest in the highly diverse historical and cultural environments that characterized the Ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean world. He set out to give an overview of the events that made it possible for narratives and traditions to develop, especially those underlying the scriptures, and be eventually recorded thereby ensuring their transmission down the generations. It’s a fascinating story and one that is relevant to our contemporary world as we cope with our overarching need to communicate with each other, and at the same time, balance the pursuit for national identity with the forces of globalization. Despite their complexity, Robert attempted to present the events as straightforwardly and engagingly as possible, with each presentation fully illustrated with on-screen, relative graphics.
November 18:
Part 4: The challenge of Transmitting Tradition to Posterity: The rise of Roman power; Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew at the crossroads and the saga of how the Hebrew and Christian scriptures eventually came to be recorded
--Click here to view November 18 recording
November 11:
Part 3: Conflicts between Identity and competing World Views: Cyrus’ Persian Empire, the post-Exilic quest for identity, Alexander the Great’s universal dream and the adaptation of the Hebrew scriptures to a Hellenized world
--Click here to view November 11 recording
October 18- Part 2: Empires, Alphabets and Exile: The rise of Mesopotamian Empires, the powerful innovation of alphabetic writing, and the spread of Aramaic up to the Jewish Exile
--Click here to view October 18 recording
October 4- Part 1: The Origins of Writing and Narrative:
The development of writing from its Mesopotamian cuneiform origins to a medium fit for transmitting codes of conduct and pre-Biblical narratives
—Click here to view October 4 recording
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