If you would like to submit a 2024 MASS INTENTIONS request, please download the form on our website (link here), mail or drop-off in the office, leave a check with the form, and make sure that your e-mail and phone number is included (and legible).  For MASS CARDS, please visit or call the Office to provide all information and set the date; if necessary, we will leave 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!

Upcoming Meetings

Sept 12: “Top 5 Insights on Your Job Search” - Jim Daly
Oct 10: “Networking - Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Try” - Mark Troncone
Nov. 14: “The Inside Scoop from HR Leaders” - Michelle Bucaria and Marcella Mihanovich
Dec 12: “Personal Branding” - Ann Whelehan Smego
Jan. 9: “LinkedIn - How to Get Noticed” - Gretchen Johnson

All Meetings are from 7:00 pm to 8:15pm on a Thursday evening, via Zoom

  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, or may be left in the vestibule.

Some people have invited guests at parties to bring food donations in lieu of presents— truly a gift!

New knitted hats and scarves are collected throughout the cold months and are gratefully received.

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.

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!

An Opportunity to Serve the Hungry

Our parish has teams that serve and provide food for the soup kitchen in Stamford about 10 times each year on Sundays. New parishioners are very welcome to visit and/or join a service team. Pam Sloane, Cyndy Pullick and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. are the captains of their teams.

We serve on Sundays between 11:30AM to 1:30PM. The mission is to feed the hungry.
We serve about 100 guests each Sunday.

For more information, please contact Pam, Cyndy or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. through the Parish Office. This is a mission that makes a difference and gives those who participate an important way to contribute to our needy and hungry neighbors.

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  To view Pastoral Letter from Fr. Platt, CLICK HERE.  

  CLICK HERE to view Pastoral Plan for the Parish.  

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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.

Watch and listen to recently released videos from our Music Director, Dr. Liya Petrides, below.
You can also find the links to the videos on our Music Ministry page by clicking here.

 Ave Maria (moonlight prayer) by Ludwig van Beethoven/Alexander Dmitriev
featuring
Liya Petrides, soprano & Alla Borzova, piano

To watch, click here now:

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 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 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. 

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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