This Week's News Bulletin
Food & Essentials Drive-- the Need Continues!
Food & Essentials Drive for Neighbor to Neighbor Continues!
Due to the huge and growing need, the Social Justice Committee of the Parish of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Agnes is continuing to help Neighbor to Neighbor by collecting food and other living essentials in a no contact format. Until further notice, 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 to 11:00 AM. Please drop your bagged grocery donations in the trunk, and we will take them to Neighbor to Neighbor. Donations can also be dropped at the Sign-in table at Saturday, Sunday or Daily Mass at St. Agnes.
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,sanitary products, cleaning products, etc.
Thanks to all who continue to contribute generously. The need is much greater than ever!
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Worship Offerings: Mass Schedule and Attendance Sign-up
Our Mass Schedule, Attendance Guidelines / Directions and SignUpGenius link are posted here on the top right of the Home Page of our website (www.stc-sta.org).
Please note: Per guidelines from Bishop Caggiano, everyone must sign-up in advance to attend weekend Mass in person.
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.
Mass Scheduling and Safety Procedures During the Pandemic
There have been questions about why our Mass schedule is as it is and why it changes at times. Unlike many public places, including some churches, we are thorough and meticulous in sanitizing--it takes us 1 ½ hours between each of the services. We sanitize from top to bottom - including bathrooms and door handles. We are sorry if the Mass schedule changes are a temporary inconvenience, but Fr. Platt’s major concern since the beginning of this pandemic has been his parishioners’ safety. Our parish was the first to begin to cancel Masses and functions (Confirmation), even before a national or diocesan mandate. Fr. Platt has seen people die from COVID-19 before their time, and it’s a terrible way to die. He is committed to not have one of his parishioners die in that manner if he can help it. Please pardon the temporary inconvenience of changes in the Mass schedule.
Our goal is that we can all worship in a safe environment. Thank you for your patience with our reduced Mass schedule and for your understanding and support.
Some helpful information from the CDC website:
- The virus that causes COVID-19 most commonly spreads between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet, or 2 arm lengths).
- It spreads through respiratory droplets or small particles, such as those in aerosols, produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes.
- These particles can be inhaled into the nose, mouth, airways, and lungs and cause infection. This is thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
- Droplets can also land on surfaces and objects and be transferred by touch. A person may get COVID-19 by touching the surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or eyes. Spread from touching surfaces is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
- It is possible that COVID-19 may spread through the droplets and airborne particles that are formed when a person who has COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes. There is growing evidence that droplets and airborne particles can remain suspended in the air and be breathed in by others, and travel distances beyond 6 feet (for example, during choir practice, in restaurants, or in fitness classes). In general, indoor environments without good ventilation increase this risk.
COVID-19 seems to be spreading easily and sustainably in the community (“community spread”) in many affected geographic areas. Community spread means people have been infected with the virus in an area, including some who are not sure how or where they became infected.
Virtual Music Celebrations: View Recordings Here
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.
Click Here to enjoy our (July 2020) Traditional "Quarantine" Choir & Flute Virtual Recording:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, J. S. Bach
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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