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Saint Michael Church
Est. 1889
The First Italian Parish In Connecticut
Pastor: Rev. Robert P. Roy
Deacon: Norman Singer
Parish Office
9:00am - 1:00pm Monday - Friday
203-562-7178
203-752-0157 fax
smc1889@att.net
stmichaelwoostersquare.org
Weekday and Weekend Masses
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 8:00am
Saturday vigil—4:00 p.m. Sunday—9:30 a.m.
No mass on Wednesday’s (only during Lent)
Holy Days: 8:00am, 12:10pm, 5:30pm
Confessions: Saturday 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Our Mission Statement
Our parish is open to all people who seek to give
glory to God through the centrality of Jesus Christ in
the Eucharist and in sharing the gifts and traditions
of the Roman Catholic faith. Enlivened by the Holy
Spirit, we strive to create a vibrant, welcoming faith
community for worship, education and outreach to
our neighbors, community, and the Southern Italian
Religious Societies through the Lordship of our
Savior Jesus Christ.
29 Wooster Place, New Haven, CT
The Church of Saint Michael New Haven, Connecticut
Easter Sunday
Resurrection of the Lord
April 4, 2021
The Resurrection was too much for the disciples to take in.
Saturday, April 3rd, Vigil of the Resurrection of They were disoriented by terror, by wonder, and by joy.
the Lord What could be the same if even death itself is unreliable?
8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mary thinks Jesus is the gardener, but when he speaks her
Sunday, April 4th, Easter Sunday name, she melts. “the sheep follow him, because they
9:30 a.m. - Community Mass recognize his voice”. Like the lover of the Song of Songs,
Monday, April 5th, Easter Weekday her joy soon shivers int uncertainty when she moves to
8:00 a.m. – John Connelly, req. by Scoppetto family embrace hm and hi is changed. “do not hold onto me,” he
says. What? Jesus asks Mary to adopt new ways of seeing
Tuesday, April 6th, Easter Weekday and touching him, to know him in a new way, in spirit. But
8:00 a.m. - Lucy Sasso, req. by Maryann we learn the ways of spirit clumsily; like learning to write
Jenczewski & daughters Mary Ann & Karen the opposite hand, it means unlearning the old way. This
Wednesday, April 7th, Easter Weekday bizarre experience of knowing but not knowing emerges in
8:00 a.m. - NO MASS an odd line from the later story of the lakeshore breakfast:
Thursday, April 8th, Easter Weekday “None of the disciples dared to ask him, ‘Who are you?’
8:00 a.m.– because they realize it was the Lord”.
Friday, April 9th, Easter Weekday
8:00 a.m. - Resurrection is more than a new phase of the old life. Jesus
Saturday, April 10th, Vigil of the Lord’s Day invites followers to rise with him into a strange, upside-
4:00 p.m. - Vincent D’Urso, req. by Nick & Therese down world where apparent irreversible are reversed: life
Incarnato defeats death, love trumps evil, weakness means power,
humility wis out, last come first, and “nothing will be
Sunday, April 11th, Easter Sunday
impossible for God”.
9:30 a.m. - Andrew & Josephine Gargano, req. by
Frank Gargano Keeping this in focus demands an attitude of prayerful
concentration like contemplation. The Letter to the
Colossians urges believers to “think of what is above.” This
Sanctuary Lamp means into just having an idea but practicing habitual
patterns of thinking. The marvelous news of Resurrection
Sunday, April 4, 2021 announces itself only to those who return repeatedly to
In Memory of question, ponder, and insist on understanding such
Steve Valente statements as “you have died,” “your life is hidden with
Christ in God,” and “you also will be revealed with him in
glory.” Members of the Christian community who listen
In remembrance of those who died, intently and often this message of Jesus’ life gradually lean
Nancy Ianuzzi to live the resurrection a s a fact of life.
May she rest in peace.
Colossians 3:1-4 also is meant as a guide for community
life. Each “you” is plural. Reread 3:14 from the plural
perspective. What might “what is above” and “what is on
earth” mean for life in a community of faith.
Weekend of March 28, 2021
Weekly Collection $ 2521.00 Readings for the week of April 4, 2021
Two Collections This Week Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4 or
Weekly Collection 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; Jn 20:1-9 or Mark 16:1-7 or
Easter Gift & Monthly Collection Luke 24:13-35
Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Matthew 28:8-15
One Collection Next Week Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; John 20:11-18
Weekly Collection Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Luke 24:13-35
Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Luke 24:35-48
Friday: Acts 4:1-12; John 21:1-14
Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Mark 16:9-15
Easter Sunday April 4, 2021
ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL From the Twitter Account of
Pope Francis
Heavenly Father,
we thank you for the many blessings you daily During these days, the Church
bestow on us even in the midst of the trials and enters into the great meditation of
sufferings of a pandemic. the Lord's Passion. The suffering
Your goodness is without measure, Christ is present in the person of
and your providence exceeds all that we the poor, the excluded, the sick, the
could ask or imagine. hungry, those who bear the
We ask you to look kindly upon this year’s mystery of the cross with Him.
Archbishop’s Annual Appeal,
“Reaching Out, Healing Together.”
Open our eyes to the spiritual and material needs of
others. Open our hearts to respond generously.
May the divine mercy that fills the Sacred Heart of Question of the Week
Jesus move us to give of ourselves
What cross do I find difficult to shoulder myself?
and what we have Whose burden have I been unwilling to share? How
as generously as we have received from You. can I help someone else and/or allow myself to be
May those who suffer in any way as a result of the helped?
coronavirus be assisted and comforted by the
ministry of the Church
and the good works supported by the appeal,
and may the efforts to eradicate this disease prove
successful with your blessing. VOCATION REFLECTIONS
We make our prayer in the name of the
healer of souls and bodies, Sunday, April 4, Easter Sunday
Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen. He is Risen! Alleluia! Are you being called to
proclaim the Good News as a priest? Come and see.
Contact Father Michael Casey, Director of Vocations,
860-761-7456, email vocations@aohct.org, or visit the
web at hartfordpriest.com.
Food Bank – Each week there is a box in the rectory
entrance to receive donations of non-perishable foods
that are brought to the Saint Ann Church Food Bank
in Hamden. (PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE OPEN
AND EXPIRED FOOD). Your donation of these
items are appreciated greatly by those who receive Please mail me/us a registration form for Saint
them. Please consider bringing one or two non- Michael Church
perishable items per month as a way of fulfilling the
Corporal Work of Mercy, To Feed the Hungry. Name _________________________________
Address _______________________________
___________________________________
On Line Giving
Telephone No.____________________________
Realizing that the Coronavirus has affected us in
many ways, even financially, I would like to express
my sincere appreciation and gratitude to all the Send this request to:
parishioners of St. Michaels’s Church who have Saint Michael Church Office:
remembered St. Michael financially by mailing or 29 Wooster Place
dropping off your weekly envelopes. We now offer New Haven, CT 06511
on-line giving through our website, Or place in offertory basket.
StMichaelWoosterSquare.org, under the Parish Life
tab.
Easter Sunday
The Resurrection
of the Lord
April 4, 2021
What is Easter?
The Easter Vigil is the “Mother of All Vigils.” Easter
Sunday, then, is the greatest of all Sundays, and Easter
Time is the most important of all liturgical times. Easter
is the celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection from the
dead, culminating in his Ascension to the Father and
sending of the Holy Spirit upon the Church. There are 50
days of Easter from the first Sunday of Easter to
Pentecost. It is characterized, above all, by the joy of
glorified life and the victory over death, expressed most
fully in the great resounding cry of the Christian, Allelu-
ia! All faith flows from faith in the Resurrection: “If
Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our
preaching; empty, too, is your faith” (1 Cor 15:14).
“What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies. And
what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare
kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind; . . . So
also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible;
it is raised incorruptible. It is sown dishonorable; it is
raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. It is
sown a natural body; it “Easter is the celebration of the
Lord’s Resurrection from the dead, culminating his
Ascension to the Father and sending of the Holy Spirit
upon the Church.” is raised a spiritual body. If there is a
natural body, there is also a spiritual one. So, too, it is
written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living being,’
the last Adam a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was
not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual. The first
man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from
heaven. As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly,
and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly. Just
as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly one” (1 Cor 15:36-
37, 42-49).
The Octave of Easter comprises the eight days, which
stretch from the first Sunday of Easter to the Second
Sunday of Easter. It is a way of prolonging the joy of the
initial day. In a sense, every day of the Octave is like a
little Sunday.
The word “Easter” comes from Old English, meaning
simply the “east.” The sun that rises in the east, bringing
light, warmth, and hope, is a symbol for the Christian of
the rising Christ, who is the true Light of the world. The
Paschal Candle is a central symbol of this divine light,
which is Christ. It is kept near the ambo throughout
Easter Time and is lit for all liturgical celebrations.
Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised
edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,
Washington, DC, and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All
rights reserved. No part of the New American Bible, revised edition, may be
reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright
owner.
Copyright © 2021, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,
Washington, DC. All rights reserved.
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