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Westerly, Rhode Island

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St. Clare Church 4 Saint Clare Way, Westerly, RI 02891

401-348-8765

NEW PARISHIONERS

Welcome! Please register with the parish by contacting the Parish Office or on our website. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

The schedule for the celebration of Baptism is arranged with the Pastor. (Baptisms are not celebrated during Lent.) Please call the Parish Office after the child is born. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

Confession is offered on Saturdays from 4 to 4:30 PM or by appointment. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY

Couples planning to marry should contact the Marriage Coordinator at 401-348-8765 at least one year before the wedding. MINISTRY TO THE HOMEBOUND

The Eucharist will be brought to the home of any person permanently or temporarily homebound. Please contact the Parish Rectory. PARISH CHOIR

The choir, under the direction of Parish Organist & Music Director Bruce Coon, meets for rehearsal on Thursday nights at 6 PM in the choir loft.

STAFF

Rev. Kenneth J. Suibielski, Pastor

Rev. Mr. Stephen Cote, Deacon

Rev. Mr. John D. McGregor, Deacon

Rev. Mr. Carl LaFleur, Retired Deacon

Mrs. Jennifer O’Connor, Parish Secretary

Ms. Alice Duffy, Campus Manager

Mrs. Diana Huff, Parish Accountant

Mr. Bruce Coon, Music Director

Mrs. Ellie Cote, Marriage Coordinator

Ms. Pamela Salimeno, Religious Education Director

MASS SCHEDULE Weekday Mass: 8 AM

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5 PM Sunday Masses: 8 AM & 10 AM

Holy Days: 8 AM & 6 PM

WATCH HILL CHAPEL Last weekend of June through Sunday of Labor Day

Sunday Mass 8:30 AM ONLY

RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 2 PM

Rectory and Office Phone 401-348-8765 Fax 401-315-5273

[email protected] Website: stclarewesterly.com

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION stclarewesterly.com

Religious Education 2016/2017

Class schedules are available on the Calendar and Education tabs of the St. Clare website, stclarewesterly.com .

Class for Grades 1 - 5

Monday, January 23 & 30 at 6 PM in the Parish Center

Class for Grades 6 & 7

Sunday, January 22 and 29 after the 10 AM Mass in the Parish Center

Confirmation - Grade 8

Sunday, January 22 and 29 after the 10 AM Mass in the lower rectory

Questions? Please contact Pam Salimeno at 401-952-1239.

2017 MARCH FOR LIFE

The Office of Life and Family Ministry is sponsoring a bus trip to Washington, DC for the 44TH Annual March for Life, a peaceful and prayerful march to the U. S. Supreme Court.

The cost for the overnight ride is $80 per person. The bus will be leave Rhode Island on Thursday, January 26, from various locations beginning at 7:30 PM.

This year’s trip will take us to the Verizon Center for the Youth Rally and Mass. There will be confession, Rosary, popular Catholic recording artists, presentations and a Mass for Life.

For more information and to register, call Carol Owens at 401-421-7833 Ext. 218.

New York Bus Trip

May 24, 2017

The show is BANDSTAND. This new show opens in April.

The bus will leave the St. Clare parking lot at 7 AM and will leave Bryant Park,

New York, at 7:30 PM.

Cost for bus and Orchestra seat is $136. Cost for bus ride only $41.

Contact: Jane Holdredge 401 596 5866

Or by email at [email protected]

Cancelled Masses

If a Mass is cancelled due to weather conditions, the mass

intention will be said or included the next day.

Tax Tips

1. If you use E-Giving for your contributions, you can print a

statement at any time that coincides with your bank or credit card

statement.

2. Contributions made for masses booked are not tax deductible.

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Stewardship Mee ng

Monday, January 23, at 6:30 PM in the Parish Center,

not the lower rectory. All are welcome.

Congratulations are offered to Christopher & Katherine Sisco,

on the Baptism of their son,

Benjamin Robert Sisco, who was baptized on January 14, 2017.

We welcome him to the St. Clare

Catholic community.

Columbiettes Auxiliary of Narragansett Council #21

Looking for new members!

The Columbiettes are a group of Catholic women dedicated to our Patroness Saints:

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Teresa, the Little Flower

and St. Joan of Arc.

Columbiettes support our community by donations to local organizations to help families

and individuals in need.

Any Catholic woman from the age of 17 or older is encouraged to join.

For more information, contact Deb Hobba at 401-207-8792

or Dorothea Tedaldi at 401-596-3319.

Mass Time Changes

The Mass schedule for St. Vincent DePaul in Bradford and Our Lady of Victory in Ashaway has changed.

The new schedule,

St. Vincent dePaul Saturday at 5 PM

and Sunday at 9 AM

Our Lady of Victory Saturday at 4 PM

and Sunday at 10 AM

SAVE THE DATE

Sunday, April 30 at 4 PM

Italian Food - Wine Tasting and Silent Auction

The Hospitality Ministry of St. Clare Church

will be hosting an Italian Food and Wine Tasting and Silent Auction. More info about the food and

wine will be coming in a personal letter to each member of the parish.

The Silent Auction is in need of volunteers to donate services or goods for the auction.

The items can be as large as a cruise on a sail boat or as small as a basket of goodies.

If you are interested in making a donation, please contact Cathy Larsh at 401-322-0043, or by email

at [email protected] or Carolyn Longolucco at 401-596-2964, or by email at

[email protected].

Stay Connected!

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St. Clare Stewardship Ministry Corner

• The Stewardship Ministry will meet on Monday, January 23, 2017. Please read Chapter 4, “Witness,” from the

book, Living Your Discipleship: 7 Ways to Express Your Deepest Calling.

• The Prayer Ministry is dedicated to those who request our prayers. To join this ministry or to send a prayer intention, please write in the Book of Intentions near the Baptistry or e-mail [email protected] .

• The Respect Life Ministry seeks to promote and protect the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. The ministry meets the Third Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM from April - November in the

Parish Center. Rosary is said before the 8 AM Mass on the first Friday of every month, weather permitting. All are welcome.

• The Hospitality Ministry provides a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere for members of the St. Clare community and visitors, as well as new parishioners, to meet and interact with one another in a positive way. This ministry provides opportunities to promote parish fellowship and, when necessary, to assist the Pastor with special events. Meetings take place the first Thursday of every month at 8:30 AM in the Parish Center. The next meeting will be on Thursday, February 2. All are welcome.

• The Helping Hands Ministry reaches out to those who are needy, elderly, sick or in need of bereavement consolation. This ministry meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 4 PM in the Parish Center. Enter through the door in the rear parking area. Please feel free to come to these meetings; new faces are always welcome. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 7, 2016.

We will meet on Monday, March 6

at noon in the Parish Center.

We will be discussing 2 books

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

and

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Be sure to bring a bag lunch. All are welcome to join.

2017 Pilgrimage to Ireland September 11 through 20

Join Fr. Ray Suriani and Fr. Brian Sistare

for a pilgrimage to Ireland In the footsteps of St Patrick.

Cost is $3699 and is all inclusive.

If the deposit is paid by February 15, 2017, the cost is reduced to $3499.

Contact Valerie Sistare for more info at [email protected]

Rediscover and Celebrate

It’s still months away, but parish ministers, especially if they are involved in the catechumenate, have their eyes on Lent and the Easter Triduum. Until fairly recent times, the last few days before Easter were shaped by an awareness of the Passion, but the faithful were left to their own devices about how to engage with these mysteries. A thousand years ago, the Easter Vigil as a solemn and central moment of initiation had vanished. By the early 1950s it was a minor moment in parish life, celebrated on Holy Saturday morning, usually with only the priests and a handful of invited guests. Most people understood it as necessary only for blessing the paschal candle and preparing the Easter water. People who were children during World War II sometimes remember that the weekly noontime test of the air-raid sirens on Holy Saturday signaled the end of Lent. Today, of course, we see Holy Saturday as entirely within the paschal fast, and hardly the time for children to be tearing through the plastic grass looking for jelly beans and chocolate eggs. These memories point to a total collapse of the once-central liturgies of the Christian year. This impoverishment of the liturgy was mostly an accident of history. The root cause was the loss of Lent as a time focused on the final formation of catechumens for the Easter sacraments. By 1880, scholars began to piece together a vision of what once had been, and slowly, at first in a handful of monasteries in Europe, pieces of the tradition were rediscovered and celebrated.

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Monday - 1/23/17 Server - G. Schackner

Lector - Trainor Eucharistic Minister Schwager-Schwager

Tuesday - 1/24/17 Server - G. Schackner

Lector - Nolan Eucharistic Minister

Visgilio-Wright

Wednesday - 1/25/17 Server - L. Schackner

Lector - Gordon Eucharistic Minister

Visgilio-Wright

Thursday – 1/26/17 Server - L. Schackner

Lector - LaFleur Eucharistic Minister

Sylvestre-Trainor

Friday - 1/27/17 Server - Slusarczyk Lector - Longolucco

Eucharistic Minister Sylvestre-Trainor

Lay Minister Daily Mass Schedule for January 23 - 27

Altar Server Schedule

Sat. - January 28 - 5 PM CB - Peter Fiore

IB - Sun. –January 29 - 8 AM

CB - Devin Kazarian IB - Brayden Kazarian

Sun. - January 29– 10AM CB - Charles Morrison

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Private Homes A - Barbara Bar tkiewicz

B –Lynn Piola

Nursing Homes WHM –Madeline Whewell

Saturday January 28 5 PM Mass Lectors - Mario Celico & Lorry Sanchez Tabernacle - Eucharist - Jo Schwager Cup 1 - Fred Schwager Cup 2 - Carol Piezzo Baptistry - Eucharist - Betty Britton Cup - Ellie Cote Sunday January 29 8 AM Mass Lectors - Peter Meyer & Claudia Luszcz Tabernacle - Eucharist - Alice Chudecki Cup 1 - Alice Visgilio Cup 2 - Lorraine Devault Baptistry - Eucharist - Bob Sylvestre Cup - Mary Capalbo Sunday January 29 10 AM Mass Lectors - Frances Myszka & Celeste Santilli Tabernacle - Eucharist - June Hartford-Alley Cup 1 - Marianne McGregor Cup 2 - Camilla Gordon Baptistry - Eucharist - Mark Gordon Cup - Sandra Abbott

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Monday, January 23 Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children/St. Vincent, Deacon & Martyr; St. Marianne Cope, Virgin 8:00 AM +Lou Vallone by Bob & Janice Sylvestre Tuesday, January 24 St. Francis de Sales, Bishop & Doctor of the Church 8:00 AM +Carolle Kemp by sister Janice & Ron Gulluscio Wednesday, January 25 The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle 8:00 AM +Norm & Lennie Reeves by Pat & Austin Murphy Thursday, January 26 Saints Timothy & Titus, Bishops 8:00 AM +Timothy R. Crowley by James & Jean Crowley Friday, January 27 St. Angela Merici, Virgin 8:00 AM +Cheryl Mayhew Smith by Angela & Arthur Smith Saturday, January 28 The Vigil of the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 11:30 AM Baptism of Jaxson William Blum 5:00 PM +Mary & Willard Drummond by their daughter Carol Sunday, January 29 The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 AM In Gratitude of Mr. & Mrs. Doug LaFleur & Family by Deacon Carl LaFleur 10:00 AM +Louis Stefanski by John & Anna Maria Streips 11:15 AM Baptism of Giuliana Margaret Giordano

Monday: Heb 9:15, 24-28; Ps 98:1-6; Mk 3:22-30, Tuesday: Heb 10:1-10; Ps 40:2, 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 Thursday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 4:21-35 Friday: Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Zep 2:3; 3:12-13; Ps 146:6-10; 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12a