Parish Mass Times
Sunday Vigil Mass Saturday: 4:30 PM
Sunday 8:30 AM, 10:00 AM, 11:30 AM (Polish) and 5:30 PM
Weekdays
Monday: Novena with Mass at 7:00 PM
Tuesday: Morning Mass at 7:00 AM in English
Wednesday: Novena with Mass at 7:00 PM in Polish
Thursday: Morning Mass at 7:00 AM in English
Friday: Morning Mass at 7:00 AM in English
Saturday: Morning Mass at 8:00 AM in English
First Friday: 7:00 AM Mass in English followed by the Litany to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
7:00 PM Mass with Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Every Monday (Rosary at 6:45 PM) in English.
7:00 PM Mass with Novena to our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Every Wednesday (Rosary at 6:45 PM) in Polish.
Divine Mercy Devotions: Every third Sunday at 3:00 PM – Be sure to check the bulletin for more information.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Confession is heard before Weekday Mass and on Saturdays at 3:30 PM
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2024
CONFESSIONS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024
6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2024
6:00 pm in St. Joseph’s Church, Ansonia
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2024
6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
MASS SCHEDULE
CHRISTMAS EVE VIGIL MASSES
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
4:30 pm Vigil Mass (English)
12:00 Midnight Mass (Polish)
CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
Please note times of Masses.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
8:00 am Mass (English)
10:00 am Mass (English)
11:30 am Mass (Polish)
NO 5:30 PM MASS
NO 7:00 PM MASS & NOVENA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2024
St. STEPHEN FEAST DAY
7:00 am Mass (English)
7:00 pm Mass (Polish)
In Polish tradition, this Feast Day is an official holiday to commemorate the Saint who was the first Christian Martyr, known for serving the poor and needy.
NEW YEAR’S – JANUARY 1, 2025
Solemnity of Mary – Holy Mother of God
NEW YEAR’S EVE, TUES., DEC. 31, 2024
7:00 am (English Mass of the day 12/31)
7:00 pm (Polish Vigil Mass for New Years)
NEW YEAR’S DAY, WED., JAN. 1,2025
9:00 am (English)
7:00 pm (Polish)
Kalendarz Świąteczny 2024
Sakrament Spowiedzi
Poniedziałek, 16 Grudnia
18:00 do 18:45
Wtorek, 17 Grudnia
18:00 – w kościele św. Józefa w Ansonii
Środa, 18 Grudnia
18:00 do 20:00
PONIEDZIAŁEK, 23 GRUDNIA
18:00 do 18.45
Program Mszy Świętych
WTOREK, 24 Grudnia 2024
16:30 Msza Wigilijna (po angielsku)
24:00 Pasterka (po polsku)
Boże Narodzenie
ŚRODA, 25 Grudnia 2024
8:00 Msza Św. (po angielsku)
10:00 Msza Św. (po angielsku)
11:30 Msza Św. (po polsku)
( nie ma Mszy św. o godz 17:30 i 19:00)
CZWARTEK, Św. Szczepana 26 Grudnia
7:00 Msza Św. (po angielsku)
19:00 Msza Św.(po polsku)
Św. Sylwestra, WTOREK 31 Grudnia
7:00 Msza św. (po angielsku)
19:00 Msza św. wigilijna (po polsku)
Nowy Rok 2025 – Uroczystość Maryi – Świętej Bożej Rodzicielki
ŚRODA 1 Stycznia 2025
9:00 MSZA Św. (po angielsku)
19:00 Msza ŚW. (po polsku)
CELEBRATION OF THE MASS – Live Stream Schedule
We are now everywhere you are!
Join us, virtually, as we Celebrate the Holy Mass:
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
Saturday, 07December2024 – 4:30PM
Note that all Live Streamed Masses are available afterwards so you can view them at your convenience)
The Masses will be live streamed on Facebook. Please stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates.
God bless you all! We continue to pray for you.
Deacon Bob
St. Michael’s Church Facebook Page
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
When we attend Mass and celebrate the Eucharist we hear the priest say, Do This in Memory of Me. These words were first spoken at the Last Supper by Jesus the night before he suffered and died on the cross, offering the ultimate sacrifice. In the Eucharist Jesus gives us the gift of Himself – body and blood, soul and divinity – so that with St. Paul we too can say “yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me.” We are called to imitate what we celebrate. As Christ has done, so must we do.
Do This in Memory of Me is therefore a fitting theme of the 2024
Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. Our “gift of self” in imitation of Christ means that we are following His command to love our neighbor and to make our own sacrifices for those in spiritual and material need.
The 2024 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal presents a unique opportunity to combine all of our individual sacrificial gifts in order to accomplish even more together as one family of faith.
I invite you to share generously the time, talent, and treasure that God has bestowed on you, so that together we can enrich, nurture, and foster the spiritual and material well-being of individuals, families, and communities throughout Hartford, New Haven, and Litchfield Counties.
Please review this brochure which illustrates some of the many ways that Do This in Memory of Me inspires the life and outreach of the Church in our local parishes and communities.
God bless you.
The Most Reverend Leonard P. Blair
Archbishop of Hartford
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December 11
Saint Damasus I
Saint Damasus I’s Story
To his secretary Saint Jerome, Damasus was “an incomparable person, learned in the Scriptures, a virgin doctor of the virgin Church, who loved chastity and heard its praises with pleasure.” Damasus seldom heard such unrestrained praise. Internal political struggles, doctrinal heresies, uneasy relations with his fellow bishops and those of the Eastern Church marred the peace of his pontificate.
The son of a Roman priest, possibly of Spanish extraction, Damasus started as a deacon in his father’s church, and served as a priest in what later became the basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome. He served Pope Liberius (352-366) and followed him into exile.
When Liberius died, Damasus was elected bishop of Rome; but a minority elected and consecrated another deacon, Ursinus, as pope. The controversy between Damasus and the antipope resulted in violent battles in two basilicas, scandalizing the bishops of Italy. At the synod that Damasus called on the occasion of his birthday, he asked them to approve his actions. The bishops’ reply was curt: “We assembled for a birthday, not to condemn a man unheard.” Supporters of the antipope even managed to get Damasus accused of a grave crime—probably sexual—as late as A.D. 378. He had to clear himself before both a civil court and a Church synod.
As pope, his lifestyle was simple in contrast to other ecclesiastics of Rome, and he was fierce in his denunciation of Arianism and other heresies. A misunderstanding of the Trinitarian terminology used by Rome threatened amicable relations with the Eastern Church, and Damasus was only moderately successful in dealing with that challenge.
During his pontificate, Christianity was declared the official religion of the Roman state, and Latin became the principal liturgical language as part of the pope’s reforms. His encouragement of Saint Jerome’s biblical studies led to the Vulgate, the Latin translation of Scripture which 12 centuries later the Council of Trent declared to be “authentic in public readings, disputations, preaching.” Taken from and read more…
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Saint Damasus was highly praised by his secretary, Saint Jerome. This adulation must have been much appreciated, as Saint Damasus faced the trials of the papacy in his day. A fearless leader, Saint Da...0 CommentsComment on Facebook