Since shortly after the earthquake in Haiti parishioners Jim and Suzan Martucci have coordinated the Haitian food collection for our parish community ( Click here for photos).
All donations from parishioners placed in the large box in the church foyer are brought to the Haitian Health Foundation drop off location in Norwich. ( Please note : Our parish food collection has ended for this quarter, so please send any donations directly to the HHF ).
At least 4 times a year, the Haitian Health Foundation secures a 50 foot Land-Sea Container truck in order to be filled with food, medical, and other relief supplies. The truck drives to New Jersey, then gets on a boat to Port au Prince.
The surrounding area of the town of Jeremie is the region in Haiti that the HHF primarily serves. Trucks are rented in Jeremie, then driven 140 miles (14 hours) over the road to Port au Prince, to load the Container, then drive the goods back up to Jeremie, to be unloaded in safe warehouses. This is the normal routine, and understandably, the need has dramatically increased since the earthquake.
As we’ve learned from Msgr. Ted Malanowski when he visits St. Joseph’s during the annual HHF fund-raising appeal, since 1997, the HHF has been providing housing for the homeless and for poor families residing in appallingly poor hovels in rural southern Haiti. Currently, the Foundation is feeding over 1,500 children and prenatal/nursing women, with 100% of donor funds directly servicing this program. Overall, HHF has an overhead of less than 8 cents per donated dollar, with over 92 percent of funds collected going directly to services for the poor.
For more information about the Haitian Health Foundation’s work, please go to their website at http://www.haitianhealthfoundation.org/
EWTN "Sunday Night Live" Audio Program on Terri Sciavo with Msgr. Ted Malanowski ( 2005).
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Since January of 2009 our parish community has been consistently donating bread to the Cornerstone soup kitchen. The original appeal went out when it was learned that the Freihofer Bakery outlet was closing, which had been a main supplier of assorted bread goods for the Cornerstone, which serves over 45,000 meals and 4,000 beds of lodging a year.
In this article, we'll follow fellow-parishioner Tom Wilk, as he delivers our weekly bread collection. Since January of 2009 to May 24th, 2010, our parishioners have donated 2255 loaves of bread, and 321 grocery items to the Cornerstone soup-kitchen, - 1683 loaves in 2009 and 572 so far in 2010 !!
Follow the photos here in this link to see the process ( scroll down). Many thanks for the committed support of those participating parishioners, and we welcome additional families and individuals who can manage to even donate one loaf of bread a week. It's a great way to involve the kids, - let them select the loaf or loaves when doing your weekly shopping, knowing that it's going to those families and individuals in need and / or out of work, especially during this difficult economic time.
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Meet our Patsor, Fr. Christopher, and the parish community as you explore our website, welcome !
To start, use this link to our Gallery section for photos.
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Welcome !
* Scripture Study begins in September 2010 with the study of the Gospel of Matthew.
Join Us ! - First Classes Begin -
* Sunday, Sept. 12th, 6 p.m., in the Convent building
* Tuesday, Sept. 14th, 10 a.m., in the Church Hall
Consider joining us for Scripture Study here at St. Joseph's. Sessions are offered several times a year, with two convenient class times each week, Tuesday mornings at 10 a.m., and Sunday afternoons at 6 p.m.
For more information, and / or to register, please call Joe or Judy - 860-871-1635
Looking for a Bible for class or personal use ? Try these -
1. Ignatius Study Bible
(Kindle Eition also available).
2. Ignatius RSV Bible
3. Navarre Bible
(New Testament)
Compact Edition also available.
3A.. Navarre Bible
(Old Testament)
4. OnLine Bible - USCCB
5. NAB Bible - compact edition.
6. NAB Bible - Large Print Edition
St. John of the Cross Comments on the message of Jesus
In giving us His Son, His only Word (for He possesses no other), He spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word—and He has no more to say.
(That which God formerly spoke to our fathers through the prophets in many ways and manners, now, finally in these days He has spoken to us all at once in His Son) [Heb 1:1-2].
The Apostle indicates that God has become as it were mute, with no more to say, because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, He has now spoken all at once by giving us the All, who is His Son.
God could reason as follows: If I have already told you all things in my Word, My Son, and I have no other word, what answer or revelation can I now make that would surpass this? Fasten your eyes on Him alone because in Him I have spoken and revealed all and in Him you will discover even more than you ask for and desire.
Hear Him because I have no more faith to reveal or truths to manifest. (In the Son of God are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God) {Col 2:3}.
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