Information from Our Lady of the Assumption Church

Woodbridge, CT - Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church has shared a lot of important information in the weekly bulletin posted on their website.

Electronic Newsletter for the Parish

We are in the process of developing an electronic newsletter that will be sent to parishioner’s emails so that we can provide another way to communicate important parish information especially during the current health crisis. If you have not provided an email address to the parish office, please call during regular business hours to provide that information. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

I am greatly edified by the many parishioners who are still supporting the parish by sending their donations or enrolling in online giving through Our Sunday Visitor. On behalf of the entire parish I am most grateful.

Fr. Ford

Our Parish now offers Online Giving

With so much uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 virus and increasing recommendations to avoid crowds and take proper safety precautions, we wanted to remind you that we have options in place now that you can use today. This option is an ideal way to support the parish and our mission.

Online Giving is available for you to make contributions to the church. This option makes use of current technology and security standards and allows you to easily setup recurring contributions. It also enables our church to take advantage of new tools to become more efficient.

Online Giving Parishioner Benefits:
• Secure and confidential. No need to share payment information with the church office.
• Efficient. Set up direct withdrawals from your checking, savings account or a credit card.
• Simple. Start, stop and change your contributions at any time.
• Convenient. No need to write a check or have cash available.
• Remote flexibility. You can give from virtually anywhere anytime.

Online Giving is intended to be a convenient tool for you to use, and we strongly support both Online Giving and Offering Envelopes for contributions to the parish. Online Giving is the electronic way to participate in weekly offertory. Start giving online today!

1. Visit our church website at assumptionchurch.com and click on the online giving link.
2. Create an account.
3. Schedule your recurring gifts.

Please prayerfully consider giving online. If you have any questions, contact the parish office at 203-387-7119. To sign up please go to assumptionchurch.com and click on the link for
online giving.

Online Giving is provided by Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic not-for-profit organization serving parishes for more than 100 years.

Please Pray

Our parish has a very high percentage of individuals working in the healthcare profession, including doctors, nurses, aides, EMTS! Let us remember them in our prayers. They’re on the front lines selflessly providing care under extremely challenging circumstances. We’re
developing a list, if you would like to be included or someone close to you (with their permission), please call or email the parish.

Dr. Robert D’Angelo
Dr. Michael Zazaski

STAYING CONNECTED DURING THE PANDEMIC

While public Mass is suspended throughout the Archdiocese, it’s important to stay connected through our website, our Facebook page, and emails.

We’re asking parishioners if they would send in pictures of themselves to be posted in the church or you can put them in the church where you usually sit. You can also email them to:
parishsecretaryoloa@gmail.com. We want to stay connected.

Please know that we are posting to the website and to our Facebook page daily. Please visit our website at: assumptionchurch.com

“Like” us on Facebook at: Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church

Although public Mass has been suspended until the end of April, we are still printing bulletins for parishioners who visit the Center Road church for private prayer.

Please let the office know of any parishioner who may be homebound and would like to receive a copy of the bulletin. We would be happy to mail it to them.

Join fellow Parishioners in Prayer Via Zoom!

Please join us on our Zoom Rosary Journey. You are all invited to join our Zoom Rosary group that meets daily at 4 P.M. every day to recite the Rosary. Please send me your email and phone number and I will send you information or call you to walk you through the steps of zooming to say the Rosary to petition an end to this pandemic and unprecedented times. My phone number is 2037878064 and my email is lff1315@gmail.com. “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them .ʺ Matthew 18:20. Thank you!

Lor Ferrante Fernandes

The Archbishop has temporarily suspended the Celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)

“Since the outbread of the pandemic, confessions have continued to be heard in the Archdiocese, and anyone who felt secure in approaching the sacrament has been able to do so.
However the time has come to suspend publicly scheduled confessions until further notice in light of the growing spread of the virus in Connecticut, which is anticipated to peak in the coming weeks. This is necessary for the protection of both penitents and priests. I repeat once again, what is clearly the teaching of the Church as set for recently by the Apostolic Penitentiary in Rome, as follows: “Where the individual faithful find themselves in the painful impossibility of receiving sacramental absolution, it should be remembered that perfect contrition, coming from the love of God, beloved above all things, expressed by a sincere request for the forgiveness (that which the penitent is at present able to express) and accompanied by votum confessionis, that is, by the firm resolution to have recourse, as soon as possible, to sacramental confession, obtains forgiveness of sins, even mortal ones (cf. CCC, no.1452)

Please send us your picture!

Although public Mass has been suspended, we’re asking parishioners to send in a photo or selfie of themselves (family photos also) so that we can post your picture at the pew where you typically sit for weekend Mass. Many parishes throughout the world are doing this as a symbolic gesture to their priest as he celebrates private Mass. Please email your photo to parishsecretaryoloa@gmail.com or mail to Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 81 Center Rd., Woodbridge, 06525.

Let’s fill every pew

FROM THE OFFICE OF RADIO AND TELEVISION ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD

As the Archdiocese of Hartford has cancelled the public celebration of all weekday and weekend Masses through April 30, 2020, the Office of Radio & Television wants to remind Catholics and people of all faiths throughout Connecticut, and beyond, of our commitment to continue the daily broadcast of the television Mass, The Celebration of the Eucharist, at 10:00 a.m. on WCCT-TV (CW20) and WCTX-TV (MyTV9), please check your local TV listings for channel assignments. In addition, you can watch The Celebration of the Eucharist online live (Monday-Friday) and also on demand; and you can listen to a delayed broadcast of The Celebration of the Eucharist on WJMJ Radio.

Fr. Ford will be the celebrant of the TV Mass on Easter Thursday, April 16th.

Online Stations of the Cross and Holy Hours

Stations of the Cross:
www.catholic.org/prayers/stati...
Eucharistic Adoration:
ttps://virtualadoration.home.blog
Daily Readings/Liturgy of the Hours
https://universalis.com/

Teacher, do you not care if we perish?
In his homily during the worldwide moment of prayer that Pope Francis led on March 27th from St. Peter’s Basilica, he reflected on how Coronavirus has united us in our common humanity, as brothers and sisters.

“We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together,” he said.

He used the image of the disciples on the boat, caught by an unexpected storm, and Jesus asleep in the stern. When they call on the Lord, the disciples prove their faith, and yet Jesus rebukes them for their lack of faith. Let us try to understand. In what does the lack of the disciples’ faith consist, as contrasted with Jesus’ trust? They had not stopped believing in him; in fact, they called on him. But we see how they call on him: “Teacher, do you not care if we perish?” (v. 38). Do you not care: they think that Jesus is not interested in them, does not care about them. But “he, more than anyone, cares about us,” Pope Francis assured. (To read the full text of the Pope’s message visit:

aleteia.org/2020/03/27/fulltextfrompopefrancishomilyforthespecialurbietorbiblessing/

MORE OPTIONS FOR HOLY WEEK LITURGIES FROM THE DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT

LIVESTREAMED AT www.bridgeportdioces.org
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 5th @ 8 A.M.
Chrism Mass, Holy Thursday, April 9 @ 10 A.M.
Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Holy Thursday, April 9 @ 7:00 P.M.
Celebration of the Passion of the Lord, Good Friday @ 3:00 P.M.
Easter Vigil in the Holy Night, April 11 @ 7:00 P.M.
All services livestreamed from St. Augustine Cathedral, Bridgeport

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
81 Center Road
Woodbridge, Connecticut 06525
Tel (203) 387-7119
Fax (203) 387-4281