• 4pm (note the change from the usual Saturday Mass)
• 6pm

Christmas Day Masses

• 12 Midnight
• 10:30am
• (no 8:00am Mass on Christmas morning)

• Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7pm

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Holyday of Obligation)

• Thursday, December 8 at 9am, &
• Thursday, December 8 at 7pm

Prayer, song, examination of conscience, reflection, individual confession, absolution and thanksgiving in a painless setting. Whether you receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly or rarely – come.

– Byzantine Vespers

We begin our celebration of Lent with the imposition of ashes on

• Wednesday at 9:00am
• Wednesday at 7:00pm

You thumbed grit
into my furrowed brow,
marking me
with the sign of mortality,
the dust of last year’s palms.

The cross you traced
seared, smudged skin,
and I recalled other ashes
etched
into my heart
by those who love too little
or not at all.

– Elizabeth-Anne Vanek in Extraordinary Time

(Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence)

Come and be reconciled – Tuesday, December 14, 2010. The communal penance service begins at 7:00pm.

Faith Formation sessions will be held as follows:

• Levels K-5
  
  • Sunday – 9:15-10:30am at Sacred Heart Church
  • Wednesday – 4:30-5:45pm at St. Maurice Church
• Levels 6-8
  • Sunday – 6:15-7:30pm at Sacred Heart Church
  • Wednesday – 6:30-7:45pm at St. Maurice Church
• Confirmation Preparation (High School Level)
  • All Confirmation Preparation sessions for Sacred Heart Church and St. Maurice Church will be combined
    • at Sacred Heart Church on Sunday – 6:15-7:30pm
    • followed by Youth Group 7:30-8:45pm.

Parish families are free to choose to attend sessions at either Sacred Heart Church or St. Maurice Church (exception – Confirmation Prep and Youth Group). You do not have to be a parishioner at a specific parish in order to attend Faith Formation sessions there, however, you must be a parishioner of either one of the parishes.

Registration fees are as follows:

• $50 for the first child/teen in your family
• $45 for the second child/teen in your family
• $115 Maximum fee per family
• $60 for Confirmation Preparation

If you are new to the parish or will have a child/teen enrolling for the first time in the Faith Formation program or need more information, please contact Rella (860-875-4563) or (rella@sacredheartchurch.net).

Join the combined parishes of Saint Maurice and Sacred Heart on Holy Thursday at 7:30pm, Good Friday at 3pm and the night before Easter at 8pm at Sacred Heart Church, 550 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon.

Palm Sunday follows the usual Sunday schedule: Sacred Heart’s Palm Sunday Mass is at 10:45am in Vernon, and Saint Maurice’s is at 8:45am in Bolton.

Holy Thursday‘s 7:30pm Mass will be followed by the Feast of Breads – you can bring your favorite breads to share, or just come to taste the yummy baked goods.

Good Friday‘s 3pm liturgy is followed by a meatless Soup & Bread Supper at 5pm. Good Friday is a day of fast & abstinence, so why not have your main meal with us? The Living Stations of the Cross, presented by the Youth Group, follows at 7pm.

The Easter Vigil, the mother of all liturgies, has it all; fire, candles, water, the story of Us, the return of the Alleluia, and much more. This liturgy, which always begins after nightfall, will begin at 8:00pm this year. (No 5:45 Mass this day!)

And for Easter Sunday, the parishes return to their normal schedules and locations – Sacred Heart’s Easter Sunday Mass is at 10:45am in Vernon, and Saint Maurice’s is at 8:45am in Bolton.

Prayer, song, examination of conscience, reflection, individual confession, absolution and thanksgiving in a painless setting. Whether you receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly or rarely – come.