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Parish Lenten Schedule 2010
Join us as we enter the holy season of Lent at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish!
Holy Week Schedule at St. Thomas
PRIVATE CONFESSION
Wednesday, March 31, From Noon - 1:00 PM and in the Evening from 6:00 - 7:00 PM
(Followed by the Contemplative Mass at 8:00 PM)
Winter Community Dinner
Saturday, February 27th (Asian Cuisin Night). Each year during the winter months, the members of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish invite our neighbors to join us as we gather monthly to share a meal, fellowship and some light entertainment to help brighten up these cold, dark winter months. We find these ...
Lent Book Study
Please join Fr. Jim Chelich as we read and discuss The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis. If God is good and all-powerful, why does He allow His creatures to suffer pain? One of the greatest Christian thinkewrs of our time set out to disentagle this knotty issue. With his wealth ...
Elements of a Successful Catholic School
We bless God for what we have learned on this amazing adventure called The Making of Saint Thomas School. At the same time, we have much yet to discover and learn. We will discover it and learn it together! – and this too will be an enduring blessing to us.
How to Wear Holiness
A Christian’s transformation from the old self to a new man or woman in Christ is not a self-help program. A fundamental premise of Christianity is that we cannot do it by ourselves. No matter how well intentioned we may be, we just don’t have what it takes to “pull off’ the change consistently.
Connecticut diocese destroyed ‘antiquated’ abuse complaints
Documents released by the Diocese of Bridgeport on December 1 revealed that Bishop Walter Curtis told attorneys that he destroyed “antiquated” clerical abuse complaints because “it happened so long before, there would be no point in preserving it.” Bishop ...
Communique From The Secretariat Of State
Given below is the complete text of a communique released today by the Secretariat of State:
"Since 23 January an increasing number of news items and reconstructions have been appearing, especially in many Italian news media, concerning the events surrounding the resignation of the ...