Parish Staff Rev.Thomas J Cieslikowski, Administrator Ken Ewaskie, Senior Deacon Mrs. Alese Kummer, Business Manager Denny McNamara, Cemetery Director Debi Durette, Coordinator of Religious Education Glenn Durette, Director of Music (Good Shepherd) Mark Silva, Director of Music (St Augustine) Art Paquette, Building and Grounds (St Augustine) Frank Parda, Building and Grounds (Good Shepherd) Parish Website www.stnicholasct.org Email - [email protected]Telephone 203-888-9243 - Fax 203-888-6016 Baptisms Registration is required. Please call the rectory office. Marriages Please contact rectory office at least six months in advance. Office of Vocations Phone: 860-242-5573 Web site: www.vocationshartford.org Sick Calls We are happy and honored to visit the sick or homebound. Saint Nicholas Parish August 1, 2021 Seymour, Connecticut Rectory Office Hours St. Augustine Mon. & Wed. 8am - 10:00am Good Shepherd Mon. & Wed 10:30am - 4:30pm Tue. Thur. 8am - 4:30pm Fri. 8am - 1pm Church of the Good Shepherd 135 Mountain Road Vigil Mass Saturday 4:30 pm Sunday Mass: 11:00 am Weekdays (M,T,W,Th,) 9:00 am Sat.Confession 3:30 - 4:00 pm St. Augustine Church 35 Washington Ave Sunday Mass 9:30 am Handicap Accessible Side Entrance
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Parish Staff Rev.Thomas J Cieslikowski, Administrator Ken Ewaskie, Senior Deacon Mrs. Alese Kummer, Business Manager Denny McNamara, Cemetery Director Debi Durette, Coordinator of Religious Education Glenn Durette, Director of Music (Good Shepherd) Mark Silva, Director of Music (St Augustine) Art Paquette, Building and Grounds (St Augustine) Frank Parda, Building and Grounds (Good Shepherd)
Baptisms Registration is required. Please call the rectory office. Marriages Please contact rectory office at least six months in advance.
Office of Vocations Phone: 860-242-5573 Web site: www.vocationshartford.org Sick Calls We are happy and honored to visit the sick or homebound.
Saint Nicholas Parish August 1, 2021
Seymour, Connecticut
Rectory Office Hours
St. Augustine Mon. & Wed. 8am - 10:00am
Good Shepherd
Mon. & Wed 10:30am - 4:30pm
Tue. Thur. 8am - 4:30pm
Fri. 8am - 1pm
Church of the Good Shepherd 135 Mountain Road
Vigil Mass Saturday 4:30 pm Sunday Mass: 11:00 am
Weekdays (M,T,W,Th,) 9:00 am Sat.Confession 3:30 - 4:00 pm
St. Augustine Church 35 Washington Ave
Sunday Mass 9:30 am Handicap Accessible Side Entrance
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Weekly Church Calendar
August 2021 St Augustine Good Shepherd
In Memory of
Kathleen E. Jachimowski Jamaitis and Edward J.
Jachimowski
Thank You For A Prayer
Aanswered
Not AvailableIn Memory of
Jachimowski & Gioielli Families
AvailablePlease God Help Us In All Ways
Thank You
Altar Wine
SANCTUARY
LAMP
Communion
Hosts
Date Time Intention Requested By:
Sat. Jul. 31 Good Shepherd 4:30pm ✝ Rose Bassi
Bob, Carmie, & Daniel Potash
Fuel CollectionSun. Aug. 1 St Augustine 9:30am ✝ Susan Buckley Lee Ellen Chontos
Sun. Aug. 1 Good Shepherd 11:00am Holy Souls in Purgatory Friend of St. Nicholas
Mon. Aug. 2 Good Shepherd 9:00am ✝ Josephine & ✝ James Rosadino
Frank & Annette Marcucio
Tue. Aug. 3 Good Shepherd 9:00am Mass Available Rosary in
Church
Wed. Aug. 4 Good Shepherd 9:00am St. Nicholas Parishioners
Thu. Aug. 5 Good Shepherd 9:00am Mass Available
Fri. Aug. 6 No Mass
Sat. Aug. 7 Good Shepherd 4:30pm ✝ Mr & ✝ Mrs Marin Petrie Gramolini Family
Sun. Aug. 8 St Augustine 9:30am ✝ Lou Zaccaro Wife
Sun. Aug. 8 Good Shepherd 11:00am ✝ John, ✝ Wilma, ✝ Eugene Dolores Kamanski
July 18, 2021
Offertory Envelope Fuel & Energy Total Collection
$3,570 $213 $3,783
Cathderaticum & CSSP
Total Stay in Parish
$223 $3,347
Thank You for your Generosity
Maryknoll Mission (2nd Collection) $1218
On Line Giving Offertory will be provided on a
Monthly Schedule June $3,770
New Day Bereavement Program – St. Thomas the Apostle Church Parish Center 733 Oxford Rd. Oxford, CT Those who are grieving the death of a loved one need to proactively work through their grief. One way that may be helpful is to participate in the bereavement support group called the New Day Program. This program consists of ten two-hour weekly meetings. During each meeting, participants work through one component of the grieving process, guided by the New Day Journal. We will be offering this program in September. The program will begin on Wednesday, September 8th from 6:30-8:30pm. Registration is required. If you would like to register, please c o n t a c t M a r y j a n e a t 2 0 3 - 8 8 8 - 2 3 8 2 e x t 1 0 4 o r [email protected]
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Please Note: That we are only reporting first name and initial of last name. We ask that if you have a name (1st name and 1st initial of last name) that you would like on the list, you must call the rectory (203-888-2081 - St. Augustine or 203-888-9243 - Good Shepherd) and resubmit the name. The name will stay on for 2 months and then be removed unless their name is resubmitted. Using this method we can keep names current. Thank you for your cooperation.
Please pray for the health and wholeness in body, mind and spirit for:
Observances for the week of August 1, 2021 Sunday: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest Tuesday: Wednesday: St. John Vianney, Priest Thursday: The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major Friday: The Transfiguration of the Lord Saturday: St. Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs; St. Cajetan, Priest; BVM Next Sunday: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
August is known for many things, including the dog days of summer, National Watermelon Day (Aug. 3) and National Smile Week (Aug. 5-11). But there are many other fun facts associated
with summer’s last full month. August is named after Augustus Caesar, founder and the first emperor of the Roman Empire, who was posthumously adopted by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar. In the early Roman calendar, August was actually the sixth month of the year. It was originally 30 days in length, but an extra day was added so that it would equal the number of days in July, which was named after Julius Caesar. August has two birthstones: peridot and sardonyx. Peridot is among the oldest known gemstones and is green in color. Sardonyx, which is lesser-known, is a white- and brown-banded gemstone once believed to have mystical powers. The official flower for August is the gladiolus. These vertical-growing
flowers were named from the Latin "gladius," meaning a sword.
Fans of Elvis Presley mourn each Aug. 16th, the day the famed singer died in 1977. On Aug. 24th in 79 A.D., the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying the city of Pompeii and others. People born in August fall under the sun zodiac signs of Leo and Virgo. Leos are known to be dramatic, creative and outgoing. Virgos have acute attention to detail and are the people most likely to dedicate themselves to serving. They also are loyal, hardworking and analytical.
On Aug. 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Gallery and not recovered for two years. Although civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., is honored in January, when he was born, he is best known for his famed "I have a dream" speech, which was given on Aug. 28, 1963. The month of August is often referred to as the "dog days of summer" but not because of pet pooches. It has to do with the star Sirius, also known as the dog star, which rose at the same time as sunrise during the month of August in ancient Roman times.
AugustFun Facts
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OUR MONTHLY SHELTER DINNER Will be held at the Spooner House in S h e l t o n o n Thursday, August 5 th . A s ign-up sheet wi th the
menu is in the St. Augustine vestibule. Anyone willing to provide a portion of the meal can sign up. Please have your Donation brought to St Augustine by 3:00 pm that day. Any questions or issues, contact Linda,
Please consider sharing your time and talent as a Sacred Linen Lady. No experience needed. Once or twice a month, you simply wash, dry, and iron the weekly sacred linens. If you are interested , please email [email protected] or telephone 203 888-9243.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Working Hard For What Matters Most In this Sunday's Gospel reading, Jesus says: "Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life." In other words: In your daily life, work hard to obtain whatever will nourish your soul and sustain you past death into eternity. Jesus says: "The work God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent." Why does he call this "work"? To fully believe, we must work at getting rid of every doubt and distrust that interferes with our belief in Christ, our trust in his words (including what he inspired in the official teachings of the Church), and our willingness to conform to his way of life. This work requires (1) identifying our vulnerabilities that make us doubt and distrust, (2) uncovering what we're afraid will happen if we do trust, and (3) overcoming that fear by gaining a better understanding of the truth. Any fear that interferes with our holiness is always based on something untrue. Jesus says: "The bread of God, which nourishes your soul, is that which comes down from heaven and gives life." He's referring to his presence in the Eucharist, the bread that he provides in every Mass. What do you need to do so that you can be nourished
more fully by the Eucharist? Is there something that's stopping you from receiving the Eucharist? Work hard to remedy that obstacle! It will make a difference to your eternal soul. If you're sincere about uniting yourself to Christ, he will make possible whatever is needed to clear the way. Because the Eucharist is Jesus, it can heal us, purify us, and help us become more like Christ himself. However, it takes conscious effort to fully embrace this opportunity. Why would we want to be lazy about that? The benefits of hard work in our faith life will endure for eternity. NOTE: Pope John Paul II wrote an entire encyclical about this, entitled Ecclesia de Eucharistia ("The Church of the Eucharist"). In it, he tells us that we're on a journey to heaven and that the presence of Christ in the Eucharist helps us stay on course.
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Important Events in Seymour’s History 1854 to 1955
1854 Austin Goodyear Day began an industry that uses a newly invented compound for insulation of wires. This compound and the name of the new company is Kerite.
1865 H.P. & E. Day Company was established. They produced hardened rubber fountain pens and pencils. This will later become know as the Ideal Pen Company and then be known as the Waterman Pen Company (which today is still manufactured under this name but is located in France)
1866 The Fowler Nail Company began producing the first satisfactory machine pointed horseshoe nails
1878 The Seymour Manufacturing Company is organized by William Henry Harrison Wooster. Here sheet brass wires, rods and tubing were made along with German silver.
1877 James Swan began the manufacturing of high quality auger and bits in a large factory on the Little River. This would become one of the largest industries in Seymour.
1880 The Tingue Manufacturing Company began producing material made from the fleece of Angora goats. This is the first industry in the United States to make this product
1882 The first all volunteer fire department was organized in town. The company was eventually called the Humphrey Engine & Hose Co. #1
1884 Seymour’s first public high school was built. It contained nine classrooms and a bell tower. It was one of the first schools to have fresh running water inside the building
1890 H.A. Matthews Company is established and begins making brass and steel specialties for stove trimmings, bicycle parts and other hardware.
1892 Citizens Engine Company #2 firehouse and tower were built
1892 First free public library was organized on Second Street with 2,911 books and 560 registered card holders
1898 Seymour Water Company was organized
1900 Valley National bank began operation on corner of Main and Bank Streets
1925 First town court opened
1935 Organization of Seymour’s police force
1937 Last trolley runs through Seymour
1955 2 hurricanes and a major flood on the Naugatuck River change the appearance of our town and the lives of many of her people.
Religious Education - 2021 The following are the date to drop off any Unit Quizzes that have been completed. We will be stationed in the Fr. Keane Hall at Good Shepherd from 9:30 AM to 11 AM, August 14 If you have any questions, please contact Debi or Glenn Durette at 203-735-3190. Religious Education Mandate:
Even though the religious education for our students is completed by their parents at home, the Archdiocese of Hartford has continued to mandate participation a the Child Lures Prevention Program: Think First, Stay Safe. If you would like to present this to your child, we do have a parent guide that you can use and is available on Saturdays or by contacting Glenn or Debi Durette.
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