Dr. Lenard Kelley, Director Office of Family Life The Office of Family Life will offer training in February for clergy and clergy-designated lay ministers and volunteers in how to administer a marriage preparation program specifically designed for parishes in the Archdiocese of Hartford. While large-group regional workshops such as Engaged Encounter will [...]
This week is National Catholic Schools Week! It has been celebrated annually throughout the United States for the past 46 years. Today, at St Joseph School, the theme was VOCATION. The school principal Mr. Eric Frenette invited Father Ivan to visit each class. Fr. Ivan shared his call to the vocation of Holy Priesthood [...]
Reverend Francis Xavier Callahan, Class of 1949, died Wednesday, January 29, 2020. We extend our deepest sympathy to Fr. Callahan’s family and friends at this time of sorrow and offer them our prayerful support. A Parish Mass in remembrance of Fr. Callahan will be celebrated at St. Agnes Church (of Precious Blood Parish), 400 [...]
To view the document Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses from the Pontifical Academy for Life, please click here.
This week is Catholic Schools Week! To get this special week off to a great start, the Catholic schools in Bristol, St. Joseph and St. Matthew Elementary Schools and St. Paul Catholic High School, participated in a morning Mass at St. Gregory the Great Church. The St. John’s Bible from the Mass on Sunday [...]
There is a lot to celebrate within our Catholic schools which offer students an outstanding educational experience infused with developing lifelong faith-filled disciples. To mark Catholic schools’ successes, the Archdiocese of Hartford will observe National Catholic Schools Week from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1 with assemblies, Masses and other activities for students, families, parishioners [...]
Respect Life group of 240 pro-lifers at the March for Life! Follow on Facebook. Five buses left the Franciscan Life Center in Meriden early Thursday morning to head to Washington, D.C. for the 47th March for Life. St. Paul Catholic High School students numbered 150 of the 240 pro-lifers on [...]
A volume of the rare Saint John’s Bible – the first handwritten and hand-illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century – is currently on display for archdiocesan employees at St. Thomas Chapel at the Pastoral Center in Bloomfield. The Saint [...]
John Malfitano died on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. He is the father of Deacon Michael Malfitano who currently serves at St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Oakville. Please keep Deacon Michael, his wife Trisha, and all of their family in your prayers. All funeral arrangements will take place in Colorado at the convenience of the [...]
The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity takes place from January 18-25. Christian denominations throughout the world pray for a greater unity among the various churches, focusing on what is shared in common, rather than what divides. The theme for 2020, "They Showed Us Unusual Kindness" is taken from St. Paul's account [...]