Assumption Church

29 South Adams Street
Manchester, CT 06040
860-643-2195

Assumption Rectory

285 West Center Street
Manchester, CT 06040
860-643-2195

Assumption Convent

21 South Adams Street
Manchester, CT 06040
860-643-0452

Assumption School

27 South Adams Street
Manchester, CT 06040
860-649-0889

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Friday, March 6 beginning after 9 a.m. School Mass and ending with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 5 p.m.
Stations of the Cross
Held every Friday during Lent
2/20, 27, 3/6, 13, 20, 27 at
1:15 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Come Home, Come Home
Experience the extraordinary gift of divine forgiveness. Hear Jesus say to you in the person of His priest: 
            "Your Sins are Forgiven.”

Once again, every Catholic church in the Hartford Archdiocese opens for the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Mondays from 6 to 7 p.m. (2/23, 3/2, 9, 16, 23, 30). Info at: Light4you.info.
Town-Wide Penance Service
March 15, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.
St. James Church
Manchester
Lent, the Church’s official liturgical penitential season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving began on Ash Wednesday and ends with the celebration of the Paschal Triduum with  the rites of Holy Thursday (4/2); Good Friday (4/3); Holy Saturday (4/4); culminating with the Resurrection of the Lord on Easter Sunday (4/5).
What Does It Mean to Fast
One full meal is allowed.
Two other meals, sufficient to maintain strength may be eaten according to individual needs, taken together they may not equal a full meal.

Eating between meals is not permitted.
Liquids, including milk and juices are allowed.

The regulations of fast and abstinence do not apply when one’s health or ability to work would be seriously impacted.
Lenten Regulation Reminder
Abstaining from Meat:  Catholics ages 14 and older are not to eat meat on: Ash Wednesday – 2/18
All Fridays in Lent – 2/20, 2/27;
March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 3rd.

Fasting:  Catholics who have celebrated their 18th birthday, but not marked their 59th birthday fast on: Ash Wednesday – 2/18
Good Friday – April 3rd.
Important Liturgical Dates

Services for Seniors
Provided by the Knights of Columbus. Click on Above Link or Visit
Parish Organizations
To Learn More

School News
Eagle Scout Alumnus Completes Memorial Patio

At "Things to Ponder" announcement of the Year of Consecrated Life
by Pope Francis.
Picture

Take a visual tour of Church of the Assumption's unique but simple New England architecture including an uncommon Baldacchino over the Altar.

Click on "visual tour" and scroll down to the "See Inside Picture." The "tour" goes inside and out and around from front to back and back to front! Follow the arrow.


EASTER AT ASSUMPTION -2014 


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 Things to Ponder