St. James Roman Catholic Church

Our great appreciation to all individuals and vendors who donated time, talent and treasure to the St. James 2022 Parish Picnic. We received overwhelmingly wonderful feedback from parishioners who had a fantastic time connecting and reconnecting with one another while enjoying food, music and various fun activities.

Please click this link to view photos from the picnic: 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LH7NZ1P8byrPq-SQM8kRStjDa0GF1CYD?usp=sharing
 

Please use this link to update your census information:   https://osvhub.com/st-james-church-104/forms/census-update-june2022

Dear friends and colleagues: I am sending you a musical treasure!! This is a video first put together many years ago by St. Mark's current music director (Don Brelsford). While musical director at St. James Church, he composed this song, both music and lyrics. It is song by Lou Zayas from St. James who is a well-known popular vocalist in our area. The St. James choir provides the background chorus. The video has been updated to include compelling scenes from the war in Ukraine. It is a tribute to God's love and mankind's endurance in the face of catastrophic world events. It is spiritually uplifting and God's own tonic for a war-weary world. Please enjoy it and pass it on to all you know!! Let us continue to pray for an end to this war and for the restoration of God's peace, Peace and blessings! Deacon Paul Kurmay+

Click here:   https://youtu.be/vuOzcnrlbCU

There is a Ukrainian refugee family in Stratford that wants to send their children to St. James School. As you can imagine, they had to leave the Ukraine with only what they could carry. As a result, they came to this country with nothing. So they tried remote learning with ther old school in the Ukraine. But with all the bombing going on, the connection is very inconsistent. It is at that point that they decided they wanted to send their children to St. James. However, coming here as they did with nothing, they cannot afford the tuition. They still believe, though, that it is important for their children to be enrolled at St. James School.

Chris Robertson, the principal at St. James, has talked with the Diocese about helping with the tuition cost. The diocese is willing to provide $1,700 in tuition assistance, which is half of the tuition for the rest of the year.

Please consider helping this refugee family in their attempt to provide what they consider the best education for their children.

There are two ways you can donate. First, there will be envelopes at each of the doors of the church. You can use one of those envelopes to make a donation. (Additionally, if you desire, you can put your name and envelope number on the envelope.) The second way to donate is to use Online Giving where a fund has been set up for this purpose. 

Click here for information and to donate
 

Here is a link to a prayer against the CoronaVirus (Covid-19). >>> Prayer Against the CoronaVirus <<<

Fr. Peter is asking everyone to pray this prayer at least once a day.

Also, there is another prayer (COVID-19: A Prayer of Solidarity) that Fr. Peter would like you to pray. Here is the link. >>> COVID-19: A Prayer of Solidarity <<<