Effective immediately, the Archbishop has extended the cancellation of the public celebration of daily and weekend Masses through April 30, 2020.  This includes the liturgies of Holy Week and Easter.

Distribution of Palms – Sunday, April 5, 2020

Parishioners may drive through the driveway in front of either church.  Palms will be handed to you.  You will not have to get out of your car.  You may pick up your palms as follows:

Assumption Church: Distribution will take place between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Saint James Church: Distribution will take place between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

St. James Church will continue to  be open for individual prayer from 9 a.m to 4 p.m.

All other parish activities  – with the exception of Confession and Adoration – have been suspended until further notice.  Parishioners are encouraged to keep Holy the Lord’s Day by watching televised Mass on ORTV and by praying at home.

The television Mass is broadcast seven days a week at 10:00 AM on WCCT-TV (W820) and WCTX-TV (MyTV9). It can also be seen Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 AM on WCCT-TV. The Mass can also be found streaming live at these times on http://www.ortv.org/streaming/streaming.htm.

If your family had set up recurring payments on EZSchoolPay (for the school’s hot lunch program), please follow these steps to turn that option off:

Login to your EZSchoolPay Account;

Click the “Billing” icon at the bottom right corner of the screen;

Scroll down to Recurring Payments and select “Edit Recurring Payment.”

Toggle “Enabled” to “Off” then choose SAVE.  This will prevent future automatic payments from occurring.

Below you will find a link to our 2020-2021 School Year Calendar.  A few important notes from Mrs. Zorger:

One Page Calendar 2020-2021

**Every school year we are assigned two full-day professional development conferences from the Archdiocese of Hartford.  We have yet to receive those dates, so you will see them noted as TBD in the list of dates on the left.  We will provide an updated calendar as soon as those dates become available to us.

**I understand that it is tempting to plan a family vacation at times that do not correspond with our scheduled school vacations (to take advantage of less expensive flights, smaller crowds, etc.). However, please take into account that pulling children out of school does cause a disruption of learning and places an extra burden on your child’s teacher to catch them up on lost work and lessons upon their return.

The policy stated in the Saint James School Parent/Student Handbook is as follows: “If a family takes a vacation which does not coincide with the school calendar, teachers do not have the responsibility of preparing class work ahead of time for the student.”  Teachers plan, execute lessons, and assess progress in accordance with the school calendar.

Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of this policy.

Please make sure your student has added the following codes for Google Classroom:

Grade 3- 4jnkyic
Grade 4- mu6c3pv
Grade 5- fzxkgwr
Grade 6- rxmb5nb
Grade 7- 2eointa
Grade 8- cwifra2

Students in Choir- zhfsc4j

Please read the attached information from Mrs. Jennings, our social worker here at SJS.

Letter from SJS Social Worker