• Meals:  Baked pasta dishes (1 lb.) are preapred at home and dropped off in the lower level refrigerator.  
• Salad Items:  Salad fixings (lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes) are dropped off in the lower level refrigerator.
• Serve a Meal:  Help deliver and serve the food.  We will leave at 1:30 and will be done by 5:00 PM.

On collection days parishioners are asked to drop off food donations in the Magowan Center.Collection dates are as follows:

• 1st Sunday of the month - Mercy Shelter (fruits & desserts)
• 2nd Sunday of the month - Hartford Shelters (non-perishable items)
• 4th Sunday of the month - Simsbury Food Closet (non-perishable items)

Details and collection dates are included in the printed bulletin as well as in the parish calendar here on our website.

• Meals:  Hot meals are cooked in your home and delivered to St. Mary's by 5:30-5:45 PM on the selected date.  Recipes can be provided.
• Serve a Meal:  Help deliver and serve the meal on the selected day.

• Meals:  Hot meals are cooked in your home and delivered to St. Mary's by 3:30 PM on Sunday.  Recipes can be provided.
• Fruits & Desserts:  Drop off in the Magowan Center by 12:00 PM on Sunday.
• Serve a Meal:  Help deliver and serve the meal on Sunday evening.

• Bake birthday cakes to celebrate resident’s birthdays
• Attend a monthly party (last Thursday of the month from 1-2 PM) and help with setup, hosting and cleanup
• Seamstress is needed for various sewing tasks
• Volunteers needed in the craft room· Donate decorations (table coverings, birthday plates, cups, flowers, decorations, etc.)

• Mercy Shelter Meals: Ted Molloy, Kathy Brignac

• Immacare Meals: Ted Molloy

• St. Patrick / St. Anthony Meals:  Josh and Melanie Livingston, Lorraine/Leon Rippel

• Simsbury Food Closet and Hartford Shelters: Bob/Janet Moran, Paul Roberts, Josh/Melanie Livingston, Leon/Lorraine Rippel

• Sisters of the Poor:  Chris Wall and Nancy Smith

We are always looking for volunteers to help with our many Social Action activities.  Please use the link below to let us know how you might be able to help.

By helping those in need, we are touched by the many spiritual gifts of “seeing the face of God”.
 

• Encouragement
• Proclamation
• Nurturing
• Leadership
• Apostleship
• Servanthood
• Mercy
• Teaching
• Wisdom.

Saint Mary’s has received many letters of “thanks” from the organizations that the parish has helped. Volunteers have expressed their appreciation of blessings received from helping the poor.