St. Timothy's and St. Rita Churches

 Welcome to Saint Timothy’s and St. Rita's Church’s website. Our site contains information on all the pertinent details, times and contact names for all our parish programs and special events as well as holy days and secular holidays. We hope you find our site to be informative as well as inspirational and we welcome your comments and suggestions to make our site more useful to you in the future.    

 St. Timothy's and St. Rita's strives to have a warm, open, and inviting atmosphere for everyone - from children to seniors. Our mission is to be a parish family - a family of believers - one with the Lord and one with each other.

 St. Timothy's is  located at 1799 Warwick Avenue; Warwick, RI 02889.  Our phone number is 401-739-9552.

 St. Rita's is located at 722 Oakland Beach Avenue; Warwick, RI 02889. Our phone number is 401-738-1800.

Faith Formation Office for both parishes: 921-0712

   WELCOME!!!!

Abstinence from meat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent (for those 14 and older) is 
required by Church law. Also, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fasting: those 
between the ages of 18 and 59 should eat less, meaning, take no solid food between meals and 
only one full meal that day. Serious health conditions excuse a person from these precepts.
Pastors and parents are encouraged by the law of the Church to ensure that minors who are not 
bound by the law of fast and abstinence are educated nonetheless in an authentic sense of 
penance.
Following the implementation of the revised Code of Canon Law on November 27, 1983, the 
National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States determined that the rules of fast 
and abstinence which have existed for the last several years in this country be 
maintained. Namely, that the faithful observe suitable penitential practices on all Fridays 
throughout the year. These penitential practices need not include abstaining from meat. 
However, as indicated above, the faithful must not eat meat on all the Fridays of Lent as well as 
on Ash Wednesday. They must also observe faithfully the fast regulations as they have been 
stated above in accord with the universal law of the Church (Cf. Code of Canon Law, Canons
1250-1252)