Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:
Sometimes readings in Advent focus mainly on repentance and on waiting for the Savior and Messiah to redeem us from our sins. Yet, the Jewish people of the Hebrew Scriptures and the early Christians had much broader expectations. The Savior is the one who comforts and heals us, rescues and unbinds us, enlightens us and lifts us up as well as wipes away our sins. The earthly life of Jesus was filled with his healing and compassionate acts; his treating outcasts and women with inclusivity, dignity and love; his breaking down cultural, religious and social walls that separate people; and his not only forgiving sinners, but also eating with them. This is what Jesus wants to do for us. Advent is a time of becoming more whole, a time of becoming all we want to be and all God wants us to be.
Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week
This Advent, let us believe and trust in the broader meaning of the season. Deep faith is a creative energy that opens us to participate in what God wants to do for us in our personal lives and through us in our broken world and fragile Earth. The weeks of Advent give us the time to ask: What are the dark places in my life that need God's wisdom, uplifting and light? What's not OK in me? What's preventing me from feeling the love, unity and peace I want and God desires for me? Where do I fall short of witnessing God's inclusive love, mercy and justice? To each of these questions, we say: Come, Lord Jesus, come!
Advent Reflection by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, VP for Mission and Academics, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.
Jackie reading the Blessing of the Advent Candles
Special Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Mary Jane & John
- For The Team: Buddy & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
- For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ben & David & Shonda
- For all who helped with Communion
Mary Jane reading the Beautiful Isaiah #2.
Birthdays: T C Fleming (Monday, Loretta (Tuesday), Linda Cardenas (Wednesday)
Anniversaries:
Shonda & Cody (1st, last Sunday)
John reading from Peter.
Please Remember these special people
For Myron who just moved to the other side last Monday, as well as for Chris & the family; For two moms who recently died, Connie’s mom and Marilyn’s mom; For Aggie's 99 year old dad who also recently died; For Kathleen Macchio & her family; For John O'Donnell; For Bill Hammond's recovery from rotator cuff surgery, which is expected to take a whole year, despite the fact he is running a half marathon this morning at the Dallas Marathon; For Carol's rcuperation; For Tom Good; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Claire's mom; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn; For Anthony & Sabrina; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart condition;
Happy First Anniversary, My Dear Shonda, to you and Cody.
For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;
Thanks, Dearest Emma, for being our delightful Candle Lighter of the Week.
Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla; plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.
Welcome Home, Mark
Your Finances, December 10, 2017
Expenses: $850.00
Outreach: $635.00
Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.
Welcome, Miles & Linda with our dear Beth.
Have a Great Week, J.S.
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Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.
Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world we live in a better place to live.
Thanks, Bill, for coordinating & bringing out even trouble makers like Bill & Zaile, Patricia & Fred.
