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You qualify as an “in parish” couple if you live within the parish Children & Adult Classes Contact Rosemarie Azinheira Coordinator: Diane Weinkauf Receptionist: Karen Colen boundaries or, have been registered and active for 415-753-5680 (415) 242-5177 six months or, have been raised in the parish. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Monday thru Friday: 2. If you do not meet one of the three qualifications, then you are Advertisement considered an “outside of parish” couple. and Friday: 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM 8:00AM-3:30PM space available Contact the parish office at least six months prior to the date of your please call the ST. CECILIA SCHOOL ALUMNI DIRECTOR proposed wedding to participate in our marriage preparation pro- Rectory at Maureen Horan Phone: (415) 753-3917 gram. Email: [email protected] ANOINTING of the SICK (415) 664-8481 to This sacrament is for the elderly, the seriously ill, or those inquire. CHILDREN’S FAITH FORMATION (CFF) scheduled for surgery. Call us when a family member is admitted Pre-K and K-”First Steps in the Faith” to a hospital or nursing facility. Sunday, 9:30 AM in the Lower Church Grades 1 through 8 SICK CALLS Sunday, 8:30 AM in the Convent and Collins Center In case of emergency — any hour of day or night. Arthur Refuerzo, CFF & Confirmation Coordinator Email: [email protected] HOSPITAL VISITS & 3rd Sunday of - December 15, 2019 He Who Is To Come concern “religion” in the traditional sense of the word. ADVENT GIVING TREE By: Gerald Darring One knows that the messiah has come because a real change We need your help to provide From his cell in prison John the Baptist had heard stories has taken place in society, a change that involves the during the Advent season to about , and he sent some of his followers to find out if liberation of those who have always been cut off from the children and families throughout the EVE MASSES San Francisco Archdiocese. Please Jesus is the messiah. Are you ‘He who is to come’ or do we “main branch” of society. 5:00 PM choose a tag, located at the look for another? they asked Jesus. Jesus is the messiah because those who are blind, crippled, with music by Frances Peterson & Beatrice Martin front of the church by the Jesse Jesus had to reply in such a way that John would have no diseased, and poor have been liberated from the things Tree, and pray for that person doubt about the genuineness of his messianic activity, and which make them the victims of injustice. 7:00 PM throughout Advent. Please return the message he sent back to John was about the blind We can turn the statement around to say that if the dregs of with music by the Children’s Choir your wrapped gift, with the gift tag receiving their sight, the lame walking, the lepers being society do not experience liberation, then Jesus is not the firmly attached, to the altar cleansed, the deaf hearing, the dead being raised, and the messiah. 11:10 PM - Carol Concert with our Adult Choir & Orchestra TODAY Sunday, December 15th. poor having good news brought to them. But Jesus is the messiah, and so the dead have come to life: Your prayers and generosity will He did not say a word about people praying more or going those who have been unable to ‘live’ in a society that has surely make this Advent season just to the synagogue or making God the center of their lives: the written them off, are now alive with hope. with music by our Adult Choir & Orchestra a little bit brighter for a special age of the messiah, as expressed in this report, does not person within our faith community. Thank you! Please contact Helen CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES Roy, 415-420-3216 or THIS WEEK 2019 ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL 7:30 AM [email protected] with questions MONDAY, We are SHORT $60,115 to reach our assessment of 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church or for more information. $170,727 by the end of the year, otherwise, we 9:30 AM 7:00 PM - Parents Confirmation Meeting - Convent with music by Frances Peterson & Griselda Mcdonald 7:00 PM - Young Ladies Institute - Green Room will have to take the funds from our Sunday Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not TUESDAY, December 17 collections. 6:30 PM - Choir Rehearsal - Green Room 11:30 AM disappoint. The Lord never lets us down. - Pope Francis 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church with music by our Adult Choir & Orchestra If you have not already responded to the Appeal, 7:30 PM - Baptismal Preparation - Collins Center WELCOME OUR NEW PARISHIONERS 8:00 PM - Choir & Orchestra Rehearsal - Church please do so now so that we may each do our NO EVENING MASS ON CHRISTMAS DAY Mateo & Nicole Graziosi WEDNESDAY, December 18 fair share in supporting the Archdiocese. Gifts 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church THURSDAY, December 19 should be mailed to: Archdiocesan Annual THE ST. CECILIA SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 6:30 PM - St. Peter’s Prayer Group - Collins Center Appeal 2018, Archdiocese of San Francisco, One TODAY, DECEMBER 14TH & 15TH YOUR ST. would love to hear from you! Currently our address and 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109. VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE will be collecting FRIDAY, December 20 contact information needs refreshing. If you or your Please write “St. Cecilia, S.F.” in the memo. You clothing donations. Collection bins can be found in the 7:30 AM - Advent Eucharistic Adoration - Our Lady’s Chapel front entrances of the church for all Masses this weekend children are alums of St. Cecilia School take a moment 1:30 PM - Homebound Mass - Collins Center can also donate online at SFArch.org/AAA. only. to contact the Alumni Office. Please include your name 6:30 PM - Choir Rehearsal - Green Room Thank you for your generosity. Please no household items. Your generous donations (maiden, if applicable), year of graduation, email, 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church address, and phone. A sentence or two about yourself 8:00 PM - Choir & Orchestra Rehearsal - Church will go to immediate use to those most in need this SATURDAY, December 21 OF CHRISTMAS MASSES winter season. Thank you! would be a wonderful bonus. Contact Maureen Horan at 10:00 AM - Centering Prayer Group - Collins Center (SIMBANG GABI) [email protected] or 415-753-3917. Thank you 4:00 PM - Holy Hour - Our Lady’s Chapel MEMORIAL FLOWER OFFERING ENVELOPES are for your time. We look forward to hearing from you. 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church Sunday, December 15 - Monday, December 23 SUNDAY, December 22 at 7:00 PM available inside the Church. The 11:30 am Christmas 10:30 AM - RCIA - Serra Room in Church Day Mass will be offered for the people whose names 9:30 AM FAMILY MASS COFFEE & DONUTS 11:00 AM - Italian Catholic Federation - Green Room are listed on the envelopes. Deposit envelopes near the Today: There will be no coffee and donuts. 7:00 PM - Simbang Gabi - Church Jessie Tree. Donations help offset the expense of flowers Please join us for annual pancake breakfast held by the ADVENT ADORATION & Christmas trees for your Church's Christmas Men of St. Cecilia in the Pavilion. Celebrate Gaudete Sunday! Friday, December 20th environment. Next Sunday: The Knights & the League of the Sacred 7:30 AM – 10:00 PM TODAY Sunday, December 15th at 4:00 PM Heart will host coffee and donuts. “Advent is a journey toward . May we let

ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.” COLLINS CENTER NEWS St. Cecilia's Adult Choir will present THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GIFT Pope Francis Christmas Break: The Collins Center programs are on "Lessons and Carols: A Musical Celebration of Advent" Christmas break. The doors will open again on Monday, Offertory Collection 2019 Sunday Ministries for Next Weekend January 6th. December 7 - 8 $13,592

5:00 PM Saturday: - Presider: Fr. Ramoso; Viviana Soper; Altar Servers: TBD 11:30 AM Mass: - Presider: Fr. Ramoso; This Week’s Mass Intentions MUSIC: Sam Petrocelli & Marco Celi; MUSIC: Adult Choir; Readers: Wendy Ho & Monday, December 16 Wednesday, December 18 Friday, December 20 Sunday, December 22 Readers: Claudia Assis, Marco Celi, Garrett 9:30 AM Mass: - Presider: Fr. Arnoult; MUSIC: Ronnie Enriquez; Euch. Min: Wendy Ho, 7AM - Declan Gohery 7AM - Gard Family, Living 7AM - John Harrington, Living 7:30AM - Joy Jasko Scanlan, Tina Celi, Irene Quan; Altar Servers: Children’s Advent Program; Euch. Min: Rita Ronnie Enriquez, John Ho, Therese Roomian, 9AM - Mary Kavanagh 9AM - Enez Lembi 9AM - Frank O’Keeffe 11:30AM - John Libby TBD Mazzei, George Ibarcena, Connor Vo, Lisa Benjamin Kim; Altar Servers: TBD 5:30PM - Rosalie & Barthy King 5:30PM - Geoffrey Shirvani 5:30PM - Oscar Mallari Shek, Kathleen O’Connor, Avelina Martin; 7:30 AM Mass: - Presider: Fr. Bula; Readers: Altar Servers: TBD Tuesday, December 17 Thursday, December 19 Saturday, December 21 Noreen McKiernan & Donna Bruno; Euch. 7AM - Magdelene Cho 9AM - Sr. Francis Conway 7AM - Oscar Mollari Min: Donna Bruno, Sharon Hupf, Chris 9AM - Oscar Mallari 9AM - Gary William Pupipura 9AM - Morrison Gardner Radich, Alice Paz Grimes, Mary Villegas, 5:30PM - Pad Jo Daly 5:00PM - Michael Birmingham 5:00PM - Mary & Bob Barrett, Living