PARISH DECEMBER 24, 2017 DECEMBER 24 DECEMBER 31 FOURTH SUNDAY OF 2 SAM 7:1-5,8-16 GEN 15:1-6,21:1-3 Building Fund -- Monthly ROM 16:25-27 HEB 11:8-12,17-19 Mustard Seed – Monthly LUKE 1:26-38 LUKE 2:22-40 Seminary – December 25 www.annunciationcatholicchurch.org

PASTOR: Fr. Tony Rinaldo, 573-796-4842 [email protected] Emergency Contact for Fr. Tony: St. Andrew's Church 660-433-2162 DEACON: Ed Schepers, 573-694-9331 [email protected] PARISH OFFICE: 573-796-4842 or [email protected], Hall 796-3568 Open Mondays 8 AM to1 PM & Tuesdays 8:30 AM to12:00 PM Phone and Email messages always welcome PASTORAL MINISTER: Sr. Mary Ruth Wand, [email protected] 796-2654 PARISH COUNCIL PRESIDENT: Evelyn Jobe, 301-4945, [email protected] MASSES @ ANNUNCIATION: SATURDAY @ 4 PM, SUNDAY @ 10:30 AM, And SPANISH MASS @ NOON MASSES @ ST. ANDREW: TIPTON: SATURDAY @ 5:30 PM, SUNDAY @ 8:30 BAPTISMS: By appointment. Please call for Parental Sacrament Preparation WEDDINGS: Please contact at least 4 months in advance RECONCILIATION: Saturdays @ 3:15 PM before Mass – Sundays @ 9:30 AM or by appt.

MASSES FOR THE WEEK Sat. Dec 23 4 PM Alan Irey / Leon Deraps PASTOR’S NOTES . . . Sun. Dec 24 10:30 AM Deceased – Emil & Agnes Bax Sun. Dec 24 NOON Spanish December 24, 2017 Sun. Dec 24 5 PM Beth Rackers / Mark Imhoff Fourth Sunday of Advent Mon. Dec 25 10:30 AM Parish/ John & Pauline Rudroff Once again, I found myself inundated with cards, goodies, and Tue. Dec 26 NO MASS other gifts this and for my December birthday. I am Thu. Dec 28 NO MASS really touched by the warmth and generosity of the people I am Sat. Dec 30 4 PM Parish called to serve. Sun. Dec 31 10:30 AM Randy Effner There is a term called: “Christmas creep” that refers, not to our Sun. Dec 31 NOON Spanish grouchy neighbor, or unpleasant coworker, but the effort by retailers to start Christmas sales earlier and earlier. In all of this I like to remember what Dr.Seuss’s character the learned MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK about the true meaning of Christmas: Sun. Dec 24 Mass “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without 5 PM @ Annunciation ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes 7 PM @ St. Andrews or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Mon. Dec 25 Christmas Day Mass Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Midnight Christmas Eve- Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if St. Andrews Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” 8:30 AM @ St. Andrews This year I had the opportunity to baptize a baby on 10:30 AM @ Annunciation December 23. What a great time to baptize a tiny baby in front Wed. Dec 27 8:15 PM Mustard Seed of the in church, to realize just how tiny was when he set aside His glory to come to earth to redeem fallen humanity. STEWARDSHIP – OUR GIFT TO GOD If the commercialism of Christmas or the evils of the world Monthly Goal: $23,100.00 depress us, we can look at the Nativity scenes in churches or 1st week: $ 3,828.23 2nd week: $ 8,667.02 front yards everywhere. It fills us with joy that we are getting 3rd week: $ 5,710.95 closer and closer to the coming of the Lord. We can imagine ourselves on the hillsides with the shepherds amazed by what Seminary: $ 250.00 Mustard Seed: $ 600.00 the angel told them. We can imagine the wise men silhouetted : $ 235.00 in the brightness of the Christmas star. And we can meditate on being in that barn with the smell of straw, animals, and a Short of Goal: $ 4,893.80 beautiful newborn baby who is our hope. We can lay our problems at the foot of the manger when the infant Jesus smiles at us. We can imagine receiving him in our arms and hearts while Mary shows him to us as the gentle Joseph watches on If you want to sign up for ministries for Christmas lovingly. This child is our victory. This child is Jesus, the Savior of Eve and Christmas Day - a sign-up sheet is in the all mankind. With the first Christians we can cry out: Maranatha, back of church. come Lord Jesus! Christmas Blessings and Peace to all in this coming year,

Fr. Tony Pray for the Sick: Gary Fleishmann; Nancy Porter; Russell Milligan; Melody Fischer; Terry Carlson; Leo CHRISTMAS MASS CELEBRATIONS Maasen (father of Rosina Loethen and Beverly Frank); Sunday morning – December 24th (4th Sunday of Advent) Floyd Cain; Bob Taylor; Fr. Pat Shortt; Special Intention; Masses at usual times – Saturday 4PM – Sunday 10:30PM (This does not meet the Christmas obligation Mass.) Don George; Mark Bardwell; Patricia Taylor; Sheryl

Sullins; Rick Wingate; Rachel Frank; Mary Ann Kenning; Christmas Eve – December 24th Robert Wolken (Jo Wolken’s nephew); Gladys Mertens; Annunciation 5 PM Andrea Tilbury; Delores Bardwell; Teresa Kirchhoff; Joel St. Andrews-Tipton 7 PM Rivera; Carol Rackers; Carol Baker; Doug Distler; Mary St Andrews-Tipton 12PM Wood; Tom LePage; and Travis Peck Christmas Day – December 25th St. Andrews – Tipton 8:30 AM Annunciation 10:30 AM Catholic Engaged Encounter is an in-depth, There will not be any weekday masses through the week private, personal, marriage preparation experience of Christmas and New Years. within the context of Catholic faith and values. Catholic Engaged Encounter is a weekend retreat away with News Years Day Mass - It is not a Holy Day of Obligation other engaged couples with plenty of time alone together to this year. dialogue honestly and intensively about their prospective lives There will be Mass Monday – January 1st at Annunciation together. It consists of a series of presentations beginning Friday parish at 9:00 AM. evening and ending Sunday afternoon. The Engaged Encounter coordinators for our diocese are Deacon Burdett and Joyce Wilson. CHRISTMAS CHORUS SINGERS WELCOME!! DATES FOR 2018 ARE: JANUARY 5-7 Mass will be at 5:00 PM on Christmas Eve MARCH 2-4 and at 10:30 on Christmas morning. Please consider joining the song leaders at MAY 4-6 either of these Masses. AUGUST 3-5 Traditional carols are planned - EVERYONE NOVEMBER 2-4 is welcome! The registration form, as well as Engaged Encounter weekend information, is available on our diocesan website, Flowers in Memory of these people: Joe www.diojeffcity.org, Our Church, Life & Marriage, Engaged & Helen Allen; Alma Bestgen; Bob Bestgen; Encounter. Rev. Jerome Bestgen; Walter & Mark Brauner; Angela Camden; David Cramer; The cost for the weekend is $100 per couple. A $25 deposit made Pete Cremer; Leon Deraps; Arlene Distler; payable to Engaged Encounter is required and to be included Clem Distler; John Dorn; Bernie & Elva Dunn; Bill Glenn; with the registration form. The weekends are held at St. Pius X in Moberly. Frank Haller Family; John & Rosalie Hentges; Earl & Jo Hirschvogel; Bill Ketterlin; John & Gertie Leonard; Elliott & Mildred McPherson; Gene & Juanita Rennirt; Earl & Margaret Scheidt; Dick Scheidt; Tony Scheidt; Special K OF C HALL FOR RESERVATIONS Intention; Andrew & Hazel Strickfaden; Margaret Need a place to celebrate the special Strickfaden; Beth Rackers; Leon & Rita Vanderfeltz. events in your life? Consider one of the Knights of Columbus Helias Council 1054 party rooms at the Hall on Tanner Bridge Road. The rooms are three different sizes to accommodate different party VOCATION VOICE: Mary received and sizes (up to 200). The rent is very reasonable, and the facility responded to the Lord's will through the is centrally located and handicap accessible. The largest room invitation of an angel. Who are God's has been remodeled and works very well for receptions, messengers in your life? Listen to God parties, showers and reunions of all sorts. Contact Larry speaking to you through them. Pray for all (Tuna) Hentges, 353-9304 for information. leaders in the church and beg God for more priests and religious. MINISTRY LIST

Thanks to everyone that helped in DEC 30, 4 PM DEC 31, 10:30 AM any way with the Angel Tree. Lectors Angela Henderson Brian Hill Annunciation Parish had 30 families Debbie Lehman Ryan Porter that they helped with providing gifts Greeters/Usher Larry & Linda Imhoff Roy & Tim Baker and food certificates for Moniteau Servers Seth Bax Brody Schuster County residents. It was another successful year – Sydney Percival Lane Schuster and we want to thank everyone for their generosity – Eucharistic Ruthie Adams Matt Brauner Judy Scott. Ministers Paul Bloch J.D. Gattermeir Julie Haslag Dan Hemmel Margaret Reynolds Charlie Rackers PSR YOUTH Sr. Mary Ruth Allen Rudroff Offertory Tammy Korte Family Charlie Roll Thank you to the teachers, parents, and Mike Taube students. Merry Christmas and God bless Song Leader Larry Dahler Rosemary Bardwell each one of you. See you back in class on Organist Ruth Ann Jobe Ruth Ann Jobe January 10. Ruthie Adams Rosary Ruth Ann Jobe Wes Schuster Mustard Seed Margaret Bieri Eucharist to Dan Hemmel I want to thank everyone who saved the Shut Ins Best Choice Labels for us this past year. I mailed off 5,000 and have a good number Money Suzy Allee and Carol Rackers to start next year with. Thought you might Counters be interested to know that we started this project in 1999 and including this year, we have taken in $3,390 for the Cedron Cemetery Fund. Please Pray For Vocations to Religious Life, Our highest number of labels ever sent in was 10,000 in Priesthood and Strong Catholic Marriage 2004. Thank you again everyone. Wishing all a Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Happy New Year. ~Teresa Kirchhoff

Moniteau Christian Ministry Center wants to thank our parish for helping with the egg carton need. At the present, the need is over. They have a good supply in case they need egg cartons right away. HOWEVER, MCMC is constantly in need of plastic grocery bags. So please keep the grocery bags coming. You may put them in the basement stairwell area. Thank you, thank you!