The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 27, 2020

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2530 South Howell Avenue • Milwaukee, WI 53207 Sacraments of Initiation Infant Baptism is celebrated regularly throughout the year. Contact the parish office for further information.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Adults wishing to come into full communion with the church, should contact the Director of RCIA for information regarding classes of preparation.

Adult Schedule of Masses Post-High School adults 18 years and older who wish to receive the Sacrament of Weekends: Confirmation are asked to participate in the Inter-parish Collaborative Process beginning Saturday Daily 8:30am each Fall. Contact the Director of Adult Confirmation for information. Saturday Vigil 4:00pm (Suspended UFN)

Sunday 11:00am Sacrament of Marriage All couples wishing to celebrate the Sacrament of Marriage at St. Augustine Weekdays: must be members of the parish for at least one year prior to the date of the Tuesday & Thursday at 8:30am wedding. Contact the Pastor and the Director of Worship a minimum of six Holydays: As scheduled in the bulletin. months in advance of your intended wedding date. Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 9:00am to 10:00am

Anointing of the Sick & Communion to the Sick/Shut-In Parish Office Hours .... Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Phone ...... 414-744-0808 Parish Membership Parish Email ...... [email protected] Families and Single Persons 18 years and older are asked to register at the Website ...... www.staugies.org Parish in order to receive services the Church offers to all members of our parish Religious Ed www.southeastcatholic.org family. If you would like to join St. Augustine Parish, please call the parish office Parish Hall ...... 414-481-3242 Anyone wishing to celebrate Baptism, Confirmation and Matrimony must be a registered member of the parish and allow for the completion of appropriate Parish Staff Sacramental preparation. Pastor ...... Rev. Philip Schumaker ...... [email protected] Parish Council Members Administrative Assistant/Editor Kim Mueller Katryna Endres, Ray Funk, Jennifer Foyer, Barbara Karges, Alan Henderson, Business Manager ...... Terry Rice Frank Pikalek Facilities Director ...... Joe Laska Music & Liturgy ...... Paul Weisenberger Parish Trustees Director of Elementary Religious Ed, Merlin Klemme & Diane Sowinski Adult Confirmation & RCIA Coordinator ...... Karen Bushman 481-0777x1117 St. Academy Director of Youth Ministry 341 East Norwich Street, Milwaukee, WI 53207 Phone 414-744-1214 ...... Rebecca Scholz 481-0777x1135 Website: www.thomasaquinasacademy.com Deacon Pat Lapointe ...... 414-246-4620 Principal, Frank Edgeworth ([email protected]) ...... [email protected] Parish School Board Member, Kristine Fleis

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SǕ. VdžǓǐǏNJDŽǂ JǂǏ. 1ǔǕ 10:30ǂǎ Catholic Quiz *Mǂǔǔ ǐLJ AǏǕNJDŽNJǑǂǕNJǐǏ Learn more about your Catholic Faith. 1. What city had been the center of Japanese Catholicism since the early Jesuit missions? THIS WEEK’S MASS INTENTIONS (a) Nagasaki (b) Hiroshima (c) Tokyo (d) Akita Fifth Day within the Octave of the Tuesday, Dec. 29 2. In what city of Vietnam did the Blessed Virgin appear on Nativity of the Lord August 21, 1798? 8:30a † Joe Caravella (a) Can Tho (b) Haiphong (c) Beauraing (d) La Vang Thursday, Dec. 31 Seventh Day within the Octave of the 3. According to the Catechism (CCC#1175), what is intended to Nativity of the Lord become the of the whole people of , not just clergy? 8:30a † Ervin & Irene Zacharias (a) of the (b) Liturgy of the Hours (c) Exposition (d) Friday, Jan. 1 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 9:00a † Mary Klemme 4. In the ministry of Jesus, which one of these people WAS NOT † Dolores Klein brought back to life? Saturday, Jan. 2 Saints Basil the Great & Gregory (a) Daughter of Jairus (b) Lazarus (c) Servant of the centurian (d) Nazianzen, & Doctors of the Church Son of the widow of Naim 8:30a † Ruth Caravella 5. How many attributes of God were traditionally symbolized on Sunday, Jan. 3 Epiphany of the Lord the base of a chalice? (a) Five (b) Six (c) Seven (d) eight 11:00a † Mark Kolancheck PARISH DIRECTORIES ARE HERE! THIS WEEK AT & AROUND ST. AUGUSTINE If you had your picture taken for the parish directory, your free Monday, December 28 directory will be available after Mass. A limited quantity of 8:00am-4:30pm Parish Office Closed-IC/SA directories are available for purchase for $5.00. 8:30am Daily Mass-NL HERITAGE FUNERAL HOME 5:30pm Pray the -SP Located in the back of church, are free 2021 calendars sponsored by Tuesday, December 29 Heritage funeral homes. The years calendar is “Rejoice in the Lord” 8:30am Daily Mass-SA with traditional art throughout, holidays and feast days listed for 5:30pm Reconciliation-SHJ each month. 6:00pm Daily Mass-SHJ Wednesday, December 30 MASS INTENTIONS 7:00am Daily Mass–IC Remembering a loved one who has died or celebrating a special 8:30am Daily Mass-SV birthday or anniversary are just a few of the reasons people have for Thursday, December 31 offering a Mass. Mass intentions are scheduled on a first come first 7:00am Daily Mass–IC serve basis and are $10 per intention. Stop in or call the parish office. The 2021 calendar is now open. 8:00am-4:30pm Parish Office Closed-IC/SA 4:30pm Solemnity of Mary Mass-NL PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN’S MARCH FOR LIFE-MADISON Friday, January 1 January 2nd in Madison, WI at 11:00am there is a march around the 8:00am-4:30pm Parish Office Closed-IC/SA state capitol. Pro-Life Wisconsin signs will be available. For more 8:30am Solemnity of Mary Mass-SP information call 262-796-1111 ext. 114.

9:00am Solemnity of Mary Mass-SA READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF DEC. 27, 2020 10:30am Solemnity of Mary Mass-SV Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or Gn 15:1-6; 21:1-3/Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 [cf. Saturday, January 2 1] or Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 [7a, 8a]/Col 3:12-21 or 3:12-17 or 8:30am Daily Mass-SA Church Heb 11:8, 11-12, 17-19/Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22, 39-40 9:00am-10:00am Confessions-SA Church Monday: 1 Jn 1:5—2:2/Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8 [7]/Mt 2:13-18 4:30pm Combined IC/SA/SHJ Vigil Mass-IC Church Tuesday: 1 Jn 2:3-11/Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6 [11a]/Lk 2:22-35 Sunday, January 3 Wednesday: 1 Jn 2:12-17/Ps 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10 [11a]/Lk 2:36-40 8:30am-10:15am RCIA-Intro to Sacraments-SV Thursday: 1 Jn 2:18-21/Ps 96:1-2, 11-12, 13 [11a]/Jn 1:1-18 9:00am Mass with Overflow in School Hall-IC Friday: Nm 6:22-27/Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 [2a]/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21 11:00am Mass with Overflow in Church Hall-SA Saturday: 1 Jn 2:22-28/Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 [3cd]/Jn 1:19-28 11:30am-1:00pm Family of Faith-Material Pickup-SV Next Sunday: Is 60:1-6/Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 [cf. 11]/Eph 5:00pm Sunday Evening Mass-NL 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12 LPi CONVERSATIONS AFTER MASS PARISH STEWARDSHIP

Keep the good feelings from Mass going! Share your family’s answer to the December 8 & 13, 2020 following question. Weekly ...... ……$4,136.00 Question: What New Year’s Resolution was the easiest to keep that you have ever Special Monthly ...... $141.00 made? Offertory ...... $525.67 Christmas ...... 110.00 SOUTHEAST CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS FORMATION The January materials pickup will be held on January 3, 11:30am – Flowers ...... $516.00 1:30pm and January 7, 4:30pm – 6:30pm at the office door of St. Solemnity of Mary ...... $20.00 Immaculate Conception ...... $167.00 Veronica. This month we will also fulfill the Archdiocese Safe Environment All Saints ...... $30.00 requirement of education for children and youth. All Souls ...... $30.00 CATHOLIC BIBLICAL A,B,C’S Online Giving ...... $215.00 For 2020-21, we are offering an alphabet Scripture memory verse to help us know Total $5,890.67 by heart 27 popular verses. Our next letter is I and the verse comes from Sir 1:23, 120 envelopes were used this week. “If you desire wisdom, keep the commandments.”

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD Southeast Catholic continues to offer online Children’s Liturgy of the Word on our website, www.southeastcatholic.org. We hope your children ages 4 – 8 will enjoy the Scriptures and reflection made just for them. Our parish community wishes to ONLINE TRIVIA FOR ADULTS, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN express our sympathy to the family and You still have time to enliven your holidays with a trivia game. Our South Shore friends of Parishes Trivia Night has created two special games for everyone to enjoy. The † Mary Klemme † games are available on the HOME PAGE at www.southeastcatholic.org and will remain available until Jan 4. Why not go online during a zoom session with your † Dolores Klein † family and friends to make it a safely distanced friendly competition! May they enjoy complete happiness with the Lord. ADULT BIBLE STUDY IN THE NEW YEAR Beginning Jan. 7th at St. Paul Parish from 9a-10a for six weeks, we will be using a new study on the book of Deuteronomy. All materials are free. SANCTUARY LAMPS Marian Bartels Cycles of Faith Donald Geske

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Dolores Geske Tom Halas Tragedy and disappointment are inevitable. What sees you through this? There will be Lorraine Harling challenges, changes, unexpected circumstances, interrupted plans, hurts, and injustices experienced by every human being at some point in their lives. We will be asked to adjust Mark Kolancheck our plans, change course, and even encounter suffering and death. Where do we learn all Mary Beth Lauritzen of the lessons we need to live life well? Some of them we learn along the way but much of Jerry Niemiec what we bring to life, positive and negative, comes from our early beginnings, our Arnold & Justine Stout families. This is our early world and provides the blueprint for how we see the bigger, Agripine Toth more inclusive world, which unfolds before us. Jerry Werner

Our families of origin can be sources of grace, heartache or a combination of both. Becky Zacharias Families are intended to be pivotal in providing us with proper social structure and If you are interested in lighting a 7 day understanding, a support system, lessons about relationships and communication, and the unconditional acceptance and love we so desperately crave. They can also determine candle for a loved one, please call the whether we have an accessible and healthy relationship with God. Many of life’s parish office. Candles are lit weekly for

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achieve from life in general. Resolving conflicts, dealing with difficulty and suffering, by persecution to due hiding were Catholics celebrating accomplishments, prioritizing our needs, listening to God’s call, understanding Q2 Notes: 5b 4c, 3b, 2d, 1a, Answers: relationships, understanding disappointment, learning about the virtues and living a centered focused life are all lessons our families either succeed in teaching or do not. To BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK succeed, as God has designed and ordered our world, is to discover his presence and then trust that Presence. The Holy Family can teach even the most dysfunctional family how to 29 Nina Figueroa best use God’s gifts of faith, hope, and love to find him and do his will. Their simple 30 Gerald Feuerstahler, humble example is always before us, showing us the way. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for Maureen O’Neill us! ©LPi 02 Neil Stockheimer

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