The Christian Community of SAINT ElizabethElizabeth

Parish Clergy and Staff St. Elizabeth Catholic Church 6077 Sharon Woods Boulevard Fr. Ramon Owera, CFIC...... Parish Administrator ...... [email protected] Columbus, Ohio 43229-2646 Fr. Jesse Chick, CFIC……………… ...... In Residence Parish Office Phone: 614-891-0150 Fax: 614-891-3243 ...... [email protected]

Office Hours: Monday—Thursday 9am to 3pm, Fr. Sudhakar Reddy, CFIC ...... In Residence Friday 9am to 2pm ...... [email protected] St. Vincent DePaul Hotline: 614-891-0150 x110 Rev. Deacon Dean W. Racine ...... Pastoral Minister Rectory Phone: 614-882-1782 (after business hours) ...... [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: stelizabethchurch.org Mr. Dave Gruber ...... Director of Religious Education ...... [email protected]

Mr. Rich Krehnovi ...... Director of Music ...... [email protected]

Mr. Greg Januszewski ...... Bookkeeper ...... [email protected]

Mr. Bob Brandenstein ...... Maintenance

Mrs. Lisa Broberg ...... Maintenance

Prayer Line ...... [email protected]

Parish Council ...... [email protected]

Ms. Lauren Jazwiec ...... [email protected]

Eucharistic Celebrations Saturday… ...... 5:30 p.m. Sunday ...... 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Tuesday ...... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday ...... 8:30 a.m.

Adoration and Holy Hour Tuesday ...... 5:00 p.m.

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday ...... 4:45‒5:10 p.m.

Sacrament of Baptism Baptisms are the second Sunday of the month. Please call for details and to register.

Sacrament of Marriage Please contact the parish at least 6 months before the date. Pre-Cana or its equivalent is required.

Religious Formation Parish Religious Education Program (PREP) serves children grades K-8. Classes meet at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) is for those who are curious about our Catholic Faith, and to complete the sacraments of initiation.

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CALENDAR

Fourth Sunday of Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, THIS WEEK IN December 22 December 23 December 23 OUR PARISH 5:30pm 9am 11am

Saturday, December 15 Eucharistic B1. Carmel Mechlin B1. Jeff Endres B1. Fran Keller 4:45 pm ...... Reconciliation Ministers B2. Volunteer B2. Kim Endres B2. Tim Keller 5:00 pm ...... African Choir Rehearsal B4. Bob Poling B4. B. Gerdeman B4. Carol Shultz 5:30 pm ...... Mass C1. John Reger C1. Twyla Grooms C1. Gary Shultz 7:30 pm ...... C2. R. Rindfleisch C2. Roger Heckel C2. D. McMillan

Sunday, December 16 C3. Martin Walker C3. Carolyn Hen- C3. Gianna Miner 9:00 am ...... Mass C4. R. Wickerham dey C4. Nicole Steele 10:00 am ...... Breakfast with Santa C4. Peter Hendey 10:00 am ...... P.R.E.P. Greeters 1. Larry Alessio 1. Bill Rectanus 1. Thao Eggenberg 11:00 am ...... Mass 2. Helen Bailey 2. Bill Rose 2. Regina Hardin 1:00 pm ...... African Mass 3. Helen Philibin 3. Howard VanOss 3. Larry Huck 4:30 pm ...... Children’s Choir Rehearsal 4. Janet Brewer 4. Lisa Vazquez 4. CG Jones 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi Lectors 1. Doug Schrage 1. R. Schneider 1. Angela Ahiekpor Monday, December 17 2. John Reger 2. Irene Sze 2. Sr. J. Conrad 7 pm ...... 9am Choir Rehearsal Altar Volunteer Bill & Chelsea Odoi Austin Bealer, 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi Servers Volunteer

Tuesday, December 18 Children’s Liturgy (9am) Christine Shamblin 6:00 pm ...... Daily Mass Collection Counters Sharon Reed, Christine Damiene, Martha Barnhart 6:30 pm ...... Exposition Homebound Ministers 1. Vickie Sagraves, 2. Maiman Trinity, 3. 2 Colatruglio 7:00 pm ...... RCIA Altar Linens Robin Racine 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi

Wednesday, December 19 Please patronize the 8:30 am ...... Daily Mass businesses that advertise on the Ministers, the schedule for January 6:00 pm ...... Liturgy Committee back of our bulletin! through April is available on the 7:00 pm ...... Charismatic Prayer Group parish website. A paper copy will 7:30 pm ...... Small Church Communities This week we highlight: be sent to you by request. Just call 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi J.E. Gonya & Associates the parish office! Thursday, December 20 Real Estate Appraisals and 8:30 am ...... Daily Mass 7:00 pm ...... Knights of Columbus Consulting Masses 7:00 pm ...... 11 am Choir Rehearsal James E. Gonya, Parishioner December 24th: 7:00 pm ...... Parish Council 614-890-3409 4, 7, & 10 pm 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi [email protected] December 25th: Friday, December 21 93 Bishop Dr, Ste A, Westerville 10 am 8:30 am ...... Daily Mass 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi

Saturday, December 22 NEW MINISTRY! St. Elizabeth is creating a 4:45 ...... Reconciliation 5:00 pm ...... African Choir Rehearsal WELCOMING MINISTRY! If you are interested in contacting those 5:30 pm ...... Mass who have recently registered and prospective members, please 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi call the parish office. We need your time and your talent! Sunday, December 23 9:00 am ...... Mass 11:00 am ...... Mass HAVE YOU TRIED SHAKLEE 12:15 pm ...Christmas Decorating in Church HEALTH SUPPLIMENTS? 4:30 pm ...... Children’s Choir Rehearsal Not only will your health improve, you will 7:30 pm ...... Simbang Gabi with help raise funds for St. Elizabeth Parish! ...... Pot Luck Dinner to follow Contact Amy Cotter, our St. Elizabeth Shaklee Coordinator at (614) 307-5451.

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St. Elizabeth Parish is happy to announce that we have partnered with Amazon Smile, and you can now easily raise funds for our parish by simply shopping as you already do online!

Search “St. Elizabeth Church” at smile.amazon.com, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your total purchase of Smile eligible items to our parish. This amount may seem small, but over time adds up. Please consider helping St. Elizabeth Church in this convenient way!

Thank you to all the parishioners who adopted the cost of Altar Flowers and Chapel Flowers in 2019! There are still a few spots open for next year:

ALTAR FLOWERS CHAPEL FLOWERS January 20 January 27 January 27 February 10 June 9 March 10 August 25 March 31 December 29 April 18 (Holy Thursday) May 5 May 12 June 16 July 14 July 21 A Blessed and October 20 Merry Christmas from October 27 November 3 the staff of November 24 St. Elizabeth Parish! December 25 (Christmas) Fr. Ramon, Fr. Jesse, Please call the parish office to reserve your flowers in memory of a loved one. Thank you for helping to defray the cost of flowers! Fr. Sudhakar, Deacon Dean, Dave, Rich, Paul, Greg, Join us for our annual Lisa, Bob celebration of Simbang Gabi! and This is a traditional Filipino nine-day Lauren series of Masses that lead up to ST. ELIZABETH CHURCH Christmas and also celebrate the ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS Blessed Virgin Mary. Please visit Times are 7:30 from December 15th www.stelizabethchurch.org through the 22nd, and 7:00 to sign up for secure online contributions. December 23rd, followed by a pot-luck dinner. Look for this button!

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HONORING MASS INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK

THOSE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15 WHO SERVE

5:30 p.m. The living and deceased members of St. Elizabeth Parish

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 May God bless the men and women who 9:00 a.m. Lou Mazzoli, (req. Connie Premuticho) serve their communities and country! 11:00 a.m. Jim Thomas, (req. Barbara and Larry Overholser)

Ensign Ryan Buck US Navy Nuclear Power School, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18 Charleston, South Carolina 6:00 p.m. Maria Mai Bui, (req. Minh Do)

Katey Gruber WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 EMT Columbus, Ohio 8:30 a.m. All Souls, (req. Minh Do) Patrick E. Harris Fireman/Paramedic/Hazmat THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 Columbus, Ohio, Station 14 10:00 a.m. Evelyn Ortenzio, (req. Helen Philibin)

Lt. Colonel Kenneth Heckel FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 US Army-West Point

8:30 a.m. Jack Litzinger, (req. Philibin Family) Cody Hootman Senior Airman—Air Force SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 Kirkland AFB, Albuquerque NM 5:30 p.m. The O’Neil, Souch and DiPaolo Families, (req. Norma O’Neil) Jeff Hootman Firefighter, Worthington, Ohio SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23

Colin O’Connor 9:00 a.m. Luciano & Ginevra Frissora, (req. Lia McComas) EMS-Columbus 11:00 a.m. The living and deceased members of St. Elizabeth Parish

Tim O’Connor If you wish to have a Mass said for a loved one or special intention, Fireman and Medic-Maui, Hawaii please contact the parish office during business hours. The stipend is $10. Lt. Mary Beth Ray, M.D. Family Practitioner—Branch Health Clinic Naval Air Facility, Atsugi, Japan CHAPEL FLOWERS ALTAR FLOWERS Mikala Scholl Private First Class-Marines December 16 December 16

San Diego, California For the intentions of For the intentions of Gaven Smith Dennis Dowds Captain, Army Dee Balogh Afghanistan From from

Andrew Stogran Dowds Family Helen Philibin Major, Marine Corps Okinawa, Japan OUR GIFT TO YOU! Kevin Taylor Master Sergeant, Army, Parishioners, please feel free to peruse the Joint Task Headquarters-Worthington Parish Library and bring home as many books

Jonathan Thomas as you like to keep! Happy reading! US Navy, Sonar Tech, Norfolk, VA

Please call the parish office Parishioners, we are happy to announce that to add names for whom we can pray. 30 minutes before all Masses from now on, we will recite the Rosary together. (Rather than just May and October).

Therefore, please remember to enter the church quietly, and keep conversations to a minimum. If you need to borrow a rosary, they can be found under the cabinet behind the Baptismal font. Please return after Mass.

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REFLECTIONS

Gospel Meditation JUST FOR KIDS December 16, 2018—Second Sunday of Advent

In Christianity, we hear often about the "Good News." We might often associate it with ' compassion to the poor, his healings and miracles, and the salvation he won for us. In today's Gospel, we read of John the Baptist. "Exhorting them in many other ways, he preached good news to the people." Yet as we examine the rest of the reading, we see examples of John's preaching. If you have two cloaks, give one away. Don't cheat others out of their money, extort, or lie. And, of course, the warning that the Messiah is on the move and "his winnowing fan is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." Merry Christmas?

Not only do John's listeners enjoy his message, but they seem to think he might be the awaited Messiah! To understand today's Gospel, it's important to understand the Jewish people. For most of their history, God's chosen people had been under someone else's heel. They were slaves in Egypt. Their kingdoms were ravaged first by the Assyrians, then the Babylonians. Now they were under the yoke of the Roman Empire. Familiar with being strangers in a strange land, welcoming the stranger, caring for the vulnerable, and enacting justice was incredibly important to them as a people. While John's words may seem odd or strong to our Sharing the Gospel modern ears, this call to justice was welcome, even if it was directed at Today John the Baptist is visiting your the hearer. church. You ask him, "What should my family do to serve God?" He answers, "If The truth is, no one is exempt from John's call to repentance. We all have you have two winter coats, give one to further to go in the Christian life. We can all grow in virtue and love our someone who doesn't have any. If you neighbors more generously. The Church gives us the Advent season to have food, share it with someone else." examine our own hearts. Did any of John's warnings resonate with you? You tell him, "I can give away a coat and That could be a great thing to bring to Jesus this week! a pair of shoes that's too small for me. I can share a can of carrots from our shelf READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 16, 2018 at home." Mission for the Week

This week I will give money, canned Sunday: Third Sunday of Advent food, and/or clothing to the poor. Zep 3:14-18a/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [6]/Phil 4:4-7/Lk 3:10-18

Monday: Gn 49:2, 8-10/Ps 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17 [cf. 7]/Mt 1:1-17

Tuesday: Jer 23:5-8/Ps 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19 [cf. 7]/Mt 1:18-25

Wednesday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a/Ps 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17 [cf. 8]/Lk 1:5-25

Thursday: Is 7:10-14/Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 [cf. 7c and 10b]/Lk 1:26-38

Friday: St. Peter Canisius, Priest & Doctor of the Church Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a/Ps 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21 [1a; 3a]/Lk 1:39-45

Saturday: 1 Sm 1:24-28/1 Sm 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd [cf. 1a]/Lk 1:46-56

Next Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent Mi 5:1-4a/Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 [4]/Heb 10:5-10/Lk 1:39-45

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SOCIAL SENIORS—PLEASE NOTE HOLY LAND Please note our meeting times have changed for TOUR January, February and March of 2019. Meetings will be from 1-3pm in Classroom 8. Journey through The Thursday evening meetings will resume in April, the land of from 6-8 pm. Israel!

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Included: Round Trip flight from Columbus, Hotels, Touring, Entrance Fees, Tips ($140), Optional travel insurance ($242 per person) Drinks, Masada optional tour ($140) and souvenirs.

Hosted by Fr. Ramon Owera! Mike Wyne from LPi, our bulletin printer, can be reached to place an Advertisement.

For more information contact Fr. Please consider purchasing an ad to promote your business. Your participation Ramon at [email protected], makes our bulletin successful, you attract customers and your support for the church is so appreciated! Please ask about our Holiday Promotion! or Jerusalem Tours at 888-373-8687.

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Our Lady of Peace School

Enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year in Kindergarten and open spots in grades 1-8 is now open for members of parishes without schools. Please stop by the school office to pick up an enrollment folder. The following is needed along with the completed application:

• Birth Certificate

• Baptismal Certificate (copy only) if not baptized at OLP

• Most recent report card for students entering grades 1-8 Disaster Preparedness—We need your help! St. Elizabeth Parish is currently in the process of updating/ • Custody papers if parents are revising our Emergency & Disaster Procedures. We are separated or divorced

reaching out to our parish family for assistance. If you have • Immunization record. or you know of someone who has experience in Firefighting, Police work, or other emergency skills, please call the parish A child must be 5 years old by office at (614)891-0150 or Bill Rectanus (614) 370-5247 September 30 in order to be considered for Kindergarten. Please help stock our St. Vincent de Paul pantry. Please call the school office at We currently need: 614-267-4535 if you would like to

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