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We are a welcoming Catholic Community called by God to live out the message of Christ in love and service to all people. January 3, 2021 Adoration of the Magi / Andrea Mantegna / 1500 28290 Beaumont Road, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 • Phone (239) 992-0901 www.stleocatholicchurch.org • Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8 am - 4 pm Daily Mass: Monday-Saturday: 8 am • Confessions: Saturday 9-10:30am Saturday Vigil Masses: 3:30 & 5:30 pm • Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 am & 5 pm Misa en español Domingo - 7 pm y las confesiones antes de la misa Mass in Polish: 3rd Sunday of the month - 1:30 pm Parish Church Support Thank you for your continued generosity! Parish Staff December 19 & 20…..$ 17,609 Rev. Jarek (Jaroslaw) Sniosek ............................. Pastor Rev. Kristian Villafana ......................................... Parochial Vicar Due to the printer’s holiday schedule Rev. Luis Albarracin ............................................. Parochial Vicar this bulletin was submitted before the Anne Bellows ........................................................ Assistant to the Pastor Hermilo Calderon .................................................. Lead Maintenance most recent collection were tabulated. Griselda Cisneros .................................................. Receptionist Rogelio Delgado .................................................... Maintenance Sandra Edwards .................................................... Receptionist Daniel Gonzalez .................................................... Maintenance Elsy Hernandez ..................................................... Graphics Designer Annemarie Jardon ................................................. Director of Religious Education Lauryn Kay ............................................................ Cantor Marcin Malewski .................................................... Director of Music Martha Mercado .................................................... Maintenance Frank Murray ........................................................ Youth Ministry Gisela Saldana ...................................................... Religious Education Assistant Henry Soto ............................................................ Accountant Milana Strezeva ................................................... Musician Thank You for Your Generosity! Celebrating our Faith LET’S TOP IT OFF! BAPTISM OF INFANTS Baptisms of children under 7 years old are offered every fourth Sunday of each month in Spanish and every second Sunday of the month in English. Please visit our website or contact our office for details and requirements. The 2020 Catholic Faith Appeal CONFIRMATION At confirmation we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and confirm and renew our baptismal promises committing to a life of maturity in the Christian faith. Uncon- firmed Catholics wishing to receive the Sacrament should contact the Parish Office Our Goal ....................... $462,000 to make arrangements for suitable instruction. Unbaptized or non-Catholics can be Contributions to date . $553,176 confirmed at the Easter Vigil when they are baptized or received into the Church as a part of Rite of Christian Initiation of Adult. To enroll in RCIA, please call Griselda Our Pledges ................. $554,351 Cisneros at 992-0901. Pledge Goal Attained….120.14% EUCHARIST Parishioners who wish to bring communion to their spouses should contact the St. Leo parish office to pick up a pyx with the St. Leo’s inscription on it. Please use this pyx = 10% of Goal when approaching to receive a host for your spouse or a family member in the Communion procession during Mass. If you need to receive a gluten free host due to a medical condition please arrive 15 minutes before Mass begins and inform the Sacristan. Because of your amazing generosity we have RECONCILIATION Individual confession with a priest is the principal means of absolution and reconcil- gone over 100% of our pledge goal for the 2020 iation of grave sins within the Church. The Sacrament of Reconciliation frees us Catholic Faith Appeal. Please remember that the from sinful patterns of behavior and calls us to complete conversion to Christ. Confessions are heard at 9-10:30am on Saturday in English and 6:15pm on Sunday excess contribution amount collected up to 25% in Spanish in the St. Leo Auditorium/North Door . You may also approach any of our parish priests to hear your confession at another suitable time. of our goal is returned to the Parish assessment free. This year, more than ever, THE RITE OF ANOINTING maximizing the amount of money we can receive A person does not need to wait until the point of death to receive this sacrament. A careful judgment about the serious nature of the illness is sufficient. The Sacrament without assessment ($115,500) is vital to us. may be repeated if the sick person recovers after the anointing but becomes ill once again, or if, during the same illness, the person's condition becomes more serious. For those who are about to depart from this life, the Church offers the person Pen- If you would like to make a pledge or contribution ance, Anointing of the Sick, and the Eucharist as Viaticum (food for the journey) given at the end of life. Contact the Parish Office at 992-0901 to be connected with you can pick up an envelope in the back of the the priest on duty. church or call the parish office (992-0901) and we SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE will mail an envelope to you. You can place the If you are a registered parishioner of St. Leo and plan to marry in our parish please contact our office at least six months prior to the tentative wedding date. Weddings envelope in the collection box, mail it directly to cannot be scheduled until the marriage preparation process is complete and it is the diocese, or send it to the parish office where determined that the parties are free to marry. we will forward it for you. ANNULMENT - Reestablishing the freedom to marry. An annulment is more accurately described as a declaration of matrimonial invalidi- ty. It is an official determination made by an ecclesiastical court that at the time of If you are contemplating end of the year the marital consent exchanged by the parties a specific component of the marriage was lacking or defective. Hence, the marriage failed to be a marriage as defined by charitable contributions we would appreciate the Catholic Church. If you wish to reestablish your freedom to marry in the Church, please contact a parish priest to be your advocate in presenting your case to the your consideration of making a new or increased Tribunal. pledge to the 2020 Catholic Faith Appeal. VOCATION If you think that you have a vocation to the priesthood or religious life please speak with one of our priests, or contact the Diocesan Director of Vocations at Thank you for considering this important way 941-484-9548, visit www.dioceseofvenice.org/vocations to most efficiently help St. Leo. Sunday, Jan 03, 2021 Thursday, Jan 07, 2021 SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD CHRISTMAS WEEKDAY Bless this new year of grace And now for an announcement . Some things are worth taking the time to do. After enduring the Even in an age when people are bombarded with messages, manifold burdens of this past year, few of us will need persuading announcements can have particular cachet. They appear over and that the annual Epiphany Blessing of the Home is a ritual worth over in the gospels, from angels announcing Christ’s birth to Jesus’ investing in. Gather your housemates if living with others. Download a announcement in today’s gospel that he came to fulfill the words of home blessing ritual or create one yourself, using symbols especially Isaiah. The church continues to make plenty of announcements, meaningful to your participants. Which household items became from the calendar items announced at Mass to “announcements” especially significant during the pandemic and call for a special in the form of pastoral letters and encyclicals about how to live blessing? A cloth mask, a bar of soap, and Netflix may be featured contemporary Christian life. You probably announced your faith in as items of peculiar yet holy purpose in this year’s rites everywhere. a formal way at your Confirmation. How can you “announce” Christ TODAY'S READINGS: Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6; today through your words and actions? Matthew 2:1-12 (20). “Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light TODAY'S READINGS: 1 John 4:19—5:4; Luke 4:14-22a (215). has come.” “He said to them, ‘Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.’” Monday, Jan 04, 2021 MEMORIAL OF ELIZABETH ANN SETON, RELIGIOUS Friday, Jan 08, 2021 Preserve the legacy CHRISTMAS WEEKDAY Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first U.S.-born saint, started the country’s Out of stillness, creation first Catholic girls’ school in Maryland, where she also founded the As the Christmas season draws to a close, some treasure its first American women’s religious community, the Sisters of Charity. highlights, others dread the January “blahs,” and all of us could do All those “firsts” multiplied into an incredible legacy of parochial well to follow Jesus’ model in the gospel. After he cures a leper, the education and religious life benefiting women that ripples to today. crowds and the demands on him increase. Many of us would plough At Seton’s beatification, Pope John XXIII said, “she sowed a seed into the need, then the adulation. Instead, he withdraws and retreats. in America which by Divine Grace grew into a tree.” Perhaps you This wintry season offers