First Sunday of Advent December 1, 2019

Immaculate conception of the blessed virgin Mary OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Mission of Immaculate Conception Parish & St. Louise Chapel is to build a faith community that worships God and supports one another as a loving family that lives and teaches the message of Jesus Christ and that reflects through service the presence of The Lapeer MI 48446 Holy Spirit as revealed in the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. Phone 810-664-8594 Fax 810- 664-4564 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.lapeercatholic.org Ambassadors for Christ Office Hours are: Monday-Friday 9a.m.-6p.m. Harvey Vermeesch 358-0943 Saturday 9a.m.-5p.m. Pastor: Fr. Brian Hurley Sundays 9a.m.-3p.m. ([email protected]) Altar Server Captain Deacon: Deacon Joe Hulway Dimitrius Eddy 810-338-9874 ([email protected]) Angels of Mercy DAILY: Mon. to Thurs. 8:45 a.m. (Tues & Business Manager: Bea Castaneda 810-813-4069 Thurs– Traditional Latin ), 1st Fri & Director of Music: Hilary Thompson Choir /Music Sat. @ 8:45 am. ([email protected]) Hilary Thompson 810-627-8829 SATURDAY: 4:30 p.m. Office & Cemetery Manager: Karen Felicity Long SUNDAY: 8:00 a.m.,10:00 a.m. & DuPont ([email protected]) 12:00 p.m. (Latin Mass-Sunday 12:00pm.) Food Pantry Bookkeeper: Dan Dudzinski HOLY DAYS: Please check the Lapeer Dawn Peskey 586-924-1873 Catholic or lapeercatholic.org. ([email protected]) Funeral Luncheons Reconciliation: Tuesday following 8:45 a.m. Secretaries: Linda Barthlow Mass; Saturdays: 3:00-3:45pm; 1st Wednes- ([email protected]) Virginia Anthony day of the Month at 8:00 pm & 1st Friday of the Carol Klave ([email protected]) Millie Goemaere 664-3597 month at 9:30am. For private appointment call the rectory. Bulletin Editor/Webdesigner: Homebound Ministers Linda Barthlow/[email protected] Suzanne Palte 790-1686 Hospital Ministers Our Sacramental Policy Six-month Parish registration and Jail Ministry participation are required for Baptism, Ann Palmer 664-3784 Confirmation and Marriage. Baptisms: Arrangements must be made Knights of Columbus in advance and parents must attend a The Lapeer Catholic articles must be Phil Francis 810 728-2295 baptism class. The Church requires that emailed in by 5pmMonday. Flyers 2 Ladies League at least one of the parents be a practicing weeks prior to bulletin (pending Catholic, and the Godparents must be Dawn Walker 664-6946 active, practicing, fully initiated approval of pastor). Catholics at least 16 years of age. If two Mother of Perpetual Help Rosaries Godparents: must be 1 male & 1 female; if one Godparent: may be male or Jenni Hulway 586-453-4580 female. Order of St. Martha Arrangements must be Bishop Kelley Catholic School Marriage: made at least nine months in advance. 926 W. Nepessing Street Sue Palmer 810-660-1286 Please call the rectory office. Officiate at Lapeer MI 48446 Perpetual Adoration the ceremony must be the Parish Pastor, Phone 810-664-5011 Associate, or Deacon of Immaculate Fax 810-664-5606 Paul & Sylvia Simon 664-9742 Conception or a family member. Web: http://bishopkelleylapeer.org Prison Ministry Funerals: Officiate must be the Parish Principal: Mrs. Bernadette Barron Pastor or Associate of Immaculate Admin. Assistant: Laura Mihm Linda Barthlow 664-8594 Conception or a family member. Please note: The services of the Parish Religious Education Center St. Vincent de Paul Organist are used for all sacramental 926 W. Nepessing St. Rectory 664-8594 liturgies. Lapeer, MI 48446 Worship Commission  810-664-0808/Fax: 664-5606 For more details regarding our Mary Kay & Bob Kosal 287-0063 Email:[email protected] Sacramental policies and procedures, Office Hours: Sun:9:30am –11:30am, Mon:12-8pm, Youth Minister please refer to the Sacrament link on our Parish web-site. Tues: 10am-5pm,Wed: 12-8pm Dimitrius Eddy 810-338-9874 Religious Education Director Kenlin Botello

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PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Religious Education News THE REAL PRESENCE Advent has arrived! “God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and He cannot be ‘When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent found in noise and restlessness. See each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy how nature, the trees, the flowers, of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation the grasses grow in perfect silence. . . see the stars, the moon and the sun, for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their how they move in silence. The ardent desire for his second coming’...CCC 524 more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.” St. Teresa of Calcutta ‘The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and “In the womb of His Mother His rest was bodily necessities’… secret, unfelt, unseen, making all who would live in Him into Himself. . . He is ...‘The Corporal Works of Mercy consist of feeding the as silent, as secret and hidden, in the Host hungry , sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, as He was in Advent. . .He trusts Himself to His creatures in the Host as He trusted visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the Himself to Our Lady.” (Caryll Houselander) dead, Among all these, giving alms to the poor is on the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a “Becoming a baby, Jesus assumed our nature and work of justice pleasing to God.’...CCC 2447 established His covenant with the whole of humanity forever. . .He came to Bethlehem to stay with us Above all, let your love for one another be intense, forever” (St. Pope John Paul II) because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable Not only is Jesus in the tabernacle in our Church, He to one another without complaining. As each one has is also exposed in the monstrance in our Adoration received a gift, use it to serve one another as good Chapel. How awesome is this! Come and pay Him stewards of God’s varied grace. Whoever preaches let homage this Advent as you're preparing for the great feast of Christmas! it be with the words of God; whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies, so that in all Paul & Sylvia Simon: (810) 664-9742 things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to [email protected] whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever. AMEN. 1Peter 4:8-11

LIVE THE LITURGY - INSPIRATION FOR Fr. Mark Prill’s Advent THE WEEK Parish Mission beginning 2nd week of December. Stay awake! With so many things competing for our Watch upcoming bulletins attention and so many details to attend to, it is very easy for more details to fall into a slumber. We can find ourselves simply going through the motions of life and losing a sense of purpose and direction. Busy with many things, we lose touch with the things of God, especially the gentle stirrings of His presence. Advent calls us to the challenge of living a wakeful life. Awake from the sleep that life’s demands can put on us, and allow God’s word to transform our hearts. Being ready for the coming of the Lord is life’s priority for the Christian. Let us walk in the light of the Lord!

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Knights of Columbus

News Knights Of Columbus Christmas Party It’s that time of the The Knights of Columbus Christmas year when we host The Party will be on December 7th in the Bishop Kelley Refuge for a week at St. Louise. Our week is Community Room. Doors open at 5:30 and the event December 1st through the starts at 6pm. All members, and any men interested in 7th. We need volunteers becoming Knights, are invited along with their to help out with lunches and dinners and families. There will be dinner, gifts for the children, and also with shifts, 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm, 11:00 fun for everyone. For more information contact Dan pm to 3:00 am and 3:00 am to 7:30 am. Mausolf 810-834-5780. See you there! Please call Rick or Angie Rhein at 810-667- 4824 OR 810-441-1080 between 9am & 4pm. Or leave your number at the rectory. ATTENTION PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC Thank you and God bless. ADORARERS It is that time of the year when weather has become cooler outside. Occasionally, this might lead to the homeless or those who have less reason to be in our church than to The Hospital Ministry pray, to wander in after hours . If this happens and it We are looking for a coordinator to head causes you to be uncomfortable or feel unsafe we ask that up our hospital ministry. This ministry is you ask this person or persons to leave the church. If they don’t leave, please call the police. As you may know we solely in charge of taking the Blessed have 24/7 Perpetual Adoration at our church which means Sacrament to the sick at McLaren Regional that people are in Immaculate Conception at all hours. We Hospital in Lapeer. Your job as the want everybody to feel safe and secure and if you coordinator would involve creating a encounter people asking for any kind of hand out, remind schedule for the ministers, arranging them that we have St. Vincent de Paul and they should hospital orientation and training as needed. leave and go to the rectory. It is a worthwhile ministry and very Thank you . fulfilling. Please call the rectory with your name and phone number if this something that would be a good ministry fit for you. Thank you,

We still are still falling short in our CSA goal; if you have not yet pledged please consider doing so that are goal can be reached by the end of this year. Thank you and God bless our parish.

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WHY DO WE DO THAT? - CATHOLIC GOSPEL MEDITATION - Immaculate Conception TRADITIONS EXPLAINED ENCOURAGE DEEPER

UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE Purgatorial Society Question: st What’s the story behind the Advent 1 Sunday of Advent To foster and increase devotion wreath? December 1, 2019 and charity to the Holy Souls in

“I’m never getting enough rest! How Answer: can I possibly be ‘asleep’?” In a world Each season in the liturgical of jam-packed schedules and high Since Apostolic times the church calendar comes with its own local anxiety levels, physical rest may be has always encouraged the practice and regional rituals. During the hard to come by. Yet relentless of praying and offering sacrifices Advent season, wreathes adorn pursuit of our to-do lists and social for the souls of our departed church sanctuaries and family calendars may keep our minds off of brethren who are being purified dining room tables. You may have the things that really matter. Jesus for their sins in purgatory. Our said Advent wreath prayers in knows all too well a pattern of busy, deceased family members, friends, childhood or taken a turn lighting the harried ignorance. “In those days and those who have no one to pray candles. The Advent wreath is full of before the flood, they were eating and for them need OUR help! symbolism about Christ and his drinking, marrying and giving in St. John Chrysostom reminds us: coming at Christmas. The wreath is marriage … they did not know until “Let us help and commemorate made of evergreen boughs, the flood came and carried them all them. If Job’s sons were purified reminding us that the life of grace away … two men will be out in the by their father’s sacrifice (Job 1:5), doesn’t falter with the changing field … two women will be grinding at why would we doubt that our seasons. It remains always remains the mill; one will be taken, and one will offerings for the dead bring them fresh and new. Similarly, a circular be left.” When it comes to the spiritual some consolation? Let us not wreath reminds us of the eternal, life, we can be at work or at relaxation hesitate to help those who have never-ending nature of God’s love. and still be spiritually asleep. died and to offer our prayers for

them!” Candles remind us that Christ is the Each year, we are called back to light of the world, the One who remember the essential things. God Please join us for a special Holy “shines in the darkness, and the comes to save His people. He Hour on the first Monday of each darkness has not overcome it.” We becomes flesh to dwell among us. month at 7:00pm in the church. use four candles to represent each Supernatural light pierces the world’s Purgatorial Society meetings will week of Advent. Traditionally they darkness and our own. Advent wakes consist of brief updates/ come in the liturgical colors of the us up. “Stay awake! For you do not announcements, communal season. Purple has historically know on which day your Lord will prayer, and the hour will conclude represented penance and sacrifice. come.” Every Advent, we prepare to with a time of private prayer and We see the same color for the celebrate Christ’s first coming at Eucharistic Adoration. season of Lent. On the third Christmas, and we anticipate his Sunday of Advent, however, we second coming at the end of time. The FIRST meeting of the light a rose color. The priest will Immaculate Conception wear rose vestments at Mass. This “At an hour you do not expect, the Purgatorial Society will take is Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete Son of Man will come.” There’s place on means “rejoice” in Latin. On the another hour, too, both known and MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, third Sunday of Advent, we’re unknown. It’s the present moment. at 7:00pm roughly halfway through the Whether it’s a lazy Saturday morning season. The Church chooses the or a major business proposal, midpoint to remind us to celebrate We hope many of you will join us whether it’s attending a kindergarten in the midst of our anticipation! and please invites your family and play or an elderly relative’s bedside, at Whatever the color and whatever friends! every moment the Lord wants to enter the day, the Advent wreath is a For questions or to join our email into our hearts. This Advent, let’s pray beautiful practice to focus our list please contact us at for the grace to stay alert. Christ is attention on Christ’s coming at [email protected] coming soon. Christmas. Andrew & Rebecca Sprankle Purgatorial Society Coordinators

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PRAY FOR THE INTERCESSION OF ST. SAINT PEREGRINE PRAYER REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS PEREGRINE PATRON AGAINST CANCER : O great St. Peregrine you John P. Patrick Lamb Mary Addison Joyce have been called "The John Sieradski Rita Barthlow Francis Andrzejewski Judy Mighty," "The Wonder- Thaddeus James David Klave Jenny Apel Wendi Kelly Worker," because of the Florence Sickner Edward Sefcovic Autumn Marie Lamphere Erik Isele Laura Sefcovic Cecelia Beam Ruben Leonard numerous miracles which A.K. Zachary Emilia Betts Chuck Mahoney you have obtained from Carolyn Rice Christopher Sas Betty Carol McDonald God for those who have Dan Koerber Baby Ezra Kathy Brest Christian McLeod Maureen & Eric Mary Ann Mann Larry Bridges Ann Marie Meldrum had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in Pat McInally Jenny Miniham Arlene Bunk Cynthia Mini Jeffery Fifield Dana Chizmadia Jamie Bunting Lori Montgomery your own flesh this cancerous disease that Ron Bukowski Chuck Hebel Pat Burgoyne Tom Neiger destroys the very fiber of our being and Wayne Filichowski Fr. Patrick Rohen Joseph Camilleri Jan Nelson Ida Calvert Alejandro Lopez Joan Cantwell Sue O’Kelly who had recourse to the source of all grace Jim & Bea Lewis Jim & Joan Skwirsk John Carr Lori Peacock when the power of man could do no Chris B. Madelyn Weiss Amy Carter Roger Pirtle more. You were favored with the vision of Tim L. Craig Langley Christopher David Price Jesus coming down from His Cross to Joseph Cianciolo Rita Price Cathy B. Chuck Treece Clara Cindy Rashid heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Amanda Betty Weingarden Dawn Kathleen Ritullo Lady the cure of the sick whom we entrust Edward Sefcovic Greg Vaughn, Sr. Becky DeGrand Kathy Roach to you. (Pause here and silently recall the Thomas Karen Hammett Debbie Ellen Rozmary Tim Daley Kathy Gail Dijak Sam names of the sick for whom you are Annie Jack Duncan Joanie Skwirsk praying) Aided in this way by your Gerald Eckenswiller Robert Smoke powerful intercession we shall sing to God Debra Elliott Jim Sobek now and for all eternity a song of gratitude If you wish to have your loved one put on Mary Fifield Kenneth Snyder the sick list please call the rectory. The Felix Gabryel Stacy for His great goodness and mercy. Amen Dar Green Eileen Threehouse names will remain on this list for 4 Abe Guerrero Tim weeks unless you call the rectory to have Bill H. Kim VanDamme their name relisted. Pam Haerens Lisa Vasquez Readings for the week of Thank you & God Bless Erika Hale Viola December 1, 2019 Pat Hoeksema Matthew Wagner Bill Hotchkiss Howard Washington Sunday: Is 2:1-5/ Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, Doris Anne Isele Tom Wouatt Janet 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [cf. 1]/Rom 13:11- Janice 14/Mt 24:37-44 Prayer for the sick by St. Joe Monday: Is 4:2-6/Ps122:1 Augustine -2, 3-4b, 4cd-5, 6-7, 8-9/Mt 8:5- 11 Tuesday: Is 11:1-10/Ps Watch, O Lord, with those 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 [cf. 7]/Lk who wake, or watch, or 10:21-24 weep tonight, and give Your Wednesday: Is 25:6-10a/Ps angels and saints charge 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 [6cd]/Mt over those who sleep. 15:29-37 Tend Your sick ones, Thursday: Is 26:1-6/Ps 118: 1 and 8-9. 19-21, 25-27a O Lord Christ. [26a]/Mt 7:21, 24-27 Rest Your weary ones. please pray for the Friday: Is 29:17-24/Ps Bless Your dying ones. deceased and their families 27:1, 4, 13-14 [1a]/Mt 9:27-31 Soothe Your suffering ones. Saturday: Is 30:19-21, 23- Pity Your afflicted ones. Blanche Erickson 26/Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6/Mt Mary Ann Arnold Shield Your joyous ones, 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8 and all for Your love's sake. Next Sunday: Is 11:1-10/ Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 19 [cf. 7]/ Amen. Rom 15:4-9/Mt 3:1-12

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An Introduction to St. Vincent de Paul MILITARY LIST Air Force Ministries at Immaculate THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Tyler Blazo, Today’s Gospel (Matthew 24:37-44) Rachel Grobbel Conception Church Air Natl Guard & Air Ambassadors for Christ Meetings will Jesus said to his disciples: “As it Force Reserve 2nd Wednesday of each month BKS Army, Reserves & National Guard was in the days of Noah, so it Room 303 7:30 to 9:00 pm. All men 18 will be at the coming of the Son Nick Harris, Austin Montgomery, Jesse years and older are invited of Man. In those days before Jacklyn, Christopher Chyba, Erich Gutman, Angels of Mercy for elderly and the flood, they were eating and Joshua Choate, drinking, marrying and giving homebound of the parish interested in Tom Sierakowski, Hunter Muncy, in marriage, up to the day that receiving a visit from our Angels of Mercy. Noah entered the ark. They did Christopher Brown Call Bea at 810-813-4069 or 810-664-5878 not know until the flood came Marines & Reserves or Clemencia Urcos-Paul at 714-231-9858. and carried them all away. So, will it be also Zachariah Korte, Willis Gepfrey, II, Levi Bleau at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men Marshals’/Secret Service Bible Study The ICC Scripture Insights will be out in the field; one will be taken, and Navy Group is held in the rectory every Thursday one will be left. Therefore, stay awake! For Peyton Bailey, Hunter Daniel Gajda , morning at 11:00 a.m except June, July & August when it’s the 2nd & 4th. you do not know on which day your Lord will Jordan Larry come. Be sure of this: if the master of the Coast Guard Bible Study Jeff Cavin’s Course meets house had known the hour of the night when Thursday’s at 6:30 pm in Bishop Kelley the thief was coming, he would have stayed Joel Gyomory School room 303. Call Tim DeShaw at awake and not let his house be broken into. 810.333.6654 or So too, you also must be prepared, for at an EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP - email: [email protected] with any hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY questions. come.” MOMENTS Reflection Broken Rosaries Repaired: Bring your Always at the beginning of Advent the Wide-Open Eyes broken rosaries (or any extra rosary pieces Church invites us to think ahead. The gospel When my first child was born, we had a to be used for other’s repairs) to the contains a clear warning and a judgment, nursery created for him that featured images from rectory to be repaired. FREE! Please drop admonishing us to “stay awake.” Instead of “The Beginner’s Bible” painted on all the walls. off your requests in a plain envelope leading us to hopelessness and paralyzing (You may have seen this Bible before, where the marked with your name, phone number fear, the gospel surprises us with an Biblical figures in the book all had large wide- and if it is a repair or donation. opportunity to be prepared. Instead of open eyes.) Images of Adam and Eve, David and floundering, we have our whole lifetime and Goliath, and Jesus were displayed on all four Jail Ministry: looking for husband & wife or the guidance of the priceless gift of the Good walls. On the largest wall was a big picture of male & female team to visit inmates at the News of Jesus Christ to accompany us on our Noah’s Ark with lots of animals. As our son got Lapeer Jail Sundays once a month. For journey into the future. This is what God older, we would point to images on the wall as we more information, call Ann @ offer us so we will not be left. read bedtime stories to him. Our son is now in his (810) 664-3784 Vincentian Discussion/Meditation 20’s and living several hours from us, so those There is an Advent spirit in the heart of every days are far behind in our rearview mirror of life. Ladies League meets at 6:00 pm on the human person. It is one of longing, of We prepared quite a lot for his birth. last Tuesday of the month. All adult ladies yearning for a fulfillment that somehow lies When our next two children were born, the of the parish are welcome. (LL will be beyond ourselves. It flows from our deeply preparation time had decreased significantly. cancelled if BKS is cancelled due to rooted human incompleteness, Augustine Most parents know what I am talking about. The inclement weather.) No mtg Jun, Jul Dec.

uttered the classic description of this spirit: newness of your first-born brings with it so much Mother of Perpetual Help Rosaries meets “You made us for yourself, O Lord, and our emotion that you are compelled to spend the 1st Wednesday of the month after the hearts are restless until they rest in you.” All countless hours preparing. When the next children 8:45 Holy Mass, at the rectory in the Fr. Neil of us long for something more, as we make are born, you are certainly excited, but you act room. Questions call Jenni Hulway @ our pilgrim way. Even when human differently and with a little more reserve. sinfulness pulls people to focus on power, 586.453.4580, coordinator. For most readers, this is not your first pleasure, fame, or financial prosperity, they Advent. It probably won’t be your last. If you Order of St. Martha our sodality cleans the often find themselves moving aimlessly, approach these December days simply as a way church. We are always looking for new without fulfillment. “Our hearts are restless to prepare for Christmas, you may find yourself members call Sue at (810) 660.1286. until they rest in you.” Advent celebrates just doing the same old thing as last year. human yearning. We long for the coming of However, if you spend this time reflecting on the St. Vincent de Paul meets once a month in the Lord. time when Jesus returns or when you shall see the rectory. him face-to-face, you might be able to stir up Discussion some of that emotion of anticipation within you. Worship Commission This Advent what are you yearning or Jesus is coming again. When people of all ages longing for? understand that reality, it can be a cause for large, Youth Group wide-open eyes indeed. Tuesday for Middle Schoolers and Wednesday for High Schoolers Karen Dupont — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS Treasurer St. Vincent de Paul

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MASS SCHEDULE On This Week’s Calendar

Key to abbreviations DECEMBER 2, 2019 EF– Extra-ordinary Form (Traditional Latin Mass) OF-Ordinary Form (New Rite; Novus Ordo) LM– Low Mass; MC-Missa Cantata (Sung)

Monday, December 2 (OF) Monday: 6 pm RCIA Class 8:45am Barbara Wilzcek (sp. Int.) 7 pm ICC Purgatorial Society St. Bibiana , Trad

Tuesday, December 3 (EF-mc) Tuesday: 6 pm Middle School Youth Group 8:45am Tom Sterner  by Mom & Dad 6:30 pm Knights of Columbus St. Francis Xavier, New, Trad. General Mtg

Wednesday, December 4 (OF) 8:45am Living Bishops, Priest, & Deacons Wednesday: 9:45 am Rosary Making Ministry

St, Peter Chrysologus, & St. Barbara, Trad, St. John Damascene 6 pm Religious Ed gr. 1-8 New 6 pm Religious Ed Family Faith Formation Thursday, December 5 (EF-mc) 6:30 pm High School Youth Group 9:00am Dan Dudzinski ( sp. Int.) by Wife, Libia 8 pm Confessions St. Sabbas, Trad.

First Friday, December 6 (OF) Thursday: 11 am Bible Study 8:45am Joe Vitale (sp. Int.) by M/M. Spankie 6 pm Bible Study St. Nicholas New , Trad. First Saturday, December 7(OF) 8:45am Hines Family  by M/M. Spankie Friday: 10 am Homeschool Harvest Swap St. Ambrose New, Trad 1 pm First Friday Devotions Sunday Vigil Mass, (OF) 4:30pm Merwin King  by Madeleine Jens Saturday: 5 pm Knights of Columbus Christmas Party Sunday, December 8 2nd Sunday of Advent New, Trad. 8:00am People of the Parish (OF-mc) Sunday: 9:45 Preschool Sunday School 10:00am Rick & Rosemary Spankie (sp. Int.) by Gabryel family 5 pm Parish Mission begins with (OF-mc) Dinner Talk at 7 pm 12:00pm Leslie Daum  by Mary Jo & children (EF-mc) The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patroness of the U.S.A, Trad 

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YOUTH GROUP BEGINS! Stewardship Thoughts Youth Group will resume this week; We begin this Advent season by preparing our hearts and minds for the celebration of Jesus’ Middle Schoolers birth at Christmas. In today’s Scripture group is Tuesday passages, we are reminded that we do not night at 6:00 to know the exact day the Lord will come for us. Therefore, we must always be prepared. When 7:00pm and High St. Paul professes, Let us then throw off the Schoolers is works of darkness and put on the armor of light, Wednesdays from he is encouraging us to put on Christ and admonishing us to avoid temptations of the 6:30 to 8:30pm for flesh. When we meet the Lord, He will ask for High schoolers. an accounting of our stewardship of the blessings He gave to us during our lifetime. How will we respond? Daily Advent reflections, Thank you and God bless available at www.wordonfire.org and other Dimitrius Eddy Catholic websites, help prepare us spiritually for the joyous celebration of Christmas.

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