December 15, 2019 • Third Sunday of Advent Guardian Angels Catholic Church

Guardian Angels Catholic Church Readings of the week 109 South 3rd Street

P.O. Box 444 Mead, CO 80542 Monday: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a, Mt 21:23-27 970-535-0721 Tuesday: Gn 49:2, 8-10, Mt 1:1-17 [email protected] Wednesday: Jer 23:5-8, Mt 1:18-25 Thursday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a, Lk 1:5-25 Website: MeadAngels.org Friday: Is 7:10-14, Lk 1:26-38 Saturday: Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a, Lk 1:39-45 Pastoral Staff Next Sunday: Is 7:10-14, Rom 1:1-7, Mt 1:18-24 Pastor: Fr. Alan Hartway, C.PP.S. 303-819-4741 ext.101 [email protected]

Deacon: Rev. Mr. Tim McCann ext.105 Ministry Schedule

[email protected] Saturday, December 21— 5:00 pm Children’s Formation Education: Angie McCann ext. 106 [email protected] Lector: Bill Bauer Youth Director: Regina Hubbard ext. 106 EME: Frank & Ruth Grout [email protected] Server: Natalie Crane, Conor & Oliver Justice Director of Facilities: Jim Hejlik 303-718-6020 ext. 103 Hospitality/Gifts: John & Vernie Vittetoe [email protected] Business Manager: Karen Surbrugg ext. 102 Sunday, December 22 — 7:30 am [email protected] Lector: Donna Jamieson Receptionist/Bulletin: Ann Lamphere ext. 100 [email protected] EME: Lou & Denise Bustamante Server: Patrick Abbott & Rj Pelletier Music Director: Christine Honein [email protected] Hospitality/Gifts: Dave & Terri Hatch

Pianist: Jessica Pacheco Hjelmstad Sunday, December 22 - 9:00 am [email protected]

Lector: Susie Finke Event Coordinator: Linda O’Hare EME: Norm Finke & Patrick Sanchez [email protected] Server: Evelyn, Malcolm & Irene Sofolo Safe Environment Coordinator: Joanna Swanner Hospitality/Gifts: Gail & David Hartwig [email protected] Sunday, December 22 — 10:30 am Ministry Schedule Coordinators: Denise Bustamante: [email protected] & Lector: Chloe Reed Shannon McKinney: [email protected] EME: Eric Sock & Mike Harrison Server: Alondra, Ernesto & Stephanie

**Bulletin submission deadline is Tuesday by noon. Villanueva

Office Hours: Hospitality/Gifts: Bob Volck & Jennifer Dusza

Monday-Thursday 9:00 am — 4:00 pm Friday Closed Altar Linens: Susie Finke Sacraments: Baptisms, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Anointing of the Sick, Funerals, Mass Intentions ~ Contact Fr. Alan or the Office Highlights for the Week ahead

Reconciliation: Saturdays 3:30 pm —4:30 pm Mass at Berthoud Living Center is Daily Mass times: Monday 5:30 pm Tuesday-Thursday 8:00 am cancelled this month. Friday 8:30 am Mass times: Vigil Saturday 5:00 pm Please pray for Priests to celebrate Masses Sundays 7:30, 9:00,10:30am in Father Alan’s absence, First Monday of every month is Benediction after 5:30pm Mass until the end of the year

Guardian Angels Calendar ~ This Week and Announcements This Week Mead Food Bank & Women's Group Sun December 15 “Thank you to all who contributed to the Cash Can this 7:30 am Mass Pro Populo past weekend. Your generous donations are used to 9:00 am Mass purchase fresh fruit at Christmas and perishable food 10:30 am Mass Intention for Father Alan Hartway items throughout the year. Also, thank you for making Mon December 16-No Mass at Berthoud Living Center Christmas just a little brighter for the residents of 9:00 am Sewing Group Applewood Living Center in Longmont and the Berthoud 5:30 pm Daily Mass Our Lady of the New Advent & Living Center, and for the children who benefit from the Happy Birthday Father Alan Caring Hands Bags of Love (Weld County) program.” 6:30 pm RCIA

Tues December 17 We are very grateful for the gift wrapping and card 8:00 am Daily Mass Happy Birthday Pope Francis 7:00 pm Knights of Columbus Meeting making skills of the Youth Group and the Faith Formation children! The Giving Tree gifts look beautiful Wed December 18 and will warm the hearts of those receiving them. 8:00 am Daily Mass 6:00 pm Religious Education

Thurs December 19 Initiative 120 9:00 am Daily Mass Did you know that abortion is legal in Colorado 7:00 pm AA ~ Parish Hall through all nine months of pregnancy? Initiative

Friday December 20 120 prohibits an abortion in Colorado after 22 8:30 am Daily Mass weeks of gestation. We will be in Bakhita Hall gathering signatures after all Masses this weekends 14th and 15th. Please come and see Saturday December 21 us for more information. 5:00 pm Mass

Women's Group Cookie Exchange

Financial Stewardship December 8, 2019

Church collection $ 3,806.00 Online giving $ 5,096.00 TOTAL $ 8,902.00 Children’s collection $ 67.60

$7,500 is required weekly to meet our budget.

Capital Campaign December 8 $ 5,896.77

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Blessings and joy my brothers and sister of Guardian Angels parish!

The Third Week of Advent is one where we focus on joy as we anticipate the first coming of the Lord on the first Christmas morning. Joy can take place in all kinds of environments. In the first reading today we are told that “the desert and parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom”. It is easy to have joy when things are going well and life is good or easy, but joy can also be found in times and places of adversity such as the desert. In fact, it is in those places that joy is most needed and where God most desires to enter.

In the Book of Nehemiah, the Israelite people return home to Jerusalem after being in captivity in Babylon for 70 years. They arrive and see that their city and temple are in ruins. Ezra the priest gathers the entire people together and reads God’s law to all that they may hear what God commanded. In the light of all that they had lost for so long, they found the one thing that mattered – the difficult path that God wanted for them to follow to be reunited with Him. Their covenant and relationship with God still existed and they are dismissed to celebrate. They were encouraged, “do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is our strength”. (Nehemiah 8:10)

It is in times of worry and grief that we should seek the joy of the Lord. So what is the ‘joy of the Lord’ and how can we embrace that joy so that it can be our strength? Was Jesus’ joy in telling parables revealing God’s kingdom? Was it in multiplying loaves and fish to feed the multitudes? Was it lowering Himself to become like one of us through His incarnation and His birth so that we could become like Him for all eternity? Or was it the time of His suffering on the cross as he offered Himself to the Father so that our sins could be forgiven knowing that his resurrection and eventually ours would follow? Or did it consist of all of those things and so much more?

Joy exists in love which is the pouring of oneself out for the other. It exists in embracing suffering for the benefit of others. It does not mean that there will never be pain or anger or frustration. In fact, it often comes most powerfully in the midst of challenging times. It means that we enjoy the gifts that God has given us - including His own Son. It also means that we can find joy when we embrace the crosses that are in our lives and offer that suffering up to God because by those actions we become more like Christ. If one can love while one is suffering, it is then that one truly finds Christ.

God offers joy this season - the joy of Him and the joy of being united to Him in all things. If all is well, rejoice in that. If suffering and struggles exists, find hope in knowing that Jesus knows that pain and wants to be united to you in that as well so that being with Him can ultimately bring you joy.

May these remaining days of Advent bring you joy wherever your heart is. RCIA/ Journey of Faith

Peace and agape, Monday evening at 6:30 in Bakhita Hall – this week’s Deacon Tim topic is “Scriptural and Personal Prayer / The Saints”. All are welcome to drop in when you find the topic interesting to you.

The Knights of Columbus would like to thank all the parishioners who generously supported our Saints This Week Our Catholic Heroes Thanksgiving turkey drive for the Mead Food Bank. Through your generosity, we delivered 47 turkeys, 100+ pounds of potatoes and gift cards that Saturday December 21 St. Peter Canisius, Priest & will help spread the Thanksgiving leftovers through Doctor of the Church. Dutch Christmas. You made a lot of families happy! Jesuit catechist and Bless you all! missionary; leading voice in counter-reformation Germany; organized the German Jesuit province and founded several Colleges; authored the popular and enduring A Mass of Reparation for Victims of Clergy Abuse will be offered catechist, Institutiones here at Guardian Angels on the Second Monday of every Month Christianae Pietatis; known as at the 5:30 pm Mass. FOR ALL INFORMATION CONCERNING SAFE the “Second Apostle of ENVIRONMENT PLEASE GO TO Archden.org/Promise Germany.”

PARISH LIFE

Parish Organizations Support Guardian Angels For Amazon Smile search Guardian Angels Women's Group Amazon Smile gives Guardian Angels a reward for use. Rebate from July 1 — September 30 was $43.80 Next meeting January 7th at 6:30 pm Thank you for using Amazon Smile and searching for Guardian Angels. Knights of Columbus King Soopers Rebate Program Link your Sooper Card (or Alt ID) to Guardian Angels Go to www.kingsoopers.com Next meeting December 24 at 7pm Click on Savings & Rewards Sign in or create an account to enroll. Finance Council You no longer will you need to reload gift cards to earn rebates for Guardian Angels – all you need to do is link your Sooper Card to Guardian Angels and shop with King Soopers just like you Next meeting January 9th at 6:30pm always do! You MUST enroll in the community rewards Norm Finke Monica Baldwin Alyx Staiano program and select Guardian Angels as your Louis Bustamante Marsha Brichacek Kris Barnett charity. Your current re-loadable rebate card will not expire and can be reloaded and used the same as cash, but will no longer have a Pastoral Council link or benefit Guardian Angels. Any balance on an existing re- loadable card must be spent because King Soopers will not issue any refunds. Next meeting January 2nd at 6:30pm Trudi Boaz Jeff Yuska-Secretary Alan Bracken-Chairman Frank Grout (K of C) Calling All Moms! Maria Ojinaga Ann Grenzenbach MUMS will be meeting for our Christmas social Sudie Kelly Germaine Aguilera from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. on December 19 in Benedict Hall at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. We will Capital Campaign Committee enjoy Karaoke, Games, and Surprises, as well as an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. MUMS is a Denise & Louis Bustamante Donna & Doug Staver program for mothers of all ages. If you seek greater Monica Baldwin Vernie Vittetoe fellowship among other Catholic moms, this would be Sharon & Bill Bauer Wendy & Randy Wilson a great opportunity. New members are always welcome! Suzanne & Scott Cavey Thank you for fulfilling your pledges to our Capital Campaign! Babysitting is available. Contact us at [email protected] for more

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Faith Formation

Children’s Faith Formation We have just completed the first part of our Faith Formation Y0ear, and I have great joy for all that we have accom- plished, and that God has accomplished through our program for the children and the parish. RCIT Sunday’s 5:00pm to 6:00pm Not only have we had our regular class December 15th time, but we have blessed our pets, heard The Saints with Deacon Tim. stories of several Saints from the December 22nd and 29th graveyard, and have practiced for our NO CLASS Christmas program that took place this past week. The children have gotten the opportunity to know Jesus in new ways Merry Christmas! and to learn about God’s love for each of them. The teachers have been so loving and generous with their time.

The parents have been so helpful and supportive of their children and of the program. Thank you all. Sunday’s 6:00pm to 7:30pm Youth Director: Regina Hubbard [email protected] We are now off until after the new year December 15th with classes resuming on January 8th. Youth Group Christmas Party. Bring a $5 gift for a gift exchange. May you all have safe travels this season December 22nd and 29th no matter how far you are travelling, and NO YOUTH GROUP! may Christ be at the center of your Christmas season. Merry Christmas!

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