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THE PARISH OF ST. BEDE THE VENERABLE 9114 LAKE SHORE BLVD. December 8, 2019 MENTOR, OH 44060 Eucharist (Mass) Schedule Parish Office: 440-257-5544 Saturday Vigil: 4:30 PM Monday, Tuesday, Fax: 440-257-2318 Sunday: 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM Wednesday, and Friday: 9:00 AM PSR Office: 440-257-6988 Rosary one half hour before (First Fridays 7:00 PM) E-mail: [email protected] Vigil and Sunday Masses Holy Day: Refer to Bulletin Website: www.stbedementor.org Facebook: fb.me/StBedeMentor.org Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday: 3:30 - 4:00 PM or by appointment. PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday: 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM Tuesday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Dear Parishioner: NEW PARISHIONERS th We welcome all new parishioners to make This Sunday is December 8 and it is an appointment to register at the Parish usually celebrated as the Solemnity of the Office and share your gifts within Immaculate Conception of Mary. The celebration is transferred our community. th to Monday the 9 , and the Mass will be at 9:00AM in the church. PASTORAL STAFF Pastor “Immaculate Conception” does not refer to the fact that Jesus Rev. Timothy J. Plavac was conceived in Mary without the help of a man. It refers to Deacon the fact that God preserved Mary, from the moment of her Rev. Mr. John Burke, Jr. conception, from experiencing the effects of original sin. It did Deacon & Liturgy not mean that Mary was not tempted as we all are, and as Jesus Rev. Mr. Kenneth Knight was even though he, of course, was free of original sin. Pastoral Associate Mrs. Karen J. Roman Jesus is often referred to as the “new Adam,” which is to say that like Adam he was a human being who was the start of a Coordinator of Religious Education Mrs. Laura A. Ruque new race of human beings, namely we who are called and destined to be children of God and members of his body. As Pastoral Care Nurses Adam and Eve were created without sin, so too Jesus, as the Mrs. Diana Harvey new Adam, was born at Christmas without original sin, and Mrs. Stacy Rus Mrs. Daneen Warsinskey Mary likewise, as the new Eve was conceived without original sin. Music Director Miss Marjorie G. Zager (continued page 2) PAGE TWO ST. BEDE THE VENERABLE December 8, 2019 What we see around us day to day in the so-called RELIGIOUS EDUCATION and FORMATION “real world” is often a lot of examples of the pain and the mess that original sin has brought upon us; Confirmation: Confirmation candidates meet this and how easily it is passed down from parents to Sunday, December 8th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in the children, and transferred from one person to another. Youth Ministry Room of the Church. “No good deed goes unpunished,” and “Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you” is the way things St. Bede’s Traditional Christmas Pageant: The are. Christmas Pageant will take place on Christmas Eve at 4:30 PM followed by Mass. In a lot of ways, our Catholic faith is about Any children or teens who keeping our eyes fixed, not on the darkness that would like to take part in this is around us that sin has brought, but on what pageant should come to the God intended for us and doing our best to live Church for rehearsals scheduled for Sundays, that way. This is seen in the story of Adam and Eve, December 15th and 22nd at 1:00 PM. All children and it is seen most clearly in the story of the new who come to rehearsals will have a part in the Adam and the new Eve: Jesus and Mary. pageant. Any teens who are interested in singing or playing an instrument are also welcome. Please sign I am currently working on a book that is titled up in the lobby of the Father Tulley Center during “Adam and Eve: a Reflection.” I am hoping that a PSR sessions or call the Parish Office if you would working copy of this will be part of the “adult” like to be a part of this St. Bede tradition. education series on the sexual moral teachings of the Catholic Church sponsored by the Evangelization Committee as a follow-up to our parish survey back Share in the Care in September. The series should commence after the Support aging religious. New Year. Second collection this weekend is for the Sincerely in Christ, Retirement Fund for Religious. Many senior Catholic sisters, brothers, Fr. Tim Plavac and religious order priests served for little or no pay. Today, religious communities often do not have enough savings to meet retirement needs. Your gift Join Us This Sunday Evening for Advent Vespers helps provide medications, nursing care, and more 5:00 PM in the Chapel for tens of thousands of elderly religious. It also helps ensure younger members can continue the Make this half hour of song and prayer good works of their elders. Envelopes are available a part of your preparation for the in the pews of the Church. Thank you for your Christmas Season. generosity. Wednesday, December 11th at 6:30 PM at Danbury Senior Living, 9140 Lake Shore Blvd., Mentor Wednesday, December 18th at 6:00 PM at Brookdale Mentor, 5700 Emerald Court, Mentor. SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT MENTOR, OHIO PAGE THREE The St Bede Food Pantry thanks all of the Angel Tree Program: Helping volunteers that helped pack the Thanksgiving food Hands Ministry will be baskets and distribute the celebrating Jesus’s birth with baskets to our clients before you and our clients. The Angel Thanksgiving. We served 122 Trees are in the Gathering Space adorned with families, and we could not different colored ornaments. have done this without the help The GREEN card ornaments are for households, and support of these volunteers as we ask for Giant Eagle, Marcs, Meijer and and our parishioners who Walmart gift cards in $25 denominations or less. donated goods and financial support. There were The RED card ornaments are for children. Each over 40 volunteers on Friday night (11/22) and card represents a wish from a child, and we are Saturday morning (11/23). The Handmaids of Mary asking for GIFTS in lieu of gift cards. With your packaged cookies Thursday night that were donated by our parishioners for the baskets. gift, please include a gift receipt to allow for an exchange if necessary. Please do not wrap the gifts; Also, thank you to our St Bede PSR Program, the however, if you wish to include gift wrap we will Mentor Police Dept. and Mentor Girl Scout Troop happily accept. If you are unable to shop, we #71086 for their food drives this Thanksgiving encourage you to make a donation in order that Season. The clients that we serve are very grateful Helping Hands can purchase a gift on your behalf. for all the help that we provide and again we could Place your donation envelope marked, “Helping not help without the generous support of our Parish Hands,” in the collection basket. and the community. Hopefully we as a community Other ornaments on the trees help support have brightened of the holidays for our neighbors. homeless children who stay at Project Hope and provide socks for the homeless, seniors and Pantry Volunteers veterans. Handmaids of Mary Extends Thanks: A huge thank you to all the parishioners that helped us fill over 150 boxes of cookies again this season. Your generous donations provided one dozen cookies to be included in each Thanksgiving basket. Books available for Advent and Christmas: The Library has books A BIG Thank You to those who helped exchange available on the highlighted bookshelf for out the Breaking Bread Missals after the 11:00 AM Advent and Christmas. The New Book Mass on Sunday, November 24th. Also thank you section has a collection of Max Lucado’s to Patience Wright for recycling the old books. books. Stop in and select a book for your reading pleasure. The Library is open after all Masses. Volunteers Needed to Pack Christmas Baskets: November 2019 Baskets for Christmas will be packed on Friday, December 20th at 6:00 PM and distributed on New Parishioners: Saturday, December 21st from 9AM-Noon. Ms. Lauren Spilar Anyone interested in helping on Friday evening Mrs. Doris Baron should be at the Father Tulley Center by 6:00 PM. Mr. & Mrs. George Moroschak Saturday distribution of baskets will be from 9:00 AM - Noon, volunteers should be there by Baptisms: 8:45 AM. Thank you for your help. Carter Alexander Kennedy PAGE FOUR ST. BEDE THE VENERABLE DECEMBER 8, 2019 Coats for Kids Collection: New and gently used BOOK OF INTENTIONS: You will find our Book of Intentions on a special table in the Gathering Space, in children and adult jackets and coats are being which you are encouraged to write in prayer intentions collected in the “Coats for Kids” yourself. If you are unable to write a name in yourself, box located in the St. Bede Church please call the Parish Office at 440-257-5544. entryway. Donated coats will be Please pray for these members of our distributed in Northeast Ohio via a parish family: Jerry Yurick, Eileen Lange and network of social service agencies, John Grabowski. churches and schools. Coats are washed or Please pray for the repose of the souls of dry cleaned before being distributed by local Michael Marinucci, Laurie Bucar, son of Mimi Widmar businesses at no cost.
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