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DECEMBER 3, 2017 FIRST WEEK of ADVENT TIMES VOLUME 67:10 DIOCESE of COLUMBUS a Journal of Catholic Life in Ohio CATHOLIC DECEMBER 3, 2017 FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT TIMES VOLUME 67:10 DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS A journal of Catholic life in Ohio ADVENT WREATH AND CANDLES ARE A SIGN OF PREPARING FOR THE LORD 2 Catholic Times December 3, 2017 The Editor’s Notebook Great Expectations First Week By David Garick, Editor of Advent Life is filled with waiting. Most of the Christmas. The Scrip- really important things in life are looked ture readings lay forward to, anticipated, given time, hoped out in the Old Testa- for. We begin life waiting for our own birth. ment the waiting of Our parents eagerly anticipate our arrival, God’s people through our first steps and first words. We look for- a thousand years of VATICAN CHRISTMAS TREE ward to school and to each new grade. We prophecy and expectation for God’s plan look toward becoming independent adults, of salvation to be revealed in Christ. Each to getting that first job, to building a career. year, we renew this sense of waiting, for it We wait for love and to find that one special is a very human need to repeat this sense person to share our life, and we begin that of anticipation for the unique event which waiting process all over as we wait for our changed all of human history. The prophet own children to arrive and develop. Even- Isaiah expresses that expectancy: “Oh, that tually, we look forward to retirement. In all you would rend the heavens and come down this waiting, there may be furious activity, with the mountains quaking before you.” timetables, rushed projects, rigid schedules. Of course, God always does something Life may seem hectic. But taken as a whole, even better than we anticipate. Rather that life develops slowly. Human growth is rending the heavens, God comes among us slow and gradual. It takes time. as one of us, in the form of a baby, born in a Some of this waiting seems to be wasted stable in Bethlehem. time: waiting for a bus or elevator or in line That child expresses all of our hopes and at the BMV. Some waiting is filled with sus- dreams and gives us a reason for all of our pense and anxiety: waiting in a doctor’s of- waiting. In that greatly anticipated child, fice for test results, waiting for a call from a our joyful hopes are not just fleeting mo- prospective employer, or waiting for a child ments. With the Christ Child, all of our hu- who is late coming home at night. And some man growth has a model, a concrete human of this waiting is joyful, such as looking for- ideal. With Christ, the power of Almighty ward to Christmas, or for a long- planned va- God is molded into a child just like each of cation trip, or moving into a new home. us, reaching out to each of us with a prom- Advent puts the entire experience of waiting ise that we can be like him. With Christ, all into focus for us as Christians. The Advent our human waiting and transitions have a wreath brings the great anticipation of light- final goal and purpose. With Christ, no mo- ing a new candle each week, leading us to the ment is wasted. Every moment is truly a great light of the world, the birth of Christ at gift to be treasured. HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION ~ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017 THE SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY The 2017 Vatican Christmas tree is positioned in St. Peter’s Check individual parishes for schedule of Holy Day Mass times Square at the Vatican on Thursday, Nov. 23. This year’s tree is from Poland. CNS photo/Max Rossi Front Page photo: Bishop Frederick F. Campbell, DD, PhD ~ President & Publisher A lit candle is seen CATHOLIC David Garick ~ Editor ([email protected]) on an Advent wreath Tim Puet ~ Reporter ([email protected]) during Mass in the TIMES Alexandra Keves ~ Graphic Design Manager ([email protected]) Crypt Church at Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved. Mailing Address: 197 E. Gay St., Columbus OH 43215 the Basilica of the Catholic Times (USPS 967-000) (ISSN 745-6050) is the official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Ohio. It is published weekly 45 Editorial/Advertising: (614) 224-5195 FAX (614) 241-2518 National Shrine of the times per year with exception of every other week in June, July and Immaculate Conception August and the week following Christmas. Subscription rate: $25 per Subscriptions (614) 224-6530 FAX (614) 241-2573 in Washington. year, or call and make arrangements with your parish. Postage Paid at Columbus, OH 43218. (subscriptions @columbuscatholic.org) CNS photo/Bob Roller Postmaster: Send address changes to Catholic Times, 197 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio 43215. Please allow two to four weeks for change of address. December 3, 2017 Catholic Times 3 Sugar Grove St. Joseph marks 125th anniversary of dedication A special Mass was celebrated on Sunday, Nov. 19 The parish has about 170 families and serves an to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the dedication area of 80 square miles in Berne Township in Fair- of Sugar Grove St. Joseph Church. field County and Good Hope and Marion townships Bishop John Ambrose Watterson, the second bishop in Hocking County. It’s known as “the church you of the Diocese of Columbus, came to the small Fair- see from Route 33” because its 60-foot steeple is a field County community just outside Lancaster on landmark familiar to travelers on nearby U.S. 33, Nov. 20, 1892 for the dedication. Sugar Grove St. particularly in the wintertime after the surrounding Joseph was one of 60 churches he dedicated during trees have lost their leaves. Its location at the edge his tenure as bishop from 1880 to 1899. Twenty-five of the Hocking Hills tourist region brings in travel- “Let us try to imagine all the bishops, priests, sis- of them were in places that previously had no Catho- ers during much of the year for Masses at 5:30 p.m. ters, and parishioners who have prayed in our church lic church. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. in these last 125 years,” Father Walter said. “If the Although the building is 125 years old, the history Coincidentally, on the same Sunday as the 9 a.m. walls could speak, we would hear music, scripture, of the parish began nearly 40 years earlier, around anniversary Mass, the parish hosted an evening and homilies from very sacred moments of holy days, 1853, when three frame churches were built – St. Jo- Thanksgiving service in which parishioners joined weddings, baptisms, confirmations, funerals, and seph on Horns Mill Road in Berne Township; Our with members of Sugar Grove’s other two churches countless Sundays. We humbly and reverently offer Lady of Good Hope, on Pine Hill in its namesake – Sugar Grove United Methodist and St. Matthew our gratitude to God for his holy temple in our midst.” Hocking County township; and Sacred Heart, on Lutheran – to express gratitude to God for his bless- Geneva Hill south of Bremen. A cemetery remains ings. The service rotates annually among the three at the location of each of the churches, which were churches. On Sunday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m., all three served by a priest who lived centrally at a Horns will be stops for the annual “Silent Night in Sugar Mill Road farmhouse. The churches were part of the Grove,” a mid-Advent word and song procession. Archdiocese of Cincinnati until the Diocese of Co- Father Walter is the 21st pastor to serve the parish. lumbus was established in 1868. Pastors with the longest tenure were Msgr. Edward The main altar of St. Joseph Church was built by Kessler (1964-85) and Father Walter’s predecessor, young men at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Columbus, Msgr. James Geiger (1992-2009). the predecessor to the Pontifical College Josephi- num. It was a side altar until being moved to the front of the sanctuary as a result of extensive renovation in 2013 and 2014 under Father James Walter, the par- ish’s pastor since 2009. Diocesan schools unveil new public image The diocesan Schools Catholic Schools.” berger, interim diocesan school super- ground, and its accompanying type Office has unveiled a new The rebranding is the re- intendent. fonts. Schools have the option of includ- public image in an effort sult of efforts by Novella “This initiative will work in con- ing the taglines “The Diocese of Colum- to unite all of its schools Creative, which has done cert with the established identities of bus” or “Seeking Knowledge and Virtue under a consistent brand. similar work with par- our elementary and high schools to in the Lord” with the main logo. The image is that of a ishes in the diocese, and enhance the efforts of school com- “Catholic schools are the largest school dove with the words “Our took place in cooperation munities which have recruitment and system in the world,” Streitenberger Catholic Schools.” The with diocesan educators, promotional programs and provide said. “Children learn in safe and loving schools office is encour- parents, and clergy. Fund- valuable resources for those which do environments built on traditions of rig- aging its use by all dioce- ing was provided through not. It also will strengthen the symbi- orous academics and sound theological san elementary and secondary schools a three-year, $100,000 grant by The otic relationship between our schools instruction. Children come to know the in conjunction with their own well-es- Catholic Foundation.
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