1 DECEMBER 2019 FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT (A) STAY AWAKE AND STAND READY nce again, we begin a new liturgical year with the season of Advent. The word Advent O comes from the Latin, advenire, which means ‘to come.’ Unlike Lent, the season of Advent does not have a purely penitential character but is rather one of preparation and expectation. As we prepare to celebrate the feast of the Lord’s Nativity, we remember how God once came into our world GUTING SACRED to share our lives, and we wait in expectation for HEART CATHOLIC the time that he will come again. CHURCH Today, we live in a world that is in a precarious 22 HSINHAI ROAD SEC. 1 TAIPEI state. War and violence are all around. We are told (COR. ROOSEVELT ROAD) that we have to maintain our vigilance against DIAGONALLY ACROSS FROM EXIT 2 OF TAIPOWER MRT forces that seek to harm us. Continued on the last page 台北市辛亥路一段 22 號 耕莘文教院，台電大樓捷運站

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Join the Official GSH LINE Group We invite you to be involved in our English c Mass Community xxx MAKING A GOOD 1 ADVENT A | MT 24:37-44 CONFESSION READINGS DO I PRAY TO GOD EVERY DAY?

Have I thanked God for His gifts FOR THE WEEK to me? DID I ENDANGER MY FAITH through readings hostile SUN 1 DEC | ST BEBNUDA IS 2:1-5 PS 122:1-9 RM 13:11-14 MT 24:37-44 to Catholic teaching or MON 2 DEC | ST HERVE involvement in non-Catholic IS 4:2-6 PS 122:1-9 MT 8:5-11 sects? Did I engage in TUE 3 DEC | ST LANDERICUS superstitious practices - palm- IS 11:1-10 PS 72:1-17 LK 10:21-24 reading or fortune telling? DID I WED 4 DEC | ST WICTERP TAKE THE NAME OF GOD IN IS 25:6-10 PS 23:1-6 MT 15:29-37 VAIN? Did I curse or take a false THU 5 DEC | ST URSMAR oath? DID I MISS MASS on IS 26:1-6 PS 118:1-27 MT 7:21-27 Sundays or Holy Days of FRI 6 DEC | ST MARCIAN OF AUXERRE IS 29:17-24 PS 27:1-14 MT 9:27-31 Obligation through my own fault? SAT 7 DEC | ST Am I attentive at Mass? Did I fast IS 30:19-26 PS 147:1-6 MT 9:35–10:8 or abstain on prescribed days? Saints of the Day are selected from at www.catholic.org/saints DID I DISOBEY MY PARENTS ST BEUNO and lawful superiors in Saint Beuno (Latin: Bonus; d. 640), important matters? DID I HATE sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a OR QUARREL WITH ANYONE, 7th-century Welsh , confessor, OR DESIRE REVENGE? Did I refuse to forgive? Was I and saint. Baring-Gould gives St disrespectful? DID I GET Beuno’s date of death as 21 April 640, DRUNK? Or take illicit drugs? making that date his traditional Did I consent to, recommend, feastday. In the current Roman advise, or actively take part in an Catholic liturgical calendar for , abortion? DID I WILLFULLY LOOK AT INDECENT PHOTOS he is commemorated on 20 April, the OR WATCH IMMORAL FILMS? 21st being designated for Saint Did I read immoral literature, or Anselm. Beuno was said to have been engage in impure jokes or born at Berriew in and to have conversations? Did I willfully been the grandson of a prince of the entertain impure thoughts or ARK GRINDING NOAH commit impure acts, alone or local dynasty, which descended from BROKEN HOUR PREPARED with others? Did I use artificial , king of Britain. Beuno was COMING HOUR SONOFMAN means to prevent conception? credited with raising seven people DAYS HOUSE STAYAWAKE DID I STEAL OR HARM from the dead, including his niece, the ANOTHER’S PROPERTY? Have virgin Winefride (Gwenffrewi), and his DISCIPLES JESUS STAYEDAWAK I been honest in my business DRINKING LORD E relations? DID I LIE? Did I sin by disciple and cousin, . He was calumny, or detraction, of others? said to have had a “wondrous vision” EATING MARRIAGE TAKEN Did I judge others rashly in prior to his death. EXPECT MARRYING THIEF serious matter? HAVE I ENVIED Wikipedia contributors, “Beuno,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, FIELD MASTER TWOMEN OTHER PEOPLE? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beuno&oldid=890904742 (accessed 29 Nov 2019). FLOOD NIGHT TWOWOMEN Following your confession of sins, say: “I am sorry for these and all of my sins.” O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Your grace, to confess my Agnus Day, the lectionary comic, appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org sins, to do penance, and to Pope Francis @Pontifex  28 Nov amend my life. Amen. How important it is to learn to be a friendly and

The illustrations on the outstretched hand! Try to grow in friendship even covers of this bulletin were made especially for our with those who think differently than you, so that international parish by Tomaz Mok solidarity might growamong you and become the best and Canossa Fong weapon to change the course of history. xxx

It does not suffice for me to love God if my neighbor does not love Him – St Vincent de Paul Lord, You have graced me with Your love in so many countless ways. Make me aware of opportunities to make You known to those who don’t know You. Joy is a net of It is better to There are not one hundred people in the Click To Pray love by which have a war for United States who hate The Catholic is the official we catch justice than Church, but there are millions who hate prayer souls? peace in what they wrongly perceive the Catholic platform for the Pope’s Saint Mother injustice. Church to be. intentions. Teresa Charles Pe guy Fulton J Sheen Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver THE CHRISTIAN VOCATION to others contemplated truths than merely to [289] Children, especially when they are small, contemplate. give very little thought to what they should do Saint Thomas Aquinas for their parents and are much more concerned about what they hope to get from them. As children, we tend to be very self-interested, Unscramble although our mothers, as we have already these words mentioned, do not seem to mind really, because they have so much love in their hearts and they MT 24:37-44 love with the best kind of affection: that which gives without expecting anything in return. 1. SLCISIDPE The same is true of Mary. But today, on the feast of her divine Motherhood, we should try 2. IGRNKDNI to be more attentive than usual. If we find there have been times when we failed to be gentle 3. IGIRNDGN and kind towards this good Mother of ours, we St Michael the should feel sorry. I ask you now, as I ask myself, 4. IRGARAEM Archangel, how are we honouring her? defend us in battle. Let us return once again to our everyday 5. AMNRRYIG Be our protection experience and see how we behave with our against the earthly mothers. What does a mother want 6. RDEPERAP wickedness and most of all from her children, from those who snares of the devil; are flesh of her flesh and blood of her blood? 7. RBEONK May God rebuke him, Her greatest desire is to have them close to her. we humbly pray; And When the children grow up and it is no longer 8. ICGMNO do thou, O Prince of possible to have them beside her, she waits the Heavenly Host, by impatiently for news from them, and everything 9. GNAEIT the power of God, that happens to them, from the slightest illness thrust into hell Satan to the most important events, concerns her 10. XTPEEC and all evil spirits deeply. who wander through From St Josemaría’s book, ‘Friends of God’ www.escrivaworks.org © Studium 11. TRESAM the world for the ruin Foundation Follow on Twitter @EscrivaWorks Reprinted with permission. of souls. Amen. https://tinyurl.com/y3je9fg5

xxx Continued from first page We also realize that our lifestyle causes irreparable damage to our planet. As we go about our daily business, unencumbered by any concerns, we never imagine anything bad will happen to us. We are used to seeing things happen to other people on the news. But we never know. While we enjoy our lives, we also live in fear. The people of Jesus’ time, lived in the strong belief that the world could come to an end soon. They were awfully sensitive to the signs of the times – a natural disaster, the tragic death of some persons and the stories of the Bible served as warnings and Jesus issues another warning in today’s Gospel: ‘For in those days before the flood, people were eating, drinking…they suspected nothing till the flood came and swept them all away… So stay awake!’ The first generation of Christians believed that Jesus would come again very soon. Next week perhaps! They called it the parousia. Eventually, they realized that the end times were not as imminent as they had imagined we can be certain. The season of us. We do not know when Christ and some began to “get on with Advent is a time for us to renew will come again, but we do know their lives”, some went back to the our commitment of faith in Jesus for certain that Christ in present lifestyle they had before and the Christ and our belief that one day here and now. When we recognize urgency of their conversion was we will see him and for that we Christ in our brothers and sisters, forgotten. We do not know when must be prepared. then we are prepared for his Christ will come again. But Paul Advent calls us to prayer, to coming. Fr Gerard Louis, CSsR reminds the Romans, it is nearer examine our lives and to show Singapore Written especially for our international parish. now than it was last year. Of that, more love to the people around