Jesus Is Born, Prince of Peace!
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929 Pearl Road Brunswick, Ohio 44212 330.460.7300 www.StAmbrose.us Jesus is Born, Dear Saint Ambrose Parish Family: Prince of Peace! Merry Christmas! I pray that your heart will be filled with the light and love of Jesus today and always. JESUS This Christmas, I have one fervent prayer for you. May Jesus…Light the way to Peace. It is our Advent and IS BORN Christmas theme. In a hectic, somewhat chaotic world, and with very busy lives, we need Jesus to light the way to peace. OF Jesus wants to give each of us a deep and calming peace. It is a peace which comes from knowing that Prince Emmanuel – God is with us – God is with us always. He is light in our darkness. He is hope in our distress. Peace Jesus is everything for us. He comes this Christmas and SAINT AMBROSE CHRISTMAS 2016 always to be our peace. May you know the love and peace of Christ deep in your heart. Many thanks for all you do for our parish community at Christmas and always. Our parish is so blessed by so many giving, helping and sharing so we, together, can be a beacon of Christ’s light and peace to our world. We have helped so many people throughout the year and especially in the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season. Words cannot adequately express my thanks, and the thanks of the hundreds and thousands of people who look to you – to us – for Light, Hope and Peace. Please take some time to review this Christmas bulletin. It’s filled with some wonderful opportunities and programs in the coming months to help you and our parish family grow closer to the Lord. In many ways, these opportunities and programs can help light the way to peace. “For a child will be born to us, a son will As always, if there is anything I can do for you and your be given to us… And His name will be family, please let me know ([email protected]). called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” –Isaiah 9:6 Father Bob Stec Welcome to Saint Ambrose Catholic Parish! Small Faith Sharing Groups in Homes Join us for an information Session on Thursday, December 29. During this upcoming Lenten Season, we are looking for families or individuals who want to offer programs in their homes or individuals who want to participate in these groups. In just 10 hours you can open up your home, sponsor and facilitate a weekly session. We have all of the resources. To learn more, come to an information session on December 29 at 10:00 am or 6:30 pm in the Mother Teresa Room. Can’t make it? Contact Jane at [email protected] or 330.460.7381 to find out more. Community Outreach Serving Neighbors Do you have a home repair project is Our Way that you may need help with? If so, our Community Outreach team is here to help. We have a very skilled Community Outreach team We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, and this takes that offers assistance to those that may need help on a special meaning in the winter days when snow hits the completing a home project. Our team has many driveways and sidewalks. So many of our seniors are not able to tend to talented hands on board and can help with a vast their own drives. It’s incredibly essential that their drives and walks are open, array of projects—anything from caulking a bathroom especially in the case of an emergency, but this does not always happen. to painting a room…and most things in between! We Project SNOW is simply a call for each of us to be good neighbors to our also do a variety of outdoor projects in the warmer homebound and our seniors. Please help keep their drives and walks open months. Now that the colder months are here, we are and accessible. Want to lend a hand? Call the Parish Office to share how you looking to fill our calendar with indoor projects. If you can help. You know the need. You know your neighbors. When the snow are in need of help with a home project, contact Jane falls, Serve your Neighbor – after all, it’s Our Way as followers of Jesus and at [email protected] or 330.460.7381. members of Saint Ambrose Parish. Our Community Outreach team truly lives out the Speaking of those neighbors? message of Christ every single month when they Is someone in your family, or neighborhood, homebound (either are busy at work helping others! These projects during the winter or throughout the year)? truly cannot be done by the parishioners themselves Please let us know so that we can visit and bring them Holy Communion. for various reasons, and our team brings the care and We want to take care of all our members. Our Good Samaritan ministry is compassion of Christ into their homes every time happy to extend the care, compassion, and Communion of Jesus Christ to they put their tool belts on. We are blessed by their our homebound. powerful, skilled and busy hands, as well as their giving and loving hearts. We are always looking Please contact the Parish Office (330.460.7300 or [email protected]) for additional hands to help with our monthly with information, or to arrange a visit for someone in your family. projects. Contact Lisa at [email protected] or Jane Stay Connected at [email protected] if you are interested in joining our team. We have a great website filled with helpful information about our parish: www.StAmbrose.us Also, connect with Saint Ambrose on “Wishing you many Blessings this Christmas Facebook: facebook.com/StAmbrose.us Season! May the Birth of Jesus Christ bring much Twitter: @StAmbroseChurch peace and joy in your lives!” Instagram: Saint_Ambrosse_Brunswick – Lisa Homady Excellent homemade Sign up for Italian cuisine! Italian Pasta Dinner HOUSE BLESSINGS Saturday, January 7 at 5:30 pm On the Feast of the Epiphany, our Catholic tradition calls us On Saturday, January 7, Saint Ambrose will be hosting our to have our ‘Homes Blessed’. annual Spaghetti Dinner! Grab your family and friends and join us for a tasty meal of pasta, meatballs, garlic As the Magi came from afar to visit the Christ Child, the bread and dessert. Tickets for adults and kids 12+ are only priests and deacons would like to come to your home to $8, while kids 4-11 eat for $4; children 3 and under are share the gifts of God’s presence and protection to you and free! Tickets are on sale at the front desk in the Parish Life your family. If you would like to have your house blessed, Center. This event is presale only, so make sure to grab please complete and return the form below OR go online to your tickets early. Contact the Parish Office (Office@ register at www.StAmbrose.us/HouseBlessing. StAmbrose.us or 330.460.7300) with any questions. The Parish office will call to set up a time. All proceeds from this evening will benefit the teens in our parish and school. Funds will support the FIAT kids going to the March for Life in January and the 8th grade trip to Name: Washington, DC in April. Great food. Great company. Great cause. Phone: Email: 6 Week Bereavement Series Beginning Monday, January 9 Have you lost a loved one? We are here for you. You don’t have to go it alone. Join us on the road toward healing as we Lenten Mission journey through the many feelings and emotions associated with the death of a loved one. The bereavement program helps March 19-21, 2017 to provide comfort and support to those grieving through the As we celebrate the Christmas holiday, it may sound odd to use of prayer, music, coping measures and understanding of be mentioning Lent already. However, as you well know, time the pain associated with the loss of a loved one. flies. Make sure to set aside March 19-21, 2017 for our parish’s Lenten Mission with Rev. John Thomas J. Lane, SSS; “Living a Registration is required. Please contact Monica Kortan at Eucharistic Life - a Parish Lenten Mission/Retreat.” 330.460.7304 or [email protected] for more information, or to sign-up. “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” - Matthew 5:4 GriefShare Next series will begin on Wednesday, January 11 We warmly welcome you to attend Griefshare if your heart is heavy with the memory of someone you love. You are most certainly welcome to return if you started but didn’t complete the entire series, as well. This Christ-centered program of DVDs provides key information to help you understand the “normalcy” of this unwelcomed experience and the opportunity to talk or simply listen to others on this path. This is not a sad evening filled with tears, but rather one of memories and smiles. It is a night of understanding the experience of grief and learning how healing can begin. Our next series will begin on Wednesday, January 11 in the Fr. McGivney Room, but you can come by at any time. Please contact us in advance of your first session so that we have a care book ready for you. Start on week #1, or anytime, by contacting Terri Bartchak at 216.973.6784 or [email protected]. “May God bless you this Christmas season “As we welcome the Prince of Peace this Christmas, I pray that with peace, joy, faith, hope and love.” you and your family will experience God’s love in a moving and –Jane Baldwin profound way.