As we begin the Sacred Season of Advent and light the first candle on our Advent wreath, perhaps we might take some time to reflect and begin our spiritual preparation for Christmas. May this sacred season bring you Hope.
~ Father Jerry
We are all waiting! Advent asks us to wait and to take our time to prepare for Christmas over the next four weeks. In the words of Jesus from today’s Gospel we are to stay awake! Advent offers us two messages. It is a time to prepare for Christmas when Christ’s birth is remembered and celebrated. It is also offered to us as a time that directs our hearts and minds to prepare for and await Christ’s coming at the fullness of time. Advent therefore is a time of preparation. We are called to watch and wait in joyful hope for the coming our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Over the next few weeks the shops and the advertise- ments on television will continue to attract our attention and offer us their message. They will tell us to stay busy, spend more, and do all we can to get ready to celebrate Christmas in style.
However, there is another message that Advent offers us. It is one that asks us to stay awake so that we don’t miss the sights and sounds of this sacred season. As well as the lights and decorations, we will see the Advent wreath in our churches with its candles over the next few weeks. The crib will draw our attention to the birth of Jesus. Advent reminds us that we are getting ready to welcome someone, not something!
Through the Gospels, over the coming weeks, we will meet and hear John the Baptist as he says to each of
us, ‘Prepare a way for the Lord, make his path straight.’ On the last Sunday of Advent the Gospel will tell us about Mary who said ‘yes’ in a radical act of faith in response to God’s plan for her.
Advent also encourages us to slow down, pray, stay awake and prepare our daily lives, our hearts and our homes to welcome Jesus through the Nativity.
Advent is the season of joyful hope; so we pray that with God’s help we will do all we can to support each other, to remain faithful, optimistic, joyful and hopeful.
~ Brother Michael Moore, OMI
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New Schedules for
WHEAT Scattered and Sown Family of Parishes
WEEKENDS
Saturdays:
4 pm St. Vincent
4:30 pm Immaculate Conception
Sundays:
8 am Annunciation
8 am Immaculate Conception
9 am St. Joseph
9:30 am Immaculate Conception
10 am St. Vincent
10:30 am St. George
11 am Annunciation
5 pm Annunciation
WEEKDAYS
Monday:
7 am Annunciation
8 am Immaculate Conception
Tuesday:
8 am St. George
8 am St. Vincent
9:15 am Immaculate Conception
6 pm Mass at St. Vincent then 6:30-7:30 pm Adoration
Wednesday:
7am Annunciation
8am Immaculate Conception
Thursday:
8am Immaculate Conception
8am St. Joseph
6pm Mass at St. Vincent then 6:30-7:30 pm Adoration
Friday:
7 am Annunciation
1st Friday Nocturnal Adoration
3rd Friday Adoration at 9:30am
8 am St. George
6 pm 1st Friday of the month only,
devotions at
St. Vincent’s (Adoration, Rosary, Confession) followed by 7 pm Mass,
Anointing of the Sick, then a social.
Saturday:
8 am St. Joseph
Check the bulletin for Holy Day times.
Confessions at Annunciation: 4:00PM on Sunday and upon request. Anointing of the Sick on the first Sunday of the month after the 11AM Mass.
Food Donation
for DECEMBER
FISH can always use paper or plastic garbage bags.
Please protect the barrel - it is not for disposal of garbage.
