Friday, December 24: 5 PM Christmas Mass During the Night
Saturday, December 25: 9 AM and 11:15 AM Christmas Day Mass (no evening Mass)
Sunday, December 26: 9 AM, 11:15 AM, 7 PM Sunday Mass in the Octave of Christmas (Holy Family)
Reservations are not required to attend our Christmas masses. All diocese-wide COVID-19 precautions (face masking of nose and mouth, hand sanitizing, social distancing, receiving the Host in the hand) remain in effect regardless of your vaccination status. Please follow the direction of the ushers.
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Saturday, December 18: Caroling: 6:30 PM rehearsal at the Church, 7 PM in the neighborhood. Due to the inclement weather, and also to Covid concerns, the Caroling Outing scheduled for 7:00 PM this evening is being scaled back to a Christmas Carol singalong in church, with prayer.
Sunday, December 19: Fourth Sunday of Advent. Masses at 9 AM, 11:15 AM, and 7 PM.
Monday, December 20: Reconciliation Monday – priests available to take confession before and after the 12:10 PM Mass and from 4 PM – 8 PM.
Wednesday, December 22: Mass at 12:10 PM
Friday, December 24: 5 PM Christmas Mass During the Night
Saturday, December 25: 9 AM and 11:15 AM Christmas Day Mass (no evening Mass)
Sunday, December 26: 9 AM, 11:15 AM, 7 PM Sunday Mass in the Octave of Christmas
Reservations are not required to attend our Christmas masses. All diocese-wide COVID-19 precautions (face masking of nose and mouth, hand sanitizing, social distancing, receiving the Host in the hand) remain in effect regardless of your vaccination status. Please follow the direction of the ushers.
As Francis Chin summarized recently at Mass, our parish has been able to maintain its financial health during the pandemic and during extensive repairs and renovations of the church and rectory.
While the parish financial situation is positive, our current collections do not cover our weekly operating expenses. This means we must use rental monies to cover our costs, which is not a sign of a vibrant parish community. The rental monies the parish earns from leasing the school and rectory are earmarked to maintain and renovate the church building and the parish house which we would not otherwise have the funds to do. The renovation work is still very much in progress. That is why we need to bring in sufficient parishioner contributions to cover the costs of running the church, the parish house, and our spiritual and other programs. And these costs (heat, AC, cleaning, salaries, benefits) do increase each year.
A message from your church’s Jewish friend, Chaplain Barry E. Pitegoff, BCC
The Jewish celebration of Chanukah begins tonight at sundown and continues for eight nights and eight days, ending at sundown on Monday, December 6. “Isn’t Chanukah early this year?” The answer is actually “no.” Chanukah is set on the Jewish Calendar and begins at sundown at the start of the 25th day of the month of Kislev every year. That day overlaps onto the Gregorian Calendar, the January-December calendar, differently every year. The reason is surprisingly simple. The Gregorian calendar is Solar, it is based on the earth’s rotation around the sun, which takes about 365 and a quarter days each year. The Jewish calendar is lunar. It is based on the moon’s rotation round the earth, which takes about 28 or 29 days. In the Jewish calendar, a new moon is the start of a new month.
For the fourth year, we are working with HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services to provide gift cards for young people leaving foster care. This is especially important for those who have children themselves. You can give online or drop off a check in the collection box or with the rectory.
The American Dream Program provides students in foster care with robust academic, social-emotional, and career development supports from middle school through age 26. The ADP Scholars have big dreams, and our one-on-one coaching model helps them make plans for their futures and provides them with the tools they need to be successful. Navigating adulthood without a supportive family can be devastating. The American Dream Program is there to fill in gaps and help our young people reach their full potential.
