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Fourth Sunday of Advent 276 E Bellville Street. 78942 (979) 542-0217 www.stmargaretgiddings.org

Giddings Texas

Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. Uche Andeh 979-542-0217 fruche@stmargaretgiddings.org Parish Secretary: Martha Santillana Bettis 979-542-0217 mbettis@stmargaretgiddings.org Bookkeeper: Hilda Lorena Tovar 979-542-0217 htovar@stmargaretgiddings.org Bulletin Editor: Emilia Basquez 979-542-0217 ebasquez@stmargaretgiddings.org Religious Education Director: Suzanne Peschke 979-716-0051 Guitarist & Choir Director: Joseph Lopez 979-540-0161 Maintenance and Grounds: Florentino Orosio 979-542-0217 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Closed for Lunch: 1:00—2:00 p.m.

Lectors: Mary Ann Bordovsky (English): 512-253-6787 Laura Orocio (Spanish): 716-4121 Altar Society: Mary Sebesta, President 512-461-9310 Sociedad Guadalupana: Laura Orocio, President 979-716-4121 Sociedad del Sagrado Corazón: Daniel Bazquez, President 542-1620 Knights of Columbus: Robert Sebesta, Grand Knight 512-253-6159

SACRAMENTAL INFORMATION

RITE OF RECONCILIATION (Confession): Saturdays-3:00 to 4:15 pm (St. Margaret’s) BAPTISM: Parents must attend a Baptismal Or ientation Class before the date of the baptism. Please call the office for more information QUINCEAÑERAS: Parents must be active registered members of the parish. The girl must be attending Religious Education classes and have received her sacraments of Baptism, First Communion, Penance and Confirmation. Parents must contact the parish six months to a year before scheduling a Quinceaños celebration. MARRIAGE: Couple must contact the par ish pr iest at least SIX MONTHS to a year before the wedding. Marriage Preparation classes are required. Please call the office for more information and to make an appointment with the priest. ___________________________________________________

INFORMACIÓN SACRAMENTAL RITO DE RECONCILIACIÓN (Confesión): Sábados de 3:00 a 4:15 p.m. (Sta. Margarita) BAUTISMO: Los padres tienen que estar registrados como miembros de la parroquia y tienen que asistir a una clase de orientación antes del bautismo. Para obtener más información, favor de llamar a la oficina de la parroquia. QUINCEAÑERAS: Los padres de la joven tienen que estar registrados y ser miembros activos de la parroquia. La joven debe estar en el programa de las clases de Educación Religiosa y haber recibido los sacramentos de bautismo, primera comunión, penitencia y confirmación. MATRIMONIO: La pareja debe hablar con el sacerdote SEIS MESES a un año de anterioridad a la boda. Clases de preparación son requeridas. Favor de llamar a la oficina para hacer una cita con el sacerdote.

MASS SCHEDULE St. Margaret’s — Giddings

Sunday 9:30 AM 11:30 AM Español Tuesday 5:00 PM Wednesday 7:00 AM Thursday 7:00 AM Friday 5:00 PM Saturday 4:30 PM

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE St. Margaret’s Regular Collection $5,186.75 Clergy & Medical $1,016.50 Immaculate Conception $ 355.00 St. Mary’s in Pin Oak Regular Collection $3,361.00 Clergy & Medical $ 349.00

PLEASE NOTE: St. Margaret’s and St. Mary’s parishioners In order to allow more parishioners to reserve mass intentions for 2017, a new rule has been put in place effective January 1, 2017. Each family will be able to request two mass intentions per quarter in 2017. If you have more than two masses in the reservation log for 2017, you may keep two masses each quarter, the rest will be sent to churches who do not have mass in 2017. Your mass intentions will be said in our Church or any other church.

“SAVE TIME AND DONATE ONLINE!” Online Giving is now available for parishioners with WeShare, an easy and convenient way to save time and support the church. Donating is simple, safe, and completely secure. With WeShare, you can set up a recurring weekly or monthly transaction using your checking, savings, or credit card account. You can decide how much to give to any collection and make changes any time, day or night. Plus, you can leave your checkbook at home on Sundays. If you would like to enroll in Online Giving, please visit www.stmargaretgiddings.org. If you have any questions or concerns about the program or would like help setting up your account, please call our parish office at (979) 542-0217 and speak with Hilda Lorena Tovar. “Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you”--Luke 6:38

SCHEDULE OF MASSES AND INTENTIONS Sat. — Dec. 17 — Confessions—3:00 p.m.—4:15 p.m. at St. Margaret’s Catholic Church — 4:30 p.m.—Mass Louis and Andrea Muñiz’ 60th Wedding Anniversary — 6:15 p.m.—Mass †Mary Frerich Sun. — Dec. 18 — 9:30 a.m.—Mass For the people of St. Margaret’s and St. Mary’s in Pin Oak — 11:30 a.m.—Misa †Claudia Mendoza Mon. — Dec. 19 — NO MASS (Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a; Ps 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17; Lk 1:5-25) Tue. — Dec. 20 — 5:00 p.m.—Mass †Dorothy B. Kemper (Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-4ab, 5-6; Lk 1:39-45) Wed. — Dec. 21 — 7:00 a.m.—Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory (Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a; Ps 33:2-3, 11- 12, 20-21; Lk 1:39-45) Thu. — Dec. 22 — 7:00 a.m.—Mass En Honor a San Pedro — 7:00 p.m. Advent Penance Service (1 Sm 1:24-28; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-8abcd; Lk 1:46-56) Fri. — Dec. 23 — 5:00 p.m.—Mass Earl and Pam Steinbach’s 15th Wedding Anniversary (Mal 3:1-4, 23-34; Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-10, 14; Lk 1:57-66) Sat. — Dec. 24 — NO Confessions — 4:40 p.m.—Mass/St. Mary’s in Pin Oak †Louis Frerich, Jr. — 12:00 a.m. - Mass/St. Margaret’s †Jesús and †Levinia Basquez Sun. — Dec. 25 — 9:30 a.m.—Mass †José López — 11:30 a.m.—Misa Por la comunidad de Sta. Margarita y de Sta. María en Pin Oak

ST. MARGARET’S WEEK SCHEDULE LECTORS COMMUNION Sat. Dec. 10 4:30 p.m. Kelly Majewski Mary Posas, Jim Heiser Sun. Dec. 11 9:30 a.m. Stephanie Lopez Sandra Lopez, Dora Muniz Michael and Minnie Simmang Sat. Dec. 17 4:30 p.m. Sharon Amador Adren and Susan Pilger Sun. Dec. 18 9:30 a.m. Colette McClure Joyce Escalante, MJ Kahanek Mary Sebesta, Linda Pruitt Sat. Dec. 24 CHRISTMAS EVE 12:00 a.m. John Simmang Diane Rangel, MA Bordovsky Melanie and Mary Gutierrez Sun. Dec. 25 CHRISTMAS DAY 9:30 a.m. Charlotte Penn Adren and Susan Pilger Mary Sebesta, Mary Posas

DOMINGOS — Misas en Español a las 11:30 a.m. Lectores Ministros de Comunión 11 de diciembre 2016 — Veronica Guajardo Juan Guajardo María Guajardo 12 de diciembre 2016 — Laura Orocio C. Hernandez San Juana Orocio 18 de diciembre 2016 — Cesar Carillo María Morín Karla de la Rosa 24 de diciembre 2016 — Laura Orocio None 25 de diciembre 2016 — Marisol Herrera C. Hernandez Griselda Orocio AVISO: Si usted no puede servir en su día asignado, por favor busque a una persona que le pueda sustituir. Gracias.

USHERS FOR DECEMBER 2016 Saturday Mass — 4:30 p.m. — Darris Chapple Marcus Gaertner Sunday Mass — 9:30 a.m. — Robert Sebesta Dwight Peschke Kelly Allee Clayton Kleiber

UJIERES PARA EL MES DE DICIEMBRE DE 2016 Misa del domingo —11:30 a.m. — Fernando Orocio Hesiquio Orocio Eduardo Luna Pio Díaz

Dec. 17, 2016 4:30 p.m. Landon Gaertner Marcus Basquez Dec. 18, 2016 9:30 a.m. Alex Pérez Daniel Pérez 11:30 a.m. Jennifer Cardona Evelyn Suarez Dec. 24, 2016 — CHRISTMAS EVE — 12:00 a.m. Elijah Hendrix Nathaniel Hendrix Dec. 25, 2016 — CHRISTMAS DAY — 9:30 a.m. Alex Pérez David Pérez 11:30 a.m. Jose Luis Carrillo Imanol Torres Dec. 31, 2016 4:30 a.m. Volunteer Volunteer Jan. 1, 2017 9:30 a.m. Devin Nunes Erik Armendaríz 11:30 a.m. Andres Segundo Henry Segundo PADRES: Si por alguna razón su niño(a) no puede server ese día, por favor busque un sustituto. Gracias.

Thinking about starting your CHRISTMAS SHOPPING?? Go to smile.amazon.com to do your shopping and at the same time your supporting St. Margaret’s Catholic Church. St. Margaret’s will receive a percentage of what you spend on line shopping.

Altar Society will pray the Rosary every second Thursday of ever month at 6:30 p.m. and would like to invite anyone to come and pray with us.

Everyone is welcome to join us in prayer.

THERE WILL BE NO C.C.D. CLASSES ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2016 THROUGH DECEMBER 28, 2016. CLASSES WILL RESUME ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017AT REGULAR

TIME.

DATE

CHURCH TIME

Sun. Dec 18th St. Mary, Ellinger, TX

Confessions 5:00 p.m.

Sun. Dec. 18th

St. John, Fayetteville, TX

Confessions 7:30 p.m.

Wed. Dec 21st St. Ann, Somerville, TX

Confessions 7:00 p.m.

Thur. Dec. 22 St. Margaret, Giddings, TX

Confessions 7:00 p.m.

PENANCE SERVICE SCHEDULE 2016 ADVENT SEASON

SICK LIST: Please keep the following individuals in your prayers. Liborio Gonzales Marilyn Denise Ester Leonard Meuth Rosie Lopez Ed Lara Joy Steinbach James Lara José Angel Castro Pamela Steinbach Kenneth Bishop Gilbert Lara Caroline Noack MILITARY LIST: Captain Nathaniel Rice Cody Joe Gonzales Jennifer Gonzales

ST. MARGARET’S CHRISTMAS PARTY When: Sunday, December 18, 2016 Where: Parish Hall

Time: Social 5:30 p.m. Meal 6:00 p.m Everyone is invited! Please RSVP with Emilia Basquez at 979-542-0217.

PLEASE NOTE: St. Margaret’s and St. Mary’s parishioners In order to allow more parishioners to reserve mass intentions for 2017, a new rule has been put in place effective January 1, 2017 as follows: Each family will be able to request two mass intentions per quarter in 2017. If you have more than two masses in the reservation log for 2017, you may keep two masses each quarter, the rest will be sent to churches who do not have mass in 2017. Your mass intentions will be said in our Church or any other church.

Sunday, December 18, 2016 Volunteers Needed! The Church will decorated for Christmas, Sunday December 18, 2016. We need volunteers to help with the Christmas trees, the

manger, lighting, etc... We will start this project at 1:30 p.m., so if you have time, you are needed!

The Altar Society invites you to come and pray the rosary every second Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Church. Everyone is welcome to come. — Mary Sebesta, President

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

By now, the first Christmas carols are heard in the home, but usually not yet in church. What is a "carol" anyway? Originally, a carol was any kind of communal song sung at a festival such as a harvest. By the thirteenth century or so, carols were associated with household celebrations. "Carol" comes from the Old French carula, meaning a circular dance. Carols weren't for church, since the language of liturgy was Latin and the carols were in the common language. Their characteristic sound comes from medieval chord patterns, and they often have strong refrains for everyone to sing. Even in the churches of the Reformation, carols didn't make it into church services until the 1870s or so, since there was a preference for psalms. Anglicans resisted popular carols; most of our beloved carols came via the Methodists, an offshoot of the Church of England. The Catholic Church generally didn't admit carols to liturgy either, but we didn't make laws against them.

We are told that the beloved carol "Silent Night" comes from Catholic Austria and a harried parish music director. Joseph Mohr, the priest of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, had written the words in 1816, but offered them to his music director, Franz Gruber, when the church's organ broke. Mohr asked him to write a melody that could be played on guitar as a prelude to Mass. Gruber finished the tune just hours before midnight Mass in 1818. The people were shocked to hear a guitar in church, but were charmed by the sweet lullaby. The church was swept away by a flood in the 1990s and the village later relocated, but the townspeople have set up the "Silent Night Memorial Chapel" at the site. Today the carol is in print in some three hundred languages. How wonderful that the pipe organ broke on that night! --Rev. James Field, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

GREETINGS!! The Parish Office will be closed during the Christmas holidays starting on December 23, 2016 through January 2, 2017. If you have any pending business, please contact the Parish Office as soon as possible. Fr. Uche and the St. Margaret’s staff wishes you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

CONFIRMATION CLASSES There will be no Confirmation Classes on December 21 and December 28, 2016. Classes will resume on Wednesday, Janurary 4, 2017, at regular scheduled time.

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