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St Jude Catholic Church
399 Barrow Street•pearl MS 39208
Office: 601-939-3181 fax: 601-939-3160
Website www.stjudepearl.org
Hours:
8:30 am -- 3:30 pm
Monday -- Friday
Fr. Lincoln Dall
Pastor
Deacon Liturgy & Pastoral Care Faith Formation
John McGregor Rhonda Bowden Stacy Wolf
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Administrative Assistant Music Director Youth Ministers
Kelly McGregor Pat O’Neil Betsy Walter 601-214-7378
[email protected] [email protected] Mara Villa-Polk 601-421-3849
Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil
5:30 pm
Sunday
8:30 am & 11:00 am
Friday
10:00 am
Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday
6:00 pm
Adoration of the
Blessed Sacrament
Thursday 5:00 pm
Holy Days
of Obligation
Check bulletin
for times
Reconciliation
Saturday 4:45 pm
or by appointment
Our prayer chapel
is always open
Fourth Sunday of Advent December 24, 2017
Each Christmas, we hear the story of Jesus’ birth from the Gospel of Luke, so there are no surprises for us. We are familiar with Mary and Joseph traveling to the city of Bethlehem, in how they were forced to spend the night in a sta-ble because there was no room for them in the inn. Jesus, the Son of God made incarnate in the world by being born by the Virgin Mary, came into his earthly existence not in some grand palace or in a mighty castle, but in the place where animals live. Shepherds and animals were present at his birth, not kings, not the rich and powerful of society. Jesus was not born in a com-fortable bed with fine linens, but rather in a manger, in the food trough where the animals ate, which foreshadows the way that Jesus’ body will be-come the spiritual food that nourishes us in the Eucharist, as we partake of his body and blood that are transformed from the bread and the wine that we altar to God on the altar. There is a lot being written this time of the year about how we need to rediscover the true meaning of Advent and Christmas, because Christmas has been so overtaken by our secular world. But, in our modern society, Christ-mas has been transformed into a secular holiday where shopping, presents, and parties take the focus away from its religious and spiritual mean-ing. Christ was born in that humble stable more than 2000 years ago, but how is he born in our hearts today? How exactly are we helping to proclaim Christ’s message in our world? If being a disciple of Christ does not have an affect on our lives, if we do not reflect the Gospel in the way we live, then I don’t think that Christ’s birth has much a significance at all. At Christmas, we celebrate Christ as the light of the world. But it is not a light that came to our world only once upon a time so long ago. It is a light that shines here with us in our church at Christmas time, a light that is to shine for all of eternity. In order to feel the true meaning of Christmas, we need to feel that light shining in our lives, to feel the responsibility of bringing that light to others.
Parish Mission Statement
We, the family of St. Jude, Pearl, Mississippi are a vibrant, Eucharistic community with caring members that are empowered by baptism to serve God through the sacraments. We will proclaim the good news and pro-vide spiritual and moral guidance to parishioners and the community by creating a holy and comforting place that encourages active participation, service to each other, and love.
Mass Intentions
Saturday 5:30 pm —Lillian “Lil” Lipovsky (RIP) Sunday 10:00 am— People of St. Jude Sunday 5:30 pm— People of St. Jude Monday Midnight—People of St. Jude Monday 10:00—People of St. Jude Tuesday 6:00 pm— No Mass Wednesday 6:00 pm— No Mass Thursday 6:00 pm — No Mass Friday 10:00 am—No Mass
First Friday Healing Mass Friday January 5 is the First Friday of January and our
Monthly Healing Mass at 10:00 am followed by brunch for those 55 years old or older. If you have any special dietary needs please let Rhon-da know. Call or email Rhonda in the office if you plan to attend the brunch.
Christmas and New Year Masses
This year, Sunday, Decem-
ber 24 is both Christmas
Eve and the fourth Sunday of Advent. We want you to know our schedule for Christ-
mas so you can make your holiday plans. We will have our normal Saturday evening Mass on December 23 at 5:30
pm. Sunday, December 24, we will have Mass for the
fourth Sunday of Advent at 10:00 am and then Christmas Eve Masses at 5:30 pm and midnight (with music starting
at 11:30 pm). Christmas morning Mass is at 10:00 am. Catholics are obliged to participate in the Fourth
Sunday Mass as well as a Christmas Mass. We will have our normal schedule of masses on the weekend of
December 30 and 31. The Mass for January 1, the Solem-
nity of Mary, Mother of God, will be on Monday, January 1 at 10:00 am.
In observance of Christmas and New Years, the parish office will be closed from Friday, December 22nd until Wednesday, January 3, 2018. In case of emergence, you can call the office and leave a message with
Kelly and she will return your call.
Ring in the New Year - Family Friendly New Year’s Eve Party - December 31st, 6:30pm – 9pm – dancing, karaoke, games, food, and more. Fun for the whole family! Bring a party food to share and invite your friends! Stay tuned for more info! SEE MORE INFO BELOW
Ring in the New Year Family Friendly New Year’s Eve Party
When: December 31st, 6:30pm – 9pm Where: Parish Hall Admission: Bring your favorite party food to share
Dancing, karaoke, games, food, and more. Fun for the whole family!
Invite your friends! Youth in 7th – 12th grades may attend without parents, but must sign in and out at the door.
Contact Stacy in the office for more info!
NO DAILY MASS
Father Lincoln will be out to town from December
26-29, we will have NO DAILY MASSES THIS
WEEK. Daily Masses will resume on Tuesday,
January 2nd. Fr. Lincoln, Dcn. John and The Par-
ish Staff wishes everyone a Blessed and Merry
Christmas and Christmas Season.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Weekly Collection: $ 4,516.00
Online Givers: $ 1,305.00
Children’s Collection: $ 40.26
Food Pantry: $ 200.00 Stewardship Thought
In the first reading, God promises King David that his house and his kingdom will endure forever. It is through Mary’s
“Yes” — “I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done to me as you say.” — that the promise finds fulfillment.
See Luke 1:38
Parishioners: Viola Allen, Brody Bokros, Ed and Cathy Dunn, Charles and Mary Ann Goldsmith, Jane Kaiser, Katie Kirby, Joe Loomis, Lucy Lovertich, Chloe Martin, Mike Meadows, Kathy Moody, Ernie Murray, Charles Myers, Patricia Poole, Nell Ramsdell, T. Raymond, Marlene Rhodes, Nimon and Phyllis Rogers, Mary Sauls, Florence Scanlon, Mike Siller, Scott Statham, Charlie Thames, Sandra Walker, Mary Jo Zummo.
Family and Friends of Parishioners: Michelle Sommers, (granddaughter of Pat and Barbara McBride), Mary Frasier Hudson (niece of Serie Barnhill ), Louis Collier, Jonathan Boone (friend of Allen Lea), Peter Rippa, (husband of Mary Rippa) Jim Doud (friend of Mike and Diane Mead-
ows), Lloyd Young (father of Cathy Dunn), Ed Peeples (husband of Karen Peeples), Mary Bess Curry (mother of Mike Curry), Flora and Luis Martin (Daughter and Son-in-law of Mary Rippa), Missy Goodman (Daughter of Nick and Maureen Calico), Pearl Turner (mother of Sheilah Re-sweber), Jeremy McIntyre (son of Brenda and Dorian McIn-tyre), Flossie Frasier (cousin of Linda Smith), Emily Ben-nett (daughter-in-law of Carol Denslow), Irene Jones (mother of Gail Dowdle), June Harkins (mother of Beth Bivens), Donna Neese (mother of Nicole Chapman), Mari-an Lyons (friend of John and Kelly McGregor), Karla Fidler (friend of Monique Augustus), Charles Downey (father of April McDonald), Jeannie Marvelli (Aunt of Anthony Mar-velli), Paula Moody Moore (cousin of Sandra Walker), Erin Anderson and Barry Watts (friends of Sandra Walker), Tan-
ya Harris (daughter of Phyllis Rogers.), Martha Young, (mother of Cathy Dunn), Tammy May, (daughter of Carol Bourne), Robert Caskey (Husband of Riza Caskey), Clyde Cox (brother of George Cox), Phyllis Davis and Rosemary West (mother and sister of David Peters), Douglas Monta-gue (nephew of Sandra Walker), Jeff Frazier, (Brother-in-law of Sandra Walker), Louis Garriga (brother of Bill Garri-ga), Jim Boswell, and all those in nursing homes or home-bound.
The RCIA will not meet on Tuesday, De-cember 26th or January 2nd. RCIA will re-sume on Tuesday, January 9th at 6:30 pm. The topic will be The Sacraments.
WELCOME TO OUR CHURCH FAMILY We welcome to our Church family: Daniel and Christina Bondi We are excited that you have
made our family your family.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27-29; Acts 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt 1:1-25 [18-25] During the Night: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Ti 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Day: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 [1-5, 9-14] Tuesday: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17; Mt 10:17-22 Wednesday: 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a, 2-8 Thursday: 1 Jn 1:5 — 2:2; Ps 124:2-5, 7cd-8; Mt 2:13-18 Friday: 1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96:1-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22-35 Saturday: 1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96:7-10; Lk 2:36-40 Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; 21:1-3; Ps 128:1-5; Col 3:12-21
Hb 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Lk 2:22-40 [22, 39-40]
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent Monday: The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Tuesday: St. Stephen; Kwanzaa begins Wednesday: St. John Thursday: The Holy Innocents Friday: Fifth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord; St. Thomas Becket Saturday: Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity
PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS Remember in your prayers all those who serve our nation in the Armed Forces. We especially pray for: Christopher and Lamont Arnold, Meghan Bietzel, Jessup Boatner, Chris Curry, Christopher Melancon, Dean Millette, Troy Resurreccion, Emma Reuter,
Steven Renslow, Ryan Roy, Trey Strickland, Inissa Zambrano.
Christmas Break – Classes will not meet December 24th and December 31st. Classes will re-sume January 7th. PER G
Prison Ministry Collection Thank you to all who donat-ed items and to all who helped to assemble the bags. We were able to
make 45 bags as well as donate 110 pairs of socks and over 100 ten piece bags of can-dy. Thank you so much!
Baptismal Prep – A Baptismal Prep class will be held on Wednesday, January 17th, at 6:45pm in the Junior High Class-room. This class is designed for first-time new/expecting parents or parents who are Baptizing a
child in the Catholic faith for the first time. Registration is required. Please contact Stacy in the office by Monday, January 15th you wish to attend.
St Jude Food Pantry – 2017
Merry Christmas to all our parish brethren. The
Food Pantry has had an interesting and quiet year.
Our client base has declined over this past year,
which means our economy must be improving as
clients had less need of our help.
We have regular clientele of about 20 families. We average between 12-15 families a month
now, down for an average of 25-30 families just a few years ago.
We provide the clients with a weeks’ worth of food and we give them food once a month.
Our client families are so grateful to all of you who give generously of your time and money.
We could not supply all we do without the loving and substantial donations of St Jude parish-
ioners.
When we work in the Food Pantry, we hear many stories of hardships, loss and poverty. We
also hear about family triumphs, joys and employments. One of the best this year was about
a client’s husband. He has been on the kidney transplant list for over seven years and finally,
in October was the recipient of a new kidney. We were pleased to hear he was home for
Thanksgiving and for the coming holidays.
Our thank you list is long and grateful. We appreciate our dear parish family for their gener-
osity and kindness to the needy in our community. We know what you give must be used
with thoughtfulness and consideration of your sacrifice. We strive to treat our clients with
dignity and respect as you would want. Our success in the Food Pantry is driven by our de-
sire to fulfill your wishes to help the less fortunate, to see them as Christ in our community.
Thank you and may God bless you this Christmas season and throughout the New Year.
Upcoming Events:
Youth Night on Wednesday,
January 3, 2018 from 6-
8:30PM
Prolife Event at the Capitol on Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Congratulations to our Newest Catholic Congratulations to Emma Grace Brewer, daughter of Joseph and Jodi Brewer was baptized on Sun-
day, December 10th. And Dallas Cole Murphy, son of Phillip and Abbie Murphy who was baptized on Saturday, Decem-ber 16th. We welcome all into the our Catholic Church family.
ADULT FAITH FORMATION
Please join us beginning Sunday, January 7th at 9:45 AM as we begin "Symbolon - The Catholic Faith Explained" for our Adult Educa-tion program. This journey of faith, discovery, and friendship with Christ will help make a lasting impression on our lives.
World Marriage Day The Catholic Diocese of Jackson and the Office of Family Ministry is pleased to announce that the Dioce-san World Marriage Day Celebration will be held Sun-day, February 4, 2018 at 3:00 PM at the Cathedral of
St. Peter the Apostle in Jackson, Mississippi. There will be Mass with a reception immediately fol-lowing. The Mass honors all married couples, but invites those celebrating their 25th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries or any significant anniversary. Please contact your parish office for registration de-tails.
The St. Jude Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a
For Donations only Pancake Breakfast on Sunday,
December 31st between the Masses. The Menu will
include: Pancakes, Sausage/Bacon, Orange Juice,
Milk and Coffee. All Donations will go the Priests’
Education Fund. So come and support our Semi-
narians Andrew Bowden and Ryan Stoer as well as
the other seminarians of the Diocese.
Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 24, 2017
The child to be born will be called holy,
the Son of God.
—Luke 1:35
Chrismon Tree
If you have not already done so, please take a few minutes in the next couple
of weeks before or after Mass to look at our Chrismon Tree. That is the tree on
the Blessed Virgin Mary side of the sanctuary.
The tree is decorated with gold and white Chrismon ornaments that were hand
stitched by St. Jude parishioners in the early 1980s. Each ornament displays a
monogram, a sign, a symbol or a combination of such figures that refer to
Christ Jesus. (The word “Chrismon” comes from the two words of CHRISt and
MONogram.)
Many of the Chrismons symbols and monograms have been found in Christianity from its early
days, such as the star, the cross, and the Chi Rho. Some were used on jewelry of the period, on
doors and buildings, and on the walls of the catacombs in Rome. Early Christians used them to
identify themselves to one another or to designate meeting places of the early church. They were
also used to help transmit the faith and beliefs to others since some of the Chrismons illustrated
events and stories from Jesus’ life. And, some of the more recent Chrismon images offer new ex-
planations of God’s never-changing presence in our ever-changing world.
The evergreen tree, which symbolizes the eternal life which Jesus won for us, is a background for
the white lights and gold and white Chrismons. The lights speak of him who is the Light of the
World, and the Chrismons proclaim the name, the life, and the saving acts of Jesus.
Merry Christmas!
Rhonda
Fatima—The Five First Saturdays Devotions
St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gluckstadt would like to invite you to become part of the Fatima message by fulfilling the request of Our Lady of Fatima to complete the Five First Saturday Devo-tions.
First Saturday Dates for 2018
January 6-February 3-March 3-April 7-May 5
To complete the Five First Saturdays Devotion
Confession with 8 days of each Saturday Devo-tion
Receive the Eucharist at each Saturday Devotion
Recite Five Decades of the Rosary at each First Saturday Devotion
Mediate for “at least” 15 minutes on the fifteen mysteries at each Saturday Devotion
Saturday Schedule
All Five First Saturday Devotions will be at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gluckstadt—127 Church Rd.
8:15 am Church opens and confession begins
9:00 am Mass
9:30 am Rosary
10:00 am Meditation will begin
10:30-11:00 am Devotion ends
Times May Vary Slightly
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