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St. Theresa Catholic Church
We continue with our journey through Advent. It is a period of preparation. While we prepare ourselves spiritually, we join with so many others in the worldly preparation for Christmas. We hang up lights, hang up decorations. At times, we want to brighten things up. The nights are longer, so we follow the light. It is a sign of hope in the darkness. Hope is something everyone needs to live. The hope for the upcoming new season helps us to make the winter season more manageable. The Light is coming and will brighten up the world. The more we anticipate the Light, hopefully encourages to prepare ourselves and others. Each year we get older, but hopefully we will never lose the joy or the anticipation of the Advent Season. Hopefully, we rediscover the inner child in ourselves & share the joy and love. Advent is a time set aside to remind us of hope and the need to prepare. Let us make use of this time- to shine in darkness and be hope to others.
December 4, 2016 Second Sunday of Advent
PARISH FINANCE Regular collection $2,454.00
Second collection Building Fund Thank-you for your generosity
Pope’s Prayer Intention
~ December~
Mass Intentions
December 3 5:00pm Peggy Lange (Betty Baird) December 4 10:00am St. Theresa Parishioners December 6
December 7 8:00am Jamie Clowers (Ladies Guild) December 8 8:00am December 9 8:00am †Michael Trotter (Duhon Family)
Ladies Guild will be collecting box dinners for Manna House and Diapers (3-5) or disinfectant for Joy Ministry. If you wish to donate items, please place them in the collection box in the Parish Hall.
Anna Akins (granddaughter) Betty Baird Jodi Bastyr Pat Behanick Jessie Brown Sherry Brown Rodney Calhoun Debbie Clouatre Jim Daniels Michelle Davis James DeCuir Sarah Denion Juan Dominguz Jodie Duhon Joyce Hugman Kim Johnson Gil Kalinec
If anyone would like to be visited by Fr. Mark, please call the rectory at (903) 845-2306. If prayers are no longer needed please let us know.
PRAY FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISH and COMMUNITY
Gail Levy Betty Lucas Carlos Munoz Kenny Nugent Boots Oliphint Sonya Pereira Julie Ruffeno-Proctor Kitty Ruffeno Ernestine Sawyer Abby Shimota John Skinner David Spanko Gertie Stephens Royce Ann Tipton Debbie Turner Mike Wilson
MASS SCHEDULE
Weekend: Saturday (Vigil) 5:00 PM Sunday 8:30 AM Daily: Tuesday - Friday 8:00 AM Holy Day: Times to be announced Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4:30 - 4:55 PM Sunday 8:00 - 8:25 AM (Anytime by appointment) The Parish office is open 9:00 am - 12:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Fr. Mark is available in the office Tuesdays & Thursdays.
Office Email: [email protected] BULLETIN DEADLINE: 9 AM Thursday
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8:00am †Blase Jackovich †Delores Jackovich †Audrey Thayer (Edward Jackovich) (Debbie Turner)
Universal: End to Child-Soldiers
That the scandal of child-soldiers may
be eliminated the world over.
Evangelization: Europe That the peoples of Europe may rediscover the beauty, goodness, and truth of the Gospel which gives joy and hope to life.
Annual Collection for Retirement Fund for Religious The annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection will be held Dec. 10-11 in the Diocese of Tyler. Coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO), the parish-based appeal benefits nearly 33,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests whose communities lack adequate retirement savings.
If you will be using the offering envelopes this year they are ready in the lobby to pick up. If you don’t want to use the en-velope this year just put an “X” through the label on your box so we can pass them on to another person who wishes to use them. If you cannot find your labeled box and would like to use them this year, please sign the list and we will get that to you. Thank you
Ministry Schedule
Saturday, December 3 Ushers: Gayle Cockerell, Eddie Lange Lector: Ann Buettner EMHC: Ter r i Woodin, Gayle Cockerell Sunday, December 4 Ushers: Walter Raabe, Mary Wolcott Lector: Linda Thomas EMHC: Corky & Ger ry Valentine, Janet Troell, Dolly Welch, Linda Thomas Saturday, December 10 Ushers: Gayle Cockerell, Eddie Lange Lector: Janet Troell EMHC: Corky & Ger ry Valentine Sunday, December 11 Ushers: Suarez family Lector: Tommy Duhon EMHC: Joe Clowers, Kathy Mahaffey, Lynn Worn, Joyce & Walter Raabe Home Visitation and Nursing Homes: Lynne Muñoz, Joyce Raabe, David and Barbara Spanko
There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t met… Join us for Social Weekend Every Sunday after Mass join us for coffee and snacks. 2nd Saturday of the month Bring a main dish or dessert to share.
Adam Willeford~ Air Force Milo Harrison~ Army Mark E. Farrow~ Navy Robert Deller~ Army James Phelps~ USMC Michael Fillmore~ Army
Prayer Group Every 3rd Monday More info. contact Shane Jackson (903)843-2257
“All possibly criminal abuse should be reported to the local police or Child Protective Services. Any current or past cases of abuse involving someone who works for the Church should also be reported to the Promotor of Justice at 903-266-2159 or
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (EMOHC) If you would like to become a EMOHC please inform Father Mark or call Corky Valentine @ (903)399-0362. Your participation is needed and will be greatly appreciated by all. Thank you and God Bless.
The Shoes of the Fisherman Excellent and very interesting story of a Russian priest, Kiril Lakota, imprisoned by the oppressive Soviet gov-ernment for twenty years, who is released to Rome at the height of the Cold War in a Soviet bid to control the Vatican and achieve geopolitical domination. The current Pope dies, and he is elected Pope Kiril. As Pope, he faces enormous pressure from global powers and the Church. Watch the movie to see how he responds.
V National Encuentro Beginning in 2017, the Diocese of Tyler will participate in the V National Encuentro to discern ways in which the Church in the United States can better respond to the Hispanic/Latino presence, and to strengthen the ways in which Hispanics/Latinos respond to the call to the New Evangelization as mis-sionary disciples serving the entire Church. Fr. Ariel Cortes will serve as the diocesan coordinator for this effort. For more information, visit http://vencuentro.org/.
Holy Day Reminder Thursday, December 8 is a the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a Holy Day of Obligation. Our Lady under the title of the Immaculate Conception is the patroness of the Diocese of Tyler. Mass at St. Theresa will be Wednesday @ 5pm Thursday @ 8am
The Four Weeks of Advent The four candles represent the four weeks of Advent. A tradition is that each week represents one thousand years, to sum to the 4,000 years from Adam and Eve until the Birth of the Savior. Three candles are purple and one is rose. The purple candles in particular symbolize the prayer, penance, and preparatory sacrifices and goods works undertaken at this time. The rose candle is lit on the third Sunday, Gaudete Sunday, when the priest also wears rose vestments at Mass; Gaudete Sunday is the Sunday of rejoicing, because the faithful have arrived at the midpoint of Advent, when their preparation is now half over and they are close to Christmas. The progressive lighting of the candles symbolizes the expectation and hope surrounding our Lord’s first coming into the world and the anticipation of His second coming to judge the living and the dead.