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2080 Merivale Road, Nepean, ON K2C 3H1 Phone: (613) 727-1067 Office Hours: Monday - Closed Tues, Wed, Thurs, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Fri 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Website: https://saintmonicaparish.ca
December 1 & 2, 2018 ~ First Sunday of Advent
Wednesday: 6:20pm First Saturday of month: prior to 9am Mass
Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena: Wed evening aer Mass
On Tuesday evenings, Benedicon follows the Mass. Wednesdays at 6:00 pm to 6:40 pm with Benedicon. Following Friday morning Mass ending at 10:30 am with Benedicon.
Saturday Evening: 4:15 pm- 4:45 pm Sunday Evening: 6:15 pm - 6:45 pm Tuesday Evening: 6:30 - 6:50 pm Wed from 6:05 pm to 6:35 pm Friday during the Holy Hour First Friday aer Holy Hour (and by appointment)
Saturday: 5:00 pm (Vigil Mass) Sunday: 9:00 am, 11:00 am, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, Wednesday: 7:00 pm Thursday 9:00 a.m. (Coffee Club follows) Friday 9:00 a.m. 1st Saturday of the month - 9:00 am
Faith, Fellowship & Fun! = F3
Dec. 14 - Christmas Party Jan. 11 - Holiness
Calling all youth of grade 7-12! Join us at St. Monica Church…7:00 pm
Bring your friends too! Email [email protected] Check out our plans for the New Year
www.saintandrewparish.ca
ADVENT PENANCE SERVICE Thurs. Dec. 13 at 7:00 pm
Christmas & New Year’s Mass Schedule
Dec 24 Nativity of the Lord - 5:00 pm, 8:00 & 10:00 pm Dec 25 Nativity of the Lord - 9:00 am & 11:00 am
Wed. Dec 26 Saint Stephen - Mass 7:00 pm Sun. Dec. 30 Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
Mon. Dec. 31 Mary Mother of God 5:00 pm Tues. Jan 1 Mary Mother of God 11:00 am
Mass Intenons + Indicates deceased person (s)
Saturday, December 1 - First Sunday of Advent 5:00 pm + Rudy Wojtyna by Dolores Wojtyna Sunday, December 2 - First Sunday of Advent 9:00 am + Teresa Brewer by Thelma Gleeson 11:00 am + Ana Fernandes by Maria Mascarenhas 7:00 pm Colin K by Theresa Recoskie Tuesday, December 4 7:00 pm + Souls in Purgatory Wednesday, December 5 7:00 pm + Jamie Demrah by Tom & Ida Daly & family Thursday, December 6 9:00 am + Albert, Reina & Marcel Campeau by Gary & Madeleine Gulas Friday, December 7 - Saint Ambrose 9:00 am + Souls in Purgatory Saturday, December 8 - Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. 10:30 am at Prince of Wales Manor Saturday, December 8 - Second Sunday of Advent 5:00 pm + Thanksgiving Sunday, December 9 - Second Sunday of Advent 9:00 am + Deceased members of the Hagan Family by the family 11:00 am + Alfred Wagner by Richard & Colleen Valiquet & family 7:00 pm Alexander & Parents on his 2nd birthday by Margaret
WELCOME TO ST. MONICA
If you are new to the parish, please find registraon forms in the vesbule, and contact the office for se ng up Direct
deposit or Credit card donaons. Thankyou.
www.saintmonicaparish.ca
Pope's Prayer Intention December
That people, who are involved in the service and transmission of faith, may find, in their dialogue with culture, a language suited to the conditions of
the present time.
DIOCESAN ANNOUNCMENTS www.catholico awa.ca
Youth informaon: www.fymo awa.com
PARISH ADMINSTRATION Pastor: Fr. Frank Brewer
[email protected] 727-1067 x 225
Associate Pastor: Fr. Gerard Plant
[email protected] 727-1067 x226
Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas Cuddihy
[email protected] 599-5266
Administrative Assistant: Siobhan Peryer [email protected] 727-1067 x221
Sacramental Coordinator: Janice Pilgrim [email protected]
727-1067 x 238
Parish Finance: Robella Folliet
727-1067 x 222
Property Management: John Streng 838-4922
Divine Mercy Cenacle:
Eileen Spooner 823-7355
Gianna Crupi 823-4228
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Karen Bader 825-7062
Finance Council:
Chair: Michael McCallen 823-6196
Land & Building Committee
Chair: Tim Norris
Lectors & Commentators
Doreen Cripps 695-1903
Music Ministry:
Trevor DeFreitas (11:00 am) 725-7569
Art Lawless (9 am) 823-8884
Reno Santini (5 & 7 pm) 843-8210
Parish Social Life Committee
Connie Carlotti
Parish Pastoral Council
Chairperson: TBA
School Sacrament Preparation
Janice Pilgrim 723-9767 X 238
Baptismal Prep
Deacon Tom Cuddihy
Sacristan
Cristeta Baclayanto 823-2631
Social Outreach:
Elizabeth Mohan: 843-9550
Spiritual Life Committee
Gianna Crupi 823-4228
Tuesday Evening Prayer Group
Thea Streng: 838-4922
Cursillo: Dave Morse: 440-0364
P A R I S H S C H O O L S St. Monica Elementary School 226-5174
2000 Merivale Rd. Principal: Barry Oliver
St. Andrew Elementary School 843-0050 201 Crestway Dr. Principal: Michael Schreider
Frank Ryan Jr. H School 224-8833 128 Chesterton Dr. Principal: Philip Capobianco
St. Mother Teresa High School 823-1663
440 Longfields Dr. Principal: Geoffrey Edwards
St. Pius X High School 225-8105 1481 Fisher Ave. Principal: Mrs. Alex Belloni
2019 Envelopes Are Ready For Pick Up
For those who make contributions
through our envelope system 2019 envelopes are ready for you in the parish hall.
Please collect your envelopes before Christmas, they will NOT be available for pick up over Christmas.
Thank you
Our Giving Tree
will be in the vestibule soon
More
details to come...
Begins Jan 17
Archbishop’s Advent Message 2018 Advent, the season preparing us for Christmas, begins today. Two questions come to my mind. Is it possible for you to prepare spiritually to celebrate Christmas in our hectic and consumeristic climate? Can you create some interior space to welcome the Christ-child or will your heart and mind be overfull like the inn at Bethlehem in the original Nativity of our Lord? The word “Advent” has a Latin root that means “coming.” The pre-Christmas season of Advent is a time of preparation to celebrate the first coming of Jesus Christ at Christmas: “the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” (John 1.14) Soon, a joyful feast will mark the reality that heaven came to earth that first Christmas. Until then, some traditional practices can help you get ready to celebrate. In the church at Mass during Advent, the priests and deacons wear purple vestments for three of the four Sundays. There are also three purple candles in the traditional Advent wreaths that decorate the sanctuaries of parish churches and many family tables. Purple is a penitential colour, expressing sorrow and contrition for sins. As beneficial today as it has been for centuries, Catholics have celebrated the sacrament of reconciliation (also known as Confession or the sacrament of penance) in the four weeks before Christmas. In addition, parishes often engage a speaker to give an Advent Retreat to help parishioners anticipate Christmas. Daily reflections and readings from the Scriptures are available in print and online to focus your prayer direction at home on the meaning of the season. Some families use Advent prayer booklets at dinnertime to guide their prayers as they light one of the candles of their Advent wreath. Parents with little ones often purchase an Advent Calendar, on which the children can take turns opening a window each day to reveal a faith-enriching picture or message. The Christmas nativity scene or crèche, promoted by Saint Francis of Assisi hundreds of years ago, is a popular devotion. Some cherished crèches have been in families for generations. One practice has the figures of the three Magi (or wise men) processing across the living room, each day moved a little closer to the stable and crib containing Christ! These and other practices remind us of the miracle of Christmas: God so loved the world that He sent us His only Son, like us in every way but sin, to bring us back into the intimacy of God’s loving embrace. It is possible to get caught up in the round of parties, decorating the house, buying the perfect present, sending cards or ecards, and the general busyness of the weeks before December 25. Consequently, we can forget that for Christians, “Jesus is the reason for the season.” This Advent, I encourage you to adopt more attentively some traditional practices. It could be a little focused prayer on the meaning of Christmas, a few moments each day spent with the crèche, an Advent wreath on the dinner table with four candles and a moment of prayer, penitential preparation ending with the sacrament of reconciliation, or a special donation to support the poor in our community. You will be blessed if you make a little space in your crowded life to welcome the Christ-child into your heart and home.
Sincerely yours in Christ, Terrence Prendergast, S.J.
Archbishop of O awa
During Advent we are to be awake and watchful, preparing a place of welcome in our lives for the Lord.
A Season of Hope The days are getting shorter, the night comes more quickly. Night seems darker, too - or is it just the cold? Nature is shutting down the business of life and growth. But even as this time of hibernation comes upon us, we start Advent, a season of hope, of richness and fullness. We celebrate during Advent the promise that is fulfilled at Easter.
Watching for the Light We use winter greenery as an image of hope and eternal life, candles that banish the darkness with their warm light and we prepare for the coming of the Messiah. Out of the darkness, light will come, a light of redemption for all peoples. We are to prepare a place of welcome in our lives for the Lord Jesus.
Preparing Our Hearts Our pre-Christmas busyness easily can crowd out this most important preparation of the heart. So we need to keep reminding ourselves of what comes first. Families developing their own traditions that include prayer and the Christmas story; teaching children how to give, how to notice the needy, how to say, ‘thank you’. All of us paying attention to ‘doing good’ to prepare our hearts to welcome the Messiah and be to be able to reflect his love. And taking the time to notice and nourish the precious gifts that God has given us.
A Question Do you remember an unexpected act of kindness that someone did for you - at a time you really needed one? What did this do for you? What can you do to keep yourself ‘in shape’ so you, too, are able to bring kindness and hope to others?
Giving Tree Our ‘Giving Tree’ in the Vestibule helps us to respond to those in our community who find winter a particularly difficult time. Thank you for your generosity.
As we make ready by prayer and love, our hearts will know the sure hope that is given us by the birth of the Lord Jesus, Emmanuel.
1 1st Saturday Mass 9:00 am
2 1st Sun Advent
3
Office closed Saint Francis Xavier
4 5 6
Coffee Club Advent Brunch
7
Saint Ambrose 8 PWM Mass 10:30 Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9
2nd Sun Advent 10
Office closed
11 12
Our Lady of Guadalupe
13
Coffee Club Penance service 7 pm
14
Saint John of the Cross
15
16
3rd Sun Advent 17
Office closed
18 19 20
Coffee Club
Carleton Lodge Mass 10:15 am
21 22
23
4th Sun Advent
30
Holy Family
24 Office closed Christmas Eve 5 pm/8pm/10pm
31 Office closed Mary Mother of God 5 pm
25 Office closed
Christmas Day 9 am/11 am
26 Office closed Saint Stephen Mass 7 pm
27 Office closed Saint John Mass 9 am
28 Office closed The Holy Innocents Mass 9 am
29 Office closed
Mass schedule:
Saturday 5:00 pm
Sunday 9am/11 am & 7 pm
Tues/Wed 7:00 pm & Thurs/Fri 9:00 am
1247 Kilborn Place, Ottawa, On K1H 6K9 613-738-5025
www.Catholicottawa.ca
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