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Our Lady of Lourdes Diocese of Covington’s Latin Mass Parish
1101 AMSTERDAM ROAD PARK HILLS KY 41011
“I do not promise you happiness in this life, only in the next”
Pastor Fr. Shannon Collins, MSJB [email protected] Associate Pastors Fr. Sean Kopczynski, MSJB [email protected] Fr. Daniel Kluge [email protected] Missionaries in Residence Fr. Jeffery Jambon
Parish Office 859.291.1854 Parish Council [email protected] Sacramental Emergency 859.444.8648 Confessions Sunday: 45 minutes before Masses Monday—Saturday: 30 minutes before Masses Saturday afternoon: 3:00-4:30 pm
Holy Day Masses 6:30 am, 12:10 pm, 7:00 pm Compline & Devotions 8:00 pm daily Baptism and Marriages All Sacraments at Our Lady of Lourdes are performed according to the usus antiquior of the Roman Rite, with the 1962 liturgical books being normative.
www.ourladyoflourdes.info www.msjb.info
Fourth Sunday of Advent December 23rd, 2018
Mass Calendar & Intentions SUNDAY December 23: Fourth Sunday of Advent
8:00 AM 10:00 AM
(+) Fr. Peter Carota Pro populo
MONDAY December 24: Vigil of Christmas 6:30 AM
12:10 PM (+) Vin & Joyce LeBlanc (+) Ruth Grabert
TUESDAY December 25: The Nativity of Our Lord **12:00 AM
8:00 AM 10:00 AM
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WEDNESDAY December 26: St. Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr 6:30 AM
12:10 PM Benefactors of MSJB Benefactors of MSJB
THURSDAY December 27: St. John the Evangelist, Apostle 6:30 AM
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FRIDAY December 28: Holy Innocents, Martyrs 6:30 AM
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SATURDAY December 29: 5th Day in the Octave of Christmas 8:00 AM Benefactors of MSJB
LL THE PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS at Our Lady of Lourdes wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas in anticipation of the great Feast of the Nativity of our Lord. Remember our Mass schedule for Christmas Masses is: 12:00 Midnight (Solemn High), 8 AM (Low), and 10 AM (High). There will be special music and carols before the
Midnight Mass, as well as a special reception to follow in the undercroft. In honor of this great feast on Tuesday, it is best to have a catechism lesson for Christmas: V What is Christmas Day? It is the day on which Christ Jesus, our Redeemer, was born of the Blessed Virgin in a stable at Bethlehem. V Why is this festival called “the Holy Night”? Because this night has been especially blessed and sanctified by the holy, mysterious birth of the Redeemer of the world. V Why do priests say three Masses on this day? In commemoration of the threefold birth of the Redeemer: of His birth from all eternity in the bosom of His Heavenly Father; of His birth in the fullness of time; and of His spiritual birth in the hearts of the faithful who, by lively faith in Him, receive the power to become children of God (Jn. 1:12).
To dress becomingly for God and neighbor, and in keeping with the reverence due to the Blessed Sacrament, kindly refrain from wearing shorts, tee-shirts, tank-tops, revealing blouses, sleeveless or backless dresses, or form-fitting clothing of any sort. Please wear dresses and skirts that fall below the knee when sitting even with leggings. With due regard to time and circumstance, all are encouraged to wear decorous attire befitting sacred and divine worship.
V Why is the next Mass said at daybreak, and the third after sunrise? To signify that the birth of Christ, expelling the darkness of ignorance and infidelity, brought us the clear daylight of the knowledge of God, and that the spiritual birth of Christ can take place at any time in the pure soul. V When does this spiritual birth take place? It takes place when the soul, having been cleansed from all sin, makes the firm, unalterable resolution to die to the world and all carnal desires, and arouses in itself the ardent desire henceforth to live only for Christ, and, by His grace, to practice all virtues—Fr. Shannon Collins, msjb, Pastor.
! School of Virtue is open today at 12:30 pm. ! The 2019 church envelopes are now available in the back of the church and in the vestibule area in alphabetical order. Please pick up your box. May God reward you! ! The St. Bernadette’s Ladies Guild is putting together a wonderful card and spiritual bouquet for our good bishop. Please consider writing down a prayer offering for him. The card is down in our undercroft. ! We have the Treasure & Tradition (Bell Tower entryway) and other books (Amsterdam entryway) available for a reasonable donation. These might make great Christmas gifts. ! In your pews, you will find envelopes marked: Christmas Music and Christmas Flowers. Please consider donating towards these things so that our music and altar will be beautiful for Christmas. Please make any checks out to Our Lady of Lourdes.
Novena for Christmas December 23
O EMMANUEL, our King and our Law-giver, Longing of the Gentiles, yea, and salvation thereof, come to save us, O Lord our God! Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be…
December 24 O THOU that sittest upon the cherubim, God of hosts, come, show Thy face, and we shall be saved. Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be…
Weekly Financial Report Week of Sunday December 16, 2018
Sunday Collection: Checks
Cash & Coin
$2180.00
$463.81 Christmas Music & Flowers Online & Other Donations
Candles
$212.00 $50.00 $34.78
TOTAL $2940.59
Weekly Budgetary Needs $3,357
DPAA Refund $1277.25
O Mary, Conceived without original sin, make my body pure and my soul holy. Hail Mary… (3 times morning & night)
CHRISTMAS DAY MASS SCHEDULE: 12 am Midnight Mass (Solemn High) with choral prelude and repast after;
8:00 am (Low); 10:00 am (High)
AJESTIC QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND MISTRESS OF THE ANGELS, thou didst receive from God the power and commission to crush the head of Satan; wherefore we humbly
beseech thee, send forth the legions of Heaven, that, under thy command, they may seek out all evil spirits, engage them everywhere in battle, curb their insolence, and hurl them back into the pit of Hell. “Who is like unto God?” O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our hope and the object of our love. O Mother of God, send forth the holy Angels to defend us and drive far from us the cruel foe. Holy Angels and Archangels, defend us and keep us. Amen.
“Christ Jesus true God and the same true man proceeded, that is, was born, while His mother’s virginity remained intact: for the Virgin remained such in bearing Him just as she had in conceiving Him”—Pope Pelagius I (d. 561). “When the time had come for Him to be born, He went forth like the Bridegroom from His bridal chamber, embracing the bride, holding her in His arms, whom the gracious Mother laid in a manger among some animals that were there at the time. Men sang songs and angels melodies celebrating the marriage of Two such as these [God and man in Christ]. But God there in the manger cried and moaned; and these tears were jewels the bride brought to the wedding. The Mother gazed in sheer wonder on such an exchange: in God, man’s weeping, and in man, gladness, to the one and the other things usually so strange”— St. John of the Cross.
