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FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

December 21 and 22, 2024

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Saturday          - Haliburton      4:30 pm          Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People

 

Sunday            - Bancroft        10:00 am         Paul Stewart – Lynn Waltenbury

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*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ROSARY IS PRAYED BEFORE MASS AT 8:30 AM ***

 

Monday           - Bancroft        9:00 am           Peter McEnery – Peter Thaeter          

 

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Tuesday                                                          CHRISTMAS EVE – The Nativity of the Lord

                          - Bancroft      5:00 pm          Theresa Yaskolskie – Holly and Terry Simpson        

 

                          - Haliburton   8:00 pm          Deceased members of the Formica and Biagi Families

 

Wednesday                                                    CHRISTMAS DAY – The Nativity of the Lord

                          - Haliburton  9:00 am           Elaine Anne Morissette – Paul and Sharon Morissette          

                                               

                          - Bancroft     11:00 am          Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People

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Thursday         - Bancroft        9:00 am           Feast of St. Stephen

                                                                             Steve Tripp

 

Friday              - Bancroft        9:00 am           Feast of St. John

                                                                             Grace Delyea

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~ FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH~​

December 28 and 29, 2024

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Saturday          - Haliburton      4:30 pm          Agnes Jane Dulong – Mary Carbone

 

Sunday            - Bancroft        10:00 am         Missa Pro Populo – Mass for the People

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

This is the last Sunday of our preparation for Christmas, the anniversary of Christ's birth. Like Joseph, we can all feel unworthy of the honor of welcoming him into our hearts and our homes. We are indeed unworthy, not because we have little of this world's goods, but because we have so little humility, so little charity, so little faith and trust in God's goodness. Let us try to imitate Joseph and Mary, the humblest of the humble, the kindliest of the kindly, and the greatest-ever believers in God's goodness and mercy. We can never hope to equal them, but we can follow them humbly, from afar.

The feast of Christmas should draw the hearts of every child of God towards the furnace of divine love. In the manger, the infinite love of God for us miserable sinners is dramatically and forcefully portrayed before our eyes. In that helpless Baby, represented by a statue, we know that the person, and the power, of the omnipotent Creator and sustainer of the universe lie hidden "He emptied himself, taking the form of a slave" for us. He became a creature, like ourselves, so that he would make us sharers in his divine nature. He came on earth to bring us to heaven. He hid his divine nature so that he could cover us with it.

"Unsearchable indeed are the judgements of God, and inscrutable his ways." But though we are unworthy of his infinite love, it nevertheless stands out as clear as the noonday sun in the Incarnation. We realize that we can never make ourselves worthy of this infinite love, but let us imitate Joseph and accept the honor which God is giving us, as we trust that he will continue to make us daily less unworthy.
 

—Excerpted from The Sunday Readings by Fr. Kevin O'Sullivan, O.F.M.

 

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PRAYER CORNER

 

Maximillian Sullivan and the Sullivan Family, Evan and Gary Wheeler, Judy,

Kathy Edwards, Katherine Flowers, Bronia Wijas, Matt and Kate Flowers, Alverna Ross,

Paul Lee,  Lori Best, Baby Maurice, Mary Pearsell, Reuben Maughan,

Irene Houtby, Samantha Spencer, Barb Perog,

Betty O’Shaughnessy, Bill O’Shaughnessy,

Anne Carr, Kelly Ferguson, Victor Umeohanna,

Silas Agina, Bruce Lance, Rita Stock, Monica Brown,

Stephen Griffin, Richard Wheeler, Kelly Hutchings,

Anita Neuman, Helen Curran, niece of Pauline Burcher,

Julian Joseph Forget, Kathy Willerding, Pat Flagler-Edward and Doug Edwards,

Thomas Smallwood, Hannah Neveu-Greene, Mary Hall, Gladys Roberts, Carol Gaboury.

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