CRUSADE OF PRAYER ON FRIDAYS
                   7:30A.M.   Morning Mass
     8:00A.M.  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
                 followed by Morning Prayer             
     8 A.M.  to 4:45 P.M. Individual Adoration and
                  Praying for Vocations all day in Church
     4:45 P.M.   Evening Prayer /Benediction/Closing

Please join this powerhouse of prayer to the Lord.  We need additional members in the early hours of the afternoon.

THANK YOU

After four weeks of Stewardship Appeal, 91 parishioners increased their Offertory donation of the 206 envelope users.  This represents 44% of the envelope users who responded to the Stewardship Appeal.  It will be of great help to maintain our church expenses.  Thank you very much for all your increased Offertory donations and in some cases your Monthly donations.

ADULT ED WILL NOT
MEET ON MONDAY NIGHT
Father Lipton is attending the Presbyteral
Convocation is Newport, RI.

Pastoral Sharing

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Greetings of Peace.

This beautiful season of Advent that we begin today is a constant reminder of “the unknown time-limit” our lives have on earth and the necessity of being prepared to leave this world in a moment’s notice.  God has given us much time since last Christmas and Advent is that time again to take a good look at our lives and examine how well we have used time to please God.
This beautiful season of Advent gives us the constant assurance that the future is in God’s hands, that time belongs only to God, that the future can only be lived by living the present in obedience to God’s will.
This beautiful season of Advent is a season of opportunities to make changes in our lives, to give a new direction in our search for new ways of loving God and our neighbor as Jesus has taught us.   

God Bless you.
Fr. Mariadas J. Lipton

Crusade of Prayer for Vocations: Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life every day.

Choir Rehearsal AT 6:30 PM - Thursday, December 6, 2007.  New Members are welcome.  If interested, call Celeste Milukas at 447-0277.

This weekend (December 2 and 3) is the First Sunday of Advent. We will have a new set of Breaking Bread hymnals, new Missalettes, we will read from Cycle A .

IMPORTANT DATES

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO DECORATE THE CHURCH TOMORROW, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3RD.  PLEASE COME AND HELP US.  IT USUALLY TAKES 45 – 50 MINUTES.

Outside the Parish
DAY OF RECOLLECTION, Wednesday, December 5th at St. Edmund’s Enders Island at Mystic with Fr. Tom Hoar, SSE.  “Keeping Christ In Christmas”  - Conference, Mass, Confession, Holy Hour and a Hot Served Lunch.  $35.00 per person.  To register call 860-536-0565. 
The Academy of the Holy Family Glee Club will present its annual Christmas Concert on Friday, December 14th, at 7:00 p.m. in St. Michael Center, Baltic.  The program will end with a live Nativity Tableaux. The snow date for this performance is Saturday, December 15th at 7:00 p.m. For further information, call 860-822-9272.

Announced Masses

Monday, December 3rd    St. Francis Xavier
7:30 A.M. Isabel Rosa  (Friend)
Tuesday, December 4th   St. John of Damascus                
7:30 A.M.  Prayer Service
Wednesday, December 5th    Advent weekday
7:30 A.M.  Prayer Service
Thursday, December 6th   Advent weekday                
7:30 A.M. Mary Faimali  (Theresa Behrendt)
Friday, December 7th   St. Ambrose
7:30 A.M. Peace in the world
5:30 P.M.  Parishioners of OLPH
Vigil Mass Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saturday, December 8th  
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8:00 A.M.  Intention of Bishop Hart