| St. Malachi Parish,
Cleveland, OH |
VOL. 35, NO.
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Mass Intentions
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| SATURDAY, DECEMBER
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER
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| 4:30 p.m. - Daryl Kilbane |
7:00 a.m. - Florence Hill |
| SUNDAY, DECEMBER
5 |
12:00 noon - John Friedl |
| 9:30 a.m. - Daniel Condol, Sr. |
FRIDAY, DECEMBER
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11:00 a.m. - Lou Schroeder (Anniv)
12:30 p.m. - Tony Mazzorella (Int.)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6
7:00 a.m. - John Keyes (M/M)
12:00 noon - Nicholas Roberto
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
7:00 a.m. - Rita Wirtz
12:00 noon - Rick Orley
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8
7:00 a.m. - St. Malachi Living and Deceased
12:00 noon - Jeanne Bangert |
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7:00 a.m. - St Malachi Living & Deceased
12:00 noon - Brian Call
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
4:30 p.m. - John “Babe” McCafferty
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5
9:30 a.m. - Edward, Mary, & John Curry
11:00 a.m. - Patricia Coffey
12:30 p.m. - Andy Kowalski |
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SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (PENANCE)
Saturday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:45-9:00 a.m.
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Offertory Report
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Sunday Collection ..........................
$3,025.00
Amount Budgeted .......................... $3,220.00
Thank you for your generous support!
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Please Pray for the
Deceased: John Huff and Rozella McCarthy, who were buried from St. Malachi last week; Peter Kilbane, whose funeral is Monday; Judge McKinney, Andrew Brown, Barbara Secra, Reginald Jones, (Malachi House), Sr. M Bartholomew McCaffrey OSU, Adeline Morcone, Alex Vavpot, Greg Finnan, Sr. Elizabeth Staudt HM,
Also for the Sick: Mike May, Charles Bill, Sean Deegan, Dolly Chura, Mary Ellen Shannon, Kathy Penko, Elaine Rhodes
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50/50 RAFFLE RESULTS
Winner Natalie Long $ 214.00
Seller Marlene Tick $ 100.00
St. Malachi Operating Fund $113.00
Next Drawing: December 26, 2004
RETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS APPEAL
Next Sunday is the annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious. This fund supports women and men from religious communities who have served God's people in ministry, are now retired, and whose communities lack the funds they need to provide for them in their retirement. There will be a second collection at all the Masses.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU!!
Through the generosity of a donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, the carpet in the main vestibule of the church has been replaced with non-skid tile. May God bless you!
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION HOLY DAY
This Wednesday, Dec. 8, is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the patronal feast of our country; the United States is dedicated to Mary under the title of “The Immaculate Conception.” Masses for the Holy Day will be a Vigil Mass on Tuesday at 5:30 PM and on Wednesday at 7 AM and 12:00 Noon. Please Note: there is no Noon Mass Tuesday.
ST. HERMAN'S
SPAGHETTI DINNER
This Sunday from 11 AM - 5 PM is the annual Spaghetti Dinner at St Malachi Hall hosted by St Herman's House of Hospitality. All proceeds are used to help pay the December utility bills and other needs in their ministry of providing for homeless men. Donation : $6.50
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED -
NEXT SUNDAY- HOLIDAY FRUIT BASKETS
Next Sunday, December 12 starting at 12:00 noon
is the annual delivery of fruit baskets to the
elderly in the Lakeview and Riverview hi-rises.
Meet at St. Malachi
Center. If you can help or have
questions please call Sr. Francis 216-861-5343.
TROUBLE
HEARING OR READING AT MASS?
Large-print missals are available at the front,
center, and back pews. Please feel free to pick
one up during Mass. To assist hearing, personal
headphones are available in the sacristy.
COLLECTION ENVELOPES
Please remember to pick up your collection envelopes for the coming year (2005). Please put your name and address on the envelopes so that we may record your contributions. The boxes are located at the back of the church starting this weekend.
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Advent Events 2004
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Eucharistic Holy Hour:
Wednesdays, 3:00 - 4:00 PM Thursdays from 11 AM - 12 PM
Tree Trimming
Party: Saturday, December 4, 6 to 8 PM at St. Malachi Center: All Welcome
St. Herman Benefit Spaghetti Dinner: Sunday, December 5 at St. Malachi Parish Hall from 11 AM to 5 PM
Circle of Prayer: Monday, December 6 at 7 PM
Vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Tuesday December 7 Mass at 5:30 PM
Feast of the Immaculate Conception:
Wednesday December 8 Mass at 7 AM, 12 PM
Posadas: Saturday, December 11, 5:15 PM |
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| SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT |
DECEMBER
5, 2004 |
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Weekly
Activities |
SUNDAY, December 5
Coffee Hour after 9:30 Mass, all welcome
St. Herman Spaghetti Dinner 11 AM Hall
MONDAY, December 6
Monday Night Meal 6 PM
RCIA St. Patrick Church 7 PM
TUESDAY, December 7
Funeral Choir 10 AM
Holy Day Vigil Mass 5:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, December 8 Immaculate Conception
Holy Day Masses at 7 AM & 12 Noon
Quiet Hour 3-4 PM
Advent Book Series 7 PM in church
Prayer Walk for Peace 7:15 PM
THURSDAY, December 9
CSM Choir 7 PM
Holy Hour 11 AM
Christmas Choir 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, December 10
Weekly Church Cleaning 10 AM
Children's Choir 4:30 PM
SATURDAY, December 11
Christmas Church Cleaning 9 AM
Posadas 5:15 PM
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ST. MALACHI CENTER CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE
The
St.
Malachi Center needs new or “like new” gift items for mothers, fathers, teens, children & toddlers for the annual children's Christmas Boutique on Wednesday, December 15. The children then shop at no cost. Please bring gift items to the Center by December 13. For more information call the
St.
Malachi Center
at 216-771-3036.
SOCIAL ACTION-HEIFER PROJECT
Again this Advent, the Social Action Commission is inviting individuals and families to contribute to the
Heifer
Project, a nonprofit organization that provides hungry families with food animals, such as cows, sheep, or chicks to raise. Children receive nutritious milk or eggs; families earn income for school, health care and better housing. For more information contact: Lois Westerkamp 440-331-3705, Joyce Geib 216-521-4252,
www.heifer.org.
Envelopes are available at the church
doors. Make checks payable to: Malachi
Benefit Account.
SAVE THE DATE FOR SOUP FOR THE SOUL!
St.
Malachi Center
announces that the 2005 Soup for the Soul benefit will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2005 at LaCentre in Westlake (which is under new management). Save the date and plan to attend! The Committee is looking for volunteers; please contact Peter Toomey 1-440-333-6628.
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Advent
A Sense of the Season
December is the time for expressing the hope and strengthening the dreams that will carry us through the next year. Advent is the way we as church express our hopes. Prophetic visions, prayers and songs calling for the Lord to come do help us to hope profoundly. Advent allows us to do what most others do in December-but to see in the coming Lord the answer to our dreams. In our Catholic tradition, keeping Advent means singing the songs of expectation, of our hopes and longing, before we enter into the full-throated praise of Christmas carols.
Here are a few lines from our tradition on what Advent is about. “Advent has a twofold character: as a season to prepare us for Christmas when Christ's first coming is remembered; as a season when that remembrance directs the mind and the heart to await Christ's second coming at the end of time. Advent is thus a period for devout and joyful expectation.” (General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, #39)
Thomas Merton, in his book Seasons of Celebration, reviewed the ways Saint Bernard of Clairvaux approached these comings of Christ. The first advent was Christ's birth. The other will be at the end of time. Faith in these two stimulates recognition of a third, the advent of Christ in our church now, today. Viewed from this perspective, the Advent liturgy, with its scriptures, prayers and songs, is neither a romantic return to the Old Testament while we wait for the baby at Bethlehem, nor is it an exercise in expressing hope for an ever-receding end of time. The Advent liturgy is neither nostalgic nor illusory. When we take the tradition and enter it fully, we become Advent, the people in and through whom Christ comes.
Copyright © 1997 Archdiocese of Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL 60622-1101; 1-800-933-1800. Text by G. Thomas Ryan. Art by Chuck Ludeke |
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| "In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea (and) saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said: "A voice of one crying out in the desert, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.'" -Mt 3:1-3 NAB" |
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Is
11:1-10/ Rom 15:4-9/ Mt 3:1-12
Is 35:1-10/ Lk 5:17-26
Is 40:1-11/ Mt 18:12-14
Gn 3:9-15, 20/ Eph 1:3-6, 11-12
Lk 1:26-38
Is 41:13-20/ Mt 11:11-15
Is 48:17-19/ Mt 11:16-19
Sir 48:1-4, 9-11/ Mt 17:9a, 10-13
Is 35:1-6a, 10/ Jas 5:7-10/ Mt 11:2-11 |
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