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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24--ADVENT IV/CHRISTMAS EVE
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
5:00pm Christmas Eve Mass
7:00pm Christmas Eve Mass
11:00pm Christmas Eve Mass
MONDAY, DECEMBER 25-CHRISTMAS
8:00am Mass
10:00am Mass
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26
8:30am Mass
2:00pm Script/Comm (Pres Homes--RV)
WEDESDAY, DECEMBER 27
8:30am Word/Eucharist
7:00pm Script/Comm (New Brighton CC)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28
8:30am Mass
10:15am Script/Comm (Innsbruck)
2:00pm Mass (St. Anthony CC)
7:15pm Script/Comm (Trevilla-NB)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29
8:30am Mass
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30
4:30pm Mass (Cantor & Organ)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choir & Organ)
11:30am Mass (Contemporary)
11:00pm Vigil Mass for Mary Mother of God
MONDAY, JANUARY 1--
MARY MOTHER OF GOD
10:00am Mass
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Connections&
December 24, 2000--Fourth Sunday of Advent
"Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
Luke 3:39-45
When you care enough to send the very best
You stalk the malls, walking the aisles and searching for that extra-special gift. Stashing away a few dollars a month to buy him some lizard-skin boots; staring at a thousand rings to find her the best diamond; staying up all night Christmas Eve, assembling the new bicycle.
Why do you do it?
So the eyes will pop, the jaw will drop. To hear those words of disbelief: "You did this for me?!"
And that is why God did it. Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow or flower leaves you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
[From The Great House of God by Max Lucado.]
CONNECTION: The miracle of Christmas is that God could love us enough to become one of us, that he would humble himself to take on our humanity and transform the human condition in his holiness. As St. Augustine preached: "God loved us so much that he who made time entered time for our sake; he who is an eternity older than the world became younger in the world than many of his servants; he who made humanity became human. He became a creature through a mother he had created, he was carried in arms he made, he nursed at breasts he had formed. From his crib arose in his infant cries the Word of God, without whom all human eloquence falls mute."v
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