Announcements
December 8, 2024 • Second Sunday of Advent

1. Today, we have a second collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious. Your donations help the more than 24,000 senior religious who have dedicated their lives to service retire with dignity. Donations will provide for the essential care, medicine, and daily needs of senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests who have served for decades—usually for little to no pay. Show your appreciation by supporting those who have given a lifetime.

2. We invite you to assist our Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Mass this Monday, December 9. Our English Liturgy will be at 6:15pm. We remind you that this is a Holy Day of obligation. Due to additional liturgies, we will not have confessions.

3. This Thursday, December 12 is our feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We will have mañanitas at 4:00am, and Mass in Spanish at 4:30am, 12pm, 5pm, and 7:30pm. Due to the high attendance, we invite you to carpool to Church.

4. The Parish is selling calendars for next year. These calendars are custom made and include Mass schedule times and major event schedule. You can purchase your calendar in the Parish center for $5, there is a limited quantity.

5. We invite all those who feel the calling to be a Eucharistic Minister to attend our Archdiocese Eucharistic Minister training that will take place on Tuesdays January 7, 14, and 21, at 7:00pm in the St. Joseph Hall. There is a $15 donation for the course. This training is mandatory for all current Eucharistic Ministers.

6. The Parish is collaborating with St. Margaret Center for its annual Toy Drive. The toy drive helps approximately 1,000 low-income children and their parents. You can pick up a star with the age of a child you’d like to get a gift for at the Parish Center. Please bring your unwrapped toy from the Giving Tree to the Parish by December 11th.

7. We thank the Law offices of John Mikhail for sponsoring our bulletin; their information can be found on the last page of our bulletin. If you have a business and would like to sponsor our weekly bulletin, you can call the phone number at the bottom of the last page.