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Apple Valley Catholic Collaborative — Two parishes One Mission
St. Isidore Parish 429 Great Road, Stow, MA 01775
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish 89 Arlington Street, Acton, MA 01720
Apple Valley Catholic Collaborate Office: 89 Arlington Street, Acton, MA 01720
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-4 p.m. & Wednesdays 10-4 p.m. (978) 263-4305/Fax (978) 263-9014
Visit us at https://applevalleycatholic.org
Apple Valley Catholic Collaborative 2 Fourth Sunday of Advent—December 20, 2020
Christmas Mass Schedule
Christmas Eve
4:00 p.m. Live Stream Mass. This will be a closed Mass where only the priest, deacon, film crew, cantor, and a few musicians will be in at-tendance. This will allow us to celebrate a full Christmas Eve Mass with you in the safety of your homes that will include all the liturgical singing plus some incredibly special Christmas songs. We anticipate this Live Stream Mass to last a bit over an hour. 6:30 p.m. Mass at St. Isidore. This Mass will allow up to 65 parishioners to attend as we adhere to the social distancing and safety protocols. Registration is required and no one will be allowed in unless they are registered. We cannot go over the 65 parishioners as this will break the 6 feet social distancing protocol.
Christmas Day 10:45 a.m. Mass at St. Elizabeth. This Mass will allow up to 90 parishioners to attend as we adhere to the social distancing and safety protocols. Registration is required and no one will be allowed in unless they are registered. We cannot go over the 90 parishioners as this will break the 6 feet social distancing protocol. Advance registration is required so that proper and safe seating can be planned ahead. Registration for Masses is opened on our website and will close at Noon on December 23rd or when full. Register on our website at: https://applevalleycatholic.org/mass-times or by calling Judy in the office at 978 263-4305 x19. A note on Registration for Christmas Eve and
Day Masses: Because of the projected high de-mand and ensuing waiting list, we cannot take walk-ins. If you are registered and your plans change, please cancel your registration as soon as possible, so that others may have the chance to attend.
Weekend Mass Schedule For December 26th – 27th
The weekend Masses following Christmas will still be celebrated as usual. Come enjoy the beauty of the Christmas season celebrations! 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass on Saturday – Live Stream – closed Mass. 8:45 a.m. Mass St. Isidore - This Mass will allow up to 65 parishioners to attend. Register at https://applevalleycatholic.org/mass-times 10:45 a.m. Mass St. Elizabeth - This Mass will allow up to 90 parishioners to attend as we adhere to the social distancing and safety pro toco ls . Reg is te r at h t tps ://applevalleycatholic.org/mass-times. 5:00 p.m. Mass St. Elizabeth – For this weekend ONLY there will be no 5:00 p.m. Mass.
Apple Valley Catholic Collaborative 3 Fourth Sunday of Advent—December 20, 2020
Apple Valley Catholic Christmas Season Flower Funds
We welcome your contribution towards flowers and items that will decorate our churches for the Christmas Season. Please complete and mail the form below to St. Elizabeth Parish or St Isidore Parish at 89 Arlington St. Acton MA 01720, or put it in an envelope marked with the name of your Parish and ‘Flower Fund’ and place it in the col-lection basket at the exit of the church after Mass. You may also make your donation on line using the following links if you would like to make a straight donation to the flower fund please go to our website or click below:
Saint Elizabeth Parish:
Saint Isidore Parish: If your donation is in memory of a deceased loved one whose name you wish to have published in our bulletin on January 10, the Feast of the Bap-tism of the Lord, please complete the form below. Contact Mary Ryan at [email protected]
Enclosed is my donation of $________ towards the 2020
Christmas Season Flower Fund for
_________________________________Parish.
I am making this donation in memory of:
__________________________________________
(please print clearly) I would like the above name/s published in the bulletin on
the Feast of the Baptism. Yes______ No _______
My name is: ____________________________________
Please check here if you would like your donation to be
made anonymously. _______
For All High School Students
Advent prayer and reflection December 20, 8:00-8:45 p.m.
Let’s join together to prepare our hearts during this joyful season of Advent with Bible reflections and prayer. Via Zoom – email Sheila for login de-tails at [email protected]
Ongoing Service Opportunity for ALL High School students
Make notecards that will accompany our Saturday lunches for Lazarus House. Pick up blank cards in front of the youth ministry office and return com-pleted ones there as well. Cards should be words of hope and encouragement in English or Spanish.
Teen Alpha
Teen Alpha will start on Sunday, January 10 and run for 10 weeks from 7:00 -8:15 p.m.
All 9th grade students are strongly encouraged to sign-up as this is the faith formation program for 9th grade this year. Any students preparing for Confirmation who have not yet participated in Al-pha are also encouraged to do so now. Register on our Alpha website page.
Alpha Is Coming! Next Series Begins Thursday Evenings
January 21, Online! Got Questions about Life? Faith? Meaning? Come Join the conversation! Invite a friend or family member!
Alpha is an opportunity to gather, connect, have fun and explore life and the Christian faith in a friendly, nonjudg-mental environment. Come check it out and see for your self! Come and see On January 21 - No pressure, no cost! Learn more and sign up at:
https://www.applevalleycatholic.org/alpha
Apple Valley Catholic Collaborative 4 Fourth Sunday of Advent—December 20, 2020
Children's Liturgy Of The Word (CLOW) Offered Sunday Mornings At
9:30 a.m. Via Facebook Live!
Young children and their parents can log into our Apple Valley Catholic Collaborative Face Book page to participate on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. from their homes in a live and interactive Children’s Liturgy Of the Word (CLOW).
Mass Intentions:
Sunday, December 20, 10:45 a.m. William Burke, Memorial Mass
Sunday, December 20, 5:00 p.m. Ellen Ferguson, Memorial Mass
Prayer Wall
Visit our Prayer Wall on our website: https://applevalleycatholic.org/prayer-ministry
We invite you to put a prayer on our wall or pray for people who are in need of our prayers. We will post intentions anonymously and include them as a group in our weekly Mass intentions.
Emergency Prayer Line Prayer makes a difference!
Can you take a few minutes each week to pray for others? Do you need prayers yourself? Connect with our email prayer group! To join the group or to request prayers, please send a email to Cathy Griffin: [email protected]. For requests, to protect privacy, we only use first names or no name.
Christmas Mass TV Schedule
Christmas Eve:
8:00 pm: Midnight Mass from St. Peter’s with Pope Francis (CatholicTV)
11:00 pm: Christmas Mass from Bethlehem
(CatholicTV) 12 midnight: Midnight Mass, Cardinal Sean at
the Cathedral (CatholicTV)
Christmas Day:
8:00 am: Christmas Mass with Cardinal Sean - WLVI-TV
9:30 am: Christmas Mass with Cardinal Sean -
CatholicTV 12:00 pm: Christmas Mass with Cardinal Sean -
WHDH-TV, Ch 7 5:00 pm: Christmas Mass from the National
Shrine - CatholicTV 5:30 pm: La Santa Misa (Spanish Christmas
Mass)- CatholicTV
Christmas Collection: Clergy Health & Retirement Trust
At all our Christmas Masses, our only collection will be to support the retirement, medical and fi-nancial needs of priests of the Archdiocese of Bos-ton. On behalf of all of our priests, thank you in advance for your generosity. For more information, please visit www.clergytrust.org
Apple Valley Catholic Collaborative 5 Fourth Sunday of Advent—December 20, 2020
Pastor: Rev. Jeffrey Archer
([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 15
Deacon: Char les A. Cornell ([email protected]), (978) 562-7447
Administrative Assistant: J anice Howes ([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 10
Director of Finance & Operations: Annmarie Mazzucotelli, ([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 11
Collaborative Director of Music: Andrea Goodr ich
([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 12
Director of Faith Formation: Barbara Dane ([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 16
(Faith Formation for Grades 5-8)
Coordinator of High School Youth Ministry: Sheila Bauer, ([email protected]),
(978) 263-4305 ext. 23
Coordinator of Young Family Ministries: Tom Spataro
([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 17
Operations & Finance Administrative Assistant: Judy Richardson
([email protected]), 978 263-4305 ext. 19
Liturgical Coordinator: Mary Ryan ([email protected]), (978) 263-4305 ext. 35
St. Elizabeth’s St. Vincent DePaul: Conference of Acton/Boxborough (978) 263-4305 ext. 14
St. Isidore’s St. Vincent De Paul Conference of Stow, (978) 263-4305 ext. 21
For the week ending 12/6/20
Cash & Check Offertory $ 5,170 Electronic Offertory (EFT & Online): $ 8,776 Total Parish Support: $ 13,946
Offertory since 7/1/2020:
Total Collected Offertory: $ 259,578 Total Budgeted Offertory: (1) $ 210.568 Over (Under) Budget $ 49,010
Budgeted loss for the year ended 6/30/2021 (2) $ (79,603) Offertory Over (Under) Budget since 7/1/2020 $ 49,010
Revised Budgeted loss for the year ended 6/30/2021 $ (30,593)
(1) Budgeted offertory for the year ended 6/30/2021 is $475,200. This estimate was calculated based on the actual offertory received during April of 2020, as instructed by the Archdiocese. This is ap-proximately 30% less then what we have received in past years, which reflects the uncertainty of the economic impact of the Pan-demic.
(2) Budgeted loss primarily due to the uncertainty of offertory col-lections related to the Pandemic. Payroll expenses have been re-duced through layoffs and reduction in employee salaries and hours. Other expenses have also been reduced accordingly.
St. Vincent de Paul collection: $ 300
For the week ending 12/6/20
Cash & Check Offertory $ 1,862 Electronic Offertory (EFT & Online): $ 2,834 Total Parish Support: $ 4,696
Offertory since 7/1/2020:
Total Collected Offertory: $ 95,009 Total Budgeted Offertory: (1) $ 76,886
Over (Under) Budget $ 18,123
Budgeted loss for the year ended 6/30/2021 (2) $ (39,242) Offertory Over (Under) Budget since 7/1/2020 $ 18,123
Revised Budgeted loss for the year ended 6/30/2021 $ (21,119)
(1) Budgeted offertory for the year ended 6/30/2021 is $171,746. This estimate was calculated based on the actual offertory received during April of 2020, as instructed by the Archdiocese. This is approximately 30% less then what we have received in past years, which reflects the uncertainty of the economic impact of the Pan-demic.
(2)Budgeted loss primarily due to the uncertainty of offertory col-lections related to the Pandemic. Payroll expenses have been re-duced through layoffs and reduction in employee salaries and hours. Other expenses have also been reduced accordingly.
Grant Annual Collection: $ 16,245 St. Vincent de Paul collection: $ 260
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PARISH SUPPORT
ST. ELIZABETH
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PARISH SUPPORT
ST. ISIDORE
Thank You
Almighty God and Father of light, a child is born for us and a son is given to us. Your eternal Word leaped down from heaven in the silent watches of the night, and now your Church is filled with wonder at the nearness of her God. Open our hearts to receive his life and increase our vision with the rising of dawn, that our lives may be filled with his glory and his peace, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
