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WELCOME VISITORS! We invite you to become a member of St. Martin de Porres Catholic Parish. Registration forms are available at all Church entrances. Please return registration forms to
the parish office or drop in the offertory basket. Thank you for joining our family of faith!
ST. MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH 3300 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, CO 80305 * 303-499-7744
www.smdpchurch.org
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT* DEC. 15 & 16, 2018
MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Anticipatory, 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 8:30 & 11:00am Tuesday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.;
Confession, Saturday, 3:30-4:30 p.m. or by appointment; For Holy Day Masses, consult the office or bulletin.
PARISH OFFICE 303-499-7744 (Phone); 303-494-8754 (Fax);
HOURS Mon.—Thurs.: 9-4pm; Fri: 9 -12
(Closed for lunch 12-1pm) \
IN OUR PRAYERS Dorothy Bustamante, Michelle McDonald, Russ & Marge Miles, Dave Perkins, Karen Whitaker, Jean McTighe, Zoe
Murillo, and Michael McNutt, Zachary Quick
PARISH CLERGY & STAFF
Rev. Mr. Karl Matz (Retired), Deacon
Laurie Lopez, Director of Faith Formation/Pastoral Assistant, [email protected]
Ken Baird, Business Administrator [email protected]
Fernanda Nieto, D.M.A., Director of Music
Franco Zearo, RCIA Coordinator [email protected]
JoAnn Ford, Administrative Assistant (Tues.-Thurs.) [email protected]
Dave Ward, Facilities, Maintenance and Grounds
George Ford, Custodian
Saturday, December 15
♦ 5:00pm Pro populo Sunday, December 16
♦ 8:30am + Patrick Miller-Judith & Mike Miller ♦ 11:00am +Paula Windham-Ken & Marilyn Ramsey Monday, December 17
♦ No Mass Tuesday, December 18
♦ 8:30am + Jim Sweeney-David Perkins Wednesday, December 19
♦ 8:30am +Greg James-Norma Cichorz Thursday, December 20
♦ 8:30am Cecelia Borowski-Ron & Leona Heffner Friday, December 21
♦ 8:30am + Toni Parrish & Elizabeth McKlelsen-Friends at Golden west
Saturday, December 22
♦ 5:00pm +Deceased members of Pedlow & Mokry families-L. & D. Pedlow
Sunday, December 23
♦ 8:30am +John Shafer-Mary Ann Pittman ♦ 11:00am + Pro Populo
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Mon: Gn:49:2,8-10, Ps:72:3-4b,7-8,17, Mt:1:1-17 Tue: Jer:3:5-8 Ps:72:1-2,12-13,18-19 Mt:18-25 Wed Jgs:13:2-7, 24-25a, Ps:71:3-4a, 5-6b,16-17 Lk:1:5-25 Thu: Is:7-10-14 Ps:24-1-6 Lk:1-26-38 Fri: Sg:2:8-14 or Zep:3:14-18a Ps:33-2-3,11-12,20-21 Lk:1-39-45 Sat: 1 Sm1:24-28 Ps:1 Sm:2-1,4-7,8abcd Lk:1:46-56 Sun: Mi:5:1-4a Ps:80:2-3,15-16,18-19 Heb:10:5-10 Lk:1:39-45
OFFERING, DEC 8-9 $3,151.01 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: $855.36 WOMEN’S RETREAT: $284.00 ONLINE GIVING FOR NOVEMBER: $1,553.36 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION!
PASTORAL COUNCIL: Chair--Marsha Ruggeri, Carrie Lingo, Joan Fleming,
Jason Pastrick, Mario Mirville FINANCE COUNCIL:
Chair--Mario Mirville, John Meyers, Taylor Varoglu, Jeremy Lingo, Ken Baird Both councils include Fr. Jim.
PARENT SESSIONS —Our next Parent Session in our Parent Education Series is on Sunday, January 6, 2019 from 9:45-10:45 am. Just a reminder that these sessions are required for all parents of students preparing for a sacra-ment. Sessions are open to all interested adults in the parish. FIRST RECONCILIATION—If you have a student preparing for First Reconciliation please continue working on your books as we enter into the holiday season. If you have not yet begun working through the book, now is a good time to start! There is still plenty of time to complete the prepara-tion without the stress of trying to condense the process into a couple of weeks. The 1st Reconciliation ceremony is on Saturday, January 26 @ 10:00 am. CHRISTMAS BREAK— There will be no Religious Classes on December 23 or December 30. Classes will resume on Sunday, January 6. On behalf everyone at St. Martin’s, have a blessed Christmas!
THANK YOU!! Thank you for your generosity to the Thanksgiving Food drive! We collected over 500 lbs. of donated items for the Harvest of Hope Pantry. All donations were very well received and much appreciated!
ANOTHER THANK YOU Thank you to ALL who donated handmade items, baked goods and donated time and service to the Christmas market and the Christmas Potluck!! The market made $2,378.18 for our parish and the potluck brought joy and fellowship to all who attended.
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO
The Catholic Foundation will match up to $10,000 in a fund set up for St. Martin de Porres parish. This money will be available for distribution to the parish simply at the request of the Pastor after consulting his finance council. We have received $5,000 at this time and it has been matched with another $5,000 from the Catholic Foundation. We are in need of other donors to take advantage of these matching funds to help the needs of our parish. For more information contact Father Jim or call the Catholic Foundation at 303-468-9885
Third Sunday of Advent
My Olympic sport is worrying. I’m the best who ever played the game. What makes me particularly versatile is that, the very second one worry is resolved, I can leap immediately to the next one, and the next one. It’s an arrogant way to live, if you think about it. I never stop to give thanks when the first worry turns up solved. I call up the next one in the queue and begin massaging it, marinating it, simmering it over an endlessly warm burner. I look at every possible way things can go fatally awry. I’m pretty sure it’s up to me to keep the planets in their fixed orbits. When turbulence bounces the plane around I think I need to get up there and take over. Have no anxiety about anything, says Paul. Easy for him to say? Well, let’s see. Prior to his imprisonment in Rome (the location of this letter, probably around the year 62), Paul had been shipwrecked, snake-bit, stoned with rocks, and left to languish in prisons in Caesarea and Ephesus. Then, the grossly unstable Emperor Nero of Rome started his persecution of the early church two years after Paul was imprisoned there. One day—or was it night?—the Roman guards took Paul from his cell, and led him to the beheading block. Had he trembled in fear of this moment? Had he worried it to death all the years before it happened? We know this: while in chains in Rome, St. Paul exhorted us to pray, and offer thanks, and tell God what we need. And then, he promised, the peace of Christ will guard us. I’ll bet it guarded him.
How is anxiety stealing my peace? Kathy McGovern ©2018 www.thestoryandyou.com
The Giving Tree is up in the narthex! This year, our gifts will benefit the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Please take an ornament from the tree and purchase your item as indicated, and bring your wrapped gift and place it under the tree. The deadline is December 20. Gifts will be delivered by the Social Concerns Group. AROUND THE ADVENT CIRCLE “Make straight the way of the Lord.” Prepare your soul and your spirit for Advent this year. All interested adults in the parish are invited to join us for of reflection and discussion of the Sunday Advent readings. Our last sessions in this series will be on Tuesday December 18 from 6:30—7:30pm, and again on Thursday Dec 20 from 9:15 to 10:15 am. There is no cost, Light refreshments will be served. For more information contact Laurie Lopez at the parish office, or at [email protected]. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT Mark your calendars and make plans to attend our annual Christmas Pageant, sponsored by St Martin de Porres Faith Formation. This year, we will present the pageant during our Religious Education time on Sunday, December 16 at 9:30 am. We will be presenting Las Posadas, primarily in English, along with a living Christmas Creche. Everyone in the parish is invited to join in this fun celebration! Refreshments will be served following the pageant. You don’t want to miss it!
ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
♦ Dec 16—9:30 am Christmas Pageant/Las Posadas ♦ Dec 24—Christmas Eve 4:00 pm—Children’s Mass 8:00 pm—Christmas Mass at Night ♦ Dec 25—8:30 am Christmas Day Mass—this is the only Mass offered on Christmas Day ♦ Dec 31—5:00 pm Mary, Mother of God anticipated Mass. There will be no Mass on January 1, 2019
Holiday Closing for Parish Offices The Parish offices will be closed at 4:00pm on Thursday, Dec. 20, and will be open again on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. Father Jim and the staff wish each of you a Christmas and
New Year filled with the blessings of Christ.
GROUP EVENTS CALENDAR Men’s Bible Study Group: meets Mondays at 7:30 p.m.—studying the Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch. Contact Dave: 303.999.9174.
Legion of Mary: meets Thursdays 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. in the St. Anne Room. Contact Susan, 303.499.6170.
Golden Needles Sewing Group: meets every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. We meet to sew, crochet, knit and socialize! Contact the parish office for more information.
Art Guild meets on the 1st Saturday of the month. Contact Barb or Pete Schumacher, 303.494.2049.
Koinonia Group meets for dinner on the last Sunday of each month. All adults of the parish are welcome! We will meet on Sunday, Dec 30 at BJ’s, 1690 28th St., Boulder 80301. Please join us for fellowship and a good meal. Contact Vi Beeby at 303-494-8371 to make your reservation.
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