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Holy Day of
Obligation
January 1, 2010 |
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The Octave Day of
Christmas
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the
Mother of God
(Holy Day of Obligation, 3 Masses
Available)
Mass New Year's Eve
Thursday, Dec 31
Vigil Mass 6:30pm
Masses New Year's
Day
Friday, January 1st
9:00am
9:00pm
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January Events! |
Jan 3 - Annulment Workshop
Jan 6 - Catholic's Returning Home
Jan
9 - Angel Keepers
Jan 10 - KofC Parish
Breakfast
Jan 21- Empty Bowl's Making
Jan 30 -
Spaghetti Supper
Check out these and all
our monthly scheduled committee meetings and come join
us!
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NAME TAG WEEKEND
JANUARY 9 &
10
Every member of
Holy Spirit parish is invited to wear a name tag at the
Saturday vigil Mass and the Sunday Mass on the SECOND
weekend of every month. This will help us know
each other and will help us welcome newcomers. Loving
your neighbor starts with knowing their name. Wear a
name tag and be a great
neighbor.
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Faith Formation
Schedule
Sunday, January 3
NO FAITH FORMATION
CLASS
Sunday, January
10 Faith Formation
Class MCPS 9:25 to
10:35
AM
Confirmation
Class
Conference Room 3:30
PM
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LifeTeen
All 9th through 12th
Graders
- Jan 10 - LifeNight
- Jan 17th - No LifeNight - Ski
Trip
- Jan 24 - LifeNight
- Jan 31 -
LifeNight
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EDGE
All 7th and 8th Graders
No EDGE nights in
January
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Attention Fifth and
Sixth Graders...
The Church of the Holy
Spirit 5th and 6th Grade Youth Group is now
forming. Our first Parent and youth meeting
is Friday, January 15th at 6:00 PM in the parish
hall. Come ready to get to know each other and
share ideas on what you want to do as a group, where you
want to go for activities outside of the parish
and how often you want to meet. Invite your
friends. This will be a planning meeting for the
rest of the year!
Parents will be
encouraged to help as chaperones, drivers, cooks and
sometimes, entertainers! Come ready to
VOLUNTEER.... |
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Share the Word Bible
Study
will
resume January 12th.
8:45am
every Tuesday morning
in the Parish Office Conference
Room |
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Monthly Parish
Breakfast
Sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus
Sunday, January 10, 2010
After 8:00 am Mass, in the Parish
Hall January
Parish Breakfast Menu
- Scrambled Eggs
- Grits
- Pancakes by Madison & Chas
- Link Sausage
- Biscuits N Gravy
- Coffee, Milk, Orange
Juice
Come join us for fun, food
and
fellowship!
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St. Paula's
Pals
Widows and
Widowers
Come join St. Paula's
Pals for a Pot Luck Luncheon in the Parish hall on
Monday, January 11th at 11:30am.
Please bring your favorite dish.
Meat and Dessert will be
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Annulment
Workshop
Need some help with
your annulment?
Have some questions?
Join us on
Sunday, January 3rd
7:00pm in the Conference
Room
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Montgomery Area
Perpetual Adoration Chapel
There are hours
that need adorers at our 24 hour - 7 day's a week
Adoration Chapel located on the campus of Our Lady Queen
of Mercy Catholic Church. If you can help, please
call Priscilla Berry at 293-7019 or Joan Lynch at
288-6620.
Open
Hours: Tues: 5-6pm; Thurs:
1-2pm; Fri: 9-10am
Prayer
Partners needed: Mon: 10-11pm; Tues: 4-5pm;
Fri: 12-1pm; Sat:
12-1pm
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Catholics Returning Home
A
Ministry to Inactive
Catholics
Who
might benefit from Catholics Returning Home?
Even though people become inactive in
the Church for a lot of different reasons, this program
is for any of these who are seeking a
 more
honest relationship with God, and are ready to explore
the Church's role in that
relationship. What is Catholics Returning
Home all about? Those who have become inactive in the
Church are given the chance to share hurts, decisions,
or events that led to their leaving or drifting away, be
offered apologies for the sins of those in the Church
who have caused them pain, and experience new
perspectives and renewed invitations to return to the
Catholic community. If successful, participants
find ways to move past old hurts or issues, and
re-center God in their lives. Why is our
parish offering Catholics Returning Home? "In our
families, most all of us know, or have known, the pain
of family gatherings in which there are loved ones
missing from the table - due to anger, shame, or
whatever reason. Having any Catholics who have
decided against, or drifted from, active communion with
the Church leaves all of us less whole and our worship
less joyful. We long for them to be back at the Church's
table, and face to face, we want to tell them we miss
them." Rev Msgr Charles Troncale,
Pastor The next
session starts Wednesday, January 6th, 7:15pm
in the office conference room. Call (334) 269-2969 for
more
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Catholic Social Services
Thank You
Extending many thanks on behalf of all the
families you helped this Christmas and the many who were
touched by your love and generosity. The generous
members of the Church of the Holy Spirit made this the
best Christmas ever for many needy families in
Montgomery and the surrounding areas.
May
the Lord Bless you Richly,
Jeff Clark
Catholic
Social
Services |
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Reviving the Bible for
Catholics
Mark your
calendar. A special event for all Catholics.
Stephen J Binz, biblical scholar, will do a presentation
on "Reviving the Bible for Catholics" from 1:30-4:45
p.m. on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at St. Bede
Parish in the Family Life Center. All are
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Angel
Keepers
Drop
off your kids and have a fun night out
while your
kids have a fun time with us!
Saturday,
January 9, 2010
4:30-8:30pm in the Parish Hall
Children to age 7
$8.00 per child for
the whole night.
We will play games, do a
craft, have a snack & dinner.
Please call
Rebecca Smith at 271-7579 or Katie LoBello at
244-1735. Rebecca & Katie are Red Cross
certified
in babysitting &
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Portier
Institute for the New
Evangelization
The Portier Institute for
the New Evangelization is excited to announce its second
round of classes.
Have you ever wondered what the
Liturgy is
and why certain things are done the way they are?
Then come join Father Carucci at MCPS High School Campus
on Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. for his class Instruction
on the Liturgy. This three week class will be held
Saturdays January 9th, 16th and 23rd. Cost is only
$20 and includes course materials.
Why do Catholics have
priests? Many people ask this
question of us and sometimes we ask ourselves.
Come join Father Sreboth, pastor of Our Lady Queen
of Mercy, as he presents his class
The Priesthood: Christ and His Priests: A
look at the Letter to the Hebrews
on Thursdays at 7 p.m. at MCPS High School Campus.
This five week class will be held Thursday January 14th,
21st, 28th, February 4th and 11th. Cost is
$30 and includes the text The Ignatius Catholic
Study Bible: The Letter to the Hebrews.
Many of
us know stories of family and friends, even
our children, who have left the Church. We
are left bewildered, wondering
"Why did they leave?" Come
join Tom Riello, a former Presbyterian minister who
came back to the Church, as he explores answers to this
often difficult experience. Why Catholics Leave?
will held at 7 p.m. on four Tuesday nights at MCPS High
School Campus beginning January 26th, February 2nd,
9th, and 16th. Cost of the class is only $25
and includes course materials.
Please
contact Tom Riello at (334) 221-4371 and email him at
Cruciform2@aol.com to register for the
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Prolife
Legislation Day
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
12:10pm
Mass at St. Peter's Catholic Church. 1-3pm Alabama
State House. Meet with Legislators to promote
4 proposed Prolife Amendments. Brief Remarks at
3pm. Find out where your Legislators stand.
Let them know you want their support of Rep. Bentley's 4
proposed prolife amendments. Our Prolife Legislators
need our prayers, presence, and support!! If
possible contact your Legislators in advance. It's
imperative our Legislators know the community is behind
Prolife Legislation. Our Prolife Legislators need
God's, and our help.
Please come
show your support.
Thank you and God Bless
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The Parenting
Journey
with Bruce Johnston
Sunday, January 31, 2010
2-5
p.m.
Frazer UMC Wesley Hall
Holy Spirit Church has
tickets.
If you would like to attend,
please call
Karen in the church office
277-5631.
Navigating with
your Children through life's transitions.
88% of kids raised in Christian homes today abandon
their faith after high school. Will your parenting
investment survive the transition?
The
Parenting Journey will give you a practical, hands-on
approach to help your child from birth through his or
her adolescent years. You'll be challenged by
practical wisdom for parenting-distilled nuggets of
biblical counsel-and encouraged by relevant
strategies for
implementing the principles in your
family.
Bruce Johnston, president of JH
Ranch (jhranch.com) has been involved in leadership
development and student motivation for over 30
years. He is the also founder of Second Wind
leadership programs and Parent & Son/Daughter
Adventures, and is committed to the restoration of the
relationships between parents and
children.
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Bowl making
for Empty Bowls
It's time for Empty Bowls again! Empty
Bowls is a fundraiser for the Montgomery
Area Food Bank, where handmade bowls are made and
donated in order to support a luncheon in the
spring. If you are creative or just want to get
together with other folks to be part of something
worthwhile, we will be creating bowls at two different
times on January 21st at the parish hall.
The first session will run from 9-11am, and the second
session will be from 6:30-8:30pm. If you are
interested, all you need to do is call to reserve
space-so I'll have enough clay for you! Please call
Margaret Barber at 277-2823 before January
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Pastors
Corner
Christmas
We
distinguish between the commercial Christmas and the
Christian Christmas. The commercial Christmas is
about buying and selling up to Christmas. While
the Christian Christmas concentrates on the birth of
Christ and the subsequent celebrations we have after the
birth of the Savior. You don't celebrate winning
the super bowl until after you have won it. And
you don't celebrate an event until after it has
occurred.
However the
commercial Christmas is gradually marginating the
birth of the Lord and it is our duty as Christians to
bring back Christ into Christmas-to "keep Christ in
Christmas". We do this by recognizing that the
birth of Christ is one of the most important events in
the history of the world-it beginning the process of
our salvation. We are moved by the loving and
loveable child. We are filled with hope, peace and
joy. God has not abandoned us. During the
Christmas season we celebrate the subsequent events to
the birth of the Lord- Mary becoming the mother of God,
the holy family, the coming of the wise men, etc. right
up to the baptism of the Lord (January 10th) which
covers the whole child hood years of Christ in
Nazareth.
Christmas has a
lot to do with the development and spirituality of
Christians. Let us not be distracted by the
commercialization of Christmas to the point of losing
our spiritual development as Christians.
May we all
capture the true spirit of Christmas and live it
throughout this new year. May you all have a happy
and holy new year.
Rev. Philip
McKenna |
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