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DAYTIME BIBLE STUDY: The noon Bible Study will meet this Tuesday. We will be reading the Prophet Amos, chapters 1-9. Bring your bible and join us.
EVENING BIBLE STUDY: The evening Bible Study will meet this Tuesday at 7 PM in the Rectory. We will be finish Proverbs, chapters 29-31, and begin Ecclesiastes, chapters 1-7 Bring your bible and join us.
TODAY WE REMEMBER our sisters and brothers who have gone before us
into eternal life during the past 12 months: Vera Noble, Arlean Vincent, Joe
Warren, Virginia Sams, John Briggs, Mary Jane Briggs, Grace Campbell, William
Hamilton, Joe Leake, Gale Kirk, Henry Brown, Louise Nash Scruggs and Jim
Mueller. We also offer our condolences to their family members, many of whom
have joined us for
PARISH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY ON NOVEMBER 9: We will
hold our Parish General Assembly next Sunday, November 9 in the
Welcome
Opening
Prayer
Open
Forum
Opening
Remarks
Commission
Reports on Vision Implementation
Input
and Questions from Parishioners
Pastor’s
Comments
Door
Prizes
Closing
Prayer
NEXT SUNDAY WE WILL BAPTIZE HOLLY ANN BRINKLEY at the 9:30 Mass.
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL CANDIDATES: We have 6 parishioners who have agreed to be candidates for the three available places on the Council: Beatrice Blackshear, Shay Chillers, Pat Hughes, Kim James, Lillian Summers and Dolores Williams. We all thank them for their willingness to serve our parish community in this way. Please keep them in your prayers for the next two weeks. We will have the drawing of the three names during Mass on Sunday, November 16.
STEWARDSHIP SUNDAY: In two weeks, on the weekend of November 15-16, we will have an opportunity to sign up for 2009 to be involved in the various ministries and activities that will fulfill our Vision of who we are and where we want to go as a parish. We urge all parishioners to re-read the Vision Statement, and decide which area of parish life will be the focus of your stewardship during 2009. There will be sign-up sheets and volunteers to help you sign up. The goal is to have every person who signs up to be contacted by the end of December, so we can hit the ground running in January.
CATHOLIC CHATTER: (This article will appear in the bulletin each week. If you have questions you would like answered here, put them in the blue “Suggestion Box” in the church lobby.)
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Why do we begin Mass the way we do? Our first action as a community comes
at the invitation of the commentator, as we greet one another. We are responding
to Jesus’ words, “Wherever two or more of you gather in my name, there am I in
your midst.” We deliberately come together to experience His presence. Then we
join in song as the ministers enter the church, to raise our minds and hearts
to God together and to begin to build a spirit of shared worship. “Whoever
sings prays twice!” Then we acknowledge that we have truly gathered “In the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” to claim Jesus’
promise. The celebrant echoes this thought as he greets the people with words
like, “May the grace and peace of God our Father and the Lord Jesus be with
you,” to which we all respond, “And also with you.” We have come together and
are ready to pray!
DAILY
Monday: Philippians 2:1-4; Psalm 131; Luke 14:12-14
Tuesday: Philippians 2:5-11; Psalm 22; Luke 14:15-24
Wednesday: All Saints of the Society of Jesus: Deuteronomy 30:11-14; Psalm 15; John 12:23-26
Thursday: Philippians 3:3-8a; Psalm 105; Luke 15:1-10
Friday: Philippians 3:17-4:1; Psalm 122; Luke 16:1-8
Saturday: Revelation 4:10-19; Psalm 112; Luke 16:9-15