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Rev. Msgr. Conor J. McGrath Pastor Fr. Roberto V. Rosales Parochial Vicar Lee Jan Deacon [email protected] Ed Gordon Liturgical Ministry Coordinator [email protected] Sarah Rehkopf Pastoral Coordinator [email protected] Susan Ramsower Music Director [email protected] Michelle Marroquin Communications [email protected] Deana Giuliani Parish Accountant [email protected] Anna Cantu Administrative Assistant [email protected] A J Rabel Plant Manager [email protected] Dr. Maria Leavy Hoelscher Counseling 210-364-2215
Staff Hours M-Th 8:30 am –2:30 pm Valerie Trevino Faith Formation Administrator [email protected] Ana Holbrook Administrative Assistant [email protected] Elena Menchero Good Shepherd Coordinator [email protected] Heidi Neuenfeldt Elementary Coordinator [email protected] Luis Ramirez Middle School Coordinator [email protected] Lisa Casas High School Coordinator [email protected]
Baptism: Our next Baptism Class is January 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Day Chapel. Please call the office to register. For the sacraments of marriage and anointing of the sick please call the parish office to make an appointment. RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Are you interested in learning more about the Catholic Faith or considering becoming a Catholic? Please call the parish office for more information. Funerals: If you have a loved one who has passed away, please call the parish office to let us know so that we can pray for that loved one or to arrange a funeral. Prayers for the Sick : We ask God to bless all those who are ill and have asked us to pray for them. To have the Ministers of Care pray for your loved one by name, please email [email protected] or call the parish office.
Welcome to Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30 am-5:00 pm (closed for lunch 12-1pm) (210) 698-1941 | Fax: (210) 698-1983 |
8500 Cross Mountain Trail | San Antonio TX 78255 | seaschurch.com.
REGULAR MASS TIMES
Saturday Vigil 5 pm Sunday 8 :00 am, 9:30 am ,11:30 am 1:00 pm (SPANISH), 7 pm Daily Mass 8 am Reconciliation Saturday, 4 pm Adoration Wednesday, 8:30 am - 8 pm
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
We are so happy that you have joined us, and we hope that you will find our church to be the spiritual home you desire. We are blessed with a community of sincere and caring people who want to make you feel at home. To register as a parishioner go to www.seaschurch.com.
Sacraments Pastoral Office
Faith Formation Office
Offertory December 15/16
$46,247.00
8:00 am Monday, December 31 Teresa Giustino † 9:00 am Tuesday, January 1 MarioVega & Family 8:00 am Wednesday, January 2 Deana Sutton † 8:00 am Thursday, January 3 Dixie Crosby † 8:00 am Friday, January 4 Roy Lozano † 5:00 pm Saturday, January 5 James Skaines † Jimmy James † Sunday, January 6 8:00 am Annie Price † 9:30 am Angie Da Costa Clarissa Lastimosa Trojillo † 11:30 am Roy Lozano † 1:00 pm Patricia Chavez † 7:00 pm A. J. Serra †
Monday, December 31 New Years Eve 7:00 pm Fr. George Tuesday, January 1 New Years Day 9:00 am Fr. George
Wednesday, January 2 8:00 am Fr. Conor Thursday, January 3 8:00 am Fr. Robert Friday, January 4 8:00 am Fr. Conor
Saturday, January 5 Sunday, January 6 5:00 pm Fr. Conor 8:00 am Fr. Conor 9:30 am Fr. Kinney 11:30 am Fr. Roger 1:00 pm Fr. Conor 5:00 pm Fr. Conor 7:00 pm Fr. Conor
Please Note : subject to change
Monday, December 31 7:00 pm New Years Eve Mass Church Tuesday, January 1 9:00 am New Years Day Mass Church Wednesday, January 2 8:30 am - 8:00 pm Adoration Church Thursday, January 3 6:00 pm CDA Meeting Marron Ctr Friday, January 4 9:00 am CDA Rosary Church Saturday, January 5 No Events Scheduled Sunday, January 6 2:00 pm Spanish ACTS Seton Hall
Mass Intentions
Faith Formation Schedule
This Week at SEAS
Mass Presiders Dear Faith Formation Families, On this Feast of the Holy Family we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you have shown us in 2018. From the construction chal-lenges that required a late start to the year, to the re-cent flooding, you have been generous, kind, support-ive and accommodating. When we asked for volunteers for any of our pro-grams you have willing and joyfully stepped forward to answer our call. And, when we asked for coats for families who were going without, you opened your closets and generously gave to boys and girls who needed warmth in winter. As the article in today’s bullentin says, “All families are holy families.” And we are grateful for all of the holy families we have in our parish and in our faith formation program. Wishing all of you the best in 2019! Sincerely, The Faith Formation Staff
Faith Formation classes resume Sunday, January 6.
Winter 2019 Bible Study Classes Bishop Barron’s The Pivotal Players January 9—February 27 Wednesdays 9-11 am or 7-9pm Seton Hall Register at seaschurch.com/bible-studies or call the parish office 210.698.1941 Catolicismo: Programa de Formacion en la Fe 10 de Enero El jueves a las 7 pm en el centro Marron Usted puede registrarse ya sea en lnea al través de seaschurch.com o también llamando la oficina par-roquial al número 210-698-1941.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy Won’t you join us on Wednes-day, January 2 at 6:30 pm in the cry room to recite the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy? Prior to praying the Chaplet we will pause to recall our special intentions and espe-cially the names of the sick and the dying for whom we are praying. Everyone is welcome.
Building Update Concrete was poured before Christmas for the foun-dation of the elementary wing of the new faith for-mation building. Windows have been installed in the high school wing and interior work continues. Fifty-four new parking spaces were completed behind the new building.
Worldwide Marriage En-counter Great Marriag-es Don’t Just Happen, Couples Make Them! May the peace of Christ be with you this Christmas! En-rich your marriage by attend-ing the next Worldwide Mar-riage Encounter Weekend in San Antonio on March 29 – 31, 2019. Submit your appli-cation on line: www.mesanantonio.org or call Ed and Cindy Turski at 602-421-4154 for more info.
EVERY FAMILY IS A HOLY FAMILY In a way every family is a holy family – the family is the place of love, with its flaws in trying to love well, and its times of great joy. If you look around a church on a Sunday there is a difference in the congregation which in-cludes families and the one that does not. Something about the young and old together, and the messiness even of the dif-ferent generations, cheers us up. Family is the first natural grouping, no matter what its makeup.
The feast today is to highlight the importance of family, and the focus of the church on trying to support and enhance family life. While the holy family was a small and rather holy grouping, it was here that Jesus learned the best things of human life – how to care and to love, to look after a widowed mother and earlier, an elderly father-figure; he learned the give and take of the ex-tended family, and in the family learned his faith and to pray. His family is holy because it was a place of love.
Pope Francis says about the family: ‘every family is always a light, howev-er faint, amid the darkness of this world.’ Even in the darkness that can go with family life in the middle of crime, addiction and conflict, there is a light in the love of peo-ple’s hearts.
It’s a feast to encour-age us in giving thanks, in sharing love and always in being there for the members of our family.
Remember the family members for whom you are grate-ful: thank God for them, living and dead.
Holy family, help us grow in love in our own family. Donal Neary SJ from www.sacredheartmessenger.com
“Every family is always a light, however faint, amid the darkness of this world.” Pope Francis
Prayer for Families We bless your name, O Lord, for sending your own incar-nate Son, to become part of a family, so that, as he lived its life, he would experience its wor-ries and its joys. We ask you, Lord, to protect and watch over this family, so that in the strength of your grace its members may enjoy prosperity, possess the priceless gift of your peace, and, as the Church alive in the home, bear witness in this world to your glory. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. —from usccb.org. Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers
You don't choose your fam-ily. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Christmas celebrates the Incarnation, the “en
-flesh-ment” of God as a human person. In Jesus, God is bodily present in the human story. Today we honor the Holy Family, helping us to see that God is active in daily family life. God is near at hand, amidst the tensions, joys, and uncertainties of family life. As our Gospel passage describes, even with fam-ily miscommunications and with limited understand-ing of Jesus’ mission, the Holy Family persevered in their life together. Like many family conflicts, there was no immediate or clear resolution of the issues raised by Jesus and by Mary. God’s intentions for the family, and for Jesus, were still unfolding. They con-tinued to stay connected with each other and with God. Within the turbulence of family life, they trust-ed God to actively sustain and guide them into an uncertain future. We are invited to follow their exam-ple. HANNAH AND MARY
The story of Hannah and her son Samuel in today’s reading from 1 Samuel was especially im-portant for Luke’s Gospel. The passage describes the presentation of young Samuel to the priest Eli as part of the story of the faith of Hannah. Hannah had been in great suffering, as she had long desired to have a son, and saw this as central to her vocation and iden-tity. Hannah’s deep honesty with God during her dis-tress, together with her confident persistence in pray-er, reveals her as a model of faith. Luke links Hannah to Mary through the Magnificat song in Luke 1, which mirrors Hannah’s joyous song in 1 Samuel 2. Luke links young Samuel to Jesus, through the presentation in the Temple in Luke 2.
Luke is suggesting that God is up to some-thing big. Just as Samuel initiated a turning point in Israel’s history, Jesus is about to open a new chapter in human history. Their stories are rooted in the re-markable faith of their mothers, Hannah and Mary. WEAVING THE STORY
Today’s passage from Luke is the only story about Jesus in the Gospels that occurs between Jesus’ infancy and his adult ministry. Luke uses the story to weave these elements together.
This story, like all the infancy passages, em-phasizes that Jesus was born Son of God. Jesus’ first spoken words in Luke conclude with “I must be in my Father’s house.” God is his Father, and Jesus speaks as God’s Son.
Luke connects the future ministry of Jesus with the scene at the temple with the teachers. Jesus’ listeners are astounded at his wisdom. This antici-pates similar scenes as an adult. Luke also subtly hints at Jesus’ resurrection, with details such as the question “why were you looking for me?” similar to “why do you seek the living one among the dead?” Luke invites us to see his Gospel as an integrated whole, weaving together Jesus’ birth, life, death, and resurrection.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn 1:1-18 Tuesday: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 Wednesday: 1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28 Thursday: 1 Jn 2:29 — 3:6; Ps 98:1, 3cd-6; Jn 1:29-34 Friday: 1 Jn 3:7-10; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Jn 1:35-42 Saturday: 1 Jn 3:11-21; Ps 100:1b-5; Jn 1:43-51 Sunday: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12
REMEMBER OUR HEROES Afghanistan: Linda Benavides,Thomas Sweet Iraq: Robert Castillo, Peter Greenburg, Roy Vaughn, Matt Pryor, Miguel T. Sotello, Ron Wyble Germany: Bruce Bal-vin, Luis A. Ramos, Zac Gerner, Jordan Bittner, Jerome Benavudes and Anthony Delgado, Jr., Christopher Le Comte Columbia: Mack Peter Ethiopia: Zachary Williams S. Korea: Austin Reyes Okinawa Japan: Dylan Johnson
SUPPORT OUR DEPLOYED TROOPS: Wear a red shirt on Fridays. RED represents Remember Everyone Deployed.
Today’s Readings: 1 Sm 1:20–22, 24–28 or Sir 3:2–6, 12–14; Ps 84:2–3, 5–6, 9–10 or Ps 128:1–2, 3, 4–5; 1 Jn 3:1–2, 21–24 or Col 3:12–21 [12–17]; Lk 2:41–52 Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
La Sagrada Familia de Jesús, María y José ANA Y MARÍA
La historia de Ana y su hijo Samuel en la lectura de hoy, tomada de 1 Samuel, fue especialmente importante pa-ra el Evangelio de Lucas. Este pasaje describe la presenta-ción del joven Samuel al sacerdote Elí como parte de la his-toria de la fe de Ana. Ella había estado sufriendo mucho, pues durante mucho tiempo deseaba tener un hijo, y consi-deraba esto algo importante en su vocación e identidad. La honestidad intensa de Ana para con Dios durante su angus-tia, junto con su confianza persistente en la oración, la pone de manifiesto como un modelo de fe. Lucas relaciona a Ana con María por medio del canto del Magníficat en Lucas 1, el cual refleja el canto alegre de Ana en 1 Samuel 2. Lucas relaciona al joven Samuel con Jesús, por medio de la pre-sentación en el Templo en Lucas 2.
Lucas sugiere que Dios está tramando algo grande. Así como Samuel inició un momento crucial en la historia de Israel, Jesús está por abrir un capítulo nuevo en la histo-ria de la humanidad. Sus historias están enraizadas en la fe extraordinaria de sus madres, Ana y María. TEJIENDO LA HISTORIA
Hoy leemos un pasaje del Evangelio de Lucas, el cual es el único de los cuatro evangelios que narra la infan-cia de Jesús y comenta lo que pasó entre esta y su ministerio ya de adulto. Lucas utiliza esta historia para tejer juntos es-tas partes.
Esta historia enfatiza que Jesús nació siendo el Hijo de Dios. Las primeras palabras que Jesús dice, en el Evange-lio de Lucas, concluyen diciendo “¿No sabían que debo ocu-parme de las cosas de mi Padre?” Dios es su Padre y Jesús habla como el Hijo de Dios.
Lucas enlaza el futuro ministerio de Jesús con la escena en el Templo con los doctores de la Ley. Quienes escuchan a Jesús quedan admirados por su inteligencia. Esto anticipa escenas similares cuando sea adulto. Lucas también insinúa sutilmente la resurrección de Jesús, con detalles co-mo la pregunta “¿Por qué me andan buscando?”, parecido a “¿Por qué buscan entre los muertos al que está vivo?” Lucas nos invita a ver su Evangelio como un todo integrado, te-jiendo juntos el nacimiento, la vida, la muerte y la resurrec-ción de Jesús. Lecturas de hoy: 1 Sm 1:20–22, 24–28 o Eclo 3:2–6, 12–14; Sal 84 (83):2–3, 5–6, 9–10 o Sal 128 (127):1–2, 3, 4–5; 1 Jn 3:1–2, 21–24 o Col 3:12–21 [12–17]; Lc 2:41–52 Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. DIOS ES UN NIÑO QUE RÍE CONTIGO Dios es un niño que ríe contigo. Dios es un niño que llora, que llora por ti. Dios es un niño que ama, que te ama con corazón de niño y con la fuerza de un Dios. — P. Mariano de Blas
Domingo: La Sagrada Familia; Lunes: Séptimo día dentro de la octava de Navidad; San Silvestre I Martes: Santa María, Madre de Dios; Octava de Navidad; Año Nuevo; Jornada Mundial de Oración por la Paz Miércoles: Santos Basilio Magno y Gregorio Nacien-ceno Jueves: El Santísimo Nombre de Jesús Viernes: Santa Isabel Ana Seton; Primer viernes Sábado: San Juan Neumann; Primer sábado
CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church #515402 8500 Cross Mountain Trail San Antonio, TX 78255 TELEPHONE 210 698-1941 CONTACT PERSON Michelle Marroquin EMAIL: [email protected] SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2010 Adobe Acrobat XI Windows 10 TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 1:45 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION December 30, 2018 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 8 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
