Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Church December 10, 2017 2819 Whitney Avenue Hamden, CT 065182032480141Email address: [email protected]Website: www.olomc.orgParish Office HoursMonday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00AM ~ 3:00PMMary SaccoJohn GuerinWednesday Parish Office ClosedWeekend Masses: Sunday Vigil (Saturday) 5:00 PMSunday 8:00 AM ~ 10:00 AM ~ 11:30 AMDaily Masses: Monday through Friday ~ 7:30 AM and 9:00 AMSaturday ~ 8:00 AMSacrament of Penance: Saturday afternoons 3:00 PM 3:30 PM (and by appointment)Sacrament of Baptism: By appointment onlyDirector of Religious EducationSister Ann O’Neill, RSMOffice: 2032879017[email protected]DeaconsJohn O’DonovanStephen YatckoPriests of the ParishReverend Michael J. Dolan, Pastor[email protected]Reverend Matthew G. Gworek, Parochial Vicar[email protected]Director of MusicRaymond Murphy [email protected]CantorFidel Romero [email protected]Ramp&ElevatorAccessibleFind a Church, Visit: www.parishesonline.com
+ 5:00 PM Janet E. Waldron!! ! ~ Req. by Frank & Sandy Gombotz!!!
Sunday, December 10, Second Sunday of Advent!! !+ 8:00 AM Peter Padua ~ Req. by Family!!
+ 10:00 AM Ann Mulvey ~ Req. by Family!!
+ 11:30 AM Gennaro and Elizabeth Cannavaciolo !! ! and Joseph and Jerry Canna!!Monday, December 11, Advent Weekday,! ! ! ! ! Saint Damasus I, Pope!! ! !
+ 7:30 AM Rita Garvin ~ Req. by The O’Donovans!!
+ 9:00 AM Rosemary Cassidy�10th Anniversary!! ! Req. by Husband!! ! !
Tuesday, December 12, Our Lady of Guadalupe!! ! ! !
+ 7:30 AM Pasquale Pisanelli�Birthday Remembrance!! ! ~ Req. by Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Pisanelli!!
+ 9:00 AM William C. Barrett ~ Req. by Wife!!
Wednesday, December 13, Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr !! ! ! !
+ 7:30 AM Michael Johnson ~ Req. by Family!!
+ 9:00 AM Mary Brady ~ Req. by Family!!
Thursday, December 14, Saint John of the Cross,!! ! ! ! Priest and Doctor of the Church!! ! ! ! ! ! !
+ 7:30 AM Ricardo Montesi�Birthday Remembrance!! ! ~ Req. by Rose Pocius!!
+ 9:00 AM Richard Gillen ~ Req. by Cecilia!!
Friday, December 15, Advent Weekday!!
+ 7:30 AM Flora Menchetti ~ Req. by Family!!
+ 9:00 AM Charles H. Miller�Birthday Remembrance!! ! ~ Req. by Mel & Bruce!!
Saturday, December 16, Advent Weekday, !! !+ 8:00 AM Merle Landino ~ Req. by Family!!
+ 5:00 PM Mary Devine!! ! ~ Req. by John Devine and Family!!!
Sunday, December 17, Third Sunday of Advent!! !+ 8:00 AM Reno Giapponi ~ Req. by Family!!
+ 10:00 AM Catherine Sullivan Bush!! ! ~ Req. by Margaret Golden!!
+ 11:30 AM Robert De Lauro!! ! ~ Req. by The Cifarelli Family!!
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The Sanctuary Candle at the!Tabernacle Is Lit in Loving Memory of…!
George Mastroianni!Birthday Remembrance!
STEWARDSHIP!Offertory Report 12!3!17�
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Weekly Collection!$ 9,457.40!!
2nd Collection THIS Weekend!Retired Religious�! !
Thank You For Your Generosity !!�
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The Rosary…is prayed each morning, Monday�Friday beginning at 7:10 AM and Saturday Morning at 7:40 AM.!
*******************************!Rosary at Saint Joan of Arc Church!
Wednesdays at 7:00 PM in the Church. !For more information call Loretta 203�676�3223.!
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The Intercessory Prayer Line…If you have a spe-cial need or intention for which you would like the
prayers of your parish community, please call Gwen at 203�248�9176.!
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Readings Week of December 10, 2017!Sunday: Is 40:1�5, 9�11/Ps 85:9�10, 11�12,!! 13�14 [8]/2 Pt 3:8�14/Mk 1:1�8!
Monday: Is 35:1�10/Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11�12,!! 13�14 [Is 35:4f]/Lk 5:17�26!Tuesday: Zec 2:14�17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1�6a,! 10ab/Jdt 13:18bcde, 19 [15:9d]/Lk 1:26�38 or Lk 1:39�47!Wednesday: Is 40:25�31/Ps 103:1�2, 3�4, 8 and!
! 10 [1]/Mt 11:28�30!Thursday: Is 41:13�20/Ps 145:1 and 9, 10�11,!
Second Sunday of Advent PROCESSIONAL HYMN #58 Comfort, Comfort, O My People
The Responsorial Psalm (page 36)
The Gospel Acclamation Presentation Hymn #61 On Jordan’s Bank SANCTUS #885 Mystery of Faith #886
Great Amen #889 The Lord’s Prayer and Doxology AGNUS DEI
Music at the Communion
Solo “Locusts and Wild Honey” words: Mark 1:2-6, music: Gregory Norbet
Hymn #46 Beyond the Moon and Stars RECESSIONAL HYMN #63 Ready the Way of the Lord
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A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE" by Bud Ozar !
Why is it so hard to forgive, yet so easy to get even ?Listen to John the Baptist in today’s Gospel and repent of the anger and ugly feelings which block your ability to forgive and to love. This Christmas, give a gift which makes a difference...Give forgiveness.!
RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults!The process by which adults come into full communion with the Catholic Church is known as “ RCIA”, which is short for the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.! If you feel God calling you to this conversion of heart, please join us on this journey to a closer relationship with God and His Church.! For more information please contact:!! !Deacon Stephen Yatcko, email: [email protected]!!or!! Donna Yatcko, email: [email protected]!
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During the 10:00 AM Liturgy, children are invited to come downstairs for the Liturgy of The Word on their level. They return back upstairs at the time of the offertory.!
The Giving Tree in the Sanctuary is decorated with “ornaments” identifying the gift request of people served by Hamden and New Haven area social service agencies. Hamden Fuel Fund envelopes are also available to help meet heating needs. If there are parishioners in need of extra help this season, please call 203�287�9017 with your request. We will make every effort to fulfill your request. !
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Here is how the Giving Tree works:!1.! Take a tag. Don’t lose it! The coded information identifies
the gift recipient.!2.! Bring a wrapped gift with the tag securely taped on to it. !3.! Age appropriate toys for children. Leave all tags on clothing
for exchanges. Please do your best to make the special re-quests come true.!
4.! DUE DATE: NEXT Sunday, December 17th. Please place gifts under the tree on the Altar.!
5.! Place a homemade ornament on the tree if you wish.!6.! Fuel Fund donations by check should be made payable to
OLMC (memo�Fuel Fund)!!
For more information, please call 203�980�9391. Gifts will be delivered Monday, December 18th. If you wish to help with the delivery, please call Bob at 203�281�1175. Your generosity for those falling on hard times is more appreciated than you know. Please Note: Gifts without tags or coded information will NOT get to the intended recipient.!
Altar Server Information & Instruction!THIS Sunday, December 10th!
after the 10:00 AM Mass!Girls and boys Grade 3 through 12 have the oppor-tunity to assist at celebrations of the Mass by serv-ing on the Altar. Please call Deacon John 203�281�3563 for more information.!
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The Annual Christmas Blood Drive at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is scheduled for Thursday, De-cember 28th. Please sign up for donations by calling the Red Cross directly at 1�800�433�1879. This could be the most important gift you give this year. For fur-ther information call Deacon John 203�281�3563.!
Re#rement Fund for Religious!Support Elderly Religious!
2nd Collection THIS weekend, December 9th & 10th!Help Religious Communities!
“Your generous contributions help us to care for our retired sisters and enables our younger sisters to continue in active ministry”, writes a religious sister. Your gift to today’s col-lection for the Retirement Fund for Religious helps provide medications, nursing care, and more, for thousands of sen-ior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests. It also helps ensure younger members can continue the good works of their elders ! !
Pro�Life Rosary�Rosary For Life!Today, Sunday, December 10th!
from 12:15�1:00 PM!
in the Cry Room of the Church!******************!
Pro�Life Novena and Holy Hour will be prayed Tuesday, December 12th from 6:00 � 7:00 PM. Holy Hour includes Exposition of
The Blessed Sacrament, Respect Life Rosary and Benediction.! !“Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the un-born and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation, made in His own image, destined to live forever, and deserving of the ut-most reverence and respect.” ~ Pope Francis, July 13, 2013!
Our Lady of Guadalupe! December 12th!A poor Indian named Cuauhtlatohuac was baptized and given the name Juan Diego. He was a 57�year�old widower and lived in a small village near Mexico City. On Saturday morning, December 9, 1531, he was on his way to a nearby barrio to attend Mass in honor of Our Lady. He was walking by a hill called
Tepeyac when he heard beautiful music like the warbling of birds. A radiant cloud appeared and within it stood a young Native American maiden dressed like an Aztec princess. The lady spoke to him in his own language and sent him to the bishop of Mexico, a Franciscan named Juan de Zumarraga. The bishop was to build a chapel in the place where the lady appeared. Eventually the bishop told Juan Diego to have the lady give him a sign. About this same time Juan Diego’s uncle be-came seriously ill. This led poor Diego to try to avoid the lady. The lady found Diego, nevertheless, assured him that his uncle would recover and provided roses for Juan to carry to the bishop in his cape or tilma. When Juan Diego opened his tilma in the bishop’s presence, the roses fell to the ground and the bishop sank to his knees. On Juan Diego’s tilma ap-peared an image of Mary exactly as she had appeared at the hill of Tep-eyac. It was December 12, 1531.! www.americancatholic.org!
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D"#"$%&$' O*+ R"-&'&.*/ L&1"+23!From: Archbishop Leonard P. Blair!
In a letter to the U.S. Senate, the United States Con-ference for Catholic Bishops (USCCB) stated that it stands ready to work with Congress to address prob-lems with the Affordable Care Act in order to protect
the most vulnerable among us. They said, “The Catholic Church remains committed to ensuring the fundamental right to medical care, a right which is in keeping with the God�given dignity of every person, and the corresponding obligation as a country to provide for this right. Health care debates must not be reduced to only those elements which appear most politically expedient; those without a strong voice in the process must not bear the brunt of attempts to cut costs.”!
! ! Vocation Reflections!St. John the Baptist appeared in the desert pro-claiming the Lord. Who will proclaim him in this generation? If you feel the call to proclaim the word of the Lord as a priest, deacon, brother or
sister, call Fr. Jeffrey Gubbiotti, Director of Vocations, Archdi-ocesan Center at St. Thomas Seminary, Tel 860�242�5573, e�mail [email protected] or visit the web at www.hartfordpriest.com.!!
Holy Hours for Vocations to the Priesthood!Tuesday, December 19th at 7:00 PM!
Assumption Parish in Ansonia!
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MARIAN GUILD CHRISTMAS PARTY!!
All ladies of the Parish are invited to attend the Mari-an Guild Christmas Party, Sunday January 7, 2018. It will be held after the 11:30 AM Mass at Sr. Ann’s.
Come and celebrate the season!!
Christmas !!
Confession Schedule
In addition to weekly scheduled Confession times!(Saturdays from 3:00 to 3:30 PM)!
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Monday, December 18th from 7:00 PM!Saturday, December 23rd from 11:00 AM�12 Noon!
and from 3:00 to 3:30 PM!
Mass Schedule
Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24th 4:00 PM Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
6:00 PM Mass at St. Joan of Arc Church 10:00 PM Solemn Mass of the Nativity
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
Christmas Day, Monday, December 25th 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
Thank you to everyone for your donations for Christmas Flowers. We have received $1,314.10. You can still contribute if you did not have a chance last week. There are Christmas Flower envelopes available at each en-trance of the Church, or simply place your donation in an envelope marked “Christmas Flowers.” PRAYER FOR ADVENT
Dear God,!as an Advent candle is lit!in joyous anticipation of Your Son's nativity,!remind us always of the reason for our joy.!As the purple of the candles stand for both penance!!and atonement for sin,!give us the grace to do penance for our wrongs,!!and to love Christ,!!whose sacrifice atoned for the sins of the whole world.!But just as the rose candle stands!for joy in the midst of suffering and expectation,!give us the joy of Your Son, Jesus Christ,!!who came into a world that had so longed for its Savior,!and made the angels themselves sing with joy at His birth.!! ! ! ! ! ! ~ Amen.!
Creating a Culture of Life in an Age of “Do Harm” Healthcare!!
We live in a secular society where the meaning of personhood and human dignity has been redefined giving way to inappropri-ate care of the sick and dying and the acceptance of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (PAS) as a response to human suffering. This presentation by Sr. Cecelia M. Scaduto, ASCJ! will address these topics and the importance of creating a culture of life in order to stop healthcare’s assault on the human person. Please plan on joining us on Tuesday, December 12th at 7:00 p.m. We will be meeting at St. Joan of Arc Church. Please call the office to register.!!
Help is needed after the 8 AM or 10 AM Mass one Sunday every other month, to collect food donations at the doors, take food to the food pantry and shelve the food items. If you have
about 15�20 minutes after either Mass and would like to help, please call Bob 203�281�1175.!The Food Collections will not be held in December as it will conflict with the collection of gifts. !At this time, St. Ann’s Soup Kitchen has a shortage of deo-dorant, shampoo and hairbrushes in their inventory.!
DISCOVER ITALY!
Escorted by Yolanda of Wooster Street Travel!October 4th
!� October 18th, 2018!(14 days and 13 nights)!A summary of the itinerary follows:!
3 nights in Rome, 3 nights in Sorrento, 1 night in Calabria, 2 nights in Taormina, 2 nights in Siracusa, 2 nights in Palermo!
TODAY, Sunday, December 10th!at 4:00 PM!
St. Joan of Arc Church!Lessons & Carols !
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