December 10, 2017 Second Sunday of Advent SCHEDULES SATURDAY VIGIL MASS 5:15 PM SUNDAY MASSES 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 5:00 PM & 7:00PM MONDAY—FRIDAY Morning Prayer: 8:30 AM Evening Prayer: 5:00 PM Daily Mass: 5:15 PM RECONCILIATION Saturday 4:00-5:00 PM Sunday 4:00-4:45 PM (or by appointment) OFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday 9:00AM-4:00PM Sunday 8:00AM-12:30PM NEWMAN CENTER STAFF This Newman Center is served by the Friars of the Western Dominican Province and the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Fr. John Paul Forté, OP, Pastor [email protected]Fr. Thomas Saucier, OP, Associate Pastor [email protected]Sr. Angelica Velez, OP, Pastoral Associate [email protected]Sr. Mary Virginia Leach, OP, Pastoral Associate [email protected]Jane Furet, Religious Educaon Coordinator [email protected]Manny Guzman, Liturgy & Communicaons [email protected]Chris Woolf, Music Coordinator [email protected]Johnny Granillo, Custodian Anthony Peña, Maintenance Technician In Residence: Fr. Tom DeMan, OP [email protected]MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Second Sunday of Advent 12/10 9:00AM Our Newman Community 11:00AM Albert & Thelma Lopez+ 5:00PM All Winter Graduates 7:00PM Mercedes Xavier+ St. John Damasus I 12/11 5:15 PM Sr. Teresa Bauman+ Our Lady of Guadalupe 12/12 5:15 PM Magdalena Velez+ St. Lucy 12/13 5:15 PM Fr. Jerome Leach+ St. John of the Cross 12/14 5:15PM Sr. Dolorice Ramirez+ Advent Weekday 12/15 5:15PM Sally Kish Advent Weekday 12/16 5:15PM Arturo Arevalo+ Mass Intenons can be requested at the office for Memorials, Birthdays or Special Intenons. $10 is the suggested donaon SAINT THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER Yearly Theme: “Lord, I Do Believe. Help My Unbelief!” - Mark 9:24 User ID: UACATHOLIC
Second Sunday of Advent 12/10 9:00AM Our Newman Community 11:00AM Albert & Thelma Lopez+ 5:00PM All Winter Graduates 7:00PM Mercedes Xavier+ St. John Damasus I 12/11 5:15 PM Sr. Teresa Bauman+ Our Lady of Guadalupe 12/12 5:15 PM Magdalena Velez+ St. Lucy 12/13 5:15 PM Fr. Jerome Leach+
St. John of the Cross 12/14 5:15PM Sr. Dolorice Ramirez+ Advent Weekday 12/15 5:15PM Sally Kish Advent Weekday 12/16 5:15PM Arturo Arevalo+
Mass Intentions can be requested at the office for Memorials, Birthdays or Special Intentions. $10 is the suggested donation
SAINT THOMAS MORECATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER
Yearly Theme: “Lord, I Do Believe. Help My Unbelief!” - Mark 9:24
User ID: UACATHOLIC
Fr. John Paul’s Spiritual Brew
T oday John the Baptist graces the scene as the beginning of a lighting process to God’s illumination
coming into the world. John appears with passion and conviction as he calls for a “turning around” of our lives... back to a truer and more excellent way..... To a way, and a person who will make “crooked ways straight, and mountains made low.....” Thus creating a “Highway to our God.” We are told that people flocked to John... moved by his message, and seeking to be ‘washed clean’ in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins, and began to ‘turn’ from their sins/burdens...to the promise a coming Messiah, destined to bring ‘healing to humanity’ at its very roots. We have been baptized in these same waters, and sealed with Holy Spirit! May we go forth free from the weight of all that scatters our clarity, and seeks to create darkness and useless drama in our lives. May we join John The Baptist in “Preparing a highway in the Desert.... A highway to God.” Amen!
THIS WEEK AT NEWMAN
FINAL EXAM SURVIVAL PACKAGES Pick up in the lobby after any Mass on 12/9 and 12/10
Provided by the Newman Sustaining Board
DOMINICAN LAITY CHAPTER MEETING Sunday, 12/10 at 1:30PM in the Parkman Library
WINTER BACCALAUREATE MASS
Sunday, 12/10 at the 5PM Mass - Seniors meet in the lobby at 4:40PM in cap & gown
MARIACHI MASS
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE Tuesday, 12/12 at 5:15PM
Tamale Dinner to follow downstairs in Bishop Green Hall
INFANT BAPTISM SPONSOR CLASS Sunday, 12/17 at 12:30PM
All must register by Friday, 12/15 with Sr. Angelica
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL MEETING Sunday, 12/17 at 8:00PM in the Curry Classroom
SAVE THE DATES
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day Mass Schedule Sunday, 12/24 at 5:00PM & 8:00PM
Monday, 12/25 at 9:00AM & 11:00AM
Newman Center Office Closures Tuesday, 12/26 through Friday, 12/29 - no daily Masses
Monday, 1/1 through 1/5 - no daily Masses
View the full calendar at: www.UACatholic.org/Calendar
STEWARDSHIP REPORT November 25th & 26th Collection - $3,440.34
Annual Catholic Appeal Progress Report as of December 8, 2017
67 donors - $44,104 pledged of $46,300 goal - 95% Fulfilled to date: $42,424 or 92% of total goal
We’re almost to our goal! To donate on behalf of St Thomas More Newman Center, please visit: https://www.cathfnd.org/AnnualCatholicAppeal
GIVING TREE PROJECT Thank you for your generosity and support of the Giving
Tree for children of Pio Decimo. Tags and gifts can be left at the front desk. Items do not need to be wrapped. The
due date for items is Friday, December 15th.
SPRING SEMESTER PARKING PERMITS We have a few parking spaces available for the spring
semester available. The amount is $170.00, applications are available at the front desk.
PARISH BOARD OF DIRECTORS
It is time to elect a new secretary for the Corporate Board of Directors. If you would like to nominate someone, nomination forms are available in the lobby and front
office. Nominations will be open until December 17, 2017.
CHRISTMAS CHAPEL DECORATING
If you would like to help with the Art & Environment Committee to decorate for Christmas, please join us after
the 5:15PM Mass on Thursday, December 21st. We will also need extra help on Sunday, December 24th at
1:00PM to change out the banners
GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG ADULT GROUP (Meetings will resume in January)
At 7:30pm on Thursdays our Young Adult/Graduate Student Group meets with a different focus each week
hosted by our core teams: Team Spirit (Prayer/Liturgical Opportunities; Service/Outreach (Social Justice and Service
to Newman Community/Tucson); and Growth & Faith (Faith Formation and Education). Please email
READING THEOLOGY GROUP (Sessions will resume on Wednesday, January 10th)
Reading “Introduction to Christianity” by Pope Benedict XVI
We’ll discuss Part Two, Chapter 1, Section B
BENEDICTINE MONASTERY PATIO SALE
December 13th through the 16th from 9AM to 1PM featuring art pieces, kitchenware, furniture and more.
Please enter the parking lot by the solar panels. Drive all the way to the BACK of the Monastery. Sales are “Cash
Only” - please invite your friends
BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS If you have an announcement for the Bulletin or Weekly Email Listserv, please TYPE up a 75-word or less blurb and turn it in to the office or email [email protected] with “Bulletin Submission” in the subject line. Bulletin deadline is Wednesday at Noon prior to the weekend you want the announcement to run.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES THIS WEEK TO Graciela Jauregui, Adam Skora, Patrick Sullivan
and Linda Tansik
PRAY FOR OUR RCIA PARTICIPANTS Catechumens Seeking Baptism at the Easter Vigil:
Jared Brock, Yasmine Dana, & Diane Kostuk
Candidates Seeking Full Initiation at the Easter Vigil: Travis Atwood, Devin Michael Garcia, Matthew Hufford, Adan Sotelo, Niley Sanders, Alyssa Sotelo, Irene Sotelo,
Lizette Varela, Samantha Sotelo, Sandra Sotelo
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CONFIRMANDI Rey Benavidez, Pamela Brill, Alex Galligan, Katie Gardner, Adan Gonzales, Alyssa Morales, Hayashrom “Jay” Patrick Pacheco-Chino, Milena Rhodes, Jackson Slone, Victoria
Slone, & Reneé Villaman—fully-initiated on Sunday, November 19th at the 5PM Mass by Bishop Gerald Kicanas
DO TWICE THE GOOD
THE AZ CHARITABLE TAX CREDIT DOUBLED
Married couples filing jointly claim a credit up to $800 Individual filers claim a credit up to $400
Donate to Catholic Community Services, claim the credit when you file your Arizona state income tax, and reduce your state taxes dollar for dollar.
Instead of giving your dollars to the state, help children, families, seniors and people with disabilities - right here in
our community. Completely separate from the CTSO credit!
Donate online at www.ccs-soaz.org,, call 520-670-0854 or take a CCS tax credit mailer from the Newman lobby.
CATHOLIC TUITION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION Your contribution to CTSO makes an outstanding Catholic
education possible. Arizona now allows contributions up to $2177 for a couple filing jointly and $1,089 for an
individual. Envelopes in support of the program are available near all of the entrances to the church
HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE Knight of Columbus Council 16061 invites all Newman
Parishioners to participate in our 3rd Annual Fall/Holiday Food Drive. Donations will benefit the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and the regular Newman food
donation recipients. Non-perishable food items only, please. The food drive starts on Saturday, October 28th and ends on Sunday, December 17th. Please help the
Knights of Columbus provide food for those members of our community that are in need.
KINO BORDER INITIATIVE Kino Border Initiative is a bi-national ministry of the Society of Jesus and Sisters of the Eucharist which
provides support for migrants who have been deported from the United States and are on their way back to their
homes in Latin America.
Newman provides breakfast to migrants on the first and third Saturday of the month. Volunteers prepare food on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, leaving Newman at 6:45AM to drive to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico to serve
breakfast to migrants. If you are interested in participating in the KBI Project, please Joji Maes at
VOLUNTEER WITH LEND-A-HAND Lend A Hand (501 c3) needs you! Volunteers will partner with senior neighbors in 13 mid-town neighborhoods—
north of the University of Arizona. Drivers are needed for transportation, errands, and produce delivery. Good conversationalists and caring listeners are needed for
social activities and friendly calls and visits. Handypersons are needed for simple home maintenance and yard work. It takes a village to care for our community’s elders. You
tell us how much or how little time you can give. Our senior neighbors need you! Call: Michele Brubaker
at 520-248-6882
HEARTLAND HOSPICE SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Volunteers will be fully-trained to understand Hospice. One visit per week for a 1 – 2 hour period is common. Please have your own transportation as patients are in
their own homes or an assisted living home. Our veteran patients need a veteran volunteer to visit who
understands the military. For more information please contact: Heartland Hospice
Volunteer Coordinator at 520-325-2790
CASA MARIA CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE
The Young Adult Group is organizing Newman volunteers to go and serve together. Please email
