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St. Francis of Assisi CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 4300 Meeks Drive, Orange TX 77632 Office: 409-883-9153 Fax: 409-883-9154 Web: www.stfrancisorangetx.orgOffice Email:[email protected] Parish Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm Religious Education Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-3pm Wednesday 3-7pm during RE PASTOR: Rev. Sinclair K. Oubre, J.C.L. [email protected] Deacon Hector Maldonado [email protected] Deacon Tommy Ewing [email protected] Deacon Keith Hebert [email protected] MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5pm Sunday: 8am Bilingual 10:30am DAILY MASS Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30am Wednesday: 6:30pm RECONCILIATION: Saturday: 3:30-4:30pm SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Please call the Pastor to make arrangements for Infant Baptisms. Baptism class is held the third Thursday of each month at 6:00pm. This can be done at least seven (7) months before the birth in order to make proper sacramental preparations. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Diocesan policy requires a minimum of six (6) months of sacramental preparations for marriage. Engaged couples are invited to call the Pastor for an appointment. HOLY COMMUNION OR ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please call the Pastor if you or any family members are ill or plan to be hospitalized to arrange the reception of the Sacraments. RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS - Catechumenate Those interested in becoming a Catholic or in completing their initiation are invited to contact Deacon Keith Hebert at the Church office to learn more about the Catechumenate Process. PARISH MEMBERSHIP Welcome to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Community! Please register by obtaining a census form from the Parish Office or at one of the two front entrances to the Church. Please return the census form to the Parish Office or drop in the collection basket. You may also register online at www.stfrancisorangetx.org. From the home page, click on the registration form. We look forward to the opportunity to know and serve you and it is our prayer that you will bless St. Francis Catholic Community with your time, talent, and treasure. Facebook.com/St.Francis.Church.Orange
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St. Francis of Assisi CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

4300 Meeks Drive, Orange TX 77632 Office: 409-883-9153 Fax: 409-883-9154

Web: www.stfrancisorangetx.orgOffice Email:[email protected]

Parish Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm

Religious Education Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-3pm Wednesday 3-7pm during RE

PASTOR: Rev. Sinclair K. Oubre, J.C.L. [email protected]

Deacon Hector Maldonado [email protected] Deacon Tommy Ewing [email protected] Deacon Keith Hebert [email protected]

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5pm Sunday: 8am Bilingual 10:30am

DAILY MASS Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30am Wednesday: 6:30pm

RECONCILIATION: Saturday: 3:30-4:30pm

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Please call the Pastor to make arrangements for Infant Baptisms. Baptism class is held the third Thursday of each month at 6:00pm. This can be done at least seven (7) months before the birth in order to make proper sacramental preparations.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Diocesan policy requires a minimum of six (6) months of sacramental preparations for marriage. Engaged couples are invited to call the Pastor for an appointment.

HOLY COMMUNION OR ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please call the Pastor if you or any family members are ill or plan to be hospitalized to arrange the reception of the Sacraments.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS - Catechumenate Those interested in becoming a Catholic or in completing their initiation are invited to contact Deacon Keith Hebert at the Church office to learn more about the Catechumenate Process.

PARISH MEMBERSHIP Welcome to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Community! Please register by obtaining a census form from the Parish Office or at one of the two front entrances to the Church. Please return the census form to the Parish Office or drop in the collection basket. You may also register online at www.stfrancisorangetx.org. From the home page, click on the registration form. We look forward to the opportunity to know and serve you and it is our prayer that you will bless St. Francis Catholic Community with your time, talent, and treasure.

Facebook.com/St.Francis.Church.Orange

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First Sunday of Advent December 2, 2018

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Occasionally, someone raises a surprised complaint that while Christmas arrives on Santa’s sleigh at the Macy’s parade on Thanksgiving Day, the Church doesn’t catch on too fast. They may even say that Advent is a new‑fangled idea. Not so. To trace its beginnings, we have to go back to the fourth or fifth century in France (then Gaul), when Epiphany was the favored day, next to Easter, for baptism. The old pagan structures of Rome were collapsing then, and many people sought to be baptized. Since adults always prepared for baptism by fasting, folks counted back a few weeks for a kind of retreat. Before too long, bishops were advising everyone to attend church frequently beginning on December 17. Soon, artists were imagining ways of expressing the Advent mystery, and in Italy this gave rise to beautiful mosaics of empty thrones awaiting the arrival of the Lord of all creation. Advent as we know it develops on two separate tracks: the first having to do with our spiritual preparation for celebrating the Christmas feast, and the second having to do with the way this is organized and expressed in the liturgical readings and prayers every day of the season. —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-9; Mt 8:5-11 Tuesday: Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Lk 10:21-24 Wednesday: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 15:29-37 Thursday: Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Mt 7:21, 24-27 Friday: Is 29:17-24; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; Mt 9:27-31 Saturday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1-4; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Sunday: Bar 5:1-9; Ps 126:1-6; Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Lk 3:1-6

For the scriptures used at Mass every day and to hear a reflection: go to http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings and select the day of the month and reflections in the menu on the left side of the page.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: First Sunday of Advent; Hanukkah begins Monday: St. Francis Xavier Tuesday: St. John Damascene Thursday: St. Nicholas Friday: St. Ambrose; First Friday Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Saturday: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed

Virgin Mary

.THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE We are in fairly good company when we ask God for justice. Often enough we hear and agree with the lament of the people of Israel asking God why the wicked prosper. However, when we call out for justice, we usually want someone to get his or her comeuppance. God’s justice is something other than this, of course. God’s justice comprises a wonderful rightness between God and humankind. Today, Jeremiah looks ahead to a time when a just one will sprout from the shorn-off stump of Jesse of the house and family of David. Life was not fair in Jeremiah’s time. Israel’s kings held the promise of God’s fidelity, but it was difficult to see how God’s promise could be realized through them. Nevertheless, Jeremiah lifts his voice and announces that the Promised One will come. Luke’s Gospel echoes that announcement, and Paul is filled with sturdy encouragement. And so Advent begins with a promise. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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Saturday December 1 5:00 p.m. Jack Oldani (D) Sunday December 2 8:00 a.m. People of the Parish/Novena Mass in reparation of sins that wound the Body of Christ 10:30 a.m. Patricia Trahan Daigle (D) Monday December 3 No Mass Tuesday December 4 8:30 a.m. Judie Long’s birthday (L) Wednesday December 5 6:00 p.m. Consolacion Hababag (D) Thursday December 6 8:30 a.m. Rena Veillon (D) Friday December 7 8:30 a.m. David & Kevin Wilson (D) **6:30 p.m. Danny Domas (D) Saturday December 8 **8:30 a.m. Daisy Bergeron (D) 5:00 p.m. Florina Robichaux (D) Sunday December 9 8:00 a.m. People of the Parish/Novena Mass in reparation of sins that wound the Body of Christ 10:30 a.m. Kathy Keegan (D) **Holy Day of Obligation-Feast of the Immaculate Conception

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Stewardship of Treasure

November 17/18

$6,758.25

Online Giving $2,990.00

Catholic Campaign for Human Development

$1,078.86

November 24/25 $13,664.00

Online Giving

$2,710.00

Thank you always for your generosity!

Best Advent Ever

Advent begins the weekend of December 1st and 2nd. Advent is a time to prepare our hearts for Christmas, but we often get distracted and busy. Don’t let this Advent pass you by. Slow down and fo-cus on what matters most with the BEST ADVENT EVER. Each day, you will receive an email with short inspirational videos with practical tips for your everyday life, and real life stories to encourage you in your faith journey. All you have to do is sign up at BestAdventEver.com

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The Advent Wreath Workshop

was a success!

Plan on joining us next year

to make your own Advent wreath.

Confirmation Class will meet this Sunday, December 2nd at 5:00 p.m. The practice for the Nativity will be this Wednesday, December 5. If your child would like to participate, please let Cathi Sulak know by calling the office at 409-883-8232.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Tuesday December 4, 2018

Jesus wants you to do more than to go to mass on Sunday. "Our communal worship at mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete." (Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)

-taken from the 12 Reasons from the teachings of the Church for wanting to spend one hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

www.catholicnewsagency.com Sign up sheets are at the entrances of the Church this weekend. Even if you didn’t sign up, come spend some time anyway even if it is not an hour.

Young at Heart Tuesday December 11, 2018

Mass at 8:30 a.m.

(Mass Intention is for YAH) Coffee Social in the SDC

Following Mass

Will leave around 10:15 To eat at Larry’s French Market

At 11:00 a.m.

After lunch, for all who are interested Will go on a tour of the

Museum of the Gulf Coast 700 Proctor St, Port Arthur, TX

Call Janis Beach at 883-4566 for any questions

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Eucharistic Ministers

Lectors Altar Servers

Immac Conc. 12/7 6:30 p.m.

Joel Ardoin Marshall Stone Robert Vigil Cherry Vigil

Ruth Erb Jerome Dimas

Erb 1 & 2

Immac Conc. 12/8 8:30 a.m.

Cindy Maldonado Elizabeth Smith Mary Henson Linda Wade

Cecilia Pillsbury Pat Belcher

Kennedy Abshire Thomas Abshire

10:30 a.m.

Elisa Sonnier Andy Sonnier Mary Montgomery Mary McDuffie

Beth Manuel Troy Johnson

Matthew Brown Dominic Seppi Vincent Seppi

12/8 5:00 p.m.

Mary Gravett Frank Lomonte Jerry Ehrman Louise Claybar

Deborah & Ken Marciniak

Natalie Sulak Lauren Corrao

12/9 8:00 a.m.

Charles Trahan Charlean Lindsey

Spanish Lectors John Mayeux Logan Russell

In Our Parish

Sunday, December 2 8:00 a.m. Bilingual Mass 9:15 a.m. Kindergarten RE 10:30 a.m Mass 5:00 p.m. Confirmation Class 7:00 p.m. Rosary for Religious Freedom Monday, December 3 No Mass 6:00 p.m. Choir Practice Tuesday, December 4 5:45 a.m. Men’s Faith Sharing 6:15 a.m. Women’s Faith Sharing 8:30 a.m. Mass 9:00 a.m. Adoration 7:00 p.m. RCIA Wednesday, December 5 5:30 p.m. Religious Education 6:30 p.m. Mass 6:30 p.m. Keysis Thursday, December 6 8:30 a.m. Mass Friday, December 7 8:30 a.m. Mass 5:00 p.m. Girl Scouts 6:30 p.m. Mass-Immaculate Conception Saturday, December 8 8:30 a.m. Mass-Immaculate Conception 3:30-4:30 Reconciliation 5:00 p.m. Mass Sunday, December 9 8:00 a.m. Bilingual Mass 9:15 a.m. Kindergarten RE 10:30 a.m. Mass 6:30 p.m. Advent Mission

Ministry Schedule for December 7-9

Christmas Poinsettias $12.00 each

Purchase poinsettias for the altar this Christmas in memory or in honor of someone you love! E-mail, [email protected], with your name, phone number, and who you would like to honor or remember. You may also call Mary Rollins at 883-2691 with the information. Please leave your name and number and your call will be returned. Your $12 payment per poinsettia must be received by December 7th.

The Monthly Rosary for Religious Freedom will be prayed

this Sunday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m.

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December Mass Schedule

December 1/2 First Sunday of Advent

December 7/8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception** December 7th-6:30 p.m. December 8th-8:30 a.m.

December 8/9 Second Sunday of Advent

December 9-11 Advent Mission with Fr. Roger Keeler 6:30 p.m.

December 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass at 7:00 p.m.

December 15/16 Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)

December 22/23 Fourth Sunday of Advent

December 24 Christmas Eve Nativity at 6:00 p.m. Mass at 6:30 p.m.

December 25 Christmas Day Mass at 10:30 a.m.

December 29/30 The Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph

December 31/Jan 1 The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God** December 31 at 6:30 p.m. January 1 at 8:30 a.m.

**Holy Day of Obligation-The Precepts of the Catholic Church are a description of

the absolute minimum actions required of Catholics regarding the Church. The first precept of the Catholic Church is You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor.

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