St. Margaret Mary Parish St. Margaret Mary Parish December 22, 2019 December 22, 2019 Fourth Sunday in Advent Fourth Sunday in Advent 1450 1450 Green Trails Dr. Green Trails Dr. Naperville, IL 60540 Naperville, IL 60540 630 630- 369 369- 0777 0777 www.smmp.com www.smmp.com Masses: Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday: 8 am 10 am 12 pm Weekdays Monday-Saturday 8:15 am Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Parish Office: 630-369-0777 Fax: 630-369-1493 Religious Ed. Office: 630- 369-0833 All Saints Catholic Academy: 1155 Aurora Ave. Naperville, IL 60540 630.961-6125 or www.ascacademy.org New Parishioners: Anyone who welcomes you, welcomes me; and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me. : (Mt 10:40) St. Margaret Mary Parish wishes to welcome everyone to our community as Jesus would. For information, please call the parish office. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions every Saturday from 3:30 to 4:30 PM or anytime by request. Sacrament of Baptism: Sundays following the 12:00 Mass, except holidays. Please call Parish Office to make arrangements for Baptism and required Preparation Meeting. Sacrament of Marriage: Six months preparation required. Parish music policies, which reflect Diocesan guidelines, are to be followed. Sick, Homebound, Hospital Visits: Contact the Parish Office if you would like Communion, if you need someone from SMMP to visit you in the hospital, or if we can help you in any other way. Privacy policies do not permit the hospital to contact us directly.
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St. Margaret Mary ParishSt. Margaret Mary Parish December 22, 2019December 22, 2019 Fourth Sunday in AdventFourth Sunday in Advent
1450 1450 Green Trails Dr.Green Trails Dr. Naperville, IL 60540Naperville, IL 60540 630630--369369--07770777 www.smmp.comwww.smmp.com
Masses: Saturday: 5:00 pm
Sunday: 8 am 10 am 12 pm
Weekdays Monday-Saturday 8:15 am
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Parish Office: 630-369-0777 Fax: 630-369-1493 Religious Ed. Office: 630- 369-0833
All Saints Catholic Academy:
1155 Aurora Ave. Naperville, IL 60540 630.961-6125 or www.ascacademy.org
New Parishioners: Anyone who welcomes you, welcomes me; and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.: (Mt 10:40) St. Margaret Mary Parish wishes to welcome everyone to our community as Jesus would. For information, please call the parish office.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions every Saturday from 3:30 to 4:30 PM or anytime by request.
Sacrament of Baptism: Sundays following the 12:00 Mass, except holidays. Please call Parish Office to make arrangements for Baptism and required Preparation Meeting.
Sacrament of Marriage: Six months preparation required. Parish music policies, which reflect Diocesan guidelines, are to be followed.
Sick, Homebound, Hospital Visits: Contact the Parish Office if you would like Communion, if you need someone from SMMP to visit you in the hospital, or if we can help you in any other way. Privacy policies do not permit the hospital to contact us directly.
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Year to Date Weekly Collection 7/1/2019 to 12/08/2019 Present
Priscilla Arrieta Elaine Badelt Judea Beckett Arlene Bennett Edward Bojan Blake Burton Patrick Cameron Kathleen Carey Lori Cross Justin Dellarose Murlene Dolley Ben & April Espinos Michael Facchinello Lawrence Facchinello Mary Fisher Jo Ellen Furlong Jim Gardner William Garrett John Hill Kay Hill Kevin Hill Fr. George Hurley Kate Kirchner Bill Koloseike Emma Martinez
Joseph Mathy Donal McGoldrick
Maxine Messere Dr. Edward Michl Collette Miller Linda Palulis Russell Rasche Patrick Rockowitz Allen Rogers John P. Rossi Gerry Rotko David Schuberg A. Schuman Mary Sheehan Greyson Stanley Elizabeth Stock Jim Tamburrino Roy Taylor Jim Topolewski Joan Vinkler Marion Warner Bob Whipple Ray Young Barb Zdon
Christmas and New Year’s Mass Schedule:
Christmas Eve (December 24)
3 pm Church 3 pm Parish Center 5 pm 10:30 pm
Christmas Day (December 25)
10 am Noon (NO 8 am Mass)
New Year’s Eve (December 31)
8:15 Daily Mass ONLY (NO VIGIL MASS for Solemnity of Mary)
New Year’s Day (January 1)
10 am Parish offices will be closed from Tuesday, December 24th until Monday, December 30th at 9 am. Parish offices will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, 2020.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Save-the-date for the Appreciation
Dinner Saturday, January 25th
2020 at 6 PM
Updated numbers unavailable due to holiday deadlines
Cookies Needed If you like to bake, kindly bring a dozen cookies to the Parish Mission. Come to the Upper Room and enjoy hospitality after the spiritual reflections. January 19-21st (7 to 8 pm)
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Don’t throw your old Christmas/Holiday Lights in the trash!
Bring your old Christmas/Holiday
lights to the church to be recycled for cash to sup-port our efforts to be an envi-
ronmentally friendly parish.
until Jan. 13th collection boxes will be
available inthe Church Lobby , Entrance from Naper Blvd
and the Parish Center
For more information contact Tom Cordaro at 630-369-0777.
Are you homebound, have limited social interaction, or reside in a retirement/nursing
home? Would you like to receive a “cheery hello” phone call each day at a time of your choice? The Sunshine Ministry of St. Margaret Mary Parish, offers this service on a daily basis to anyone requesting it. You choose a time frame in which to receive this friendly call. You are free to speak about any topic of interest to you. The Sunshine Ministry members are trained volunteers who enjoy bringing a little “sunshine” into the lives of others.
To request this service or ask questions about it, please call:
Mary Straub 630-983-6661
At St. Margaret Mary Church January 19th through 21st 7 to 8 pm Refreshments served afterwards in the Upper Room
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An Invitation to
Non-Catholic Spouses Are you a non-Catholic, married to a Catholic spouse, and attending St. Margaret Mary Church? Do you have questions about, or possible interest in, becoming a full member of our St. Margaret Mary community? If yes, you are cordially invited to contact me, and I will be happy to help answer any questions you have. My contact information is below. Feel free to send an email to me, or leave your name and contact information with the parish office. Reference this invitation, and I will contact you accordingly. You can also check out our website for other contacts and general parish information. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Rick Peterson c/o St. Margaret Mary Church 1450 Green Trails Drive Naperville, IL 60540 Parish Office: 630 369 0777 (leave contact information) Email: [email protected] Website: www.smmp.com “Anyone who welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me…” Mathew 10:40
Bible Study resumes January 7
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Helping, caring God, You care for us
always. Be with us now. We trust in you
Christmas Eve 5:00 Children’s Mass For those who registered, on Christmas Eve, children should arrive in designated classrooms by 4:45 pm.
Christmas Break Classes will resume on Monday, January 6, 2020.
Substitute catechists needed Mon, Tues, Wed afternoons, Monday evenings. Please contact Jacqui Snyder at 630 369-0833 or [email protected] with any questions.
Heartfelt gratitude is extended to our
wonderful catechists who give so much of themselves
to deepen the faith of our precious youth.
May God bless you all!!!
Fr. Paul’s Homily
Listen and See Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time 1 Mc 1:10-15,1-43, 54-57, 62-63; Lk 18:35-43
(When we read parables we can see them in different ways.)
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The parables of Jesus actually exist on many different levels, as does all great literature. No great piece of literature has only one level, and so when we read parables we can see them in different ways.
Here one of the ways in which this parable expresses the work and mission of Jesus is the role or the way from hearing to seeing. You could take it in a purely physical sense that the blind man hears a commotion, asks what’s happening, finds out it’s Jesus passing by, and calls out to him in faith, thus receiving his sight; you could take it that way. But you could take it in a deeper way: that we are in our ordinary life not able to see God, although Jesus makes it clear when he offers the Beatitudes that those who are clean of heart can see God, and yet we are simply not disposed ordinarily to see God in one another, in ourselves, in the world. We may be struck by some extraordinary form of beauty: a sunset, a mountain, a moon, but we can pass our whole day by without ever seeing God. And this suggests, this parable suggests, it’s because we haven’t learned how to listen. It is the word spoken that is the source of truth and God’s own self-disclosure. And if we try to, in a daily way, listen to God, gradually we will see.
O Child, who willed to have for your crib a manger; O Creator of the universe, who stripped yourself of divine glory: O Redeemer, who offered your vulnerable body in sacrifice for the sal-vation of Humanity! May the radiance of your birth light up the night of the world. May the power of your message of love thwart the proud snares of the evil one. May the gift of your life make us understand ever more clearly the worth of the life of each human being.
--Pope John Paul II, Christmas Homily at Midnight Mass, 2003
The Pro-L.I.F.E. Ministry wishes you and yours a Blessed and Merry Christmas
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Masses for the Week
Monday — December 23 8:15 — William Hottinger — Peg & Dennis Nowicki Tuesday— December 24 3:00 (church)— Ann Barzyk — Family 3:00 (PC) — Al Bajusz — SVDP Society of SMMP 5:00 — Michael & Ann Skvarek — children 10:30 — Carol Gollinger — Michael Gollinger Wednesday— December 25/Nativity of the Lord 10:00— Jeff Thomas — Dennis & Peggy Nowicki 12:00 — Bill Costigan — Chris & Steve Schmotolocha Thursday— December 26/St. Stephen 8:15— Patrick Seery, Sr. — Mary & Dick Peske Friday— December 27/St. John the Apostle 8:15— Bud Willey — O’Rourke Family Saturday— December 28/The Holy Innocents 8:15 — 5:00 — Kathy Piraino — Peggy & Dennis Nowicki Sunday — December 29 8:00 — For the Parish Family 10:00 — Mary Boby — Arleen Hannon 12:00 — Shirley Koloseike — Family
Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
December 28 Fr. Paul January 4 Fr. Paul
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St. Margaret Mary Parish Naperville/Lisle -- 630-369-0777
Parish Staff Art & Environment Coordinator Jill Mizen
Bookkeeper Pat Henke
Business Manager Michael Prus
Building Manager Bob Stezowski Communications Coordinator Julie Duffin
Custodian Ziggy Owiesek
Deacons (Permanent) Deacon Joe Ferrari
Deacon Don Helgeson
Deacon Ken Miles
Deacon Fred Straub (retired)
Deacon Terry Taylor
Justice/Outreach Minister Tom Cordaro Liturgy Coordinator Deacon Ken Miles
Music Director John Schlaman Parish Secretary/Bulletin Editor Sue Carroll
Pastoral Associate Sr. Madelyn Gould, S.S.S.F. Pastoral Council President Joey Rose
Priests Rev. Paul Hottinger, Pastor
Receptionists Loretta Mercadante & Mary Sears
Director of Religious Ed., Pre-school - 8 Jacqui Snyder
Director of Youth Ministry Dan Lawler
Religious Education Secretary Arlene Serio
Religious Education Staff Assistant Debbie Brutlag
Food for the Journey Scripture Readings for the Week
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS First Reading — You will be given this sign: The virgin shall conceive and bear a son (Isaiah 7:10-14). Psalm — Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory
(Psalm 24). Second Reading — God has called us to belong to Jesus Christ (Romans 1:1-7). Gospel — The son born of Mary shall be called Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:18-24). NEXT WEEK’S SCRIPTURE READINGS First Reading — Those who honor and comfort their parents shall never be forgotten (Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14). Psalm — Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways (Psalm 128). Second Reading — You are called into one body. Bear with one another; forgive one another; let Christ’s peace control you (Colossians 3:12-21 [12-17]). Gospel — Joseph rose, took the child and his mother, and fled to Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23).
In order to be considered for bulletin publication, items must be received no later than the Friday a week prior to the desired publication date. For example, for an article to appear in the February 28, 2016 bulletin, it must be received by the office no later than Friday, February 19. Information can be emailed to [email protected]. Space may be limited; priority will be given to information about SMMP events or staff-generated articles.
