St. Mary, Star of the Sea
Catholic Church Diocese of Corpus Christi
Mass Schedule Weekend Saturday: 6:00pm Sunday: 8:00am (Spanish) 9:30am 11:30am Daily Mon-Thu, Sat, & First Friday of the Month: 7:30am Holy Days 7:30am, 6:00pm Confession Saturday: 5:00- 5:45pm (or by appt.) Rosary Mon-Sat: 7:00am
“V i r t u e b e g i n s a t h o m e , b u t g r o w s i n a c o m m u n i t y . ”
January 6th, 2019
The Epiphany of the Lord
Office Telephone 361-758-2662 Fax 361-758-3964 Office Hours 8:30am - 3pm Closed 12-1pm Daily, also Fri., Weekends & Holidays
342 S. Rife St. Aransas Pass, TX 78336 www.stmaryss.org
Staff Fr. James Vasquez Pastor
Tony Postert Deacon
361-222-3075
Cynthia Vasquez Dir. Religious Ed.
Naiely Solis Secretary
361-758-2662
Bulletin
Submissions due preceding Monday.
We we l c ome
a l l our
v i s i t o r s &
gues t s !
In Our Thoughts & Prayers Remember in your prayers those who are ill, in nursing homes, hospital or homebound, and:
Kim Reeves, Braulia Soliz, Deidra Hernandez,
Fela Alvarado, & Maria Palacios
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Religious Education
Religious Education for Youth will resume this Wednesday, January 9.
Mass Intentions
As of December 3rd we will be scheduling Mass Intentions for all of 2019. An offering of $5.00 is requested per Mass Intention. You can also sponsor the Sanctuary lamp for a week in memory of a loved one.
Silver & Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass
In conjunction with World Marriage Day, the Office of Laity, Family and Life is inviting all couples celebrating 25 or 50 years of marriage to an Anniversary Mass with the Most Reverend Wm. Michael Mulvey, Bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi. The Anniversary Mass will be held at the Corpus Christi Cathedral on February 10, 2019, 9:30am. Reception following the Mass in St. Joseph’s Hall. To receive an Anniversary Certificate please submit registration by January 31, 2019. For more information call the office of Laity, Family and Life at (361) 882-6191.
Food Bank
Our Food Bank will be distributing food this month on Tuesday, January 8 and Tuesday, January 22. Distribution is from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.
Acto de Contrición Dios mío, me arrepiento de todo corazón de todos mis pecados y los aborrezco, porque al pecar, no sólo merezco las penas establecidas por ti justamente, sino principalmente porque te ofendí, a ti sumo Bien y digno de amor por encima de todas las cosas. Por eso propongo firmemente, con la ayuda de tu gracia, no pecar más en adelante y huir de toda ocasión de pecado. Amen.
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you, and I
detest all my sins because of your just punishments, but
most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all
good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the
help of your grace to sin no more and to avoid the near
occasion of sin. Amen.
MASS INTENTIONS
01/05 Sat 7:30am-†Juan Morales Sr.
Sat 6:00pm-Parishioners
01/06 Sun 8:00am- Klarisa Mares
Sun 9:30am-†Gavino & †Lina Flores
Sun 11:30am-Choire
01/07 Mon 7:30am-†PJ Mora
01/08 Tue 7:30am-
01/09 Wed 7:30am-†Sandy Bunting
01/10 Thu 7:30am-
01/11 Fri 7:30am-No Mass
01/12 Sat 7:30am-†Guadalupe Morales
01/12 Sat 6:00am-†Connie Morales
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sun: The Epiphany of the Lord;
Blessing of the Home;
National Migration Week
Mon: St. Raymond of Penyafort;
Julian Calendar Christmas
TODAY'S READINGS
First Reading -- Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! The Lord
shines upon you (Isaiah 60:1-6).
Psalm -- Lord, every nation on earth will adore you (Psalm
72).
Second Reading -- The Gentiles are coheirs, copartners in
the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel (Ephesians
3:2-3a, 5-6).
Gospel -- Magi from the east arrived, looking for the
newborn king of the Jews (Matthew 2:1-12).
Collection for 12-30-18
Collection information not available at the time of printing.
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
Monday of this week is Christmas Day in Russia and in much of the Orthodox world. This curious difference in schedule has a lot to do with how calendars have been developed and changed over the years. In the year 45 B.C. Julius Ceasar gave the empire his Julian Calendar, with the winter solstice on January 6. This put an end to a system in which officials called pontiffs were able to tweak the calendar by adding extra days in as needed. He invented two new months at that time, December and January; and in order to correct the mess the pontiffs had made, forced a year of 445 days on the empire in what he named The Last Year of Confusion. The new months varied in number of days according to a complex schedule, but the calendar was still off by nearly twelve minutes a year, and lost a full day every 130 years. Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar in 1583, but not everyone appreciated his efforts. England held out for two hundred years. The year 1700 was a leap year in England, but not in France; they were eleven days apart! George Washington was really born on February 11; when the Gregorian calendar was finally adopted in the English colonies shortly before the Revolution, he had to move his birthday to February 22. Now the calendars are thirteen days apart, which accounts for Russia s Julian calendar Christmas. And Caesar thought he had brought confusion to an end!
CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Mary Star of the Sea Church #515192 342 S. Rife Street Aransas Pass, TX 78336 TELEPHONE 361 758-2662 CONTACT PERSON Naiely Solis EMAIL: [email protected] SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2016 Adobe Acrobat XI Windows 10 TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 12:00 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION January 6, 2018 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 4 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS