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This Weeks Bulletin
Sunday, November 29, 2020
First Sunday of Advent
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
1-Tue. Give Catholic Giving Day
4-Fri. 8:30-11:15am, Adoration
5-Sat. 3:30pm, Confessions
6-Sun. 7:30am, Confessions
6-8pm, PSR
MASS INTENTIONS:
Mon. 11/30 8am – Sammy LeGrand
Fri. 12/4 8am – Gerald Schlitt
Sat. 12/5 4pm – Leon & Leonard Kirchdoerfer
Sun. 12/6 8am – Parish
Last Week’s Collection
Adult Env. 2502.00
Loose plate 45.00
School 110.00
Masses 100.00
Renovation 400.00
Catholic Charities 287.00
Pray for the Sick
Marcus Seyer Dorothy Vickery
Lanny Koch Rosemary Ross
Sister Jane Kiefer Kenny Davie
Gerald Beck Tommy Enderle
Clara (Nute) Enderle Barb Trankler
Jerrica Houchins Charlotte Dirnberger
Joyce Austin John Gaines
Missalettes the Missalettes for 2021 are available in back of church for those who would like to take one home. We ask that you keep your own missal and bring it to Mass each week to use for the entire year. 1 per family, 2 for families of 3 or more.
Church Ministers:
Sat. Dec. 5 – 4pm
Organist: Mark Heisserer
Lector: Marti Obermann
Usher: Jim Whistler
Sun. Dec. 6 – 8am
Organist: Mark Heisserer
Songleader: Joanna Glueck
Lector: Ken Dohogne
Usher: Trevor Glaus
10-10 Winners
Sunday – Kiersten Arnold
Monday – Joann Brucker
Tuesday – Paige Stevens
Wednesday – Jerome Landewee
Thursday – Sadie Siebert
Friday – Larry Probst
Saturday – Barb Trankler
Adoration at St. Ambrose this Friday, December 4 from 8:30-11:15am. Come take a break and spend some time with the Lord.
2021 Calendars are available in back of church. Thank you to Amick Burnett Funeral Home for providing these for our parish.
2021 Contribution Envelopes are available in back of church. Please pick yours up. We are grateful to those who continue to support the parish in these trying times.
10-10 Tickets Each parish family is asked to sell a book of 10 tickets for $10.00 per ticket. Sold tickets can be returned in collection basket or mailed to the parish at 418 South Third.
Daughter’s News The Daughters of St. Ambrose will not have their Christmas Party this year. Please continue with your same prayer partners for another year.
Advent Parish Mission w/Fr. Kelly at Guardian Angel, Oran: Sun. Dec. 13th thru Tue. Dec. 15th at 6pm each evening. Confessions will be available each night following the Mission presentation.
Whole Hog Sausage St. Ambrose Men’s Club is selling whole hog sausage, head cheese, ribs & backbone until December 4th. For orders, please contact Dewaine Shaffer 573-382-2206 or Richard Vandeven 573-318-4673. They will not be having their Breakfast in December.
National Night of Prayer for Life at St. Vincent’s, Cape on Tue. Dec. 8th. Everyone is invited to join in an evening of prayer, which will include Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament, the Rosary (prayed on the hour), prayer to St. Michael, and silent prayer. Begins at 9pm and ends at 12:45am with Benediction and Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
Helping Hands We are collecting children’s hats & gloves thru the weekend of Dec. 12-13 for the Helping Hands Project. A bag is available in back of church for donations.
National #iGiveCatholic Tuesday, December 1st is the #iGiveCatholic Day of Giving. We are asking parishioners to assist the parish in this season of Thanksgiving. Advance giving is underway now if you want to make a donation early. Go to the iGiveCatholic website and click on the “Give Back” link to find our diocese and our parish. Gifts are by credit card and can be made anonymously if you wish.
Notre Dame Open House will be held on Dec. 1 at 6pm. Seating is limited and we will offer a livestream option via Zoom. You can reserve your spot online at notredamehighschool.org/openhouse
A brief history on the season of Advent: Part I
Today we celebrate the First Sunday of Advent, that sacred time of year in which we prepare ourselves to welcome into our hearts the Christ child at Christmas. For the next several weeks, I would like to give a very brief history of the Advent season and offer some reflections on its various practices. The name Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus, which means “a coming.” Based on writings as far back as the fifth century, we know that Advent has been observed in some fashion since then, and likely even earlier. The observance of this time of year in preparation for Christmas has undergone various developments and taken on various forms, but the heart of it was twofold: works of penance and various prayers. Originally, in the fifth century, the observance of Advent began on St. Martin of Tours’ feast day, November 11th, and would conclude on Christmas Day, December 25th. This became known as “St. Martin’s Lent” and was viewed as a sort of ‘second Lent’ in the Church’s liturgical year. Later on, in about the 9th century, ‘St. Martin’s Lent’ was reduced in many places from the 40-day observance to four weeks, as we have it in the present day, thus giving the season of Advent four Sundays, the last one falling on the week of Christmas. Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, several popes and bishops, including St. Charles Borromeo, encouraged fasting through Advent for those both in the religious state and the lay faithful. Today, while it is not a requirement or law for Catholics to fast during Advent, some clergy, religious, and lay faithful have taken it as a practice for themselves to perform some small act of penance during the season of Advent in keeping with the ancient tradition of the Church during this time of ‘waiting’ for the celebration of the Lord’s birth. Advent is also a time in which Catholics will oftentimes come to the Sacrament of Confession to renew and prepare themselves for the celebration of Christ’s birth. I would encourage you to encounter our merciful Lord in the Sacrament of Confession this Advent, as a way of preparing your heart to welcome our Savior at Christmas. Let us use this season to reflect upon God’s goodness and the bountiful mercies He bestows upon us. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!
Readings for the First Sunday of Advent
First Reading
Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7
You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you, while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him. Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and we are sinful; all of us have become like unclean people, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; we have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind. There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to cling to you; for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt. Yet, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
O shepherd of Israel, hearken,
from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power,
and come to save us.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
Once again, O LORD of hosts,
look down from heaven, and see;
take care of this vine,
and protect what your right hand has planted
the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
May your help be with the man of your right hand,
with the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you;
give us new life, and we will call upon your name.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
Second Reading
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Brothers and sisters: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge, as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, and by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Show us Lord, your love;
and grant us your salvation.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 13:33-37
Jesus said to his disciples: “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come.
It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch. Watch, therefore; you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”
First Sunday of Advent
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
1-Tue. Give Catholic Giving Day
4-Fri. 8:30-11:15am, Adoration
5-Sat. 3:30pm, Confessions
6-Sun. 7:30am, Confessions
6-8pm, PSR
MASS INTENTIONS:
Mon. 11/30 8am – Sammy LeGrand
Fri. 12/4 8am – Gerald Schlitt
Sat. 12/5 4pm – Leon & Leonard Kirchdoerfer
Sun. 12/6 8am – Parish
Last Week’s Collection
Adult Env. 2502.00
Loose plate 45.00
School 110.00
Masses 100.00
Renovation 400.00
Catholic Charities 287.00
Pray for the Sick
Marcus Seyer Dorothy Vickery
Lanny Koch Rosemary Ross
Sister Jane Kiefer Kenny Davie
Gerald Beck Tommy Enderle
Clara (Nute) Enderle Barb Trankler
Jerrica Houchins Charlotte Dirnberger
Joyce Austin John Gaines
Missalettes the Missalettes for 2021 are available in back of church for those who would like to take one home. We ask that you keep your own missal and bring it to Mass each week to use for the entire year. 1 per family, 2 for families of 3 or more.
Church Ministers:
Sat. Dec. 5 – 4pm
Organist: Mark Heisserer
Lector: Marti Obermann
Usher: Jim Whistler
Sun. Dec. 6 – 8am
Organist: Mark Heisserer
Songleader: Joanna Glueck
Lector: Ken Dohogne
Usher: Trevor Glaus
10-10 Winners
Sunday – Kiersten Arnold
Monday – Joann Brucker
Tuesday – Paige Stevens
Wednesday – Jerome Landewee
Thursday – Sadie Siebert
Friday – Larry Probst
Saturday – Barb Trankler
Adoration at St. Ambrose this Friday, December 4 from 8:30-11:15am. Come take a break and spend some time with the Lord.
2021 Calendars are available in back of church. Thank you to Amick Burnett Funeral Home for providing these for our parish.
2021 Contribution Envelopes are available in back of church. Please pick yours up. We are grateful to those who continue to support the parish in these trying times.
10-10 Tickets Each parish family is asked to sell a book of 10 tickets for $10.00 per ticket. Sold tickets can be returned in collection basket or mailed to the parish at 418 South Third.
Daughter’s News The Daughters of St. Ambrose will not have their Christmas Party this year. Please continue with your same prayer partners for another year.
Advent Parish Mission w/Fr. Kelly at Guardian Angel, Oran: Sun. Dec. 13th thru Tue. Dec. 15th at 6pm each evening. Confessions will be available each night following the Mission presentation.
Whole Hog Sausage St. Ambrose Men’s Club is selling whole hog sausage, head cheese, ribs & backbone until December 4th. For orders, please contact Dewaine Shaffer 573-382-2206 or Richard Vandeven 573-318-4673. They will not be having their Breakfast in December.
National Night of Prayer for Life at St. Vincent’s, Cape on Tue. Dec. 8th. Everyone is invited to join in an evening of prayer, which will include Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament, the Rosary (prayed on the hour), prayer to St. Michael, and silent prayer. Begins at 9pm and ends at 12:45am with Benediction and Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
Helping Hands We are collecting children’s hats & gloves thru the weekend of Dec. 12-13 for the Helping Hands Project. A bag is available in back of church for donations.
National #iGiveCatholic Tuesday, December 1st is the #iGiveCatholic Day of Giving. We are asking parishioners to assist the parish in this season of Thanksgiving. Advance giving is underway now if you want to make a donation early. Go to the iGiveCatholic website and click on the “Give Back” link to find our diocese and our parish. Gifts are by credit card and can be made anonymously if you wish.
Notre Dame Open House will be held on Dec. 1 at 6pm. Seating is limited and we will offer a livestream option via Zoom. You can reserve your spot online at notredamehighschool.org/openhouse
A brief history on the season of Advent: Part I
Today we celebrate the First Sunday of Advent, that sacred time of year in which we prepare ourselves to welcome into our hearts the Christ child at Christmas. For the next several weeks, I would like to give a very brief history of the Advent season and offer some reflections on its various practices. The name Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus, which means “a coming.” Based on writings as far back as the fifth century, we know that Advent has been observed in some fashion since then, and likely even earlier. The observance of this time of year in preparation for Christmas has undergone various developments and taken on various forms, but the heart of it was twofold: works of penance and various prayers. Originally, in the fifth century, the observance of Advent began on St. Martin of Tours’ feast day, November 11th, and would conclude on Christmas Day, December 25th. This became known as “St. Martin’s Lent” and was viewed as a sort of ‘second Lent’ in the Church’s liturgical year. Later on, in about the 9th century, ‘St. Martin’s Lent’ was reduced in many places from the 40-day observance to four weeks, as we have it in the present day, thus giving the season of Advent four Sundays, the last one falling on the week of Christmas. Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, several popes and bishops, including St. Charles Borromeo, encouraged fasting through Advent for those both in the religious state and the lay faithful. Today, while it is not a requirement or law for Catholics to fast during Advent, some clergy, religious, and lay faithful have taken it as a practice for themselves to perform some small act of penance during the season of Advent in keeping with the ancient tradition of the Church during this time of ‘waiting’ for the celebration of the Lord’s birth. Advent is also a time in which Catholics will oftentimes come to the Sacrament of Confession to renew and prepare themselves for the celebration of Christ’s birth. I would encourage you to encounter our merciful Lord in the Sacrament of Confession this Advent, as a way of preparing your heart to welcome our Savior at Christmas. Let us use this season to reflect upon God’s goodness and the bountiful mercies He bestows upon us. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!
Readings for the First Sunday of Advent
First Reading
Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7
You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you, while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him. Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and we are sinful; all of us have become like unclean people, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; we have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind. There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to cling to you; for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt. Yet, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
O shepherd of Israel, hearken,
from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power,
and come to save us.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
Once again, O LORD of hosts,
look down from heaven, and see;
take care of this vine,
and protect what your right hand has planted
the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
May your help be with the man of your right hand,
with the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you;
give us new life, and we will call upon your name.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
Second Reading
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Brothers and sisters: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge, as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, and by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Show us Lord, your love;
and grant us your salvation.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 13:33-37
Jesus said to his disciples: “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come.
It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch. Watch, therefore; you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”
