ADVENT BEGINS TODAY - Advent has a twofold character:
1)
As
a season to prepare for Christmas when Christ's first coming to us is remembered.
2)
As
a season when that remembrance directs the mind and heart to await Christ's
Second Coming at the end of time.
Advent
is thus a period for devout and joyful expectation. We tend to think of Advent
only as the season in which we prepare for Christmas, or the First Coming of
Christ, but as the Church points out, it is important that we also remember it
as a celebration in which we look forward to the Second Coming of Christ. That
is why it is also a season of penance. Consider going to confession some time
in Advent. Let us all redirect our hearts and minds to God.
A
NOTE ABOUT CHRISTMAS MASS SIGN UP
All
who received our Christmas letter are invited to sign up for Christmas Masses beginning
on December 2. We will wait a few days before posting the information on our website
for the general public. Please understand – you MAY NOT be able to reserve the
Mass you want – please be prepared to be inconvenienced – there are seating
limits due to the pandemic. This year be prepared to go to a different Mass –
inconvenience yourself for God!
Also,
this weekend ONLY after all Masses, we are giving an opportunity for parishioners
to sign up who DO NOT have a computer and DO NOT have children, grandchildren,
or friends to help them sign up online. We expect this to be an extremely
limited number of people as most people should be able to find a way to do this
online. Out of fairness to all, please DO NOT take advantage of this if there
is a way for you to sign up online.
First Sunday of Advent
Entrance
1. O
come, O come, Emmanuel,
And
ransom captive Israel,
That
mourns in lonely exile here
Until
the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel.
2. O
come, O Wisdom from on high,
Who
order all things mightily;
To
us the path of knowledge show,
And
teach us in her ways to go.
Presentation
1.People look East, the time is near
Of the crowning of the year.
Make your house fair as you are able,
Trim the hearth and set the table.
People look Eat and sing today--
Love, the Guest is on the way.
2. Furrows, be glad. Though earth is bare,
One more seed is planted there.
Give up your strength the seed to nourish,
That in course the flow’r may flourish.
People look East and sing today--
Love, the Rose is on the way.
Communion
1. Creator
of the stars of night,
Your
people's everlasting light,
O
Christ, Redeemer of us all,
We
pray you hear us when we call.
Come, O Lord, and bring your light,
O radiant star, our hearts’ delight.
O God-with-us, Emmanuel,
With your love, the dark dispel.
2. In
sorrow that the ancient curse
Should
doom to death a universe,
You
came, O Savior, to set free
Your
own in glorious liberty.
3. When
this old world drew on toward night,
You
came; but not in splendor bright,
Not
as a monarch, but the child
Of
Mary, blameless mother mild.
4. At
your great Name, O Jesus, now
All
knees must bend, all hearts must bow:
All
things on earth with one accord,
Like
those in heav'n, shall call you Lord.
5. Come
in your holy might, we pray,
Redeem
us for eternal day;
Defend
us while we dwell below
From
all assaults of our dread foe.
6. To
God the Father, God the Son,
And
God the Spirit, Three in One,
Praise,
honor, might and glory be
From
age to age eternally.
Text: Conditor alme siderum, Latin 9th.
C.; tr. The Hymnal 1982, © 1985, The Church Pension Fund; refrain, Carol E.
Browning, b. 1956, © 2004, GIA Publications, Inc.
Recessional
1. O
come, Divine Messiah,
The
world in silence waits the day
When
hope shall sing its triumph,
And
sadness flee away.
Dear Savior, haste!
Come, come to earth.
Dispel the night and show your face,
And bid us hail the dawn of grace.
O come, Divine Messiah,
The world in silence waits the day
When hope shall sing its triumph,
And sadness flee away.
2. O
come Desired of nations,
Whom
priest and prophet long foretold,
Will
break the captive fetters,
Redeem
the long-lost fold.
Dear Savior, haste!...
Text: Venez, divin Messie; Abb� Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, 1663-1745; tr. by Sr. Mary of St. Philip,
1877
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