26 November 2021
A Word From Your Pastor
I’m including this Advent reflection from a few years back. I liked it then and now. There’s no mention of covid in it, but it remains an on-going challenge to our joy which we can yet overcome.
We begin the Advent season this weekend. The following excerpt from U.S. Catholic magazine by editor, Meghan Murphy-Gill, suggests a way we can wait with joyful hope during this season:
“We wait in joyful hope during Advent. But I think that as church people, we can sometimes be a little brooding about what it means to wait for a savior. We look around us and find everything at fault with the world: a consumerist culture hell-bent on getting the newest, shiniest, biggest stuff; tacky holiday decorations whose putrid glow obscures “the true meaning of Christmas.” We want to do the right thing. We want to wait, but we forget to do so joyfully. And in this holier-than-thou righteous waiting for the “reason for the season,” we aren’t always particularly joyful. Waiting in joyful hope doesn’t mean we ought to develop a myopia that only allows us to see the pretty twinkle lights and wrapped presents. It doesn’t mean we have to ignore criticisms of a culture driven by advertisements and marketing and branding. But we could be less grumpy about it. Joyful even. After all, we’re waiting on the best miracle of all: God’s arrival in our midst, in the form of a human child.”
God bless
Msgr Paul Enke
Next weekend is collection for St. Vincent de Paul
- please be generaous to our neighbors in need -
We are blessed by your continued support of St Edward Church through online giving and offertory placed in the basket.
Thank you and may God continue to bless you!
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
*** ONLINE GIVING UPDATED***
If you have used the Online Giving Program for recurring contributions, it will be necessary to create a new password. Simply select the "Lost Password" link and follow the directions. If you have ever given using the "one time" option - you can now easily make a gift without an account or set one up later.
Thank you for you patience with this new version of ParishSoft Online Giving!
Bazaar - Help is needed
See sign up forms in Gathering Space
Sponsor of the Week
McDermott Insurance
TMIY “The Vision of Man Fully Alive”.
No meeting this weekend
CHRISTMAS GIVING TREE ~ Physical and Virtual
Please help the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Edward Church to make Christmas brighter for children and families in Licking County and for the men who are currently homeless and living at the St. Vincent Haven. Please consider taking an ornament(s) from the physical tree in the Gathering Space or the virtual tree online (https://bit.ly/st-ed-givingtree)
*Please leave UNWRAPPED gifts, with the “ornament” TAG ATTACHED, under the Giving Tree, along with some wrapping paper.
*Food gift certificates from Aldi and “GAS ONLY” cards from local gas stations (like Speedway) are a wonderful ADDITION to a family gift...if you are able to do so!
***Please return purchased gifts by the weekend of December 5/6.***
GIFTS RETURNED AFTER DECEMBER 5th MAY NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE THE FAMILY’S GIFT BAG.
Volunteers needed!
We need volunteers to sort gifts (masked and gloved) at St. Edward on Sunday December 5th, 1:00-3:00 p.m.!
Questions? Please call Pattie Wolf at 740-344-8364
BULLETIN ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY
Katie Albanese, our advertising representative for Dee Printing, will be reaching out to and vendors to ask if you would like to advertise your business in our bulletin. You can contact the parish office at 740-587-3254 and we can put you in touch with her.
Please consider advertising or renewing your current ad. You support covers the cost of the layout and printing of our bulletin.
Thank you!
FOOD PANTRY
Thank you for your donations to the Food Pantry. Laundry soap and canned irems (especially corn) are requested. Always a need for paper products. Thank you!
MEMORIAL CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS
If you would like to donate for poinsettias for the church during the Christmas season, please fill out the information below and return by Sunday, December 12th in the collection basket or mail to the church. The suggested donation is $20.00. (Checks payable to St. Edward Church.) Please include the following:
In Memory Of: ______________________________________
In Honor Of: ________________________________________
Donated By: _______________________________________
The list with the above information will be in the Dec. 19 bulletin.
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Weekend Mass Schedule
SATURDAY 5:00 p.m.
SUNDAY 8:15 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.
Reconciliation is available Saturdays from 4:00 to 4:30 pm
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