Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 20, 2020
"Advent is a season of devout and joyful preparation for the coming of Jesus" - Fr. Mike Schmitz
Many families and countries have different ideas and traditions on how to celebrate Advent versus Christmas. For example, some do not listen to any Christmas carols until Christmas Eve, in order to make sure that Advent celebrations don’t become Christmas celebrations.
But this doesn’t mean you have to pass up every Christmas party invitation you receive to make sure you are celebrating Advent properly! Instead, remember to keep the spirit of Advent in everything you do until Christmas Eve. This means having a spirit of hopeful longing, joyful expectation, prayerful penance, and spiritual preparation.
Last Week's Offertory
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Building: $6,685.00
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Last Year: $18,833.52
- Christmas Mass Schedule
- Don't miss Santa and the food drive by Knights of Columbus
- Vatican and vaccinations
- Vatican's Christmas Crib
- World Day of Peace
Please reference our website for the most up-to-date Christmas schedule. In light of the Pima County curfew, we have canceled the Midnight Mass.
Don't miss Santa!
The Knights of Columbus and Santa will be outside after each Mass on Sunday, collecting food for IMPACT. Most needed:
- Canned soup
- Canned meat
- Canned vegetables
- Dry pasta
- Diapers in size 4/5
Here are a few stories from The Diocese of Tucson's news website, The New Outlook
Morality, cooperation in sin and the problem of bio-ethics
The Vatican is encouraging vaccination and is distributing the Pfizer produced vaccine. "Sometimes it is wrongly said that the Catholic Church opposes stem cell research. In fact, the Church supports ethically responsible stem cell research, while opposing any research that exploits or destroys human embryos." Read more...
Behind the Vatican's Christmas crib
The life-size ceramic statues hold a cultural heritage not immediately visible to the eye, adding to the excitement and anticipation they bring as they recount the story of the birth of baby Jesus.
“There can be no peace without a culture of care,” the Pope stresses
In his message for the 54th World Day of Peace marked on 1 January, Pope Francis offers the Church’s social doctrine as a "compass" to foster a culture of care for peace in the world.