2nd Sunday of Advent

Dear Parishioners;

As we enter the second week of Advent, our Scripture readings give us hope that Jesus is coming, but also offers us a challenge to prepare the way before him.  Today we hear the very beginning of Mark’s Gospel, the beginning of Jesus’ public life. We are introduced immediately to John the Baptist as he urgently cries out in the wilderness for us to repent, for the kingdom is at hand.  In order to prepare the way and make straight his paths, we must be willing to sometimes go “out-on—a-limb” and be that voice crying in the wilderness proclaiming the mightiness of our Savior.

This weekend’s second collection is for the Retirement Fund for Religious. Your gift to today’s collection helps provide medications, nursing care, and more for thousands of senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests. I ask for your generosity to the Retirement Fund for Religious.

             Phase I and II Confirmation candidates will have a Reconciliation Prayer Service with individual confession on Tuesday, December 12th at 6:00 P.M.

             Remember, if you took a name tag off the Giving Tree, the wrapped Christmas presents along with the tag is due in the rectory by Wednesday, December 13th.  

The River Parish Community Theatre will present Christmas on the River on Saturday, December 16th at St. Peter School.  The entertainment begins at 7:00 P.M.  Tickets are $10.00 General Admission.  Tickets are available at the door or at Roussel’s in LaPlace.

If you have not picked up your Little Blue Book for Advent and Christmas, it’s not too late to do so.  The booklets are on the tables at each church entrance.

Church supporting envelopes are also available in the main section of the church.

The 2018 church calendars are available at each of the church entrances.

Have a Blessed Advent week!