🗓 We hope you will join us tonight, December 15th at 7:00 PM for our Annual Advent Penance Service with Individual Confession. We will also offer Eucharistic Adoration beginning at 7:00 as well. As we come before the Lord and seek His tender mercy, we can truly ready our hearts and lives for His coming!

💭 Advent is a time of preparation, when we make ready to celebrate the mystery of our Lord’s coming as man, the beginning of our redemption. Advent also moves us to look forward with renewed hope to the second coming of Christ, when God’s plan of salvation will be brought to fulfillment. Let us prepare the way of the Lord by recognizing our sin seeking forgiveness through his merciful love.

📲 For helpful guides (by age/state) for making a good Examination of Conscience, please click here: https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/sacraments-and-sacramentals/penance/examinations-of-conscience

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
A Holy Day of Obligation

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Mass Times: 9AM, 12:10 PM, & 7PM

“O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son, grant, we pray, that, as you preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of your Son, which you foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may be cleansed and admitted to your presence. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

(from the Collect Prayer for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, December 8)

"Beginning the Church's liturgical year, Advent (from, 'ad-venire' in Latin or 'to come to') is the season encompassing the four Sundays (and weekdays) leading up to the celebration of Christmas.
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The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and to the anniversary of Our Lord’s birth on Christmas. From the earliest days of the Church, people have been fascinated by Jesus’ promise to come back. But the scripture readings during Advent tell us not to waste our time with predictions. Advent is not about speculation. Our Advent readings call us to be alert and ready, not weighted down and distracted by the cares of this world (Lk 21:34-36). Like Lent, the liturgical color for Advent is purple since both are seasons that prepare us for great feast days. Advent also includes an element of penance in the sense of preparing, quieting, and disciplining our hearts for the full joy of Christmas."
(from USCCB.org)