File - St. Mary of the Springs Catholic Church

St. Mary of the Springs Catholic Church
100 Central Ave., Hot Springs, AR 71901
Established in 1869
Pastor: Fr. George Sanders
Deacons: Lee Leckner & Joe Harrison
January 10, 2016 - The Baptism of the Lord
SUNDAY MASSES
OFFICE HOURS
Saturday 4:00 PM
Sunday 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Office Phone: 501-623-3233
Fax: 501-609-9524
Email: [email protected]
Fr. George Sanders: [email protected]
Sacramental Emergencies Only: 501-763-0704
WEBSITE: www.stmaryofthesprings.org
THE HOLY ROSARY
Saturday 3:30 PM
Sunday 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM
WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE
No Mass - Monday ~ Wednesday & Friday ~ 8AM
Tuesday, Thursday ~ 12 Noon (St. Vincent’s Chapel)
SPECIAL DEVOTIONS:
THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
First Friday of the Month
Devotion: 7 - 8 AM ~ Mass: 8 00 AM
First Saturday of the Month
Devotion: 7:30 AM ~ Mass: 8:00 AM
CONFESSIONS
First Friday ~ 7:00 - 8:00 AM
First Saturday ~ 7:30 - 7:50 AM
Saturday ~ 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Sunday - 8:00AM Before 8:30AM Mass
Or By Appointment
OFFICE PERSONNEL
Diane Pollock, Office Manager
Jan Gray, Secretary
DIRECTOR of FAITH FORMATION
& YOUTH MINISTER
Natalie Evans 501-545-3064
Email: [email protected]
MARRIAGE
Contact the parish priest at least 6 months
in advance to begin marriage preparation.
No Date can be scheduled
before this preparation begins.
BAPTISM
Contact the parish priest to schedule a baptism
Today is January 10, 2016
The Baptism of the Lord
MASS INTENTIONS
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Tues
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Thurs
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4PM
8:30AM
11AM
Private
12 Noon
8AM
12Noon
8AM
4PM
8:30AM
11AM
Fred Nietz +
Our Parishioners
Mathias Kuhn +
Meghan Horrigan
Pat Willcox +
Tracy Goodman +
St. Anonymous/Haiti Mission
Eddie Condon +
Ted Smykowski +
David Borck +
Our Parishioners
12 NOON MASSES @ CHI ST. VINCENT CHAPEL
MINISTRY SCHEDULE
Saturday, 4PM
January 16, 2016
Lector: ** Chris Frazier, Don Borchert
EMHC: * Evelyn Worsham, Pat Greene
EMHC:
Kathy Webber
Altar Servers: Martin Nguyen, Anthony Reiter
Altar Servers: David Peters
Sunday, 8:30AM
January 17, 2016
Lector: ** Mary Gallimore, Charles Smith
EMHC: * Danny Elser, Steve Gallimore
EMHC:
Doris Kalahiki
Altar Servers: Brianna Gallimore, Dylan Nguyen
Altar Servers: Leah Nguyen, Oliver Owings
Altar Servers: Austyn Van Wagner
Sunday, 11AM
January 17 2016
Lector: ** Pat Papacek, Amy Guresky
EMHC: * Peter Guresky, Ron Sliger, Tina Sliger
EMHC:
Ruth Sliger, Vicki Rima, Rosemary Hadlock
Altar Servers: Landry Cate, Leah Marvin
Altar Servers: Andrew Guresky, John P. Guresky
Altar Servers: Tabitha Rick, Teresa Valdivia
JANUARY STEWARDSHIP
January Collections as of Jan. 3rd
Budget Jan. 2016
Amount January (Short)
$ 7,515.00
$32,292.00
$24,777.00
CHILDREN’S COLLECTION
Jan. 3, 2016
$69.00
Fr. George Blog www.chat-cat.org
Fr. George’s
Coffee Cat
Every Sunday
Parish Hall
9:45 - 10:45AM
GRIEF SUPPORT CARE
Tuesday, January 12th * 6PM-7:30PM
St. Mary’s Carroll Room
Nationally Certified Grief Counselor Melissa Saylor,
M.S., GC-C Angel’s Wings Grief Care, (501)454-7045
HOLY FAMILY PRAYER GROUP
Meetings are on Tuesdays in the Church
January 19th, 2016 6:30 PM
Contact for prayer requests - Ruth Sliger: 282-5292
CHILDREN OF GOD PRAYER GROUP
Every Thursday, 10:30AM - Roland Room
@ Women’s Center CHI St. Vincent’s
PRAYER VIGIL AND EXPOSITION
OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Saturday, January 16, 2016
6:30PM until Sunday, January 17th, 8AM
Cathedral of St. Andrew
MASS FOR LIFE LOCATION
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Cathedral of St. Andrew, 7th & Louisiana Streets
ROSARY FOR LIFE
CHILDREN’S NURSERY
11 AM Mass
Sit-up age to 3 Years * Church Building Classroom
CHILDREN’S LITURGY
11 AM Mass—Ages 4 thru Pre-1st Communion
Will process out during Mass to hear their own gospel reading
and child friendly reflection Follow us on Facebook for updates
Please contact Jennifer Marvin, 501-762-3191
ALTAR CARE TEAM
2nd Week, Friday, Jan. 15th
* Cynda Piper * Bonnie Newman
11:30AM
MASS FOR LIFE
12:05PM
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor, celebrant & homilist
MARCH FOR LIFE
2PM
West Capitol & Battery Streets
Sponsored by Arkansas Right to Life
Complimentary chili/hot dog supper for all marchers
following the March, hosted by Knights of Columbus
Council 6253, at Camp Robinson Rd. North Little Rock.
SOCIETY of ST. VINCENT de PAUL
Members of the Society are men and
women who strive to grow spiritually by
offering person-to-person service to
individuals in need. Call 501-538-1062, if
you or anyone you know needs assistance
The society meets every Wednesday in the
Carroll Room from 10:30AM to 11:30 AM.
After Jesus was baptized, he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove and a voice was heard “This is my
beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” As we give
to the poor, we also can hear these same words.
As you help those who are suffering, know in your
heart the truth of the words “you are my beloved in
whom I am well pleased”.
PRAY FOR THOSE IN THE MILITARY
and FOR THOSE WHO SERVED
Emmanuel Alvarez
Evadne Anderson
James F. Anderson II
Darren Bemis
Katherine Brock
Colt Davis
A. J. Dierks
Stephen Drakes
Sandy Vongsiri-Jordan
Doug Fires
Jyrlyn Greene
Tony Guanella
Nicholas Hanna
Andrew Hanna
Blake Heller
Edmund Jaskiewicz
Ryan Jordan
Tristan Jordan
Michael Elmore
John Long
Nick Madson
Ryan McCabe
Nicholas Mueller
Morgan Patterson
Sean Patrick
Bee Stamps
Matt Steinhaus
Patrick Steinhaus
Walker Vaughn
PRAY FOR THE SICK
Penny Martin
Christine Andreski
Agnes Mohr
Edward Beaky
Teagan & Lois Murphy
Sylvia Bevill
Leah Murray
Lisa Caldwell
Lindsay Powell
Sheilah & Daryl Clark
Lellie-Beth Rhodes
William Confer
Ruth Rhodes
Frankie DeGeorge
Anna Roberts
Quentin Dooley
Fr. Alan Rosenau
Dave & Barbara Elmore
Raymond Sanchez
Donna Folson
Charles Smith
Haley Gloria
Peggy Smith
Jim Greene
Donna Stevens
Steven Hadlock
Rick Stewart
Lou Ann Hall
Rick & Deb Stricker
Tina Harbert & Family
Alfred Watson
Dylan Harrison
Joan Wright
Marie Krenzelok
Dc Lee Leckner
Dr. Michael & Mary Ann Young
Dorothy Longinotti
CHI ST. VINCENT’S
PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL
Open Hours: Sun: 7AM, 7PM
Mon: 8AM & 11AM, Wed: 8AM & 7PM
Fri: 6AM & 6PM - Sat: 6PM & 8PM
There are also overnight hours where an
Adorer is needed. Please call Shelly at
623-6201 to volunteer.
FOOD PANTRY ITEMS NEEDED!
St. Mary’s Food Pantry is low on food and needs easy to
prepare complete meals. Items that are needed is canned:
Beef Stew, Chicken & Dumplings, Spaghetti with meat
sauce, Chili with beans, vegetable soups with meat,
Chunky soups (vegetable, beef & etc) and regular soups.
We have enough lite-healthy soups in stock.
Thank you for your generosity.
THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT OF
OUR ANGEL TREE/FOOD BASKETS!!
Thank you so much for making St. Mary’s Angel Tree/
Food Baskets such an overwhelming success this year.
The total number of angels were 154! This is a 43%
increase from last year. Amazing! The Food Baskets were
received with such gratitude - thank you for all the
generous donations made to the Food Baskets.
A big thanks to the youth that assisted and the adult
volunteers for delivering and loading the gifts and food
baskets.
Since St. Mary’s was also assisting many families from
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Glenwood plus local families,
gifts and food baskets deliveries were over a 2 day
period. This program would not have been possible
without all of you that so graciously bought clothes, gifts,
and toys. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
St. Mary’s made this a very Merry Christmas for many!
CHRISTIAN FINANCIAL PRINCIPALS
Financial Peace
Tuesday evenings - Feb. 2, 9, 16, & 23
St. Mary’s Parish Hall
6:00PM-7:30PM
Topics to be covered
Personal Money Management
The Financial Planning Process
Developing your written Financial Plan
Financial Peace, Legacy & Giving
Couples: $35/Single $20
Make checks payable to: St. Mary’s Church
Contact: John Hoefl 501-627-8646
[email protected]
ADDRESS CHANGED???
If you have moved in the past year, the
church needs to have your new address
to send tax reports, invitations, 2016
Directory or any other form of
correspondence.
Please send information to 100 Central Ave., 71901, call
501-623-3233 or email to [email protected] to
update your register. Thank You. The Office
Sunday, January 10, 2016
The Baptism of the Lord
MANIFESTING THE SPIRIT
REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD
The Christmas season closes this Sunday with the
Baptism of the Lord. This feast is a sister to last week’s
feast of the Epiphany. Each of them celebrates an
“epiphany,” or a manifestation of the Spirit of God in
Jesus—first in his birth, and now at his baptism.
The divine Spirit is manifested in all of the scriptures for
this feast. Psalm 104 highlights the Spirit of God creating
and renewing the earth, while the reading from Isaiah
describes God restoring Israel. In Luke’s account of the
baptism of the Lord the Holy Spirit descends upon Jesus.
And the letter to Titus reminds us that the Holy Spirit was
“richly poured out” on us also, through the “bath of
rebirth” (Titus 3:5, 6).
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
This is one of the key moments in the life of Jesus. Up
north in his hometown of Nazareth he must have heard
about John. At some point an inner voice must have said,
"Go south, go to the desert. Go listen to this preacher
John."
When he came to the desert, he may have stood in a long
line before that moment came when he entered the water
and John baptized him. Mark gives us only the briefest
account of their meeting, but does present John as
expecting someone mightier than he who would baptize
with the Holy Spirit.
It is this same Holy Spirit who came down on Jesus as he
was coming out of the water. At that moment, the heavens
were torn open, heaven reached down to touch the
Galilean, and the Spirit descended like a dove. Have you
ever seen a gull descend to snatch a fish or a hawk swoop
down to seize its prey? By contrast, the image of a
descending dove is one of beauty and grace, of gentle
alighting.
The words do not announce Jesus to others, as in
Matthew's account, but they are spoken only to him: "You
are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased" (1:11),
echoing the words the Lord speaks in the first song of the
Servant in the book of Isaiah.
The descent of the dove did not mean an easy life for
Jesus, but God had penetrated his being in a way that
would then drive him into the desert to begin his mission
of confronting the powers of sin and death. This gentle
dove came--and continues to come--with a mighty power.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday:
1 Samuel 1:1-8; Psalms 116:12-19;
Mark 1:14‑20
Tuesday:
1 Samuel 1:9-20; 1 Samuel 2:1, 4-8abcd;
Mark 1:21‑28
Wednesday: 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20;
Psalms 40:2, 5, 7-10; Mark 1:29‑39
Thursday: 1 Samuel 4:1-11;
Psalms 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25;
Mark 1:40‑45
Friday:
1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22a; Psalms 89:16-19;
Mark 2:1‑12
Saturday: 1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1a;
Psalms 21:2-7; Mark 2:13‑17
Sunday:
Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalms 96:1-3, 7-10; 1
Corinthians 12:4-11; John 2:1-11
TURNING THE TIDE
When everything goes against you, till it seems as though
you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up
then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will
turn.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
--James A. Wallace, C.Ss.R.
Copyright (c) 2014, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.
LIVING GOD’S WORD
At baptism, the Spirit came upon you in the presence of
the Christian community, claiming you in Jesus' name,
and God said, "You are my beloved son/daughter." Spend
some time praying over these words. What do you say to
God in return? How does it affect what you do in life?
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TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
Merry Christmas! Share that cheerful greeting with some folks today. They may wonder if you have had any Elvis
sightings lately, attended Star Trek conventions, or were Cleopatra in a previous lifetime. Despite the skeptics, today is
solidly within the Christmas season. In fact, in some strands of the Christian tradition it represents the clearest
manifestation of the mystery of the Incarnation. On Christmas Day, for example, the Gospel reading is the Prologue of
John’s Gospel, which reveals the glory of Christ shining through our humanity precisely in his baptism.
At any rate, this is an ancient feast, celebrated first in Egypt sixteen centuries ago. More than most other ancient people,
the Egyptians understood the life‑giving properties of water. On this day, they drew water from the Nile, so central in
the history of their people, and reserved it in honor. Many other places copied the custom, so that St. John Chrysostom
wrote of people in Antioch gathering at midnight to collect flowing water into vessels they brought from home since
“today there is a blessing on the water.” At home for dinner tonight, decorate the table with beautiful bowls of water and
white candles, toast one another with goblets of sparkling water, and light a Christmas candle in the window one last
time.
—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
ST. MARY’S FAITH FORMATION
Faith Formation classes are in session. 9:50-10:50AM
Please contact Natalie Evans for more information or if you
would like to volunteer as a chaperone.
ST. MARY’S YOUTH
Contact Natalie Evans: 501-545-3064
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: St. Mary’s CYM
Sunday, Jan. 10th from 6-8PM in the Carroll Room
ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL
St. John’s Catholic School
Pre K 2 1/2 years old through 8th Grade
501-624-3171 - www.sjshs.org
Mrs. Angela Isaacs, Principal
CONSOLING THE HEART OF JESUS
A 10 session study exploring God's Mercy and
love through the teachings of 4 great saints
Fr. Michael Gaitley is a fantastic author who writes
simply, clearly and beautifully. The study structured
around his great book, Consoling the Heart of Jesus, is
sure to bear great fruits in your life. Please join us for this
dynamic, weekly study as we strive to accept our Father's
continuous gift of mercy and love. We have 3 different
study times for your convenience:
Thursday mornings 10:00-11:30 (beginning January 7),
Friday mornings 8:45-10:15 (beginning January 8),
Monday evenings 5:30-7:00 (beginning January 11).
The cost of the study is $22. Please contact Jennifer
Marvin to sign up or for more information at
[email protected] or 762-3191. Childcare
will be provided.
POST-ABORTION SUPPORT GROUP
Welcome non-Catholics and Catholics
all are encouraged to attend!
Do you feel alone, hurting or un-forgiven from a past
abortion? The Respect Life Office, through Project
Rachel, is starting a support group, beginning February
15, 2016. The spiritual journey lasts 11 weeks, with small
groups of 6-8. Groups will be formed in Little Rock,
Fayetteville/Rogers, possibly Northeast Arkansas, and
the Hot Springs area. All names and meeting places are
strictly confidential.
For details call 501-664-0340, ext. 357. All inquiries
must be made by February 15, 2016.
It’s Not Too Late, come for just one class or all!
Subiaco Academy
Thursday, Jan. 14th 6:30PM
in the Parish Hall
Topic: Sacraments and Grace
A Catholic, Benedictine boarding and day school for boys
in grades 7-12 located just east of Fort Smith, Arkansas,
at Subiaco Abbey!
For more information, please contact us at 479-934-1034
or email us at [email protected].
Check out our
Lighthouse Catholic Media on-line store.
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at the bottom of the Home page
It’s Time
To find something greater than yourself!
January 13, 2016 ~ 6PM ~ In Parish Hall
If you want to learn more about your Catholic faith, in
depth, coverage about the Mass, or if you have general
questions over why we believe certain things. Join us for
this 4 week refresher course, We meet from 6 to 8 in the
Parish Hall. Bring a friend or come and make new ones.
2016 NEW PARISH COUNCIL
MEMBERS
Evelyn Worsham
Dan French
Bernard Nathanson was an American medical doctor from
New York who helped to found the National Abortion
Rights Action League, but then later became an acclaimed
pro-life activist. He gained national attention by
becoming one of the founding members of the National
Abortion Rights Action League, now known as NARAL
Pro-Choice America. He worked with Betty Friedan and
others for the legalization of abortion in the United
States. He was also for a time the director of the Center
for Reproductive and Sexual Health New York's largest
abortion clinic. Nathanson has written that he was
responsible for more than 75,000 abortions throughout his
pro-choice career.
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