FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT – December 24, 2023 * THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD: CHRISTMAS – December 25, 2023

Fourth Sunday of Advent:

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

Christmas Masses:

RESPONSORIAL PSALMS:
Christmas Eve: For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Christmas Day: A light will shine on us this day: the Lord is born for us.

 TODAY’S MASS INTENTIONS (12/24):

11 AM: Agnes, Erzsebet Lovas, by the Molnár Family

5 PM: Parishioners of St. Emeric Parish

11 PM: Celebrant’s Intention

MASS SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS FOR THE COMING WEEK:

FROM THE DESK OF FR. BONA: Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent – for few hours, because in the evening it is Christmas Eve. According to the Church’s teaching, as I informed you, we need to fulfill both Sunday and Christmas obligation with two separate Masses. When it comes to a bulletin, however, we can feed two birds with one seed. Thus, this bulletin covers both our Advent Sunday, and our great Feast of Christmas.

I hope that the season of Advent was fruitful for you, although this year it seems to me that it went by very quickly. As we have now reached the culmination of the season of Advent, I wish all of you a very Blessed Christmas! May the grace and peace of God be always with you!

The message of Christmas is clear: God has broken into our world. He made Himself visible in Jesus and we can no longer ignore Him. We have witnesses who saw Him, met Him, talked to Him, and who gave credible testimony that he died and rose from death. We no longer have to guess who God is and what does He want of me; now we know for sure. As God came into our world, we are now asked to enter into His. As we say to Eternal God in the Christmas preface 1 at Mass:

For in the mystery of the Word made flesh
a new light of your glory has shone upon the eyes of our mind,
so that, as we recognize in Him God made visible,
we may be caught up through Him in love of things invisible.

THANK YOU: Thank you to all of you who contributed to the cleaning and decorating of our church for Christmas, and the worthy celebration of this feast through singing and other practical matters. May God reward your generosity!

MASS SCHEDULE FOR CHRISTMAS – NEW YEAR

St. Emeric Parish

December 24:   5:00 PM Mass – English

December 24:  10:30 PM Christmas Carrols – Hungarian

December 24:   11:00 PM Mass – Hungarian

December 25:   9:00 AM Mass – English

December 25:   11:00 AM Mass – Hungarian

December 31:  9:00 AM – English

December 31:   11:00 AM – Hungarian

January 1:         9:00 AM – English

January 1:         11:00 AM – Hungarian

TWO OBLIGATIONS: Even though Christmas overlaps a little with the Fourth Sunday of Advent, there are still two obligations, Sunday and Christmas, and they need to be fulfilled with two separate Masses. Just a catechetical reminder, missing the Mass on Sunday or Holy Day of Obligation is a mortal sin and we must first repent of it and go to confession before we can receive Holy Communion.

LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTION: Collection: $2,237; maintenance: $1,300; special donation: $2,150. May God reward your generosity in supporting the church. Thank you for sending in your donations by mail or using our website https://stemeric.com/donations/.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK, especially for Bev Kimar, Teréz Kalász, Lajos Boday, Márta Takács, Zsuzsanna Hunyadi, Albert Kovács, Kathy Szabó, Dorothy Fromhercz, Alex Szaday, Virginia Kachmar, Margaret Falk, Mária Hokky, and Phil Lucchese.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE DECEASED, especially for Mária Melegh.

THIS SUNDAY the 11:00 AM Mass from St. Emeric church will be livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/saintemeric/ and https://stemeric.com/

LET US PRAY THREE HAIL MARYS FOR OUR PARISH EVERY DAY!

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