DECEMBER 29TH, 2019 THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH

Perpetual Adoration is available 24/7 in the Adoration Chapel

CONFESSIONS

Half hour before Mass

Saturday 4:00-4:45 p.m.

DAILY MASS TIMES

Monday - Friday

7:00 a.m. (Spanish) &

6:00 p.m. (English)

Saturday

8:00 a.m. (Spanish)

WEEKEND MASS TIMES

Saturday - Vigil Mass

5:00 p.m. (English)

Sunday

8:00 a.m. (Spanish)

10:00 a.m. (English)

12:00 p.m. (English)

2:00 p.m. (Spanish)

4:00 p.m. (Spanish)

6:00 p.m. (English)

OFFICE HOURS

MONDAY

8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.

TUESDAY - FRIDAY

8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

SATURDAY

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

ADDRESS

555 E. Del Mar Blvd.

Laredo, Texas 78041

OFFICE PHONE

(956) 722-6215

WEBSITE

www.stpatricklaredo.org

HOLY DAYS OF

OBLIGATION

Office Closed

PASTOR Very Rev. Anthony Mendoza franthonym@dioceseoflaredo.org

PAROCHIAL VICAR

Fr. Jacinto Olguin

frolguin@dioceseoflaredo.org

PAROCHIAL VICAR

Fr. Pedro Mercado frpedromercadojr@dioceseoflaredo.org

DEACONS

Rev. Deacon Joe Longoria

Rev. Deacon Miguel Robles

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29th, 2019 THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY

AND JOSEPH 8:00 AM María del Socorro Domínguez

Patricio Peralez - Por su salud

Por las Almas del Purgatorio

+ Cuco Escobedo

+ José Ángel Flores Jr. - 9th Anniversary

+ Juan Santiago Cantú

+ María Lourdes Alaniz y Juan C. Ibarra

10:00 AM + Armando & Bertha Sánchez

12:00 PM Rudolph Miles-Birthday

Cleofás & Juanita González 50th Wedding Anniversary

In thanksgiving - Victoria & Robert González

+ María Eugenia Garza

+ Homero Martínez

+ José Murillo

+ Graciela Ramírez

+ Nora Adriana García Ramos

2:00 PM + Víctor Pérez

4:00 PM Por todos los Parroquianos

6:00 PM Iris Cordelia LaLonde - Birthday

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019

7:00 AM María del Socorro Domínguez

6:00 PM For Souls in Purgatory

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2019

NEW YEAR’S EVE

7:00 AM + Miguel Ángel Miranda Arnold

4:00 PM

6:00 PM Mr. & Mrs. Teo Torres Jr. & Family

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2020

SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD

12:00 PM + George Bennett

2:00 PM Acción de gracias a la Virgen de San Juan

4:00 PM + Graciela Ramírez

6:00 PM For Souls in Purgatory

THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020

7:00 AM Almas de la Familia Sánchez Urbina

6:00 PM For Souls in Purgatory

FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2020

7:00 AM Por las Almas del Purgatorio

6:00 PM Martha Eugenia Treviño - Birthday

SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2020

ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON

8:OO AM Acción de gracias al Sagrado Corazón de

Jesús

5:00 PM For Souls in Purgatory

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STAFF ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE DIRECTOR

Viridiana Nevarez Mellado ext. 221

aom@stpatricklaredo.org RECEPTIONIST

Cristina Garza ext. 210

reception@stpatricklaredo.org SECRETARY

Karla Xiomara Fernandez ext. 220

sec@stpatricklaredo.org DATA ENTRY CLERK

Karla Torres ext. 223

data@stpatricklaredo.org MINISTRIES DIRECTOR

Lilia L. Salinas ext. 216

ministries@stpatricklaredo.org CCD COORDINATOR

Javier Compean ext. 215

cre@stpatricklaredo.org CONFIRMATION COORDINATOR

Sylvia Herrera ext. 214

creconfirmation@stpatricklaredo.org FACILITIES & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Vicente Salinas

maintenance@stpatricklaredo.org

The Sanctuary Lamp is burning this week in memory of :

Dora & Rafael Campos

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Bulletin Deadline Ministries, make sure to submit your announcements 10 Days

prior to date published via Email please at

data@stpatricklaredo.org

Serve our Lord, Serve your Parish Are you looking for a way to become

involved? Do you feel a calling? Do you have

a special talent you would like to share with

the parish? Anyone interested who would

like to share their time & talent with any of

the various ministries and groups we have here at

St. Patrick’s are encouraged to contact any of the

ministry or group leaders for more information.

ADORATION Ariel Gómez (956) 740-9567

BEREAVEMENT Lucy Cárdenas (956) 763-9145

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION Dody Foster (956)723-6119

HOSPITAL E. EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Ángeles Guajardo (956) 436-2540 ALTAR SOCIETY Karla Torres (956) 722-6215 ALTAR SERVERS Marilú Gorecki (956) 722-6215

LECTORS (English) Victor Ordoñez (956) 236-4598

MUSIC Lupita Chapa (956) 763-6724 USHERS (English) Narciso Castro (956) 740-2226

MEN’S CLUB Narciso Castro (956) 740-2226

JAIL MINISTRY Eduardo/ Gina De la Miyar - (956) 237-3226 Rodolfo/ Maru Portillo (956) 235-4382

GEO JAIL MINISTRY Polo Ramírez (965) 237-3290

ACTS CORE Adrián Flores (956) 326-6222 Alexandra Agüero (956) 235-4058

LIFETEEN & EDGE Gwen Garza (956) 729-7090

CHALLENGE & CONQUEST Rosalba Montalvo (956) 286-5997

APOSTOLES DE FATIMA Ivonne Aguirre (956) 744-8737

CABALLEROS DE JESUS Guillermo Abboud (956) 237– 3876 LECTORS (Spanish) Chelly De la Garza (956) 206-1531

USHERS (Spanish) Lupe Solís (956) 337-0519

COMMUNIDADES DE EVANGELIZACION Javier Santana (956) 236-6141

CHOICE WINE Javier Compean (956) 722-6215

MARRIAGE COUNSELING Velma Martínez (956) 744-2679

DISCOVER THE BIBLE Carlos Guzmán (210) 316-5950

LORD TEACH ME TO PRAY Cynthia Snyder (956) 763-5065 STA. TERESITA Karla Torres (956) 722-6215 Sandra Hernández (956) 242-9332 ENCUENTRO DE NUESTRA SEÑORA Reynaldo Guajardo (956) 237-4795 GOOD SHEPHERD Patty Verduzco pattyjverduzco@gmail.com

325 families in our parish have now given $77,000 to the Catholic Sharing Appeal,

which funds many important ministries in our Diocese of Laredo. We are now a little over 72% of the way to our goal! If every family made some contribution, we can

reach our goal. If you have not yet made your pledge, please do so today. Forms are

available in the church and in the parish office. Thank you!

Save the Date! Pro-Life Rosary Walk

on Sunday January, 19th, 2020

at 2pm.

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FROM THE PASTOR, FR. ANTHONY MENDOZA

Is Family that Important?

We have probably all heard of children experiencing severe difficulties being raised in their families. Children certainly can be badly effected by poverty, alcohol or drug abuse, bitter arguments between husband and wife, etc. Some people may even wonder, “Why should children be entrusted to a family at all? Wouldn’t children be better off in an institution, raised by professional educators and licensed social workers?” Yet the great importance of family cannot be denied from the central mystery of our faith and our life, that the One God is Himself Three Divine Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. From before time began, God-the-Father, with life-giving love, eternally gives life to His Son. God-the-Son eternally loves His Father in return. And from the perfect love between the Father and the Son, proceeds the Holy Spirit. The Original Family, Three Persons related to each other and united in perfect love, teaches us that we come from family and our fulfillment is to be found in family.

When the time came for God-the-Son to become one of us, He could have come down from heaven fully grown as an adult man. He could easily have avoided the hardships of family life by coming to this earth as a fully grown adult. As we know, He did not choose that easy way. Instead He chose to enter this world as a tiny unborn baby inside of His mother Mary and to be totally dependent upon others in His early years. He chose to become a little child, to put Himself in obedience to Joseph and to Mary, mere human beings whom He Himself had created. Jesus chose to spend the first 30 years of His life in the hardships, joys and loving unity of a human family, the Holy Family of Nazareth. Since God chose to be a member of a human family, there is no doubt that the family is a most important part of God’s plan for all of us!

Holiness, however, may not be as evident in our own families, since we probably are not yet all saints! If all the members of our family were perfect, life would certainly be a lot easier. But then how would we learn compassion, patience and mercy? If we were perfect, how would we learn to bear with one another? If we never made mistakes, how would we learn to forgive others as God forgives us? If the Word of Christ dwells in us, and if we spend some time every day in sincere prayer, we will come to see that every hardship of family life offers us an opportunity to grow in God’s own love, and to help the other members of our family to grow in God’s love. Fathers and mothers, remember that your most important job is to help your entire family to get to heaven. Health is important, education is important and a good job is important, but what good are those things if your family is not one day forever united with God in His Family? Show your children a good example by always putting God first, by praying every day (even a few minutes together as a family) and by participation in Holy Mass on the weekend. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the Holy Family of Nazareth, help our families to grow in God’s love so that we will be more united to Him and to each other. Amen.

The Feast of the Holy Family

Holy Day of Obligation on Wednesday,

January 1st for The Solemnity of Mary,

Mother of God. The obligation can

be fulfilled by attendance at the Vigil Masses on December 31st:

4pm and 6pm (Both bilingual) and by the Masses on January 1st:

12 Noon (English), 2pm (Spanish), 4pm (Spanish) and 6pm (English).

PARISH AND MINISTRY NEWS

St Patrick Church Men’s Club Ministry

Scholarship Applications The Men’s Club Ministry, with the tremendous support of our Pastor and Parishioners, will again be awarding scholarships to high school graduates from our parish. It is the Men’s Club’s desire to award at least fourteen, $1,000 scholarships this school year. The evaluation criteria will have an emphasis on the student’s participation in St. Patrick Church ministries and parish related activities. Scholarship applications may be secured from your school’s academic counselor or may be downloaded from the church web page: www.stpatricklaredo.org - Parish Life tab/Men’s Club. The deadline for submission to the school counselors will be Friday, February 28, 2020.

Life Teen and EDGE will NOT be meeting for the next few weeks. Our next meeting will be January 12th EDGE 1:30PM TO 3:30PM AND Life Teen 7pm to 9pm. Enjoy your holiday break! You will be in our prayers. See you in the Eucharist!

In observance of New Year Day, Parish Office will be closed on Wednesday, January 1st, 2020.

Office hours will resume on Thursday, January 2nd from 8am-6pm. May God bless you

and your families this new year!

PARISH & MINISTRY NEWS

January 1st

Christmas Posadas

PARISH & MINISTRY NEWS

Lord, Teach Me To Pray is a prayer series based on

Ignatian Spirituality. Part 1, “Praying Christian Virtues”,

helps deepen our prayer life, and discover what to do for

dryness and obstacles in prayer. It also introduces the

different methods of Ignatian prayer, meditation,

contemplation and Consciousness Examen. A small

group will meet with 2 trained facilitators for 1-2 hours

once a week for 12 weeks to pray and faith share.

Part 1 for Women begins on January 7th , 2020 in Parish

Hall Room #5 at 6:30 P.M. To register contact Cynthia

Snyder at (956) 763-5065.

Eucharist. The Holy Mass. For Catholics, this is often a sacrament they’ve participated in nearly every week of their lives. For non-Catholics, it is a foreign rite that many are cautious to approach. In both groups there is a varied understanding of the Eucharist and what the Church teaches about this sacrament, described as the “source and summit of the Christian life.” Over the course of this study, Dr. Brant Pitre will take us back to the biblical roots of the Eucharist. Together we’ll see how this sacrament is deeply rooted in Sacred Scripture. We’ll explore its origins, its foreshadowing in the many mysterious and miraculous events of the Old Testament and gospels, and the essential purpose and reality of Jesus’ words and actions at the Last Supper. In the end, we’ll examine how the Eucharist is not just a something, but rather Someone with whom we are meant to be in communion. Class dates: Thursdays, January 9 - March 12, 2020 Class time: 7PM - 8:30PM Workbook required - $10 cost per workbook (spouses can share workbook) Number of classes: 10 Registration Deadline: Friday January 3, 2020 *If you have any questions on the course please contact Carlos Guzman at 210-316-5950. *

ACTS Core cordially invites the community to learn about the 2020

changes affecting retreats. We will be hosting a forum to give a brief synopsis of these changes on:

Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 at 7pm

St Patrick Parish Hall Rooms 10 & 11

Please make plans to attend!

Del párroco, p. Anthony Mendoza

¿Es la familia tan importante? Probablemente todos hemos oído hablar de niños que experimentan graves dificultades para ser criados en sus familias. Ciertamente, los niños pueden verse gravemente afectados por la pobreza, el abuso del alcohol o las drogas, las amargas discusiones entre marido y mujer, etc. Algunas personas pueden incluso preguntarse: “¿Por qué deberían confiarse los hijos a una familia? ¿No estarían mejor los niños en una institución criada por educadores profesionales y trabajadores sociales con licencia? " Sin embargo, no se puede negar la gran importancia de la familia desde el misterio central de nuestra fe y nuestra vida, que el Único Dios es tres personas divinas: Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo. Desde antes de que comenzara el tiempo,

Dios-Padre, con un amor que da vida, eternamente da vida a Su Hijo. Dios el Hijo ama eternamente a Su Padre a cambio. Y del amor perfecto entre el Padre y el Hijo, procede el Espíritu Santo. La familia original, tres personas relacionadas entre sí y unidas en un amor perfecto, nos enseña que venimos de la familia y que nuestra satisfacción se encuentra en la familia. Cuando llegó el momento de que Dios el Hijo se convirtiera en uno de nosotros, pudo haber descendido del cielo completamente adulto. Podría haber evitado fácilmente las dificultades de la vida familiar al venir a esta tierra como un adulto completamente desarrollado. Como sabemos, no eligió esa manera fácil. En cambio, eligió entrar en este mundo como un pequeño bebé no nacido dentro de su madre María y ser totalmente dependiente de los demás en sus primeros años. Él eligió convertirse en un niño pequeño, ponerse en obediencia a José y a María, simples seres humanos que Él mismo había creado. Jesús eligió pasar los primeros 30 años de su vida en las dificultades, alegrías y unidad amorosa de una familia humana, la Sagrada Familia de Nazaret. ¡Ya que Dios eligió ser miembro de una familia humana, No hay duda de que la familia es una parte muy importante del plan de Dios para todos! Sin embargo, la santidad puede no ser tan evidente en nuestras propias familias, ¡ya que probablemente todavía no todos somos santos! Si todos los miembros de nuestra familia fueran perfectos, la vida sería mucho más fácil. Pero entonces, ¿cómo aprenderíamos compasión, paciencia y misericordia? Si fuéramos perfectos, ¿cómo aprenderíamos a soportar el uno con el otro? Si nunca cometiéramos errores, ¿cómo aprenderíamos a perdonar a los demás como Dios nos perdona? Si la Palabra de Cristo mora en nosotros, y si pasamos algún tiempo todos los días en oración sincera, llegaremos a ver que cada dificultad de la vida familiar nos ofrece la oportunidad de crecer en el amor de Dios y ayudar a los demás miembros de nuestra familia para crecer en el amor de Dios. Padres y madres, recuerden que su trabajo más importante es ayudar a toda su familia a llegar al cielo. La salud es

importante, la educación es importante y un buen trabajo es importante, pero ¿de qué sirven esas cosas si su familia no está un día unida para siempre con Dios en su familia? Muestre a sus hijos un buen ejemplo al poner siempre a Dios primero, rezando todos los días (incluso unos minutos juntos como familia) y participando en la Santa Misa el fin de semana. Jesús, María y José, la Sagrada Familia de Nazaret, ayudan a nuestras familias a crecer en el amor de Dios para que nos unamos más a Él y a los demás. Amén.

La Sagrada Familia

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PARISH AND MINISTRY NEWS

¡Reserva la fecha!

Rosario y caminata Pro–Vida el domingo 19 de enero del 2020

a las 2 p.m.

El CORE de ACTS hace extensiva una invitación a la comunidad parroquial

para comunicar los cambios relevantes en la estructura de retiros ACTS

a partir del año 2020. Se realizará una sesión informativa para explicar

éstos cambios. Martes 14 de Enero de 2020

7:00 pm / Salón Parroquial de San Patricio

Salones 10 y 11

¡Te esperamos!

Día Santo de Obligación el miércoles 1 de enero para La Solemnidad de María, Madre

de Dios. La obligación se puede cumplir asistiendo a las misas de vigilia el

31 de diciembre: 4pm y 6pm (ambos

bilingües) y las misas el 1 de enero: 12 del mediodía

(inglés), 2pm (español), 4pm (español)

y 6pm (inglés) .

Aidee Juarez Larry Lepovitz

Alfredo de Luna Joanne M. Aquirre

Acela Martinez Rosa Garza

Myriam Gaytan Geronimo Espinoza

Father of goodness and love, hear our prayers for the sick members of

our community and for all who are in need. Amid mental and physical

suffering may they find consolation in your healing presence. Show your

mercy as you close wounds, cure illnesses, make broken bodies whole and

free downcast spirits. May these special people find lasting health and

deliverance, and so join us in thanking you for all your gifts. We ask this

through Lord Jesus who healed those who believed. Amen

Frances Rizo Gloria Gnz. Carranza

Paul Mutz Margaret Verduzco John Paul Jackson

Sylvia Vela Adrian Martinez

Sharan Fernandez