November  20,  2016  

WELCOME ADVENT WITH US – TODAY! Come to the SJA Advent Family Evening today from 4:00-6:30pm. It’s a wonderful invitation to Advent. We’ll share a meal and a family liturgy, then make an Advent craft – glass luminarias! – to use at home throughout the season. If you can, bring fruit or a favorite dessert to share. If you can join us, please tell Gabrielle after Mass. Suggested donation is $10.00 per family. We will serve

dinner – taco bar! - right at 4pm, so please be prompt. Let’s begin the Advent journey together!

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TODAY AT FAMILY MASS

On the feast of Christ the King, as we think about our unlikely king, Jesus, who ministered to the humblest among

us, Mark McLellan is here to talk about the Mobile Loaves & Fishes ministry. Thank you Mark for bringing the truck and your story!

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FAMILY MASS

LOOKING AHEAD • Nov 27th: No Family Masses.

We invite all families to the Gym Masses at 9 & 11am for the First Sunday of Advent celebration.

• Dec 4th: On the 2nd Sunday of

Advent, we have The Christmas Truce, a dramatic reading about the actual WWI Christmas ceasefire between German & English soldiers.

• Dec 11th: On the 3rd Sunday of

Advent, we have a play about Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Children’s Choir performs.

• Dec 18th: On the 4th Sunday of

Advent, our Children’s Choir tells the Advent gospel stories of Mary and Joseph and their angels.

• Dec 25th & Jan 1st: No Family

Masses. See you back in the Church on January 8th for the Feast of the Epiphany!

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

CHRISTMAS MUSICAL Christmas time is filled with sound! Sometimes, so much sound and noise that we can hardly hear the message of Christmas!

This year’s Christmas musical, "Dude, You Hear What I Hear?" will perform on Friday, December 2nd at 7pm and Saturday, December 3rd at 10am. A free will offering will be taken at each performance.

✠ ✠ ✠ CHRISTMAS CONCERT

On December 17 at 2pm, join the SJA Children’s choir for their off-site Christmas

concert at the Walker Methodist chapel (3737 Bryant Ave S, Mpls). The children will perform liturgical songs, carols and sing-alongs. Share in the fun! Today’s rehearsal is in the school library from 12:45-2pm.

✠ ✠ ✠ OUR MEMORY QUILTS

Throughout November, we have displayed our Memory Quilts with the names of our beloved dead. Thanks to all for sharing the

memory of your loved ones with us. We remember them.

TAKING THE GOSPEL TO THE STREETS

Today our kids loaded packets they assembled in their classes containing warm-weather socks, energy bars and street outreach information onto the Mobile Loaves & Fishes truck. These packets are destined for our neighbors in need. Thank you to those who brought in these gifts!

✠ ✠ ✠ DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT SJA!

For the next two weeks, our Sister Parish ministry will have candles, colorful textile crafts and cards for sale, handmade by members of our Sister Parish in Guatemala. Sales help pay for delegates from Tierra Nueva Dos to travel here to SJA. We appreciate your support!

✠ ✠ ✠ JESSE TREE

If you would like to buy a holiday gift for a neighbor in need, please select an ornament from the Jesse

Tree, purchase the item described and return the unwrapped gift by Dec 11th with ornament attached to the tree in the church vestibule.

This year our gifts will serve American Indian Golden Eagles, People Serving People and Cabrini partnership programs. Thank you for your generosity!

 

   

November  20,  2016  

The criminal said to Jesus, “Jesus, when you come into your kingdom, remember me.” Jesus said to him, “I promise you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” – Luke 23: 42-43

THE WORD Today’s readings both focus on kingship. Our first reading (2 Samuel 5: 1-3) shows David being anointed as King of Israel. God calls David a shepherd, who will lead the people.

Today’s Gospel (Luke 23: 35-43) is from the Passion story that we tell on Palm Sunday. Does the death of Jesus seem an odd choice for the day we celebrate Christ as our King? The sign at the top of the cross, INRI, which meant “King of the Jews,” was saying that Jesus was being killed for claiming to be a king. We know that Jesus refused to be called king in his life, and his ministry was the opposite of the common image of king. Yet he did have great power. He spent his life healing, forgiving and teaching love to all people. Jesus had the kind of power that threatens earthly leaders because he asked for people to really change the world.

Jesus is the heir to the house of David, who was a shepherd before he was made a king. All through his ministry, Jesus reached out to those the world forgot. Even when dying, our humble shepherd king offered mercy and forgiveness to the humblest among us, the thief. And it is this outcast, the thief, who first recognized that Jesus is God.

PUZZLER EACH NUMBER REPRESENTS A LETTER OF THE ALPHABET. SUBSTITUTE THE

CORRECT LETTERS FOR THE NUMBERS TO REVEAL THE CODED WORDS.

-puzzle by www.sermons4kids.com

Advent is coming! Today is the last Sunday of our church year. Next Sunday, with the First Sunday of Advent, we begin a new year, looking to the birth of Jesus, our Light, among us!

THE LOAVES AND THE FISHES

Today you made care packets and loaded them onto the Mobile Loaves & Fishes truck. Mark was here to tell us about the truck ministry and to remember the gospel story after which it is named. When Jesus was told that a young child had offered 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed a huge crowd, he asked his disciples to share the food. And there was enough. If we share what we have, there will be enough. The Mobile Loaves & Fishes truck brings the gospel to the streets of our city, feeding the people that are most in need and are often not seen in our society – the very people that Jesus, our king of the humble, always saw and reached out to with love.