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Ou r La d y Pi n e s o f t h e S t . E l i z a b e t h B u f f a l o C r e e k i n A Catholic Stewardship Community D e c e m b e r 1 9 , 2 0 2 1 F o u r t h S u n d a y o f A d v e n t M i s s i o n S t a t e m e n t - O u r L a d y o f t h e P i n e s R o m a n C a t h o l i c C h u r c h i s a m o u n t a i n p a r i s h d e d i c a t e d t o o u r B l e s s e d M o t h e r . W e s u p p o r t a n d e v a n g e l i z e t h r o u g h l i t u r g y , w o r s h i p , e d u c a t i o n , s e r v i c e , & c o m m u n i t y b u i l d i n g e v e n t s . Admin. Assistant/Webmaster: Dee Proffi ([email protected]) Parish Accountant: Anne Marie Pate Maintenance: George Baker Prayer line: [email protected] Facilies/Scheduling: Please call the Parish Office. Bullen Arcles: [email protected] Bapsms: Bapsmal Prep classes are now available by appointment, please call Fr. Tim and set up a me that works for you, your family, and for the God Parents as well. Just call the Parish Office 303-838- 0338. Marriage: Please contact the Parish Office nine months prior to the date of your marriage. Funerals: Call our Pastor as soon as possible. Anoinng of the Sick/Hospital Visits/Shut-in Visits: Anoinng of the Sick is on the 1st Friday of the month following the 8:30 a.m. Mass. For a homebound anoinng please contact the Pastor at the parish office 303-838-0338. OLP Pastoral Council: Scot Szatkowski, Julia Winka, Lyle Dierks, Jill Tjaden, Tim Canty, Karen Hagge, & Fr. Tim Joint Finance Council: Bryon Christenson, Cheryl Petersen, Bradley Steininger, Ed Valenzuela, Kathy Dierks, Zachary Weitl, Ann Marie Pate & Fr. Tim. St. Elizabeth’s Pastoral Council: Fr. Tim Gaines, Kathy Pence, Marilyn Baer, & Bill Walsh. Parish Office: 9444 Eagle Cliff Rd. Conifer, CO 80433 303-838-0338 303-838-4223 (Fax) Website: www.olpconifer.org Email Address: offi[email protected] Parish Office Hours: Mon-Thurs: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mass Schedule: Saturday - Our Lady of the Pines: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: Our Lady of the Pines 8:00, 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Daily Mass: 8:30 a.m. Tues., Thurs. & Fri. OLP 6:00 p.m. Wed. at St. Elizabeth-6:30 Adoraon Reconciliaon: 4:30 p.m. on Saturday at Our Lady of the Pines Adoraon & Benedicon: Friday 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pastor: Rev. G. Timothy Gaines Deacon: Deacon Rich Hamilton Deacon George Linehan Music-OLP: Doug Sandusky Music-St. Elizabeth: Judy Gohring Religious Educaon: RCIA : Debby Velenovsky The Summit-Middle School: Sco & Kim Osmar The Force-High School Youth: Sco & Kim Osmar Religious Educaon Coordinator: [email protected] Knights of Columbus: Lyle Dierks, Grand Knight - [email protected] RESPOND This the final week of our journey through the kerygma together is the most important week of the enre experience. Why? Everything so far has been leading up to this moment! The purpose of this four- week journey was not simply to share informaon with you, but to share an invitaon with you. The heart of the kerygmac proclama- on is God’s invitaon to enter into an inmate, fulfilling, eternity- long relaonship with him. And this invitaon is not simply given to “us”… but to you! ….. personally, individually, specifically. God has been revealing his desire for this inmate relaonship with us from the beginning. He even goes so far as to compare the relaonship he wants with you to the relaonship between a hus- band and a wife. That’s the closest human analogy God could use to describe the kind of relaonship he wants with you. A relaonship that involves the total gi of self between you and him. He wants to share with you a love that is total, free, fruiul, and faithful. In the kerygma, God has “proposed” his love to you, will you respond? How should you respond to this incredible revelaon and invita- on? Say “Yes” to his proposal! Tell him that you believe in his love for you. Tell him that you choose to enter this relaonship (or renew this relaonship) with him today. Make a decision with your whole person (intellect and will) to go “all in” with him. Hold nothing back.
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Our Lady Pinesof the St. ElizabethBuffalo CreekinA Catholic Stewardship Community
December 19, 2021
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Mission Statement-Our Lady of the Pines Roman Catholic Church is amountain parish dedicated to our Blessed Mother. We support andevangelize through liturgy, worship, education, service, & communitybuilding events.
Admin. Assistant/Webmaster: Dee Proffi" ([email protected])Parish Accountant: Anne Marie PateMaintenance: George Baker
Prayer line: [email protected] Facili#es/Scheduling: Please call the Parish Office. Bulle#n Ar#cles: bulle#[email protected]
Bap#sms: Bap#smal Prep classes are now available by appointment, please call Fr. Tim and set up a #me that works for you, your family, and for the God Parents as well. Just call the Parish Office 303-838-0338.Marriage: Please contact the Parish Office nine months prior to thedate of your marriage.
Funerals: Call our Pastor as soon as possible.
Anoin#ng of the Sick/Hospital Visits/Shut-in Visits: Anoin#ng of the Sick is on the 1st Friday of the month following the 8:30 a.m. Mass. For a homebound anoin#ng please contact the Pastor at the parish office 303-838-0338.
OLP Pastoral Council: Scot Szatkowski, Julia Winka, Lyle Dierks, Jill Tjaden, Tim Canty, Karen Hagge", & Fr. Tim
Joint Finance Council: Bryon Christenson, Cheryl Petersen, Bradley Steininger, Ed Valenzuela, Kathy Dierks, Zachary Weitl, Ann Marie Pate & Fr. Tim.
St. Elizabeth’s Pastoral Council: Fr. Tim Gaines, Kathy Pence, Marilyn Baer, & Bill Walsh.
Parish Office: 9444 Eagle Cliff Rd. Conifer, CO 80433 303-838-0338 303-838-4223 (Fax)
Website: www.olpconifer.orgEmail Address: [email protected]
Parish Office Hours: Mon-Thurs: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Mass Schedule: Saturday - Our Lady of the Pines: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: Our Lady of the Pines 8:00, 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. at St. Elizabeth
Daily Mass: 8:30 a.m. Tues., Thurs. & Fri. OLP 6:00 p.m. Wed. at St. Elizabeth-6:30 Adora#on
Reconcilia#on: 4:30 p.m. on Saturday at Our Lady of the Pines
Adora#on & Benedic#on: Friday 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pastor: Rev. G. Timothy GainesDeacon: Deacon Rich Hamilton
Deacon George LinehanMusic-OLP: Doug SanduskyMusic-St. Elizabeth: Judy Gohring Religious Educa#on:RCIA : Debby VelenovskyThe Summit-Middle School: Sco" & Kim Osmar The Force-High School Youth: Sco" & Kim OsmarReligious Educa#on Coordinator: [email protected]
Knights of Columbus: Lyle Dierks, Grand Knight - [email protected]
RESPOND
This the final week of our journey through the kerygma together is the most important week of the en"re experience. Why? Everything so far has been leading up to this moment! The purpose of this four-week journey was not simply to share informa"on with you, but to share an invita on with you. The heart of the kerygma"c proclama-"on is God’s invita"on to enter into an in"mate, fulfilling, eternity-long rela"onship with him. And this invita"on is not simply given to “us”… but to you! ….. personally, individually, specifically. God has been revealing his desire for this in"mate rela"onship with us from the beginning. He even goes so far as to compare the rela"onship he wants with you to the rela"onship between a hus-band and a wife. That’s the closest human analogy God could use to describe the kind of rela"onship he wants with you. A rela"onship that involves the total gi$ of self between you and him. He wants to share with you a love that is total, free, frui%ul, and faithful. In the kerygma, God has “proposed” his love to you, will you respond? How should you respond to this incredible revela"on and invita-"on? Say “Yes” to his proposal! Tell him that you believe in his love for you. Tell him that you choose to enter this rela"onship (or renew this rela"onship) with him today. Make a decision with your whole person (intellect and will) to go “all in” with him. Hold nothing back.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 19, 2021
News From St. Elizabeth
Parish Financial Stewardship Summary(Regular Sunday Offertory)
Fiscal Year-to-date Information (7/1/2021–12/12/2021)Budget for Fiscal Year-to date: $15,230.88Amount Collected: 12/5/2021 $10,340.38
Mass at St. Elizabeth is on Sunday at 11:15 a.m. Join us for Exposition and Adoration on Wednesday following the 6 p.m. Mass.
GOSPEL MEDITATION - ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OFSCRIPTURE - December 19, 2021 - 4th Sunday of Advent
St. Augustine tells us that a “Christian is a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks and a hand through which Christ helps.” As we look around and out at the world, we do not have to search too far before we come face to face with inequity and injustice. There is so much unfairness, prejudice, anger, hatred, violence, and want. The stories of human heartache, people being hurt, deprived of life’s necessities, loneliness, and sickness are far too commonplace. For many of the world’s ills, the vices of greed, lust, pride, gluttony, and jealousy are clearly among the more significant root causes. Why doesn’t God just step in and fix this mess? After all, God created this world, and one would hope that he would step up and take some measure of responsibility for it! Once we sit with this thinking for a while, we can begin to realize just how flawed it really is. God did take responsibility and God did fix the problem! God sent us Jesus Christ as the divine solution to the world’s ills. It is not God who has shirked responsibility, we have. We are the ones who continually fail to set our own personal needs, wants, and securities aside so that One more powerful than us can use us. Mary had to set her needs aside in order for the Son of God to come into the world. Put simply, Mary listened and believed. Having opened herself to being an instrument of the Divine, God could use her as his mind, heart, voice, and hand. She became God’s vessel so that God’s greatness could reach the ends of the earth and peace could come upon the world. God’s fix for the world’s difficulties is you and me. We are the ones who confess that Jesus Christ came into the world as the Son of God, the Prince of Peace, and herald of justice. All we have to do is believe, as did Mary, that what has been spoken to us by the Lord will be fulfilled. Then, we can step aside and be the Christians we claim to be. What a difference it would make if every person who professed to be Christian truly understood that their one and only voca-tion is to be God’s instrument. What a beautiful, equitable, and just world it would be.
St. Elizabeth’s Pastoral/Finance Council: Father Tim Gaines, Kathy Pence, Marilyn Baer, John Pawlik, & Bill Walsh
Saturday
5:30 p.m. Ada Hagge" Fourth Sunday of Advent
8:00 a.m. For the People9:30 a.m. Don Hurta11:15 a.m. St. E Teresa FennimoreMonday
Tuesday8:30 a.m. Elfrieda Szaynowski
Wednesday 6:00 p.m. St. E Otmar “Ozzie” Bierl Thursday 8:30 a.m. Sandra BrowningFriday - Christmas Eve 4:00 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Mass - OLP - For the People10:00 p.m. Vigil Mass - OLP - (9:30 p.m. Christmas No-vena) For the People6:00 p.m. Vigil Mass - St. E - (5:30 Bell Choir)Saturday - Christmas Day9:30 a.m. - OLP - For the People Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph8:00 a.m. For the People9.30 a.m. William O’Rourke11:15 a.m. St. E Elfrieda Szaynowski
Weekly Events
Readings for the week of December 19, 2021Sunday: Mi 5:1-4a/Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 [4]/Heb 10:5-10/Lk 1:39-45Monday: Is 7:10-14/Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 [cf. 7c and 10b]/Lk 1:26-38Tuesday: Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a/Ps 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21 [1a; 3a]/Lk 1:39-45Wednesday: 1 Sm 1:24-28/1 Sm 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd [cf. 1a]/Lk 1:46-56Thursday: Mal 3:1-4, 23-24/Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10 and 14 [cf. Lk 21:28]/Lk 1:57-66Friday: Morning: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16/Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29 [2]/Lk 1:67-79Saturday: Vigil: Is 62:1-5/Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27, 29 [2a]/Acts 13:16-17, 22-25/Mt 1:1-25 or 1:18-25Night: Is 9:1-6/Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 11-12, 13 [Lk 2:11]/Ti 2:11-14/Lk 2:1-14Dawn: Is 62:11-12/Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12/Ti 3:4-7/Lk 2:15-20Day: Is 52:7-10/Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6 [3c]/Heb 1:1-6/Jn 1:1-18 or 1:1-5, 9-14Next Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14/Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 [cf. 1]/Col 3:12-21 or 3:12-17/Lk 2:41-52 or1 Sm 1:20-22, 24-28/Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10 [cf. 5a]/1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24/Lk 2:41-5
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For the Sick
Ed McQueenJoyce Bonventre
Tom MillerAdley Kinney
Hank ThresherGrace BaldwinArdis BocheTom Mann
Madie MannFor All that are sick
with Covid-19
For the Deceased
Otmar Bierl
For all the Soulsin Purgatory
For all the abortedbabies
For allwho have diedfrom Covid-19
Prayer During A Health Crisis
Compassionate and Loving Father,In the face of confusion and concern
impart to us the calm of your presence.
In You allow us to find hope and healing.
Be with those who serve the sick and give them Your caring hands.
Be with those who lead and give them Your Spirit of wisdom. Be with those who have fallen ill
and give them Your comforting heart. Wrap your arms around our world and hold us in your love. Allow us at this time of trial to then
serve as instruments of that love to all we meet. We ask this in Your Name.
Amen.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 19, 2021
The Joy of Stewardship
The Gospel today tells of the Virgin Mary, pregnant herself, hurrying off to help her cousin Elizabeth. Te model of good stewardship, she who had given her-
self to bear the Savior gave her time and love toothers as well.
Fiscal Year-to-date Information (7/1/2021–12/12/2021)Budget for Fiscal Year-to date: $155,076.96Amount Collected: 12/5/2021 $119,446.71
Thanks you for sharing what God has given you with our Parish!
Saints of the Week
Dec 21st-Tue-St. Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church-Peter was born at Nijmegen in the Gelderland (now part of Holland) in 1521. He studied at Cologne, en-tered the Society of Jesus, and was ordained in 1546. Sent to Germany, he strove mightily for many years with pen and tongue to defend and strengthen the Catholic faith. Among his many books, the Catechism is the most important. In 1597 he died at Fribourg, Switzerland.Dec 23rd-St. John of Kanty, Priest-This priest, a Silesian by birth, was nearly all his life a professor of Sacred Scrip-ture and other subjects in the University of Cracow. He im-posed penitential conditions of life on himself, and his goods were always at the disposal of the poor, who often “cleared him right out.” He died in 1473 and was canonized in 1767.
Coming Events at OLP
12/18 - 12/23/2021 - Christmas Novena at 6 pm12/24/2021 - Christmas Eve12/25/2021 - Christmas Day1/3/2022 - Sung Rosary 6 pm
"Are you yearning for a way to make Advent and Christ-mas more meaningful? This year, the OLP choir will be offering a musical novena leading up to Christmas Day and the festive Christmas Season that follows. It is a musi-cal setting by a local artist (Dr. Robert Klimek- CO School of Mines), and will be a beautiful way to prepare for the coming of Christ, apart from secular influences. Please join us as we reflect on the Old Testament prophecies and proclamations pointing to the coming of our savior, in a contemporary choral vesper-type service. The "Procession of Days" will begin each of the 9 evenings leading up to Christmas Day at 6pm, December 18, 19, 20, 21, and 23 at 6pm at OLP; December 22 at 5pm at St. Eliza-beth's, and December 24th at 9pm (before the 10pm Christmas Eve mass). There is no obligation to attend all 9 evenings, but even one night will touch your heart and affect your preparations for the Lord's coming. (Attending more than once will even further facilitate un-derstanding, appreciation, and reflection on the abundant and rich texts presented in the music.) We hope to see you there.
Christmas Mass Schedule
Christmas EveOur Lady of the Pines
4:00 p.m. Family ChristmasEve Mass
10:00 p.m. Vigil Mass(9:30 p.m. Christmas Novena)
St. Elizabeth6:00 p.m. Vigil Mass (5:30 Bell
Choir)
Christmas Day9:30 a.m. Our Lady of the Pines
New YearsDecember 31 - 5:30 p.m. OLPJanuary 1st - 9:30 a.m. OLP
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