Pastor - Rev. Aaron Damboise Parish Central Office Cell - (207) 485-1921 145 Pritham Ave. P.O. Box 457 Aaron.Damboise@portlanddiocese.org Greenville, ME 04441-0457 (207) 695-2262

Admin. Assistant - Bette DiAngelo Bookkeeper - Lorraine Auclair bette.diangelo@portlanddiocese.org lorraine.auclair@portlanddiocese.org

December 13, 2015 - Third Sunday of Advent

Sacraments of Initiation and Healing Sacraments of Vocation

Baptism – Call the office at least 6 months in advance of the birth of your first child.

Confirmation – Call the parish office for more information.

Eucharist – See Mass schedule. For a homebound or sick call, please contact the office or Fr. Aaron.

Reconciliation - Saturday from 3:00-3:45pm at Holy Family ; Sunday from 10:15-10:45 at St. Faustina and anytime by appointment call Fr. Aaron at 485-1921

Anointing of the Sick - If you or a loved one would like a visit, call Fr. Aaron at 485-1921.

Marriage - Contact Fr. Aaron at least one year prior to intended date of wedding.

Holy Orders - December 13, 2015 – “What ought we to do?” Let joy and gladness show forth in you. You are called to be the presence of Jesus (Luke 3:10-18). If you think God is calling you, call Father Seamus Griesbach at (207) 773-6471, email: vocations@portlanddiocese.org or like us on facebook: VocationsME. FMI about consecrated life contact: Sr. Rita Mae Bissonnette at (207) 773-6471 RitaMae.Bissonnette@portlanddiocese.org

Weekend Mass Schedule Holy Family Church - Greenville St. Faustina Church - Jackman

4pm Saturday and 8:00am Sunday 11:00am on Sunday

Holy Family Parish

145 Pritham Ave. - Greenville

Saturday Mass at 4pm - Sunday Mass at 8:00am

Confession Sat. at 3:00-3:45 pm or by appointment

St. Joseph Mission

4140 Rockwood Rd. - Rockwood

St. Faustina Church

of St. Anthony Parish

370 Main St. - Jackman

Sunday Mass at 11:00am

Confession Sunday at 10:15-10:45am or by appointment

Each of our parishes have Facebook Pages - Like us on Facebook to keep up with parish events, and other information regarding our Catholic Faith! Spread the word to your family and friends!

Holy Family Parish www.facebook.com/HolyFamilyCatholicChurchGreenvilleME St. Faustina Church of St. Anthony Parish www.facebook.com/StFaustinaCatholicChurchJackmanME

Each Parish Has a Memorial Building Fund

Consider remembering a loved one or friend, honor someone

for a birthday or anniversary.

Drop donation in the collection or mail to:

Holy Family or St. Faustina Church Building Fund,

P.O. Box 457, Greenville, ME 04441.

Thank you for your support!

Parish Office hours: Monday, Thursday & Friday from 9:00am-12:00noon.

You can reach Bette at 695-2262 or via email: bette.diangelo@portlanddiocese.org

Monday and Tuesday from 6:00pm-8:00pm

Saturday from 10:00am-2:00pm

You can reach Lorraine at 695-2262 or lorraine.auclair@portlanddiocese.org

If you have something you would like to include in our bulletin, please get the information to the Parish

office as early as possible due to the early publication deadlines with the holiday season upon us.

Greenville Backpack Program - Help Feed Needy Families.

Food can be dropped off in the box located in the entrance

of Holy Family Church. Thank you!

This week’s food item is:

22 oz. squeezable plastic bottle of jelly

FMI, contact Cecile Shields at 280-0088.

Holy Family Parish will be holding an ongoing bottle drive fundraiser.

You may bring your returnable bottles and cans to the church or drop them off

at Greenville Redemption Center and ask them to donate to Holy Family

Parish Account. Proceeds will benefit the Holy Family Building Fund.

Knights of Columbus Jackman Council 2392

Monthly meetings are held the first Monday of the month at 6pm in St Faustina Church Hall .

We will host a Rene Morin Senior Luncheon the 3rd Wednesday each month at 11:30am in St Faustina Church Hall and the doors will open at 11am.

St. Anthony Parish is holding a Calendar

Raffle Fundraiser.

Tickets are $1.00 each and if

you need extra tickets, please

contact Isabelle at 668-7762.

Drawings started December 1st!

Christmas Eve Mass

Holy Family in Greenville

4:00pm

Christmas Day Masses

St. Faustina in Jackman

12:00am – Midnight Mass

10:00am – Mass of the Nativity of the Lord

Celebrate the New Year with us as we commemorate

the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God -

Holy Day of Obligation

New Year’s Eve Mass

6:00pm – St. Faustina in Jackman

New Year’s Day Mass

10:00am – Holy Family in Greenville

Holy Family Parish will have a Food Drive for the

Moosehead Associates Food Cupboard on

Saturday and Sunday, December 19th and 20th.

If you can please bring in non-

perishables to help with this

community program that would be

very much appreciated.

Mass Schedule - December 12 thru December 20

Mass Intentions - To schedule, use the Mass Intention envelope and please make $10.00 check payable to the parish, in the memo line indicate whom the Mass Intention if being offered for. Please leave your name and phone number so if we need to contact you we can. Pending availability, Masses will be offered either on a weekday or a weekend celebration.

Kindly remember in prayer : Leon Graham, Alberie Caron, Carmen Jennison, Gerard Falardeau, Jennifer Matlack-Bolin, Leon

Graham, Tibbetts Family, Dottie Gagne, Bernice Mullins, Doug Worster, Ramona Varney, Cathy Mullins, Gene Paquet, Huguette

Morin, Keith & Frances Davis, Sean Melvidas, Christine Havenaar, Dee Caswell, Jeannine Pinette, Lloyd Ferland, Crystal Levesque,

Linley Brown, Jr., Rosemarie Paradise, Rena Parent, Jim & Sue Johnston, Omer Servant, Lionel and Theresa Breau, Dorothy Ragan;

Richard Falardeau; Joe Guglielmo; Christine Fox Frauenheim; France Larochelle McAllister; Jeannette Morrill; Linda Kronholm; Rita

Lampinen; Lauren Trigge; Gemma Tanguay; Arthur Giroux; Louise Mason; Bill and Lucy Fay; & Alice DeWyze.

Sanctuary Candles for December 13 to December 19 Holy Family Church - In Memory of George Plourde by Jeannine Plourde

St. Faustina Church - In Memory of Ernest Parent by his family Candles are $7.00 per week and will burn near our church tabernacle for one week. Candles may be offered for one’s personal intentions, or in memory of a loved one or friend. FMI, call Bette at 695-2262.

Weekly Prayer For Priests

December 13: Bishop Robert P. Deeley, JCD December 14: Rev. Patrick Irwin & Rev. Renald Labarre December 15: Rev. Andrew Bisson OFM & Rev. Alejandro DeJesus OSB December 16: Rev. Paul Dumais & Msgr. Robert Lavoie December 17: Rev. Richard McLaughlin & Rev. Antony Maria Doss HGN December 18: Rev. Joel Cyr & Rev. Theodore Letendre FIC December 19: Rev. Aurelijus Gricius OFM & Rev. Sylvio Levesque

DAY DATE TIME PLACE MASS INTENTION

SAT. December 12 4:00pm Holy Family Church Deceased Members of Juan Galan Family by family

SUN. December 13 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners

SUN. December 13 11:00am St. Faustina Church Marie Laure Falardeau by Lori & Danny Poulin

MON. December 14 NO MASS NO MASS

TUES. December 15 NO MASS NO MASS

WED. December 16 NO MASS NO MASS

THU. December 17 4:30pm Holy Family Church In Honor of our Blessed Lord by Constance Cote

FRI. December 18 8:30am Holy Family Church Irene Warman by Cecile Petrosky

SAT. December 19 4:00pm Holy Family Church Ann Douglas by The Bilodeau Family

SUN. December 20 8:00am Holy Family Church All Parishioners

SUN. December 20 11:00am St. Faustina Church Rene Morin by Rejean Morin

Readings for the Week of December 13, 2015

December 13: Zephaniah 3:14-18a / Isaiah 12:2-6 / Philippians 4:4-7 / Luke 3:10-18 December 14: Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a / Psalms 25:4-9 / Matthew 21:23-27 December 15: Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 / Psalms 34:2-3, 6-7, 17-19, 23 / Matthew 21:28-32 December 16: Isaiah 45:6b-8, 18, 21b-25 / Psalms 85:9-14 / Luke 7:18b-23

December 17: Genesis 49:2, 8-10 / Psalms 72:1-4, 7-8, 17 / Matthew 1:1-17 December 18: Jeremiah 23:5-8 / Psalms 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19 /Matthew 1:18-25 December 19: Judges 13:2-7, 24-25a / Psalms 71:3-6, 16-17 / Luke 1:5-25

Holy Family and St. Anthony Parish Offertory envelopes for 2016 have been

ordered and will be delivered to your home address.

Please contact the Parish office if you do not receive them.

Each parish has options for electronic giving: For Holy Family: portlanddioceseholyfamily.weshareonline.org

For St. Anthony:

portlandtlanddiocesestanthonyweshareonline.org

Thank you for your regular,

faithful support!

Holy Family St. Anthony

December 5 and 6 $ 1,174.67 $ 1000.00

Spaghetti Supper $ 324.85

Weekly Offertory Collection

Aging religious need your help. In the U.S. today, there are more than 33,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests. These religious worked tirelessly in Catholic schools, hospitals, and agencies, usually for little to no pay. As a result, many religious communities lack adequate savings for retirement & eldercare. Your gift to today’s collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious helps provide medications, nursing care, and more. Please be generous.

1st & 3rd Mondays of each month at 1 pm in the Rectory - Holy Family Ladies Guild- At each meeting the rosary is said for the conversion of our country, for our church, and for those on our parish prayer list. In December we are starting a 10 session scripture study: A Scriptural Journey with Mary - "My Soul Magnifies the Lord". Books may be purchased at the office. Please call Bette at 695-2262 or Joyce at 695-2681 for more information.

Tuesdays at 1:30 PM - St. Faustina Ladies Prayer Group- meets to pray the Miraculous Medal Novena, the Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary, Stations of the Cross or a Chaplet. We offer the prayers for family, friends or anyone who is in need of prayer. Please let us know if there is a special person that you would like us to add to our prayer basket. All ladies of the parish are welcome to join us even if you can't come every week.

The Presence Radio Network

Week of Sunday, December 13, 2015

NEW PRESENCE RADIO APP

Take the Presence with you anywhere, anytime!!

The Presence has a new smartphone app. If you are traveling or don’t have a station in your area, this is our gift to you. It is

easily accessed on your app store as “Presence Radio”

If you don’t have a smartphone simply dial 605-475-8037, please

check to be sure you have unlimited minutes on your phone plan.

Listen and be inspired!! The Presence Radio Network is your listener-supported Catholic radio.

106.7 FM in Greater Portland, 90.3 FM in Greater Bangor, 89.7 FM Mid-Coast, 89.5 FM in Greater Augusta, 97.5 Fort Kent Affiliate,

1390AM Northern Maine Listen online at www.thepresence.fm

Faith Formation schedule for St. Anthony K-5:

Classes will be held at St. Anthony every Sunday Morning from 9:30 to 10:30. Please join us on December 13th and then we will resume classes on January 10th

Holy Family Parishioners - Hope you can join us in

decorating the church after Mass on Sunday

December 20th. We also have decided to do

3rd Annual display of Nativity/Crèche . If you

have one we can borrow for Christmas Eve

and Christmas Mass please bring it to Mass on

Sat. Dec. 19th or Sunday Dec 20th.

You can leave it for the Christmas Season or take home after

the Christmas Mass you attend.

St. Anthony Parish needs your help!

If you might be able to spare some time to

help clean, please contact Bette at the office

at 695-2262.

Thank you for your support!

Please pray for the repose of the soul of

Caroline Ouellette,

a former St. Anthony parishioner, who recently passed away.

Advent is s season of anticipation and peace. It is fitting time

to seek the mercy of Christ in Reconciliation. The Sacrament

of Reconciliation will be offered during this Advent season. If

you have been away from the Sacrament of Confession for a

while, or you cannot make the times listed, please call Fr.

Aaron at 485-1921 to make an appointment.

Sunday, December 13- 10:15 am to 10:45 am St. Anthony

3:00 to 4:30 pm St. Anthony

Monday, December 14-9:00 am to 10:00am St. Anthony

Tuesday, December 15-6:00 pm to 7 pm St. Anthony

Thursday, December 17-6:00 pm to 7 pm Holy Family

Friday, December 18-9:00 am to 10 am- Holy Family

Saturday, December 19-1:30 to 3:45 pm Holy Family

Priests across our diocese will offer the Sacrament of

Reconciliation during the week of December 12th-19th. For

more information and for times and locations, visit

www.portlanddiocese.org

Holy Family Parish

is having a bean supper

on Saturday, January 16th

and could use some help.

If you are able to volunteer to work or

make a donation to help purchase

supplies that would be wonderful.

For more information

please call Judy Baker at 695-4475