SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT SEGUNDO DOMINGO DE ADVIENTO

December 08, 2019 ● 8 de Diciembre de 2019

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church 2725 Elm Street, Napa, CA 94558

PARISH OFFICE/OFICINA PARROQUIAL Office Hours / Horario de Oficina:

Monday-Friday 9am-12pm & 1pm-5pm (707) 255 - 2949 Fax (707) 255 - 2439

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STAFF Rev. Abel Mena, JCL, Pastor/Adjutant Judicial Vicar

Rev. Gary Sumpter, In Residence Rev. Mr. Jim Eckert, Deacon

Rev. Mr. Jesse De Luna, Deacon Deborah O’Haire, Religious Education Coordinator

Amparo Valenzuela, Office Coordinator

ENGLISH WEEKEND MASSES Saturday - *8:00am & 4:00 pm Sunday - 9:00 am & 11:00 am

*This mass is offered if Fr. Gary is available

DAILY MASS Monday - Friday - 9:00 am

First Friday of the Month - 12:00 pm

MISA EN ESPAÑOL Domingo - 1:30 pm

CONFESSIONS/CONFESIONES Saturday/ Sábados 3:00 pm—3:45 pm 1er Dom. del mes 12:30 pm—1:20pm

THE LONG-AWAITED ONE As the Sundays of Advent unfold the scriptures shift focus from the final coming of the Lord to his historical birth. Today’s scriptures blend the two. Isaiah’s disillusionment with the kings of his own day led him to envision an ideal king who would rule with divine approval and be led by divine wis-dom. For centuries the Jewish people anticipated the arrival of that Messiah, who would usher in a blessed age when the whole world would finally dwell in justice and peace. After centuries of such growing expectation, the preaching of John the Baptist about the imminent arrival of the Messiah could not help but provoke intense interest. The Baptist’s message about prep-aration for “the one who is coming” (Matthew 3:11) makes clear that Jesus is, in fact, the long-awaited one who is ushering in the new age foretold by Isaiah and all the prophets.

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PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Since December 8, 2019 is the Sec-ond Sunday of Advent, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is transferred to Monday, December 9, 2019. The ob-ligation to attend Mass, however,

does not transfer. The Optional Memorial of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, December 9, is omitted this year.

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY

St. Thomas is preparing food for the “Table” at the Presby-terian Church every third Thursday of each month. Please consider donating to

help provide food for the less fortunate. We need potatoes, carrots, ham, green beans, and milk. You may call the parish office to sign up for items that you can donate. Items may be brought to the office prior to the third Thursday. Thank you!

THE TABLE

THE STORY OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

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The feast in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to the 16th century. Chronicles of that period tell us the story.

A poor Indian named Cuauhtlatohuac was bap-tized and given the name Juan Diego. He was a 57-year-old widower, and lived in a small village near Mexico City. On Saturday morning Decem-ber 9, 1531, he was on his way to a nearby barrio to attend Mass in honor of Our Lady.

Juan was walking by a hill called Tepeyac when he heard beautiful music like the warbling of birds. A radiant cloud appeared, and within it stood an Indian maiden dressed like an Aztec princess. The lady spoke to him in his own lan-guage and sent him to the bishop of Mexico, a Franciscan named Juan de Zumarraga. The bishop was to build a chapel in the place where the lady appeared.

Eventually the bishop told Juan to have the lady give him a sign. About this same time Juan’s un-cle became seriously ill. This led poor Juan to try to avoid the lady. Nevertheless the lady found Juan, assured him that his uncle would recover, and provided roses for Juan to carry to the bish-op in his cape or tilma.

On December 12, when Juan Diego opened his tilma in the bishop’s presence, the roses fell to the ground, and the bishop sank to his knees. On the tilma where the roses had been appeared an image of Mary exactly as she had appeared at the hill of Tepeyac.

We will honor our Lady of Guadalupe here at St. Thomas on December 12:

4:00am—Mañanitas with mariachi 6:00am—Mass 6:30pm—Rosary prayer 7:00pm—Mass

Las Posadas, (Spanish: “The Inns”) religious festival cele-brated in Mexico and some parts of the United States be-tween December 16 and 24.

Las Posadas commemorates the journey that Jo-seph and Mary made from Nazareth to Bethle-hem in search of a safe refuge where Mary could give birth to the baby Jesus. We will have posadas here at St. Thomas Aquinas December 15 thru December 21 each day at 7pm.

POSADAS

ANUNCIOS DE LA PARROQUIA

En la Iglesia de Santo Tomás tene-mos la Adoración del Santísimo Sa-cramento el viernes 3 de Enero de 9:00am a 9:00pm. El Santísimo Sa-cramento estará expuesto en la custo-dia en el altar para Adoración y ora-ción. Tendremos la celebración de la

santa misa a las 12pm en Ingles. Por favor venga y acompáñenos para la Adoración en este primer viernes. Le Invitamos a registrarse para una hora de adoración. La hoja de inscripción está en el tablero de anuncios en el salón de la iglesia. Con-sidere inscribirse durante una hora para asegu-rarse de que tengamos por lo menos un adorador por hora, y si es posible más de una persona por hora.

A medida que transcurren los domingos de Adviento el foco de las lecturas cambia de la venida final del Señor a su histórico nacimiento. Las lecturas de hoy mezclan ambos. Isaías, desilusiona-do de los reyes de sus tiempos, imagina al rey ideal que gobernará con la aprobación de Dios y será guiado por la divina sabiduría. Por siglos el pueblo judío anticipó la llegada de ese Mesías, quien inauguraría una era de gracia cuando todo el mundo finalmente viviría en justicia y paz. Luego de siglos de creciente expectativa, la predicación de Juan Bautista sobre la inminente lle-gada del Mesías no hizo más que provocar un intenso interés. El mensaje del Bautista sobre “el que viene” (Mateo 3:11) deja claro que Jesús, de hecho, es aquel esperado por largo tiempo que inaugura la nueva era predicha por Isaías y todos los profetas.

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LARGA ESPERA

ADORACIÓN AL SANTÍSIMO

Nuestras clases de preparación para el sacra-mento del bautismo se ofrecen cada cuarto jue-ves del mes con la excepción de los meses de noviembre y diciembre no ofreceremos estas platicas por los días festivos. Las próximas pla-ticas se ofrecerán el 23 de enero a las 7:00pm en la iglesia. Para mas información puede lla-mar a la oficina parroquial al # (707)-255-2949

St. Thomas de Aquino te invita a su grupo de oración. Nos reunimos todos los Sábados a las 7am en la iglesia. Todos están invitados a rezar el santo rosario y a compartir la lectura de la Palabra de Dios.

GRUPO DE ORACIÓN

CLASES DE PREPARACIÓN DEL BAUTISMO

Celebremos juntos a Nuestra Madre del Cielo y Patrona de las Américas. Celebración de las mañanitas el 12 de diciembre

4:00am—Mañanitas con mariachi 6:00am—Misa 6:30pm—Rosario 7:00pm—Misa

Todos están invita-dos después de misa para convivir en el salón con pan y cho-colate.

CELEBRACIÓ DE LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE

Vamos a tener posadas en nuestra parroquia de San-to Tomas de Aquino. Las posadas serán del domingo

15 de diciembre al sábado 21 de diciembre a las 7:00pm en el salón parroquial. Todos son bien-venidos.

Posadas Navideñas

STEWARDSHIP/CORRESPONSABILIDAD

* Weekly collection needed to meet parish expenses: $4,400

THANK YOU - GRACIAS

Andrew Hill, Marcia Ryan, Mary Jo, Jose Luis Alfaro, Jane Lemmons, Jean Welsh, Ricky, Carmen Lee, Carl Botenhagen, Pablo Morales, Monserrat Salgado, Angeli-ca Espinoza, Theresa Ware, Itzel Mendez, Katrinka Ruk, Ken Sprague, Wayne Dieslter, Maria Aquilija, Carl Kit-ley, Mary and Loren Ryan, Erica Cervantes, Lino Gonza-les, Teresa Conemac, Ignacio Hurtado Torrico, Paul Jo-seph, Mona Wageck, Vivian Michael, Kay Jones, Joel Rivera, Salomon Moreno Romero, Teresa Rubio, Andres Garcia, Rod Berg, Manuel Hernandez, Mike Mourad, Jesus Vazquez, Larry Fontana, Anne-Marie Mourad, Jo-se Julian Mendez Calderon, Familia Nuñes Torres, Yalitza Contreras, Chuck Reiland, Gina Dal Porto, Sue Lathrop, Ana Perez, Cervantes Family, Camila Gonzalez De La Torre, Brian Krenzin, Marcella Wheelan, Todd Daniel Lemmons, Mayra Zarate, Eduardo Mendez Cal-deron, Helida Martinez Escobedo, George Taylor, John Gnotta, Luis Mora Torres, Craig Michael Moreno, Fran-cisco Chavez.

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MASS INTENTIONS OF THE WEEK INTENCIONES DE LA SEMANA

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Tuesday 9:00am † Roman Torres

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9:00am † David Sumpter

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Gospel: Mt 3:1-12

R. Alleluia, alleluia. Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths: all

flesh shall see the salvation of God. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

R. Aleluya, aleluya. Preparen el camino del Señor, hagan rectos sus senderos, y to-

dos los hombres verán al Salvador. R. Aleluya.

John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the de-sert of Judea and saying, "Repent, for the king-dom of heaven is at hand!" It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said: A voice of one crying out in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. John wore clothing made of camel's hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. At that time Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around the Jordan were go-ing out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins. When he saw many of the Pharisees and Saddu-cees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his san-dals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat in-to his barn, but the chaff he will burn with un-quenchable fire."

Monday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1-4; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Tuesday: Is 40:1-11; Ps 96:1-3, 10ac, 11-13; Mt 18:12-14 Wednesday: Is 40:25-31; Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10; Mt 11:28-30 Thursday: Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Jdt 13:18bcde, 19; Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39-47, or any readings from the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary, nos. 707-712 Friday: Is 48:17-19; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Mt 11:16-19 Saturday: Sir 48:1-4, 9-11; Ps 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16, 18-19; Mt 17:9a, 10-13 Sunday: Is 35:1-6a, 10; Ps 146:6-10; Jas 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11

En aquel tiempo, comenzó Juan el Bautista a pre-dicar en el desierto de Judea, diciendo: “Arrepiéntanse, porque ya está cerca el Reino de los cielos”. Juan es aquel de quien el profeta Isaías hablaba, cuando dijo: Una voz clama en el desierto: Preparen el camino del Señor, endere-cen sus senderos. Juan usaba una túnica de pelo de camello, ceñida con un cinturón de cuero, y se alimentaba de saltamontes y de miel silvestre. Acudían a oírlo los habitantes de Jerusalén, de toda Judea y de toda la región cercana al Jordán; confesaban sus pecados y él los bautizaba en el río. Al ver que muchos fariseos y saduceos iban a que los bautizara, les dijo: “Raza de víboras, ¿quién les ha dicho que podrán escapar al castigo que les aguarda? Hagan ver con obras su conversión y no se hagan ilusiones pensando que tienen por padre a Abraham, porque yo les aseguro que hasta de estas piedras puede Dios sacar hijos de Abraham. Ya el hacha está puesta a la raíz de los árboles, y todo árbol que no dé fruto, será cortado y arroja-do al fuego. Yo los bautizo con agua, en señal de que ustedes se han convertido; pero el que viene después de mí, es más fuerte que yo, y yo ni si-quiera soy digno de quitarle las sandalias. Él los bautizará en el Espíritu Santo y su fuego. Él tiene el bieldo en su mano para separar el trigo de la paja. Guardará el trigo en su granero y quemará la paja en un fuego que no se extingue”.

Lunes: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Sal 98 (97):1-4; Ef 1:3-6, 11-12; Lc 1:26-38 Martes: Is 40:1-11; Sal 96 (95):1-3, 10ac, 11-13; Mt 18:12-14 Miércoles: Is 40:25-31; Sal 103 (102):1-4, 8, 10; Mt 11:28-30 Jueves: Zac 2:14-17 o Ap 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Jdt 13:18bcde, 19; Lc 1:26-38 o Lc 1:39-47, o cualquier lectura del Común de la Bienaventurada María Virgen Viernes: Is 48:17-19; Sal 1:1-4, 6; Mt 11:16-19 Sábado: Sir 48:1-4, 9-11; Sal 80 (79):2ac, 3b, 15-16, 18-19; Mt 17:9a, 10-13 Domingo: Is 35:1-6a, 10; Sal 146 (145):6-10; Stgo 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11

Evangelio: Mt 3, 1-12

READINGS FOR THE WEEK LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA