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WELCOME TO THE PARISH OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD ♦ SPRING VALLEY 2

Parish of the Nativity of Our Lord

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 (Weekday)

7:00 am - † Ernest Biagioni

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 (Weekday)

7:00 am - † Herman “Buck” Emmerling

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 (The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

7:00 am - † David A. Williams

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 (St. Cecilia)

7:00 am - † All Souls

Our Lord Jesus Christ,

King of the Universe

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 4:30 pm - † Marjorie Barto

SUNDAY, NOVMEBER 25

8:00 am - For Parishioners of the Parish of the

Nativity of Our Lord

10:30 am - † Paula Maddio

Saturday Nov. 24 Liturgical Ministers

4:30 pm

Lector:

Euch Min:

Servers:

Julie Eilers

Marie Emmerling, Louise Torri

Gertie & Jack Savitch

Sunday Nov. 25 Liturgical Ministers

8:00 am

Lector:

Euch Min:

Server:

Rachel Bezely

Joe Nagle, Maureen Polster

Caden Backes

10:30 am

Lector:

Euch Min:

Servers:

Meg Kinsella

Nancy Gualandri, Barb Lukancic

Juan & Sandra Martinez Quiroz

LITURGICAL MINISTER SCHEDULE

510 Richard A. Mautino Dr., PO Box 150

Spring Valley, IL Telephones

Parish Office ................................ (815) 663-3731

Parish Fax ................................... (815) 663-0012

Parish Hall................................... (815) 664-5407

Religious Ed Building .... ……….(815) 664-2022

Parish Office Hours

Monday - Thursday: 8:00 am- 12:00 pm &

12:30 - 2:00 pm E-mail Address

nativityofourlordsv@comcast.net Website For Viewing Parish Bulletin

parishesonline.com Parish Staff

Administrator: Rev. Scott Potthoff

Deacon: Dennis Gillan

Deacon: John Kusek

Director of Religious Education: Mrs. Sue Kusek

Tribunal Auditor (Annulments): Mrs. Nanette Gillan

Organist/Director: Mrs. Mary Jane Tonozzi

Choir Director: Mrs. Ann Darwish

Parish Secretary/Bookkeeper: Mrs. Kim Olszewski

Trustees/Consultants: Thomas Tonozzi, Joe Nagle,

& Tom Piano Mass Schedule

Masses are held at the 510 Richard A Mautino Drive location.

Weekday Masses: Monday thru Thursday, 7:00 am Sunday Liturgies: Saturday, 4:30 pm

Sunday, 8:00 am & 10:30 am Sacraments

Penance: Saturday 3:45-4:15 pm or by appointment.

Baptism: By appointment only.

Marriage: Must be arranged at least six months ahead.

Holy Orders: Call pastor to schedule appointment. Cemeteries Mount Olivet, St. Anne’s & Sts. Peter & Paul Bulletin Deadline

By 1:00 pm Monday prior to date of bulletin.

PLEASE PRAY FOR VOCATIONS

NATIVITY OF OUR LORD NEWS ROSARY on Monday, November 26th,

2018, 6:30 pm at Sts. Peter & Paul

Church Building, 220 N. Terry St.

Please mark your calendars!

PARISH OFFICE HOURS: The parish secretary

will be out of the office November 19th - 23rd. If you

need to reach the parish office, please leave a

message.

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THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ♦ NOVEMBER 18, 2018 3

Income For The Weekend of

November 10/11, 2018 Sunday/Holyday Adult $3822.00 Loose Cash 364.00 Build/Energy. 42.00 Campaign for Hum. Develop. 7.00 ADA 2nd Collect 2274.00 Vigil Candles 84.00 Religious/Catechetical 29.00 Children Env. 80.81 TOTAL $6702.81

Thank You!

Your contributions to your parish

are greatly appreciated!

Please remember Parish of the Nativity of Our Lord

in your will. Our Legal Title is:

Parish of the Nativity of Our Lord

Roman Catholic Congregation Spring Valley, Illinois

MAKING RAVS!! Join us in the parish hall. No experience necessary-we will train!!! Mark your calendars for the following rav making dates:

Thurs., Nov. 29 - 8:00 am

Thurs., Dec. 6 - 8:00 am

Thurs., Dec. 13 - 8:00 am

Thurs., Dec. 20 - 8:00 am

Ravs will be sold AFTER 10:00 AM.

LIKE MUSIC? COME AND WORSHIP THE LORD

AT THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD!

Choir Rehearsals For Advent/Christmas Are: Sunday, Nov. 25 @ 9:00 am

Sunday, Dec. 2 @ 9:00 am

Sunday, Dec. 9 @ 9:00 am

Saturday, Dec. 22 @ 9:30 am

2019 CENTURY CLUB TICKETS are available for each parish family in the church vestibule. There will be one booklet of 5 tickets to sell or purchase. Each ticket costs $5 each totaling $25 for

the booklet. There will be a ticket return box in the vestibule. Thank you in advance for your support, and remember, each month a winner will receive $100!

ADVENT GIVING TREE Every year, the Advent Giving Tree gives the parishioners of our parish a chance to help the Hall Twp Food Pantry stock Santa’s Workshop, an opportunity for needy parents to choose Christmas gifts for their children, ages pre-school to 8th grade.

This year the organizers of Santa’s Workshop

have asked us to buy family games and Christmas

-themed books, plus winter hats, scarves, mitts

and gloves. Some of the ornaments on the tree have the name of a specific game you might get, but feel free to choose one that is a favorite in your family. Also, if your family doesn’t have a favorite Christmas book, on the table in the vestibule you’ll find a list of dozens of good titles suggested by the librarians at the Spring Valley library. Please leave the unwrapped gifts under the tree no later than

Sunday, December 2. Thank you for your

generosity.

2018 ADA UPDATE

Goal $52,630.00

191 Pledges as of 11/12/18 $42,892.00

Amount Short of Goal $ 9,738.00 We humbly ask that if you have not yet made a pledge we

invite you to do so today. Pledge envelopes are in the

church vestibule. To make our goal we need everyone’s

help! We could make our goal if EVERY

HOUSEHOLD contributed something. If we do not

reach our goal the shortage has to come from our parish

funds. Whatever you can give is received with GREAT

GRATITUDE. Thank you for your support. To those who

have contributed, we are most grateful!

CCD CHILDREN’S MASS: TODAY, Sun., Nov. 18th at 10:30 am Mass there will be CCD 3rd & 4th grade students participating in Mass by serving, lecturing and being gift bearers and greeters. Please join us after Mass for refreshments and fellowship

in the Parish Hall!

CENTURY CLUB WINNER FOR NOVEMBER Dale Pienta

Congratulations!

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Greetings in the Lord! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for your assistance in pushing down our Annual Diocesan Appeal goal. We are in much better position for this year due to your generosity. Remember, the more we can pay the ADA goal with pledges the more money from our fundraisers can go to other needs in our parish. I hope that youth ministry can be one possible place of enhancement as we also review of other commitments such as building maintenance. Thanks also to a number of parishioners who volunteered the use of their trailers for moving brush. It is nice to have a few options as we need help now and in the future. I would like to pick up where I left off last week, commenting on the Church’s teaching about praying for those who are deceased. One form of praying for the deceased is “offering a Mass” for the repose of their soul. On a very basic level, we pray for the “repose of the soul” of a given person we are asking that if they are in purgatory that our prayers help them in that purification and that they will soon be in heaven. We can be sure if the person is not in purgatory then God applies our prayers in his just and loving plan. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “[from the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God (1032).” This teaching gets to the heart of our worship in the New Covenant because the Holy Mass, “the source and summit of the Christian life” is a “Holy

Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church’s offering (1324-1327; 1330, Catechism’s italics).” Often when someone says they are “offering a Mass” for someone, living or deceased, they mean that they have an agreement with a priest or parish that the priest’s intention for a certain Mass he is celebrating will be for that intention, that person. That is where our list of intentions in the bulletin comes from. Throughout Church history people have sought to do so through the offering of money or another form to help in the everyday obligations of the Church’s ministers. A person cannot “buy a Mass.” First of all, no exchange of money or goods is anywhere equal to the infinite sacrifice of Christ. A person may make a free

will offering if they can and choose to.

← OVER

In the United States, there is general consensus that $10 is the standard offering. An offering can never be strictly required. Certainly if someone is destitute they cannot make that offering, but may ask that a Mass be celebrated for their intention. Someone could offer more if they choose to as well. So that this offering is not abused by priests and seek to offer many Masses for the sake of money priests are allowed only to take the offering from one of the Masses they celebrate each day. The other offerings must be donated. That all pertains only to the offering of the priest at Holy Mass. Next week I hope to talk about the spiritual offering of the individual at Mass. Have a blessed week. Sincerely yours in Christ, Fr. Potthoff

Administrator

THANKSGIVING PRAYER This Thanksgiving, let us remember all the

good things, and people, who have come into

our lives. We focus on thanking each one

who has helped us, and ultimately thank God

for the good gifts of this world.

Let us pray... God our Father,

Graciously accept from your humble people

a thankful heart and spirit.

Everything we have and are able to share with

others

ultimately comes from your love of your

creations.

Often we think that everything we have

is our own creation;

we ask you this day to create in us

a spirit of gratitude,

that we may always know

that all good gifts come from you.

We ask this through Christ our brother,

in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Greetings in the Lord! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for your assistance in pushing down our Annual Diocesan Appeal goal. We are in much better position for this year due to your generosity. Remember, the more we can pay the ADA goal with pledges the more money from our fundraisers can go to other needs in our parish. I hope that youth ministry can be one possible place of enhancement as we also review of other commitments such as building maintenance. Thanks also to a number of parishioners who volunteered the use of their trailers for moving brush. It is nice to have a few options as we need help now and in the future. I would like to pick up where I left off last week, commenting on the Church’s teaching about praying for those who are deceased. One form of praying for the deceased is “offering a Mass” for the repose of their soul. On a very basic level, we pray for the “repose of the soul” of a given person we are asking that if they are in purgatory that our prayers help them in that purification and that they will soon be in heaven. We can be sure if the person is not in purgatory then God applies our prayers in his just and loving plan. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “[from the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God (1032).” This teaching gets to the heart of our worship in the New Covenant because the Holy Mass, “the source and summit of the Christian life” is a “Holy

Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church’s offering (1324-1327; 1330, Catechism’s italics).” Often when someone says they are “offering a Mass” for someone, living or deceased, they mean that they have an agreement with a priest or parish that the priest’s intention for a certain Mass he is celebrating will be for that intention, that person. That is where our list of intentions in the bulletin comes from. Throughout Church history people have sought to do so through the offering of money or another form to help in the everyday obligations of the Church’s ministers. A person cannot “buy a Mass.” First of all, no exchange of money or goods is anywhere equal to the infinite sacrifice of Christ. A person may make a free

will offering if they can and choose to.

← OVER

In the United States, there is general consensus that $10 is the standard offering. An offering can never be strictly required. Certainly if someone is destitute they cannot make that offering, but may ask that a Mass be celebrated for their intention. Someone could offer more if they choose to as well. So that this offering is not abused by priests and seek to offer many Masses for the sake of money priests are allowed only to take the offering from one of the Masses they celebrate each day. The other offerings must be donated. That all pertains only to the offering of the priest at Holy Mass. Next week I hope to talk about the spiritual offering of the individual at Mass. Have a blessed week. Sincerely yours in Christ, Fr. Potthoff

Administrator

THANKSGIVING PRAYER This Thanksgiving, let us remember all the

good things, and people, who have come into

our lives. We focus on thanking each one

who has helped us, and ultimately thank God

for the good gifts of this world.

Let us pray... God our Father,

Graciously accept from your humble people

a thankful heart and spirit.

Everything we have and are able to share with

others

ultimately comes from your love of your

creations.

Often we think that everything we have

is our own creation;

we ask you this day to create in us

a spirit of gratitude,

that we may always know

that all good gifts come from you.

We ask this through Christ our brother,

in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

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