Advent Penance Service
is set for Tue, Dec. 16 at 7:00pm
at St. Francis Xavier.

Regular scheduled Confessions are Thursdays at 8pm at SA & Saturdays at 11am at
​St. Francis Xavier.

​Carmelite Cloister Collection:
Our Vocation Awareness Team is currently promoting the support of our local Carmelite Cloister in Loretto. In addition to asking our school-age families from CCD and ASCS families the help with this effort, a collection will also be taken on the weekend on Dec 20/21 in both SA and FX parishes after all Masses.

Items needed include:
canned fruit: peaches (in syrup or 100% juice) or pears, canned vegetables: corn, peas, beans, kidney beans, chick beans, fresh fruit & vegetables, olive oil, white vinegar, mustard, ketchup, Miracle Whip, cake mixes, Jello, canned tuna and salmon, jelly: grape or strawberry, cereal: Cornflakes, Life cereal (original), shredded wheat (no sugar), canned tomatoes, spaghetti or pizza sauce (no meat),
applesauce (sweetened and non-sweetened), Juice: 100% Grape or Apple Juice or Cranberry Juice,
bread, Dawn dish soap, Ajax or Palmolive, toilet bowl cleaner, wax paper, aluminum foil, paper towels,
medium rubber gloves for cleaning.
UNSCENTED: tissues, ivory soap, deodorant soap, Scott toilet paper (1-ply), laundry detergent,
fabric softener.

Monetary donations will also be accepted. Please make checks payable to: Discalced Carmelite Nuns. In addition to donations, the Vocation Awareness Team is asking each family to include a Christmas card with their donation. The Christmas card can be store bought or handmade.
​Items will be collected in boxes at the back of each church.

Next ​Theology on Tap at PJ's. 
December 19 at 6:00pm

Topic:
Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary which are offered on
Monday, Saturdays, and Sundays of Advent.
We will consider each mystery as revealed in Scripture,
consider why they are “joyful,”
​ and how we might gain from each of these mysteries.


Want to catch up on previous sessions?
Click here to find notes from sessions

The Official 365 Day Prayer Plan for The Rosary in a Year

​with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR

​Click here to download Prayer Plan

Prayer to
​Saint Francis Xavier

Great Saint Francis, well beloved and full of charity, in union with you I reverently adore the Divine Majesty.  I give thanks to God for the singular gifts of grace bestowed on you in life and of glory after death, and I beg of you, with all the affection of my heart, by your powerful intercession, obtain for me the grace to live a holy life and die a holy death.  I beg you to obtain for me (mention your petition).  But if what I ask is not for the glory of God and for my well-being, obtain for me,
​I beseech you, what will more certainly attain these ends. 
Amen.