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This Week at St Mary's 

Advent III

Good afternoon Saints! I pray you are well and had a lovely Feast of Guadalupe yesterday! Advent rolls on so put on some pink and join the fun this Sunday!

Christmas Decorating Tomorrow At 9:30am!
Come down tomorrow (Saturday) around 9:30am and join for several hours of Christmas Music, decoration and beautification of the church. It is always a fun, prayerful and glorious time. 
Pledge Gathering: The Race To 90K!
As 2019 comes to a close we can look back and celebrate innumerable blessings and accomplishments. New windows, new pan school, new members, new babies, new baptisms, new ministries and much more. We also celebrate and embrace all that has blessed us for so long. Our cherished parish, our longtime ministries of worship, Food Pantry and community partnerships and more. Over the next several weeks as we wrap up this year we hope you will make your pledge for 2020. In David's letter, he outlined an aspiration we have to arrive at 125,000.00 in pledge funding. As this is a multi-year process, we hope you will help us get to 90,000.00 this year. This would represent a roughly a $150.00 increase from the previous year for everyone, with those who are capable of more doing so as others may not be. Will you raise your gift? We'll provide updates between now and the Annual Meeting and you can make your pledge on sheets we will have at church or online. 
Advent III @ 9am,11am & 1pm (No Rule Of Life This Week)
Join us for the third Sunday of Advent at 9am, 11am or 1pm. Fr. John Finley will preach and preside as I will be on my way back from Austin and hope to join you all during the 11am service. There will be no Rule of Life gathering this week, for those of you following along at home fill out the sections on relationships with others and self. Here is a link where you can also download the worksheet we are using. Otherwise see you Sunday in the newly decorated Sanctuary; may we all be pretty and pink!
New St. Mary's Prayer List!
One way we will pray our way into being a stronger community in this new year will be keeping a parish prayer list. Please let us know if you'd like to be on it, it is up to you whether or not to state the reason. We will update the list, read it out periodically, pray over it daily here at the church and support each other in the work of life and faith. 
Advent & Christmas Seasons At St. Mary's!
Christmas Eve Celebration December 24th 7pm!
Christmas Day Service December 25th 11am!
Christmas I December 29th @ 9am, 11am and 1pm!
Tres Reyes (Tardecitos) With Steel Pan Saturday 1/11 5pm!
Mission Hub Events & Survey!
The Mission Hub, which brings our church into deeper partnership with St. Cyprian's, St. Augustine St. Martin, St. John's St. James' and St. Mark's through Rev. D's ministry has several exciting events coming up.
Rhythm, Flavor, Power!
Padrecito Edwin

Reflection Question: What signs of new life are you searching for?

Sunday's Readings
Psalm 146:4-9 
 Canticle 3 or Canticle 15
Isaiah 35:1-10;  
James 5:7-10;
 Matthew 11:2-11

 

 

 

St Mary's Mission
 

Celebrate God's Rhythm
Delight in God's Flavor
Unite with God's Power

 last Sunday's sermon podcast

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