Christmas Mass and Blessing

December 22, 2020
Online Newsletter Issue #0027

A Christmas message from Fr. Ronan

BIRTH AND DEATH

My mother died on Friday, December 13, 1991. Earlier in that week, my family reached me with news of her decline and I was able to arrive home from Ecuador to be with her in those early morning hours. Her death was not sudden; she had been on the journey since a serious stroke three years earlier.

As my sisters and brothers gathered in the days that followed, we shared wonderful memories of this remarkable and most loving woman. Of course, while we were preparing for Mom’s funeral, everything around us was wrapped in Christmas lights, decorations and cheer. While that may have appeared to make our grief more painful, it did not.

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We will live stream the 5pm Mass on Christmas Eve and the 11AM Mass on Christmas Day. Those Masses will be recorded and available on our website for those who cannot join us at those times. Opportunities for live television Masses are as follows:

Christmas Eve

8:00PM – Midnight Mass with Pope Francis on Catholic TV, Channels 45 and 268
11:00PM – Mass from Bethlehem on Catholic TV, Channels 45 and 268
12 Midnight - Mass with Cardinal Seán O’Malley from the Cathedral, Catholic TV Channels 45 and 268

Christmas Day

8AM – Mass with Cardinal Seán O’Malley from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, WLVI-TV, Channel 12
9:30AM – Mass with Cardinal Seán O’Malley on Catholic TV, Channels 45 and 268
12PM – Mass with Cardinal Seán O’Malley on WHDH-TV, Channel 7
5PM – Mass from the National Shrine on Catholic TV, Channels 45 and 268
5:30PM – Mass in Spanish on Catholic TV, Channels 45 and 268

Please listen to this extraordinary version of Angels We Have Heard on High

A Christmas Blessing

Source of Divine Light, Emmanuel, God with us,
Your radiant love illuminated our waiting world
with the surprise of your Bethlehem birth.
Each year since then, we celebrate this astonishing event,
rejoicing in your coming anew, not as a newborn Babe,
but as a hidden presence of divinity contained within each of us.
To our great astonishment, we have become your dwelling place.
We are now Your Bethlehem.

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Our Stewardship Prayer

Heavenly Father, instill in our hearts a spirit of love and compassion. May we foster a welcoming parish community with acceptance and respect for all. Inspire us to make a difference by being generous with our time and talents. Please send your Holy Spirit among us to remind us to follow Jesus and his teachings in all aspects of our lives. May we go forth and spread goodwill among our neighbors, friends, and fellow parishioners. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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