We would like to have a Senior Women Reflection Group during Advent. If you are interested please fill out one of the surveys near the Bulletin.
The Parochial Council is in the process of reorganization. We are looking for new members. The Council usually meets the second Sunday of the month at 12:15 PM in the foyer to discuss the happenings in the parish and to suggest new ideas. The Council advises me in all matters dealing with the parish. If you are interested in participating in the Council or have questions about it, please see me or one of the Council members, who are listed on the front of this Bulletin or just come to the next meeting.
If you haven’t already done so, please fill out a remembrance sheet found by the Bulletin and then place the names of your loved ones in the basket by the altar.
Congratulations to Steve Luecke, who will be formally inducted into the South Bend Community Hall of Fame on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at the South Bend Century Center.
It was about 100 years before the birth of Jesus that the Pharisees began to teach there was life after death. The mother and seven brothers in our first reading believed this. That is why they could face torture and death with such bravery with one of the brothers saying: “You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying.”
The Sadducees denied there would be life after death and so they posed the question of to which of seven brothers a woman would be wife, who had been married to each of them. Jesus tells them that life is different after the resurrection. All will be children of God. He says God is the God “of the living, for to him all are alive.”
In our second reading St. Paul prays for us: “May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God or Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word.
Let us continue to pray for peace in the world. Let us also pray for vocations to the church. Let us pray for the sick of the parish. Let us pray that all will come to respect life. Let us pray for one another and for the canonization of Father Tolton. Let us also pray for those who are victims of sexual abuse and mass shootings.
A Venerable Father Tolton Prayer: Father in Heaven, the Venerable Father Tolton’s suffering service sheds light upon our sorrows; we see them through the prism of your Son’s passion and death. If it be your Will, O God, glorify your servant Father Tolton, by granting the favor I now request through his intercession (mention your request) so that all may know the goodness of this priest whose memory looms large in the Church he loved. Complete what you have begun in us that we might work for the fulfillment of your kingdom. Not to us the glory, but glory to you O God, through Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are our God, living and reigning forever and ever. Amen.