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.
Our first reading from Wisdom tells us: “For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made.” God loves us all and gives the sinner many chances to repent.
In today’s Gospel, Zacchaeus, the rich tax collector, and one of the biggest sinners in Jesus’ time, seeks out Jesus, meets him and has a conversion. Jesus even eats at his house. “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.”
In our second reading St. Paul prays for the Thessalonians and for us, “that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in (us), and (we) in him, in accord with the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.”
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.