December 23, 2012

Fourth Sunday of Advent

110 N. Jefferson Street Milledgeville, GA 31061

E-mail: sacredheartmga@windstream.net Web site: sacredheartmilledgeville.org

Phone: 478-452-2421 FAX: 478-454-1110

Cell/Emergency: 770-289-3466

Staff

Rev. Young Nguyen, Pastor

Rev. Mr. John Shoemaker, Deacon Emeritus Rev. Mr. Cesar Basilio, Deacon

Cindy Sencindiver Secretary & DRE Susan Craig Organist Rick & Melanie Pfohl Youth Choir

Sacraments

Sacrament of Penance

Saturday 4:30—5:00 or by appointment

Sacrament of Baptism For information concerning baptism, call the Parish priest.

Sacrament of Matrimony

Arrangements with the church should be made at least six months in advance by calling the Parish priest.

Sunday Bulletin

Deadline for items for the bulletin is 12:00 Noon on Wednesday.

Parish Membership

We welcome new families to our parish.

Parish Registration

Parish registration forms can be picked up at the back of the church or at the church office.

Annulment Case Sponsor

Jean Atwood

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

To know, love and serve as Jesus did

Schedule of Masses

Monday—Thursday 12:10 p.m. Friday 5:30 p.m. Saturday 9:30 a.m. Vigil 5:30 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m., 11:15 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

Holy Rosary and Adoration

Monday—Thursday Holy Rosary 11:45 a.m. Saturday Holy Rosary 9:00 a.m. Monday—Thursday Adoration 11:00 a.m. Friday Eucharistic Adoration 6:00 p.m.

Mass of Healing

1st Saturday of the Month 9:30 a.m.

Masses for the Week of December 23, 2012

Saturday 9:00 a.m. Rosary 10:00a.m. Mass 5:30 p.m. Edmond & Edna Malachowski, R,I.P. Sunday 9:00 a.m Deceased members of Votino Family 11:15 a.m. Pro Populo 5:00 p.m.. Emil Fani, R.I.P. Mon. 6:00 p.m. Children of Sacred Heart 8:00 p.m. Pro Populo Midnight Pro Populo Tues. 10:00 a.m. Pro Populo Wed. 12:10 p.m. Mass Thurs. 12:10 p.m. Mass Fri. 5:30 p.m. Mass Sat. 9:00 a.m. Rosary 9:30 a.m. Mass 5:30 p.m. Pro Populo

December 30, 2012

9:00 a.m. Helen & Mary Votino, R.I.P. 11:15 a.m. Mass 5:00 p.m. Mass Please call the church office to schedule mass intentions. Diocese policy suggests an offering of $10 or more per mass intention.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Lk 1:67-79 Tuesday: Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27, 29; Acts 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt 1:1-25 [18-25] Night: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Ti 2:11 -14; Lk 2:1-14Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12;Ti 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 [1-5, 9-14] Wednesday: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17; Mt 10:17-22 Thursday: 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a, 2-8 Friday: 1 Jn 1:5 — 2:2; Ps 124:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 2:13-18 Saturday: 1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96:1-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22-35 Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or 1 Sm 1:20-22, 24-28; Ps 128:1-5 or Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10; Col 3:12-21 [12-17] or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24; Lk 2:41-52

Weekly Offertory

Weekly Offertory

Regular 12/9/12 $5,697.00 12/16/12 $5,605.00 Helping Hands $1,570.00

Why Corner

The Visitation

Who do you bring with you?

First, Luke wrote, "Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." Jesus is always with Mary. Wherever she is Jesus is there. Whatever she is doing Jesus is also accompanying her. Whomever she is with, they all recog-nized Jesus' presence. Mary became Jesus' mobile. Mary's life was Jesus' life. Who do people see when they see you? Second, Luke wrote, "the infant in my womb leaped for joy." At the greeting of Mary, John in Elizabeth's womb leaped for joy. Why? Because her words were God's words which are filled with the Holy Spirit. They brought joy, love, peace, hope and kindness. Are your words like Mary who spoke only God's words? Third, Luke wrote, "Mary set out and traveled... in haste." Every-thing related to God, Mary did in haste according to His will. When they come to the things of God, Mary never let a single sec-ond go to waste. "Blessed" above all people she was because her entire life was defined by God and His ways & wills. Are you blessed?

Why Corner

Christmas

Jesus' BD

Happy BD Jesus? What do you want for your BD?

First, from our Vigil Mass' Gospel, Matthew wrote, "He will save His people from their sins." I remembered the words of Blessed Cardinal Van Thuan to me before my priestly ordination, "you can do anything and everything, but don't sin." True words of wisdom from a saintly man who basically said the same thing like Jesus. One of the greatest gift that we could give to Jesus in our lives is to commit less sin(s) in this coming year and live life more saintly and holy. Let's work on annihilating one sin at a time so that Jesus can have more available time saving our brothers and sisters who need Him more.

Second, again from the Vigil Mass, Matthew wrote, "God is with us." Jesus wants to be part of our lives. He wants to do everything with us, to play, to study, to work, to sleep, to eat, to rest, etc... Let's extend a personal invitation to Jesu to journey with us in eve-rything that we do. This is the second gift we can give to Jesus. (continued on next page)

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. May your Christmas be filled with many blessings and joy from Little Jesus, may the New Year bring you good health and may many of your dreams come true. May your relationship with God be deeper and more intimate with each second of your life and smile more often as you wake up each morning as this is God's gift to you to spend with your loved ones.

Donations for Christmas Flowers were made in Memory of:

Rosemary Pruett Pipp Family Courtney Family Anna & Cy McCabe Jack Schoenholtz Cecelia Wood Johnny Wood Rose Cook Mack Hudson Jean Morgan Harold & Pat Bucklew Lorraine Morgan Alma & Ralph Sheeler Kay & Jim Currie Jackson / Tillotson Families George W. Thomas, Sr. Sister Mary Eileen Kennedy Deceased members of Lowery & Adair Families

A poem for the children of Sandy Hook... Twas' 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38 when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven's gate. Their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air. They could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there. They were filled with such joy, they didn't know what to say. They remembered nothing of what had happened earlier that day. "Where are we?" asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse. “This is heaven." declared a small boy. "We're spending Christ-mas at God's house."

When what to their wondering eyes did appear, but Jesus, their savior, the children gathered near. He looked at them and smiled, and they smiled just the same. Then He opened His arms and He called them by name. And in that moment was joy, that only heaven can bring Those children all flew into the arms of their King And as they lingered in the warmth of His embrace, one small girl turned and looked at Jesus' face. And as if He could read all the questions she had He gently whispered to her, "I'll take care of mom and dad." Then He looked down on earth, the world far below He saw all of the hurt, the sorrow, and woe Then He closed His eyes and He outstretched His hand, "Let My power and presence re-enter this land!" "May this country be delivered from the hands of fools" "I'm taking back my nation. I'm taking back my schools!" Then He and the children stood up without a sound. "Come now my children, let me show you around." Excitement filled the space, some skipped and some ran. All displaying enthusiasm that only a small child can. And I heard Him proclaim as He walked out of sight, "In the midst of this darkness, I AM STILL THE LIGHT." Written by Cameo Smith, Mt. Wolf, PA

Rest in Heavenly Peace

Charlotte Bacon Daniel Barden Olivia Engel

Josephine Gay Anna M. Marquez-Greene

Dylan Hockley Madeleine F. Hsu

Catherine V. Hubbard

Chase Kowalski Jesse Lewis

James Mattioli Grace McDonnell

Emilie Parker Jack Pinto

Noah Pozner Caroline Previdi

Jessica Rekos Avielle Richman

Benjamin Wheeler Allison N. Wyatt Rachel Davino

Dawn Hochsprung Anne Marie Murphy

Lauren Russeau Mary Sherlach Victoria Soto

Why Corner (Continued)

Third, from Masses of Midnight and Dawn, Luke wrote, "you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." The third gift we can give to Jesus is that Jesus needed a home, not a manger. Let's bring Jesus into our homes or better yet, let's adopt Him as a family member. Let's pray more often as a family, while traveling, at meal times, before going to bed or any event that we do as a family.

Fourth, from the Mass during the Day, John wrote, "A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him." The fourth gift that we can give to Jesus is to tell others about Him. Like John, our lives, actions, and deeds are testimony for Jesus for others. Our family, our loved ones, our friends and our community need to know more about Jesus.

Happy BD Jesus! And many more! I love you Jesus.

Fr. Young

Date Time Lectors Ministers of Holy Communion 12/24 6:00 p.m. Don Allen JoAnn McClure Cindy Sencindiver Otis Murphy 12/24 8:00 p.m. Ginny Frankenberger Dan Smith Otis Murphy Kathy Boylan 12/24 Midnight John Hargaden Mary Hargaden Linda Stewart Mary Thomas 12/25 10:00 a.m. Jan Foshee Kirk Sencindiver Louise Florencourt Mike Martino 12/29 5:30 p.m. Judy Malachowski Cecile Trinidad Jean Atwood Paul Gallager 12/30 9:00 a.m. Cindy Sencindiver Vince Ciampa Kirk Sencindiver Francine Moats

Congratulations To

Blaine Duesing

Blaine is the winner of the beautiful decorative quilt that was on display in church.

Many Thanks from CCW

Where to begin?? We would like to thank everyone who bought tickets for the quilt raffle. The proceeds will benefit many of our projects. A very BIG thank you to Kathy Boylan, who not only is very talented, but also put in many hours in piecing together and putting the finishing touches on that beautiful quilt. We could not have done it without your creativity, your encouragement or your unselfishly giving of your time.

Happy Birthday

Katherine Stickline Mary M. Thomas Nina Barr Ming Scafidi Kevin Duncan Mirella Hatcher Esther Choi Claire Scafidi Amy Cansino Erin Weston Maria Thorne

In Dickens’ Christmas Carol the miserly Scrooge is confronted in a dream by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley, like Scrooge, had been hard and stingy during life. And now from the realm of the departed appears the spirit of Marley, condemning himself and warning Scrooge against the fate that had befallen him. As the ghost wrings his hands and bemoans his shortcomings, Scrooge tries to console him with the remark, “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.” Whereupon Marley’s ghost cries: “Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business: charity, mercy, forbear-ance, benevolence was all my business.” Too late Marley discovered what his real business in life was.

The Annunciation

The Visitation The Nativity

The Presentation Jesus is found in the Temple

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Prayer requests: the homebound; nursing home and veteran home residents; the chronically ill; the mentally ill; all prisoners; all military personnel. Rizza Ibanez, Addie Johnson, Elba Bejarano, Carol Sturgeon, Elaine Crow, Elizabeth Cline, Robert Ritchotte, Renata Marti-nez, John Farmer, Jeanne Schoenholz, Mary Layfield, Carmen Silva, Grace Jones, Lilly Bentley, Randy Jones, Charles Eckert, Kenneth Dunn, Linda Foy, Pam Foy, Ronnie Seeders, Theresa Egejuru, Michael Keefe, Carmen Sans Graciaa, Roy Lehrman, Mary Lehrman, Olivia Lehrman, Laura McClure, Mary Barbara Tate, Lyn Tate, Richard Mural, Brenda Capito, Mary Durden, Mary Lockett, Frank Schoeneman, Kenneth Wood, Tonya Gibson, Charles Turner, Michael Wheeler, Cherrelyn Robinson, Ashley Wilhelm, Gregory Reichert, Nancy Murrison, Jane Quigley, John McManmon, Richard Firth, William Harmon, Beverly Batchelor, Al Shinderman, Mary Yablunosky an residents of Newtown, Connecticut. Please pray for the deceased: All deceased members of Sacred Heart Church, Dr. Rex Courtney, Thomas Pfohl, Stanley Kollar, Laurie Taylor, Deborah Burkhalter, Marvin Vinson, Philip McMahon, Children and teachers killed at Sandy Hook Elementary

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The food pantry is in need of the following items: □ Canned beef stew □ Canned Chicken & Dumplings □ Canned Chili □ Canned fruit □ Canned Salmon □ Canned Spam □ Canned Tuna □ Canned vegetables □ Cereal

□ Cooking Oil □ Evaporated milk □ Flour □ Grits □ Instant Potatoes □ Jelly □ Jiffy Cornbread Mix □ Juice □ Macaroni & Cheese □ Oatmeal □ Paper towels □ Pasta - different va-rieties

□ Pasta sauce □ Peanut Butter □ Powdered Milk □ Rice □ Saltine Crackers □ Soup—all varieties, □ Sugar □ Toiletry items If you can help with any of these items, it will be greatly appreciated.

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