Highlights

• Light in our Darkness – A great opportunity to invite friends and neighbours to this Community Christmas Service
• Could you be, or co-share the position of Lenhard Kitchen Volunteer?  Read more below

Prepare Your Heart

Advent Penitential Service, with visiting priests helping with confessions we be Wed. Dec. 14th at 7 pm  Holy Family Church

The Christmas Mass Schedule

Dec. 24th  – 4pm St. Anne, Chesley,  6 pm & 8 pm  Holy Family

Dec. 25th –  9 am Holy Family,  11 am St. Francis Xavier, Carlsruhe

Adoration Chapel Invitation

Consider spending some time in silence before the Blessed Sacrament this Advent.  That Adoration Chapel is open Monday at 9 am continuous until Thursday evening at 9 pm, excluding one overnight period  (Tuesday midnight to Wed. at 6 am).  During the daytime hours you are welcome to come sit in anytime.  If you would like a night time hour, please contact Don Waechter at 519-364-1185.

The Christmas Holiday Schedule for the Adoration Chapel is posted  – pick up a copy from the Chapel.

Light in our Darkness – A Community Christmas Service

Holy Family’s Evangelization Team is organizing a Community Christmas Service on Wed. Dec. 21st at 7 pm   It is being held at the Saugeen Academy, 381 10th St. Hanover.  This is a wonderful opportunity to invite others to experience the love, hope and joyful message of Jesus Christ.  Let us all invite the Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds of someone we can bring to this community service.   For more information:  holyfamily.ca/light

Lenhard Kitchen Volunteer

Holy Family is seeking a volunteer to purchase and maintain kitchen supplies for our Lenhard Kitchen.  If you are interested in helping out in this way, please contact the parish office.

St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Hamper Project

Help us reach out to those in need this Christmas.   Three ways to help:  Contribute non-perishable food, participate in the giving tree, or financial contribute to St. Vincent de Paul.  Envelopes are available and donors will be receipted for income tax purposes.

Parish Photo Directory—March of 2023

Our parish photo sessions for the new directory are schedule for the dates of March 14-18 & march 21-25th.  More details will be forthcoming in the new year.  If you would like to be part of the committee that assists with this project, please contact the parish office.

Don’t be alone on Christmas Day . . .

Grace United Church is offering a free Christmas Dinner Doors open at 11:30, Dinner served at 12 noon.  All Welcome

Please let Faye know you are coming! 519-377-9774

2023 Boxed Evelopes

Ready for pick up.  If you would like to know more about donating through E-Transfer or sign on to a monthly Pre-Authorized Remittance, Please contact Anne at the Parish Office.  Thank you.

This Sunday’s Gospel

Matthew 3: 1-12

Discussion Questions

•  Describe ‘a baptism with the Holy Spirit and fire’  Have you experience this power?
• What is meant by John’s appeal “Bear fruit worthy of repentance”

This Week’s Schedule & Mass Intentions