Highlights

• First Sunday of Advent – Prepare your heart!
• Memorial Mass on Tuesday Evening this week  –  7 pm  All are welcome
• Note: No Wednesday Mass this week & Office closed on Friday.
• Fundraising for the Saugeen Hospice a great success!

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

As we enter the season of Advent, please consider spending some time in silence before the Blessed Sacrament.  That Adoration Chapel is open Monday at 9 am through 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.

Is it difficult for your family to celebrate Christmas?

If you could use some help this Christmas with one of our food hampers – call the parish office.

Money Raised for Saugeen Hospice

• Marianne & Marlene’s Bake sale at the local community craft sale raised $1,650.00 for the Saugeen Hospice.  Thank you to all who donated to this fundraiser.
• The CWL Christmas Dinner Silent Auction raised $454.00 Thanks you to donors and purchasers!

More Good News of local generosity

Operation Christ Child Report: 5,601 boxes have been shipped from Grey Bruce Collection Stations  3679 were gathered from Hanover area, 918 from the Owen Sound area and 1004 from Port Elgin

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.

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

Proposal for Parish Photo Directory—March of 2023

We hope to engage in this project in March of next year.  If you have any comments, concerns and/or would like to be part of the committee that assists, please contact the parish office.

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.

Saint Francis Xavier Invitation to help

• Parishioners and friends are invited to stay after Mass on the 27^th of November to help put up the Manger in the church.   Under the direction of Herb Girodat, we can learn what has to be done to complete this special job.  Many hands make light work, so we look forward to seeing you then.

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

Coping with the Holidays

             . . . When someone you love is gone

Sun. Nov. 27th 1:30 – 3pm  Presenter:  Teresa Hartnett  Join on zoom –  email thartnett@hamiltondiocese.com to receive zoom link

Job Opportunities

Mary Immaculate Chepstow & St. Joseph Cargill is looking to fill three employment opportunities; a book keeper, secretary & a housekeeper.

Full descriptions of the positions are available from the parish office.  Applications should be received by Nov. 30/ 22 and submitted to maryimmaculatechepstow@hamiltondiocese.com, or  ggrewal@hamiltondiocese.com or to the Mary Immaculate Chepstow parish office, or the Holy Family Parish Office.

This Sunday’s Gospel

Matthew 24:37-44

Discussion Questions

•  Are you ready if the Son of Man comes for you?
•  What do you want to do to be more ready?
•  Is it your duty or responsibility as a Christian to encourage and assist others to be prepared?
•  Is it love or a sense of duty that empowers you to reach out to help rescue those whom may be swept away in this world’s affairs?
•  Define in practical examples what the difference might be between encouraging and shoving your faith on others.

This Week’s Schedule & Mass Intentions