Holy Family Catholic Church

   

   

Happy New Year!

 

         With the end of the old year and the beginning of the new, I must take time to give a big "Thank You" to everyone who
made this past Christmas celebration a wonderful time for so many: the people who decorated the church, the musicians
and choirs, the many volunteers who helped out with the Children's Mass on Christmas Eve, to  Randy Hohn who put together
the Nativity scene outside, the Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers, and Deacon Andrew Young who gave such a great
homily.  Someone told me that a friend of theirs from out of town gave the ultimate compliment: "It was like I was at the
Vatican for Christmas!"  Yes, everything comes together.  This year we had a new sound system put in the basement,
and the results were wonderful.          I know Christmas takes a lot of work, but as one mother told me years ago:
"Boredom happens. Joy takes work." And yet, Christmas tells us that salvation is God's free gift.  Jesus is not our idea, but
God's.  At the center of Christmas is a Child we did not plan, prepare, or instigate.  He is the Gift who gives meaning to every
good gift.  If we give, it is because deep in our hearts the Gift has been born in us.  Our giving is a pale shadow of that gift
that is the Child.  "Today a child has been born for you, Christ the Lord."  Thank you for your many gifts this Christmas, which
comes from the Child born in your hearts today.    --Fr. Larry

    

    

      Mass Intentions

01/03     8:00am    d. Marie Antoine

01/04     8:00am    d. Francis Kelly

01/05     8:00am    For the dec. members of the

  Patrick & Mary Kay Skelly family

01/06     8:00am    Anniv. of d. of Kathryn Ellwein

01/07     5:00pm   d. Norbert Wermers

01/08     8:30am    d. Edward & Bernice Hohn

              10:00am    For Holy Family Parish

              11:30am    d. Dennis Heil

 

 Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers

01/07     5:00pm  L-A Graves; EM-Deacon Graves, B Schoenfelder,

    D Iverson, R&C Scheich, M Redder

                01/08     8:30am  L-D Kirkus; EM-J&J Schlimgen, D&D DeFries,

    F&M Bruna

                10:00am                L-A Novak; J,G&K Thury, P Essig, K Hohn, D Price

                11:30am                L-K Ewing; EM-M Wilson, S Peschong, H&B Kelly,

    2 Volunteers

    

                                                       
Ministers of Hospitality

 
01/07     5:00pm  P Gossman, L Dorale, K Lebert

01/08     8:30am R&S Heying, D&S Kirkus, J&N Puetz

                10:00am                P&L Essig, B&D Molumby, J&C Beatch

                11:30am                G&C Docter, D&S Heesch, Volunteer

 

 BULLETIN BOARD

 

01/02     Parish Office Closed

01/03     Eucharistic Adoration – 8:30am to 8:00pm

Classes resume at John Paul II School

01/04     Faith Formation Classes – ES 5:15pm/ LS 6:45pm – JPII School

01/05    RCIA – 7pm – Nazareth Rm

                Mitchell Marian Movement – 7pm – Holy Spirit Chapel

01/06     JPII School Mass – 9am – Holy Spirit Church

01/07     Confessions – 3:30 to 4:30pm 

01/08     Epiphany of the Lord

KC Breakfast – 8:30 to 11:30am – KC Hall

Pre-Marriage 3 – 1:30 to 4:30pm – JPII Art & Science Rm