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      • Advent & Christmas 2021 Schedule (Saint Monica)
    • ADVENT SCHEDULE 2021


      DECEMBER 3 ⁕ Friday
      “A NIGHT IN BETHLEHEM”
      5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
      Parking Lot (Fenced area)

      DECEMBER 8 ⁕ Wednesday
      IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
      8:30 am – English Mass
      5:15 pm – Procession
      6:00 pm – Spanish Mass

      DECEMBER 3-11
      NOVENARIO FOR OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
      7:00 pm – Main Church

      DECEMBER 12 ⁕ Sunday
      OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
      5:00 am – Mañanitas
      6:00 am – Spanish Mass
      7:00 am – Pan y Café
      9:00 am – Sunday Mass English
      11:00 am – Mariachi Music
      11:30 am – Procession
      12:00 pm – Spanish Mass
      1:00 pm – Fiesta Guadalupana

      DECEMBER 13 ⁕ Monday
      PENANCE SERVICE
      Holy Cross Parish Mission

      412 Laurel Street, Arbuckle, CA 95912
      6:00 pm – onwards

      DECEMBER 17 ⁕ Friday
      ADVENT RETREAT (Spanish)
      5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
      Parish Center

      DECEMBER 18 ⁕ Saturday
      ADVENT RETREAT (English)
      9:00 am – 10:30 am
      Parish Center

      DECEMBER 16-24
      LAS POSADAS
      7:00 pm – Spanish

      DECEMBER 21-24
      ADORATION
      9:00 am – 1:00 pm (Adoration)

      DECEMBER 23
      "A CHRISTMAS SERENADE"
      7:00 pm – Main Church
       
    • The Season of Advent


      Beginning the Church's liturgical year, Advent (from, "ad-venire" in Latin or "to come to") is the season encompassing the four Sundays (and weekdays) leading up to the celebration of Christmas.

      The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from December 17 to December 24, focus particularly on our preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas).

      Advent devotions including the Advent wreath, remind us of the meaning of the season. Our Advent calendar above can help you fully enter in to the season with daily activity and prayer suggestions to prepare you spiritually for the birth of Jesus Christ.  More Advent resources are listed below.

      source: USCCB

       

      blessing of wreath: click here

       
    • Why do we celebrate Advent?

      The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 524:
      When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior's first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his second coming. By celebrating the precursor's birth and martyrdom, the Church unites herself to his desire: "He must increase, but I must decrease."

      Why is Advent important ?

      This is a period of preparation for the celebration of the Incarnation at Christmas. As Christmas seems to arrive commercially ever earlier each year, the faithful should try to turn our hearts more toward the Lord. Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN, once said,
      Let's not let the season pass without a depth of spirituality in our hearts that lets us ponder. Ponder the mystery of how, and why, this Omnipotent God, before Whom angels tremble, would come down and live nine months in the most pure and holy woman that ever lived, and ever will live. He was confined in a womb with that Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Power, and the Power of the Holy Spirit.

      source: EWTN

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ST. MONICA PARISH
1129 West Wood Street, Willows, CA 95988

Phone: (530) 934-3314 • Fax: (530) 934-
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