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that many Christians (including Catholics!) believe that the adage “God helps those who help themselves!” comes from the Holy Scriptures?

 

It does NOT! It is found in “Poor Richard’s Almanack” and Benjamin Franklin is not considered an “inspired writer.”

St. Vincent de Paul (the “Apostle of Charity”) wrote: “God loves those who love the poor!”

 

And that is, in fact,  inspired (Spirit-breathed) wisdom!

 

This past Monday morning, your St. Vincent de Paul Community Food Bank distributed over 400 Thanksgiving boxes to our needy neighbors!

 

This was possible because of your great response to our request for turkeys and other food items!  

 

Our Life-Teens, as well as some our “Edgers,” joined Community Food Bank Director, Stan Garner, our wonderful St. Vincent de Paul Conference members, and other Parishioners and volunteers from throughout the community in this blessed sharing – made possible by your generous and on-going, monthly, support of the Community Food Bank!

As we know, “need has no season”, and there is no time of the year in which your Community Food Bank is not actively responding to the need for food assistance!

Our Saint Vincent de Paul Thrift Store is in great need of good, used children’s clothing, especially with the coming of cold weather!

 

Check your closets and discover what you can share out of your abundance!

 

Good warm clothing, socks, and other cold-weather ‘gear’ is especially needed.

 

Our Thanksgiving Day Offering was designated for Good Neighbor Alliance, our local homeless shelter! What a blessing to be able to support GNA in providing “shelter for those facing the storms of life.” Good Neighbor Alliance is our communities only residential shelter, welcoming families and individuals, and, of course, depends upon your generosity!

 

Food, clothing, shelter – very basic needs, which we too often can take for granted. To respond to those in need of these basics is a wonderful acknowledgement of our many blessings.

As Catholics know, true wealth is not measured by accumulation, but by generosity!

Be thankful that our Parish gives us many opportunities to participate the many “works of mercy” in our local community, our Diocese, and, indeed, the world!

 

Don’t forget the up-coming St. Nicholas Fair next Sunday morning, 4 December!

 

This fun event helps the Ladies of St. Andrew’s raise funds, which are widely distributed to local charities and ministries, as well as providing a wonderful Parish social event, to welcome this holy Season! Please join us!

 

 

 

“A person ought to be willing to suffer anything and everything rather than divide the Church of God, and it is no less glorious to incur martyrdom to avoid schism than to avoid idolatry; in fact, in my opinion, it is more so. For in one case a person is a martyr for the sake of one’s own soul, but in the other, for the sake of the whole Church.”
                                                                                                    

 

 

 

       - St. Dionysius of Alexandria (+265) 

 

This week’s Question: “What are the ‘O Antiphons’?”

The Answer to Last Week’s Question: “What is the ‘Season of Advent’?” The four Sundays leading up the Solemnity of Christmas, mark the ‘Season of Advent’, which is a liturgical expression of the expectation of the Coming (‘Advent’) of Christ, and is penitential in tone (hence the violet color used during the Season, and the omission of the “Gloria”). It is four weeks long or slightly less. The first two weeks of Advent focus on Christ’s Final Coming as Lord and Judge. The final eight days anticipate His coming in history (Christmas). Since the 10th Century, the First Sunday in Advent has marked the beginning of the Church Year in the Western Church.

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