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1 First Sunday of Advent DECEMBER 1, 2013 St. Joseph Campus: 1310 Mainstreet, Hopkins St. John Campus (Parish Office): 6 Interlachen Road, Hopkins Phone: (952) Website: Fax: (952) CONTACTS Parish Office... (952) St. Joseph s Social Hall... (952) CELEBRATION OF MASSES St. Joseph Campus Saturday... 4:30pm Sunday... 8:30am Tue & Thu... 7:00am Morning Prayer & Rosary Mon, Wed, & Fri... 7:00am St. John the Evangelist Campus Sunday.. 10:30am & 1:00pm (Hispanic) Wed, Fri & Sat... 8:00am SACRAMENTAL LIFE Baptism: Second Sunday of the Month Contact the office 2 months prior to Baptism to schedule the required preparation conference. Matrimony: Contact priest 12 months in advance of desired date. Reconciliation (Private): St. Joseph s Campus Saturday... 3:30pm St. John s Campus Saturday... 8:30-9:30am Sunday... 12:30pm Anointing: Contact Fr. Jim Liekhus....(952) Communion or BeFriender visit: Contact Mary Fran Karanikolas... (952) Parish Registration Contact the Parish Office at... (952) Bulletin Deadline Tuesdays at 12:00pm except for holidays (week of the bulletin publication.) to: mkrawczak@stgabrielhopkins.org OUR 2 nd GRADE CHILDREN PREPARING FOR FIRST RECONCILIATION. These children and their parents have been preparing all fall for their First Reconciliation, which will take place next Sunday, December 8. Please keep them and all our young people in your prayers. They are counting on your encouragement and support.

2 Parish News Parish Staff Pastor: Fr. James Liekhus Deacons: Deacon Darrel Branch Deacon Francis Tangney (952) Business Administrator Beth Schorle Director of Worship & Music: Katie Schafer Office Manager: Martha Krawczak Pastoral Minister: Mary Fran Karanikolas Faith Formation Director: Chuck Romportl Pre-School Coordinator (St. Joseph campus): Kathleen Esh (952) Pre-School Coordinator (St. John campus) Jenni Stankevitz (952) Director of Maintenance (St. Joseph campus) Rebekah Director of Maintenance (St. John campus) Tony Jaroscak Custodian (St. John campus) Ricardo Torres Pastoral Council Chair: Cathy Carlson (612) Notre Dame Academy Excelsior Blvd Mtka MN Interim Principal Louis Doering (952) LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR DECEMBER 7/8 4:30 Mass at St. Joseph s Campus Sacristan: Karen Totall Lectors: Cathy Carlson, Mary Anne Roberts Servers: Alex Joppa, Elizabeth Miller Eucharistic Ministers: romaine Bechir, Cathy Carlson, Char Murphy Cup Ministers: Dale Specken, Jane Specken, Beverly Stifter, Lynn Raphael Usher: Bill Johnson 8:30 Mass at St. Joseph s Campus Sacristan: Pat Hirl Lectors: Pat Bell, Kay Kopesky Servers: Katie Hirl Eucharistic Ministers: Pat Bell, Denise and Pat Hirl Cup Ministers: Andrew Hirl, Daniel Hirl, Harriet Lodermeier, Beth Lauzon Usher: Dale & Darlene Nelson 10:30 Mass at St. John s Campus Lectors: T. Noonan, S. Goergen Servers: Jack B., Luke B., Patrick S. Extraordinary Ministers: D. Branch, M. Goergen, M. Stangel, F. Tautin, B. Tautin, M. Wertzler, T. Greene, B. Kleiner, A. Kempf, M. Dickinson SHARING OUR TREASURES WITH OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN NEED SPECIAL COLLECTION Parishioners of St. Gabriel the Archangel Church are invited to participate in a nation-wide Typhoon Haiyan Relief Collection on the weekend of November 30 December 1, 2013 being coordinated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services. The recent devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan has left more than 10,000 people dead and an estimated 9 million people wounded or without adequate shelter. Our brothers and sisters in the Philippines and Vietnam need our help. Our contribution sent to the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis will be used to provide immediate assistance and to address emergency needs for water, food, shelter, and medical care. Any funds collected that are not needed for these immediate measures will be used to support the long-term recovery and the rebuilding of the affected communities. Please be generous with your support for this important and urgently needed work of charity. Checks should be made out to St. Gabriel Church with "Relief' written in the memo section. Also, please be generous with your prayers. GOLDEN AGE CHRISTMAS PARTY St. Gabriel s Church invites all seniors to the Golden Age Christmas Party on Saturday, December 7 from 11:00am to 2:00pm in the social hall at St. Joseph s campus. Please call Myra at (952) to RSVP before December 2. 2

3 Parish News Dear Parishioners, THE PRAYER LIST Please pray for those in nursing homes, the families of the sick, caregivers, the military and their families, and for the following: Art Altenhofen, Marian Anderson, Anne & Ron Bisson, Jeanette Blake, Margaret Boklep, Marty Burley, Dan Cunningham, Tom Deyo, Marie Edquist, Jean Feltl, Baard Flesche, Millie Good, Flo Graham, Grace Hektner, Dorene Johnson, Pat Kempf, Dorothy Kilian, Susan Kobe, Chris Kosek, Lucy Lemke, Margaret LeSage, Barb Mackintosh, Pat Malinowski, Rose McGonagle, Dolores Millerbernd, Ray Novak, Dick Olson, Alice Paulsrud, Bernie Reid, Joshua Reid, Sharon Reid, Muriel Ryan, Diane Schmerler, Bob Schmidt, Jean Schwappach, Sam Seward, Sandy Sperrazza, Gil Stifter, Jim Svihel, Carole Teclaw, Jim Walker, Marlea Warren, and Steven Westley. The Deceased: Please pray for the repose of the souls of Roland Pavek and Al Wesely and pray for their family and friends who mourn them. To add a name to the list, please notify the Parish Office. Because of the length of the list, names will be published for one month. Should you wish this extended, call the Parish Office. Thank you. Come, Lord Jesus! That is our simple prayer that is in our hearts this Advent season, but it is a powerful prayer. With this prayer, we are saying that we have faith in Christ s promise that he will return and usher in his Kingdom; we are saying we acknowledge Christ as our king, and desire his return; we are saying that we are ready for him to judge the living and the dead. That is what we pray when we say during the Our Father, Thy kingdom come. That is what we look forward to during the season of Advent. Are we ready to say that? Imagine for a moment that we woke up one morning, and we were told with absolute certainty that Jesus was coming tonight. Would we be filled with joy and say we re ready, or would we panic and rush to apologize to those whom we d sinned against, find a food shelf or homeless shelter we could support, and scramble to find a time we could go to confession? If we re in the latter group, then it s time to get ready. We may have more than a day to do all the things we need to do, but then again, we may not. We have scheduled extra times for confession before our weekly Masses, Tuesday through Friday, a penance service with many priests on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:00pm, and we have our normal confessions Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30am and 3:30 4:15pm. Now is the time to put our relationships in order, with each other and with God. Come, Lord Jesus! Fr. Liekhus BULLETIN DEADLINES: Due to the upcoming holiday season the following deadlines will be Sunday, December 8 bulletin Articles are due no later than noon on Tuesday, December 3 Sunday, December 15 bulletin Articles are due no later than noon on Friday, December 6 Sunday, December 22 bulletin Articles are due no later than noon on Tuesday, December 10 Sunday, December 29 bulletin Articles are due no later than noon on Monday, December 16 Sunday, January 1 bulletin Articles are due no later than noon on Friday, December 20 Please me at mkrawczak@stgabrielhopkins.org and the bulletin volunteer at volunteer@stgabrielhopkins.org with your bulletin article(s). No drop it off at the parish office at St. John campus with bulletin article written on it. If you want it for more than one week let us know that also. If we do not get the articles by the deadline they will not get advertised in that week s bulletin. Thank you for your cooperation. 3

4 Parish News MASS INTENTIONS Sunday, December 1 8:30am Tyler Braun 10:30am Gene Clifford 1:00pm People of the Parish Tuesday, December 3 7:00am Gordon Kopesky Wednesday, December 4 8:00am Jim Keller Thursday, December 5 7:00am Gerald Keeley Friday, December 6 8:00am Carol Olson Saturday, December 7 8:00am Melissa Henson 4:30pm Ramon Alba & Erlinda Fuentes Sunday, December 8 8:30am Marion Frank 10:30am Dorothy Sullivan 1:00pm People of the Parish CHRISTMAS TREE LOT Join the Knights of Columbus every Saturday and Sunday at St. Joseph campus from November 30 through December 15, from 9:00am 5:00pm, for our annual Christmas Tree Lot. Our trees come from Wolcyn Tree Farms in northern Minnesota, an award winner for Christmas trees at this year's Minnesota State Fair. All proceeds support our parish Knights of Columbus council. Pre-orders are available. Bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the food shelf and receive $5.00 off! Contact Geoff Stankevitz at geoff.stankevitz@gmail.com or (612) ) for more information. Sunday, December 1 9:00am Christmas Tree Lot J-CH 10:30am Sunday School E-School 11:30am St. Nicholas Hospitality Sunday E-CR 5:00pm Sunday Evening Faith Formation Classes E-School Monday, December 2 7:00 pm Bible Study E-SMR 7:00pm Boy Scouts E-LD 7:30pm AA E-CAFE Tuesday, December 3 7:30am Eucharistic Adoration J-AC 9:00am Bible Study E-SMR 1:00pm Legion of Mary J-LB 5:30pm Benediction J-CH 6:30pm Holy Spirit Prayer Group J-LB 8:00pm Men s Basketball E-G Wednesday, December 4 8:15am Lifeline Screening J-SH 8:30am Adoration E-Chapel 6:00pm Stewardship Community Meeting E-Conf 7:00pm Penance Service E-CH 7:30pm Men s Basketball E-G Thursday, December 5 6:00pm Befriender s Christmas Gathering J-SH Weekly Calendar 6:30pm Choir Practice E-CH 7:00pm RCIA E-Conf 7:00pm Hispanic Community Mtg. E-CR FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN Friday, December 6 5:00pm New Member Potluck Rectory 6:00pm Bear s Scouts E-LD 8:00pm Nocturnal Adoration J-AC Saturday, December 7 9:00am Christmas Tree Lot J-CH 9:00am RCIC E-CR 10:00am Senior Christmas Party J-SH 10:30am Faith Formation Retreat J-SC 7:00pm Hispanic Community Prayer Group E-CR Sunday, December 8 9:00am Christmas Tree Lot E-CH 10:30am Sunday School E-School 5:00pm Sunday Evening Faith Formation Classes E-School 6:00pm First Reconciliation E-CH J = St. Joseph Campus J-CH Church J-SH-Social Hall J-AC-Adoration Chapel J-SC-School Cafeteria J-SB-School Building J-LB-Library J-AU-Auxiliary Room J-FF-Faith Formation Office E = St. John the Evangelist Campus E-CR Community Room E-LD Leo s Den E-CAFE Cafeteria E-G Gym E-Chapel-Chapel E-School-School E-SMR-School Meeting Room E-CONF-Conference Room December 2 12:00-2:00pm We have one date available to help with this service project. Please join with your fellow parishioners in this heart-warming service helping children. There will be sign-up sheets available at both campuses. For more information contact Angie Kuehn at (952) or to angiek7@comcast.net. 4

5 Parish News Greet Advent as WOMEN OF FAITH: An Advent Retreat sponsored by the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic woman will be held on Saturday, December 7 at St. Peter s Catholic Church, 1405 Sibley Memorial Hwy, Mendota, MN. Aimée Petra and Janae Bower of FaithWalk Retreats will be the presenters. Registration begins at 8:30am. Join us for a morning of prayer, praise and presentation concluding with Mass at 12:00pm with Archbishop John Nienstedt. Cost is $15.00 before November 23 and $20.00 thereafter. Register on line: accwadvent2013. Call (651) with questions or for a flyer, website: Put your Faith into Action - Knights of Columbus SERVING HOPKINS SINCE 1921 Meeting will be on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:00pm in Leo s Den at the St. John s campus. All Knights are welcome! If you would like more information about the Knights of Columbus, please call Grand Knight Wade Dunkley at (952) or Chancellor Ricardo Cases at (952) Have You Taken Control of Your Health Today? Life Line Screening will be here at St. Gabriel s Parish, St. Joseph Campus in the social hall on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 offering safe, painless, non-invasive preventive health screenings that are typically not a part of a routine physical. To be more proactive about your health and to live longer for yourself, your family and your community, please register for these potentially life-saving tests today. Please refer to the flyer in the bulletin to get more info about how you can sign up while receiving $10.00 off any package priced above $ For only $ (regularly $149.00) you can learn your risk of having stroke or vascular disease. There is no time like the present to take action! Learn more by watching this short video: introduction/ The gift of generosity This holiday season, we thank everyone who has supported St Gabriel the Archangel this past year with their time, talent and financial contributions and look forward to support from all of our parishioners in the year ahead. If you need a convenient way to make regular offerings or if you plan to make an additional gift before the end of the year, we encourage you to look into our electronic giving options. As the pace of life speeds up, especially around the holidays, you may find electronic giving a most welcome way to make contributions. Please contact the parish office (952) for more information. Make a Year End Donation Please be advised that end-of-year donations, intended for the 2013 tax season, need to be either received at the parish by December 31 or postmarked via USPS before December 31. This holds true for donations received during Masses the final week of the year (Tuesday, December 31 and Wednesday, January 1). Any questions, please contact the parish office at (952)

6 Faith Formation & School News NO faith formation THIS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 No Sunday Morning Preschool or Sunday Evening Faith Formation this weekend. We wish everyone a very blessed Thanksgiving. Faith Formation session will resume next Sunday, December 8. FIRST RECONCILIATION REHEARSAL & RETREAT Saturday, December 7 For all Faith Formation and Notre Dame Academy children and parents who are preparing for First Reconciliation. On Saturday, December 7, from 9:00 to 10:30am. Please meet in the Community Room at the St. John s campus. 2nd YEAR CONFIRMATION RETREAT Saturday, December 7 Gather at 10:30am at the St. Joseph s Campus in the School Building (South Entrance near Central Park). Family, sponsors and friends please join us for the closing Mass at 4:30pm in the Church. We give thanks to God for each new child registered! You can find the registration form at the Church entrances and on our Parish website: stgabrielthearchangelcatholicchurch/documents/ff%20registration%20form% pdf HOSPITAL MINISTRY FOR COMMUNION MINISTERS Reminder to All Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion at Methodist Hospital Meeting on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, from 10:00am to 11:00am in the Inlet Room at Methodist Hospital. New ministers are welcome. Questions? Contact Mary Fran Karanikolas, Pastoral Minister at (952) or mfkaranikolas@stgabrielhopkins.org. Senior Penance Service There will be a senior Penance Service on Tuesday, December 10 at St. Joseph Campus at 10:00am. Reception following in the social hall. FIRST FRIDAY December 6 8:00pm THE NOCTURNAL ADORATION SOCIETY commences its adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Prayer leaders for the hour are: 8-9 Gerald Techam 9-10 Marilyn Johnson John Krawcak Eileen Quigley ACCL MEETING! All are welcome to attend our next ACCL (A Community Caring for Life) Meeting on Saturday, December 7 at 10:30am in room 150 of the school building. Use the door in back of the school, closest to Central Park. It has a small wooden ramp. Questions? Contact Kathleen Esh at kmeyesh@yahoo.com or (952) Express Metals Recycling 8094 Excelsior Blvd, Hopkins When bringing metals for recycling to Express Metals as donations for our church, please be sure to mention that the church to get credit is St. Gabriel, not St. John. There are two St. John s (one is a Lutheran church). The cashier might mistakenly credit the wrong church. Thank you. 6

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8 SAN GABRIEL ARCANGEL Confesiones, domingos 12;30pm Santa Misa, domingos 1:00pm Pastor: Rev. Padre James Liekhus (Padre Jim) Primer Domingo de Adviento A 1 de diciembre del 2013 CÓMO PREPARARSE Hemos completado el círculo y hoy empezamos un nuevo año litúrgico. El tono de las lecturas de hoy nos pone en la posición del estudiante que aprende unas importantes lecciones. La lectura de Isaías prepara la escena, invitándonos a subir a la montaña para escuchar las instrucciones del Señor. En este pasaje estudiamos la paz. Luego Pablo nos presenta advertencias sombrías. Debemos estar alertas porque el día está a la puerta. Vivan honradamente en la luz. Pablo nos recuerda que sabemos en que tiempo vivimos. Finalmente, Mateo nos presenta a Jesús, el relator. Imagínense, nos dice Jesús, lo que era vivir en tiempos de Noé. Presenta una imagen muy realista de gente común viviendo vidas ordinarias e ignorando las advertencias que Noé escuchó. Totalmente despreocupados, fueron destruidos. Podrá ser diferente para nosotros? Nadie sabe cuando vendrá el Señor. Pero nos advirtió. Tal vez pensemos que ese tipo de Escritura es desagradable y amenazante. Pero contiene promesas. Debemos vivir en la luz; con nada escondido. Debemos estar listos. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura Todas las naciones confluirán hacia el monte del Señor (Isaías 2:1-5). Salmo Qué alegría cuando me dijeron: Vamos a la casa del Señor (Salmo 122 [121]). Segunda lectura Ya es el momento de que se despierten del sueño. Desechemos, pues, las obras de las tinieblas y revistámonos con las armas de la luz, el Señor Jesucristo (Romanos 13:11-14). Evangelio Velen, pues, y estén preparados para la venida del Hijo de Hombre (Mateo 24:37-44). BAUTISMOS Bautismo: sábado 26 de enero/13 11:00am Por favor NO niños en la clase. Registración después de la Misa. Sábado: Is 30:19-21, 23-26; Sal 147 (146):1-6; Mt 9:35 10:1 Domingo: Is 11:1-10; Sal 72 (71):1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE Es tiempo de añadir los reyes magos al pesebre. En 1448 llegaron los pesebres italianos a las iglesias españolas, pero no fue hasta que el Rey Carlos III le regaló un pesebre a su hijo en el siglo XVIII que el uso de pesebres se expandió en los hogares. Desde entonces, el uso de nacimientos llega al continente americano en donde se convierte en la decoración principal para las fiestas navideñas. Así como en todo país latinoamericano el montaje del Belén es una tradición, lo es también en Venezuela. Con el pesebre venezolano llegan también aguinaldos, parrandas, Misas y patines. Sí! Patines! Desde la mitad del siglo pasado los venezolanos celebran la época navideña con patinadas. Estas patinadas normalmente se hacen por las mañanas y muchas calles están cerradas a los autos hasta las 8 a.m. para que niños y jóvenes puedan disfrutar de los patines, bicicletas y otros juguetes que les regala el niño Dios. Por eso, muchos niños duermen con un cordoncito atado al dedo gordo de los pies, que cuelgan por la ventana para que los despierten los que pasan patinado. LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: Is 4:2-6; Sal 122 (121):1-9; Mt 8:5-11 Martes: Is 11:1-10; Sal 72 (71):1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Lc 10:21-24 Miércoles: Is 25:6-10a; Sal 23 (22):1-6; Mt 15:29-37 Jueves: Is 26:1-6; Sal 118 (117):1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Mt 7:21, Viernes: Is 29:17-24; Sal 27 (26):1, 4, 13-14; Mt 9:27-31 GRUPO DE ORACION Sábados 7:00pm Catequesis de Padres de familia Bienvenid@s a la Santa Misa SÓLO JESÚS Debemos orar sin cansarnos, porque la salvación de la humanidad no depende del éxito material sino sólo de Jesús.