December 23, 2018 Holy Trinity Parish Fourth Sunday of Advent

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1 December 23, 2018 Holy Trinity Parish Fourth of Advent

2 HOLY TRINITY PARISH DECEMBER 23, 2018 LIGONIER, PA First Reconciliation, December 8, 2018 OPLATKI (CHRISTMAS WAFER) Please take the Oplatki home to celebrate with your family this Christmas. The Oplaki is a full blessing of the Church. Please help us to celebrate the tradition of Christmas again this year. Oplatki are available for sale in the Church s Narthex and in the Reservation Chapel. The cost is $3.00. Make checks payable to Holy Trinity Church. presentaon that will Could you not watch one hour with Me? Eucharisc Adoraon Every First You are invited to sign the schedule sheet located in the Narthex for the first. In your charity, please pray for the soul of our parishioner, Charlotte Zurich, mother of our parishioner, Tina Malinish and husband Scott. Mrs. Zurich passed on December 11, May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. CHRISTMAS TREE OF COZY COMFORT Holy Trinity Parish will be assisting our Bethlen Communities partners in helping those elderly in need by providing a basket in the Narthex of the church to collect new or gently used (clean) hats, gloves and scarves. The items that are placed in the basket by parishioners will be added to the donated items on the Christmas Tree of Cozy Comfort in the Bethlen Offices here on the Holy Trinity Campus and then be distributed to seniors in need. Since the Home Health and Hospice Offices are only open from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM thru Friday, and the majority of our parishioners are here on weekends and in the evenings, the parish wanted to help you help those senior citizens who may not be able to purchase a warm hat or covering for their neck or hands this winter. Please help us provide some cozy comfort by putting your donated items in the basket when you attend church during the weekends prior to Christmas. Holy Trinity Parish 342 W. Main St., Ligonier, PA Parish Business Office: Mon.-Wed. & Friday 8:30 AM-3:00 PM Closed Thursday Rev. John M. Foriska, Pastor Addy Evangeliste, Parish Secretary Carol Serafin, Pastoral Associate for Catechesis Bennett Porchiran, Director of Music Ministry Tina Komarinski, Youth Coordinator

3 GOD PROVIDES, BUT YOU RE THE DELIVERY SYSTEM Please consider a gift this Christmas to the Children and Family Services Appeal; the second envelope at all Masses on & 25. Providing Help, Creating Hope Hunger and Poverty Don t Discriminate. Blizzard Box Assembly Thank you Holy Trinity Community Service for sponsoring yet another service to the Ligonier community. A special thanks to members Anne Mary Campbell, Bill and Mary Smith, Madelon Sheedy, her daughter Clare, Julia Smith and Lisa Moeller who gathered on December 11 at Heritage United Methodist Church to assemble boxes of emergency food given to Meals on Wheels recipients to use when inclement weather prohibits delivery of their regular meals. Anybody interested in helping to assemble next year's Blizzard Boxes, please contact the rectory office at

4 Parish Activities Calendar for December, 2018 & January, 2019 A=Atrium C=Church H=Social Hall L=Loft PL=Parish Library SL= Old School Library PMR=Parish Meeting Room All Times Are PM Unless Otherwise Indicated Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 23 Children s Liturgy during 11:00 AM Mass 24 Masses: 8:00 AM 5:30 PM 10:00 PM 25 Mass 10:00 AM Thrive Youth Ministry Now we are about to receive the Savior, Emmanuel, God with us. God's only-begotten Son, born of the Father before all time, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, one being with the Father, is about to be born in time. For the salvation of men, He has come down upon earth and is conceived by the Holy Ghost in a virgin. He shall be called God with us, and yet He will be one in nature with us. He is to be like to us in all things except sin. He will share our poverty and pray and suffer with us; He assumes our guilt. He is God with us in every phase of our life; He even takes our place on the cross, He remains with us in Holy Communion, in our daily Mass, and in our tabernacles. At some time in the future, he will still be God with us in His beautiful heaven. All this He has done for us even though we have repeatedly turned our back on Him. Remember... lunch & Learns resume in January!! January 6, 2019 is our Youth Mass & Reception in the Atrium, bring the family!! Coordinator of Youth Ministry Tina Komarinski, tkomarinski@dioceseofgreensburg.org Prayer Shawl 1:00-3:00 - PL nd Envelope Children & Family Services Appeal New Year s Eve Mass 5:00 PM 1 New Year s Day Mass 9:00 AM CrMS Intro Class 7:00-9:00 PL Choir Rehearsal 7:00-9:00 - L

5 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 23, 2018 Liturgical Assignments EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS Marty Rovedatti-Jackson, Julia Smith, Debbie Bridge, Theresa Wigle, Paul Trimeloni Karen Erbe, Carol Farabaugh, Denise Warren Dee McColly, Marge Moffat, Steve Williams Thomas Carney, Bill & Mary Smith Denise Warren, Adam Cogan, Margie Horrell Anne Petrof, Karen Erbe, Steve Williams Daily-Week of 12/24 Bill Smith Daily-Week of LECTORS Pat Lawlor Lisa Klancher Willie Ulery Doug Poole Alma Johnson Greg Jablunovsky 12/24 Mary Sidehammer ALTAR SERVERS Alyssa Anderson, Caleb Sabo Hannah Long, Michael Hillen Noah Dunn, Jaedyn Krupper Maria Carney, Caitlyn Carney None Mark Jablunovsky, Jack Petrof CANTORS Trish Fite Bobbie Cramer Ursula Adams Bobbie Cramer Vince DeCosmo Terry Trimeloni Mass Intentions, December 22 + In Loving Memory of John Baloga by Wife, Bonnie, December 23 + Joseph Jogun by Annie & Family For All Parishioners, + Matthew John Bingaman by Family + Bernard Klawinski by Ligonier Golf Friends + Dennis Vucina - Birthday Remembrance by Connie & Louis Vucina, + Robert & Mary Ann Klinchock by Klinchock Family Wednesday, December 26 + Mother, Mary Louise Karns by Daughters, Judith, Janet, & Peggy Thursday, December 27 + Bernie & Dolly Lynch by The Baldonieri Family Friday, December 28 + Sy Straka by Sister, Margie Horrell and his brother-in-law, Luther Horrell, + O Connell Will - Anniversary by Rose Mary & Carol, + Stephen A. Shepard by Cindy & Larry Busch For All Parishioners Regional evening Mass will be 6:00 PM at Holy Family Latrobe CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE CHRISTMAS VIGIL/EVENING MASSES, DECEMBER 24, at 5:30 PM, DECEMBER 24, at 10:00 PM (No Midnight Mass) CHRISTMAS DAY MASS, DECEMBER 25, at 10:00 AM. NEW YEAR MASS SCHEDULE NEW YEAR S EVE, DECEMBER 31, MASS at 5:30 PM NEW YEAR S DAY, JANUARY 1, 2019 MASS at 9:00 AM The Parish Office will be closed December 24, 25, and 26 due to Christmas Holidays. EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION TO THE SICK We wish you a Merry and Blessed Christmas. COLLECTION COUNTERS Attendance and Offertory information for last weekend will appear in next week s Bulletin due to early printing deadline for this bulletin. 12/30 Marge Moffat, Steve Williams 12/30 John Sharbaugh, Mark Hollick, Lisle Conway