Blessings and Happy New Year to Everyone!

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1 Mass Schedule at Sacred Heart Church Mass Intentions This Weekend Saturday Harold Weigand (40th Anniversary) req: daughter 5:30pm James Wilhelm (18th Anniversary) req: Debbie Wilhelm & Family Sunday 9:30am Daniel Gillman Vincent Verlezza req: Janine Kandora req: Ed & Judy Creede req: Louis Conte A warm and beautiful Christmas welcome to all who worship in our Sacred Heart Catholic Church! May the Word of God bring you peace and joy. If you are visiting, please consider us your parish away from home. We welcome all visitors coming to Lake George in joining us for Eucharist during your stay. May you have an enjoyable visit and vacation. Week of January 4th Mass Intentions Monday For the health of Marie Nelson Wednesday Robert Schottler req: Rita & Lorry Friday req: John & Rosalie Folino Larry Cauda (Birthday remembrance) req: wife Kitty, son Joe & family Saturday 5:30pm Margaret Cordisco Guy Family Thomas Cutignola req: Friends at Sacred Heart req: Barbara Guy req: DianeShea Sunday 9:30am Ryan Kelder Bob Swan req: Team Tremblay req: Jim & JoAnn Grey req: Burns Family Please pray for the sick and homebound, as well as the men and women in service and Pray for all priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters, lay ministers and seminarians of our Albany diocese. Please check our online prayer list for the sick of our parish at: Your Stewardship of Treasure: Regular Offertory Collection: Last Week: $2,293 Last Year: $4,112 Christmas Offertory: Last Week: $10,493 Last Year: $9,352 Mailed offertory from other churches: $564 This weekend will be our Reduction of Debt Collection, AND it will be the LAST one!! With this last collection, we are paying off our loan for the new church 3 ½ year s early!! Thank you to everyone who made this dream come true! Blessings and Happy New Year to Everyone! CHRISTMAS PEACE PATH Our "Peace Path" has been especially cleared and decorated with "family trees" and a lighted way to the manger. Take a walk through the Peace Path (behind the church) and spend a few minutes experiencing the beauty of nature and the many symbols of faith, life and harmony. Many children and adults have worked hard to prepare the peace path for our reflection and celebration of the meaning of Christmas. "All the earth proclaim the Lord, sing your praise to God"

2 12. Twelve drummers drumming symbolize the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostles Creed. FREE Community Dinner Program every Wednesday. On January 6th, Team Knights of Columbus will be serving something yummy from 5-6pm. Please join us and bring a friend who dines alone. Electronic Giving Program You can go to our web site, ( and click the link on the left side of page (On Line Giving) and follow that link to our new, safe and secure electronic giving page, where you can set up your own contributions. Help us grow Consider scheduling a recurring electronic contribution today. Some believe that The Twelve Days of Christmas was written in code. It had a hidden message, and for a good reason. After you find out what the code means, you ll never listen to this favorite Christmas song in the same way again The Twelve Days of Christmas was created in England during a time of religious persecution when Catholicism was outlawed in the 16th to 18th centuries. The song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, was written as a kind of secret catechism that could be sung in public without fear of arrest a learning or memory aid to Christians in fact. Each verse refers to a teaching of church doctrine with the partridge being Christ who died on a tree and the True Love being God the Father, who gave us all gifts. The twelve days of Christmas are the twelve days between Christmas Day, Dec. 25th, the birth of Jesus, and the Epiphany, Jan. 6th, the day Christians celebrate the arrival of the Magi (Wise Men) and the revelation of Christ as the light of the world. Each element in the song is a code word for religious truth: 1. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus. 2. The two turtledoves are the Old and New Testaments. 3. Three French hens stand for faith, hope and love. 4. The four calling birds are the four Gospels. 5. The five gold rings recall the Hebrew Torah (Law), or the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. 6. The six geese a-laying stand for the six days of creation. 7. The seven swans a-swimming represent the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. 8. The eight maids a-milking are the eight Beatitudes. 9. Nine ladies dancing are the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. 10. The ten lords a-leaping are the Ten Commandments. 11. Eleven pipers piping represent the eleven faithful Apostles. Knights of Columbus Corner. Bulletin Sponsor of the Week.Tell them you saw their ad in our weekly bulletin! Mohan s Glen Dew Check out their huge and extensive fine wines and Liquor Store! 689 Glens Street Queensbury Right next to the Price Chopper If our new Mass schedule in not convenient for you, please visit any of the other Catholic Churches in our area. You are more than welcome (and encouraged to!) to attend any of our neighboring churches. And if you place your Sacred Heart Church offertory envelope into their collection basket, the parishes do a weekly exchange of these envelopes, and your contribution to Sacred Heart will be sent to us. If you haven t considered signing up yet for our Electronic Giving Program, now would be a perfect time to support your church and community. Cut and Post It! Following are the churches in our immediate area, and their Mass schedules. All are within a 15 minute drive (except for Holy Mother and Child in Corinth). Sacred Heart Lake George Saturday: 5:30pm Sunday: 9:30am Our Lady of the Annunciation Queensbury Saturday: 4pm Sunday: 8am & 11:30am Blessed Sacrament Church Bolton Landing Sunday: 10:45am Holy Mother & Child Corinth (Luzerne closed for winter) Saturday: 4pm Sunday: 9am St. Cecilia s Church Warrensburg Saturday: 4:30pm Sunday: 10am We thank you for your support, your prayers and your understanding as we as a faith community and church prepare for the future. END OF YEAR CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS It s tax time and for those who donate to our Parish using the envelope system, all your donations are recorded. In an effort to be more cost effective we will make a printout of your contributions, available to you upon request, for your convenience in your tax preparation. Kathy at

3 call the office at , or stop by the office. Thank you! WOW!!! The HARK ministry would like to thank all the Parishioners for their support, so please join the HARK Ministry next Sunday, January 10th after the 9:30 Mass in the parish center for coffee and desserts. Please plan on stopping by for coffee and some delicious refreshments! FYI Family Faith Formation. Meeting again in March Something wonderful to think about as we enter the New Year calling moms, grandmas, aunts and any woman desiring to pray for children and schools, (all schools), a group of women who meet weekly, every Friday morning 9-10am, excluding holidays and school vacation weeks) meeting at the home of Jill Greene. For more information, call Jill at , or jillgreene10@gmail.com or find them on Facebook: Praying Moms of Lake George, NY (please check their Facebook page before each meeting for unexpected meeting cancellations). Moms in Prayer International. Our new Parish Cook Books are on sale for $8 AND Entertainment books in the Parish Center we only have 4 left! $25 each. Can you help We are appealing for volunteers to serve occasionally as a substitute Sacristan at the Saturday 5:30pm Mass. If interested, please sign up on the sheet posted in the lobby. Training will be provided. If you have time today, after the 9:30am Mass, we will be un-decorating our churches. Sadly, because they look so beautiful! Also, looking for help in taking down the Christmas tree and decorations in the Parish Center Year of Mercy...What is this Holy Door that is in the news? It is, frankly simply a door, but one that is rich in symbolism. Jesus is the Door! Jesus told us that He is the door through which we enter the pasture of the Good Shephard. Passing through a Holy Door is a gesture of leaving the past behind and crossing the threshold from sin to grace, from slavery to freedom, from darkness to light. During the Year of Mercy, we are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to cross the Holy Door at our Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, or at one of the other sites that have designated Holy Doors, which are Church of St. Peter in Saratoga Springs, Church of the Immaculate Conception in Glenville, St. Stanislaus Church in Amsterdam, Our Lady of Knock Shrine in East Durham, and the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm/St. Teresa s Motherhouse in Germantown. Pope Francis prayer for the Year of Mercy Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved. Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money; the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things; made Peter weep after his betrayal, and assured Paradise to the repentant thief. Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us, the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman: If you knew the gift of God! You are the visible face of the invisible Father, of the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy: let the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified. You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error: let everyone who approaches them feel sought after, loved, and forgiven by God. Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind. We ask this through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy, you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. New Church Calendars are available Many thanks to our friends at Regan, Denny & Stafford Funeral Home for their donation of our beautiful New Year calendar. Pick one up today after Mass.

4 Looking for a way to help someone? The American Cancer Society is looking for volunteer drivers through their program Road to Recovery. Volunteer drivers take patients for their weekly chemotherapy and radiation treatments. For more information call ACS-2345 or visit Peace in my Heart Peace in this Place Peace in our Land And throughout the World Peace Are you interested in a few informal dance gatherings? Nothing fancy, nothing too serious, just an opportunity to get out and make some new friends, learn a few moves, and have lots of laughs and fun. We are exploring the possibility of having instructors teach us to: Line Dance? Swing Dance? Ballroom Dance? All for FUN and EXERCISE! This social will be extended to the neighboring parishes and community. Your input is needed! Please call Cathy Mac at (518) or cathymacc1947@gmail.com.

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