St James Parish

Canonically Erected: July 28, 1993 First Mass: August 1, 1993

Dedication of the Church: Rosary Sunday October 4, 2014 Parish Feast Day: Solemnity of St James the Greater: July 25th

December 1, 2019

First Sunday of Advent Per’s Basil-

ica

2777 Townline Road, Abbotsford, BC V2T 5E1 Telephone: 604.864.8800 | E-mail: parish.stjames@rcav.org

Website: stjamesabby.com

P A R I S H D I R E C T O R Y Pastor: Rev. William Ashley Secretary: Teresa Filiatrault Parish Office Hours: Monday to Friday : 8.30 am-4:00 pm Sunday Mass: Saturday (anticipated) @ 4.30 pm Sunday @ 9 am ǀ 11 am ǀ 6.30 pm Weekday Mass: Monday to Friday @ 8.00 am Saturday and Statutory Holidays @ 9.00 am Confession: 30 minutes before Sunday Masses 15 minutes before weekday Masses Saturday: Before and after 9 am Mass Elementary School Devotions: Friday @ 9.20 am: Confession, Adoration and Rosary Baptisms, Marriages & Communion to the Sick Eucharistic Adoration:

Altar Servers Altar Guild Catholic Women’s League Children’s Celebration Civic Affairs Committee El Shaddai Filipino Ministry/Hospitality

Sodality of Mary Finance Committee First Saturday Rosary Club Knights of Columbus Music Ministry Parish Council Prison Ministry Project Advance Pro-Life Coordinator RCIA Bible Study School Building Committee

St Vincent de Paul Society Website Women’s Recollection Youth Council Youth Ministry

Fr Ashley Cecilia Tsang Sheila Hall (604.859.8684) Heidi Calzavara 604.859.9199) Marc Vella Ghie Javier (604.758.2146) Rosalina Cole (604.859.8465) Della Oberhoffner Elizabeth Ocon Walter Dona (604.852.2589) Bob Buckham, Mark Sweeney and Daniel Anctil Monica Roddis (604.853.7985) Bob Buckham (604.852.9311) John Burden Monica Roddis (604.853.7985) Fr Ashley, Caleb, and Kevin Rod Griffiths, Blanca Hluskova Kim McLellan (604.850.2217) Ilona Payne Maxine Leslie (778.666.7529) Fr Ashley Richard Gumpal (604.377.8187)

E D U C A T I O N

Parish Religious Education Program Connie Slomski 604.613.5665

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St James & St Ann’s Elementary School

604.852.1788 ǀ stjameselementary.ca

Principal: Terri Sask

St John Brebeuf Regional High School

604.855.0571 ǀ stjohnbrebeuf.ca

Principal: Gianni Bittante

Catholic Pacific College 604.888.7727

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Contact the Parish Office.

Friday @ 8.30-11 am (Benediction): September-June

ST JAMES THE GREATER PROTOMARTYR OF THE APOSTLES

PRAY FOR US !

SANCTE IACOBE MAIOR,

ORA PRO NOBIS !

A warm welcome to St James the Greater Parish! Say hello to Fr Ashley, our pastor.

Kindly register in the parish so that we may serve you more efficiently. Registration forms are available in the foyer or on the website.

First Saturday Devotion Please join us on Saturday,

Dec. 7 after the 4:30pm Mass to pray the rosary and offer 15

minutes of meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary, in rep-

aration for sins against Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Potluck

supper to follow in the foyer.

Light up for chirst Join the Knights of Columbus in lighting up the Nativity on Tues. Dec. 3 at 7pm. Caroling and refreshments to follow.

Oranges The Knights of Columbus will be selling oranges

after the Sunday 9am and 11am Masses. Orange sales will

continue for the next 3-4 weeks.

Breakfast with St. Nicholas! Enjoy the Knights of

Columbus Pancake Breakfast on Sunday Dec. 8th at 10am and

have an opportunity to visit with St. Nicholas and even have

your photo taken with him!

Pregnant? Need to talk? Hurting from a past abortion?

For confidential and compassionate help, text: “HOPE” to 393939 or go to “onlinecare.ca”

COMPENDIUM OF THE CATECHISM OF THE

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Section One: “I Believe”- We Believe

Chapter Two- God Comes to Meet Man

9. What is the full and definitive stage of God’s Revelation? The full and definitive stage of God’s revelation is accom-plished in his Word made flesh, Jesus Christ, the mediator and fullness of Revelation. He, being the only-begotten Son of God made man, is the perfect and definitive Word of the Father. In the sending of the Son and the gift of the Spirit, Revelation is now fully complete, although the faith of the Church must gradually grasp its full significance over the course of centuries.

10. What is the value of private revelations? While not be-longing to the deposit of faith, private revelations may help a person to live the faith as long as they lead us to Christ. The Magisterium of the Church, which has the duty of evalu-ating such private revelations, cannot accept those which claim to surpass or correct that definitive Revelation which is Christ.

11. Why and in what way is divine revelation transmitted? God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4), that is, of Jesus Christ. For this reason, Christ must be proclaimed to all ac-cording to his own command. “Go forth and teach all na-tions” (Matthew 28:19). And this is brought about by Apos-tolic Tradition.

12. What is Apostolic Tradition? Apostolic Tradition is the transmission of the message of Christ, brought about from the very beginnings of Christianity by means of preaching, bearing witness, institutions, worship, and inspired writings. The apostles transmitted all they received from Christ and learned from the Holy Spirit to their successors, the bishops, and through them to all generations until the end of the world.

Please Pray For Healing of our Sick Parishioners

Una Gaughan, Wendy McKellar, Paul Schmidtke, Wayne Cole, Henry Abeywickreme, Felicisima Junos, Bill Hireen, Luka Volentier,

James Hargrave, Roger Loiselle, Ian MacDougall, Julie Miller and Joyce Walker

WEEKLY CALENDAR Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019 (Anticipatory Mass) 4:30pm ◊ Missa Pro Populo 7pm Philippino Tagalog Mass Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019 First Sunday of Advent 9am ◊ Int: Ɨ RIP Gerhard Bulla 11am ◊ Int: Fr. Ashley 6:30pm ◊ Int: Healing for Erika Carolino Monday, Dec. 2, 2019 8am ◊ Int: Ɨ RIP Holy Souls Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 8am St. Francis Xavier ◊ Int: Ɨ RIP William Griffiths 7pm: Knights of Columbus Light Up for Christ 7pm: RCIA/Bible Study Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 8am St. John Damascene ◊ Int: Ɨ RIP Lindsey Sunder Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 8am ◊ Int: Mary Anne Andersen Friday, Dec. 6, 2019 8am St. Nicholas ◊ Int: Alexandra Johnson 8:30: Adoration followed by Divine Mercy Chaplet at 11am and Benediciton, School confessions, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019 9am St. Ambrose ◊ Int: Ɨ RIP Matt & Molly Leslie (Anticipatory Mass) 4:30pm ◊ Int: Denis Thomas 5:30pm: First Saturday Rosary Devotion Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 Second Sunday of Advent 9am ◊ Int: Ɨ RIP Emily West 10am: Pancake Breakfast with St. Nick 11am ◊ Int: Tadaaki Nishizawa 12:30pm: El Shaddai 6:30pm ◊ Int: Missa Pro Populo

We sincerely thank the 73 families who have already

donated $45,268 to our Project Advance Campaign!

Daily Mass Scripture Readings:

Sunday 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday 8

Is 2: 1-5 Ps 122Rom 13: 11-14 Mt 2: 37-44

Is 4: 2-6 Ps 122 Mt 8: 5-13

Is 11: 1-10 Ps 72 Lk 10: 21-24

Is 25: 6-10 Ps 23 Mt 15: 29-37

Is 26: 1-6 Ps 118 Mt 7: 21-27

Is 29: 17-24 Ps 27 Mt 9: 27-31

Is 30: 19-26 Ps 147 Mt 9: 35-10:8

Is 11: 1-10 Ps 72 Rom 15: 4-9 Mt 3: 1-12

SJB Fair Trade Market During the first week of Decem-ber (2-6) a group of students will be hosting a fair trade mar-ket! The market will feature products made in third-world countries brought to us by Ten Thousand Villages, Bags by Courtney and Burkina Faso Canada. All funds will go toward the hard-working artisans. The market is cash only and per-fect for the upcoming Christmas season! Everyone is invited to come and shop. The sale will be in the MPX at lunch (12:30-1:30) during the week of December 2-6.

Messiah The Chilliwack Symphony and Chorus, Belle Voci

and the Chilliwack Children & Youth choir under the direction

of Paul De Wit will perform Handel’s Messiah at St. James

Parish on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 7:30pm. Tickets at King’s Mu-

sic store, Tom Lee Music store and online at chilliwacksym-

phony.com

Hiring Staff for St. Ann’s Daycare St. Ann’s Daycare is looking for caring, compassionate and enthusiastic child-care workers who have experience working with children ag-es 18 to 36 months. Full time & part time positions available. Requirements:

· Registered Early Childhood Education in BC · First Aid Certification · Good communication skills to work with children and their parents · Physical and emotional well-being to withstand the de-mands of working with young children

Resumes to be dropped off, emailed or mailed to St. Ann’s Parish Office.

Christmas Musical The seniors of your parish are invited to attend a luncheon and performance of St. James & St. Ann's School Christmas Musical on Wed. Dec.18th. Doors open at 12:00pm with lunch served at 12:15pm. The show begins at 1:00pm. Admission is by donation. Please RSVP the school at 604-852-1788 by December 16th so we can plan accordingly. We look forward to seeing you there!

Watch Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, Fr. Pierre Ducharme, OFM and Fr. Martin Moser, OMI speak about Pope Francis as Leader of the Catholic Church "The Aquinas Time", Dec. 1, 2019 on YouTube.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMqPdyLLW7bwo_yx2hi3TyQ?

Rhinestones & Angel Wings Gala This is Domestic Abuse Services' annual fundraiser to help raise awareness about domestic abuse. All proceeds will support our victims helpline, second-stage transition home, Eva’s House, as well as other programs and services we offer. The evening will be filled with live music and dancing and guests will be treated to a scrumptious gourmet dinner. We welcome our guest speaker, Henry Waldock, a local trial lawyer who will share his experience with cases of domestic violence. There will also be a live and silent auction, fun raffle, door prizes, and plenty of friendly company to share! This gala takes place Saturday, Dec. 7, at 6:30 p.m. at St. Matthew's Parish in Sur-rey. Reserve your tickets today at domesticabuseservices.ca

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Dec. 1: 1st Sunday of Advent Study: Lectio Mary, Episode 1: The New Eve Dec. 3: St. Francis Xavier Kids: Francis Xavier and the Samurai’s Lost Treasure Dec. 6: St. Nicholas Watch: St. Nicholas, the Real Story Dec. 7: St. Ambrose Listen: The Restless Flame Dec. 9: Feast of the Immaculate Conception Study: Why Believe? Season 1, Episode 13- Mary, Queen Mother

Knights of Columbus Up-Coming Events

Tues. Dec. 3 7 PM Light Up for Christ Sun. Dec 8 10AM Pancake Breakfast with St. Nicholas

Penitential Services, Advent 2019

(all at 7pm unless otherwise noted)

Thurs. Dec. 5 St. Mary’s, Chilliwack

Thurs. Dec. 12 St. Joseph’s, Langley

Tues. Dec. 17 St. Joseph’s, Mission

Tues. Dec. 17 St. Nicholas, Langley

Wed. Dec. 18 Sts. Joachim & Ann, Aldergrove

Fri. Dec. 20 St. Ann’s, Abbotsford

Sat. Dec. 21 Our Lady of Good Hope, Hope

Sun. Dec. 22 @

5pm St. Anthony of Padua, Agassiz

Mon. Dec. 23 St. James, Abbotsford

Crisis Magazine NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Lead Us, Please, Into Temptation CHILTON WILLIAMSON, JR.

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), famous in his time

but hardly ever read and nearly forgotten today,

wrote two brilliant satirical novels (Main

Street and Babbitt) and one gentle, bittersweet,

and genuinely moving one (Dodsworth, about

an uncultured Midwestern automobile executive

who takes his socially and culturally ambitious

wife to Europe, where she betrays him with an-

other man). Lewis’s other novels, progressively

banal, uninspired, and sloppily written, in-

clude Elmer Gantry, whose protagonist is mod-

eled on Billy Sunday. Gantry, a preacher of the

type known in the early 20th century as a Holy

Roller, perfectly fits Mencken’s description of

Woodrow Wilson as “the perfect model of a

Christian cad.” He is a religious salesman with

no religion, a showman, a hypocrite, a philan-

derer, and a cheat. His precise denomination is

left unspecified, but he is—of course—a

Protestant. Were Lewis—an atheist who once

invited God to strike him dead at a public meet-

ing—writing the book today he would probably

make Elmer a Catholic priest, assuming he

found Catholicism sufficiently American to in-

clude in his catalogue of salient national institu-

tions in the interwar period to be debunked.

For American liberals, Catholicism is a favorite

butt and target of their enlightened and civi-

lized scorn, as the Church was for Voltaire and

the other philosophes in 18th-century France.

Catholics in that period had not yet learned to

take their contempt and mockery in stride, as

we more or less do today. Ridicule is simply

what one expects from liberals. Even so, the

pleasure—the malicious glee, actually—that

anti-Catholic liberals find in the spiritual and

institutional woes from which the Church suf-

fers today on account of the personal sins of

too many of Her clergy, Her institutional cor-

ruption and confusion, and the consequent

falling away in large numbers by Her once-

faithful members is considerably more than

annoying. Rome’s trials, liberals imply and

often say, are the natural fruits of an ignorant,

superstitious, oppressive, hypocritical, bigot-

ed, misogynic, morally twisted, puritanical,

anti-humanist, and anti-human religion that is

an outdated relic of unenlightened and barba-

rous times. The Roman Catholic Church is just

reaping the whirlwind of Her own creation!

Given that modern liberals are no good at his-

tory, religious history especially, it is unsur-

prising that they have the story exactly back-

ward. It is not Her dark and desperate past

that has corrupted the contemporary Church.

It is the bright secular liberal present that is

responsible—deliberately. Its war against

Catholicism is an adjunct of its onslaught

against the wider civilization of the West and,

beyond that, humanity.

The Church Militant is an historical as well as

a supernatural institution, on a pilgrimage to-

ward Her heavenly goal. She is thus an in-

tensely human one as well, whose members

remain imperfect, weak, and fallible beings,

including those—one prays they are the

majority—who are nevertheless destined for

sainthood. They are as susceptible to the

wiles and temptations of the Devil and to

carnal promptings as anyone else. Catholics,

like all Christians, pray to God that He may

not lead them into temptation.

Yet temptation continues to abound, and mod-

ern liberalism’s religion is the worship of temp-

tation (and ultimately the Tempter, though it

doesn’t believe in him), whose consummation

amounts to grateful surrender to it. Liberalism,

which began as the project of intellectual and

political freedom, later added religious freedom

to its agendum and merged them a century and

a half later with commercial freedom in com-

merce’s quest for material plenty. Once political,

religious, and commercial freedom had been

realized, the further project to achieve moral

autonomy and freedom of behaviour in an afflu-

ent and godless society was inevitable. Taken

together, these five freedoms amount to free-

dom in every aspect of life—including tempta-

tion of every sort. But it is temptation untem-

pered and unrestrained by religious faith,

which, though officially free of formal legal and

political restrictions, has been nevertheless

weakened and discredited by the dominant

ethos of freedom and reduced to an object of

mockery, making political opposition and perse-

cution clear possibilities.

Yet oppression and persecution are far less

dangerous to the Church than the temptations

offered by a nearly totally permissive society. Is

a parish priest, bishop, archbishop, or pope—

his clerical duties excepted—not human like the

rest of us, i.e., endowed with a lay Catholic’s

“hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections,

passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with

the same weapons, subject to the same diseas-

es, healed by the same means, warmed and

cooled by the same winter and summer” as a

layman is? If you prick him, does he not bleed?

If you tickle him, does he not laugh? If you poi-

son him, does he not die? And if you tempt him

with an attractive woman (or a man or boy, if he

is so unfortunately inclined), can he not yield?

His Church and his God say that to do so is

in any case to sin carnally is not to err at all, but

rather to acquiesce to his full humanity by freeing

himself from arbitrary moralistic constraints that

stunt and warp his human development. “Just do

it!” (And perjure yourself later, should you happen

to get caught.)

What sort of a world sets up men and the

Church—to which they have pledged their lives

and their souls—to sin deliberately; tempts them

to the act and then excuses it, but afterwards pub-

licly brands them, and by association their coreli-

gionists, as hypocrites? The answer is: the world

that liberalism has formed through its pact with

the Tempter.

Christmas Mass Schedule

Tues. Dec. 24: Morning Mass at 8am

Tues. Dec. 24: Children’s Christmas Eve

Mass at 5:30pm, Carols at 5pm

Sung Latin Mass at 9pm

Wed. Dec. 25: Midnight Mass, Carols at 11:30

Christmas Day Mass at 10am

Tues. Dec. 31: Morning Mass at 8am

Tues. Dec. 31: Anticipatory Mass at 4:30pm

Wed. Jan. 1: Mass at 9am and 11am

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