THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Saturday, December 16

4 – 5 PM – Confessions

5:30 PM – Carol Hughes

Sunday, December 17

8:00 AM – Raymond Storm

10:30 AM – People of the Parish

Monday – December 18

8:00 AM – Arthur Cunningham

Tuesday, December 19 8:00 AM – Ben Strasbaugh

Adult Choir Practice

Wednesday, December 20

7:00 PM – James & Margaret Weaver

Thursday, December 21

8:00 AM – Nancy Rider

7:00 – 8:00 PM – Adoration

Friday, December 22

8:00 AM – Int. of Diane Jarrett & Family

Saturday, December 23

8:00 AM – Marie Winand

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Saturday, December 23

4 – 5 PM – Confessions

5:30 PM – Leo & Jane Gebhart

Sunday, December 24

8:00 AM – Bob & Miriam Clabaugh Family

10:30 AM – People of the Parish

Adoration every Thursday from 7 PM to 8 PM in

our Parish. Please come and join! Let us spend an

hour with Our Lord an recite together the Evening

Prayer.

ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CHURCH

MISSION STATEMENT

We, the members of this Christian Catholic

Community of St. Joseph the Worker Church in

Bonneauville, Pennsylvania, endeavor to live the Gospel of

our Lord Jesus Christ and practice the teachings of that

same Gospel in our worship, our beliefs, what we learn,

and the way in which we serve others.

As a Catholic Community of Faith, Hope, & Love,

we invite others to join us in our goal of renewal, and

welcome them into our gospel fellowship.

IS ANYONE SICK AMONG YOU? Please notify Fr. Benny or Deacon Weaver of any

parishioner admitted to the hospital. If confined at home and desiring to receive Communion, contact Bob Funari at 334-5737 or call the Parish Office. Call the Office to arrange for the Anointing of the Sick.

Barbara Dinges, Brooke McMaster, Helen P. Weaver, Nancy Defeo, Ambrose Martin, Maureen Johnson, Elizabeth Fetter, Lorena Lamb, Walter Angevine, Tim Clabaugh, Emily Elizabeth Schmidt, Clara M. Redding, Edward Heromin, Barbara Heromin, Robert Strasbaugh, Jayden Ford, Ashley Weishaar, Kathi Barefoot, Fred & Rosalie Schenker, Rick Phillips, Joan Ford, Danielle Gallina, Michael Clabaugh, Andrew Kendris, Rose Weaver, Stacy Welty, and Kerry Chrismer, Barb Orndorff, Julie Eckenrode, Becky Garder, Greta Foster, Janet Staub, David Lambert, Audrey Clabaugh, Mary Zimmerman, and all the rest of our brothers and sisters in need of healing of mind, body and spirit. Please call the parish office to add a name to our prayer list. Help us to keep our list current by letting us know when we may remove a name.

Christmas Masses Sunday, December 24th

5:30 p.m. – Children’s Christmas Choir

6:00 p.m. – Children’s Mass 11:30 p.m. – Christmas Carols

12:00 – Midnight Mass

Monday, December 25th

Christmas Day 9:00 a.m.

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS LECTORS ALTAR SERVERS

12/23 – 5:30 pm – Michael Keller, Julie Monzi, John Defeo – Nora Keller – Kaitlin Baumgardner, Sophia Busbey

12/24 – 8:00 am – Joyce Williams, Roger Williams – William Getz – Kaylea Sanders, Kelsey Sanders

12/24 – 10:30 am – Regina Gebhart, Robert Funari, Brigit Soliday – Peter Smith – Colby Noel, Josie Eckenrode

PARISH

ANNOUNCEMENT

PCCW The Ladies will be making fruit baskets, for

the home bound on December 22nd

at 4:30

pm in the Deacon Rich Weaver Parish

Center for anyone who would like to help.

Our annual Christmas Dinner will be held

at Hoss’s in Gettysburg, on Thursday,

January 4th

, at 6:00 pm. If you would like to

join us RSVP parish office by December

28th.

DO YOU SUPPORT OUR GROCERY CARD

PROGRAM? Grocery gift cards for Giant, Weis,

and Walmart are available on weekends after the

Masses and Monday through Friday from 8:30 am

to 12:00 pm at the rectory office. Grocery gift card sales the weekend of December 11TH of $2,000.00 made a profit of $95.64.

SAVE THE DATE!

Thursday – December 21, 2017

Brother’s Pizza Day!

Religious give thanks. A religious sister writes, “When we see the generous response of so many thousands of persons in order to help us, religious men and women, we are left speechless.” Senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests across the country send heartfelt thanks and prayers for your donation to last week’s Retirement Fund for the Religious collection.

FINANCIAL REPORTS

For the weekend of December 10/11, 2017

Adults $3,177.00

Children 7.00

Loose 182.10

On-Line Giving 927.00

Poor of the Parish 79.00

Total 4,372.10

Budgeted - $4,160.00 over 212.10

Immaculate Conception 695.00

Christmas flowers 275.00

Retirement Fund for Religious 984.00

102 of 298 Adults used envelopes

2 Children’s envelopes used

CCD News! CCD Classes Sunday Dec.17 - meet

at the Church for Penance Service

and Confessions. All grades.

NO CCD Sunday, Dec. 24 or

Sunday, Dec. 31 due to the

Christmas Holiday! Merry

Christmas!

Confirmation RITE of CHOICE,

Sunday January 7 @ 10:30 AM

Mass.

CCD Classes will resume on Sunday,

January 7, 2018 at the DWPC.

NOTE CHANGE IN SCHEDULE:

Students WILL be having CCD on

January 28 in the Church. This is a

date that was originally scheduled

to not have CCD. This is a pot pie

Sunday.

PARENTS ARE INVITED to our

January 28 CCD Session. Jim

Gontis from the Diocesan Center

will be presenting. Please plan

accordingly.

Any questions, contact Clare Crone

(ccronecrestjoe@gmail.com)

400 CLUBS WEEK 10

#______Winner___________Seller_______

140 MaryLou Gebhart Tom Gebhart

214 Ruth Collins Cindy Hartlaub

220 Dave Weishaar Cindy Hartlaub

326 Megan & Kaitlyn Tom Gebhart

397 Fred Schenker Brigit Soliday

Thank you for using Online Giving. Parishioners who use the service are pleased with how easy it is to set up and manage. If you have not yet signed up for Online Giving, then please consider this option. This is a perfect tool for anyone who shops online! By using Online Giving you are helping the parish to improve our opperational efficiency. Visit our parish website at www.stjosephtheworkerpa.org and select Online Giving.

Knights of Columbus The Knights will be selling Christmas cards and magnets after each Mass in the vestibule of the Church. Boxes are marked with the prices. Your support is greatly appreciated.

March 3rd we will be marking our

5th year as Knights of Columbus in

Bonneauville. We will meet for the

Saturday night Mass and then proceed to the Parish

Center for a meal, etc. Everyone is welcome to

attend.

March 10 we will hold our night at the races. We

will have tickets available shortly. Tickets will be

$10 which includes a hot meal and setups.

Both events will be held in the Deacon Weaver

Parish Center.

Do you like to sing! Well, Christmas will be here soon and it is time to start practicing for our

Christmas Pageant and Children's Choir for the Children’s Christmas Eve Mass. Practice dates are as follows:

Monday, Dec. 18 from 7:00 - 8:00 in the church. Possible EXTRA practice on Friday, Dec. 22 in the church - we can discuss time to see if we can do it in the afternoon? Or we can stick to 7-8. Christmas Eve Mass: Pageant starts at 5:30 p.m. and Mass starts at 6:00 p.m., so all will have to arrive Christmas Eve in the rectory by 5:00 p.m.

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

THANK YOU to all who made the Christmas Bazaar a success. To Annette Kennedy for all her time

spent preparing for a great day. To the parish council who ran the raffles, the Knights of Columbus and the Youth Group and PCCW for preparing the food. The raffles were won by the following: 50/50 – Donna Cassatt - $76 Hand-knitted Scarf – Cindy Hartlaub Prayer Shawl – Mary Keller Lottery Basket – Lori Falloon Utz Basket – Michelle Study Popcorn Basket – Patsy Mills Tastefully Simple Basket – Joyce Williams Handmade Cabinet – Charles McMaster Thank you to all who donated prizes for the bazaar. The parish made a profit of $1,961.50. Are you an Aero Energy Customer?? Aero Energy has a unique program where it will donate

to the parish $0.03 for every gallon of heating oil or

propane you purchase during this heating season. There

is NO COST to you – we just need your name and phone

number. If you are a customer please contact the parish

office and get signed up. If you already signed up you do

not need to do so again

SAVE THE DATE: The parish will

be sponsoring a blood drive on January 16th

from 1:00 PM to 6:30 PM Sister Maria Wrubel who taught at Delone Catholic High School for approximately 23 years has recently celebrated 75 years as a Sister of Mercy. Sister Maria will be 95 years old on January 2, 2018. Anyone who would like to send her a birthday card can send them to Sister Maria at Mercy Center, Box 370, Dallas, PA 18612.

'NEW' Extraordinary Ministers: Have you ever

prayerfully considered becoming an Extraordinary

Minister of Holy Communion, either to serve at

Mass or to visit the sick and homebound (or both)?

Talk to Fr. Benny or call the parish office if you

have considered being a Eucharistic Minister of

Holy Communion.

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John the Baptist came to "testify to the light." What does this mean? We know that Jesus is the Light of Truth shin-ing in the darkness to draw us to eternal life. And we know that his Spirit enlightens us in the truth so that we can be saved from the destructive forces of our sins and follow our Savior to heaven. But what was the testimony of John? How did he testify to the light? And how does this affect our lives today? John's testimony was: "I am not the Christ. I am a voice. A voice in the desert." His testi-mony brings us to the Light of Christ by challenging us with: "Where is your life arid and dry? Listen! Christ is coming to meet you there! Stop wan-dering around! Repent, change, do whatever is nec-essary to look for Jesus so that you can find him. He is coming to you!"

We've all experienced times when Jesus seems una-vailable when we need him. What has opened your eyes to his presence? Whose voice has turned you back to God? It's time to do the same for others, to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to those who are held captive in their sins, and to announce how to be blessed by a close friendship with the Lord. We all have the same testimony and the same calling as John had: We are all supposed to be voices crying

out loud enough to be heard above the din of the world. Many souls are

lost in the wilder-ness of confusion, hopelessness, pain, heartache, and des-pair, not to mention sin. What kind of a voice do you have? Be-cause we have Christ within us, our very lives are the voice.

Even if our vocal chords do not utter a single word, the way we live in the light is how we speak the truth of the light. The better we live the truth, the louder and clearer is our message. What people choose to do with our message is up to them, but it's up to us to speak it so that they're given that choice.

Reflect & Discuss:

1. How has your life been changed by your faith in Jesus? What evil has been conquered, what dark-ness has been overcome?

2. How has the Spirit of the Lord anointed you?

3. What gifts do you have that ena-ble you to give to the poor (the fi-nancially poor or the emotionally starving or the spiritually hungry) or to heal broken hearts?

4. How has God used you to provide liberty to captives and release to prisoners?

5. How are these a testimony that teach others about Jesus?

Isaiah 61:1-2a, 10-11 Luke 1:46-50, 53-54

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8, 19-28

Monday December 18

Jeremiah 23:5-8 Ps 72:1-2,12-13,18-19

Matthew 1:18-25

Tuesday December 19 Judges 13:2-7,24-25a

Ps 71:3-6,16-17 Luke 1:5-25

Wednesday December 20

Isaiah 7:10-14 Ps 24:1-6

Luke 1:26-38

Thursday December 21 Song of Songs 2:8-14 or

Zephaniah 3:14-18a Ps 33:2-3,11-12,20-21

Luke 1:39-45

Friday December 22 1 Samuel 1:24-28

1 Sm 2:1,4-8 Luke 1:46-56

Saturday December 23

Malachi 3:1-4,23-24 Ps 25:4-5ab,8-10,14

Luke 1:57-66

3rd Sunday of Advent, Cycle B