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OLDEST CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN ORIGINAL THIRTEEN COLONIES
Reverend Robert G. Maro, Pastor
William J. Nickerson, Deacon
Parish Office
Denise Becher, Bookkeeper
Mailing address: 21370 Newtowne Neck Road
Leonardtown MD 20650
Telephone: 301-475-9885
Fax: 301-475-5662
Web: stfrancisxavierchurch.org
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WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS!
Registration forms are in the church vestibule
and on our parish website
St. Francis Xavier Church (Newtowne)
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Newtowne Mission from 1640 ! First Chapel Built 1662
Current Church Built 1731
SUNDAY MASSES
Saturday 4pm (Anticipated), Sunday 8am and 11am
DAILY MASSES
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8am
HOLY DAY MASSES
As announced in the bulletin
CONFESSIONS
Saturdays after the 4pm Mass, Sundays 7:30-7:50am
& 10:30-10:50am, and by appointment
FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION
Following the 8am Mass until 5pm
BAPTISMS: By appointment with Father
MARRIAGES: Make arrangements with your Pastor
at least six months in advance; call the Rectory
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES
Email Paula McLeod, [email protected]
BULLETIN ITEMS
Deadline is Friday, one week before Sunday date
Send items to [email protected]
“It is impossible to find a saint who
did not take the
two ‘Ps’ seriously:
Prayer and Penance.”
— St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)
THIS WEEK
LOOKING AHEAD
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
*Collection for FAW School
*Snack Pack Collection—place your donations in
the container in the vestibule
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7
*First Friday Adoration:
8:30am-6:45pm
*Holy Day Vigil Mass: 7pm
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8
SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Holy Day Mass: 9am
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
*National Collection for Retired Religious
*Bereavement Group: 9:15-10:15, Rectory
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
*Collection for Maintenance Fund
SHARING OUR TREASURE
FOR NOV 25, 2018
1st Collection (Offertory): $2,634.00
Thanksgiving (November 22): $103.00
RETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS
COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND Gifts to this annual collection, established in
1989, offer support for
senior Catholic sisters,
brothers, and religious
order priests whose
communities lack
sufficient retirement
funding. Some 33,000
women and men
religious past the age
of 70 benefit from this
collection.
Our participation next weekend gives us an
opportunity to be a witness of Our Lord’s love
and mercy for the men and women religious who
have contributed so much to sharing his love
with others and to building up the Church.
Thank you for your generosity.
Sing for Christmas! Monday, December 24 at 4pm, the Children’s
Choir will sing for the Children’s Christmas
Mass. We welcome singers grades pre-K to 8
to join the children’s choir.
Practices will be held after 11am Mass
on December 9, 16, and 23.
Please contact Bob Schaller
240.577.1697 or [email protected]
for more information.
This year’s Volunteer Appreciation Dinner will need to be postponed to late winter/early
spring. More information will be forthcoming.
Please stay tuned for details!
DECEMBER COLLECTIONS
Christmas Flower Offering
Dec 2 FAW School
Dec 8 Immaculate Conception
Dec 9 Retired Religious in the US
Dec 16 Maintenance Fund
Dec 25 Christmas
OUR NEW BOOK: Scott Hahn’s “Signs of Life”
Join us! Two sessions meet
Thursdays in the Parish Hall:
9-10am and 7-8pm.
Email Paul McLeod,
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Christmas18
Holiday Music Dec 26, 6pm,
at the Kennedy Center
Concert Hall. Two of our
parishioners, Dot Bell and
Lynn Delahay, and Carol Zentherofer (Our Lady
of the Wayside), will be singing with this
fabulous group. Enjoy seasonal holiday classics
and the world premier of An Alleluia Flourish! by
Julian Wachner. www.encorecreativity.org
December 3: We Celebrate the
Memorial of St. Francis Xavier
Novena Prayer to St. Francis Xavier
Most amiable and most loving Saint Francis
Xavier, in union with thee I reverently adore the
Divine Majesty. I rejoice exceedingly on account
of the marvelous gifts which God bestowed upon
thee. I thank God for the special graces He gave
thee during thy life on earth and for the great
glory that came to thee after thy death. I implore
thee to obtain for me, through thy powerful
intercession, the greatest of all blessings -- that
of living and dying in the state of grace. I also
beg of thee to secure for me the special favor I
ask in this novena.
Mention requests here…
In asking this favor, I am
fully resigned to the Divine
Will. I pray and desire only
to obtain that which is most
conducive to the greater
glory of God and the greater
good of my soul."
V. Pray for us, Saint Francis Xavier.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises
of Christ.
O God, Who did vouchsafe, by the preaching and
miracles of Saint Francis Xavier, to join unto
Thy Church the nations of the Indies, grant, we
beseech Thee, that we who reverence his glorious
merits may also imitate his example, through
Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Add 3 Our Fathers and 3 Hail Marys in memory
of Saint Francis Xavier's devotion to the Most
Holy Trinity, and Glory be 10 times in
thanksgiving for the graces received during his
10 years of apostleship.
DECEMBER 7
FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION
8:30am-6:45pm
Please join us for Vespers at 6:15pm
Followed by Benediction
VIGIL MASS BEGINS AT 7PM
FATHER ANDREW WHITE SCHOOL
CRUSADER CONNECTIONS
First Friday Mass:
Father Andrew White School
celebrates Mass as a school family
every Friday. On First Fridays a
class or special group hosts the
Mass. These 9am First Friday
Masses at St. Aloysius are student led. Students
partake by being the lectors, altar servers, gift
bearers, and chorus. Older students sit alongside
their younger class buddies to help them more
fully participate. We invite all parishioners to
join us any Friday. This Friday, Dec 7, we hope
to see you as the 5th Grade hosts the 9am Mass.
BEAR HUGS FOR HEALING You can help deliver stuffed bears to hospitalized
children and Give a Bear
Hug this Christmas!
Just drop off your
donated bears by Dec 6,
at Heavenly Presents,
22697 Washington
Street (on the Square), in
Leonardtown. Store hours are Tue - Sat, or use
the after-hours drop box outside the store front
door. Your tax-deductible monetary donations
will be used to purchase bears at a discounted
price! Please make checks payable to the Bread of
Life Center for Peace and mail them to: PO Box
338, Leonardtown, MD 20650. OR you may
purchase a bear or make donations through our
website at www.breadoflifecenterforpeace.org.
Due to health and safety concerns, donated
bears must be new and delivered in their
original packing with store tags attached.
Used stuffed bears are not accepted by the
hospitals.
For more information on how you can help,
call Patricia Disandro, 240-681-3606.
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER’S
ANGEL TREE PROJECT
IS SPONSORING 20
CHILDREN ACROSS
ST. MARY'S COUNTY
THIS CHRISTMAS
SEASON. There is a small tree in the back of the Church
with tags. Each tag lists toys or clothing items
requested by the families for their child.
How it works: Once you have chosen your
tag(s), purchase one or more of the gifts listed on
the back of the tag. Return your unwrapped
gifts and the tag (for tracking purposes) to the
tree by Sunday, December 16. Gifts will be
collected each Sunday after 11am Mass.
Monetary donations are accepted to cover the
gifts if you prefer not to shop. Donations of
wrapping paper are also needed.
Please contact Veronica Johnson at 240-298-
8194 or [email protected] if you have
any questions. We hope that this will become a
new tradition for our Parish, and we truly
appreciate your generosity!
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
For the greater glory of God...
Dear Parish Family,
Happy New Year! While we still have just a
month left in the calendar year, the Church is
celebrating the beginning of a new Liturgical
year this weekend with the First Sunday of
Advent. The word ‘Advent’ is derived from the
Latin ad venio, “to come.” This is the liturgical
season anticipating the Adventus Domini, the
“coming of the Lord.” During this holy season
we are reminded to await the coming of Christ
on three levels: in the past — as a babe in the
stable of Bethlehem; in the present — as grace in
our souls; and in the future — as the Judge at the
end of time.
How providential that this year, the first saint’s
feast day that we remember in Advent also
happens to be our parish’s patron. This Monday,
December 3, we celebrate the feast of St. Francis
Xavier (1506-1552). He was a companion of
Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven
Jesuits. St. Francis Xavier was a great missionary
to Africa, India, and Japan.
St. Francis Xavier converted more people than
anyone since the apostle St. Paul. He baptized so
many that at night he could not raise his arm
from fatigue. Sometimes he would teach the faith
by versifying Catholic doctrine and fitting the
verses to popular tunes. St. Francis Xavier’s
work as a missionary should help us to ponder
our own missionary duty to spread the Gospel
and bear witness to our Catholic faith to the
people in our lives. St. Francis Xavier’s body is
still incorrupt and his right arm has been
preserved and venerated around the world.
Peace and blessings,
Fr. Rob
Saturday – December 1 Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
4pm — Billy Goddard !
Sunday – December 2 First Sunday of Advent
8am — St. Francis Xavier Parish 11am — Russell Plunkett !
Monday – December 3 St. Francis Xavier
8am — Msgr. Thomas M. Duffy !
Tuesday – December 4 No Mass
Wednesday – December 5 8am — Msgr. Thomas M. Duffy !!
Thursday – December 6 8am — John & Pauline Moriarty+!
Friday – December 7 St. Ambrose
8am — Charles D. Downs !!
Saturday – December 8 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the
Blessed Virgin Mary 9am — Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Daly !
4pm — Billy Goddard !
Sunday – December 9 First Sunday of Advent
8am — St. Francis Xavier Parish 11am — Rev. Joseph J. Kleinstuber !
For healing: Joanie Johnson, James Guy
Hardesty, Nick Gibson, Allen Sieverston,
Ashley Gatton and Baby Jameson Gatton, Thomas Tippett,
Richie Fazio, Myla Ashton, Olas Miller, Mary Ann Snow,
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Bubby Spalding, Judy Bakewell, John Abell, Julie Broyles,
Lillie Rideout, Carolyn Russell Weiler, and Erin Schaller.
Our beloved dead: Zachary Henry
Email [email protected] and let us join in
prayer for one another. If you are seriously ill or
preparing for a surgery, call the Parish Office to
arrange for the sacrament of anointing.
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