ST. HENRY CATHOLIC CHURCH 24750 W. Lower Buckeye Rd

ST. HENRY CATHOLIC CHURCH
24750 W. Lower Buckeye Rd. Buckeye, AZ 85326
December 20, 2015
PASTOR
Fr. William J. Kosco
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Vigil . . . . . . 5:00p.m.
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00a.m.
10:00a.m.
Domingo (Español) 12:00p.m.
CONFESSIONS
Wednesday 4:00 - 5:00p.m.
Saturday
3:00 - 4:30p.m.
ADORATION
Wednesday
1:00 - 5:00p.m.
OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday
9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
ADMINISTRATION
Receptionist
Flor de liz López, ext. 101
Secretary
Nancy Vela, ext. 102
www.sthenrybuckeye.com / www.sanenriquebuckeye.com
Parish Office: (623) 386-0175
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Manager
Dcn. Mark Gribowski, ext. 103
Pastoral Assistant
Dcn. Victor León, ext. 104
Infant Baptism Information: 1st Sunday of the month after 10:00a.m. Mass
Información Bautismos de Infantes: 1er Domingo del mes después de Misa de 12:00p.m.
December 20, 2015
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Do You Pay Arizona State Income Tax?
Support Catholic Schools at NO COST TO YOU!
Saturday
December 19
Sunday
December 20
5:00 pm
+
8:00 am
10:00 am
12:00 pm
+
Feli Mendoza
+Teresa Estrada
Monday
December 21
8:30 am
+Marion Praprotnik
Tuesday
December 22
Wednesday
11:15 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
Thursday
NO MASS
December 23
Divine Mercy/Rosary
7:00 pm
11:00 pm
Friday
10:00 am
Saturday
+
Adoration
December 24
+Gayle Duncan
+
+Virgil Sloggett
December 25
+
December 26
Sunday
December 27
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
8:00 am
10:00 am
12:00 pm
Eric Petosa
+Lorraine Wopperer
+Carmen Lillywhite
+Patricio Espino
Our chapel Sanctuary
Lamp is burning during
the Fourth Week of
Advent in memory of:
+ Mary Ann Red Cloud +
By
St. Henry Community
Sunday
The collection figures
for December 13, 2015
were not available at the time
of printing.
Pregnant? Need Help?
Call 1-800-413-6486
If so, do you realize that you can make a donation to a Catholic school
in the Diocese of Phoenix and get a refund for the ENTIRE AMOUNT
when you do your state income tax? Too good to be true? No. It's AZ.
state tax law. The Arizona Tax Credit allows taxpayers to make a donation to a Catholic (or a charter or even a public school if you wish)
and get the money back for helping to educate our state youth. Simply
go to CatholicEducationArizona.org and make your donation. You will
be sent a receipt and at tax time you fill out a simple form that allows
you to deduct 100% of your donation from your tax liability. Even if you
do not owe taxes, you will be refunded this money!
St. Henry supports our two local elementary schools in Goodyear:
St. John Vianney (school # 164 ) and St. Thomas Aquinas
(school # 191 ) which you can designate to receive your donation.
I do this every year and I do my own taxes so I can testify that it is for
real and very easy to file the additional tax form.
– Fr. Kosco
Thy Will Be Done?
Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember
this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have
any meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray that God’s will
be done, and then not promptly obey it when He calls us from this
world! Instead we struggle and resist like self-willed slaves and are
brought into the Lord’s presence with sorrow and lamentation, not
freely consenting to our departure, but constrained by necessity. And
yet we expect to be rewarded with heavenly honours by Him to whom
we come against our will! Why then do we pray for the kingdom of
heaven to come if this earthly bondage pleases us? What is the point
of praying so often for its early arrival if we would rather serve the devil
here than reign with Christ.
– St. Cyprian of Carthage, North Africa (200 – 258AD)
2016 Faith Formation Classes
Faith Formation for pre-enrolled Level I students will begin on January
6, 2016 with a mandatory parents only attending - no children.
Class will be at 6:00pm in the parish hall.
Level II students will resume classes on January 6, 2016 at their usual
time. We look forward to seeing you all!
Do you recognize the current “man crisis” in
our country but don’t know what to do? Do
you feel like as a Catholic man you are not
living a genuine Christian life?
You are invited to join with hundreds of your
fellow Catholic men from around the Valley
that feel the same way. The 2016 Catholic
Men’s Conference is sure to wash away
your troubles and reignite the fire in your soul.
Join us on Saturday, Feb. 6, at Xavier College Preparatory Performing
Arts Center in Phoenix. Catholic men will gather to listen to the most
respected national Catholic speakers talk about the battle going on in
our own lives and offer solutions to end the conflict in our homes.
Doors open at 8 a.m. Tickets are available at cmfp.org.
Diciembre 20, 2015
4to Domingo de Adviento
¿Hágase Tu Voluntad?
Nuestra deber es hacer la voluntad de Dios, y no la nuestra. Debemos
recordar esto si la oración que Dios nos encomendó a decir diariamente de verdad sale de nuestros labios. ¡Que tan irrazonable es orar a
Dios que se haga Su voluntad, y luego no obedecer de inmediato
cuando nos llame de este mundo! Sino que luchamos y nos resistimos
obstinados como esclavos y somos llevados a la presencia de Dios
con tristeza y lamento, sin libremente consentir nuestra partida, constreñidamente por necesidad. ¡Y aun así, esperamos que se nos recompense con honores celestiales por El, a quien venimos en contra
de nuestra voluntad! ¿Entonces para que pedimos que venga el reino
de los cielos si esta esclavitud terrenal nos place? De que sirve siempre pedir que venga, si mas bien, aquí servimos a el diablo en lugar de
reinar con Cristo.
– San Cipriano de Cartago, Norte África (200 – 258AD)
Educación Religiosa 2016
La clase de Educación Religiosa para estudiantes recientemente
inscritos de Nivel I comenzara el miércoles 6 de enero 2016 con
una junta requerida para los padres - no niños.
La clase será en el salón de la iglesia a las 6:00pm.
Los estudiantes de Nivel II regresan el 6 de enero 2016 a la hora
usual. ¡Esperamos verlos a todos!
La oficina estará cerrada
diciembre 24 - 25.
Que las bendiciones de esta
Santa Temporada le sea en
abundancia.
¡Feliz Navidad!
2016 Calendar Items
It’s not too late to start marking these dates in your 2016 calendar:
Sat. Jan. 9 = "Faustina: Messenger of Divine Mercy" play at
Valley Vista Performing Arts Center in Surprise, call
for tickets: (623) 546-3444
Fri. January 22 = Arizona For Life pro-life march (www.azliferally.com)
Sat. Feb. 6 = Annual Phoenix Diocese Mens’ Conference
Wed. Feb. 10 = Ash Wednesday (Lent begins)
Sat. Feb. 27 = 9th Annual St. Henry Golf Tournament at
Sundance Golf Club
March 4-5 = Year of Mercy International 24-hour parish adoration
Easter Sunday
Sat. June 11 = Seminarian Deacon Dan Coneally ordained a priest at
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Avondale/Goodyear
ST. HENRY CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE
Thursday, December 24 “Christmas Eve”
5:00pm Mass in English
7:00pm Misa en Español
11:00pm Mass in English
Friday, December 25 “Christmas Day”
10:00am Mass in English
Friday January 1, 2016 “New Year’s Day”
10:00am Mass in English
The office will be closed
December 24 - 25.
May the blessings of this
Holy Season
be yours in abundance.
Merry Christmas!