Mass Schedule Monday-Friday: 12 noon Thursday/Jueves: 7:30 pm (Spanish) Saturday: 9:00 am & 5:30pm Vigil Sunday: 9:00 am, 11:00 am (Spanish) and 12:30 pm

Masses are also livestreamed on our website and Facebook

————————————————————— CONFESSIONS - CONFESIONES Saturday/Sábado: 4:15—5:15 pm in English and Spanish, in the rectory office. Please line-up outside the rectory with social distance.

MARRIAGES - MATRIMONIOS Arrangements must be made at least 6 months prior to the wedding. Either the bride or the groom must be registered members of our parish. Arreglos deben hacerse en la Parroquia al menos 6 meses antes de la boda. El novio o la novia deben ser feligreses registrados de la parroquia.

BAPTISMS - BAUTISMOS Parents must contact the rectory to make the arrangements. Los padres deben comunicarse con la rectoría con anticipación.

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELUS R.C. CHURCH 63-63-98TH STREET, REGO PARK, NEW YORK 11374-2296

Pastoral Staff Rev. Thomas G. Pettei, Pastor

Rev. Richard Conlon, Parochial Vicar Rev. Basilio Monteiro, Weekend Presider

Rev. John Mendonca, Pastor Emeritus Deacon Edwin Cancel

Sr. Xaveriana Ngene, SSpS, Religious Education Mrs. Ana Puente, Business Manager/Pastoral Associate

Ms. Jane Lawson - Director of Music

Rectory Staff Mrs. Angela Alvarado, Bookkeeper/Secretary

Contact Information:

ourladyoftheangelus-queens.org E-mail: olarectory@gmail.com

Rectory 718-897-4444 - Fax 718-897-1453 Religious Education - 718-896-4388

Rectory Office Hours

Monday, Thursday, & Friday 9am—12:00 & 1pm—6:30pm

Tuesday & Wednesday 9am—12:00 & 1pm—4:30pm

Saturday: 9:30am—12 noon & 3pm—6pm Sunday– closed

Dear Friends,

You probably heard about it on the news, or even noticed it yourself, that people are decorating a little earlier for Christmas this year. I’m not just talking about the stores, but many others are choosing to decorate earlier. Some are saying that it is good for us psychologically—after we have been through such a difficult year with the pandemic other challenges—it can be helpful to decorate for Christmas to lift our spirits, as well as celebrating the coming feast of our Sav-ior. Hey, even the Vatican set up its Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square this week!

We are getting ready to celebrate “glad tidings,” so we can let the Scriptures this week guide us. Isaiah speaks a word of comfort to Israel still in exile, and promising that the exile will end soon. He tells the people to “prepare the way of the Lord,” for he is coming. And he challenges them, and us, “Go up onto a high mountain…cry out at the top of your voice…here is your God!”

To do that, to proclaim God’s presence, we need to find him, right now, in our life. Maybe we need to look deeper to find him. The 2020 pandemic has tested some people’s faith and has challenged us all to reorder our priorities. As we advance into this Advent season, I pray that we will all find moments of quiet prayer, moments where we can reconnect with the Shepherd who loves us and who is always there for us.

Then, we can become heralds proclaiming the glad tidings of the Lord.

Peace and blessings,

Father Tom

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Queridos amigos,

Probablemente hayan oído en las noticias o incluso lo hayan notado en sus vecindarios, que la gente está decorando para Navidad un poco más temprano este año. No me refiero solo a los comercios, sino que muchas personas han decidido decorar sus hogares con anticipación. Los expertos dicen que es bueno para nosotros psicológicamente -después de haber pasado por un año tan difícil con la pandemia y otros desafíos- decorar para la Navidad puede ayudarnos a le-vantar el ánimo, y a celebrar el nacimiento de nuestro Salvador. ¡Incluso el Vaticano instaló su árbol de Navidad en la Plaza de San Pedro esta semana!

Nos estamos preparando para celebrar la “buena nueva” y podamos dejar que las Escrituras de esta semana nos guíen. El profeta Isaías da una palabra de aliento a Israel que aún está en el exilio, y promete que el exilio terminará pronto. Él le dice a la gente que “preparen el camino del Señor”, porque Él viene. Y él los desafía, a ellos y a nosotros, "Sube a lo alto del monte…… al-za con fuerza la voz ... ¡aquí está tu Dios!"

Para hacer eso, para proclamar la presencia de Dios, necesitamos encontrarlo, ahora mismo, en nuestra propia vida. Quizás debamos buscar más profundamente para poder encontrarlo. La pandemia del 2020 ha puesto a prueba la fe de algunas personas y nos ha desafiado a todos a reordenar nuestras prioridades. A medida que avanzamos en esta temporada de Adviento, pido a Dios que todos encontremos momentos de oración en silencio, momentos en los que po-damos reconectarnos con el Buen Pastor que nos ama y que siempre está ahí para nosotros.

Solo así, podremos convertirnos en heraldos que proclaman la buena nueva del Señor.

Paz y bendiciones,

Padre Tom

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MASS INTENTIONS WEEK OF DEC. 6—12 2020

SATURDAY, Dec. 5 9:00 AM OLA Parishioners --------- 5:30 PM +Louis Maynard Karen & Peter +Audrey Miranda Prichard Family SUNDAY, Dec.6 9:00AM +Olga López Leticia Idarraga + Maria Assumption Montebon William Lo 11:00AM +Francisco Lara Familia +Augusto Arias ------ Olimpia Cabrera – por Salud ------ 12:30PM Denise Jacobus Julia Apotheker MONDAY, Dec. 7 12 Noon +Emmanuelito Velayo Mary Velayo +John Francis Murphy, Brigid and Owen Murphy Bernadette & Peter Reichenberg TUESDAY, Dec. 8 12 Noon +Elizabeth Shen Agatha Shen +Victor José Cabrera Jr. Angela Jurado 7:30 Feast of the Immaculate Conception ------------ WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9 12 Noon +Janneth Minchala Family +Jean Gutilla Karen & Peter THURSDAY, Dec. 10 12 Noon +Paul Shen Agatha Shen 7:30PM Niño de la Merced Ana Cardenas FRIDAY, Dec. 11 12 Noon Julio, Ana, Judith, Luis Alvarado Gladys Alvarado SATURDAY, Dec. 12 9:00AM OLA Parishioners ---------- 5:30PM James O’Brien Julia O’Brien SUNDAY, Dec.13 9:00AM Feligreses de la Parroquia ---------- 11:00AM Acción de Gracias Zoila Diaz +Aura Maria Castillo Tatiana Valencia, Hija & Nieta +Marta de Hernandez Amigas & familia 12:30PM Miroslawa & Tadeusz Weglinski Family

Remember in your Prayers… All the sick and/or Hospitalized of our parish community.

Prayers for the deceased especially for: Soledad Villalon, Eleazar Morales

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Second Sunday of Advent December 6, 2020

Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low.

— Isaiah 40:4 GOD’S DELAY In times of great difficulties scoffers taunt us, “Where is God? Why hasn’t your Lord come to save you now?” And we of faith respond much in the same way as Peter did in today’s second reading: the “delay” of the Lord’s second coming is not any type of punishment or failure to keep the divine promise, but a loving sign of God’s patience. God is giving everyone the chance to seek repentance. God does not make life more difficult. Rather, God lessens our burdens as once before for the Jewish exiles returning home to Judea after captivity in Babylon. It was God who personally led them, making a “straight highway” for them across the desert. We join with our ancestors of faith, who hoped that they might see God’s Chosen One before them and who eventually realized that the Lord was also walking with them side by side. TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — The rugged land shall be made a plain; the rough country, a broad valley. (Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11). Psalm — Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation (Psalm 85). Second Reading — Conduct yourselves in holiness, hastening the coming of the day of God (2 Peter 3:8-14). Gospel — I have baptized you with water; he will bap-tize you with the Holy Spirit (Mark 1:1-8). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 35:1-10; Ps 85:9ab, 10-14; Lk 5:17-26 Tuesday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1-4; Eph 1:3-6, 11- 12; Lk 1:26-38 Wed: Is 40:25-31; Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10; Mt 11:28-30 Thursday: Is 41:13-20; Ps 145:1, 9, 10-13ab; Mt 11:11-15 Friday: Is 48:17-19; Ps 1:1-4; Mt 11:16-19 Saturday: Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Jdt 13:18bcde, 19; Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39- 47, or any readings from the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary, nos. 707-712 Sunday: Is 61:1-2a, 10-11; Lk 1:46-50, 53-54; 1 Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, 19-28

FEAST OF FAITH Watching for Christ’s Coming In the season of Advent, we look to the coming of Christ at the end of time, and we prepare ourselves to celebrate his first coming among us at Christmas. Remembrance of the past is combined with preparation for the fu-ture. Memory meets action. In a certain sense, the Mass is an Advent prayer. At the Last Supper, Jesus did not tell his disciples, “Never forget what I did for you.” Instead, he said, “Do this in remembrance of me.” He calls us to remember by doing, to combine memory with action. In the celebra-tion of the Eucharist, remembering and doing become one. Jesus is as present in our midst as he was in that upper room, breaking the bread and sharing the cup; but it is a new kind of presence, seen only with the eyes of faith. In the heavenly liturgy, there will be no need of sacraments, for there, “celebration is wholly communion and feast” (Catechism of the Cath-olic Church, 1136). Here, things are different. We have only glimpses and flashes of the beau-ty that is yet to be. And yet, in the liturgy, we truly participate in the heavenly liturgy. The Mass is our foretaste of the joys of heaven.

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Resurrection-Ascension Dec. 6 RCIA Rite of Welcome (at 9am Mass, Sunday 12/6) Dec. 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception 9am Mass 7:30 PM Mass Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 4pm English 6:30pm Spanish Dec. 25 Christmas Day 9am English 11am English Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve 4pm Mass January 1 New Year’s Day 11am Mass English 12:30pm Mass Spanish February 6th First Penance ?12Noon? [Saturday]

Our Lady of the Angelus Dec. 6 RCIA Rite of Welcome (at 9am Mass, Sunday, 12/6) Dec. 8 Feast of the Immaculate Con-ception 12 Noon Mass 7:30 PM Mass Spanish Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 5:30 English 7:30pm Spanish Dec. 25 Christmas Day 9am English 11am Spanish 12:30 English Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve 5:30 pm Mass January 1 New Year’s Day 11am Spanish 12:30pm English February 27th First Penance celebra-tion, 10am [Saturday]

Upcoming events scheduled 2020-21

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Mass Schedule for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Tuesday, December 8th is the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Patronal Feast of the United States. It is a holy day of obligation

and the following is the schedule for the Feast:

Tuesday, Dec. 8th

Our Lady of the Angelus Resurrection-Ascension 12 noon - English 9am - English 7:30 P.M. - Spanish 7:30pm - English

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El Jueves 8 de Diciembre es la festividad de la Inmaculada Concepción, fiesta patronal de los Estados Unidos. Es un día de precepto y ofreceremos la

Santa Misa en español a las 7:30 pm en Nuestra Señora del Ángelus. Para el horario de Misas en inglés vean arriba.

+++++ Felicitaciones a Sister Xaveriana

Nuestra querida Sister Xaveriana estará celebrando su Aniversario de Plata – 25 años de haber profesado sus Votos Finales

el 8 de diciembre, Festividad de la Inmaculada Concepción.

Estaremos pidiendo a Dios de manera especial por Sister en la Misa del medio día el martes 8 de diciembre. Los esperamos.

¡Tenemos la bendición de tener a Sister en nuestra parroquia y le pedimos a nuestro Padre Celestial que continúe bendiciéndola siempre!

Congratulations to Sister Xaveriana

Our dearest Sr Xaveriana will be celebrating her Silver Jubilee- 25th anniversary of professing her Final Vows

on December 8th, Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

We will have a special blessing for Sister at the noon Mass on Tuesday, December 8th

We hope to see you there.

We are blessed to have Sister at our parish and we ask God to continue to bless her always!

GRUPO DE ORACION

“NUEVA EVANGELIZACION”

Unámonos en Oración! Sean bienvenidos de nuevo a la

celebración de la Santa Misa todos los Jueves a las 7:30PM y al Grupo de Ora-

ción al finalizar la Eucaristía. Podemos Unirnos en oración a esta

celebración por via Livestreamed on Facebook OLA Parish Rego Park

Gracias por obedecer los protocolos establecidos de la Pandemia para la seguridad de todos.

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CLOTHING DRIVE December 20, 2020

St. Vincent de Paul will be collecting clothing donations in the Church parking lot from

9AM-1PM on Sunday, Dec.20th. Please don’t bring your donations to the Rectory

or leave it outside the Church. Thank you for your cooperation.

Nuestra parroquia llevará a cabo una colecta de ropa el Domingo 20 de Diciembre.

El camión de St. Vincent de Paul estará en el estacionamiento de la Iglesia de 9AM-1PM.

Por favor, no traiga sus donaciones a la rectoría ni las deje fuera de la Iglesia.

Gracias por su cooperación

TOY DRIVE 2020 Our Toy Drive will be a little different due to

Covid-19.

We will be collecting GIFT CARDS instead of wrapped toys.

Some suggestions are: Gift Cards to Target, Ama-zon, Walmart or similar business where families in

need can go and get toys or anything else they might need.

You may also make a cash donation – mark the en-velope as Toy Drive, or you can write a check paya-ble to Our Lady of the Angelus and write Toy Drive

on the Memo line As always, we thank you for your generosity

Please drop off your donation at the rectory

Our Lady of the Angelus R.C. Church 63-63 98th Street, Rego Park, NY 11374

CELEBRACION AL DIVINO

NIÑO JESUS

NOVENA Y SANTA MISA VIERNES 11

DE DICIEMBRE, 2020 7:00PM

Agradecemos a quienes están participan-do en la Santa Misa y por obedecer los protocolos establecidos por el Covid 19 pa-ra la seguridad de todos.

Pueden unirse también a la celebración en vivo en

Facebook OLA Parish Rego Park

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELUS R.C. CHURCH 63-63-98TH STREET, REGO PARK, NEW YORK 11374-2296

DEC. 6-12 2020

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