We, the community of

Our Lady of Perpetual

Help, desire to grow in

the love of God the

Father, Jesus, and the

Holy Spirit; united in

faith and nourished by

the Eucharist as

stewards of the Roman

Catholic Church, we

share our time, talent

and treasure by striving

to live our gospel values

through faithful service

and witness of Christ's

love to our community

and one another.

Rev. Charles A. Mosley, Pastor

MASS SCHEDULE Monday-Friday 7:00 a.m. Saturday 4:30 p.m. Sunday 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Evening before Holy Day 5:30 p.m. Holy Day 7:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

CONFESSIONS

Saturday 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. (or by special arrangement)

Baptisms Baptism classes will be held on the First Sunday of each month at 2:30pm at the Pastoral Center. Baptism will take place on the last weekend of the month. Note: No Baptisms will take place during the Advent or Lenten Season. For more information, please call Fr. Mosley at 844-3438 X224.

WEDDINGS

Arrangements with the pastor should be made at least nine months before the event. For more information, please call Fr. Mosley at 844-3438.

The Pastoral Center general office hours are Monday through Friday,

9:00 a.m. to Noon and again 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Please call the Pastoral Center for assistance at 219-844-3438, X 221.

Mari Smelko (x221) Receptionist/General Information

Father Mosley (x224) Pastor & Baptism Information

Bob Meaney (x228) Adult and Family Faith Formation & RCIA

Dorothy Callahan (x229) Administration

Mary Jameyfield (x231) Director of Music

Roger Coan (x233) Hall Rental

Our Lady of Perpetual Help 7140 ARIZONA AVE. · HAMMOND, IN 46323

219-844-3438 olphparish.net

Our Lady of Perpetual Help 2nd Sunday of Advent December 10, 2017

Preview the Week…

Sunday — 12/10 [2nd Sunday of Advent] Mass 8am Youth Mass & RCIA 10am Rosary Bake Sale Our Lady of Guadalupe Statue Raffle Simple Q’pons TRUTH 2 pm/ SonLight 6:30 pm Our Lady of Guadalupe Novena at OLPH 7pm Monday— 12/11 Bingo Doors open at 4:30pm Religious Education 6:00pm Our Lady of Guadalupe Novena at OLPH 7pm Parish Pastoral Council 7:30pm Tuesday — 12/12 Quilting 9am St. Vincent de Paul Society 7pm Our Lady of Guadalupe Novena at OLPH and Mass with refreshments to follow 7pm Wednesday — 12/13 Prayers to the Blessed Sacrament 11am Bells 6:30pm Thursday — 12/14 Mustard Seed Prayer Group 7pm Friday — 12/15 Saturday — 12/16 Confessions 3:30 to 4:00pm Mass 4:30pm Simple Qpons Sunday — 12/17 [3rd Sunday of Advent] Mass 8am Mass & RCIA 10am Breakfast With Santa 9am to 1pm Simple Qpons SonLight Caroling 6:30pm

Mass Intentions

SUNDAY, December 10 [2nd Sunday of Advent] 8 am For Our Parishioners 10 am Stanley Burczyk by Barbara Lail MONDAY, December 11 7 am Ed Frunk by Margie & Jerry Torres TUESDAY, December 12 7 am Margaretha Motes by Peggy & Joe McBride WEDNESDAY, December 13 7 am Margaretha Motes by Mike Cyganowski THURSDAY, December 14 7 am Stephen Bolanowski by Family FRIDAY, December 15 7 am Betty Quinn by Barb Schilling SATURDAY, December 16 4:30 pm Stanley Burczyk by the Paquins SUNDAY, December 17 [3rd Sunday of Advent] 8am For Our Parishioners 10am Rose & John Kocur by Family

Rose Adams, Elizabeth Bardoczi, James Barrick, Pat Hauer, Ann Hudzik, Mary Jackson, Kay Kwiatkowski, Ann Matolin, Leroy Phelps, Lillian Wojno and Corinne Zaborski

Parish Offering

Sunday, December 3, 2017 232 out of 587 Envelopes Used

Regular Collection: $6,096.00 Loose Collection: $112.00 Second Collection $1,924.00 Hall Income: $1,365.00 Total Income: $9,497.00

November 50/50 Winner Frances Johnson $42.50

CSA as of 12/3/16

Total Pledged: $20,504.24 Total Payments: $19,319.24

113 pledges out of 587 Parishioners Our parish goal for 2017 is $31,039.00

OLPH Advent Penance Service Tuesday, December, 19 at 7pm.

Breakfast with Santa December 17th, 9am to 1pm in the Social Center. Adults: $5.00, Children (4 thru 10) $2.00 & children under 3, free. Opportunities for pictures with Santa!

Our Children, Adult, and Bell Choirs would like to share the gift of music with you this Christmas Season. Before each Christmas Liturgy there will be a half hour Christmas concert for your enjoyment.

4:00pm Christmas Eve: Children & Adult Choirs 11:30pm Midnight Mass; Adult & Bell Choirs 9:30am 10am Mass Christmas Day: Adult & Bell Choirs.

Please make time in your busy schedule to join us.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help 2nd Sunday of Advent December 10, 2017

THOUGHTS FROM THE PASTOR Today we celebrate the Second Sunday of Advent a season of longing and waiting. As we await the coming of the Lord we read in the second Letter of Saint Peter, “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out.” So my friends let us not be caught sleeping but rather let us do the work of the Lord while it is time (like right now) for tomorrow is not a guarantee.

PRAY FOR PEACE Every week we hear of another

horrific act of violence. One must ask when did we become such a violent society? Love is in need of love and peace is in need of peace; the peace God has to offer. Please re-member that I invite you to join me every Friday of this year to take some time, maybe five minutes or half an hour or an hour, whatever time you may have and spend it in prayer for peace. You do nor have to be in church, although the church is always available to you, prayer can happen anywhere you are. You can be alone or get together with some friends. Let us just do this and use this great tool that the Lord has given us and make our world a place of love and peace. When good people come together in prayer wonderful things will happen. Let us lift our prayers for peace. Remember the Lord says I will hear the prayer of the faithful person.

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE

2nd WEEK IN ADVENT

A Hidden God

God’s mystery always remains hidden even when God ap-pears in and through created beings.

Sunday Psalm10:1-2

Monday Jeremiah 2:5-8

Tuesday Psalm 27:7-9

Wednesday Isaiah 64:7-9

Thursday Psalm 13:1-3

Friday Daniel 2:20-23

Saturday Psalm 44:23-26

Daily thoughts and Scripture readings to prepare for the

coming of Christ.

Sunday: One Mightier is Coming! Mark 1:7

Take time today to make room for Jesus in your life.

Monday: Your Sins Are Forgiven Luke 5:20

Let us forgive others as we have been forgiven.

Tuesday: Proclaim God’s Greatness! Luke 1:46-47

Let us tell someone today what God means to us.

Wednesday: God Will Not Get Weary! Isaiah 40:28-31

Ask God to give you strength to change your life.

Thursday: God Will Help Us! Isaiah 41:13

Ask God to help you be more like Jesus.

Friday: Lead Us to Yourself , O God! Isaiah 48:17

Let us follow more closely God’s way today.

Saturday: Give Us New Life! Psalm 80:18-19

Let us turn from our sinful ways and let God heal us.

Stewardship thought for the Week

“Prepare the way of the Lord”

How do we “prepare the way of the Lord?” This can only be accomplished by thinking of the other person before ourselves. When we do this we can began to see our Lord in our neighbor.

CSA Reminder: The CSA dr ive will end soon. The 2017 campaign is winding down! All payments must be received in the CSA office by end of this month in order to be claimed on 2017 tax return! Please complete your

outstanding pledge by December 31. Please be sure to

include our parish name and your CSA ID# on your checks when you mail in your payments to the Diocese. If you have not yet had the opportunity to make your pledge, it is not too late. Please return your pledge card and donation to the Diocesan office at 9292 Broadway marked CSA. Thank you for your faithful stewardship and for giving back according to what you have received from God. No gift is too small or too large.

We currently have $31,737.59 in our building fund. This money is part of our Roof Fund. We need $100,000.00 for a new roof on the old school building. The patch that we have on the roof has reached the end of its warranty. It could fail at any moment, so we really need to get this roof fixed.

I am your humble Servant,

Fr. Charles A. Mosley

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT THE

CHURCH TODAY

In this column I will answer questions about the Church or the parish; so what ever you want to know about the Church or the parish, please just ask. In addition we will sometimes look at issues that affect our church or our members. We have our Advent season today I will offer some thought on the season.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

On December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (this Tuesday) commemorates the four apparitions of Mary in 1531 to Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill near Mexico City.

Appearing like a Mexican princess, Mary told him that a church should be built there. When Juan told the bishop, he demanded proof. Mary sent Juan to gather some roses (unusual in December) to present to the bishop. When Juan opens his cloak (tilma) to give the roses to the bishop, they also discovered a painted image of the Blessed Virgin imprinted on the tilma, which is now

preserved in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Under this title, Mary was declared patron of New Spain (1710), of Latin America (1910), Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas (1945) and patroness of the Americas (1999).

St. Vincent De Paul Food Drive continues restocking the pantry for Christmas. Need non-perishable food items, toiletries and monetary donations

Oplatek (Christmas wafers) for sale after masses in the gathering area. Cost $3.00.

Simple Qpons for sale see Valer ie Scr iff.

Memorial Masses now available for the year 2018. Call the Pastoral Center with your request. Donation $10.00.

SAVE THE DATE Calling all Cursillistas: Mass of Remembrance at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Winfield, Sunday January 21, 2018 at 2pm.

Pope Francis says, “When the image of the Virgin appeared on the tilma of Juan Diego, it was the prophecy of an embrace: Mary’s embrace of all the people of the vast expanses of America, the people who already lived there, and those who were yet to come. Mary’s embrace showed what America, North and South, is called to be: “a land where different peoples come together; a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother’s womb to old age; a land which welcomes immigrants, and the poor and the marginalized, in every age.” “O gracious and loving Mary, Lady of Guadalupe, through your presence make us aware of our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son. May Christ send us blessings of peace and harmony, and may we receive love and the healing we need to get closer to Him.” Pope St. John XXIII (October 12, 1961)

TITHING A reporter once asked Mother Teresa, “What can we do to bring peace to the world?” Mother gave this simple answer: “Go home and love your family.” Maybe that is where we need to start being the servant. BECOME A BUSINESS PARTNER WITH GOD

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PEOPLE OF FAITH

Junior High Christmas Caroling to parish home-bound Sunday, December 17. If you know someone who would like our youth to sing to them (10 minutes each house) please let me know. We visit the home-bound between 6 and 8pm and schedule our carol time with them before that evening. Very popular.

SonLight Youth Christmas Scavenger Hunt, Camp-Fire, Flash Light Tag, Sunday, Dec. 10, 6:00-8pm in the Assembly Hall– two hours. TRUTH (senior high) meeting on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2p.m. in Youth Room, school.

The Sacrament of Confession will be celebrated by our 3rd-8th graders in Religious Education during Advent as we prepare for Christmas.

Preparing Middle School Youth for First Confession and First Communion Teacher needed for 4th – 7th grade youth preparing for the sacraments. 10 children in the class. Motivated group of youth. Commitment on Monday evenings 6-7:30 plus preparation. Beginning January 8. Religious Education classes are in session on Monday, December 18. We will not have classes on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1, 2018.

For More Information call Bob Meaney 844-343 x221

Albert Molder, Antoinette Altieri & Dolores Guetzloff

What happens when church envelopes are not picked up? If not picked up, these par ishioners are deleted from our parish list. Envelopes that have not been picked up from church are kept for the next two months. Parishioners are called and asked to pick them up.

Pick up your church envelopes. In the back of church arranged in alphabetical order for your convenience.

Please only pick up your church envelopes. If you know someone who is not able to pick them up for themselves, call the office and we will take care of it. Thank you for your help and cooperation.

Novena Taco Dinner pictures at olphparish.net Wonderful, successful event between our two parishes.