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!