Sunday Mass: 10:00a.m. Confessions: 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. Sun. or by

appointment

Weekday Mass: In rectory Mon. through Fri. 7:30a.m. Holyday Mass 7:30a.m. in rectory

Parish Telephone: 314 721-6403

Email: all_saintschurch@sbcglobal.net

Web page: www. allsaintsucitymo.org

All Saints Church

Parish Staff

Rev. Msgr. Michael John Witt, Ph.D., M.Div. - Pastor

Linda L. Mayer, M.S.,B.A. - Director of Music

Liturgical Roles

Readings for the Week of November 26 through

December 2, 2018

ALL SAINTS PARISH 6403 CLEMENS U. CITY, MO. 63130 314-721-6403 Email: all_saintschurch@sbcglobal.net

In your charity, please remember those who are suffering in body, mind or spirit:

Glori L’Ecuyer Jessica Williams Mary Ann Bourbon Alphonso Thomas Jr. Dorothy Figueras Ann Grandstaff Dona Langheier Susan Burgers Darryl Bullard Adela Ciza Rita Carr Mattie Pruitt Suretha Thomas Sandra Spirk Daven Schanche Kevin Wirthlin Orson Abernathy Tanya Gibson Billie Hoffman Dorphine Deavault Annie Howard Robert Levy Fr. Fred Edwards Carol Kueker Jacob Schneider Judith Wolf Nicole Meyer Sue Anne Whitener Kyle Patterson Brandon Carter Tim Patterson Tom Saliba Rita Stanley Joan Fick Ruby Moss Pat Patterson Shirley Bates

Those in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes Mary Jaquet, Ollie Wilson,

May Mosbey, Hazel Chambers, Robert and Anna Roberson Shirley Bates

Christ the King November 25, 2018

Keep Us Informed! We would like to hear from you if you become ill or know of someone in the parish that is ill or has become homebound. Please let us know if one of your family members is in the hospital.

Mass Intentions

Your Gifts to God and Parish

December 2, 2018 First Sunday of Advent

Extraordinary Ministers: Monica Cullum Steve Cullum Lectors: Thelma Jennewein Lou Axeman Server: Gage McGinnis Usher/Greeter: Kathy Breeding Terry Breeding

Finance Ministers: Steve Marsh Shari Yentumi

11/26 7:30 AM 11/27 7:30 AM 11/28 7:30 AM 11/29 7:30 AM 11/30 7:30 AM 12/02 10:00 AM

Mon Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sun. People of the Parish

Contributions Totals for November 18 and November 25 will be in the December 2 bulletin. This bulletin was printed early because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Monday: Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5; Ps 24:1bc-4ab, 5-6; Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday: Rv 14:14-19; Ps 96:10-13; Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday: Rv 15:1-4; Ps 98:1-3ab, 7-9; Lk 21:12-19 Thursday: Rv 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9a; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk 21:20-28 Friday: Rom 10:9-18; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 4:18-22 St. Andrew Saturday: Rv 22:1-7; Ps 95:1-7ab; Lk 21:34-36 BVM Sunday: Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25:4-5, 8-10, 14; 1 Thes 3:12 -- 4:2; Lk 21:25-28, 34-36

Nov. 25, 2018

Upcoming Events Parish Registration

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Our common house can no longer tolerate sterile divisions.

The urgent challenge of protecting our home includes the struggle to bring the entire human

family together in the pursuit of a sustainable and integral development for we know

that things can change. Pope Francis

Reflecting on God’s Word

Saturday Dec. 8 Immaculate Conception Mass at 9:00 in Rectory Sunday Dec. 9 Parish Pot Luck Christmas Brunch following 10:00AM Mass Sunday Dec. 23 Church Decorating following 10:00 Mass Sunday Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Concert and Mass / Starting 4:10PM/Mass 4:30 Tuesday Dec. 25 Christmas Day Mass 10:00AM

An Invitation to St. Richard Church for an Advent Taize Candlelight Service on Sunday, December 16, at 4:00 p.m.

On Sunday afternoon of the Third Sunday of Advent, we invite you to join us, as we step away for an hour from the frantic pace of the holiday season, into the calming, quieting, experi-ence of Taize prayer, and the real meaning of Advent. The musicians of St. Richard Parish, accompanied by harp, flute, violin, and bells will lead the congregation in singing the prayerful, meditative music of Taize. Readings of the season, silent meditations, and lighting of candles will enhance our experience of listening to God.

Advent Novena at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary You are invited to join the seminary community as we prepare for the joy and splendor of Christmas. Each evening of the Novena will begin at 7:00PM in the Chapel of St. Joseph and will include prayer, scripture, a reflective homily, and hymns led by the seminarians.

Political power meets spiritual power in today’s conversation between Jesus and Pilate. “Are you the King of the Jews?” Pilate asks Jesus (John 18:33). Pilate is concerned about whether Jesus is a threat to Roman rule, just as the Jewish leaders see Jesus as a threat to their authority. Jesus is thus either guilty of fomenting insurrection as a militant messiah or of speaking blasphemy by presenting himself as one who in-augurates the reign of God. Jesus, however, speaks not about himself as a king but about a kingdom that “does not belong to this world” (John 18:36). This kingdom may not be of this world but it is in this world. God’s kingdom is present in Jesus as one who comes to bear witness to the truth. And what is this truth? That “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (John 3:16). Jesus is the Word become flesh who made his dwelling among us, so that we might see his glory, “the glory of the Father’s only Son, / full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). The hour of glory was the hour of the cross, the hour not of politi-cal power, but God’s power shining through human weakness, bringing light into the darkness, revealing self-sacrificing love so that we might have life. Political power tends to be an upward climb into dominance and authority that must be protected at all costs. It frequently leads to isolation and abuse, to clinging to power as its own end. Spiritual power is having the strength to trust God and surrender so that God can reign, not by conquest or political alliances, but through human weakness and surrender to God.

—James A. Wallace, C.Ss.R. Copyright © 2014, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.

Living God’s Word We pray that we might be part of God’s people who continue to proclaim Jesus as the One to whom we give our allegiance, and that we show this in the world by working to bring about God’s kingdom where mercy and justice, peace and love rule.

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