The Second Sunday of Advent December 8, 2019

Saturday, December 7, 2019 Vigil Mass of The Second Sunday of Advent

5:15 p.m. Ernest J. Therien Requested by his Michelle and Stephen Renehan

Sunday, December 8, 2019 The Second Sunday of Advent

8:30 a.m. Pro Populo

11:15 a.m. Jerry Sansiveri -12th Anniversary Requested by his Wife, Roberta and Family

Monday, December 9, 2019 The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

7:30 a.m. Pro Populo 7:00 p.m. Mass at St. James Church

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Advent Weekday

7:00 p.m. Mass at St. James Church

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 St. Damasus I, Pope

7:30 a.m. Pro Populo

Thursday, December 12, 2019 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

7:00 p.m. Mass at St. James Church

Friday, December 13, 2019 St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr 7:30 a.m. Pro Populo

Saturday, December 14, 2019 Vigil Mass of The Third Sunday of Advent

5:15 p.m. Beatrice and Edward Tetreault –Remembrance Requested by their Daughter

Sunday, December 15, 2019 The Third Sunday of Advent

8:30 a.m. Pro Populo

11:15 a.m. Pro Populo

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Today

Gregorian Concert Choir & Festival Orchestra

“The Sounds of the Season”

Sunday, December 8, 2019, 3 p.m. Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul

Concert will benefit Bishop Thomas Tobin's "Keep the Heat On Challenge" which assists poor

and low income families with utility expenses. Tickets for the concert are $10 per person.

Tickets will also be available at the door on the day of the concert.

FINAL Christmas Concert

Sunday, December 15, 2019

at 2:00 PM St. Charles Borromeo Church

Woonsocket. The FINAL Christmas Concert,

featuring the St. Charles Parish adult choir under the direction of Becky & Wayne Kilcline with special guests

the Providence Youth Classical Guitar Ensemble. This may be one

of the last opportunities for people to see the inside of this beautiful

Woonsocket landmark. Free and open to the public!

Feast of the Holy Family December 28 & 29

Mustard Seed Diaper Drive

Your support of this drive would be a blessing to the Mustard Seed

Community in Jamaica.

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Week of November 24, 2019

Weekly Budget $ 2,881.00 EFT $ 898.00 Monthly Maintenance $ 55.00 Votive Candles $ 93.00 Mass Intentions $ 40.00 Poor Box $ 58.00 Annual Collection $ 7,920.00

Week of December 1, 2019 Weekly Budget $ 2,886.00 EFT $ 840.00 Monthly Maintenance $ 975.00 Poor Box $ 178.00 Votive Candles $ 67.00 Thanksgiving $ 97.00 Annual Collection $ 3,470.00

As always, Thank you for your generosity! We depend solely upon your weekly support

to meet our weekly parish expenses.

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2019-2020 Faith Formation Grades K-4

Grades K, 1, 3, 4 reminder... bring your folder to class with your completed home-study lessons.

Questions...please contact Robin Carney at rcarney@stambrosechurchri.org

Class Schedule:

Grades 2, 4: 12/8/2019 Grades K, 1, 2, 3: 12/15/2019

No Classes 12/22/2019 No Classes 12/29/2019

St. Ambrose

Annual Collection

The Annual Collection is underway. Thank you for opening your hearts, minds, and spirits to the 2019 Annual Collection.

May the Lord bless you for your generosity.

Holiday Mass Schedule

Christmas Eve - December 24

Sounds of the Season 3:30pm Mass at 4:00pm & Midnight—St. Ambrose

Mass at 4:00m and 10:00pm—St. James

Christmas Day—December 25 Mass at 10:00am at St. Ambrose

Mass at 10:00am at St. James

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New Year’s Eve—December 31 4:00pm at St. James

New Year’s Day - January 1, 2020 10:00am at St. Ambrose

10:00am at St. James

Gaudete Sunday ‘Bambinelli’ Sunday

December 15

St. Ambrose Parish will again celebrate the Third Sunday of Advent with more

than a rose candle this year. On this day, we will again adopt the Vatican

Tradition of blessing the figures of the baby Jesus (“Bambinelli” in Italian) from our Nativity scenes.

The tradition was started by Pope Paul VI in 1969 and ever since, the ‘Bambinelli’ blessing has been given by the pope during the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square on the Third Sunday of Advent. We ask every household in our parish, young and old, to unpack your creche and

bring the baby Jesus from your family’s Nativity scene to church to be blessed at the

11:15 Mass on December 15, 2019, the Third Sunday of Advent.

This Week’s Second Collection: Retirement Fund for Religious

Special Collection 12/15/2019:

Diocesan HIV/AIDS Assistance Program

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This Advent season, walk with Dr. Tim Gray on a journey of renewal to ready your heart

for the coming of Christ. Each day of Advent, Dr. Gray will unpack the meaning

of this season and its rich traditions, as well as offer practical advice for making

this Advent your best yet.

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Mass Intentions and

Mary’s Hanging Lamp

If you are interested in scheduling a Mass Intention or placing a Hanging Lamp Intention for a loved one at St. Ambrose,

please call the Rectory.

The St. Ambrose

Parish Giving Tree

The St. Ambrose Giving Tree is set-up in the Church

vestibule. As in years past, The Giving Tree is decorated

with gift tag ornaments which indicate the gifts needed.

If you are able to shop for the Giving Tree, please take an

ornament to purchase the gift needed and then return the

wrapped gift with the ornament gift tag taped to the

wrapping paper or gift bag. Wrapped and tagged gifts

may be placed in the Church vestibule and will be collected

before and after weekend Masses. The last collection will

be the weekend of December 21/22, so that the gifts can

be transported to St. John Baptist in Pawtucket.

Your one small act of kindness during

the Christmas season means more than you

know to someone in need.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Patronal feast of the United States of America)

Mass will be celebrated on Monday, December 9, 2019

St. Ambrose Church 7:30 a.m.

St. James Church 7:00 p.m.

A Thought & Prayer for The Immaculate Conception from the Coptic tradition:

“Hail Mary, the most beautiful dove, which carried the word of God for us;

we greet you with the Archangel Gabriel saying: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Hail, O Virgin, the glory of our race; you have borne Emmanuel for us.

We pray that you will remember us before the Lord Jesus Christ, that he will forgive

us our sins.”

Feast of the Holy Family December 28 & 29

Mustard Seed Diaper Drive One of our young parishioners, Alexa Hayden, a junior at Lincoln

High School had the opportunity to go on the Mustard Seed Communities mission trip to Jamaica in 2018. Alexa is working on her high school exhibition project which requires students to

host and plan an event that will make a positive impact on others. For her project, she is organizing a Diaper Drive to help

meet the needs of the mission community in Jamaica.

More information will follow in next week’s bulletin and a collection box will be set-up for the Diaper Drive.

For whatever was written previously was written for

our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant

you to think in harmony* with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus,

that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 15:4-6