Sunday Mass: 9:30 a.m. Confessions: 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. Sun. or by appointment Holyday Mass: 7: 00a.m. Parish Telephone: 314 721-6403 Weekday Mass: Mon. through Fri. 7:00a.m. Email: all_saintschurch@sbcglobal.net Web page: www. allsaintsucitymo.org Oratory Mass Schedule (Traditional Latin Mass)7:30a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

All Saints Church

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

Linda L. Mayer, B.A., M.S.– Director of Music Julie Riley, M.A., Pastoral Associate

First Sunday of Advent December 3, 2017

Liturgical Roles

Readings for the Week of December 4 through December 10, 2017

ALL SAINTS PARISH 6403 CLEMENS. U. CITY, MO. 63130 314-721-6403 Email: all_saintschurch@sbcglobal.net Fax: 314-659-9799

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 Elizabeth White Adela Ciza Rita Carr Mattie Pruitt Suretha Thomas Sandra Spirk Daven Schanche Harry Redecker 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 Pat Patterson Brandon Carter Joe Clooney Those in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes

Mary Jaquet, Ollie Wilson, May Mosbey, Hazel Chambers

First Sunday of Advent December 3, 2017

Mass Intentions

Your Gifts to God and Parish

Dec. 10, 2017 Extraordinary Ministers: Jim Patterson Pat Patterson Lectors: Pam Nickels Jon McGinnis Server: Meg Wynkoop Usher/Greeter: Tom Lachajczyk Joe Clooney Finance Ministers: Shari Yentumi Ed Nickels

12/04 7:00 AM 12/05 7:00 AM 12/06 7:00 AM 12/07 7:00 AM 12/08 7:00 AM 12/10 10:00 AM

Mon Joe Thaier Tues. Delores Mohler Wed. Hermann & Theresa Eisle Thurs. Delores Mohler Fri. Jacques Kakre household Sun. People of the Parish

Totals for November 19, 2017 Envelopes (21) $1450.00 Loose $76.00 Total contributions $1526.00

Bingo $500.00 Totals for November 26, 2017

Envelopes (21 ) $1380.00 Loose $195.00 Total contributions $1575.00

Totals for the Month of November

Building Fund $165.00 Campaign for Human Dev. $77.00 Retired Religious $246.00 All Saints/ All Souls $90.00

Monday: Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-9; Mt 8:5-11 St. John Damascene Tuesday: Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Lk 10:21-24 Wednesday: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 15:29-37 St. Nicholas Thursday: Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-St. Ambrose 27a; Mt 7:21, 24-27 Friday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1-4; Immaculate Conception of Mary Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Saturday: Is 30:19-21, 23-26; Ps 147:1-6; Mt 9:35 -- 10:1, 5a, 6-8 Sunday: Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 85:9-14; 2 Pt 3:8- 14; Mk 1:1-8

Dec. 3, 2017

Upcoming Events

Friday Night Bingo 10815 Midland (between Ashby & Lindbergh) Doors Open at 5PM Games start at 6:45PM

PLEASE VOLUNTEER TO WORK Call 721-6403 or Talk to Art Wynkoop

Parish Registration Are you a visitor? Have you ever thought of becoming a reg-istered parishioner? Register in All Saints Parish today; sim-ply fill out the form below and return it to All Saints Church , 6403 Clemens –63130

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Sun. Dec. 3 UC Symphony Concert 3:00PM/reception

Sun. Dec. 10 All Saints Parishioner Catered

Brunch

Sat. Dec. 23 Decorate church for Christmas

Sun. Jan. 14 Coffee and Pastries

Sun. Jan. 28 Coffee and Pastries

Sun. Feb. 11 African American Read-In

Coffee and Pastries

Trivia Next Year Apparently our parishioners are dili-gently planning ahead. What could be more important than preparing for trivia night? In case you missed it this year put it on your calendar for next year. NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Reflecting on God’s Word

YOU ARE INVITED to participate in Fontbonne Univer-sity’s Advent Twilight Evening of Reflection on Thursday, December 7th in Doerr Chapel. This event will begin 7:00 PM with a presentation by Cathy Pressimone called “The Grace of Waiting – Finding Peace in the Chaotic.” The event is free and open to public.

Living God’s Word It may be that our fear is that all of those creaks and clatters and clicks are the sounds of our lives being rearranged for us without our having any say in the rearranging. Who knows if we’ll be able to live with ourselves when the new light dawns? Nevertheless, in the dark of our lives our God comes and does the rearranging our God does. Copyright © 2014, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.

These days I live in what had been for well over a hundred years a parish convent for the sisters who once taught in the parish’s grade school. Like every old house it has creaks and clatters and clicks that ricochet about at nighttime and never seem to be heard in the daytime house. And because all of us who live here are adults, we say it’s just the noises of an old house bedding down for a sleep—until one of us is home alone at night. Then, when the others return, we rush to tell them how Mother Caroline was up and around again. The dark does crazy things to our imaginations and makes us act and think like kids. The dark has a way of flaunting itself with fearsome noises and sowing mysterious unknowns. And when not only our bodies but also our very lives find themselves in the dark, when we don’t know how best to deal with disciplining our children, or where to direct the rest of our lives, or how to manage a relation-ship, well, such darkness can seem unbearable. Then the dark is too much with us. We’re never quite sure what mysterious unknowns our God might raise up out of the dark. That may also be why each of us in our own crazy way tries to befriend the dark’s noises. We say they’re the sounds of an old house, or the day cooling down, or the furnace kicking in, or we say it’s Mother Caro-line. One way or another we find a way to live with the dark-ness, for who knows what our God, the divine potter of the reading from Isaiah, may yet do with the damp clay of our lives?

—Rev. Joseph J. Juknialis Copyright © 2014, World Library Publications. All rights re-served.

Resurrection Prayers Please keep in your prayers the family of Mary Saliba who died this past week. Mary and her husband Tom are long time parishioners of All Saints. Mary has been ill for several years. Tom has lovingly and faithfully cared for her.

Tom has also worked hard for years volunteering at All Saints to keep the buildings in good shape. May Mary’s soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.

A Way to Help Our St. Vincent de Paul The Ladue Schnucks has selected All Saints SVDP as the beneficiary of the Bags 4MYCause program. We will receive $1.00 for each Hunger Bag purchased at the Ladue Schnucks 8867 Ladue Rd. The bags must be purchased in Dec. The bag is mostly white, not the Giving bag which is mostly red. You can give them to your friends and family for Christmas. Thanks for your support