Monday December 23

8:30 a.m. – Int. Schoenstatt Families & Benefactors Tuesday December 24

5:00 p.m.– DM of the Seurynck Family Wednesday December 25

12:00 a.m.– LDM Thompson Family 9:00 a.m. - St. Joseph Parish

Thursday December 26

8:30 a.m. – NO MASS Friday December 27

6:45 a.m.– NO MASS Saturday December 28

5:00 p.m.– †Riley Metzinger

Sunday December 29 9:00 a.m. – †James Faulstich 11:30 a.m. - St. Joseph Parish

Schedule of Events

Pray for the sick of our parish & community.. Oremos por los enfermos de nuestra parroquia &

comunidad ..

Cindy Haan Janet Hathaway Peter Kerkove Betty Kremer Linda Martin Carol Musser Sean Mylet Sue Nipple Joyce Sullivan Vicki Hartman Reynalda Martinez Gina Hemersbach

Barbara Bess Pauline Buchholz John Eberle Lorane Eberle Marie Butcher Laura Yoder Rodger James Stephanie Willy David Alvarez Matt Weber Connie Meyer Ron Metzinger

Jack Seurynck Terry Tatman Cecile Wilimitis Juan Ovalle Madison Riley Geoff Keyes Judy Mang Dan Houston Glady Murphy Willard Merkel Denise Lamb Jack Jones

“Drop down dew from above, you heavens,

And let the clouds rain down the Just One;

Let the earth be opened and bring forth a Savior”

Cf. Isaiah 45:8

***To be added or removed from the prayer list please

contact the parish office at : 765-564-2407 or

office@stjosephdelphi.org

December 22, 2019

Monday December 23 10:30 a.m. - Mass at St. E. Healthcare Tuesday December 24 6:30 a.m. - Mass at St. E. Healthcare 5:00 p.m. - Christmas Vigil Mass Wednesday December 25 12:00 a.m.- Christmas Midnight Mass 9:00 a.m.– Christmas Mass at Dawn 10:30 a.m.– Mass at St. E Healthcare Thursday December 26 10:30 a.m. - Mass at St. E Healthcare Friday December 27 10:30 a.m. - Mass at St. E. Healthcare Saturday December 28 10:30 a.m. - Mass at St E Healthcare Sunday December 29 10:30 a.m. - Mass at St E. Healthcare

NO CCD– Christmas Break

Fourth Sunday of

Advent

Mass Schedule & Intentions

St. Joseph Community News ADVENT’S REMEDY TO OUR BLINDNESS

“What do you want me to do for you?”

“Lord, that I may see.” (Lk 18:41)

We come now to the final hours of Advent and our final preparations. Advent is my favorite season of the year. In fact,

I never realize how much I need it until it arrives – because it’s a time that the Church invites us to stop, to be attentive,

to foster a silent, inner perception, and to form a new recognition of the presence of Christ in our lives. And if we live

Advent well, we begin to see how this season equips us to cooperate with what Jesus is doing in our lives, to live in a

deeper union with him, and to be filled with a spiritual joy at the truth that the Lord is near.

The first days of Advent each year never fail to show me how spiritual cataracts have formed over my eyes. It reveals to

me how blind I am to Christ’s presence and how I fail to receive him with joy every day because I just don’t pay atten-

tion to the nearly-imperceptible ways he comes to me. The poetry that opens John’s Gospel applies well to my life,

unfortunately: “He came unto his own, and his own people received him not” (Jn 1:11).

My forgetfulness and spiritual blindness shouldn’t surprise me every year; but they do. I realize how caught up I am in

my own plans, how focused I am on my own struggles, how I prioritize my own agenda over everyone else’s, and how

blind I am to the fact that Christ wants in and I don’t open the door.

That blindness that Advent exposes reminds me of a powerful scene in Luke’s Gospel. A blind man approaches Jesus.

It’s obvious he’s blind and he’s been calling out from his roadside begging post for Jesus to have mercy on him. Yet,

when he approaches, Jesus asks him, “What do you want me to do for you?” It’s almost humorous – isn’t is obvious that

he wants to be healed of his blindness? But Jesus makes him express it himself, “Lord, that I may see” (Lk 18:41).

Every Advent presents us with the same question: do we really want to see Christ present and active in our lives? If not,

the Lord won’t grant us that gift.

If you do want that – if you are open to being healed of your own spiritual blindness – let me offer you a practical way to

let God do so: Eucharistic adoration. Our blindness to Christ’s presence in our lives is often illustrated by our forgetful-

ness of his presence in the Eucharist. He is truly there. In the Blessed Sacrament, we find the privileged place of God’s

presence on earth; yet, how often we are blind to Him there, how often we look at the Host with tired eyes and a heavy

heart, and how often we enter the Church and genuflect with empty hearts and minds full of other things. Yet in the

tabernacle lives Emmanuel, “God with us.”

I would propose that perhaps the best exercise during the final days of Advent is to spend some time with him there.

And, there, to make the request of the blind man, “Lord, that I may see!” If we learn to see him in the Sacrament, we

will find him more often in our daily lives. From his Eucharistic presence, he heals that spiritual blindness that Advent

aims to correct.

Come visit the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament chapel for a little while in the next few days. You are too busy, I know.

In fact, that’s the problem. You’re blind like me to what’s really important. Let’s allow the remedy that Jesus gives –

his substantial presence in the Blessed Sacrament – to heal us of that blindness and offer a new vision of the presence of

God in our lives.

~Fr. Clayton

St. Joseph Community News

The collection total for December 15,2019

$4,722.77 El total de la colecta para el 15 de diciembre del 2019 Thank you! !Gracias!

Tuesday, December 24

Christmas Vigil Mass

5:00pm

Wednesday , December 25

Christmas Mass

12:00 am

9:00 am

Horario de misa de Navidad

Martes 24 de diciembre

Misa de vigilia navideña

5:00 pm

Miércoles 25 de diciembre

Misa de navidad

12:00 a.m

9:00 a.m

There is no CCD Dec 22, Dec, 29, or Jan 5.

Classes will resume Jan. 12.

No hay clases de doctrina el dic 22, 29 o enero 5

La clases comienzan de nuevo enero 12.

There will be no R.C.I.A. Dec. 25 or Jan.1.

Meetings will resume Jan. 8 in the white house

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Parish office will be closed December 23- January 2.

La oficina parroquial estará cerrada del 23 de

diciembre al 2 de enero.

St. Joseph Community News

December Liturgical Ministers Eucharistic Ministers 5:00 pm - Sharon Rettig & Denise Craig 9:00 am - Scot & Becky Price, Kay Seurynck Commentators & Readers 5:00 pm - Commentor: Kelly Studebaker Reader: Larry Banks 9:00 am - Commentor: The Hickner Family Reader: The Hickner Family

Lectores

Dic 22: Carlos Dic 29: Sandra D

ministerios de la eucaristia Dic 22: Fermín Sanchez & Carolina Raya

Dic 29: Rodolfo Morales & Yolanda Tovar

Ushers for December

Dec 21: Dave Miller & Jim Walker Dec 22: Kevin Bender & Wayne Killian Dec 24: TBA Dec 24: Jeff Craig & The Bender Family (Midnight) Dec 25: Kent & Kane Zimpher Dec 28: Jerry Minnicus & David Barrnard Dec 29: Matt & Dean Iunghuhn

December 22nd

5:00 Mass

Alex Studebaker

Volunteer

9:00 Mass

Allison O’Brien

Mallory O’Brien

Volunteer

Altar Servers for December

December 29th 5:00 Mass Alex Studebaker 9:00 Mass Volunteer