Masses: Saturday: 5:00 pm

Sunday: 8 am 10 am 12 pm

Weekdays Monday-Saturday 8:15 am

Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Parish Office: 630-369-0777 Fax: 630-369-1493 Religious Ed. Office: 630- 369-0833

All Saints Catholic Academy:

1155 Aurora Ave. Naperville, IL 60540 630.961-6125 or www.ascacademy.org

New Parishioners: Anyone who welcomes you, welcomes me; and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.: (Mt 10:40) St. Margaret Mary Parish wishes to welcome everyone to our community as Jesus would. For information, please call the parish office.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions every Saturday from 3:30 to 4:30 PM or anytime by request.

Sacrament of Baptism: Sundays following the 12:00 Mass, except holidays. Please call Parish Office to make arrangements for Baptism and required Preparation Meeting.

Sacrament of Marriage: Six months preparation required. Parish music policies, which reflect Diocesan guidelines, are to be followed.

Sick, Homebound, Hospital Visits: Contact the Parish Office if you would like Communion, if you need someone from SMMP to visit you in the hospital, or if we can help you in any other way. Privacy policies do not permit the hospital to contact us directly.

St. Margaret Mary ParishSt. Margaret Mary Parish December 15, 2019December 15, 2019 Third Sunday in AdventThird Sunday in Advent

1450 1450 Green Trails Dr.Green Trails Dr. Naperville, IL 60540Naperville, IL 60540 630630--369369--07770777 www.smmp.comwww.smmp.com

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Year to Date Weekly Collection 7/1/2019 to 12/08/2019 Present

Weekly Mass Offerings: $12 ,529 $371,991 Automated Giving: 6,148 177, 291 Stock/RMD/Tea Donations 18 ,950 Totals: 18,677 568,232 Budget Goal 26,898 574,724 Over/(Under) Goal (8,221) (6,492)

God’s Share

Priscilla Arrieta Elaine Badelt Judea Beckett Arlene Bennett Edward Bojan Blake Burton Patrick Cameron Kathleen Carey Lori Cross Justin Dellarose Murlene Dolley Ben & April Espinos Michael Facchinello Lawrence Facchinello Mary Fisher Jo Ellen Furlong Jim Gardner William Garrett John Hill Kay Hill Kevin Hill Fr. George Hurley Kate Kirchner Bill Koloseike Emma Martinez

Joseph Mathy Donal McGoldrick

Maxine Messere Dr. Edward Michl Collette Miller Linda Palulis Russell Rasche Patrick Rockowitz Allen Rogers John P. Rossi Gerry Rotko David Schuberg A. Schuman Mary Sheehan Greyson Stanley Elizabeth Stock Jim Tamburrino Roy Taylor Jim Topolewski Joan Vinkler Marion Warner Bob Whipple Ray Young Barb Zdon

Christmas and New Year’s Mass Schedule:

Christmas Eve (December 24)

3 pm Church 3 pm Parish Center 5 pm 10:30 pm

Christmas Day (December 25)

10 am Noon (NO 8 am Mass)

New Year’s Eve (December 31)

8:15 Daily Mass ONLY (NO VIGIL MASS for Solemnity of Mary)

New Year’s Day (January 1)

10 am Parish offices will be closed from Tuesday, December 24th until Monday, December 30th at 9 am. Parish offices will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, 2020.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Save-the-date for the Appreciation

Dinner Saturday, January 25th

2020 at 6 PM

Simbang Gabi Advent Novena Mass

Tradition from the Philippines

Will take place Thursday, December

19 at 7:30 pm at St. Margaret Mary.

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COMMUNAL CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

St. Margaret Mary Parish Monday, December 16, 2019

7:00 PM Christian faith insists that God’s love for us is boundless. This is the point of Jesus’ story of a shepherd in search of a lost sheep. This is also the message that St. Margaret Mary received from the Heart of Jesus. And when our thoughts and actions are less than lovable, God seeks us out to prove that we are loved and to guide us in the ways of love. You are invited to a communal celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, in which you can rely, with confidence, on God’s mercy. Approximately one hour, this service will include an examination of conscience, the opportunity for private confession, and a ritual in front of St. Margaret Mary’s shrine. Please join the parish community for this Advent prayer and immerse yourself in the love of the Heart of Jesus.

Some members of our parish are going though difficult economic times because of layoffs and other financial crisis. As a parish with a heart we have always reached out to help people in need. This year we are asking parishioners to also help members of our parish family who need help.

If you know of a parish family that could use financial help this Christmas season please call Tom Cordaro at 630-369-0777.

If you would like to help parish families in need please send $40 gift certificates from Walmart, Target, Jewel, Meier’s, Mariano’s, Sears, Kohl’s and Penney’s to “Parishioners Helping Parishioners”, St. Margaret Mary Parish, 1450 Green Trails Dr, Naperville, IL 60540, or drop them off at the parish office 9:00 am—5:00 pm (Mon.—Fri.)

Don’t throw your old Christmas/Holiday Lights in the trash!

Bring your old Christmas/Holiday

lights to the church

to be recycled for cash to support our efforts to be an environmentally friendly

parish.

until Jan. 13th collection boxes

will be available in the Church Lobby ,

Entrance from Naper Blvd and the Parish Center

For more information contact

Tom Cordaro at 630-369-0777.

Cookies Needed If you like to bake, kindly bring a dozen cookies to the Parish Mission. Come to the Upper Room and enjoy hospitality after the spiritual reflections. January 19-21st (7 to 8 pm)

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Dear Friend of All Saints Catholic Academy,

As you may be aware, Mrs. Melissa Santos, Principal of All Saints Catholic Academy, has prayerfully discerned to resign from her position effective July 1, 2020. Mrs. Santos has been a true blessing to our school. Please join me in wishing Melissa, her son Drew, and her husband Andy, many blessings as the Santos family reunites in Nebraska at the conclusion of the 2019-2020 school year.

As members of a parish that sponsors or supports All Saints Catholic Academy, you are an important part of the All Saints learning community, and your input is critical to our search for a new principal. If you would like to offer your thoughts about the next leader of All Saints, please go to the link below to access a bilingual All Saints Catholic Academy Principal Search Survey. Complete this online instrument as soon as possible, and encourage any other adults who support the pursuit of Catholic education to do so as well. The survey will be accessible from through midnight on Friday, January 10, 2020.

Please go to the following link to access the survey:

https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/2019-20ASCA

Survey data will create a Principal Profile that will guide Search Committee members in selecting candidates for interview who meet or exceed community expectations. This information will also assist members of the Search Committee as they design first and second-round candidate interview protocols that are derived from collected data.

Giving thanks to God for all the blessings that He has bestowed upon our community, I ask that you keep the success of our search for the next All Saints Catholic Academy spiritual and instructional leader in your prayers. Rest assured that you and your family are in my prayers.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. John Belmonte, S.J., Ph.D.

Rev. John Belmonte, S.J., Ph.D.

Superintendent of Catholic Schools, Diocese of Joliet-in-Illinois

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Jesse Tree Project What is a Jesse Tree? Ask our 4th grade Faith Formation students. They did a marvelous job creating Jesse trees, and presenting them to Faith Formation classes via beautiful Advent services. Jesse trees are an Advent tradition dating back to Medieval times. The inspiration originated from a scripture passage from the book of Isaiah:

"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots."

The tree depicts symbols representing the ancestors of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph’s family, dating before King David whose relative was Jesse. You can enjoy observing these trees in the lower level atrium throughout Advent. What a nice gift for Jesus, 4th graders!!!

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At St. Margaret Mary Church January 19th through 21st 7 to 8 pm Refreshments served a erwards in the Upper Room

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Faith Formation K-8

Wonderful God, help us be ready for Jesus’ coming at

the end of time and in our everyday life

December 16, 17, 18—Service projects/Christmas celebration during class times. Grades K-3 plus Special Sacraments bring birthday bag items, and Grades 4-8 bring a non-perishable item. You are welcome to bring treats to share for class celebra-tions.

Christmas Eve 5:00 Chil-dren’s Mass Online registration for the Christmas Eve 5:00 Children’s Mass ends on December 18. We need angels, shepherds, gift bearers and readers. Extra reg-istration forms are available on the RE counter outside Room 7. Rehearsal is schedule for Saturday, December 21st at 9 am. On Christmas Eve, chil-dren should arrive in designat-ed classrooms by 4:45 pm.

Christmas Break The last class is Wednesday, December 18th. Classes will resume on Monday, January 6, 2020.

Substitute catechists needed Mon, Tues, Wed afternoons Please contact Jacqui Snyder at 630 369-0833 or jsnyder@smmp.com with any questions.

If you posted a memorial picture of a deceased loved one in the church narthex during the month of November, please pick it up in the Parish Office between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday.

Thank you!

Fr. Paul’s Homily

Hope and Our Stewardship Mal 3:19-20a 2 Thes 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19

(We are the trusted stewards, referred to in various parables, to whom God has entrusted his wealth, and he expects us to share it with those in need.)

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Today’s gospel reading is a pretty fair description of the mindset in the early Church, the mindset of the first Christians and Jesus himself. On the one hand, things look dire; on the other hand, not to worry, be sober, serene, peaceful, and all shall be well. Holding these two opposites together was one of the first challenges that Jesus handed to his followers. What is being described here is the virtue of hope, which St. Paul calls “the first fruit given to those who believe.”

Now hope along with faith and love are the three essential qualities of God that we share in and through Christ. Of the three, we speak least about hope. We talk all the time about faith. We talk all the time about love. We don’t talk enough about hope. But our world needs hope now perhaps more than ever. Why would a 16-year-old go on a murderous, suicidal rampage on his birthday? Certainly psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and his own peers will all contribute their own

opinions. But what may go overlooked is the most basic fact: he had no hope! People with hope do not behave that way. But we need hope to keep going amid all the fears and frustrations of life, or we just give up. And this has always been true, but now in our society the sense of the sacred, the sense of the transcendent from where hope comes is increasingly being pushed out of society, creating an enormous vacuum.

The eruptions of senseless violence are important wake-up calls for the whole of society. Many, especially the young, are dying inside. Every act of berserk violence is preceded by an inside death, the death of someone in his or her own heart. And the rest of us have to wake up and see those around us who are suffering, because we really do have the remedy: faith in the God who has come to us in our very flesh to bear our lives and burdens with us. That is our faith in Christ. God brings us not only hope for the age to come,

which is very important, but even in the present moment the fullness of love and compassion. That we do not have to wait for. That we do not have to hope for. It’s being given always.

Every time we gather for the Eucharist, God is renewing for us the covenant in Christ’s blood. Every time we come to the altar to receive the body and blood of Christ, God is feeding us, strengthening us for this treacherous journey through life. But the gifts of God are not just given to us personally or even to us as a community, they are intended for the whole world. And the only way the whole world will receive them is if we share them. We are the trusted stewards, referred to in various parables, to whom God has entrusted his wealth, and he expects us to share it with those in need. And the whole world is in need of the wealth of God. Salvation is not only about life eternal in the age to come, it is, but not only; it is also about saving 16-year-olds from themselves.

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Date December 21 & 22

Lectors Eucharistic Ministers Servers Sacristan/ Deacon/Presider

5:00 Charles Graber John Gerding Patricia Cassady

Michael Maziarek Barbara Ryan

Karen Ng Theodore Ng William Reiser

B. Ryan Deacon Joe Fr. Paul

8:00

Robert Presnak Felice Chillemi Bill Hassett

Dan Skinner Kathy Mackowiak

Jake Mlsna Obrien/Salvetti Deacon Joe Fr. Bill Cullen

10:00

Sue Altmann Vincent Keenan Laura Williams

Jennifer Nolan Barbara Zdon

Connor Barbaccia Cade Dimailig Tanner Dimailig

J. Cote Deacon Ken Fr. Paul

12:00

Alissa Prendergast Karla Deaver Jim Quinn

Anna Moore Alan Meder Katrina Meder

Betsey Leightman Jarvis Pasamanero

A. Moore Deacon Ken Fr. Paul

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

December 21 Fr. Paul December 28 Fr. Paul

Masses for the Week

Monday — December 16 8:15— Theresa Crowe — SVDP Society of SMMP Tuesday— December 17 8:15— Bill Savage — Ron Draghi Wednesday— December 18 8:15— Purgatorial Society Thursday— December 19 8 :15 — Carol Gollinger — Debbie Geary 7:30 — Simbang Gabi Friday— December 20 8:15 — Lucille Paluchniak — John and Joan Noonan Saturday— December 14/St. John of the Cross 8:15 — 5:00 — Judy Schoder — Joyce Schoder Sunday — December 15 8:00 — For the Parish Family 10:00 — Jeff Thomas — Contemporary Choir 12:00 — Dr. Joseph Vedova — Nancy Danico

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St. Margaret Mary Parish Naperville/Lisle -- 630-369-0777

Parish Staff Art & Environment Coordinator Jill Mizen

Bookkeeper Pat Henke

Business Manager Michael Prus

Building Manager Bob Stezowski Communications Coordinator Julie Duffin

Custodian Ziggy Owiesek

Deacons (Permanent) Deacon Joe Ferrari

Deacon Don Helgeson

Deacon Ken Miles

Deacon Fred Straub (retired)

Deacon Terry Taylor

Justice/Outreach Minister Tom Cordaro Liturgy Coordinator Deacon Ken Miles

Music Director John Schlaman Parish Secretary/Bulletin Editor Sue Carroll

Pastoral Associate Sr. Madelyn Gould, S.S.S.F. Pastoral Council President Joey Rose

Priests Rev. Paul Hottinger, Pastor

Receptionists Loretta Mercadante & Mary Sears

Director of Religious Ed., Pre-school - 8 Jacqui Snyder

Director of Youth Ministry Dan Lawler

Religious Education Secretary Arlene Serio

Religious Education Staff Assistant Debbie Brutlag

Food for the Journey Scripture Readings for the Week

Monday: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6, 7bc-9; Mt 21:23-27 Tuesday: Gn 49:2, 8-10; Ps 72:1-4ab, 7-8, 17; Mt 1:1-17 Wednesday: Jer 23:5-8; Ps 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19; Mt 1:18-25 Thursday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a; Ps 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17; Lk 1:5-25 Friday: Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-4ab, 5-6; Lk 1:26-38 Saturday: Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a; Ps 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21; Lk 1:39-45 Sunday: Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-6; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS First Reading — The barren deserts will rejoice and flower (Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10). Psalm — Lord, come and save us (Psalm 146).

Second Reading — Be patient, for the coming of the Lord is as sure as the rain (James 5:7-10). Gospel — Tell of what you hear and see: The blind regain their vision, the crippled their movement, the deaf their hearing (Matthew 11:2-11). NEXT WEEK’S SCRIPTURE READINGS First Reading — You will be given this sign: The virgin shall conceive and bear a son (Isaiah 7:10-14). Psalm — Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory (Psalm 24). Second Reading — God has called us to belong to Jesus Christ (Romans 1:1-7). Gospel — The son born of Mary shall be called Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:18-24).

In order to be considered for bulletin publication, items must be received no later than the Friday a week prior to the desired publication date. For example, for an article to appear in the February 28, 2016 bulletin, it must be received by the office no later than Friday, February 19. Information can be emailed to scarroll@smmp.com. Space may be limited; priority will be given to information about SMMP events or staff-generated articles.

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