ST. ANTHONY’S DIRECTORY PASTOR

Father Brian Hurley……….734-854-1143 fatherbrianhurley@stanthonytemperance.org

Rectory……...…………………734-854-1143 4605 St. Anthony Road, Temperance, MI 48182

Fax……………………………..734-854-4622 Parish E-mail……...….…....stanthony@bex.net

Web site: stanthonytemperance.org

OFFICE STAFF: Michelle Lindsey, Parish Secretary: 734-854-1143 Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 9am - 4pm

Linda Moeltner, Business Office: 734-854-8445 Office Hours: Monday & Tuesday: 9am - 3pm

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DIRECTOR OF LITURGY & MUSIC Eric Hite……419-266-0571…..titulaire@msn.com

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (RE) Ginny Stout, RE Coordinator……...734-854-1160 Office Hours: Monday - 10am - 6pm

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Padua Hall: 734-854-9120 4611 St. Anthony Road

Kenna Hall: 734-854-9162 4635 St. Anthony Road

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Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday (Sunday Vigil) (OF-MC): 5:00pm

Sunday (OF-MC): 9:00am & 11:00am

Holy Days: Check Bulletin & Website

Sacrament of Penance Saturday: 3:30-4:30pm;

First Wednesday: 6:30-7:30pm (September - May)

Second Tuesday: 6:00-6:30pm (September - May)

Devotions First Friday: 7:00pm Mass (OF-LM) First Saturday: 9:00am Mass (EF-MC)

O. L. of Perpetual Help & Prayer - Wednesday @ 6:15pm

Prayer Blankets Prayer Chain

Sandy Maenle……734-847-7813 Miriam Dressel….…734-888-1192

Our Sacramental Policy Six-month Parish registration and participation are required for Baptism, Confirmation

and Marriage.

Baptisms: Arrangements must be made in advance and parents must attend a baptism

class. The Church requires that at least one of the parents be a practicing Catholic, and

the Godparents must be active, practicing, fully initiated Catholics at least 16 years of age.

If two Godparents: must be 1 male & 1 female; if one Godparent: may be male or female.

Marriage: Arrangements must be made at least nine months in advance. Please call the

rectory office. Officiate at the ceremony must be St. Anthony Parish Pastor or a family

member.

Funerals: Officiate must be St. Anthony Parish Pastor or a family member.

Please note: The services of the Parish Organist are used for all sacramental liturgies.

For more details regarding our Sacramental policies and procedures, please refer to the

Sacrament link on our Parish web-site.

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church

Temperance, Michigan

Fourth Sunday of

Advent

December 18, 2016

“The Antonian”

“Let the Lord enter; He is king

of GLory.” Psalm 24

Traveling Vocation Chalice

December 18 Paul Bazydlo December 25 The Brown Family January 1 The Brown Family January 8 *Host Family Needed

Please Note: The 50/50 Drawing for December will be held

TODAY, Sunday, December 18

Prepare the way of the Lord!

Vespers - Today, Sunday, December 18: 3-4pm

Individual Confessions: Tuesday, December 20: 7-8pm (Three Priests) and

Wednesday, December 21: 11am - 12pm (Two Priests;

Fr. David arriving @ 11:15)

Christmas decorating in Church: Friday, December 23 at 4pm

Parish Offices will be closed Friday, December 23rd until

Friday December 30th

Christmas Masses: Saturday, December 24:

4:00pm;

Sunday, December 25 12Midnight; 9:00am & 11:00am

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

The Offertory Story December 11, 2016

# Env. assigned: 306; # Env. used: 98

Envelope total $ 3,971.00 Loose: $ 434.00 Children’s Envelopes: $ 5.42 Total $ 4,410.42 Weekly Budget amount..$ 5,250.00 +Over/-Under Budget $ - 839.58 Year To Date +- $ -1,652.02

Other: Candles 95.00 Catholic Charities 75.00 CD’s 3.00 Christmas 20.00 CSA 50.00 Flowers 120.00 Memorial 50.00 Immaculate Conception 1,514.03 Mass Intentions 150.00 Oplatki 26.00 Total for Other: 2,103.03

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This Week’s Calendar Monday, December 19, 2016 8:30am - Mass 4:45-6pm - RE Classes - School Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:30am - Mass 5:30-6:30pm - Youth Choir Practice 7-8pm - Confessions (Three Priests) Wednesday, December 21 , 2016 8:30am - Mass 11am - 12pm - Confessions (Two Priests) 6:15-7pm- Perpet. Help & Prayers - Church 7:30-9pm - Catholic Conversations - PH Thursday, December 22, 2016 9:00am - Mass 7-9pm - Choir Practice Friday, December 23, 2016

9:00am - Mass Offices Closed 4pm - Church Decorating Saturday, December 24, 2016 9:00am - Mass No Confessions 4:00pm - Christmas Vigil Mass Sunday, December 25, 2016 Christmas Day 12:00am Midnight - Mass 9:00am & 11:00am - Mass

The “O” Antiphons The O Antiphons are seven verses

in the Liturgy of the Hours that contain powerful pleas for the coming of the Lord. They are

chanted or recited during Vespers on the last seven day of Advent.

They are: December 17: O Sapientia

(O Wisdom)

December 18: O Adonai (O Sacred Lord)

December 19: O Radix Jesse (O Flower of Jesse’s Stem)

December 20: O Clavis David (O Key of David)

December 21: O Oriens (O Radiant Dawn)

December 22: O Rex Gentium (O King of All the Nations)

December 23: O Emmanuel (God with Us!)

If you take the first letter of each Latin title starting backward at

December 23, you will form the Latin words, “Ero Cras” which means:

“Tomorrow I will come.”

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!

MASS SCHEDULE Key to Abbreviations:

EF - Extra-ordinary Form (Trad. Latin Mass)

OF - Ordinary Form (New Rite; Novus Ordo)

LM - Low Mass; MC - Missa Cantata (Sung)

Monday, December 19, 2016 8:30am Ben Reinke and Family (OF-LM) by Barbara James

Bl. Urban V (1370), P. (Hist.)

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

8:30am Bernice Iott (OF-LM) by Earl & Janice Iott

St. Dominic of Silos (1073), Ab., Pt. of captives (Hist.)

Sts. Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, Old Testament

Patriarchs (Hist.)

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 8:30am Doris Dusseau (OF-LM) by Randy & Dianne Shields

St. Peter Canisius (1597), Pr., D. (New)

St. Thomas (1st C.), Ap., M., Ap. Of India, baptized the

Magi (Trad.)

Thursday, December 22, 2016 9:00am James Lemble, Jr. (OF-LM) by Stephen & Lisa Fischetti

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1817), V., R., F. of

Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Pt. of immigrants (Trad./some places)

Sts. Chaeremon & Ischyrion (3rd C.), Ms. (Hist.)

Friday, December 23, 2016 9:00am Jack, Pat, & Peter Carey (OF-LM) by Dan Carey on Behalf of the Family

St. John of Kanty (John Cantius) (1473), Pr., Pt. of

Poland (New)

St. Yvo of Chartres (1115), B. (Hist.)

St. Servulus (590), Beggar (Hist.)

Saturday, December 24, 2016 9:00am Carmelites (EF-LM)

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Vigil of Christmas (Trad.)

Sts. Adam & Eve (First Age of the World) (Hist.)

4:00pm Greg Baer; and

(OF-MC) Craig Baer by Greg & Karen Baer

Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 2016 The Birth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ (New, Trad.)

12:00am The People of St. Anthony (OF-MC)

9:00am William Shields (OF-MC) by Randy & Dianne Shields

11:00am Dominic Morgante (OF-MC) (40th Anniversary of Death) by Edward Malik

St. Anastasia (304), M. (Trad.)

Readings for the Week

Monday, December 19: Judges 13:2-7, 24-25a; Luke 1:5-25

Tuesday, December 20: Isaiah 7:10-14; Luke 1:26-38

Wednesday, December 21: Songs 2:8-14 or Zephaniah 3:14-18a;

Luke 1:39-45

Thursday, December 22: 1Samuel 1:24-28; Luke 1:46-56

Friday, December 23: Malachi 3:1-4,23-24; Luke 1:57-66

Saturday, December 24: 2Samuel 7:1-5,8b-12,14a,16; Luke 1:67-79

Christmas Vigil, Saturday, Dec. 24: Isaiah 62:1-5; Acts 13:16-17,22-25;

Matthew 1:1-25

Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25: Midnight: Isaiah 9:1-6; Titus 2:11-14;

Luke 2:1-14

Dawn: Isaiah 62:11-12; Titus 3:4-7;

Luke 2:15-20

Day: Isaiah 52:7-10; Hebrews 1:1-6;

John 1:1-18

Pray without ceasing

Catholic Conversations will meet

this week, Wednesday, December 21.

7:30pm in Padua Hall

All are welcome.

Please keep in your prayers all our service men and women,

especially those currently serving in Iraq

or Afghanistan

Liturgical Assignments for Christmas, December 24 & 25, 2016

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Mass Priest Lector Altar Servers

Saturday, December 24 Christmas Eve, 4:00pm

Fr. Brian K. Dressel M., P. & P. Dillon

Sunday, December 25 Christmas Day, 12:00am (Midnight)

Fr. Brian K. Shade J. Hajdu S. Updike A. Vaughn

Sunday, December 25 Christmas Day, 9:00am

Fr. Brian R. Dressel L., L. & P. Cousino

Sunday, December 25 Christmas Day 11:00am

Fr. Brian D. Strzelewicz C., J. & M. Torio

Upcoming Events

Vespers - December 18

Paint Class - December 18

….Let us Pray for…. Jerry Ameye Phil Ameye

Anne Anderson-Moore Helen Arends

Maria Baer Anna Barch

Gretchen Brautigan Toni Breininger

Victor Breininger Ruth Brown Jim Burkett

Don & Shirley Carter Nicholas Christy

Larry Closurdo, Jr. Lowell Cousino Katie Demorest

Mary & John Demorest Fr. Aaron Depeyster

Charles Doyle Jim Drake

Larry Dusseau Rose Dunlap Albert Failer

Whitney Fields James Fuelling

Paul Gabor Shirley Gabor Claude Gillen

Phyllis Glowacki James Gordon Steve Haman Janet Harrell Letha Holup Beth Huner

JoAnn Huntwork Rosemary Jacobs Michael Katafiasz

Dan Keller Michael Kosmider

Albert Kraft Chase Kukiela

Joe Lake Bud LaPlante

Haleigh LaRee Martin LaVoy

Audrey Lawrence Anthony Lehman

Brenda Liwo Ron Liwo

Linda Luchansky Sandy Maenle Edward Malik

Anna Marie McCutchen Carolyn McCutchen

Pamela Moeltner Hugh Moore

Robert Mueller Steve Murzynski

Patty Muskat Ruth Ann Neal

Martin Nusbaum Bernard Ott

Frank Parker Tracy Purrenhage

Adrina Raiford Elva Rau

Kaye Ritzenthaler Carol Romero Patty Samsel

Jonathan Scout Brenda Sorder

MaryLou Stevens Kevin Stroles

Tom Townsend Louis Trejo, Jr.

Carole VanBrandt Virginia VanKirk

Aaron Vyse Tom Ward

Pat Webber Jade Wells

Reva Williams Kathy Young Vicki White

Tabernacle Candles

The Candles recently burning in

the Church have been for:

Living & Deceased Members

of the Abel Family

at the request of Norb Abel.

The next Candle to burn will be for the

Intentions of Linda Luchansky at the request of John Luchansky

The Advent Giving Tree

Please return all items to the bins under the tree - UNWRAPPED - no later than - Monday, December 19 - in

order to be sorted and delivered in time for Christmas.

The Children’s Choir

will sing at the 4:00pm

Christmas Eve Mass. Practice will be held

Tuesday, December 20, 5:30-6:30pm.

Please contact Eric Hite:

419-29-66-0571 or titulaire@msn.com

if you have any questions.

In the Narthex, along with the Advent Giving Tree, are:

Calendars for 2017

Oplatki Christmas Breads

St. Anthony Knights of Columbus will also be selling 50/50 Annual Tickets for 2017 and Religious Themed Christmas Cards through December 17 and 18 in the Narthex after all weekend Masses. Please stop by their table and show your support for their efforts.

The Monroe County Jail Ministry is collecting white, cotton crew type socks for the inmates in time for Christmas. Please place any donations of socks in the basket in the Narthex before the end of the day today, Sunday, December 18.

Sung Vespers in the Extraordinary Form (Latin) will be today, Sunday, December

18th at 3pm in the Church. There will be printouts with the Latin and English

translations, so that you will be able to follow along with the Psalms, Canticle, and

Lesson. Vespers is divided into two parts; the psalmody, or singing of the psalms,

forming the first part, and the capitulum and formulæ the second. It is organized as

follows: The evening hour, or vespertina synaxis, is composed of four or five psalms, a

capitulum (or reading), a response, a hymn, a versicle, a canticle the Gospel, litany

(Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison), Pater with the ordinary finale, oratio, or prayer, and

dismissal. (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15381a.htm) All are invited to attend.

From the Family of Ethel Nidek We would like to offer many thanks for all the delicious dishes and desserts which

were so lovingly made for the luncheon following our Mom’s funeral. Your kindness is

so very much appreciated. May God Bless each and every one of you who gave a bit of

themselves on behalf of our Mother’s memory - also a special thanks to the kitchen help

who donated their time and hard work to food preparation and clean-up.

Christmas Pilgrimage of Eight

Detroit Historic Churches On Friday, January 6th, you are w e l c o m e t o j o i n P r a y e r Pilgrimages as we are scheduled to

visit, with informative talks: St. Hyacinth, St. Josaphat, Sweetest Heart of Mary, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Holy Cross Hungarian,

Ste. Anne de Detroit, Holy Family, & St. Joseph Oratory with closing 7 PM Solemn High Mass. All of these churches will be specially decorated for Christmas. Scheduled deluxe motorcoach local departures from

Oakland Mall in Troy, Levagood Park in Dearborn, Sears Lot in Lincoln Park, & Kmart Lot in Farmington Hills. Total cost per person is $50 (including hot lunch buffet at the

Seminary). To reserve and/or more information: Michael Semaan at

(248) 250-6005 or www.prayerpilgrimages.com.

On Thursday, December 15, a bus full of students from New Bedford

Academy arrived with their Principal, Mr. Greg Sauter, and several teachers

bringing a very generous supply of pantry staples, toiletries, etc., that they had

collected in the last few weeks. They divided up what they had collected with Our

Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Anthony Parishes to help stock our Food pantries.

May God Bless them for their generosity!

Spiritual Bouquet Requests A Spiritual Bouquet is a collection of prayers promised for a special benefit, in this case, for two young men in our Parish. One is Jonathan Scout, 18, diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, who has been struggling with post-surgery effects and other treatments; and Peter Williams, 15, (his family are members of the St. Augustine School), who has been diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Both young men and their families are in need of your support and prayers. If you would like to participate, please fill in the form/s below, and return to the Parish Office no later than December 31. You may place them in the collection basket at Mass or return them directly to the Parish Office. We will compile all the prayer slips after the first of the year and present them to the families. All are encouraged to show your support.

A Spiritual Bouquet Is being offered for

Jonathan Scout

I, _____________________________ will offer the following prayer/s for your Healing and

your Spiritual Benefit

________Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be

________ Acts of Charity

________ An Hour in the Adoration Chapel

________ Chaplet of Divine Mercy

________ Rosary ________ A Communion

________Daily Prayers ________Other

May God Bless You!

A Spiritual Bouquet Is being offered for

Peter Williams

I, _____________________________ will offer the following prayer/s for your Healing and

your Spiritual Benefit

________Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be

________ Acts of Charity

________ An Hour in the Adoration Chapel

________ Chaplet of Divine Mercy

________ Rosary ________ A Communion

________Daily Prayers ________Other

May God Bless You!

The Ultimate Question & Answer by Joe Sixpack

A young student named Francis came to St. Philip Neri one day and told him he was going to study law. “What a happy

man I am! I’m going to study and become the best lawyer I can.”

“And then what?” asked Fr. Philip.

“I’ll become a great lawyer and win fame for my ability to argue in court.”

“And then what?”

“Then I’ll become wealthy and build a beautiful mansion for myself.”

“And then what?”

“Then I’ll marry and live a comfortable life to a ripe old age.”

“Francis, then what?” the saintly priest asked again.

Francis didn’t know what else to say. After some thought, he said, “Then I’ll die like everybody else.”

“And then what, Francis?”

Francis was disturbed, far from the elation he felt when he first approached St. Philip. He couldn’t answer the saint’s final

question. Thinking about this question made Francis change all his life’s plans for the future. Thanks to St. Philip Neri’s

repeated question, Francis later became a priest.

St. Philip’s singular question, asked until there were no answers left to give, is a question we should all be asking ourselves.

It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. At this writing, it’s only been two weeks since my eldest son died…

quite unexpectedly—the boy was about to celebrate his 38th birthday. He didn’t die in a car crash or of cancer or of

anything expected by anyone. He simply didn’t wake up one morning.

It’s not natural for a man to outlive his son. You expect to die with your children…all of them…surrounding your bed to

tell you good-bye. That didn’t happen for him. But you can be sure that I pray for the state of my son’s soul every single

day. I’ve had the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated for him numerous times. He’s always on my mind, and I ache when

I think about the state of his soul when he died. As you know, I’m a convert. My son wasn’t a Catholic, but he was a

Christian nonetheless. Despite that he was a Christian, he made a lot of choices that were bad, and many of them left me

little to take pride in. He did, however, give me two wonderful grandchildren, one of whom in turn have made me a great

grandfather just weeks before my son’s death. Still, I pray for the repose of his soul daily. I suppose I will until the day

when I have to be judged myself.

That my son failed to awaken one morning, and my concern over the state of his immortal soul, has made me very much

afraid for the state of my own soul. My son’s death reminded me of how precarious life is, that it can end without warning.

I’m a great grandfather now, and great

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grandfathers know they’re living on the back-side of life. But my son was yet a young man. You are young, are you not? I

know I don’t feel like an old man, but I am. I doubt you feel old either. Perhaps you think as my son did…as I have…that

there is all the time in the world.

What will Jesus say to me when I stand before Him at the close of this life? As man, from the cross He suffered immensely

for our sins. As God, He saw all of human history—past, present and future—in a simultaneous mode. Every sin any of us

has ever committed made Christ in His humanity suffer even more. Of course, all of our good acts eased His suffering.

However, the evil of our lives outweighed the good and were unbearable for Him. After all, he died long before the two

who were sentenced to die with Him, so our sins killed Him. Christ’s judgment of us will be very exacting. Each individual

soul will be judged on the good and evil we have done—all our thoughts, desires, words, actions and omissions—from the

time we were old enough to know right from wrong. All of them. From the beginning.

Once each of us is judged, our soul (which is really who we are, as the body is just the earthly home of our soul) will either

be rewarded with eternal life in heaven, punished in purgatory until cleansed perfectly for heaven, or condemned to an

eternal damnation in hell. The reward or punishment we deserve will be carried into effect immediately after our particular

judgment.

Most of us can honestly say we’re not bad people. Most of us can honestly say we have given life for Christ that old college

try. Most of us believe we will go straight to heaven when we die. Of course, the “most of us” who believe that are lying to

ourselves. It doesn’t work that way. You see, we have to obey Jesus in all things, not just what is convenient or what we

like.

In order to go straight to heaven, we have to be perfect. Yes, you can become perfect. Jesus said so: “You must become

perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). Only those who are perfect may enter heaven—“Nothing

unclean shall enter heaven” (Revelation 21:27). Even our tiniest sins and imperfections keep us out of heaven immediately

after death. That’s why God gave us purgatory, so we can be perfected after death if we die in a state of grace but have yet

to do penance in this life for our imperfections.

But how clean is your conscience? Do you obey all that Jesus commands through the Church He established to be His

authority on earth? Or do you pick and choose what to obey, like you’re walking through a cafeteria to pick and choose

what you want for lunch? Do you dress so as to intentionally attract the attention of the opposite sex? Do you and your

spouse participate in artificial contraception? Do you put “things” before God? Do you support the Church from your

resources? Are you lax about attending Mass—arriving late, leaving early, or simply not attending when there is something

else you prefer to do? Do you use God’s name carelessly in any of its forms? Do you obey all just laws? Do you criticize

others? This list of questions could go on and on ad infinitum.

Purgatory is not a place to strive for…it’s a place to be avoided. A wise man once said that it’s better to shoot for the moon

so you at least hit the top of the telephone pole, because if you aim for the top of the telephone pole you’re likely to shoot a

hole in your foot. So it’s infinitely better to obey Jesus' command to become perfect and fail that test with a very short time

in purgatory than to live the very least of what Jesus and His Church asks of us and find ourselves in purgatory until

the end of time…or missing the top of the telephone pole altogether and never knowing anything but eternity in hell. Let’s

not forget that Jesus also told us, “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So

because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:15-16). Just a little

food for thought, because this is What We Believe...Why We Believe It.

Got a question? Go to JoeSixpackAnswers.com to get it answered.

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St. Anthony Catholic Church Advent Christmas New Year’s - 2016/17

Advent Daily Prayer: Heavenly Father, as You sent Jesus into the world

to make You known and loved, inspire us to continue Your mission in our daily living

and choice of vocation. Amen.

Sacrament of Reconciliation - Individual Confessions Saturdays, 3:30-4:30pm

Wednesday, December 7 - 6:30-7:30pm

Tuesday, December 20: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Three Priests will be available for Confessions

Wednesday, December 21: 11:00am - 12:00pm Two Priests will be available for Confessions

(Fr. David will be arriving @ 11:15am)

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Christmas Masses

Christmas Eve: Saturday, December 24 4:00pm

Christmas Day: Sunday, December 25 12:00 Midnight (Choir begins at 11:30pm); 9:00am & 11:00am

********************************************* Mary, Mother of God (New Year’s Day)

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Masses: Saturday, December 31, 2016: 5:00pm Sunday, January 1, 2017: 9:00am & 11:00am

ATTENTION: Lectors and Altar Servers: Liturgical Assignments for January are now available in the Narthex

and on our Web-site: stanthonytemperance.org