Fr. Yovin Shayo, Pastor, 406-475-1218, yovinshayo@yahoo.com

Laura Toeckes, DRE & Pastoral Assistant: 406-463-2586; ltoeckes@3rivers.net Baptism: Contact Laura Toeckes Marriage: Contact a priest or deacon at least 6 months in advance

St. Joseph 320 Main Ave. N Choteau, MT 59422 St. John the Evangelist 519 1st Ave S Fairfield, MT 59436 St. Matthias 508 Broadway Augusta, MT 59410 Contact Person: Barb Arps 562-3477

Date Time Location Offered For

December 14, Sat. 6:00 p.m. Choteau For the people

December 15, Sun. 9:00 a.m. Choteau Sharon McCollom by Angie Neill

December 15, Sun. 9:00 a.m. Augusta For the priest’s intentions

December 15, Sun. 11:00 a.m. Fairfield For the people

December 18, Wed. 8:30 a.m. Choteau Milton “Soup” VanAuken by Arlene Wolbaum

December 19, Thurs. 8:30 a.m. Fairfield Maureen Lear by Kurt & Korbey Sparing

December 21, Sat 6:00 p.m. Choteau Milton “Soup” VanAuken by Dave & Jane Hartman

December 22, Sun. 9:00 a.m. Choteau For the people

December 22, Sun. 9:00 a.m. Augusta For the people

December 22, Sun. 11:00 a.m. Fairfield Maureen Lear by Kurt & Korbey Sparing

Offertory Collection Reports

St. Joseph, Choteau: October $6,447.00 November $5,799.00 Monthly goal to meet budgeted needs: $5,541.00

St. John the Evangelist, Fairfield: September $2,493.00 October $4,316.00

St. Matthias, Augusta: September $949.00 October $1,394.00 Monthly goal for St. John & St. Matthias together to meet budgeted needs: $5,250.00

Mass Times and Locations and Offerings To request a Mass for your intention, please e-mail or call Laura Toeckes (463-2586 or toeckes@3rivers.net)

and put your offering in the collection marked with your intention, your name, and your offering.

Our Seminarians: Dillon Armstrong, Matthew Christiaens, Tyler Frohlich, Kaleb Mitchell & Kyle Tannehill

Our prayer chain: Vangie Scott, Darrel Sand, Allen Moore, Dan Corey, Dusty Seybert, Zimmerman

family, Sunny, Special Intentions, Jim Croff family, Bob, Kristi, Michael Flinn, Jo Clark, LeRoy Malsam, Craig

Bimler, Tim Alzheimer, Martin Gould, Cecil Cole, Jim Sloan, Gary & Justin Sheehan, Germaine Stivers, Ryan

Meeke, Gwen Hash, Shane Dellwo, Marvin Baker, Kathy Dannatt, Lori Tacke, Trudy, Finnley, Doug Clark,

Tom Cooper, Brook Kuster, Ilene Lake, Mike Leider, Johnna V., Dean & Julie Yeager, Andy Vandolah,

Linda Cook, Vicki Flanagan, Ann Dellwo, Patty Ripenburg, Tracey Hill, Bob Raemaeker, Devin Ard,

Synnove Gebhart, Dick Powell, Eileen Viall, Dan Pieper, Hallie Olson, Cody Bonner

To add or remove prayer requests contact Vangie Scott in Choteau (466- 2814), or Darrel and Dianne Sand in Fairfield (264-5942 or d2sand@3rivers.net).

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Website: jmjparishes.com

Reflect: How are you keeping Christ in the center of your Christmas preparations?

You can find each day’s readings at http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings

or download the Laudate app.

Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday: 6:00 p.m. Choteau Sunday: 9:00 a.m. Choteau

9:00 a.m. Augusta 11:00 a.m. Fairfield

Daily Mass Schedule

Tuesday: 2p.m. Various locations Wednesday; 8:30a.m. Choteau

Thursday; 8:30a.m. Fairfield

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Choteau ~ Saturday 5:30 p.m.

Fairfield ~ 3rd Sunday 12-1 p.m. Augusta ~ 30 minutes before Mass

December 15, 2019 3rd Sunday of Advent

Isaiah 35:1-6, 10 Psalm 146: 6-10

James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11

The Annual Catholic Appeal for 2019 has begun!

St. Joseph has pledged $9,750 of their $12,800 goal with 30% participation.

St. John and St. Matthias have given $6,190 of their $11,200 goal with 17% participation.

Thank you for your generous support of the ministries of our Diocese!! Legendary Lodge, the mission in Guatemala and care for our elderly priests is just a few services your dollars provide.

updated on 12/12/19

Fairfield/Augusta Calendar

Dec. 15, Sun. Faith Formation PreK-6 at 9:45-10:45 and JH/HS at 6:00-8:00 in Fairfield

Dec. 15, Sun. Christmas Pro-gram; after Mass at St. John parish center; group 4 host & fruit; group 2 rolls, group 3 breakfast casseroles

Dec. 16, Mon. Reconciliation Services; 6pm in Augusta, 6pm in Fairfield

Dec. 22, Sun. NO Faith Forma-tion at Fairfield till Jan. 12

Dec. 24, Tues. Christmas Eve Masses 6pm Augusta; 8pm Fair-field

Bible Study; Thurs. 10:15 am at Marlene Konen’s home;

SUN. 5:00 P.M. AT

ST. Matthias

Ministries as assigned

st john and st matthias announcements

New Christmas Mass Times!! Masses on Christmas Eve will be at 4:00pm in Choteau; 6:00pm in Augusta and 8:00pm in Fairfield. Mass on Christmas Day will be at 9:00am in Choteau

??? MASS TIME in AUGUSTA Fr. Gasper has been given

a permanent assignment, so Mass time in Augusta will be

changed again. Watch for Facebook posts and an e-mail

with updates as the new schedule is sorted out.

Christmas Program & Luncheon On Sunday, Dec. 15 the RE Christmas program will be right after Mass in our beautiful updated parish center. Group 4 host & bring fruit; Group 2 bring rolls, Group 3 breakfast casseroles

Reconciliation Services: It is a precept of the church to confess your sins to a priest a minimum of once a year. Whether it has been a few days since your last Confession or years, you are invited to experience the mercy of God on Monday, De-cember 16 at 6pm in Fairfield (Father will discuss an alternative time with Augusta this weekend)

Christmas Poinsettias If you are able to help decorate for Christmas by providing any flowers to help deco-rate the sanctuary would be greatly appreciated! Please bring any contributions to St. John’s by De-cember 22. Thank you so much for helping make our church beautiful to celebrate the birth of Jesus!

Christmas break We are taking an extra long break this Christmas due to the Italy trip. No RE classes or youth night from December 22 till they resume on January 12.

Serving December 22 SUN. 11:00 A.M. St. John

Greeter: Ron & Carol Ostberg

Servers: Jacob & Devin

Lector: Cari Ostberg

Eucharistic Ministers:

Karen Forseth

Leo Mueller

Offertory Recorders:

Marge Konen

Darrel & Diane Sand

Sunday Night Youth Meal Host Dec 15: Matthison Family

No Youth Group or RE Classes on Dec. 22 St. Joseph Social for December 15:

Ladies of the Parish

Choteau Calendar Dec. 15, Sun. RE Christmas Pro-

gram; after Mass

Dec. 18, Wed. Advent Recon-ciliation Service; 6pm in Cho-teau

Dec. 24, Tues. Christmas Eve Mass in Choteau; 4:00pm

Dec. 25, Wed. Christmas Day Mass in Choteau 9am

Jan. 1, Wed. Mass for Mary, Mother of God; 9am Choteau; 11am Fairfield

Lectionary Based Bible Study: Tuesdays 5:30p Choteau Rectory

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st joseph announcements

New Christmas Mass Times!! Masses on Christmas Eve will be at 4:00pm in Choteau; 6:00pm in Augusta and 8:00pm in Fairfield. Mass on Christmas Day will be at 9:00am in Choteau

Reconciliation Service Advent Reconciliation service on Wednesday, December 18 at 6pm. Come experi-ence the mercy of Jesus and the freedom of forgive-ness in this powerful Sacrament. Youth night for 7-12th graders will happen after they each have an op-portunity to go to Confession.

Advent Lessons On Tuesday, December 17 at 6pm in the lower rectory at Choteau. Fr. Yovin will be teaching about the Blessed Mother. Come enjoy a great chance to learn more about our faith!

Elementary Christmas Program Come enjoy the Christmas Program after Mass on Sunday, December 15 with great food and company at the social after the program. Thank you for supporting the youth of our parish!

Charging Before charging any purchases to St.

Joseph, please check with Father or a member

of the Finance council. Thank you!

St. Joseph Library - Thank you so much for the gen-erous donations to our library in the church base-ment! Your giving is greatly appreciated!!

Follow the Italy Pilgrimage As possible, the group

in Italy will post regular updates on the parish Face-

book page (Saint Joseph Choteau or Saint John the

Evangelist Fairfield) while they are gone. Please keep

them in your prayers as they fly out on December 25!

Serving December 22 SUN. 9:00 A.M. St. Joseph

Altar Servers: Colin Trahan

Matthew Haas

Lector: Becky Rappold

Collection: Johnny Rappold

Bowen Rappold

Eucharistic Ministers:

JoLynn Miller

Brigid Miller

Minister to Homebound:

Jean Dale

Serving December 21 SAT. 6:00 P.M. St Joseph

Lector: Bill Hill

Eucharistic Ministers:

Karen Ferris

Arlene Wolbaum