St. Anthony de Padua

Catholic Church

PO Box 299 – 1523 Main Street, Danbury, TX 77534

Archdiocese of

Galveston – Houston

His Eminence Daniel Cardinal

DiNardo — Archbishop

PASTORAL STAFF & MINISTRIES

Pastor: Fr. Joseph Phiet-The-Nguyen Deacon: Gerald Peltier Secretary: Imelda Jez

Bookkeeper: Jan Peltier C.R.E.: Monica Sebesta

Music Ministry: Evelyn Boeker Liturgy Committee: Carol Peltier

Art & Environment: Anne Starr RCIA: Laura Davenport

Women of Worship Connie Peltier

Legion of Mary Cecilia Bernshausen

Pro Life Coordinator Peggy Keillor

Funeral Dinner Ministry Bobbye Peltier

Bazaar: Chair & Co-Chair Gene & Shay Roberts

Cemetery Committee: Anne Starr

Pastoral Council Charles LeCompte Finance Council

Emil Prihoda, Chair Disaster Committee

Deacon Gerald Peltier Danbury Knights of Columbus

Robert Fief, Grand Knight Deputy Grand Knight

Albert Priselac

Sacrament of Baptism: Contact the Parish Office.

Sacrament of Marriage: Contact the Pastor or Deacon six Months prior to the marriage.

Anointing of the Sick: Call to request anointing prior to entering the Hospital.

Annulments: Contact either Fr. Joseph or Deacon Gerald.

MISSION STATEMENT

ST. ANTHONY de PADUA CATHOLIC CHURCH

At St. Anthony de Padua Catholic Church in

Danbury, Texas, in response to our Baptismal

call, we dedicate ourselves to share the teach-

ings of Christ and of the Church.

We believe we are one in the Body of Christ

and nourished through the Sacraments with

the source of our strength and unity being the

Holy Eucharist. We are one family, sharing

our talents and gifts in service and charity in

support of one another and all people of God.

At St. Anthony’s, each person is a vital member of our family

and is therefore loved and nurtured both spiritually and person-

ally. In these works, we “give all praise, all glory, and all honor

to the Blessed Son of God, Jesus Christ.” Feb 21, 2016

Mass Schedule: Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil 5:30 pm Sunday 8:00 am / 10:30 am

Livestream Mass at 10:30 am Sunday Mornings on St. Anthony’s Facebook or Website @ www.saopdtx.org

Weekday Masses: Monday 6:00 pm Tuesday 9:00 am Wednesday 6:00 pm Thursday 9:00 am 1st Friday only 9:00 am

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 4—5:00 pm or by appointment: Contact the Church Office

Devotions in the Church Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: First Friday Adoration 9:30 am to 9:30 pm

Office Hours: [at this time hours may vary — call ahead] Monday thru Thursday — 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Friday — 8:00 am to 12:00 pm Lunch hours vary—call ahead Church Office: (979)922-1240 [Imelda Jez] email: st1523@sbcglobal.net Deacon Gerald: (979)248-7398 email: deacon.gerald.peltier@gmail.com Jan Peltier [Bookkeeper]: (979)922-1211 email:bookkeeper1523@gmail.com Monica Sebesta [CRE]: (979)922-1241 email: stanthony-cce@sbcglobal.net

The Shepherds went in haste,

And found

Mary and Joseph

and the infant lying in a manger.

The Holy Family, Jesus, Mary & Joseph

December 27, 2020

Mass Intentions:

Saturday, December 26th

Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a/Lk 1:5-25 5:30 pm † Jack & Mary Garret & Past Ancestors Sunday, December 27th The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph

2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16/Rom 16:25-27/Lk 1:26-38 8:00 am The Parish Family of St. Anthony’s 10:30 am † Judy Prihoda & Blessings for the Family

Monday, December 28th Feast of the Holy Innocents

1 Jn 1:5—2:2/Mt 2:13-18 No Mass

Tuesday, December 29th St. Thomas Becket

1 Jn 2:3-11/Lk 2:22-35 9:00 am Todd Webb — Prayers for his Healing

Wednesday, December 30th Saint Egwin

1 Jn 2:12-17/Lk 2:36-40

6:00 pm † Harold & Robyn Peltier

Thursday, December 31st Vigil Mass / Adoration

1 Jn 2:18-21/Jn 1:1-18 9:00 pm St. Anthony’s Parish Family & Prayer for Peace in the World

Adoration —- 9:30 pm to 9:00 am

Friday, January 1st Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Nm 6:22-27/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21

9:00 am Prayer for Peace in the World

Adoration — 9:30 am to 9:30 pm Saturday, January 2nd Saint Basil the Great

1 Jn 2:22-28/Jn 1:19-28

5:30 pm † Johnny Corona Sunday, January 3rd Epiphany of the Lord Is 60:1-6/Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12

8:00 am The Parish Family of St. Anthony’s 10:30 am † Jerry N. Unsicker — Birthday Remembrance

Message from the desk of the Pastor…..

My dear people of God,

The Holy Family helps to guide us and to give us strength.

Today is Holy Family Sunday. On this Sunday each year the Church calls our attention to the Holy Family of Bethlehem. In that Holy Family we see the model of all families. Mary and Joseph cared deeply for each other. We see Joseph trying to hide Mary and Jesus from those who wanted to harm them. In Jesus we see a child who respected and loved Mary and Joseph.

We are reminded today on the importance of the human family. Today, we live in a society that does not uphold the sanctity of marriage nor the sanctity of life itself. Perhaps things were not all that different during the time of Christ’s childhood. In his public life as an infant, the Holy Family had to flee to Egypt because Herod ordered all male infants to be killed. It was with a selfless love that Joseph took Mary and Jesus and fled.

Let this Sunday serve to remind us of our obligations which flow from being disciples of Jesus. We must always cherish our human family and do all in our power to strive for peace in the home. Let spouses love and cherish one another. Let brothers and sisters live in peace with each other. Let us always honor, love and cherish our parents, living and deceased. What begins in our own hearts spreads to our homes and is witnessed in our personal worlds and it can spread to others. The Catholic Church has always upheld the importance and key role that families play in this world. The home is the first school of love and fidelity. It is up to you and to me to see that our homes are in fact the school of love.

May Jesus , Mary and Joseph guide you to the peace which you seek and which the world needs so desperately.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Fr. Joseph

St. Anthony’s would like to thank all who donated towards the Christmas Flowers. Also we wish to thank all who came Tuesday and helped with the decorating of the Church.

There were new ideas and with the Live Stream, the focus had to be main-ly on the front of the Church. As we keep saying…. This is not a normal year. But hope-fully we will end with a joyous and beautiful Christmas, whether you and your family had your Christmas, or are still celebrating. Actually the Christmas Season ends on the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, celebrated, Sunday, Jan-uary 3, 2021.

Thank you to Alicia Karbowski and granddaughter, Ellie, Ace Filipp, Pam Peltier, Anne and Steve Starr, Carol Peltier, Reese Ryan, Carson Filipp, Jake Karbowski and Max Kro-schel. They were all a blessing making baby Jesus be wel-comed on Christmas Eve.

Tom & Judy Shields Bill Siegel Ron Slate & Family Brenda Smith Christina Stanton Josef Sterzinger Patrick Sylvester Rey & Paula Tenorio Will Thomson Charles Tousek Nancy Veselka Jeanette Vrazel Mildred Vrazel Pat & Louis Vrazel Paul Vrazel * Michael Ward Tony Ware Troy & Todd Webb * Dinah Weil Marianne Whitley Gerald Wittman Betty Rose Wollam * Charlotte Wollam

For more Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Order!

[Please keep in your prayers:]

Sr. Evelyn Korenek, Sr. Anna Marie Vrzel, Fr. John Fr. Joseph Nguyen, Msgr. Boli Zientek, Cardinal DiNardo

* Peace of Our Nation & Prayers for the President & All Leaders For Our Young Adults Attending College!

* For all the Babies & Children in the Hospitals and for their parents!

* For All Mom’s To Be & Their Unborn Babies!

* For women considering Abortion, that their hearts be open to life!

* Our Men & Women in the Military!

* For those prayed for Daily in our prayers!

* For Those Who Are Quick to Judge!

* For those in the Nursing Home, the Homebound , Orphanages and the Hospitalized and the Homeless!

* We pray for all The Poor Souls in Purgatory — —May their Souls rest in peace!

* God Bless the Farmer — Pray for their needs

* For those with Idle minds—the Devil’s Workshop

* For Flood Victims & All Disasters

Amelia (child) & Family Camilla Adiles Kyle Atkins Mike Bachus Deanna Hamilton-Ball Lorenda Baldwin Tracy Bazar Barbara Beer Larry Blasuis Eleanor Boeker Marvin & Rosemary Bozarth Rachael Breaux * Francis Buchta Jane Carlile Luke Carrillo Richard & Dolores Clinton Mike & Pixie Dattalo Bernadette Dawn Joyce Dixon Jannis Baldwin James Fief Tennie Fief Veronica Gardner Jacko Garrett Henry Hearn

Libby Jez Dorothy Prihoda Jones Mary Helen Knape * Charles Kolafa Traci Kroll Evelyn Lassman Barbara LeCompte Billy “Preacher” LeCompte Shirley LeCompte M.C. LeNormand Adan Lewis Fiona Lewis Thomas Lewis Rush Limbaugh Dean Lowry Mike Loy Billie Jean Matheson Janet Maxey Henrietta McAdams & Family Brigid McDonald Al McEndree Doug McKay Kim McNeeley Guy McNeil Ana Mercado

Catherine Moore Valentina Morales Randy Newton Mary & Henry Novak Peggy Novak Johnny Olsovsky, Jr. * Chuck Pate Sarah Filipp Peel Irene Peltier Tricia Wollam Perk Ronnie & Gena Peters * Butch & Sharon Peterson John Peterson Ann Phillips Nancy Pieper Betty Ann Plander Al & Judy Priselac Deone Raschke Melissa & Rex Rayl Joe Rivera Betty Jo Ritz Walter Barret Robinson Joe & Amanda Romero Charles & Mildred Scott

H O L Y F A M I L Y E H E C R

D R A W E P E P M K C E M H B

S A R A H E I R S S N R S I M

C O U N T T H E S T A R S L A

S U S E J A A S H T T P L D H

R Y R A M S J C G E I H O L A

F E O A H O N R L M R A B E R

W R Z O S O D I O P E N M S B

O E R E E L R P R L H U Y S A

D E P M I E E T Y E N E S V E

I H I H T L R I H I I L S C I

W S C S O V E O P I G E O N S

H T E R A Z A N D E V O U T A

S T F I G E N S A B R A M A A

S E V O R D E L T R U T N T C

The Holy Family Word Search: Abraham, Abram, Amazed, Child, Childless, Count the Stars, Devout, Eliezer, Gifts, Glory, Heir, Holy Family, Inheritance, Isaac, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Nazareth, Phanuel, Pigeons, Prescriptions, Reward, Sarah, Seashore, Simeon, Sky, Sterile, Symbol, Temple, Turtle Doves, Widow

[ 29 ] Remaining letters spell out what?

Please remember the sick, their families, all who suffer in body and mind, in your daily prayers

Collection Totals for: Dec 19th / 20th, 2020

Regular Weekend Offerings $3,590.00 Additional On-Line Giving Donations $1,365.00 Thanksgiving Challenge On-Line $ 300.00

Thank you for your generous donations. God bless!

Online Giving: www.osvonlinegiving.com/1880

Or visit the Website @ www.saodptx.org Or mail to PO Box 299, Danbury, TX 77534

Please DO NOT mail to physical address

Seek & Find Answer:

“he remembers forever his covenant”

NOTE: PRAYER LIST: After January 1st, most the names that are on this listing will be coming off. This includes those that are a year or two old and older. If you see a name not on after the first and wish to have them back on, please notify the Church Office. All the names taken off will continue to be remembered in daily prayers.

New Year’s Eve and Day 1st Friday Mass & Adoration Schedule: December 31, 2020: 9:00 PM Mass Adoration to follow: 9:30 PM to 9:00 AM January 1, 2021: 9:00 AM Mass Adoration to follow: 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM We are seeking people, families, individuals to sign-up for adoration. We need someone for each hour. We are seeking people who are willing to come and sit with the Lord. We are seeking prayer…. Prayer for a better year. How many of you want a 2020 repeat. Let’s pray for Our Nation, Family, Parish, Sick, Dying, the youth, this virus to end, jobs, military, .....etc.

Let us be grateful for all we have. All the blessings seen and unseen. Thank you . What is Eucharistic Adoration? Eucharistic Adoration is adoring the True Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ - his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - in the Holy Eucharist. Because we believe that Christ is truly made present in the consecration of the Eucharist, we give the Blessed Sacrament the same honor and reverence accorded to Christ himself. “Could you not watch one hour with me?” – Matthew 26:40 St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote: “Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sac-rament is the greatest after the Sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most help-ful to us. The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: By not only celebrating the Eucharist, but also praying before It outside of Mass, we are enabled to make contact with the very wellsprings of Grace…” What is a Holy Hour? A Holy Hour is the devotion of spending an hour in Eucharistic Adoration. Mother The-resa of Calcutta made a Holy Hour every day and encouraged others to follow her exam-ple. One may obtain a plenary indulgence for making a Holy Hour. What does one do during a Holy Hour? During a Holy Hour, one simply contemplates the mystery of the Word made flesh (John 1:14). It is said that when the 19th century French priest, St. Jean Vianney, was asked what he said to Jesus in Eucharist Adoration, he replied, “Nothing, I look at Him and He looks at me.” The following prayers and devotions may help spark contemplation or conversation with Christ:

Reading Scripture

Praying the Rosary or Divine Mercy Chaplet

Spiritual Reading

Liturgy of the Hours or Divine Office

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Look for St Anthony’s on: www.saopdtx.org / Facebook —

Mass Times for Travel: masstimes.org

The

Sanctuary

Lamp

Is

Burning

For

Tommy Korenek

Birthday Remembrance

& Laddie & Mayo

parents

DSF: If you have not had the opportunity to donate to the DSF this year, please fill out a pew envelope [check made to DSF] or go visit www.archgh.org/dsf.

Unfailing Prayer to St. Anthony

Feast Day: June 13th

O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for His crea-tures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Encouraged by this thought, I implore you to obtain for me (request). O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympa-thy, whisper my petition into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms; and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen.

Dates of special interest:

December 26 Saturday Evening Mass, 5:30 pm 27 Sunday Masses, 8am / 10:30 am 28 Feast of the Holy Innocents 28 Legion of Mary, 9:30 am, CCE Building 31 New Year’s Eve Mass / Adoration January 2021 1 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 1 1st Friday Mass / Adoration Lector Schedule: January 2nd / 3rd, 2021

Saturday 5:30 pm — Peggy Keillor Sunday 8:00 am — Lou Jean Izard Sunday 10:30 am — Connie Barker

DSF: Jan 1st to Dec 31, 2020 Parish Goal: $24,880.00 Total Amount Pledged: $21,550.00 Total Amount Paid: $21,440.00 Difference: Goal vs. Paid: $3,440.00

75 Donors

Feast of the Holy Innocents—Dec 28, 2020

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weep-ing for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” During this octave of Christmas the Church celebrates the memory of the small children of the neighborhood of Bethlehem put to death by Herod. Sacrificed by a wicked monarch, these innocent lives bear witness to Christ who was persecuted from the time of His birth by a world which would not receive Him. It is Christ Himself who is at stake in this mass-murder of the children; already the choice, for or against Him, is put clear-ly before men. But the persecutors are powerless, for Christ came to per-form a work of salvation that nothing can prevent; when He fell into the hands of His enemies at the time chosen by God it was to redeem the world by His own Blood. Our Christmas joy is tempered today by a feeling of sadness. But the Church looks principally to the glory of the children, of these innocent victims, whom she shows us in heaven following the Lamb wherever He goes. Feast of the Holy Innocents The Holy Innocents saved the Child Jesus from death by King Herod by the shedding of their own blood. The Holy Innocents are the special pa-trons of small children, who can please the Christ Child by being obedient and helpful to parents, and by sharing their toys and loving their siblings and playmates. The feast of the Holy Innocents is an excellent time for parents to inaugu-rate the custom of blessing their children. From the Ritual comes the form which we use on solemn occasions, such as First Communion. But parents can simply sign a cross on the child's forehead with the right thumb dipped in holy water and say: May God bless you, and may He be the Guardian of your heart and mind—the Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Pro-Life: An unborn baby has its own DNA, its own genetic code, its own blood type. The child has its own functioning brain, its own functioning kidneys, and its own functioning lungs. The baby even has its own dreams. It is not the woman’s body; the baby is only residing in her body. That mother and the law have a duty to protect the life of the pre-born.

Wreaths Across America

Thank you to all of our Mili-tary Personnel for the sacri-fices you have made for our freedom. Please keep all in prayer,….living and deceased. Thank you to the Confirma-tion Class for helping set out the 171 wreaths on the graves in the cemeteries here in Dan-bury. A good experience for the youth.

Please pick up your Church Envelopes in the back of the church.

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