BAPTISM: Please contact the Parish Office to fill out a baptismal registration form and to schedule with Fr. Draper or Deacon Prunty a date for your child's bap-tism. Note: If this is your first child being baptized, a bap-tismal preparation class must also be scheduled and taken with Fr. Draper or Deacon Prunty prior to the baptism.

MARRIAGE: Arrangements are to be made by contacting the Parish Office at least six months in advance of the pro-posed date. Couples must meet in person with Fr. Draper to set their date and are required to participate in a mar-riage preparation program prior to the wedding.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: If you or a fellow parishioner’s health is in danger due to sickness or old age, please contact the Parish Office to be anointed by Fr. Draper.

SICK VISITATION: If you are going to be hospitalized or are confined to your home and would like to receive Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Office to make ar-rangements.

PARISH STAFF

FR. TIMOTHY DRAPER, Pastor

DEACON KEVIN PRUNTY, Pastoral Associate

BEV HALSEY, Parish Secretary

CAROL PRUNTY, Parish Bookkeeper

SUSAN MCCOY, CRE

GERARD LEGNER, Custodian & Maintenance

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: Meet 2nd and 4th Wednesday of

the month at 7:00 p.m. in the parish hall.

MASS SCHEDULE

FOOD PANTRY: Open the 3rd Wednesday every month at

9:00 a.m. in the basement of St. Patrick Church.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: Meet 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the

month at 7:00 p.m. in the school.

† Communion Service led by Deacon Prunty: Mondays

at 5:00 p.m. at St. Patrick, Amboy.

WALTON

† Saturday 5:30 p.m.

HARMON

† Sunday 7:30 a.m.

AMBOY

† Saturday 4:00 p.m.

† Sunday 9:00 a.m.

† Tuesday 7:00 a.m.

† Wednesday 5:00 p.m.

† Thursday 7:00 a.m.

† Friday 8:00 a.m. Exposition of the

Blessed Sacrament & Adoration

Mass at 5:00 p.m.

AMBOY RECONCILIATION: Saturday 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday 5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

HARMON & WALTON RECONCILIATION:

Upon Request

THE THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

NOVEMBER 16/17, 2019

First Reading: Malachi 3: 19-20a

Response: Psalm 98: 5-6, 7-8, 9

Second Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-12

Gospel: Luke 21: 5-19

Parish Center For: St. Patrick, St. Flannen, & St. Mary

32 North Jones Avenue Amboy, IL 61310 Amboy Office: 815-857-2315 Harmon & Walton Office: 815-857-2670 Rectory (Sacramental Emergency Only): 815-857-4172 Fax: 815-857-3485 Office Hours: Monday-Wednesday, 8:30-4:00 Thursday, 8:30-3:00 Friday, 8:30-12 noon Website: stpatrickamboy.org

The Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time November 9/10, 2019

YOUTH SUMMIT 2019

Monday, November 11th

5:00 p.m., Amboy HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE

Tuesday, November 12th

7:00 a.m., Amboy SHERRY ZERBE †

By: Her Family

JOE & KAY MCINERNEY †

By: Pat Reis Family

Wednesday, November 13th

5:00 p.m., Amboy URBAN BECKER †

By: Bruce & Lori Setchell

ELEANOR ALLEN †

By: Dennis & Judy Marsili

Thursday, November 14th

7:00 a.m., Amboy ALL SOULS IN PURGATORY AND

INTENTIONS OF THE VOTIVE CANDLES

Friday, November 15th

5:00 p.m., Amboy KEVIN POWERS †

By: Larry & Eileen Piper

Saturday, November 16th

4:00 p.m., Amboy KEN & RITA SPITZ †

By: G.G. & Sheila Garcia

ELAINE FLESSNER †

By: Ed & Nancy Fritts

5:30 p.m., Walton LEO MCCAFFREY †

By: His Family

Sunday, November 17th

7:30 a.m., Harmon MARILYN HENRY †

By: Roger Colmark

9:00 a.m., Amboy JIM BRAIDA †

By: Jane Lovgren

MASS INTENTIONS LITURGICAL MINISTERS NOVEMBER 16/17, 2019

Sunday, 9:00 a.m.

Servers: Jairon Hochstatter Nick Tarr

Lector: Bonita Willis

Extraordinary Minister: Tom Mead

Sacristan: Jim & Jean Travi

Music Ministers: Nancy & Stella

Saturday, 4:00 p.m.

Servers: Alena Shaw Tyrah Vaessen

Lector: Don Clayton

Extraordinary Minister: Kaylee Jones

Sacristan: Kaylee Jones

Music Ministers: Youth Choir

NO HOLY HOURS FOR HOLY ORDERS

There will be no Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Friday, November 15th, 22nd, or 29th .

Adoration will resume Friday, December 6th.

CONGRATULATIONS TO

CONOR LEFFELMAN & KATIE NAUMAN

who were married at St. Patrick's

Saturday, November 9th.

May God bless their marriage abundantly.

Father Draper will be gone November 14th through

November 22nd on Pilgrimage. Father Kramer will

celebrate the Masses and hear Confessions while he is

away. Fr. Draper will offer Mass for all our parishioners at

St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Sunday, Nov. 17th.

► There will be NO Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Friday, November 15th, 22nd, or 29th.

► There will be no Holy Communion service Monday,

November 25th. Deacon Kevin will be away.

GREAT LAKES CATHOLIC MEN’S

CONFERENCE

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Want to be inspired and uplifted? Does your

faith life need a boost? Then come to the 25th

Annual Great Lakes Catholic Men’s Conference. Conference

speakers include Fr. Burke Masters, Kevin Matthews, Dan

DeMatte, and Eric Groth. Emceed by Wayne Messmer. Mass

will be celebrated by Bishop David J. Malloy.

The Conference will be held at the Holmes Student Center at

Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, from 8:50 a.m. to 4

p.m. Tickets include lunch and parking. Cost is $45 for pre-

registration or $50 AT THE DOOR; $15 for college students

or younger. For tickets visit www.thetalk.org or pick up a

registration form in the back of church.

WE REMEMBER THOSE SERVING IN OUR ARMED FORCES…

SR. Anna Albrecht

PVT. Madeline Foster

SGT. Elise Hume

MA2 Jon B. Miller

LTC Jerald Newman

The parish office will be closed Monday, Nov. 11th, for Veteran’s Day.

My dear parishioners, The month of November is especially dedicated to the ho-ly souls in purgatory. During this month, the Church asks us to remember and pray for all the souls of the faithful departed now undergoing the final, spiritual purification needed to see God “as he is” (1 Jn 3:2). It is a consoling truth of our Catholic faith that we are both aided by the prayers of the saints in heaven and able to aid the souls in purgatory by our own prayers on earth. As we pray for the holy souls in purgatory, we are also invited to reflect upon the fact of our own mortality and meeting with the Lord after death. At this time of year, the leaves changing colors and falling to the ground are a natural reminder to us that our lives will show their “true colors” when they come to an end. St. Augustine said: “As your life is, thus will your end be.” As Christians, what should our attitude be as we face the sobering reality of death? We must recall, first, that death is a con-sequence of original sin. St. Ambrose, one of the Fathers and Doc-tors of the Church, wrote: “God did not decree death from the be-ginning; he prescribed it as a remedy. Human life was condemned because of sin to unremitting labor and unbearable sorrow and so began to experience the burden of wretchedness. There had to be a limit to its evils; death had to restore what life had forfeited. With-out the assistance of grace, immortality is more of a burden than a blessing.” Through death, our souls (made holy by God’s grace) are able to enter their eternal dwelling with God in heaven. Second, because of Christ’s death and resurrection, we have the sure and certain hope that, at the end of time, our holy souls will be reunited to our bodies at the resurrection. Our risen bodies will be glorious like Our Lord’s own risen body and no longer experience suffering or death. In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus reminds us of this central truth of the resurrection, which we find in the Old Testament as well as in the New: “That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive” (Lk 20:37-38). Strengthened by this hope, “may the Lord direct [our] hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ” (2 Thes 3:5).

Fr. Draper

ST. PATRICK

Weekly Budget Need $3,388.00

Sunday Collection $3,961.70

Income Required to date $64,372.00

Sunday Collection to date $66,173.17

All Saints Day $785.00

ST. FLANNEN

Weekly Budget Need $909.00

Sunday Collection $782.00

Income Required to date $17,271.00

Sunday Collection to date $18,801.00

All Saints Day $136.00

ST. MARY

Weekly Budget Need $632.00

Sunday Collection $314.11

Income Required to date $12,008.00

Sunday Collection to date $12,702.43

All Saints Day $34.00

-STEWARDSHIP OF GOD’S BLESSINGS-

SUNDAY COLLECTION AS OF 11/04/2019

Here and There:

FREE Thanksgiving Day Dinner on Thursday,

November 28th, served from 12:00

until 3:00 pm at the Kay Cee Club

Hall, 506 West Third Street,

Dixon, IL. The Dixon Knights of

Columbus, Council #690 invite

everyone to be their guest. Carry

outs available.

On Saturday, October 26th, four

Confirmation students helped with

fall clean up at St. Patrick's Cemetery

as a Confirmation service project.

Quinton Leffelman, Carson Barlow,

Landon Whelchel, and Eliseo

Vazquez-Tapia worked very dili-

gently to help clean up the cemetery

grounds in preparation for winter.

It’s time for the SEMI-ANNUAL BAKE-LESS BAKE SALE. Women of

the parish, your bake sale letter is on the table in the back of the

church with your name on it. Please pick yours up today!

Thank you to the Amboy Car Show Committee and The American Legion Auxiliary for the generous mone-

tary donations to the Food Pantry

Dixon, Giesen &

Flessner Law Offices

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303 E Main St - Amboy, IL 61310

Amboy Dental Group

Joel P. Hochstatter DMD

Phone 815-857-2015

Brandon R. Klein DDS

Phone 815-857-2413

Office: 305 E. Joe Dr., Suite 120, Amboy, IL 61310

238 E. Main, Amboy 121 E. First, Dixon

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AMBOY

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Amboy

815-857-2990

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“Firehouse Pub”

43 S. East Ave. - Amboy

815-857-3483

Owner: Barb Harrison

301 1/2 1st Avenue

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Weekdays 8am - 5pm

Saturday 8am - 1pm

Closed Wed & Sun

The

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Barber Shop

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Bonita Willis - Managing Broker

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Main Street Repair

205 W. Main St.

Sublette, IL 61367

-Engine Repair & Maintenance

-STIHL Power Tools

-Your area Husqvarna Dealer

Main Flower Shop

232 E. Main St—Amboy 815-857-3545

Jeff & Cindy Shaw