Bulletins

Mass During the Week : Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. Wednesday Mass followed by Exposition and Benediction

Although Mass is offered for everyone, the presiding priest agrees to pray for particular intentions which have been requested. You may also add special intentions in a book provided. Weekday Mass Intentions will reschedule in the event of a funeral or when the schools are closed due to inclement weather.

IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL is a privately funded school dedicated to educational excellence in a Christian environment. It is operated independently of the Diocese of Corner Brook and Labrador by the Catholic School Foundation of Corner Brook Inc. For more information about the school and its mission go online to www.ihmschool.ca

MASS INTENTIONS: * RESCHEDULED:

Saturday, December 14th - 5:00 p.m...Late Phonse Delaney
Sunday, December 15th - 11:00 a.m...For all our parishioners
Sunday, December 15th - 5:00 p.m...Late Phil and Terry Madore
Monday, December 16th - 9:30 am...Late James Carroll
Tuesday, December 17th - 9:30 a.m...Late Ann and William and
Francis Newman and Scott Howell
Wednesday, December 18th - 9:30 a.m...Late Ralph Rumbolt
Thursday, December 19th - 9:30 a.m...Living and deceased members of the Newby and Gainey families
Friday, December 20th...9:30 a.m. Late Ronald Birmingham
Saturday, December 21st - 5:00 p.m...Late Kathryn Furlong; Late John Burke

ADVANCE NOTICE - OFFICE CLOSURE DURING CHRISTMAS:
The Parish Office will be closed at end of day on Monday, December 23rd and will reopen on Monday, January 6th. If you need a priest during this time please call 709-634-5161.

THERE WILL BE NO BULLETIN PUBLISHED FOR December 29th
and January 5th.

SYMPATHY:

Is extended to the family & friends of Sr. Nellie Pomroy R.S.M., she was a professor at Grenfell College in Corner Brook during the
1970's and served as Principal thereafter. She lived by the motto: I do it all for you, My God. We pray for her and for all the lives she touched.

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL:

This weekend December 14-15, will be the last weekend that
stocking stuffers will be collected for the Christmas Hampers

DECORATING OF THE CATHEDRAL:

We will be decorating the Cathedral on Tuesday, December 17th after the morning mass. We ask the men and women of the parish to
help out by giving a few hours of their time. Many hands make light work. Come along and join us.

ADVENT RECONCILIATION SERVICE: A

At Sacred Heart on Thursday, December 19th at 7pm

CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE:
Christmas Eve - December 24th
3:00 pm at St. Brendan’s
5:00 pm at All Hallows
7:00 pm at the Cathedral

Christmas Day - December 25th
9:30 am at All Hallows
11:00 am at the Cathedral

NEW YEARS EVE - December 31st
3:00 pm at St Brendan’s
5:00 pm at the Cathedral

NEW YEARS DAY - January 1st
9:30 am at All Hallows
11:00 am at the Cathedral
5:00 pm at the Cathedral

BISHOP O’REILLY ASSEMBLY 0624:

Will be meeting at All Hallows Parish Humber Road on Tuesday,
December 17th at 7:45 pm. Could Sir Knights please try to attend.

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS:

If you wish to donate in memory of a loved one for flowers on the altar for Christmas, please put your donation in an envelope with
your name on it with the names of your loved ones, and drop it in the collection or the Parish Office.

CWL ADVENT REFLECTION:

A video presentation by Sister Nuala Kenny (M.D, Sr. Of Charity) Title A Good Death: the challenge for Christians today, is being held in the Cathedral lower level - Saturday, December 14th 10 am to 12
pm.

YOUTH GROUP:

December 14th - 7 to 8:30 pm in the lower level of the Cathedral. Grades 6-12 welcome!

CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE:
card game - 7:00 p.m. lower level of Cathedral: Sunday, December 15th.

A CHRISTMAS TRADITION:
The Legion of Mary and students from Immaculate Heart of Mary School invite you and your children to witness them in presenting a spiritual Christmas Gift to Baby Jesus as they role play the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. Christmas Eve 3:00 to 4:00 pm at Immaculate Heart of Mary School. Free admission.

JUBILEE OF HOPE 2025:

Pope Francis will be inaugurating the Year of Jubilee in Rome on December 24th at the Christmas Eve celebration. He has commissioned all bishops to hold a special Diocesan Jubilee Mass on
Sunday, December 29th, the Feast of the Holy Family, calling together the faithful from each diocese to their respective Cathedrals. In keeping with Pope Francis’ invitation to the entire
Church, and in unity with him and their respective bishops, I am inviting the people of the diocese to gather with me on Sunday, December 29th at 10:30 a.m. at our Cathedral Church in Corner
Brook. There we will gather as pilgrims around a newly commissioned
cross. As symbol of our hope the cross will become the centre of numerous activities in each one of our communities in the coming year, and well be the focus of reflection, prayer, pilgrimage, acts of mercy and sacramental celebrations. This Jubilee Mass will include a glorious procession throughout the Cathedral behind the cross, the formal pronouncement of the opening of the Jubilee of hope in our diocese, and the introduction of a program of activities that are sure to revitalize our parishes and families. For those who are able, please come; for those unable to do so, join us virtually. Let us come together and be reconciled and renewed, as brothers and
sisters one with the other, in the shadow of our Saviour’s Cross, at the altar ain the true presence of our Lord, Jesus the Christ.

BAPTISM PREPARATION:

Will be held on Monday, January 6th at 6:30 pm in the main level of the Cathedral. This is for the parents and the Godparents. If you wish to register call the parish office at 709-634-5161.

CHRISTMAS BAPTISMS:

Those families with grown children returning with children needing baptism, are asked to inform them that they first need to contact their home parish to register in their baptism preparation program. If their home parish is unable to provide baptism preparation before they come to Corner Brook, their parish priest can give us permission to provide the preparation here, and we will do our best to do so.

ADVENT ENVELOPES ARE ON THE TABLES AT EACH ENTRANCE.

JESSE TREE BIBLE PASSAGES:
1. In order to escape a famine, Naomi and her family moved to Moab. When her husband and her two married sons died, Ruth, met her husband while picking wheat in his fields. Ruth is the great-grandmother of King David. (Ruth)

2. God raised up David as king of Israel. Though he was younger and smaller that his brothers, God gave him courage in battle. With only a sling and three stones, David slew Goliath and cut off his head. Over time, the people came to see him as their hero, and he was anointed king. (1 Samuel 16-2 Samuel 2)

3. David’s son, Solomon, became king when David died. God gave Solomon one wish. Solomon asked God to give him the gift of wisdom. God’s gift of wisdom helped Solomon build a powerful and well-ordered kingdom. A kingdom that worshipped God in his
Holy Temple (1 Kings 3-6)

4. God asked Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh. Jonah refused to go and went in the opposite direction by boat. God caused a storm to rise up; Jonah was thrown overboard. A big
fish swallowed Jonah. After three days, Jonah was thrown up onto a beach. On learning his lesson, Jonah went to Nineveh. (Jonah)

5. When the city of Jerusalem fell into the hands of her enemies and the final king in David’s line was sent into Babylon, the prophet Isaiah predicted that, “A shoot shall come out of the stock of Jesse (King David’s father), and a branch shall grow of his roots. (Isaiah 11:1)

COMMUNAL PRAYER:
Thursday evenings at the Cathedral 7:00 pm.
Communal Prayer will be cancelled starting December 19th and will
resume Thursday, January 9th at 7pm

WEEKLY EXPOSITION AND ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT:

Fridays at 7:00 pm in the Cathedral continues to be a great way
to finish the week. It is a great opportunity to unite your joys, struggles, success and sufferings of the week to the Lord who unites us to His merciful love on the cross through His presence in the Blessed Sacrament.

SUNDAY ENVELOPES FOR 2025:

Are now available at the back of the Cathedral.

RELIGIOUS ARTICLES STORE WILL BE OPENED AFTER MASS
ON SUNDAY EVENING.

VOTIVE CANDLES: $5.00 EACH.

SUNDAY MISSALS FOR 2025:

Are now available at the Cathedral -$7.00

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL:

During the month of November, SSVP made 37 furniture deliveries and picked up 47 furniture donations. We distributed 17 mattresses and boxsprings, 11 dressers, 8 loveseats and 6 kitchen tables among other items. Of the 37 deliveries, 16 were to households of New Canadians from the Philippines, India, Nigeria, Vietnam, South Sudan and Ukraine. Total volunteer hours for the month were 137. Thanks to our members and friends for your valuable time and efforts.

Mary’s Kitchen served an average of 39 people each week during November. Thanks to Sacred Heart Parish for helping out last month. Total volunteer hours were 164.