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Advent 2017 – Make a Plan

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For a your own printable Microsoft Word version of this document: [wpfilebase tag=file id=209 /] What is Advent? Advent is the period of roughly four weeks before the feast of Christmas. We take four weeks to commemorate the four thousand years between Adam and Eve and Jesus. They waited for four thousand years, we wait for four weeks. The purpose of the period of Advent is to prepare our ...
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Happy New Year 2017!

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My dear Parishioners and Visitors, ‘May our Lord be gracious to us and bless us‘ (Ps 67) We are now in a very beautiful time of the year: Christmas and New Year. It is a special time not only for our own human family, but also for the church family. I sincerely pray that all of us are abundantly blessed, not only with our own human family, but also with our spiritual family of St. Ann‘s. The ...
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Christmas Blessings 2016!

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My dear parishioners and visitors: “Today is born our Saviour, Christ the Lord” (Psalm 96). Christmas, the joyful celebration of the Eternal Word made flesh, is one of the most important and solemn celebrations of our Church. It is not a one-day-celebration, but a life-time-celebration to discover its true meaning, then to embrace and celebrate it faithfully and graciously with love and gratitud...
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Christmas Reflection 2016

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[one_half padding="0 10px 0 10px"] O COME, O COME EMMANUEL Our Advent prayer comes to an end As a joyous choir of heavenly voices welcomes the Christ Child LET HEAVEN REJOICE AND EARTH BE GLAD For the Christ-Child dwells among us. We have been preparing for the coming of Jesus this Advent Season. May our hearts now open to the New Light that shines through the darkness. Over 2000 years ago...
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The Liturgical Season of Advent

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The liturgical season of Advent marks the time of spiritual preparation by the faithful before Christmas. Advent begins on the Sunday closest to the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (Nov. 30). It spans four Sundays and four weeks of preparation, although the last week of Advent is usually truncated because of when Christmas falls. (For instance, this year, the fourth Sunday of Advent is obviously o...
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The Feast of the Epiphany

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Epiphany: A revelation, a proclamation. As so it is with the Feast of the Epiphany. It is the revelation of the Incarnation to the world beyond the Chosen People. It is a revelation to all the nations. This story found only in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:1-12) recounts this extraordinary story of strange visitors from the East, guided by a star, carrying precious gifts, and listening...
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December – Christmas 2015

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We are now in a very special time of the year: the beautiful time of Christmas and of the New Year. May the beauty of Christmas, the greatest mystery of God’s love for us, bring you and your loved ones closer to one another and together into a deeper relationship with Jesus, our Lord and Savior. My Mother, brothers, sisters in Viet Nam and I sincerely wish you a very blessed Christmas and a ble...
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Christmas Reflection

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Almighty God and Father of light, a child is born for us and a Son is given to us. Your eternal Word leaped down from heaven in the silent watches of the night, and now your Church is filled with wonder at the nearness of her God. Open our hearts to receive his life and increase our vision with the rising of dawn, that our lives may be filled with his glory and his peace, who lives and reigns for ...
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O Come Let Us Adore Him! All are Welcome

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Quesnel’s St Ann’s Catholic Church welcomes everyone and invites all of you to come pray, worship and sing God’s praises with us this Christmas Season. With open hearts come and celebrate this beautiful time of year and help us usher in the peace and love that the Christ Child brings us. St Ann’s opens it doors for the Christmas Season Masses which will be celebrated: Christmas E...
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The Real Meaning of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”

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by Father Edward T. Dowling, S. J | Source: Catholic.net “The Twelve Days of Christmas” was written to educate the faithful in the doctrines of the faith and yet not be obvious to the persecutors. The numbers are simply a mnemonic to help Catholics remember some basic facts. Recall the words of the song. “On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: twelve lords a leaping, eleven p...
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