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December 19, 2023
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
In the Gospel reading this week, the Angel Gabriels’s message to Mary is that God no takes up residence in human flesh. In the midst of the situation, God will bring forth a blessing and salvation to all. The same Holy Spirit that came upon Mary has been promised to us. God is with us always.
In this last week in the season of Advent, we enter into the preparation of the new season of Christmas like that of an expectant parent. We prepare our homes and hearts to celebrate anew the birth of Jesus, God with us. In choosing to follow Jesus we are on an extraordinary journey that will take us throughout our world to spread the good news to everyone we meet. As we are told in this week’s Gospel to “Do not be afraid” we cannot be afraid to proclaim Jesus in our lives.
One of our goals for the new year is to increase the number of people using our electronic formats for the dissemination of information from our parish. We have our website: Sthyaicnth.org, which is updated almost daily with information about the activities that go on in the parish. There is Flocknotes, which is our information delivery service for the parish, in which we email and or text information about the activities of the parish. Go to Flocknote.com/sthyhouston and join the group “Parishioners”. We are on Facebook, go and ‘like’ our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/StHyacinthchurch .
Let’s take a look ahead to the Christmas schedule. Our Christmas Mass schedule is as follows: Sunday, December. 24th, Christmas Eve: 4:00 pm, and 12 midnight; Monday, December. 25th, Christmas Day: 10:00 am.
Everyone knows that Christmas is a time of gift-giving. The meaningfulness of a gift is not dependent upon the amount spent but on the heart given. The greatest gift ever given is the greatest heart ever given: God sent the only Son to dwell among us. Jesus came among us as God’s gift of Salvation to us. As a gift of salvation, Jesus is the incarnation of God’s loving presence among us. This gift cost us no money. It does cost us our own life: a heart turned to God.
As we move into the Christmas season please let us continue to pray for our country and our governmental leaders that they may continue to work hard to cherish the gifts of life and liberty and work to safeguard those liberties. We always keep in our prayers those who are serving our country in the military services, especially those far from home at this time of the year. May the Lord protect them and guard them, and bring them home safely and soon.
The parish office will be closed on December and 26th and 27th in observance of Christmas and January 1st-3rd for the celebration for the New Year. On behalf of the staff here at St. Hyacinth, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a joy filled New Year!
Happy Fourth Sunday of Advent and Merry Christmas,
God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels
