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December 18, 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
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 you are “making your list and checking it twice” for those you will remember at Christmas, might I so humbly ask that you please don’t forget your church? The parish relies on your end-of-the-year donations to help us meet our ever-growing financial obligations for our parish. We are happy to assist those who might need or want to make end of the year tax donations of cash or stocks, or if you have a minimum distribution from your IRA that you must take, we can help in that area as well. Please call the parish office for details. Thank you for your generosity and support of St. Hyacinth.
As we wind down our Advent season and 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.
I want to thank all the wonderful people who were responsible for decorating the Church and the church grounds this Advent and Christmas season. We have had a host of people who have given of their time and talent to come and make sure that the Advent and Christmas season is truly bringing praise to God here at St. Hyacinth.
One of our goals for 2020 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 .
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Soo I am asking every family to register for your free access to all the amazing content on FORMED. Go to FORMED.org to register and enter Code:77GVZ3.
With Christmas day 2019 on December 25th this coming Wednesday it’s going to be a busy time for us in the church as we transition from our Advent season environment to the Christmas season. Due to the tight schedule, we need lots of hands in decorating the church, Guyot Hall, the Religious Education building and the parish grounds this Sunday immediately following the Noon Mass.
Our Christmas Mass schedule is as follows: Tuesday , December. 24th, Christmas Eve: 4:00 pm, 4:30 Mass in Guyot Hall and 12 midnight; Tuesday, December. 25th, Christmas Day: 8:00 am and 10:00 am.
The parish office will be closed on December 24th , 25th , 26th and 27th in observance of Christmas and December 31st- January 1st 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