Prayer Corner
We pray for these people in our community:
The Garcia Family-
Lucina and Andrea
Gina Rubin-
mother of alumni
Jessica and Amanda
Fr. Jordan Bradshaw
Israel Salazar-
Father of Samuel and Anthony
St. Dominic pray for us.
If you or someone you know are in need of prayers, let us know and we will add them to our prayer list.
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Holy Rosary School
Dear Parents,
I feel blessed that Holy Rosary School has such talented students. This year's Christmas programs were terrific. The students did a great job and each performance the students sounded angelic. Thank you to all of the teachers and the assistance who helped put the performances together.
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We would like to inform you there has been lice found in a couple of classrooms in the lower grades. It is important for parents to check their children for live bugs and nits regularly. Here is some additional information. You can also find additional information at the cdhp website here:
Head Lice information
* IMPORTANT REMINDERS *
Serendipity CLOSED at 1:30pm on Wednesday, December 14
NO CHOICELUNCH on Monday, December 19.
Click here to download a Togo's Lunch order form for
Monday, December 19
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10:00am - Mass: Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion
Togo's Lunch order forms due
NO SERENDIPITY CLUB AFTER SCHOOL TODAY
- only available 6:30-8:00am (all) & 11:30am-1:30pm (PreK)
8th Grade Christmas Dinner
2nd & 7th Grade Retreat
NO CHOICELUNCH TODAY
Togo's Lunch for those that pre-ordered
MUSE Band practice
1st & 2nd Grade Hallway Retreat
CHRISTMAS BREAK: No School/Serendipity & Office Closed
Wednesday, December 20 - Tuesday, Janaury 3
* Wednesday, January 4 - Welcome back to school!
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Notices from the Office:
STAR Testing results will be going home today or tomorrow for students in 1st through 8th grades. Please be on the look out.
Reregistration is coming in January. Fees will be due in February.
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We need pictures uploaded! Urgent!
There are a couple of ways to share your photos for the yearbook:
Use the Smartphone App:
Herff Jones Eshare
log in: HRSAntioch
Upload your photos on the Herff Jones Website:
or
You can bring a disk to the school, know that these disks can not be returned.
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Christmas Eve Children's Mass
December 24, 2016
4:00 PM
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f your child is interested in being involved in the re-enactment of the Nativity on Christmas Eve, Please e-mail hrpcenter@aol.com or call 757-4020 Ext. 19 or 757-9515 with name, age, grade of your child, school your child is attending, and if they want to be a reader or in the playlet. Please include your phone number and email address.
There will be a couple of practices and a
time to get your costumes.
We are looking for children ages 5 -10 for the playlet and older as readers.
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8th Grade Christmas Tree Raffle
 
Family Game Night Tree has Candyland Tree has gift cards
gift cards for AMC, Bowling to Gamestop, Barnes & Noble,
and more. ToysRus and more.
Tickets are $1.00 each and the winners will be pulled on December 16th at Town Hall.
The 8th grade is also raffling off a iPad at the December 16th Town Hall.
Tickets are $5.00 each.
Actual iPad maybe different than what is pictured.
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Fr. Roberto's Corner
Thanks!
Thanks to the Knights of Columbus for their generous check of $5,000 for the capital campaign and for the delicious breakfast last weekend after the morning Masses. And thanks to all of you who helped us reach our monthly goal of $100,000.00 for the debt reduction! Wow, what a great accomplishment, and I am sure we will do the same for December. And thanks to all of you who filled out the parish survey. I know it will help us grow as a parish community. God bless you all.
 Our Lady of Guadalupe
The feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe - declared patroness of the Americas by Pope Pius XII in 1945 - is December 12. Read more about her on our website
The Mother of God
The Blessed Virgin Mary is a major figure in the scriptures read at Mass during the Advent and Christmas seasons. In addition, we celebrate the feasts of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) and Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec. 12), and, of course, she plays a major role in the feasts of Christmas and the Holy Family (the Sunday after Christmas). Then, she gets another special day on January first (under the title of "Mary, Mother of God") and finishes her liturgical appearances for the Christmas season with the Feast of the Epiphany. "Why all this attention for a 'mere' human being?" some people ask. The answer is that she is a very special human being: she is the mother of Jesus, the Son of God.
I am sure that, from the very beginning of Catholicism - the period of church history we refer to as "the early church" - respect for Mary was always present. As time passed, for many Christians, this respect grew into devotion. However, Mary's holiness, as well as her perpetual virginity, were not always universally accepted by the Church. In fact, some very important "church fathers" (early church theologians and writers), such as St. Irenaeus, Origen and St. John Chrysostom questioned one or both of these aspects of Mary's life.
The big breakthrough came at the Council of Ephesus in 431, an important gathering of the pope and bishops, which proclaimed Mary "theotokos," literally "God-bearer," i.e., the "Mother of God." She was called this because she gave birth to Jesus who is God. That is why in the Hail Mary we say, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners..." In reality, the title, "Mother of God," says more about Jesus than about Mary because it emphasizes the fact that Jesus is God. Since the Council of Ephesus, over the course of the centuries, other important beliefs about Mary have developed in our Catholic understanding. These beliefs, for example, Mary's Immaculate Conception (our belief that she was born without original sin) and her Assumption (our belief that, at the end of her life, she was taken up - body and soul - into heaven), although not stated explicitly in the Bible, are nonetheless derived from the Scriptures, from ancient Catholic tradition and from the magisterium (the teaching authority of the Church). So, h
ere are five basic points that explain why we Catholic Christians honor our Blessed Mother - please learn them so you can teach them to your children and defend your Catholic Christian faith. References to the Catechism of the Catholic Church below are denoted by "CCC."
- 1. Catholics do not worship Mary - or any of the saints for that matter; Catholics worship God alone.
- 2. Most importantly, we honor Mary because she is the mother of Jesus who is God and Savior. Every special honor we ascribe to Mary is based on her motherhood of Jesus. That is why we call her the "Mother of God," and "Mother of the Church." That is why we believe in her Immaculate Conception (she was born without Original Sin in order that she would be a worthy vessel to give birth to Jesus), her Assumption into heaven, and her role as intercessor on behalf of all people. We also honor her numerous appearances throughout the history of the Church, e.g., Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe, etc. (see CCC #'s 508ff., 721, 2673ff.).
- 3. We honor Mary because of the holiness of her life (see Luke Chapter 1). She is present at key moments in Jesus' life and in the life of the Church: at his first miracle in Cana (John 2); at the foot of the cross (John 19:26-27); and at Pentecost (Acts 1:14) (see CCC #494).
- 4. Honoring Mary is biblical: she is called "full of grace" and said to "have found favor with God" by the Archangel Gabriel (Luke 1:28, 30); she is called "blessed...among women" and "the mother of my Lord" by Elizabeth (Luke 1:42-43); she herself says "all generations will call me blessed..." (Luke 1:48). All these Scriptures highlight Mary's special role and favor in God's eyes.
- 5. Honoring Mary is honoring God and honoring Jesus: God chose Mary to be the mother of his Son, so she was special to God (see Luke 1:30). Mary is Jesus' mother, so she must have been special to him as well (see John 19:26-27). Human beings often honor their mothers and other important people in special ways. For example, all of us have heroes, people we admire and want to emulate - be they the saints of our Church, sports figures, entertainment personalities, politicians, family members, friends, etc. - and none of these special honors we give to these human beings detracts from the worship and honor we offer to God. Unfortunately, some Catholics do exaggerate Mary's role and importance, forgetting that she is a human being and not a goddess; but, as Matthew Kelly, the Catholic evangelist, says, the abuse of a good does not diminish its goodness. In other words, just because some Catholics don't get it right does not mean that devotion to Mary is wrong.
Mary's role in our Catholic faith is always to lead us to her Son, Jesus, and, therefore, ultimately to God. So let us continue to honor Mary as she deserves, and, through our devotion to her, let us follow her to Jesus. See the Catholic Answers website for more information:
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/browse/Mary
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