PRAYER INTENTIONS

Please keep the following people in your prayers:

Shirley Adams, Larry Beverly, Helen Callahan, Kevin Chase, Keith Curran, Barbara Dowell, Carolyn Dukes,  Loretta Green, David Grigsby, Betty Harper, Jane Harper, Jerry Hoover, Barbara Howard, Alma Johnson, Bob Johnson, Bill Julian,  Bruce Leverette, Harold Looney, Nan Lunn, Jane Meier, Freda McCracken, Ruth McMahon, Winifred O’Toole, Carl Pope, Bernice Riley, Mike Roberts, Nancy Roberts, Olive Savoy, Chloe Smith, David Sturm, Jimmie Ruth Watson, Stephen Watson, Truman Willard                

Also, for those who are serving our country overseas, and the victims of natural disasters.

 

OFFER OF THANKSGIVING

 

 

    Church           Budgeted   $2500

  Offertory received            $1883

  Difference                     - $617

                                     

   Votive candles (November)      $39.50

  


COUNTERS FOR NOV. 126th:
Belle Atkinson & Marion Rice

 

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS Please place any  announcements you wish to publicize in the bulletin in the mailbox by the Religious Ed. Hall or email to stmarys@alltel.net or rainabo@yahoo.com (Christen Cook) Thanks!


SOCIAL HALL Needing to use the Social Hall for a meeting or event? Please call Deanna Holmer

 

at 706-297-7493 to check on availability/guidelines for using the Hall.

 

ADORATION: Starting Friday July 6th there will be Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 1:00 PM. This will be held every Friday at this time.

 

RCIA: Are you looking for a way to serve others or deepen your own spiritual  life?  We are in need of volunteers to serve as sponsors for our  candidates in RCIA.  If you are interested in helping others on their  journey to Christ, please contact Joanna Griggs, (706)886-0031.

 

SAINT MARY’S WEBSITE: Our website is now up and operating. The address is:
 
http://www.stmarystoccoaga.com/
 

LADIES DAY OF REFLECTION.  Mark you calendar's ladies for February 16.  Your Ladies Guild has a  wonderful day planned, our guest speaker will be  addressing spirituality and issues of concern to women.  Details after January 1st.

VISITATION MINISTRY:  If you know of anyone who might enjoy a visit from our Visitation Ministry...especially during the colder winter months we will be happy to arrange a time to call on them.  Call Robbie 706-779-2342.

 
CONDOLENCES:   We extend our sincerest sympathy Carolyn Collins, on the passing of her husband, Clifton.
 

PARISH CHRISTMAS PARTY: Our annual Christmas Party will be held Sunday, December 16, 2007, at 4pm. Sign up sheet for food is in the Narthex.

 

 

 

RENEW YOUR REGISTRATION FORM: The dates for this are Saturday/Sunday December 1st and 2nd; and Saturday/Sunday December 8th and 9th.

 

LADIES GUILD RELIGIOUS ARTICLES cabinet has been restocked with gift items, advent candles and wreaths, rosaries, statues, and pet gifts. There is an excellent selection of angel pins.

 

2007 PRAYER JOURNEY FOR A WORLD LIVING WITH AIDS

The Archdiocese of Atlanta’s Office of HIV and AIDS Ministry invites the Catholic faithful to join in prayer during the Archdiocesan Prayer Journey for a World Living with AIDS, November 25th through December 2nd, 2007. The purpose of the Prayer Journey is to raise awareness about the Catholic Church’s call to embrace and compassionately respond to the People of God living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. All are welcome to participate in the Archdiocesan Mass for a World Living with AIDS on Saturday, December 1st (World AIDS Day) at 5:00 pm, at St. Phillip Benizi Catholic Church, 591 Flint River Rd., in Jonesboro. For more information, visit http://www.atlantaaidsministry.org/.

 

CHRISTMAS DECORATING   We will be decorating the church on December 12th for Christmas after the Ladies’ Guild's luncheon. We also can take the decorations down right after the Epiphany which will be on Jan.9th after the Guild Meeting.

 

St. Catherine Laboure

Feastday: November 25

St. Catherine Laboure, virgin, was born on May 2, 1806. At an early age she entered the

 

community of the Daughters of Charity, in
Paris, France. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure, who then was a twenty-four year old novice.

On July 18, the first apparition occurred in the community's motherhouse. St. Catherine beheld a lady seated on the right side of the sanctuary. When St. Catherine approached her, the heavenly visitor told her how to act in time of trial and pointed to the altar as the source of all consolation. Promising to entrust St. Catherine with a mission which would cause her great suffering, the lady also predicted the anticlerical revolt which occurred at Paris in 1870.

On November 27, the lady showed St. Catherine the medal of the Immaculate Conception, now universally known as the "Miraculous Medal." She commissioned St. Catherine to have one made, and to spread devotion to this medal. At that time, only her spiritual director, Father Aladel, knew of the apparitions. Forty-five years later, St. Catherine spoke fully of the apparitions to one of her superiors. She died on December 31, 1876, and was canonized on July 27, 1947. Her feast day is November 25.

FLOWER DONATIONS: There is a basket in the Narthex for flower donations for Christmas. Please help make our church look beautiful for the holidays!