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The Light of Christ Catholic Collaborative COLLABORATIVE STAFF

Pastor: Rev. Thomas J. Stanton Parochial Vicar: Rev. Robert Cullen

Senior Priest in Residence: Rev. Joseph Arsenault Senior Priest/Weekend Assistant: Rev. Mark Riley

Deacons: Joseph Nickley, James McLaughlin and Paul Breadmore Finance and Operations Manager: Dennis Leonard

Administrative Assistant: Colleen Booker Email: [email protected]

Website: www.loccc.org

Director of Music: William Healey Children’s Choir : Margaret Healey Organist: Lynn Bartlett Cantor: Dennis Leonard Director of Religious Education (781) 447-3135 Grades 1-Confirmation Cathleen Smith [email protected] Cemetery Office: Kathy MacGilvray Office Assistant: Charles Guillemette Facilities Managers: James Lewis Tom Blinn

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Holy Ghost Parish 518 Washington Street Whitman, MA 02382

Tel: 781-447-4421 Fax: 781-447-1375

St. Bridget Church 455 Plymouth Street Abington, MA 02351

Tel: 781-878-0900 Fax: 781-878-6566

Holy Ghost Mass Schedule Weekend: Saturday: 4:00PM Sunday: 7:30AM & 10:30AM

Weekday: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9AM

Holy Day Mass Schedule As Announced

St. Bridget Mass Schedule Weekend: Saturday: 4:00PM Sunday: 9:00AM & 12:00PM

Weekday: Tuesday and Thursday at 9AM Holy Day Mass Schedule As Announced

DIVINE MERCY DEVOTION Tuesdays at 7PM in the lower chapel

PERPETUAL ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT In Divine Mercy Chapel (lower church) BAPTISM Second and Fourth Sundays of each month at 12Noon (Please arrive 15 minutes early). Call the rectory (781-447-4421) to arrange for the sacrament. BINGO at Whitman Knights of Columbus Every Monday at 6PM in the Whitman Knights of Columbus Hall

CONFESSION: Saturdays 3:00 to 3:30 PM or anytime by appointment MARRIAGE: Please contact the rectory one year in advance.

Couples meet with the priest or deacon before a date is set. Participation in a marriage program is required

Organist: Carolyn Bates (781) 878-5410 Children’s Choir : Jessie Bishop (781) 974-5043 Directors of Religious Education (781) 447-3135 Cathleen Smith, Grade 1 to Confirmation, [email protected] Superintendent, Saint Patrick Cemetery: Jeff Allen Phone: (781) 982-8974 or (781) 878-0900 Fax (781) 878-6566 Saint Vincent de Paul: (781) 878-1194

BAPTISM First and Second Sundays of each month at 1:30PM(Please arrive 15 minutes early). Call the rectory (781-878-0900) to arrange for the sacrament. BINGO Every Sunday at 6:30PM in the School Hall ST. BRIDGET SCHOOL (781) 878-8482 Mr. Matthew T. Collins, Principal www.stbridgetschool.us

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We now have online giving. Please go to www.loccc.org for more information

The weekly offertory budget amount for each

parish is $6,700.00

HOLY GHOST COLLECTION Sunday Collection $ 6,689.00

ST. BRIDGET COLLECTION Sunday Collection $ 5,324.00

These amounts include envelopes from the collection box at each Church, envelopes mailed or left at each rectory

and online giving. Thank you for your continued generosity.

For the week of December 19 through December 27, 2020

Saturday, December 19, 2020 4PM HG Julie, Jackson, Scarlett Smith, Josephine Fay—Memorial 4PM SB Sgt. Daniel Vasselian—6th Anniv. Sunday, December 20, 2020 7:30AM HG Mary Butkuss, Janice Butkuss Patriquin—Memorial 9:00AM SB Francesco & Victoria Fazzolari Francesco & Maria Rosa Qualtieri— Memorial 10:30AM HG Paddy & Ed Flanagan—Memorial 12PM SB George Dunphy—7th Anniversary Monday, December 21, 2020 9AM HG Kay Coughlin—5th Anniversary Tuesday, December 22, 2020 9AM SB Mass at St. Bridget Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9AM HG David Morse—5th Anniversary Thursday, December 24, 2020 9AM SB Mass at St. Bridget 4PM HG Christmas Eve Mass 4PM SB Christmas Eve Mass 6PM HG Christmas Eve Mass 6PM SB Christmas Eve Mass Friday, December 25, 2020 7:30AM HG Christmas Day Mass 9AM SB Christmas Day Mass 10:30AM HG Christmas Day Mass 12PM SB Christmas Day Mass Saturday, December 26, 2020 4PM HG Mass at Holy Ghost 4PM SB Robert Gautheir—1st Anniversary Sunday, December 27, 2020 7:30AM HG Mass at Holy Ghost 9:00AM SB Mass at St. Bridget 10:30AM HG Matthew Clancy—10th Anniversary Florance Barbato—50th Anniversary 12PM SB William Corcoran—Month’s Mind

Please remember in your prayers the souls of the recently departed: Gerald Panarelli

The Sanctuary Lamp at St. Bridget will burn in the Church this week in memory of

Salvatore Aia

The Altar Bread & Wine at St. Bridget this week in memory of Juliet & Joseph Vincent

CONFESSIONS Confessions will be held at St. Bridget on Monday evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. The front door of the Church will be open, and Confession will be to

the right of the Sanctuary.

At Holy Ghost, they will be offered on Thursday Evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Confessions will be heard in Fr. Glennon Hall. Those attending the

Sacrament may wait in the Chapel Pews.

All of the Masses for Christmas are fully booked. There will be NO Walk IN’s for the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses. Mass will be aired on the local cable access channels at 4PM and 8PM on Christmas Eve and 8AM and 10AM on Christmas Day.

The Altar Bread & Wine at Holy Ghost this week in memory of Salvatore Aia

The Sanctuary Lamp at Holy Ghost will burn in the upper Church this week in memory of

Louis Nickerson. The Sanctuary Lamp at Holy Ghost will burn in the

lower Church this week in memory of Salvatore Aia

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Lt. Joe Sturges Lt. Thomas M. Condon Pat Torney SGT. Thomas M. Malloy, Jr. (USMC) Sgt. Nick Lavery SO2 Ryan C. Flaherty Sgt. Matthew McCann Sgt. Seamus Murray Lance Corp. Nicholas Rizzo Staff Sgt. Jonathan P. Martins Steve Gaudet LCpl M Ryan O’ Flaherty Spec. James R. Furtado Kyle Scales USN Col. Kevin Hanrahan Capt. Joseph J. Lucas SPC Anthony Gulino Peter E. Columbo LCPL Jarod Zachariah Maze Sgt. Nicholas Voci Senior Airman Sara Furtado PFC Zachary Samya Staff Sgt. Marie Ketchen Airman Samuel Clark LCpl Johnathan Jaskolka Major Ryan Chandler Sgt. Andrew McAleer LCpl. Sean Concannon SFC Jason Race Jason Malloy USAF Brian Malloy USN Captain Stephen Donaghy Private Billy Feeney SGT Christian Renteria USA Corp. Casey Hogan Cpl. John J. Feeney,USMC Army Ranger Oskar Djusberg LCpl Derek Corkery, USMC Cpl. Joseph Von George USMC Sargent Jordon McIntyre Stephen Zagami DC Lt. J.G. Jacob M. Concannon R. Randall F. O. 1st Lt. Shane Reardon,USMC PVT Steven Littlefield Commander Amy Grabel Payce Petty Officer Jonathan Burbine Thomas E. Wyatt MMN1 LcCpl Larry J. Jarrins USMC Sgt. Daniel O’Donnell,USMC CPL James W. Belton USMC 1LT Katelynn Hickey SSG Andrew Hickey LCpl Michael Duphil MAJ Matthew Luyster US Army Capt. Joseph V.Bomar,USAF 2nd Lt. Thomas Leonard, USMC USN Sgt. Zachary DeLuca, USMC Ensign Anthony J. Iannone, USN

PRAYERS FOR OUR RELATIVES & FRIENDS SERVING IN THE MILITARY

Knights of Columbus Council #347 Holiday Raffle Calendar Winners

Monday 12-07-20 Joann Micalizzi, Bridgewater $25.00 Tuesday 12-08-20 Kevin Downey, Whitman $25.00 Wednesday 12-09-20 Doreen Yourell, Whitman $25.00 Thursday 12-10-20 Devin Benton, Whitman $25.00 Friday 12-11-20 Ruth King, Whitman $25.00 Saturday 12-12-20 C.A.R.S. David Hanscom, Whitman $25.00 Sunday 12-13-20 G. Russo, Scituate $100.00

GIVING TREES AT HOLY GHOST Thank you to all for your very generous response to the Giving Trees at Holy Ghost this year, and for donating gift cards instead of actual gifts—thank you for all you do to help us provide for those in need. We would appreciate having all cards turned in by December 20th so we can make sure our families have a happy Christmas. The members of our Saint Vincent de Paul group will keep all of you in our prayers for all you do to help us serve those in need. We wish all of you a happy and healthy holiday season.

2020 ST. VINCENT DE PAUL GIVING TREE AT ST. BRIDGET

Thank you to everyone who gave in big and small ways to help our families in the town of Abington.

Abington St. Vincent de Paul St. Vincent de Paul would like to thank the Abington community and the Church community for all the support this year! Due to Covid 19 we will not be able to collect our annual donation. If you would like to donate you can use the poor boxes at the end of the pews in Church or mail a check to Abington Food Pantry St. Vincent de Paul 455 Plymouth Street Abington, MA 02351

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By Dr. Scott Hahn The Mystery Kept Secret 4th Sunday of Advent (Cycle B) What is announced to Mary in today's Gospel is the revelation of all that the prophets had spoken. It is, as Paul declares in today's Epistle, the mystery kept secret since before the foundation of the world (see Ephesians 1:9; 3:3-9). Mary is the virgin prophesied to bear a son of the house of David (see Isaiah 7:13-14). And nearly every word the angel speaks to her today evokes and echoes the long history of salvation recorded in the Bible. Mary is hailed as the daughter Jerusalem, called to rejoice that her king, the Lord God, has come into her midst as a mighty savior (see Zephaniah 3:14-17). The One whom Mary is to bear will be Son of "the Most High" - an ancient divine title first used to describe the God of the priest-king Melchizedek, who brought out bread and wine to bless Abraham at the dawn of salvation history (see Genesis 14:18-19). He will fulfill the covenant God makes with His chosen one, David, in today's First Reading. As we sing in today's Psalm, He will reign forever as highest of the kings of the earth, and He will call God, "my Father." As Daniel saw the Most High grant everlasting dominion to the Son of Man (see Daniel 4:14; 7:14), His kingdom will have no end. He is to rule over the house of Jacob - the title God used in making His covenant with Israel at Sinai (see Exodus 19:3), and again used in promising that all nations would worship the God of Jacob (see Isaiah 2:1-5). Jesus has been made known, Paul says today, to bring all nations to the obedience of faith. We are called with Mary today, to marvel at all that the Lord has done throughout the ages for our salvation. And we too, must respond to this annunciation with humble obedience - that His will be done, that our lives be lived according to His word. A service of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology www.SalvationHistory.com

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