Monday Evening, December 21st, 2020:
HAVE YOURSELF AN EMMANUEL CHRISTMAS!
We bring our Advent season to a close this week, and we begin our Christmas celebrations. Therefore, I wish you and your families an “Emmanuel” Christmas!
We need an Emmanuel moment now because we live in a troubling and difficult time. Our battle against COVID-19, along with racism and partisan politics continues, but a “God-with-us” experience will fill our lives with confidence, hope, and joy.
We need an Emmanuel moment now because we live in a troubling and difficult time. Our battle against COVID-19, along with racism and partisan politics continues, but a “God-with-us” experience will fill our lives with confidence, hope, and joy.
After last Christmas, just when you - our Saint Charles family - and I were getting to know each other and were working together, COVID-19 hit our world.
The pandemic has adversely affected every imaginable aspect of our lives: the death of our loved ones, physical estrangement, emotional distress, unemployment, economic hardship, and the breakdown of relationships.
For many of us, the pandemic is extinguishing our Catholic faith and spirituality, if it has not already extinguished it. Yes, we did celebrate Lent-Easter virtually but with the hope that, by Christmas 2020, we would physically celebrate, in a “normal” way, the birth of our savior – the beginning of a new worship year!
Alas, like the notorious pandemic of racism, COVID-19 persists and threatens to crush our last bit of patience and hope of recovery.
Therefore, we - the people of God at Saint Charles - want to spend this Advent-Christmas to start a healing process against all pandemics. We declare what we feel in our hearts: “My Soul is Thirsting …” for many things (see Psalm 63:1).
For this year's Advent-Christmas season, we focus on “My Soul is Thirsting for Emmanuel” as our battle cry for recovery. Let this theme fill our small group faith discussions, along with our learning, worship and prayer sessions, and our outreach to serve the needs of others.
Join us online at www.stcharleslivermore.org/watch to worship with us and experience an Emmanuel, “God-with-us” Christmas! Here is our tentative schedule:
• Thursday, December 24th:
Christmas Eve live-streamed Children’s Mass at 4 PM
In-person Communion from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Friday, December 25th:
Christmas Midnight live-streamed Mass - available all-day
In-person Communion 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
• Friday, January 1st:
Solemnity of Mary Mother of God; live-streamed Mass at 9:30 AM
In-person Communion 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
May God quench our every thirst and may every person and family of Saint Charles have an “Emmanuel Moment” this Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Fr. Kwame
Dec
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Family Christmas Zoom Celebration
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St. Charles' Men Of Faith
invites all parishioners to the first (and hopefully last)
Family Christmas Zoom Celebration for children and adults
December 22, 2020 4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Family Christmas Zoom Celebration for children and adults
December 22, 2020 4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
This will be an opportunity to enjoy our St. Charles
community, where we can...
• Share our family Christmas decorations.
• Greet the neighbor who used to sit in the adjacent pew.
• Listen to traditional Christmas music.
Santa Claus will greet our parish children with a Christmas message.
Father Kwame will give us a special Christmas blessing.
Join us for part or all of our celebration.
We want to wish your family a Merry Christmas!
In Case You Missed Our Christmas Cantata...
In Case You Missed Sunday's Mass...
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Monday Evening - WALKING WITH PURPOSE on Zoom
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Walking with Purpose
Bible Study Program
Opening Your Heart
by Lisa Brenninkmeyer
CURRENTLY ON BREAK
Meetings resume on Monday, January 4th, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Meetings resume on Monday, January 4th, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Questions? Contact:
Angela Layton
602-799-6648
wwpstcharleslivermore@gmail.com
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Community
1315 Lomitas Ave.
Livermore, CA 94550
