Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Dear Saint Charles Borromeo family,
If you would like to read "Two Advents in the Season of Advent", my article in Sunday's bulletin, please click HERE.
If you would like to read "Two Advents in the Season of Advent", my article in Sunday's bulletin, please click HERE.
Additionally, we are in need of your support with the virtual Giving Tree. I appreciate everyone who has already contributed by taking a tag from the boards and tree in the vestibule. However, we still have many unclaimed tags left on our virtual Giving Tree. I am asking those who can help, please visit the online store by clicking HERE. Read more about The Giving Tree below or by visiting our website.
We Need Your Help...
Annual Giving Tree
Continues This Weekend!
Time’s running out! All Giving Tree gift cards are due by December 5. Please return unwrapped gift cards in a ziplock bag with an activation receipt and the tag. They are being delivered to Catholic Charities and Tri-Valley Haven the week of December 6th for distribution at their holiday programs.
We still have a variety of gifts or gift cards to donate especially on our online virtual Giving Tree or hanging on the tree or category boards in the church.
We are supporting six deserving recipient groups identified by an ID code (AN, GV, CCEB, TVH, AVILLA, VCARE). Each tag or online wish list item includes the recipient ID code and number, age, gender, name, in some cases, gift description, final due-by date, and how the gift or gift card is to be returned.
To select gifts or gift cards online:
Please click the signup.com link HERE. Once you arrive at the signup page, scroll through the gifts listed and find the one you would like to purchase and donate.
Follow these five easy steps:
- Click the green "signup" button. This takes you to a sign-in page.
- You can select to sign in through Facebook, Gmail, or by entering your email address.
- The next screen will ask for your name and phone number. Once those are filled in, select the green "save and done" button.
- This will take you back to the original wish list page where you can select another gift or close the window.
- Once your choice(s) is saved, you will see a listing of the "spot(s)" you selected listing all the information to make a tag for the gift(s).
- Finally, you should receive an email from "St. Charles Borromeo"< mail@signup .com >" with the list of all gifts you selected from the virtual tree, how they are to be returned, and the date when they are due at the church.
PLEASE READ THE TAG or WISH LIST DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY, purchase the item(s) listed, follow the instructions for how the gift card or wrapped gift is to be returned and by what date. Do not misplace ornament tags. This is the only way to guarantee that gifts are given to the correct recipients.
If you are still not comfortable getting a tag and purchasing a gift? We gratefully accept donations by check or online to purchase gifts for tags not taken or returned. Please click HERE to donate and designate "The Giving Tree" in the pull-down "To" menu.
Gifts or gift cards may be delivered to the church after Masses or to the rectory by the following dates:
- Monday-Thursday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
- Two Wednesdays (December 1st and 8th) at drive-thru gift drop-offs
- Two Sundays from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (December 5th and 12th) at drive-thru drop-off
All gift cards will be due next weekend by December 5th
Unwrapped in a ziplock bag with an activation receipt and the tag!
Unwrapped in a ziplock bag with an activation receipt and the tag!
Wrapped gifts will be due next weekend by December 12th.
Visit our website for more details stcharleslivermore.org/giving-tree
Click HERE to help those in need by purchasing gifs online.
Visit our website for more details stcharleslivermore.org/giving-tree
Click HERE to help those in need by purchasing gifs online.
Your Social Concerns Committee is very grateful for your generosity! Thank you for expressing your faith by loving our neighbors in need during Christmas!
Join us Tonight!
Tuesday, November, 30th
Tuesday, November, 30th
Topic: "What is Advent?"
Join Our Zoom Meeting at 6:30 pm:
Meeting ID: 871 5013 5359
Passcode: Jesus2021
Click HERE to print out the handout.
The Come and See group at St. Charles invites you to attend our next meeting. Currently, our group meets every Tuesday evening at 6:30 on Zoom.
We look forward to seeing you! Participation in previous meetings is not required. Feel free to share this link with someone you think would like to join us.
We look forward to seeing you! Participation in previous meetings is not required. Feel free to share this link with someone you think would like to join us.
Regards,
Join Us On Zoom:
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Meeting ID: 811 6885 0633
Passcode: 759029
Dial by phone
+1 669 900 6833
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81168850633?pwd=L09nbnlmT21Ma01JcGdnSngrTEZNZz09
Meeting ID: 811 6885 0633
Passcode: 759029
Dial by phone
+1 669 900 6833
"Meet Lady Wisdom"
Join Fr. Kwame's Eighth Bible Study Session
Thursday at 7:00 pm on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 816 8039 8330
Passcode: 973435
Passcode: 973435
Telephones Dial:+1 669 900 6833
If You Missed Previous Sessions Watch the Videos Below:
Saturday
December 4th
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
December 4th
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Pope Room
WHERE IT ALL BEGINS –
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
with Kevin Saunders
Session #3
Session #3
Scripture Saturdays will take you through
the entire book of Genesis verse by verse!
the entire book of Genesis verse by verse!
If You Missed Previous Sessions, You May Listen to Audio Recordings Below:
CONCERN AMERICA CRAFT SALE
IN-PERSON SALE: Saturday and Sunday, December 4th-5th
Borromeo Hall
Borromeo Hall
ONLINE SALE: December 6th-11th
Shop Online Now by Clicking HERE
St. Charles Borromeo will host a Craft Sale featuring unique, quality handcrafts that provide us with the opportunity to purchase conscientiously. The gifts we find for special events, holidays, or to brighten our own homes are an exchange of caring with impoverished communities in developing countries.
Concern America is an international development organization.
For more information please contact (714) 953-8575.
Christmas Season Mass and Event Schedule:
- Our Advent Communal Reconciliation Service will be held on Saturday, December 18th at 10:30 am.
- Christmas Eve Mass Schedule:
- Family Mass with Children's Choir will be held in the Church at 4:00 pm.
- We will have a walk-through Communion Distribution following the 4:00 pm Mass.
- Christmas Eve Mass will be held at both 8:00 pm and Midnight.
- A reprise of the Christmas Cantata will be performed as a prelude to the Midnight Mass, beginning at 11:15 pm.
- Christmas Day Mass: We will be holding one Mass on Christmas Day at 10:30 AM. We will NOT be holding a Vigil Mass at 5:00 pm.
- Donation Boxes: Please use the two new donation boxes located under the Keeley Center sign. The original boxes in front of the Church will be utilized for another purpose.
- November Year to Date Financial Summary:
"The good steward knows that every day is a gift from God, to be lived with joy and thanksgiving. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives!"
Special Second Collection:
Saturday and Sunday, December 11th and 12th
Please help to support the elderly religious who have offered a lifetime of service. The Retirement Fund for Religious helps religious
communities care for their aging members.
Please help to support the elderly religious who have offered a lifetime of service. The Retirement Fund for Religious helps religious
communities care for their aging members.
Click HERE to view a short video from Retirement Fund for Religious
For more information, please contact Mary Hengl
This beautiful Advent we have been called by God's grace and goodness
to participate in the Co-Creation of the very Breath and Being of God!
Let us gather in the church, with JOY, as we open our hearts,
as the "Light of Christ" to celebrate the gift of living life...
Awake, Alive, and Aware of God's tender Love for all!
-- Diane Saunders
to participate in the Co-Creation of the very Breath and Being of God!
Let us gather in the church, with JOY, as we open our hearts,
as the "Light of Christ" to celebrate the gift of living life...
Awake, Alive, and Aware of God's tender Love for all!
-- Diane Saunders
Dec
12
Sunday - COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic!
St. Charles will be a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic from 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Are you going?
Yes
No
Maybe
going.
not going.
might be going.
Your FREE Pfizer vaccine is waiting for you!
St. Charles Borromeo has teamed up with BayPLS to ensure the COVID-19 vaccine is available to all parishioners and guests. If you are interested in receiving the Pfizer vaccine and you are twelve years old or above, please join us at Borromeo Hall on Sunday, December, 12th between the hours of 10:00 am - 1:30 pm.
Drop-ins are welcome or you may pre-register by clicking HERE.
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Community
1315 Lomitas Ave.
Livermore, CA 94550
"Not a Place Where...But a People Who"
