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Weekly Mass IntentIons

Sunday MaSSeS

Low Latin (Traditional) 7:30 a.m. Sung Latin (Novus Ordo) 9:15 a.m. German 11:00 a.m. English 12:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.Holy day MaSSeS

Low Latin (Traditional) 7:15 a.m. English 12:10 p.m. Sung Latin (Novus Ordo) 7:00 p.m.Weekday MaSSeS

Monday thru Friday 7:15 a.m. | Traditional Latin Mass 12:10 p.m.| Rosary before Mass Saturday 12:10 p.m.| Rosary before MassFirSt Friday MaSS & all nigHt Vigil

7:00 p.m. | Traditional Latin Mass 6:45 a.m. | Traditional Latin Mass (concludes First Friday All Night Vigil)

Weekly Mass schedule

If you are home bound or sick and need Holy Communion or a visit, contact parish office for a priest.

the sacraMents

adoratIon and devotIonseucHariStic expoSition

Sunday: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Holy Hour with Benediction: 7:30 p.m.Wednesday: 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.First Friday – All Night Vigil Mass and Exposition: 7:00 p.m. Benediction: Saturday 6:30 a.m.Sunday VeSperS and Benediction: 3:30 p.m.

SacraMent oF penance

Sunday - Thirty minutes before 9:15 a.m., 12:30 p.m., & 7:00 p.m. MassesWeekdays - After 12:10 p.m. Mass until 1:00 p.m.Tuesday - 7:30 p.m. thru 8:15 p.m. BaptiSMS

Contact parish office at least one month prior.WeddingS

Contact parish office at least six months prior. Wedding Coordinator – Mrs. Amy Schneideranointing oF tHe Sick

Contact a parish priest as soon as possible.FirSt coMMunion and conFirMation

Contact the Parish Office.

- For the repose of the soul of Pro Populo - For the People of the Parish

Per Annum - During the Year

Sunday – The Nativity of the Lord 12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass - Pro Populo 7:30 a.m. Celebrant's Intention 9:15 a.m. Earl Feldman – The Meyer Family11:00 a.m. Bruene Gerdes 12:30 p.m. Ann Kaufman – EAB Monday – St. Stephen 12:10 p.m. Donald Edward Dooley – Dennis DooleytueSday – St. John 12:10 p.m. Earl Feldman – The Meyer FamilyWedneSday – The Holy Innocents 12:10 p.m. Donald Edward Dooley – Dennis DooleytHurSday – St. Thomas Becket 12:10 p.m. Earl Feldman – The Meyer FamilyFriday – The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph12:10 p.m. Donald Edward Dooley – Dennis DooleySaturday – St. Sylvester I 12:10 p.m. Donald Edward Dooley – Dennis Dooley 10:00 p.m. In Thanksgiving for the Blessings in 2016Sunday – Mary, the Holy Mother of God 7:30 a.m. Celebrant's Intention 9:15 a.m. Pro Populo11:00 a.m. For Blessings upon Old St. Mary's in 201712:30 p.m. For the establishment of the Cincinnati Oratory

Pray for the sIckPray for healing for Lovre Dzolic, Jack Schmetzer, John Paul Downes, Paul Phillips, Jeanne Stevens, Kathy DeWine, Larry DeWine, Jennifer Borek, Emily Rosen, Noelle Polisso, John & Erin Hays, Natalie Anderson, Mary Jane Anderson, Jack, Dea-con Ken DeHanes, Meg Crall, Sandy Jones, Wilma & Gary Brown, Mark Kleane, Tina Phillips, Loraine Dunseth, Karl Fry, Steven Mueller, Bob Gruber, Anneliese Anneken, Kendra Gul-lett, Gale Campbell, Mary Ann Lohre, Jim Stratman, Richard Buettner, Kathleen Hoenninger, Margaret Larkins, Paul Wich-mann, Margaret Lang, Caleb Reed, Rene & Amanda Kortus, Car-olyn Wieland, John Patrick Munoz, Sharon Gerdes, Paul Brond-haver, Mary Gardner, Edie Nehus, Julia Ziebro, Aleisa Koester/Yusko, Ariadne Seta, Michael Woosley, Bob Ball, Mary Frances & Sophia Sharpshair, Agnes Oevermeyer, Tom & Maria Grow, Beth Garfinkle, Linda Boehm, Nancy Corbett, Larry Robers, Jean Theobald, Sonia Carrero, Angela Shaw, and Steven Marsh.

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Laudetur Jesus Christus! Gelobt sei Jesus Christus! Sia lodato Gesù Cristo! Praised be Jesus Christ!

Felicem diem Nativitatis! Frohe Weihnachten! Buon Natale! Merry Christmas!

Today we celebrate Christmas Day. On behalf of the priests,

brothers, and staff of Old St. Mary's and Sacred Heart, I wish each of you a Merry Christmas. I pray that the day of the Nativity of the Lord is blessed for each of you. The Lord has come into time and space on this day, accepting our human nature so that we may be-come like God. May we not take this gift for granted, striving each day to grow in greater perfection. Please find this Christmas Sermon from St. Leo the Great for your meditation. Have a blessed Christmas Season!

"Our Saviour, dearly-beloved, was born today: let us be glad. For there is no proper place for sadness, when we keep the birthday of the Life, which destroys the fear of mortality and brings to us the joy of promised eternity. No one is kept from sharing in this happiness. There is for all one common measure of joy, because as our Lord the destroyer of sin and death finds none free from charge, so is He come to free us all. Let the saint exult in that he draws near to victory. Let the sinner be glad in that he is invited to pardon. Let the gentile take courage in that he is called to life. For the Son of God in

the fullness of time which the inscrutable depth of the Divine counsel has determined, has taken on him the na-ture of man, thereby to reconcile it to its Author: in order that the inventor of death, the devil, might be conquered through that (nature) which he had conquered. And in this conflict undertaken for us, the fight was fought on great and wondrous principles of fairness; for the Al-mighty Lord enters the lists with His savage foe not in His own majesty but in our humility, opposing him with the same form and the same nature, which shares indeed our mortality, though it is free from all sin. Truly foreign to this nativity is that which we read of all others, no one is clean from stain, not even the infant who has lived but one day upon earth. Nothing therefore of the lust of the flesh has passed into that peerless nativity, nothing of the law of sin has entered. A royal Virgin of the stem of David is chosen, to be impregnated with the sacred seed and to conceive the Divinely-human offspring in mind first and then in body. And lest in ignorance of the heavenly counsel she should tremble at so strange a result , she learns from converse with the angel that what is to be wrought in her is of the Holy Ghost. Nor does she believe it loss of honour that she is soon to be the Mother of God. For why should she be in despair over the novelty of such conception, to whom the power of the most High has promised to effect it. Her implicit faith is confirmed also by the attestation of a precursory miracle, and Elizabeth receives unexpected fertility: in order that there might be no doubt that He who had given conception to the barren, would give it even to a virgin." (continued on next page)

froM the Pastor

ParIsh staff Fr. Jon-Paul Bevak Pastor, x123 jpbevak@oldstmarys.org Fr. Lawrence Juarez Parochial Vicar, x124 ljuarez@oldstmarys.org Fr. Adrian Hilton Parochial Vicar, x125 ahilton@oldstmarys.org Br. Brent Stull Interim Dir. of Sacred Music bstull@oldstmarys.org Mrs. Stephi Sieverding Parish Secretary ssieverding@oldstmarys.org Mrs. Terri Huwel Pregnancy Center Director, x126 thuwel@oldstmarys.org Mrs. Amy Schneider Wedding Coordinator, x127 weddings@oldstmarys.org Mr. Bill Diemler Maintenance bdiemler@oldstmarys.org

Weekly offerInG

Bulletin Submissions and DeadlineSend to bulletin@oldstmarys.org

by Thursday of prior week.

Sunday Total (Attendance = ) $ Online Giving $ Other Income $ Budgeted Weekly Expenses $ 7,500.00

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oFFering - Sunday December 18, 2016

Financial Statement not available at time of printing.

Thank you for your generosity!

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Christmas Schedule 2016 Masses at Old St. Mary's on Christmas are as follows:

• Midnight Sung Latin Mass (Ordinary Form)• 7:30 a.m. Low Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form)• 9:15 a.m. Sung Latin Mass (Ordinary Form)• 11:00 a.m. German Mass• 12:30 p.m. English Mass• Please note that there is no 7:00 p.m. Mass

Mary, Mother of God Schedule 2017 Masses for Mary, Mother of God (New Year's Day) are as follows:December 31

• 10:00 p.m. Sung Vigil MassJanuary 1

• 7:30 a.m. Low Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form)• 9:15 a.m. Sung Latin Mass (Ordinary Form)• 11:00 a.m. German Mass• 12:30 p.m. English Mass• Please note that there is no 7:00 p.m. Mass

Children's and Adult Catechism Schedule December 13 was be our final class before Christmas break. Please note that there will be no Catechism on December 28 or January 3. We will resume Catechism on January 10.Adoration Schedule for Advent & Christmas There will be no Adoration today, Christmas Day, December 25 nor New Year's Day, January 1. There will also be no Vespers. We apologize for any inconvenience. Donation Envelopes Please be sure to pick your donation envelopes located in the back of Church. Thank you for your generosity!Parish Calendars The annual parish calendar is here. Please be sure to pick one up. We are asking for a donation of $3 this year.Parish Office Closed The Parish Office will be closed December 28, 29, 30 and January 2. The parish office will re-open on January 3.

Pastor's Column continued: "Let us then, dearly beloved, give thanks to God the Fa-ther, through His Son, in the Holy Spirit , Who for His great mercy, wherewith He has loved us, has had pity on us: and when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together in Christ Ephesians 2:4-5, that we might be in Him a new creation and a new production. Let us put off then the old man with his deeds: and having ob-tained a share in the birth of Christ let us renounce the works of the flesh. Christian, acknowledge your dignity, and becoming a partner in the Divine nature, refuse to return to the old baseness by degenerate conduct. Remember the Head and the Body of which you are a member. Recollect that you were rescued from the power of darkness and brought out into God's light and kingdom. By the mystery of Baptism you were made the temple of the Holy Ghost: do not put such a denizen to flight from you by base acts, and subject yourself once more to the devil's thraldom: because your purchase money is the blood of Christ, because He shall judge you in truth Who ransomed you in mercy, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit reigns for ever and ever. Amen." - St. Leo the Great

ParIsh and other neWs

uPcoMInG eventsJanuary 6 - Epiphany Mass @ 7:00 p.m.

WeddInG bannsNo upcoming weddings

sacred heart scheduleSunday 9:00 a.m. (English) & 11:00 a.m. (Traditional Latin)

Monday-Saturday 9:00 a.m. (Traditional Latin) Tuesday - Miraculous Medal Novena after Mass

Saturday - 7:50 a.m. Holy Hour with Confession Sacrament of Penance offered 30 minutes before Mass

You may drop your collection envelope at either parish and it will make its way to its intended destination.

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Please pray for the following, whose memory the Christmas flowers this year have been donated. Thank you to everyone who helped donate for the Christmas flowers. Thank you also to everyone who helped clean and decorate the Church in preparation for the Nativity of the Lord!

The Names of the Christmas Flower envelopes 2016:In Memory of: Kenneth Krueck, Cecilia Krueck, Evelyn Krueck, Thomas & Beven Strickler, Beverly Dier, John Krueck, Mary Ellen Lasky, Richard Stang, Beatrice Vel-ber, Carl & Cary Simms, Walter & Mary Ann Specht, Rita Vosseberg, August Vosseberg, Ernst & Heidi Lussi, Deceased of Robert Schauble Family, Deceased of W. Phillips Family, Deceased of Tarmann Family, Phyl-lis Schlafly, Souls in Purgatory, Maria Wilbanks, Terry Lohre, Judy Lohre, Mark Scott, Jim Scott, Harry A. Re-isiger, Father Al Lauer, Deceased of the Polisso Family

chrIstMas PreParatIons

other devotIonsSorrowful Mother Novena and All-Night VigilJoin the Sorrowful Mother Adoration group on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Fridays of the month for Mass and all night Eucharistic Exposition. Mass begins at 7:00 p.m., followed by the Novena. The All-Night Vigil goes until 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning, concluding with Benediction followed by Mass at 6:45 a.m. Call: Mrs. Jane George at 513-733-3047 or Mrs. Dolores Brandstetter at 513-561-4155.

catechesIs and sPIrItualItyFrom the Saints"Behold the beginning of the Church. Christ is born, and the shepherds watch; shepherds, to gather together the scattered sheep of the Gentiles, and to lead them into the fold of Christ, that they might no longer be a prey to the ravages of spiritual wolves in the night of this world's darkness. And that shepherd is wide awake, whom the Good Shepherd stirreth up. The flock then is the people, the night is the world, and the shepherds are the Priests. And perhaps he is a shepherd to whom it is said: Be watchful and strengthen, Apoc, for God hath ordained as the shepherds of His flock not Bishops only, but also Angels.” - St. AmbroseCatechesis Is December 25 the real date of Christmas? It’s that time of year again when many Christians en-counter claims that pagan deities predating Jesus Christ were born on December 25. In popular films, Internet videos, and other media you can find long lists of gods who were supposedly born on the same day.This idea is not limited to unbelievers. I have heard many Christians claim that the date of Christmas was intended to provide an alternative to pagan celebra-tions. In some ways it has become a pious legend. On the other hand, some Fundamentalist denominations refuse to celebrate Christmas for this reason...Read more at: http://www.catholic.com/blog/jon-sorensen/

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Submit questions to: questions@oldstmarys.org

adoratIon neWsCould you not spend but one hour with Me? Please con-tact the parish office if you are interested in signing up for an hour, or to substitute. You may also visit: adora-tion.oldstmarys.org. Everyone is welcome at anytime during Exposition, even if you can't take a scheduled hour or be a substitute. The Church is open for you. Two is only the minimum, 900 the goal!

Images of the Faith

The Nativity of the Lord

catechIsM neWsJoin us for our weekly Catechism Classes on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Please find an upcoming list of the topics:December 20 No Catechism thru January 3 Christmas Break