St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church The Church building and restrooms will be sanitized after each Mass. Please bring your face mask to church. If you should forget we have some available at the church entrance. On entering the church, the ushers will open the entrance doors for you and assist as needed to maintain social distancing. We thank you for your patience as we move forward during this time.

Baptisms Our next Baptism Class is on January 11 at 6:30 pm in the church. Please call the parish

office for more information.

Marriages Please contact the parish office for

more information.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)

Are you interested in learning more about the Catholic Faith or considering becoming a Catholic? Please contact Ed Gordon at

ed@seaschurch.com for more information.

Funerals & Anointing of the sick

Please call the parish office for more information.

Prayer Request

To be placed on the Ministry of Care prayer list, please call the parish office

for more information.

St. Vincent de Paul Food distribution is scheduled for the 2nd

and 4th Saturdays of the month.

Mass Times Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm

Sunday 8:00 am, 9:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:00 pm (Spanish), 7:00 pm

Church Office Office Hours: M - F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

closed 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Pastor Msgr. Conor J. McGrath

Parochial Vicar

Fr. Roberto V. Rosales

Deacon Lee Jan / deaconlee@seaschurch.com

Parish Manager

Ed Gordon / ed@seaschurch.com

Pastor’s Administrative Assistant Sarah Rehkopf / sarah@seaschurch.com

Parish Accountant Deana Giuliani / deana@seaschurch.com

Administrative Assistant Anna Cantu / anna@seaschurch.com

Plant Manager

AJ Rabel / ajrabel@seaschurch.com

Counseling Dr. Maria Leavy Hoelscher

Lynnanne Eurton Please call the parish for further info.

Daily Mass Mon. - Fri. 8:00 am Reconciliation

Wednesday 6:30 pm & Thursday 8:30 am in the Cry Room

Adoration Wednesday 8:30 am - 8:00 pm

Faith Formation Office

Office Hours: Mon - Thurs 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Faith Formation Administrator

Valerie Trevino / valerie@seaschurch.com

Administrative Assistant Ana Holbrook / ana@seaschurch.com

Good Shepherd Coordinator

Elena Menchero / elena@seaschurch.com

Elementary Coordinator Heidi Neuenfeldt / heidi@seaschurch.com

Confirmation Coordinator Luis Ramirez / luis@seaschurch.com

Youth Ministry Coordinator

Regina Masters / regina@seaschurch.com

Youth Ministry Coordinator Jordan Lux / jordan@seaschurch.com

Remembering our Military Iraq: Robert Castillo, Peter Greenburg, Roy Vaughn, Matt Pryor, Miguel T. Sotello, Ron Wyble, Michael Brandon Gonzalez Germany: Bruce Balvin, Luis A. Ramos, Zac Gerner, Jordan Bittner, and Anthony Del-gado, Jr., Christopher Le Comte Colombia: Mack Peter Ethiopia: Zachary Williams S. Korea: Austin Reyes, and Jack Monday Okinawa Japan: Dylan Johnson, Special Assignment: Gilberto Gonzalez Jr. III. Kuwait: Sheridan McAndrew

WELCOME BACK! Please join us for weekend mass or

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BIENVENIDOS! Estamos felices que estes aqui!

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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church 8500 Cross Mountain Trail, San Antonio TX. 78255

Ph: 210-698-1941 Fax: 210-698-1983

Weekly Mass Intentions 8:00 am Monday, January 4 Valeria Pena Laureano De Leon † 8:00 am Tuesday, January 5 Cody Stuart 8:00 am Wednesday, January 6 Ashton Fairchild Karen Stuart 8:00 am Thursday, January 7 Eddie Castro † 9:00 am Friday, January 8 Helen Funk †

Mass Intentions READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: 1 Jn 3:22 — 4:6; Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a; Mt 4:12-17, 23-25 Tuesday: 1 Jn 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-4, 7-8; Mk 6:34-44 Wednesday:1 Jn 4:11-18; Ps 72:1-2, 10, 12-13; Mk 6:45-52 Thursday: 1 Jn 4:19 — 5:4; Ps 72: 1-2, 14, 15bc, 17; Lk 4:14-22a Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Lk 5:12- 16 Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21; Ps 149:1-6a, 9b; Jn 3:22- 30 Sunday: Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 55:1-11; Ps 29:1-4, 3, 9

-10 or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd-6; Acts 10:34-38 or 1 Jn 5:1-9; Mk 1:7-11

Offertory

Offertory unavailable due to late submission

Priest Schedule January 9/10 *Subject to Change*

Saturday 5:00 pm Fr. Conor

Sunday 8:00 am Fr. Conor 9:30 am Fr. Conor 11:30 am Fr. John 1:00 pm Fr. George 7:00 pm Fr. Roger

Weekend Mass Intentions

5:00 pm Saturday, January 9 Angie Da Costa Bill George † Sunday, January 10 8:00 am Bill George † 9:30 am Dixie Crosby † 11:30 am Joyce & Baltazar Seno Maximiana Seno † 1:00 pm Josie Barrera † 7:00 pm Casa De Padres

Parish Goal for St. Elizabeth Ann Se-ton is $150,314.58 Total Pledged for 2020 is $150,729.25 with $147,638.75 that has been received. On behalf of Archbishop Gustavo, we

thank you for making a difference in the lives of Christ’s peo-ple by giving to the 2020 Annual Archbishop’s Appeal. Your gift enables ministries to serve the people across the 19 coun-ties of our Archdiocese. It is your willingness to accompany them with joy and give with grace. Lord God, Who sent your Son as our way, our truth and our life, we thank you for your presence within us that challenges, loves, and leads us in service to your people. With your grace, help us find courage to accompany our brothers and sisters in need, as we are the Body of Christ, Inspire in us the desire to give of ourselves in order to manifest your presence to the world, especially through our gifts to the Archbishop’s Appeal. Grateful for your many blessings, help us to share them gener-ously for your glory. Bless and multiply our gifts to the 2020 Archbishop’s Appeal, may we humbly follow the teachings of Your Son, Jesus Christ, to accompany others with love and kindness, live together in peace, and one day attain everlasting happiness in Heaven. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Have you moved or changed your phone # ?

Please email Anna at

anna@seaschurch.com or call our parish office at

210-698-1941.

St. Vincent De Paul

SVDP would like to thank you for your generosity during the

Christmas season. Our distribution was a great success.!

May God Bless You this New Year!

The Epiphany of the Lord When I tell a story, I have a friend who prefers the “nutshell version” first. After that she’ll listen to me ramble, but she wants to know the main point right off the bat. When reading and hearing Sunday scriptures one may often find the nutshell by looking at the responsorial psalm or the Gos-pel acclamation. From Psalm 72 we hear “Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.” The verse for the Gospel acclama-tion is Matthew 2:2 “We saw his star at its rising and have

come to do him homage.” As a weary world, we need to see the light, to follow with our actions and our words. This is the same hope that is echoed in Isaiah 60:2 “See, dark-ness covers the earth, / and thick clouds cover the peoples; / but upon you the L shines, / and over you appears his glo-ry.” Don’t give up, friends. You must shine!

SEARCHING

In Matthew’s Gospel today we see two extremely different perspectives, two different reasons for searching for Jesus. In some ways, this resembles the polarization of our nation in today’s time. What one group sees as good for the nation, those with opposing views think will wreck the country. The Magi were astrologers who saw a vision in the sky and were trying to find a way to follow it and discover the new king of the Jews. Herod heard about this king, and his reaction was dark and negative. He saw the birth of such a king as a threat to his power as the Roman leader of the country and wanted the Magi to pass on to him what they knew about this Christ child. Similarly, on a more personal level, we can either feel threatened or excited by changes that may come, depending on our perspective. GIVING HOMAGE

In our minds, it is easy to mix up bits and pieces from Luke’s account of the shepherds coming to see Jesus in the stable and the story of the magi. Clearly, it has taken the magi time to get here, and the reading speaks of them com-ing to the house where the star led them. Nevertheless, they “prostrated themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their treasures . . .”

How do we do this? Do we continue looking for Jesus, even if takes a while and he is not where we expect to see him? Are we paying attention to the signs showing us the way? What gifts do we have with which to pay him hom-age? After seeing him, the Magi were warned in a dream not to go back the way they came. But if we have seen the Christ child, how can we go back to where we were? We must con-tinue to respond to God’s call to move forward and grow in our lives. We must seek the right and just path and turn away from the “Herods” and inherent evils in our life. Nutshell: Seek God. Pay homage. Amen. Today’s Readings: Is 60:1–6; Ps 72:1–2, 7–8, 10–11, 12–13; Eph 3:2–3a, 5–6; Mt

Naciones todas adorarán al Señor

Jesús es la luz de las naciones. Seguirle quiere decir, por lo tanto, acoger a gentiles de todas las razas, lenguas, pueblos y naciones. Pide Sal 149, 6 que canten jubilosos los fieles con vítores a Dios en la boca. Y con espadas en las manos, pues se busca venganza de las naciones. ¿Será por tal odio que los sumos sacerdotes y los escribas no hagan lo mismo que los Magos? Sí, les dan la pista de que saldrá de Belén el jefe y pastor de Israel. Pero no mueven ni un dedo para encontrarse con él. ¿Por qué no? O porque no los creen ellos a los Magos. Pues, ¿qué sabrían de temas judíos los de las naciones? O porque esos estudiosos de las Escrituras no las toman en serio; hay también negocios más urgentes. ¿Será que se han puesto de acuerdo con Herodes para salvarse del disgusto del furioso? De todos modos, por no esforzarse, los de Jerusalén no lo-gran ver al Rey de los judíos. Los de las naciones, en cambio, llegan a ver y adorar a Jesús. Así es. Los que buscan al Señor de todo corazón lo encontrarán (Jer 29, 13), a pesar de unos reveses. Las naciones entran en el reino de Dios antes que Israel. Qué lástima que no acojan la Buena Noticia los que, más que nadie, lo han de hacer. Pero esto no es nuevo. Pues ya en la recepción que dio en Jerusalén Zacarías a Ga-briel poca confianza hubo. María, en cambio, recibió en Na-

zaret al mismo án-gel Gabriel con más confianza y humil-dad. Y a Juan Bau-tista, en el desierto, más le prestaron atención la gente llana que los sacer-dotes y levitas de Jerusalén. Parece, pues, que

cuanto más lejos de los sabios y de Jerusalén, tanto mejor para los enviados de Dios. Y más adelante, Jesús se llevará mejor con la gente sencilla, con los de las periferias, que con los entendidos. Los de Jerusalén, sí, tramarán la forma de matarle. Y, ¿nosotros? ¿De lado de los Magos estamos, o de los sa-bios de Jerusalén? ¿No desechamos a los de las naciones a riesgo, claro, de no comprender al que es su luz? Y los que llevamos muchos años en la Iglesia, ¿tomamos en serio a Jesús y sus enseñanzas y ejemplos? No, no hemos de ser mezquinos. Y nos tenemos que esforzar en concebir grandes y santos ideales por el servicio de Dios (SV.ES XI:398). Y no es que el vinagre no sirva para nada, pues cada cosa es necesaria. Pero vale preguntar,¿sí?: ¿Nos han convertido los años en vinagre muy agrio, o en vino añejo? Señor Jesús, tu Cena anticipa el festín que preparas en el monte santo para todas las naciones. Haz que un día nos sa-ciemos allí de manjares suculentos y de vinos de solera (Is 25, 6). 3 Enero 2021 Epifanía del Señor (B) Is 60, 1-6; Ef 3, 2-3a. 5-6; Mt 2, 1-12

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