www.goa-world. com >GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994)® >www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/ >Tumcam Maie-mogacho ieukar. Stay tuned to Gulf Goans e-Newsletter - everyday >someone, somewhere learns a little..... >___________________________________ > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: HolyFamily <vicariaten...@yahoo.com> >To: vicariate_n...@yahoogroups.com > >Vicariate Newsletter December 16-22, 2012 > > >Vicariate Web-site | Contact Details | Newsletter Archives >NEWSLETTER : DECEMBER 16-22, 2012 > > CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THIS WEEK : >1. On Sunday 16th December at 5:00 a.m. the Simbang Gabi will start in this >Cathedral. >2. The Pre-baptism Seminar for the parents and godparents will be on Monday >17th, December from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. in the Holy Family Hall. Please get the >Registration Form from the Parish Office. >3. The Christmas Confessions will be on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the >17th, 18th, and 19th December from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. In this “Year of Faith” >all are gently reminded to go for Confessions as a fitting preparation for >the Birthday of Jesus. >4. The Malayalam Night Vigil will be on Tuesday 18th, December at 7:00 pm. >The Malayalam Christmas Confessions will be in this Cathedral on 18th >December from 5:30 pm. >5. In this ‘Year of Faith’ all the Cathedral Catholic Youth are cordially >invited to a Parish Youth Christmas Festival at the Good Shepherd Hall, Room >No. 9. on Wednesday, December 19th, at 7:00 pm. >6. The Rosa Mystica 1000 Hail Marys will be in Padre Pio Hall, on Friday, >December 21st, at 2:45 pm. >7. The Christmas Tree for the Catechism Children will be on the Thursday, >December 20th, (Year 4 & 8) from 6:15 to 7:30pm and Friday, December 21st, >(Year 1 & 2) from 9:15 to 10:30 am. and (Year 3,5,6,7,9 & 10) from 10:30 to >12:00 noon. The Catechism will start again on January 3rd, for the Sacrament >classes and January 4th, for the others. >8. There will be the Tiny Tots Christmas Tree on December 28th, from 9:15 to >11:30 am in the Holy Family Hall for the children aged from 3 to 6 years. >The registration fee is one Dinar. Kindly register in the Parish Office. >9. The Advent Box for the Poor is placed at the back of this Cathedral. >10. The New Religious Parish Calendars can be purchased from the Church >Compound and the New Bible Diaries from the Resource Centre. > >KINDLY NOTE: > >1. The address of our new web-site: www.avona.org. >2. Ahmadi, Salmiya and Abbasiya Parish Notices are here: >http://www.avona.org/kuwait/notices.htm > > > LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS DURING THIS WEEK : > >DEC 14, 2012 - St. John of the Cross, Priest & Doctor of the Church > REFLECTION : >OUR JOY IN THE LORD'S COMING > > >In God's wisdom the drama of salvation began with the travail of childbirth. >Every parent - certainly every mother - is familiar with the ups and downs, >the highs and the lows, the pain and the discomfort, but also the deep joy of >childbirth. The story of Christmas is set against such human realities. A >baby leaps in the womb; a virgin gives birth. >It is fitting that childbirth plays such a key part in the Advent story >because at the very heart of our salvation is birth and new life: the birth >of a new humanity; the unveiling of the new human being, the new creation. >God, in his mercy, breathed new life upon the human race, and in Christ holds >out to us a new dignity and a new destiny. Through baptism we become >children of God, born not of natural descent nor human decision nor a >husband's will but of God (John 1:13). >Running as a thread through the Advent story of joy a new birth is also the >pain of infertility. In many ancient societies, barrenness was considered a >curse, a sign of God's displeasure. Zechariah and Elizabeth stood in the >long tradition of childless couples like Abram and Sarah, Elkanah and Hanna, >who were nevertheless faithful and observant believers. When God >miraculously stepped in, even in her advanced old age, Elizabeth prayed: 'The >Lord has done this for me' she said 'now that it has pleased him to take away >the humiliation I suffered among men.' (Lk.1:25) >This can be our prayer too. While Elizabeth was referring to the removal of >the curse of infertility, we, rightly so, can be referring to removal of the >disgrace brought into our lives by sin and by simply being born into the >human family. >We can be rejoicing in the grace of our baptism, or the renewal of our >baptismal promise, or even a renewed dedication of our lives to the Lord. >In Christ we are born again, and this re-birth is the source and basis of our >hope and joy. Advent can be a time to recover this sense of joy in God, >making us fruitful and breathing into us the gift of the Holy Spirit. > >Let us pray that we too like Mary accept and humbly follow the will of God in >all aspects of our lives. QUICK LINKS > >Please bear with us as many links on our new web-site have still to be >updated. Thank You. > >The Church in Kuwait >is part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia. > >Mass Timings >Liturgical & Other Schedules for the Parishes. > >Prayer Request >Send a Petition >to be be prayed for >at the Night Vigil. > >Parish Notices >General Vicariate & Parish Notices are >updated regularly. > >F. A. 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