PARISH EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday, December 24th Christmas Eve
10:30am 4th Sunday of Advent English Mass
12pm 4th Sunday of Advent Spanish Mass
5pm Christmas Eve English Mass
7:30pm Posada at Church
8:00pm Christmas Eve Spanish Mass
Monday, December 25th Christmas Day
12pm Christmas Day Bilingual Mass
Sunday, December 31st New Year’s Eve
9:30am Confessions available
Monday, January 1st New Year’s Day
12pm Mary, Mother of God Bilingual Mass
Our Parish Family
New Parish Picture Directory! It’s time to make the order! Please take a moment to double check your name is correct on the proof pages. If you’d like to order a book for $15, please sign up & take an envelope. Please return the money before Jan. 8th.
Parishioner Baltazar Rafael is selling $5 raffle tickets for a hand-made traditional Guatemalan skirt & shirt to help him pay his way to the Regional Encuentro in Miami which he has been chosen as a diocesan delegate to attend. If you would like to buy a ticket or make a donation please talk to Fr. Carmelo.
Thanks to all those who donated flower money for Christmas decorations! They were given in honor of Rodney Dacy, Tom & Opal Blanford and Tim Blanford.
Our Faith Family
St. Alphonsus has a raffle for 2 tickets to the Kentucky vs. Florida Basketball Game on January 20, 2018, (Game at 8:15 P.M.), if anyone is interested purchasing tickets, Kay Beth has some. They are $10 each and includes (2 tickets), a room at the Hilton in downtown Lexington, and a $50 gift card to Saul Good Restaurant and Pub. The drawing is on Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 9:45 A.M. in the Parish Hall. (you do not need to be present to win) License #ORG0002171
Financial Peace University: The Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University ‘s next Class will be offered starting on Thursday, January 18th at St. Pius X’s (Owensboro) Parish Hall with an option of attending on Sunday evenings. The class is for nine weeks with ½ of the cost of $90 refunded for those missing no more than one class. This makes a great Christmas gift. Free childcare will be offered. For more information, contact Gary Estes at 270-314-4419.
Marriage Saving – the Weekend Phase – During the weekend phase of Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi with a long i) a series of presentations are given by a team of three couples and a priest. The team presents a technique of communication that enables you to take a good look at most areas of your relationship. After each presentation you have time to discuss the presentation in the privacy of your room. For confidential information about or to register for the January program beginning with a weekend on Jan 12, 2018, call 270-852-8346 or email: felliott3232@yahoo.com or visit the web site at www.retrouvaille.org Registration deadline Jan 5, 2018.
A Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat for Healing the Wounds of Abortion will be offered the weekend of January 12-14, 2018 in the Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky. Participation in this retreat is open to any woman or man who has been involved, or touched by, abortion. If you have lost a child or grandchild, or a sibling, nephew or niece, to abortion, or if you have at any time in your life been involved in an abortion, then the Lord Jesus would like to offer you both healing and peace! Both Catholics and non-Catholics are welcome to participate, and our retreat is conducted with absolute confidentiality. For more information, visit our website: HopeAfterAbortionKY.com, or call (270) 570-4717
or Jennifer at (931) 242-5506.