Day Laborer Feeding Ministry
  We invite you to join us in making buttering bread for the day
  laborers, right after service in the Parish House.  We need your help!
A Chanukah - Christmas Poetry Feast!
  Next Sunday December 8th Poetry Reading celebrating the Feasts of
  Chanukah & Christmas 3 - 5 PM in the church sanctuary.  Join us!
Greening of the Church
  Greening of the Church Sanctuary next Saturday, December 7th in the
  morning!  Please join us!!!
Advent Communion Service: Dec 8th
  We will celebrate Advent Eucharist next Sunday, December 8th. 
  Join us for the breaking of the bread.
Our thanks to...
  Our thanks to Fr. Jack Ryan for leading worship and sharing the Gospel
  message with us today
Jackson County Ministries
  Please bring winter clothes in used but good condition (no gloves) to
  the Sanctuary on Sunday, December 8th, before Communion service.  They
  will be sent to Jackson
  County Ministries for the needy this winter. 
Christmas Potluck
  Dinner
  Saturday, December 14
  6 PM
  Living Nativity
  Saturday, December 21
  4 - 7 PM
Coming January 1,
  2003...
  The Friends of Historic New Utrecht Website
  www.historicnewutrecht.org
| 2002 One Great Hour of Sharing Dedications | 
| In Memory of: | Given by: | 
| Jack & Dorothy O'Connor William & Grace Mc Nellis Francis Xavier O'Brien | Bob & Mimi Mc Nellis | 
| J. R. Hightower Josephine & John Vaccaro | Alice Hightower | 
| Loved ones of the Safay Family | Josephine & Victor Safay | 
| Theresa Cozzi | Erik Ander | 
| Mother Julia, Brother Ernest Grandfather Rocco | Rocco Armacida | 
| Mary Giannini, Vito Giannini Joseph Giannini, Ernest Giannini James Hanyen | Susan Hanyen | 
| Charles B. Lood | Rose Lood | 
| My Beloved Family | Anna Schroeder | 
| John Carrera | John Lo Presti | 
| My Beloved Parents | Bill Nicotra | 
| Our Beloved Parents | Albert & Rita Hollenga | 
| Dominic De Francesco | Cheryl Irizarry | 
| Daniela Notaro & Bridget Esposito | Debbie Siciargo | 
| John (Aubrey) Belnavis & Doris Belnavis Whose table was always filled with laughter and everyone was welcome to join it. | Lorie & Robert Honor | 
| Alice & William Aitken Harry Ander, our parents | Pam & Gene Ander | 
| Virginia, Julia, Freddie Schiardi | |
| Salvatore & Gloria Troia | Fabiszak Family | 
| Salvatore & Gloria Troia | Terry Troia | 
| The Lan Franchi Family | Evelyn Lan Franchi | 
| Jesus | Robert Peterson | 
ADVENT is the time for rousing. We are shaken to the very depths, so that we may awake up to the truth of ourselves. The primary condition for a fruitful and rewarding Advent is renunciation, surrender. We must let go of all our mistaken dreams, our conceited poses and arrogant gestures, all the pretenses with which we hope to deceive ourselves and others. If we fail to do this, stark reality may take hold of us and rouse us forcibly in a way that will entail both anxiety and suffering.
Alfred Delp