DEC. 12TH-13TH

Today we have a second collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious in the United States. This fund is taken up annually to help religious congregations who have many elderly sisters, brothers and priests and need monetary assistance to take care of them. Thank you for your support.

 

Next Sunday St. Vincent De Paul is having a Pancake breakfast and pictures with Santa in the Hall. They need donations for this breakfast if anyone can help out. Please see Gloria Walker after the masses. Also do not forget to pick up an Angel for the giving tree and if you can still adopt a family, please stop by their table in the Hall.

 

SHARE and St. Vincent de Paul are also having a sale today in the Hall. Please go over and do some last minute Christmas shopping or just buy something to help them out. They have Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa gifts. List of needs for the dinner are also available. If you can volunteer the week before Christmas or on Christmas, please sign up at the table.

 

The Pastor's Awards dinner will be on Saturday, January 30^th at the Delancey Center in LA. Our awardees this year are:

     Herminio & Ana Zuniga

     Mark & Kelly Holscher

     Miguel & Norma Morales

     Eddie & Michele Hilley

We will be putting together a Memory book and have information on how to place an ad in the booklet. Please take the information home and return it at your earliest convenience. If you know of a business' who might want to place an ad in the booklet, please take a paper and see if they would like to do that. This is a wonderful evening to congratulate people who have given so much to help the Parish. More information on tickets etc. will be given in the weeks ahead.

 

We have heard from Mildred Collin's family. The funeral arrangements are as follows. These were stipulated by Mildred in her will.

 

Visitation at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills

Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 from5:00pm - 9:00pm

 

Graveside Service at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills

Friday, December 18, 2009 at 11:00am

 

Memorial Mass at St Agatha

Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 10am

 

Please go to our website for more details, www.stagathas.org

DEC. 5TH-6TH

I would like to give a very big thank you to Joe and his team on the beautiful Advent environment in the Church. I understand that there was a donor who bought the purple velvet cloth. Thank you from all of us here at St. Agatha's.

 

There is a list of the Christmas Dinner Needs available after Masses today. Please bring non-perishable food items on Dec. 13 and 20^th. Please do not bring used items until Dec. 19-23^rd.

 

Next Sunday there will be a sale of items that were left from the Holiday boutique. There will also be new and slightly used clothing on sale in the Hall. All of the proceeds go to help us feed our guests on Christmas and for the Adopt A Family.

 

Our youth who are hoping to go to WYD in 2011 have items from Bethlehem on sale after Mass today. They will be selling these for the next couple of weeks. Your support goes to them as well as the artists in Bethlehem..

 

There is a delicious breakfast in the Hall being provided by our Quincinera candidates. Our Spirituality Committee also invite you to join them after the 8:30 and 10:00am Masses for a sharing on traditions and symbols of Advent.

 

I hope you can join us also for our Advent soup supper on the 14^th where we will pray and reflect on the "O" Antiphons. It will be at 6:30pm in the Hall.