2020 Fall Retreat December 11 & 12
We are one week away to our Fall Retreat and we still have a few spaces left. This will be a 2-day Retreat on December 11 & 12 (Friday and Saturday) to be held here at St. Martha. Friday schedule is from 5pm to 9pm, Saturday schedule is from 11am to 6pm. You may register online or to the office. This will be a first come, first serve basis as we will only take 40 participants.
So please register now.
Annual Christmas Toy-Give-Away
We are asking our Year 1 & 2 Candidates, Parents, Sponsors and the Community of St. Martha to Donate New and Unwrapped toys for our Annual Christmas Toy-Give-Away. Our Toy-Give-Away will be held on December 19 from 9am to 11am. Please drop your toy donation in the Rectory or at the Youth Office.
“Let us all put a smile and cheer to our most unfortunate children in our parish & community!”
CONFIRMATION CLASSES
We have Zoom Faith Sharing class this week Dec. 6-10. All candidates are asked to check in 5 minutes before their designated time. All cameras and mics should be turned on during class time. This will be our last faith sharing class for this year so make this one your Christmas party as well. A new Calendar will be available by Jan. 1, 2021 on our website or you can pick up in the office.
2nd Sunday of Advent
On this the Second Sunday of Advent, we are invited to reflect upon the role of John the Baptist, who prepared the way for Jesus and the salvation that he would bring to us. In this Gospel we hear John the Baptist contrast his baptism of repentance with the baptism that Jesus will inaugurate. John says that he has baptized with water, but that the one who is to come will baptize with the Holy Spirit. John’s baptism was not yet a Christian baptism, but a preparation for the Sacrament of Baptism through which sins are forgiven and the gift of the Holy Spirit is received.
John the Baptist is presented to us as a model during Advent. We, too, are called upon to prepare a way for the Lord. Like John the Baptist, we are messengers in service to one who is greater than we are. Our Baptism commissions us to call others to life as disciples of Jesus.
John the Baptist preached repentance and baptized the people, in preparation for the one who would baptize with the Holy Spirit. Mark 1:1-8
If you can attend Mass in person and you are longing for Him in the Eucharist,
then He wants to see you.
Come to Mass this Sunday and be transformed by His Word and by the Eucharist.
“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, Not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7