The Freeport Area Church Cooperative has completed the sign-up for its annual Christmas Basket Blessing. St Joseph Church is being asked to provide 250 boxes of macaroni and cheese and St Mary Church is being asked to provide 250 cans of green beans to help fill the baskets. Any excess items will be incorporated into FACC’s food pantry, which is desperately low on food. Additionally, if you are interested in supplying gifts for the baskets, please call Robert Varner at FACC at 815-233-0435 (ext. 1). Please bring your donations to church by Sunday, December 16.
Delivery of the baskets to those who signed up will be Saturday, December 22, from 10:00am until completed. We will deliver from Holy Family Community Center. Volunteer delivery drivers are needed.
If you have any questions concerning this year’s Christmas event, contact Dean Wright at FACC at 815-233-0435 or by email at deanfacc@aeroinc.net.
Prepare for Jesus this Advent
Dec 7, 2018
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Memorial Gifts
Thank you to the family of Janet DeMeester-Luy for remembering us with a memorial gift to go toward the St Mary Debt Reduction.
Thank you to the family of Mary Wagner for the gift from her memorial for St Joseph and St Mary Church.
Your memorial gifts are greatly appreciated
Happy Thanksgiving! We Have A-Lot to Be Thankful For
We have so many things to be grateful for. No matter how dark our lives may get, God is always there and still loves us. When humanity seems to have left you, no longer cares or even hate you; you still have Jesus at your side. That alone is worth giving thanks.
Christmas 2014, St Mary Church
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Pope Francis’ Morning Homily: God Gives More and More
Vatican City, October 09, 2014
We ask for a lot of things when we pray, but the greatest gift that God can give us is the Holy Spirit.
This was Pope Francis’ reflection Thursday morning at Mass in Santa Marta, commenting on the Gospel of the day, which presents the parable of the man who gets what he needs because of his persistence.
Pope Francis began his homily by noting that “God has so much mercy” and observing that in the Collect we begin by asking God for forgiveness and to “obtain what prayer does not dare to hope for.”
“This got me thinking: it is precisely the mercy of God not only to forgive -…
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