This year the contribution envelopes will not be picked up at church. Instead they will be mailed quarterly to each parishioner. Startting on or before Januray 1st, your first set of envelopes will arrive in your mailboxes and it will include the following months:
January
February
March
On or around April 1st, your second envelope will arrive and include April, May and June. If you have any questions, please contact the parish office.

https://youtu.be/LDw8akRVvAE

Because of the extended dispensation from Bishop Hurley, the diocese has asked us to insure that our parishoners do not feel disconnected from their parish during Advent and the Christmas Season. While we must social distance ourselves while we are out in public, we must not social distance ourselves from God and our parish family.
So I have decided to make a short youtube reflective video for each week of Advent. In these videos, I briefly discuss the theme for each week of Advent and how it ties into the Sunday Gospel:
Week One is Hope
Week Two is Preparation
Week Three Joy
Week Four Love
I will also place the link on our parish website's home page, as well.
I truly HOPE that as you make PREPARATIONS for Advent, you find JOY and LOVE in my videos.
I will also provide links to special sites that will help deepen your faith during this upcoming season.
--Posted by Sherrie Clutts (DRE and Social Media Admin)

WEARING A MASK AT ALL TIMES!!
 
The Diocese of Gaylord continues to remind us of the protocol’s we must follow in order to continue to celebrate mass.
 
We have received numerous concerns from your fellow parishioners regarding people attending Mass and not properly wearing their mask or not at all. We remind everyone that we at St. Patrick must follow the protocol’s given to us by the Diocese of Gaylord.
 
Almost everyone is wearing their mask correctly, but we have notice as well as other fellow parishioners that some people have their mask below the nose, on the chin or, not covering their face at all. We must wear our mask so that it completely covers our face. We must wear the mask to protect each other and especially our vulnerable parishioners that have heart and lung problems or might be recovering from surgery. Current events have taught us that no one is safe from this virus.
 
Wearing a mask is an act of charity towards one another. It make you a caring and responsible person. Thank you for properly wearing your mask during these uncertain times.
 

PART ONE:
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION ONE
"I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"

CHAPTER TWO
GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
50 By natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis of his works. But there is another order of knowledge, which man cannot possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine Revelation.¹ Through an utterly free decision, God has revealed himself and given himself to man. This he does by revealing the mystery, his plan of loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all men. God has fully revealed this plan by sending us his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Article 1
THE REVELATION OF GOD

I. God Reveals His "Plan of Loving Goodness"
51 "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will. His will was that men should have access to the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, and thus become sharers in the divine nature."²
52 God, who "dwells in unapproachable light", wants to communicate his own divine life to the men he freely created, in order to adopt them as his sons in his only-begotten Son.³ By revealing himself God wishes to make them capable of responding to him, and of knowing him and of loving him far beyond their own natural capacity.
53 The divine plan of Revelation is realized simultaneously "by deeds and words which are intrinsically bound up with each other"⁴ and shed light on each another. It involves a specific divine pedagogy: God communicates himself to man gradually. He prepares him to welcome by stages the supernatural Revelation that is to culminate in the person and mission of the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons repeatedly speaks of this divine pedagogy using the image of God and man becoming accustomed to one another: the Word of God dwelt in man and became the Son of man in order to accustom man to perceive God and to accustom God to dwell in man, according to the Father's pleasure.⁵
 

Month of December   




 

http://www.dioceseofgaylord.org/news/101/2227/

 What Is Happening In the Parish

 IN OUR PARISH THIS WEEK


 

We are in need of Lectors for the weekend Masses. If you are interetsed, please contact the parish office at 231-943-4633.  

Attention:
The funeral Mass for Bonnie Tumey will be celebrated on Saturday, December 5th at 11:00am. Visitation will be begin at 10:00am, one hour prior to the Mass.

Weekend Masses

Weekday Masses  -       
Cancellations are possible - see current bulletin

This year St. Patrick’s is again participating in the Christmas Giving Tree Project with Catholic Human Services. The Christmas Tree will be set up in the Narthex on November 7th with ornaments for you to purchase gas and grocery gift cards. These gift cards are then given out at Christmas time to low income senior volunteers. These volunteers are part of the Foster Grandparent or Senior Companion Program sponsored by Catholic Human Services. Please purchase a gift card and return it in an envelope with the ornament attached no later than Sunday, November 22nd. Thank you for all that you do at St. Patrick’s

 We have reached our 4th goal of $150,000! We would like to thank everyone for their generosity in providing us with their Family Fare receipt. As we await, our $1,000 check, we have already begun our 5th goal of receipts toward $150,000.

Something New For Your App If you have the myParish app on your cell phone, you may notice a temporary background change for the Lent and Easter seasons. It is a beautiful background of the Holy Cross and again it is just temporary. Another feature that will be found on your app is called Lenten Reflections. It will be found under the icon called Inspire Daily. Remember there are so many features on your app and they are easy to use. No matter what kind of smart phone you own, it is easy to download if you do not already have the app. If you have any questions, please contact either Sue Korson or Sherrie Clutts at the parish office.