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• All persons over the age of 7 attending Mass or celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation are asked to wear a face mask.

• Please wash your hands before leaving home and sanitize your hands upon entering the church. Bottles of sanitizer are available at the entrances to the church.

• The church remains at 50% of the maximum capacity, approximately 240 persons for Saturdays and Sundays in the main church and 15 persons for weekdays in the chapel.

• Please maintain 6 foot social distancing between persons (not of your own family or household) at all times. Every other pew in the church is closed off and persons not of the same household are reminded to sit six feet away from each other.

• You are asked to receive communion in the hand. Please, hold out your hands flat and still. The minister will place the Eucharist in your hands without touching you, Please do not lower your mask until after you step away from the communion minister. You may choose to say "Amen" silently.
  
  If you wish to receive communion on the tongue please present yourself for communion after all others have received in the hand.

"Beginning the Church's liturgical year, Advent (from "ad-venio" in Latin meaning "to come to") is the season leading up to the celebration of Christmas. The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth on Christmas.

Advent devotions remind us of the meaning of the season. Special Advent devotions include the lighting of the Advent wreath; the Advent calendar which helps remind us of the season with daily thoughts and activities; Advent prayers that prepare us spiritually for the birth of Jesus Christ." (From the USCCB website)

Regular Weekend Schedule

Saturday at 5:15 pm
Sunday at 8:00 am (live-streamed on Facebook) and 10:30 am

1st Sunday of Advent:

November 28, 2021
Regular Weekend Mass Schedule
Poinsettia Sales: envelopes at entrances to church
Christmas Angel Tree is in the Narthex of the church
(Christmas presents for parish families and Waco Family Abuse Center)

Parish Advent Penance Service:

Monday, November 29, 2021 (Tent.)
at 7:00 pm
We will have several priests available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

Vigil Mass on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 6:30 pm.
Wednesday, December 8, 2020
Masses at 12:10 pm and 5:15 pm