December 27, 2020

St. Ann Page
                                   Lancing, TN                                                                                                December 27, 2020


Remember in your prayers: Dudley Hurst, Frank Boniewski, Pete Roberts, Mary Sexton, Archbishop Kurtz, Helen Lucas, Jo Ellen’s mom, Mary Ellen, Lonnie Howard, Katie Kon, and Mary Beth Norris.   
      
Also remember in your prayers the homebound, those in nursing homes, those who have no one to pray for them,
those in prisons, physical or mental, for priests who speak the truth from the pulpit and for those who don’t,
and those who have unspoken prayer requests.


CALENDARS FOR 2021 and ST. JOSEPH MISSALS for the new liturgical year are both available in the narthex.  Suggested donation is $2 for the calendars and $3 for the missals.



To all Saint Ann parishioners. Greetings and peace. Please find here the Saint Ann Holy Day Mass Schedule through the first of the year.                                        God bless you.

Saint Ann:
+ Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God: 6:00 pm Friday January 1, 2021

ADDITIONAL DATES FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.
Blessed Sacrament
+ Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God: 7:30 pm Friday January 1, 2021    


To all the faithful of Saint Ann, Saint Christopher, and Blessed Sacrament parishes:

ETHICAL CONCERNS ON THE NEW COVID-19 VACCINES:
You were sent an email containing the letter from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's (USCCB) Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities to dioceses throughout the United States.
In summary, it states any ethical concerns are outweighed by the "gravity of the current pandemic" and receiving the vaccine could be understood as an act of love of neighbor.
                                                                          God bless all of you.   father michael

REMINDER FROM father michael:  Any authentic electronic correspondence from me will be signed –
father michael – (with no capital letters). My signature in any other format indicates a scam.



Happy January Birthday to:

6   Dan Susak            7   Frank Waschevski             8   Rick White        20   Alfonso Sexton
                  23   Adam Susak             25   Jane Matson         31 Phil Matson



*Father Michael's "Penny Catechism" (A fun and informative little morsel of Catholic teaching and trivia)*

(Last week’s question along with the answer:)


Question #170: The Church teaches us we are to show great respect for the body of the deceased. After cremation, the Church has a specific phrase we are to use in reference to the mortal remains. What is the proper term we should use? 
Answer: In order to maintain the connection with the body as much as possible, the phrase we should always use is: "THE CREMATED REMAINS OF THE BODY." We should never use such terms as "ashes" or "cremains" as these terms express no connection with the body of the deceased.

Question #171: Ah-Choo! "God bless you." This custom has a Catholic origin. Do you know what it is?




A Blessed and Happy New Year
 to one and all!
(Let us pray it is better than the last one)