A simple lunch will be provided. All materials must be in the parish administrator's mailbox by that date. The parish business office will be closed on Christmas Eve and will reopen, Monday 4 January. A light lunch will be served. Please sign up on the Common Room Bulletin Board, or phone the church office .
Advent brings together the themes of anticipation, fulfillment, and judgment.
We prepare for the birth of Jesus and for the consummation of human history at the end of time. We consider our own mortality and the ways in which Christ is always breaking into our lives in new ways. Accompanied by about 25 family members, Father Prator , Pam Brown , Irene Sherrock , Jeanne Morrow , Enid Harden , and Mike Patterson , our city kids got off the bus and gazed awestruck at the large, beautiful church in a tree-shaded residential area. Father Prator delivered one of his trademark great sermons to the delight of all. Erich and Kathleen Balling , Choirmasters of St. Luke's, issued the invitation after members of the two choirs became acquainted during the St. Bartholomew's Choir Festival last June.