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Day of Mercy

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Wednesday, December 12, 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Join us for a day of reconciliation. A light soup supper will be provided in the Commons.

Nursery Care

Nursery care provided on a space available basis:
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Service Opportunity

After you have received the Sacrament of Reconciliation, you can have lunch and fill a snack bag to help feed a hungry child over the Christmas holiday. We are working with Matter, a local charity, to fill 900 snack bags with healthy foods and a note to the recipient. The bags will be delivered to JPII for distribution.

Gabri Update!

Thank you very much for your continued support for my vocation! As December is fast approaching, I'm nearing the end of my class. Class 15 ends on December 31st. I am so blessed to be where I am today, and you have played a role in that. I am so grateful to have you on my journey.

Due to the amount of my student loans, I will need to continue on in the next class, Class 16. This class will be from January through June. Though I am continuing to the next class, I really want to help my classmates in Class 15 to raise enough so they can reach their goals, and I want to finish this class strong! Please continue to pray for us as we near the end of this class.

Since December is the last month of the class, I will be sending out a series of weekly emails up until the end of the class to keep you informed on my class and my progress. Stay tuned!

I am praying for you, and I appreciate all of your prayers!

In Christ,
Gabri

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LifeNight Wrap-up! December 5th

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Here at OLG our  High School Youth Ministry (anyone who has been confirmed in 8th-12th grade) is meant to engage young people where they are at in their journey to respond to the ultimate call of all of our lives: the call to be an intentional disciple of God. 
In all of our ministires we bring the Gospel to young people by the art of living well - and it begins and ends with Christ. There are so many places here at OLG for everyone to get involved in order to share their gifts.  Contact us today to see where God is calling you! 
LifeNights are the best nights! 
Greetings all!

Last week we decorated the FRASSATI ROOM for CHRISTMAS! It looks amazing! 

Don't forget! We don't have LifeNight this week! It is the day of Mercy at OLG- that means we are having confessions ALL DAY at OLG! Remember to come and stop by! The Frassati Room will be open from 4-6PM if you want to grab some coffee and work on homework! 

God bless, and see you next week for our Christmas party! 
Veronica 
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Unleashed

UNLEASHED is a small group for all high school youth that is designed to help us all GROW asdisciples and missionaries for Christ.

Each series lasts a few weeks and will focus on a different topic in a unique way. UNLEASHED is a great opportunity to grow in your faith, meet new friends, and learn how to share your faith with others! See more....

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LifeNight

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We are decorating the Frassati Room for Christmas! We can’t wait to see you here!

LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer.

At LifeNights you will be able to talk about a variety of issues and experiences with friends and young adult leaders so that together you can grow in faith and discover how a relationship with God will help you have the best life possible! This is an incredible time to connect with friends and God in the midst of our busy lives. See more.....

Garbri update! Waiting for Jesus Keep waiting patiently for Him

Waiting for Jesus

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Keep waiting patiently for Him

I pray you have had a good start to Advent. Growing up, my mom would always choose a daily Advent reflection book and read from it before we left the dinner table. The rest of my family, myself included, would groan. We did not have the patience to sit and listen. Now that I look back at it, I wish I had paid more attention to the reflections because Advent is a beautiful time to reflect and prepare for the coming of Jesus.

This year, my formation director lent me a book to read for Advent: "Advent and Christmas. Wisdom from Pope John Paul II" by John V. Kruse. So, instead of groaning about having to sit through an Advent book at the dinner table, I'm willingly and happily picking up an Advent book and praying with it daily! I'm blessed to have not had to go searching for one.

Advent always seems to blow past me, so I am grateful that it will be a little easier this year to be consciously aware of Advent because we pray special prayers for Liturgy of the Hours during the season of Advent. With that plus my Advent book, my day will be sprinkled with Advent reminders. The weeks leading up to Christmas can tend to be very busy, but it is important to take some time each day to pray and ask God to help prepare our hearts for the day we are all waiting for. In just about three weeks, we will be celebrating Jesus’ birth! Just as I want to prepare my heart and soul for His second coming, I want to prepare for Him to come and enter my heart on Christmas.

I began my Advent with a visit to Philly for the weekend! It was a blessing to go because a lot of our sisters live there, so I got to meet a lot of them and receive their warm welcome into the community. Our sisters founded and still run a grade school, high school, and university there. Kayla and I toured both the high school and university, which was very fun. It was really cool to learn about the beauty of the schools' tight nit communities. The picture above is of some of the sisters with Kayla and me.

I pray that you have a blessed Advent and that you draw closer to Christ so that you can joyfully receive Him on Christmas Day!