THE ADVENT SEASON: A TIME OF PREPARATION
FOR THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST

Advent Season is a special liturgical time of the year. It consists of the four Sundays before Christmas. It is a season of preparing our hearts and homes for the coming of Jesus Christ. We are to be more receptive to Jesus’ message of salvation that He offers the world. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

While we prepare our Christmas decorations and complete our shopping lists, the true preparations should be our alertness and awareness that Jesus Christ will be born into our hearts and our lives. How may we prepare during the Advent Season to receive Jesus Christ?

1. Renew our faith by prayer. Nurture and cultivate a relationship with Jesus.
2. Read the daily mass readings. Hear the voice of Jesus calling you and your family.
3. During the Advent Season, go to Adoration. Find a time of silence to see and hear the Holy Family in your heart.
4. Receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Attend a penance service. It is a time to find healing for our woundedness, our brokenness, and our fears.  Reconcile yourself to others and to God.
5. Create your own Advent Wreath. Light a candle and prayer before you sit down for your meals with family.
6. Create new family memories and traditions around the Annunciation, Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth, the birth of Jesus and your own family Christmas.
7. Pick a charitable cause to contribute to. Adopt a family for Christmas, Help your Church with their Christmas projects. Help your local food bank. 

This time of year, we contemplate that hope embodied, incarnated, in a newborn baby. The perfect example of newness, potential, and possibility. During Advent, we groan and long for that newness with the hope, the expectation, indeed the faith, that God will once again be faithful to see our circumstances, to hear our cries, to know our longings for a better world and a whole life. Happy Advent Season!

2022 - 2023 CEP - Registration for CEP is officially closed. 

For questions regarding late registration please contact the parish office:

paty.mendoza@shrineofpadrepio.com
210-497-6101

Please join us for Liturgy of the Hours
Morning Prayer (Lauds)

When: M-F 8:30 AM
Where: Adoration Chapel

Reinstatement of the Distribution of the Precious Blood to the Faithful

This Advent season we will be helping to feed 200 families for Christmas.  We invite you to participate in this Christmas mission. Each box should contain:

2 boxes of mac and cheese
1 bag or box of rice
2 cans of corn
2 cans of green beans
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 pkg. fried onions
1 intant mashed potatoes
2 turkey gravy packets
2 corn bread or stuffing mix
1 cookie mix
1 $20 - $25 gift card for turkey (HEB or Walmart)

Wrap or decorate your box but please do not seal the box closed, as the items will need to be verified before delivery. 

Deadline: December 10th
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Our world is hurting. We all need healing, yet many of us are separated from the very source of our strength. Jesus Christ invites us to return to the source and summit of our faith: his Real Presence in the Eucharist. The National Eucharistic Revival is a movement to restore understanding and devotion to this great mystery here in the United States.

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