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WINTERFEST 2024: Please mark your calendar for Winterfest at Saint Columba Church on Saturday, , November 23, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. We are so excited to announce that this year, we will be celebrating our 20th WINTERFEST! Each year WINTERFEST strives to create a “WONDROUS (Christmas) EXCHANGE” where we as a parish family unite with our community for holiday food, friendship and fun! But, we need your help! We will need a large variety of cookies for our “cookie variety” package. We also need fudge, candies, chocolate covered pretzels, tea cakes, pies, etc. plus a variety of soups, and chili; so please start looking through your cookbooks! We are also asking for donations of gift cards and lottery tickets to be used in our raffle. We would love to have your “helping hands”on the day of Winterfest as well! Please call the church office to volunteer your help or if you have any questions. Thank you!
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FLAME OF LOVE ROSARY, CONFESSION AND ADORATION
On Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m., we have adoration, confessions (when Father Mowery is available), and the Flame of Love Rosary. This is a wonderful mid-week opportunity for prayer.
ALTAR FLOWERS
If you would like to donate an arrangement of flowers for the altar for a special occasion, special intention, or in memory of a loved one, please call or visit the parish office. The donation for the flowers is $100.
Our updated weekly Mass schedule (linked to the daily readings) and Mass/candle intentions can be found here.
Next Sunday’s Readings, November 24, 2024
Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
There is a saying in Theology: “The Church prays what she believes.” We pray to God the Father in the Preface for the feast of Christ the King: “For you anointed your Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, with the oil of gladness as eternal Priest and King of all creation, so that, by offering himself on the altar of the Cross as a spotless sacrifice to bring us peace, he might accomplish the mysteries of human redemption and, making all created things subject to his rule, he might present to the immensity of your majesty an eternal and universal kingdom, a kingdom of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love, and peace.” As we pray today, so we believe that Jesus showed what kind of king he was by dying on the cross. The kingdom that he gives to the Father embraces all and brings holiness and salvation to all.
Daniel 7: 13 – 14.
Psalm 93: 1 – 2, 5.
Revelation 1: 5 – 8.
John 18: 33 – 37.
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Weekly Homilies
Weekly Homilies
A homily is a speech or sermon given by a priest in a Roman Catholic Church after a scripture has been read. The purpose of the homily is to provide insight into the meaning of the scripture and relate it to the lives of the parishioners of the church.
Saint Columba Church records each Sunday’s homily and offers them here to you for reflection or a deeper understanding of the scripture.
Listen to Father Mowery/Deacon Tom Conlin’s most recent homilies below:
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PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
A PARISH THANK YOU
To Mike Zarrett, owner of Towne Camera in Bloomsburg, for his gracious sharing of two most amazing lenses for us to use these past several years to record our Daily, Holyday, and Sunday Masses.
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