Christmas 2022-2023

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JOYFUL CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION 2022-2023. We want to share with faith, depth, dignity and silence these days of GOD WITH US:

  • 24/12/2022 (Saturday) CHRISTMAS EVE: 10:15 am hours. Santo Rosario. 19:00 hours. Holy Mass of Good Night (Midnight Mass).
  • 25/12/2022 (Domingo). FESTIVITY OF THE NATIVITY 13:00 PM hours. Mass. 18:00 PM hours. Celebration of the Parish Rosary.
  • 31/12/2022 (Saturday). END OF THE YEAR 10:15 am hours. Celebration of the Parish Rosary. 21: 30 hours. New Year's Eucharist.
  • 01/01/20203 (Domingo). HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD 13:00 PM hours. Eucharist. 18:00 PM hours. Parish Rosary Celebration.
  • 06/01/2023 (Friday). EPIPHANY OF THE LORD (REYES). 13:00 PM hours. Eucharist. 18:00 PM hours. Celebration of the Parish Rosary.
  • 07/01/2023 (Saturday). 10:15 am hours. Celebration of the Parish Rosary. 11:00 am hours. Eucharist.
  • 08/01/2023 (Domingo). BAPTISM OF THE LORD 13:00 PM hours. Eucharist. 18:00 PM hours. Celebration of the Parish Rosary.

Christmas shaken by the new times that overwhelm the hearts of so many men and women. (2022-2023)

Dear brothers:

By the time these letters-congratulations arrive at your hands, we will have gotten closer, again and a year, to "Bethlehem" and discover that Bethlehem is a joyous revelation of LOVE that descends and unites its fate with ours, is a revelation of hope, human adventure full of hope (2Cor.8,9), and it is revelation from a cave and in a manger. Today, as does 2022 years old, the evangelical text of Luke becomes current (2,8-20), whose words express all the strength of CHRISTMAS. Intuit from faith that God is at the heart of our existence and at the bottom of our human history, sharing our problems and aspirations, the darkness of the night so urgent due to so many nocturnal "attacks" that endanger the dignity and peace of the human being, forgetting that it is the property of the Creator, and the clarity of the day alerted by the certainty that God is on our side.

The presence of Emmanuel breaks all the fears of our way because we are not alone. He pilgrimage by our side, the important thing is to recognize his company from humility and prayer. Urge the hurry to find the Born as it happened to the shepherds. Returning from Bethlehem to the events of each day implies praise and the commitment to take it as the foundation of our existential project, and challenges us to give bold and convincing testimony of what we have discovered and seen from the silence of the heart, as it happened to the shepherds. Let us pray for that coming to happen every year and every day, so that we can say: „I live, but not me; It is Christ who lives in me" that in the face of the many questions and desires that the new year poses for us 2023, a deep and provocative desire for renewal and deep hope arise in us, to be able to experience the glorious second coming of Emmanuel. Each year that is offered to us is a time open to new possibilities, a time of grace and salvation in which we are invited to live in a new way and without acquired routines. These difficult times call for authentic men and women, stout and bold believers of the present hour, always discovering new horizons that God offers us, without fears or fears of any human structure, political or social that threaten the beautiful Creation of God who has made us for life and not for death, we always count on his presence as he did in Paradise with Adam and Eve.

That this year, like so many, be a time of grace and space to make the Gospel a reality. I want to share with you a prayer for the path of 2023: grant me, know me better help me live in joy and freshness of heart this year, fully live this time that you want to continue giving me. keep my heart awake, lord to embody, reveal the love of the Father; repeat to me over and over again that only love is missionary, that only love frees and saves the world, that only love makes the life of every person fruitful. Make me discover, Lord, my task at every moment of the year, that your presence ( God with us ) be the secret of my happiness. grant me, know me better help me live in joy and freshness of heart this year, the joy of continuing to be of service to others. Figure, know me better help me live in joy and freshness of heart this year, to the mystery of listening, of compassion and intersection, that everywhere, let me be a reflection of your goodness, and that each of my gestures say: "God is love". Accept Lord for Your mission my walk throughout the year that you offer me.

 

What Maria, pilgrim in faith, Living Gospel of Christ your son help us to walk our path of faith, hope and love, contemplating and discovering the presence of Jesus Christ as the blessed fruit of his womb in the events of life, with its lights and shadows, but with the ever-patent clarity of the closeness of God, that summons us to the Christmas party that has no sunset.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR LOADED WITH LOVE AND FAITH

Father Rolando