****On Saturday, December 21st we will decorate the Church for Christmas at 10:30am. Please come and help us.

****Please pick up a bulletin and check St. Benedict’s web-site every week to see the upcoming Christmas events and Mass schedule.

**** Preparation for the Holy Mass: 

Christmas is so close now that we can nearly taste it! Children can hardly contain their excitement while adults panic about all they still need to do. But for now, let us consider Mary and Joseph, just days before she would give birth, struggling to make their way up an unfamiliar and dangerous road, hoping to make it to a warm, comfortable place to stay in the city of David. As we well know, nice warm places were no longer available, but it all worked out, even if not exactly as they had hoped. May we keep that in mind during these final days of preparing our hearts and our homes for Jesus’ birth.