Father Jim's Jots - St. Elizabeth Church - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - January 19, 2025

St. Elizabeth Church

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

January 19, 2025

FATHER JIM'S JOTS

Today we return to the greens of Ordinary Time!  These past few months we have celebrated Advent and Christmas.  Even though it's called "Ordinary Time" it can be special and meaningful to our faith lives as our other liturgical seasons are.  Christmas Time and Easter Time highlight the central mysteries of the Paschal Mystery, namely, the incarnation, death on the cross, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.  The Sundays and weeks of Ordinary Time, on the other hand, take us through the life of Christ.  This is the time of conversion.  This is living the life of Christ.

Let us take this time between now and the beginning of Lent to reflect on how we may learn to follow the example of Christ's life. Tomorrow, we observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  We observe this day of memorial by acts of service and by attending events that honor or further Dr. King's works.  In this bulletin there is a flyer for different MLK Day Events taking place in Richmond either later today or tomorrow.  I encourage you to attend one of these events if you are available to do so.

If you have attended one of the Capital Campaign House Meetings that took place over December and January, please turn in your pledge card if you have not done so.  You can turn this in by mailing it to the Parish Office or via the collection on Sunday.  Please make sure that your pledge card is attached to your first initial contribution so that we can add it to our records.

If you were not able to attend one of our house meetings that took place in December or that will take place later this week, please join us today after both Masses in the Parish Hall.  We will share the most recent status of Our Campaign for Tomorrow as well as have your pledge card ready to pick up, if you have not already done so.  For more information, please contact the Parish Office or see the other page of this bulletin.  There will be coffee and doughnuts!

Our Capital Campaign will be coming to an end come March as Lent gets started.

Blessings,

Fr. Jim, Pastor

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