As you watch the Saint Philip Parish Sunday Offertory Program video, please consider how you and your family can best support our church. Only about 300 of our 1,500 families regularly contribute.
We hope seeing the great people and the great things we do here will encourage you to pray and discern what you can pledge during this weekend's Parish Offertory Pledge Sunday, and that you will decide to "Honor the Lord with your wealth."
Would you like to start early? Sign up for Parish Giving and start supporting Saint Philip today.
Calling All Angels! Children's Christmas Pageant Needs You
Children ages 4-12 are invited to participate
A meeting will be held on Saturday, December 8 at 2 pm in Room 4 for children interested in participating in the Christmas Pageant.
Rehearsals will be on two Saturdays, December 15 and 22, from 2 to 3pm. The performance will be 4:30 pm on Christmas Eve before the 5pm Mass. Questions? Contact the rectory or Suzanne Webb at suzannedwebb@hotmail.
Rorate Caeli Masses Return During Advent
Fridays, Dec. 7, 14 and 21 at 6:15am
Fr. Steven is again offering special early morning Masses during Advent. Every Friday at 6:15am, we will have a Rorate Caeli Mass - a special Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, only celebrated during the Advent Season.
These Masses will be bilingual (English and Latin) and celebrated solely by candlelight. The dates for the Rorate Caeli Masses are December 7, 14 and 22.
Prepare yourself and your family for the coming Christmas season by signing up for the St. Philip Advent Reflections email series.
Each week during Advent you will receive a special St. Philip Advent Reflections email that includes Advent-related videos and readings, as well as information on Advent activities at our parish and in the Diocese.
Sign up at stphilipsparish.com/advent, the sign-up sheet in the vestibule or text STPHILIPADVENT to 22828 to use your phone.
VISIONS Series Begins Dec. 13
Monthly Presentations Look at Insporing Art, Architecture and History
Saint Philip Parish is proud to announce the start of a new educational program titled VISIONS. Produced by parishioner Andrew Zwerneman and the team at Cana Academy, VISIONS is a series of monthly presentations on inspiring art, architecture and history.
The inaugural presentation, Ivan Meštrovic: Song & Prayer Sculpted in Stone, will be offered December 13. Sessions will be held after the 9am Mass in room 2.
Some of the topics include the paintings of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Chagall; the architecture of the cathedrals in Chartres and Florence; the transformation of a World War II POW camp by Christians, the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the day that Rostropovich performed Bach’s Cello Suites at the Berlin Wall.
The St. Philip Food Pantry distributes food to needy families the first and third Saturday of each month from 10-11:30am. We are always in need of staples, including jelly and canned tuna.
The St. Philip Food Pantry was better stocked for families needing food right before Thanksgiving due to the generosity of the children of our Early Childhood Center. The tots and their families collection 350 cans of food for the pantry in November and learned about charity and caring for others. Thank you, ECC students!
When you do your holiday shopping, please consider adding extra rice, canned vegetables, mac n cheese, cereal -- particularly sweet cereal for kids (Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Flakes), peanut butter, jelly, condensed soups and chunky soups to your basket and then bringing these and other items to the drop off box inside the vestibule.
Volunteers are also needed to stock shelves, distribute food and other tasks. Please see our web page for more details.
Holiday Happenings at Saint Philip
Buy Christmas Greens, Support the ECC
Purchase your holiday greenery from Lynch Creek Farm and support the St. Philip Early Childhood Center. See lcffundraising.com/c/154080 for details.
Advent Giving Tree
St. Philip will again be supporting several charities with our Advent Giving Tree, which will go up this weekend. This year's beneficiaries are Refugee and Migration Services, OAR - Offenders Aid Relief, Operation Turbo and Gabriel Project. Take an ornament with gift idea and bring gift back to rectory or to Sunday Mass. Thank you for your generosity.
Feast of our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 12
Join us for a bilingual Mass at 7pm followed by a Fiesta in Hayden Hall in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Drop off food to share in Hayden Hall by 6:30pm. All are invited!
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Children ages 4-12 are invited to participate
Fr. Steven is again offering special early morning Masses during Advent. Every Friday at 6:15am, we will have a Rorate Caeli Mass - a special Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, only celebrated during the Advent Season. 
