ST. HELENA ADVENT PENANCE SERVICE
Wednesday, December 14th and Wednesday, December 21st
join us for Confessions 5-6pm.

Bambinelli Sunday - December 11th, 2022
Pope St. John Paul II began the tradition of Bambinelli Sunday early in his papacy by inviting all the children in Rome to bring the baby Jesus figurines from their family’s Nativity scenes to St. Peter’s Square on the Third Sunday of Advent. Following the noon Angelus, the Holy Father gave a special blessing to the bambinelli statues. The children then brought them home, where their parents gift wrapped them and put them gently under the Christmas tree. On Christmas morning, families unwrapped the infant Jesus figurine first and, with great joy, laid Him gently in the manger of their waiting
Nativity scenes. Both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis continued the tradition, and over the last 40 years, the tradition has grown beyond the Vatican and is now a treasured Advent tradition in parishes worldwide.
On Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th, we invite you to bring the bambinello, the baby Jesus, from your family’s Nativity scene to Mass for a special blessing. May we, like so many generations of the faithful before us, experience the true joy of salvation in our homes this season.

CHRISTMAS PRINTS
THIS WEEKEND Full of Grace will be selling prints and canvases of
St. Helena Church by R.C. Davis. Call Betsy Donnelly at 985-748-7474 for more info.

Testimony of Patricia “Pachi” Talbot, Mystic and Missionary from Equador

IN MEMORY OF