Weekly Digest

Welcome everyone!
This week at the parish:

• Monday - FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - Holy Day of Obligation, Respect Life Meeting (7 pm)
• Tuesday - Family Playgroup (10:30 am), Choir Practice, Fatima Apostolate, and ACHS Centerpiece Making (7 pm)
• Wednesday - Bereavement Meeting (7 pm), Arlington Catholic Women's Club (7:15 pm)
• Friday - Prep for Boston Sock Exchange (7 pm)
• Saturday  - Boston Sock Exchange (11 am at Park Street T-stop), Confessions (3 pm)
• THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT - Bring Giving Tree Gifts! Coffee and Donuts (after 9:00 am Mass), Adult Choir (10:30 am Mass)

TODAY, December 8, is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, 
a Holy Day of Obligation and the patronal feast day of the United States of America.

Masses at Saint Agnes will be held in the Lower Chapel as follows:
Monday, December 8 - 7:00 am, 12:00 noon, 5:30 pm
Saint Agnes School Mass will be held at 8:30 am in the Upper Church

The next Saint Agnes Parishioners for Life Meeting will be on
Monday, December 8th at 7:00 pm in the Parish Center.
Come learn about our January trip to Washington DC, and share your talents!

Saint Agnes Family Playgroup - CHECK BEFORE YOU LEAVE!

Once a week, we hold Tuesday playgroups outdoors at nearby parks. To print a written schedule of our winter playgroup locations, please click here.  To see a map of our winter park schedule, please click here.

This Tuesday, December 9th, we will meet at Buzzell Field Playground (46 Summer St., Arlington).  This park has a play structures, a sandbox, a basketball court good for bikes or scooters, and is located right off the bike path! We will play together and enjoy each other's company.  Bring your own picnic lunch.  Come join us; we hope to see you there!

**NOTE THAT our outdoor schedule is highly dependent on good weather. IN THE WINTER MONTHS, WE WILL MEET IF THE WEATHER IS ABOVE 32 DEGREES.  If the weather seems questionable, please check your email or the blog page before you leave for playgroup. In case of freezing weather or rain, playgroup will be cancelled for the day. Thanks!**

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Boston Sock Exchange

This Saturday, December 13th is the Boston Sock Exchange at 11:00 am at the Park Street T-Stop.  This ministry helps the homeless men and women of Boston, by distributing gifts of sandwiches and clothes near the Park Street T-Stop on the second Saturday of the month. Prep and packaging for the day is held in the parish center on Friday night, December 12th at 7:00 pm. Help and/or donations is a wonderful way to put your faith in action!  For more information, see the calendar to the right, or email Natasha Buckley (NQBuck [at] aol.com).  The Boston Sock Exchange is currently in need of small 8 oz. bottled water, SOCKS, sweatshirts, long sleeved-shirts, fleece jackets, coats, winter hats, scarves and gloves.  We also need rain gear: ponchos and umbrellas.  Thank you!

"Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe of what the poor have

to carry, rather than stand in judgement of how they carry it." Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ

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Giving Tree and Family Liturgy Advent Collection
Please consider participating in either our parish Giving Tree or the Advent collections at the 9:00 am Family Liturgy.  These are projects of Christian love and generosity for those less fortunate, of caring for our neighbor and helping to alleviate the stressors that some experience at this time of year. Let us celebrate the birth of our Savior with thankfulness for our blessings and an outpouring of love for others!  If you can’t afford a gift, make an offering of prayers for families represented on the tree, and for our Parish community.

Gifts for the Giving Tree must be wrapped and returned to the Church before the 12:00 Noon Mass on December 14.

For the Family Liturgy Advent Collection, please bring the following items for children in need each week:
December 7: Winter mittens/gloves
December 14: Winter hats
December 21: Winter scarves