Poinsettia Delivery Canceled

Thank you all for your offer of service this past weekend regarding the poinsettia deliveries. I was so disappointed that the snow kept us from visiting with our home-bound parishioners.

We won't be rescheduling the deliveries this year. Instead, the parish staff is delivering the flowers to the patients at the Rosemont Manor Nursing Home tomorrow morning. They will enjoy having them.

We'll have plenty of other service opportunities in the coming year and I look forward to completing them together.

Merry Christmas.

Christmas

Tonight is the Christmas party to celebrate a successful first half of our youth group year and to enjoy a little social time as a group before the holiday.

We are looking forward to an evening of bowling with all of you who can attend. For everyone else, we wish you a Merry Christmas. Enjoy some time away from school with your families and remember what Christmas is all about.

On Saturday, December 19th, the youth group will be spending a few hours to share our time with some parishioners who look forward to our visits. We will be delivering poinsettia plants to the home-bound members of our parish. We are grateful to all of you who can help us to complete this service to our church.

Please know that we include you and your families in our holiday wishes and prayers.

See you in 2010!

God of love, Father of all, the darkness that covered the earth has given way to the bright dawn of your Word made flesh. Make us a people of this light. Make us faithful to your Word, that we may bring your life to the waiting world. Grant this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Thanksgiving

Don't forget: We are not meeting on Tuesday, November 24 (the week of Thanksgiving).

Youth Group meetings will resume on Tuesday, December 1 with the high school group.

Thanksgiving Prayers...
Thank you God for all the wonderful blessings,
For our daily meals, for clean drinking water,
For sunlight and for the cool breeze.
I'm thankful for my family, my friends, and my health.
I'm thankful for my friends, to love and be loved and for freedom.
I'm thankful to be alive and praise you for all these wonders.
I'm thankful that you have been so gracious
To give your only Son to us
Who gave his life and bore the Unbearable
For us sinners.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I take the Opportunity to give thanks for countless other
things you provide us with on a daily basis.
Amen.

Father in Heaven, Creator of all and source of all goodness and love,
please look kindly upon us and receive our heartfelt gratitude in this time of giving thanks.
Thank you for all the graces and blessings You have bestowed upon us,
spiritual and temporal: our faith and religious heritage.
Our food and shelter, our health, the loves we have for one another, our family and friends.
Dear Father, in Your infinite generosity, please grant us continued graces and blessing throughout the coming year.
This we ask in the Name of Jesus, Your Son and our Brother. Amen.

Special Olympics Success!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered with Special Olympics. I know the athletes appreciated your encouragement and the Villanova Students were grateful to have you there helping with the event.

We have many more service opportunities coming up, so mark your calendars!
1. Saturday December 12 from 9:45am - 11:30am Anne Murphy needs your help for Breakfast with Santa. If you can be there for a few hours to help with face painting she'd be grateful.

2. Saturday December 19 (time TBD) the parish needs your help with poinsettia deliveries. We will be delivering the plants to all parishioners who have lost a loved one over the past year. Your help makes this ministry a success.

Chris took lots of pictures this weekend at Special Olympics. Enjoy!

Special Olympics - 11/7

Please join the St. Thomas of Villanova Youth group in assisting with the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania.

You will meet with Chris in the parking lot across from the football field of Villanova University at 10am. From there you will head over to campus to register and then will be sent off to help cheer for the olympians in the powerlifting competition.

We will conclude the service at 2pm. You can get picked up in the parking lot at that time.

All volunteers must fill out a waiver and bring it with them. Parent signatures are needed in order to participate. Check your email for a PDF of this waiver.

Please RSVP by Thursday, November 5.

Don't Forget Your Canned Food!

I just wanted to remind you all to bring food donations to our upcoming meetings:

Tuesday, October 27 - High School Meeting
Tuesday, November 3 - Middle School Meeting

*For all three of the above meetings, please bring your food donations!

We can take any canned or boxed non-perishable food. Some of the most in-demand items are:
Tuna (small cans in a case),
Peanut butter & Jelly
Soup, Beef Stew, Chili
Pasta sauce
Rice

Also, head's up....

Saturday, November 7 - Both Groups, Volunteering with Special Olympics
Specific time TBD but will likely take place from 10am-2pm. Mark your calendar.

Evite to follow...

High School Meeting At Presbyterian Village

On Tuesday, October 13, the High School youth group will be playing bingo with the residents at T Presbyterian Village.

We will meet out by the awning in the back parking lot of Presbyterian Village at 7:00. Please plan to be picked up around 8:30pm.

Directions to Presbyterian Village:
(From Rosemont Chapel)
Start on Lancaster Avenue heading toward Villnova University
Turn left onto Lowry's Lane and follow Lowry's Lane to Conestoga Road.
Lowry's Lane becomes Strathmore Drive when you cross Conestoga. (Look for iron gates and pillars at the entrance of Strathmore.)
Cross over Conestoga Road onto Strathmore Drive. This road winds around through a residential area. Take the second right onto Cheswick Place (there is a very small sign as you turn that says Rosemont Presbyterian Village).
You are proceeding to the Main Entrance, stay to the right of the fork. Follow the road around to the large parking lot. Park near the canopy entrance that is the Main Entrance to the community.