Saint John Chapel Bulletin
1397 Brick Church Rd.
Bland, Missouri 65014
(Highway P and Brick Church Road)
December 14, 2025
Advent
Sunday, Dec 14, 9:00am
Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete), I cl., Rose
Monday, Dec 15, 9:00am
Feria of Advent, III cl., Violet
Tuesday, Dec 16, 5:00pm
St. Eusebius Bishop & Martyr, Red
Commemoration of Advent
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Wednesday, Dec 17, 8:00am
Ember Day, III cl., Violet
Thursday, Dec 18, 8:00am
Feria of Advent, III III cl., Violet
Friday, Dec 19, 8:00am
Ember Day, III cl., Violet
Saturday, Dec 20, 8:00am
Ember Day, III cl., Violet
Sunday, Dec 21, 9:00am
Fourth Sunday of Advent, I cl., Violet
Officiant: Father Brendan Dardis, OSB
This is a Private Chapel dedicated to the Latin Mass and to the Traditional Sacraments
Prayer Requests:
Mother of Lu Prayer: After Mass at the Communion Rail every Sunday.
Confessions: 30 minutes before Mass: Rosary, 20 minutes before Mass
Collection: November 30: $ 595 December 7: $ 582
Highlights of the Week
Ember Days: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are traditional days of fast and abstinence for Catholics. Traditionally, those 7 to 21 need observe only abstinence on Friday. Those 21 to 65 take only one full meal and two collations, together adding up to a bit less than a full meal. On Wednesday and Saturday meat with the main meal only. On Friday no meat. The fasting and abstinence are in preparation for Christ’s coming on Christmas Day and to pray for any new priests being ordained on the Ember Saturday. It might be added that the Ember Days are almost meaningless these days. The Ember Days are full of the message of making a sacrifice through fasting and deprivation of the senses to strengthen and improve oneself. The message ought to be that unless one performs some sacrifice, making himself pleasing to God, he may not make it to Heaven and the Beatific Vision. Fasting and abstinence on a few days of the year to improve one’s spirituality is pleasing to Our Lord, and we ought not to wear a baleful face to show everybody how much suffering is being endured as the “hypocrites” about Who Christ, made comment. Do it because you love Jesus Our Savior, Who died on the Cross to open the Gates of Heaven for us poor sinners and to redeem us and to prepare ourselves for His Birth.
TUES, 16 DEC, III cl.: St. Eusebius, born in Sardinia in the IV Century, a time of Arianism, which threatened to undermine the Doctrine of Christ’s Divinity. He fought the heresy, was exiled from his See at Vercelli, Italy where he passed away in 371. The Church honors the Saint as a martyr because of the sufferings which shortened his life.