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Dear friends in Christ,
“And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” Those words from the Gospel of St. Luke resound in our hearts as we celebrate the birth of our savior, Christ the Lord. On behalf of Fr. Ralph, our deacons, and the entire pastoral staff of CtR, I wish you and your family a blessed and merry Christmas.

The Religious Education Department was excited to have their program in the new Redeemer Activity Center auditorium! See the full story.

The Senior Bag Project, just one of the many supported by the Ladies Auxiliary, is in it's sixth year. Learn more about what the Ladies do to support this project!

Dear friends in Christ,
Today is the 3rd Sunday of Advent, and our last full week of this great time of waiting for the Lord. Next week we have the 4th Sunday of Advent on Dec. 23 and then, just a day later, Christmas will be upon us. Let’s use this week to wait in joyful anticipation. As a people we don’t usually like to wait, whether it be in traffic, the doctor’s office, or in line at the grocery store. But Advent waiting is different and worth the effort. We light the rose-colored candle on our Advent wreath today as a joyful reminder of the two-fold coming of Christ at His birth and at the end of time. Today is traditionally known as Gaudete Sunday from the Latin word meaning “rejoice.”

Dear friends in Christ,
This second week of Advent finds us still waiting and watching for the coming of the Lord, but we get a most welcomed visitor today – John the Baptist. He comes seemingly out of nowhere to prepare the way of the Lord and while he was by all accounts a bit eccentric, his message is as timely today as it was some 2,000 years ago. Let us heed his message to repent and as we go about busily preparing our Christmas lists and making plans for the holidays, let us prepare our hearts as well to welcome the coming of the King of Kings.