We are starting a new tradition at Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish. Instead of a giving tree we are inviting you to participate in a Reverse Advent Calendar. What is a reverse advent calendar? Typically, advent calendars are filled with candy and you open one each day starting December 1 and ending on Christmas Day. Reverse advent calendars allow you to donate or give something each day–thus giving instead of getting. Items on the calendar will include non-perishable food items and paper products. The recipient of this program is Franciscan Outreach at Transfiguration Church.
So grab a box and begin filling it with items listed on the calendar.
Bring your filled box back to church by January 8, 2023.
Please make sure that food items are unopened and not expired.
To ensure that the items go toward this program please, clearly mark your box that the items are for the Reverse Advent Calendar Giving Opportunity benefitting the Food Program at Transfiguration.
Help us Decorate our Worship Locations for the Christmas Season
Our Worship Environment Committee invites all parishioners to embrace our tradition and help add personal, special and unique beauty to our worship spaces this Christmas by donating a live flowering plant. This personal investment of time and in beautifying our worship spaces is what helps make our Christmas celebrations all the more special.
As is our tradition, we will use the plants, that you personally select, to transform our worship spaces for the Christmas season.
Plants may be dropped off at either worship location from 10am—2pm (weekdays) beginning Monday, December 19—December 22. They may also be dropped off in Oak Park before or after the Advent Spiritual Healing Service on Dec. 19 at 6:30pm or Evening Prayer on Dec. 21 at 7pm.
