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On behalf of Paul, Daniel and Myself (Joseph), we welcome you to a new Year! As we leave the past decade behind, and step into a new one, we look forward to spending this year with you, our members. For this weeks letter, we have a few things to cover in the agenda.

We would like to thank everyone who attended WORD.'s post Christmas Party. We hope to continue seeing the new faces, as well as the old, in this year to come!

James, the Emcee for this years Confirmation II Retreat, scheduled the first open meeting, this Sunday January 10th. It will begin at 12:30P, at the Prayer Center. If you are interested in helping or have any questions, we invite you to attend! The date of this years retreat has been set for February 26, 27, and 28.

As WORD. heads into the new year, we are looking to restructure our system and elect new Leaders for the next term. We invite our members to voice their opinion to improve your Youth Group. There will be an open leaders meeting on Sunday, January 10 at 5:30P.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reply to this email, and we will try our best to respond as quickly as possible.

We hope you have a wonderful new year. God Bless!
-Joseph Bonifacio

We will not be having a WORD Meeting this Sunday in observance of Thanks Giving.

Our next meetings for the month of December will be tentatively on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of that month, Sunday Dec. 13th & 27th @ 5:30-7pm in the Prayer Center. Check your emails for any additional meetings and updates.

At our last meeting this past Sunday we did a Bible Study on the Gospel of John up to Chapter 6. For those of you who missed the meeting, you can catch up by reading Chapters 1 through 6 and we will all continue on Chapter 7. It is important to have everyone on the same page so that we can have fruitful discussions, so please read!

We hope you and your families have a blessed and Happy Thanks Giving.

Many Protestants will state that Catholics think they can work their way to heaven. They will usually throw out a verse or two of scripture and wag their finger at us.

Here are a couple I have heard often:
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God;
Ephesians 2:9 it is not from works, so no one may boast.

Romans 3:20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law {comes} the knowledge of sin.

So on the surface you would think they may be on to something, however they are not! They couldn't be more wrong.

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