Faith features

News of a religious nature may be submitted for Faith Features to news@MorningJournal. com or The Morning Journal, 2500 West Ave, Lorain, OH 44053. Deadline is the Tuesday before the Saturday of publication. We cannot guarantee publication. Cookie sale: Homemade Christmas cookie sale will be Dec. 16, at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 18th Street, Wellsville. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. Buckeyes, Nut Cups, lady locs, and more will be on sale. Cost is $5 per dozen. Lunch bunch: Cornerstone Church, 2949 West River Road, N, Elyria, will host a free community senior lunch bunch at noon, the second Tuesday of every month at the church. The next lunch will be Dec. 12. For details, call 440-3241202. Christmas party: St. Ann Lodge Br.114 FCSLA will host the annual meeting and Christmas party at 1 p.m., Dec. 17 at the American Slovak Club 2915 Broadway. All of members are invited and encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to Bernie Danevich at 440-960-2605 or Marge Thomas at 440-288-1492. Deadline for reservations is Dec. 13. Empty Bowls Holiday Brass and Organ: Empty Bowls Holiday Brass and Organ spectacular will be 7 p.m., Dec. 12 at First church in Oberlin, 106 N. Main St., Oberlin. Admission is free. Bowls will be $15 and more handmade pottery will be available. All proceeds will benefit Oberlin Community Services. Catholic Golden Agers: The Catholic Golden Agers will meet at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 13, in the social hall at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 200 St. Joseph Drive,

Amherst. The December meeting is on the second Wednesday of the month due to the many Christmas activities at the church. The luncheon, food prepared by Fligner’s, will be served. The musical entertainment is Mike Moore. The cost is $7 for members and $10 for non-members. No tickets will be sold at the door, but can be ordered by calling Pattie at 440-222-5971 by Dec. 6. No reservations will be taken after that date. The $5 membership dues will be accepted. Door prizes will be handed out. There will also be a raffle and flea market items can be purchased. Cookie Walk: The Annual Cookie Walk at Amherst United Methodist Church, 396 Park Ave., Amherst will be 10 a.m. Dec. 14. The cost is $7 per pound. At 11 a.m., the monthly Soup Lunch serving Beef Vegetable Soup and Ham and Bean Soup, Sloppy Joes, pie and salad bar will be served. All are welcome. Our Lady of Guadalupe

Society: This December the Society of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Sacred Heart Chapel, 4301 Pearl Ave., Lorain, will celebrate 91 years of Novenas to Our Blessed Mother, a Mexican religious tradition brought to Lorain in the 1920s. The Most Rev. Bishop Nelson J. Perez, the 11th bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, will preside at a solemn Mass concelebrated by the Rev. William Thaden, pastor of Sacred Heart. Festivities begin at 9 p.m. Dec. 11, featuring Aztec dance and the music of Mariachis and Mexican treats. The celebration continues with the Rosary at 11 p.m., the singing of traditional songs (Las Mananitas) and praise to Our Lady of Guadalupe, and culminates in the celebration of the Holy Mass at midnight on the 12th, honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe. This all takes place at Sacred Heart Chapel. Breakfast with Santa:

The Men of Fields United Methodist Church, 34077 Lorain Road, North Ridgeville, will host the annual Breakfast With Santa program at 9 a.m. Dec. 9. The program includes breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m., Christmas activities until 10:15 a.m., and then a visit from Santa Claus. Cost of the program is $4 for children ages 12 years old and older; $3 for age 12 and younger, babes in arms are admitted free (maximum $30 per family). Cameras and videos are welcome. Each child will receive a special goodies bag. RSVPs to the church office preferred by calling 220327-8753. The Breakfast With Santa program is a community service project and donations are appreciated. At the same time, the Simple Abundance women’s group of Fields United Methodist Church is sponsoring its seventh annual “Cookie Walk” from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., or when the last of the cookies are gone, whichever comes first. Cookies will be sold for $8 a pound and are available in the Narthex area by the church office. The Cookie Walk is a simple walk in program, no reservations required. For more information or to reserve tickets for the Breakfast With Santa, call the church office at 440-327-8753, or chairman Michael Kelley at 440-781-6893. Visit http://www.fieldsumc.org/ or http://www.facebook. com/FieldsUnitedMethodistChurch. Christmas Classics: The Amherst Community Chorus will present “Christmas Classics” at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 17, in St. Joseph’s Social Hall, Amherst. The Chorus is in its 22nd year under the direction of Simone and Steve Gall. Popular and traditional hymns will be sung ending with The Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah. Tickets are available at the door; the concert is $6, adults; $5 seniors; $4 students; and children age 5 and younger will be admitted free. Refreshments will follow the concert. St. Nicholas Sale: A Feast of St. Nicholas Sale will be from 9 a.m. to noon, Dec. 16 at St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Parish, 2711 W. 40th St., Lorain. Featured for the sale will be nut, poppy seed and apricot rolls, potato-cheese pirohi (pierogi), long raisin and long plain bread, and cabbage rolls by the dozen. Monthly dinner: St. Mary Church, 309 W. 7th St., Lorain, will host the monthly dinner after 4:30 Mass, Dec. 9. The menu is cabbage rolls, twice baked potato casserole, corn, applesauce, rolls and dessert. Cost is $10. For reservations, call 440245-5283. Worship service: Community Congregational United Church of Christ, 379 S. Main St. Amherst, hosts worship service and Sunday School (for ages 3 and older) at 10 a.m. every Sunday. Nursery care is provided for those 3 and under. Communion is held the first Sunday of every month. For information, call 440-988-9148. Senior lunch bunch: Cornerstone Church, 2949 W. River Road, N. Elyria, will host a Free Community Senior Lunch Bunch from noon to 1:30 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month Come enjoy a free lunch and speaker offering information to seniors in our community. For information call 440-324-1202.