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The Mission of Immaculate Conception Parish & St. Louise Chapel is to build a faith community that worships and supports one another as a loving family that lives and Lapeer MI 48446 teaches the message of Christ and that reflects through service the presence of The Phone 810-664-8594 Holy Spirit as revealed in the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. Fax 810- 664-4564 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.lapeercatholic.org Pastoral Staff  Ministries Office Hours are: Monday-Friday 9a.m.-6p.m. Altar Server Captain Tuesday 9a.m.-5:30p.m. Saturday 9a.m.-5p.m. Pastor: Fr. Brian Hurley Dimitrius Eddy 810-338-9874 Sundays 9a.m.-3p.m. ([email protected]) Ambassadors for Christ Deacon: Deacon Joe Hulway Harvey Vermeesch 358-0943 Schedule ([email protected]) Angels of Mercy Business Manager: DAILY: Mon. to Thurs. 8:45 a.m. (Tues & Bea Castaneda 810-813-4069 Thurs– Traditional Latin Mass), 1st Fri & Director of Music: Hilary Thompson Choir /Music Sat. @ 8:45 am. ([email protected]) Hilary Thompson 810-627-8829 SATURDAY: 4:30 p.m. Office & Cemetery Manager: Karen SUNDAY: 8:00 a.m.,10:00 a.m. & DuPont ([email protected]) Felicity Long 12:00 p.m. (Latin Mass-Sunday 12:00pm.) Food Pantry HOLY DAYS: Please check the Lapeer Bookkeeper: Dan Dudzinski Catholic or lapeercatholic.org. ([email protected]) Dawn Peskey 586-924-1873 Reconciliation: Tuesday following 8:45 a.m. Secretaries: Linda Barthlow Funeral Luncheons Mass; Saturdays: 3:00-3:45pm; 1st Wednes- ([email protected]) Virginia Anthony day of the Month at 8:00 pm & 1st Friday of the Carol Klave ([email protected]) Millie Goemaere 664-3597 month at 9:30am. For private appointment call the rectory. Bulletin Editor/Webdesigner: Homebound Ministers Linda Barthlow/ Suzanne Palte 790-1686 Sacraments [email protected] Hospital Ministers Our Sacramental Policy  Joe Hojna 8109694082 Sixmonth Parish registration and Jail Ministry participation are required for , Ann Palmer 664-3784 Lapeer Catholic Bulletin Confirmation and Marriage. Knights of Columbus : Arrangements must be made in advance and parents must attend a Phil Francis 810 728-2295 baptism class. The Church requires that The Lapeer Catholic articles must be Ladies League at least one of the parents be a practicing emailed in by 5pmMonday. Flyers 2 Catholic, and the Godparents must be Dawn Walker 664-6946 active, practicing, fully initiated weeks prior to bulletin (pending Catholics at least 16 years of age. If two approval of pastor). Mother of Perpetual Help Rosaries Godparents: must be 1 male & 1 female; Jenni Hulway 586-453-4580 if one Godparent: may be male or Bishop Kelley School information female.  Order of St. Martha Marriage: Arrangements must be Bishop Kelley Catholic School Sue Palmer 810-660-1286

made at least nine months in advance. 926 W. Nepessing Street Perpetual Adoration Please call the rectory office. Officiate at Lapeer MI 48446 Phone 810-664-5011 the ceremony must be the Parish Pastor, Paul & Sylvia Simon 664-9742 Associate, or Deacon of Immaculate Fax 810-664-5606 Conception or a family member.  Web: http://bishopkelleylapeer.org Prison Ministry Funerals: Officiate must be the Parish Principal: Mrs. Bernadette Barron Linda Barthlow 664-8594 Pastor or Associate of Immaculate Admin. Assistant: Laura Mihm St. Vincent de Paul Conception or a family member. Rectory Please note: The services of the Parish Religious Education Center 664-8594 Organist are used for all sacramental 926 W. Nepessing St. Worship Commission liturgies.  Lapeer, MI 48446 Mary Kay & Bob Kosal 287-0063  810-664-0808/Fax: 664-5606 For more details regarding our Youth Minister Sacramental policies and procedures, Email:[email protected] please refer to the Sacrament link on our Office Hours: Sun:9:30am –11:30am, Mon:12-8pm, Dimitrius Eddy 810-338-9874 Parish website.  Tues: 10am-5pm,Wed: 12-8pm Religious Education Director Kenlin Botello NO COUNCIL MEETINGS IN DECEMBER 

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Religious Education News PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION THE REAL PRESENCE BAD WEATHER CANCELLATION PROCEDURE  We celebrated the feasts of two this past week who *If the Lapeer Schools have been closed for the day then we will were very devoted to spending time in prayer before the not be having any night time activities. Blessed Sacrament.    *If the students have gone to school but the road conditions are St. Josephine Bakhita, born in Africa, was a convert getting very dangerous with blowing and drifting snow or ice we will cancel from the RE Office and send out one massive email to the Catholic Faith and became a religious sister announcing cancellation. Phone calls will also go out. This is after her release from slavery. She spent her life in why it is very important for you to give us very good contact the service of others. Her feast day is information. February 8.   *As always it is up to your discretion to decide if it is safe to St. Scholastica, who was Abbess of a Benedictine drive in from your location. When this happens you are to convent at Monte Cassino and was the twin sister contact your child’s Catechist for the lesson of the evening that of St. Benedict, devoted her life to prayer and you will complete at home with your student. adoration of the Eucharistic Jesus. Her feast day is  February 10. Call the RE Office if you have any questions (810)6640808x4.   Blessings to all of you, The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes in France was February 11. Kenlin Botello St. Pius X had this to say about the shrine: “The unique glory of the sanctuary of Lourdes resides in this fact, that people are attracted there from everywhere by Mary for the adoration of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, so that this sanctuaryNat once the center of Marian devotion and throne of the Eucharistic Mysterysurpasses in glory, it seems all others in the Catholic world.”  We have our own little sanctuary here, at Immaculate Conception, with Jesus always present in our Adoration Chapel. How precious is that time we spend in Eucharistic Adoration!  Call us for more information on committing to a personal holy hour.  Paul & Sylvia Simon: (810) 6649742  [email protected] Free Online Course for Lent What are your plans to grow in faith and discipleship this Lent? Do you want to grow in your encounter with Christ? LIVE THE LITURGY    INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK This Lent, Sacred Heart Major Seminary is offering a  free short interactive online course called One of the greatest and most necessary gifts God gives us is free “Encountering Christ” featuring a number of Sacred will. We always have the ability to choose. Life or death and Heart faculty. This course will help you encounter good or evil are two of the core decisions every human being Christ in Scripture and Sacrament, in suffering and must make. We can choose to love and choose whether to pursue service to the poor, and in all the events of daily life. a relationship with God. True salvation comes when we make  the choices that keep us focused on God and God’s The course starts March 2nd, the first Monday after commandments. How we view others reveals what choices we Ash Wednesday, but you can access the course have made. People are not property, and they are not dispensable. We cannot exchange them at will or use them for our own self now.  serving ends. For this reason, God holds high the commitment of marriage and the integrity of all of our relationships. This is the Register for this wonderful opportunity to grow by basis of God’s teaching on forgiveness and reconciliation, and the visiting: shms.edu/encounter reason adultery is prohibited.

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REMINDER Volunteers Needed for the Hospital & Homebound Ministries  Please do not park for long periods Both the Hospital & the Homebound of time in front of the Church, Rectory Ministry at Immaculate Conception Church or Religious Ed. Office. Please park in provides the Holy Eucharist to McLaren the Church/School back parking lot. We need to Regional Hospital and to our parishioners leave those spots available for those who are in who are not able to attend Mass. More volunteers are need or especially for funerals. needed to help with these important ministries. Can you Also, please do not block the steps or park where volunteer your time to visit the sick and bring the Holy there are yellow markings. Thank you for your Eucharist to someone in need? Both of these ministries understanding and help with keeping our campus can be very flexible but more importantly very safe. rewarding to your spiritual life especially with Lent approaching. Training is providing.  If you are interested in becoming a minister, please call Joe Hojna for the Hospital ministry at  Join us at FORMED all free and user (810)9694082 or Sue Palte for the friendly; books movies for adults teens and Homebound ministry at (810) 7901686.  children to keep us motivated, https:// formed.org/ informed and also entertained. If new to formed.org just sign up through ANNUAL lapeercatholic.org (use the formed link in Bishop Kelley the middle of the home page) enter our code FISH FRY M3NPKN then put in your account info to 4:307PM | FRIDAYS 2/28 & 3/6  log into formed.org as a new user.  DRIVE THRU | 4:30  5:30 Begin your Lenten Journey with daily All You Can Eat Dinner  spiritual reading (example below), books     Includes: and movies.  Cod Fillets | Fried or Baked  French Fries  Green Bean Casserole  “6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Coleslaw Dinner Roll  Dessert February 16, 2020 Prices: Dine In Fish  Adults $12/Kids $7* Fish Drive This week's Gospel is all about the Law. It Thru  All Ages $12 Kids Pizza  $5*  starts with the beginning of the Sermon on Bishop Kelley Community Room  the Mount, which contains Jesus's teaching 926 W Nepessing St, Lapeer about loving your enemies, as well as the *Children 5 and under are free. Grades 1  5 qualify for Beatitudes. the Child price. Grades 6 and above pay adult pricing. We may never have given any thought as to why Jesus gave these teachings on the side 2019 Tax Statements of a mountain, but the time and place matter Are now available for printing. If you if we are to truly understand how radical would like your statement, please call Jesus's message was in his time.” the rectory and leave your name and telephone number. If you would like Take the time to explore FORMED! the tax statement emailed or mailed please provide the address and we will get it out as soon as possible. Thank you. 

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great St. Teresa of Àvila, nor was she GOSPEL MEDITATION  OUR FRIENDS, THE SAINTS ENCOURAGE DEEPER a laywoman such as the great St. UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE BL. ANNA MARIA TAIGI Catherine of . At this time in her People are not property. We cannot By Christopher Sas life, Anna Maria had only been exchange them at will or simply use Anna Maria them for our own designs and purposes. eventually decided married to her husband for three What does the word “commitment” years.  mean to you? We can begin to to leave understand its meaning by looking at worldliness aside  Her first struggle in her new some synonyms: dedication, devotion, and to make a life was embracing a spirit of allegiance, loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity, good confession. detachment from the things of this and bond. Commitment is primarily She went to a about relationship, and Jesus is all about world. It seemed that her confessor relationships. How our lives affect neighboring found fault with everything, however, others, how we treat our brothers and church, perhaps for sisters, how we resolve conflict, and anonymity, and sought a confessional he was forming her, and had to how we view the vows of marriage. where there was a long line of restrain her from doing penances that Jesus’ teachings on obeying the penitents. Upon entering the were too austere or would be harmful commandments, murder, reconciliation, marriage, divorce, and adultery all stem confessional she confessed to the to her health, and that would thus from the sacredness of commitment. All : “Father, you have at your feet a disrupt her family life. He made it of this has a God connection. great sinner”. The priest considered clear to Anna Maria that her first  for a moment the words that the We can easily see one another as responsibility was to her husband and penitent had spoken and then interchangeable and dispensable. We children, and that it was in this treat so much of our lives this way. What brusquely said: “Go away! You are works today may not be what I want not one of MY penitents!” However, vocation of wife and mother that she tomorrow. We search and search for the before ousting her from the would be most pleasing to God and right thing only to find our hearts still confessional, he did give her would lead her to her sanctity. restless in the end. Is real happiness absolution. Anna Maria was shocked achievable this side of the grave?  Her next struggle was to Sometimes we expect too much out of by what the priest had said, but took convince her husband Domenico, to others and want our relationships to fill a time to consider what he said and live a simpler life and to allow her to hole that we must figure out how to fill accepted the humility. ourselves. Any seasoned married couple  After a while Anna Maria dress more sedately. She wanted to will tell you that their love for one went to the church of her marriage, St. embrace a more frugal home life and another changes as time passes. Even though the understanding of romance Marcellus, to pray. While there, she to do away with some luxuries in a changes as life changes, the dedication, decided to go to confession, but after spirit of penance and solidarity with devotion, allegiance, loyalty, her previous experience she was a bit the poor. At first Domenico thought faithfulness, and fidelity all remain and even deepen. hesitant. She cautiously approached that this was a bit extreme, but in the the confessional and found herself  end he supported his wife and her Some relationships can be hurtful, and before a priest of the , Fr. God does not want us to live with abuse Angelo Verandi, the very same priest desire for a simpler life. As a result, or pain. Also, how a relationship whom she had bumped into in St. Anna Maria no longer wore jewelry, develops is sometimes out of our Peter’s Square. He recognized her the and dressed in the simplest and control, and we become the victim of instant she entered the confessional someone else’s decision. But we can’t be cheapest material she could find. She selffocused in our relationships and see and said to her: “So, you have come also erected a small oratory in the them exclusively as selffulfilling ends. at last my daughter. Our Lord loves home with an altar that had upon it a We are companions on life’s journey you and wants you to be wholly his”. with varying depths of relationships He then related to her the words the , a statue of Our Lady, and a being enjoyed by all who are with us Lord had revealed to him in St. statue of St. before which along the way. We have the freedom to choose. God asks us to do so wisely, Peter’s Square.  she kept continuously burning a small with right judgment and thinking.  Now, Fr. Angelo’s duty was oil lamp, and the oil was used to  to develop the mystical spirituality of anoint the people for whom she  a married woman. The standard prayed, and often there were structures of the mystical life then at instantaneous cures. WORDS TO INSPIRE THE FAITHFUL hand did not fit Anna Maria’s life.   To be continued… Blessed are they who follow the law She was not a Carmelite nun like the of the Lord (Ps 119)

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PRAY FOR THE INTERCESSION OF ST. PEREGRINE PRAYER REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS PEREGRINE PATRON AGAINST CANCER : O great St. Peregrine you John P. Patrick Lamb Mary Addison Debbie Lambourn have been called "The John Sieradski Rita Barthlow Francis Andrzejewski Marie Lamphere Mighty," "The Wonder Thaddeus James Klave Antonia Ruben Leonard Florence Sickner Edward Sefcovic Autumn Chuck Mahoney  Worker," because of the Erik Isele Laura Sefcovic Cecelia Beam Margaret numerous miracles which Emily Benson  Carol McDonald Zelma A.K. Emilia Betts Christian McLeod you have obtained from Zachary Carolyn Rice Betty Ann Marie Meldrum  God for those who have Christopher Sas Dan Koerber Kathy Brest  Cynthia Mini had recourse to you. For so Jim Skwirsk Maureen & Eric Larry Bridges Lori Montgomery Mary Ann Mann Pat McInally Arlene Bunk Tom Neiger many years you bore in Jenny Miniham Jeanne Fader Jamie Bunting Jan Nelson your own flesh this cancerous disease that Pat Burgoyne Sue O’Kelly Mary Taylor Bob Camilleri Lori Peacock destroys the very fiber of our being and Chris Brooks Joan Cantwell Roger Pirtle  who had recourse to the source of all grace Baby Hendricks Jennifer Acree John Carr David Price when the power of man could do no Dave Price Kristy Kigar Amy Carter Rita Price Betty Carolyn Christopher Susan Priess more. You were favored with the vision of Clara  Cindy Rashid Paul Ribai Janice Cheryl Coulter Kathleen Ritullo Jesus coming down from His Cross to Jim & Bea Lewis Sue C. Dawn Kathy Roach heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Ed Bauroth Michaela Becky DeGrand Ellen Rozmary Lady the cure of the sick whom we entrust Debbie Bill S.  Gail Dijak Sam to you. (Pause here and silently recall the Jack Duncan Joanie Skwirsk names of the sick for whom you are Gerald Eckenswiller Jim Sobek Laura Elling Stacy praying) Aided in this way by your  Debra Elliott Ann Steur powerful intercession we shall sing to God If you wish to have your loved one put on Mary Fifield Eileen Threehouse Felix Gabryel Tim now and for all eternity a song of gratitude the sick list please call the rectory. The Dar Green Kim VanDamme  for His great goodness and mercy. Amen names will remain on this list for 4 Abe Guerrero Lisa Vasquez weeks unless you call the rectory to have Bill H. Viola Pam Haerens Matthew Wagner their name relisted.  Thank you & God Bless Erika Hale Howard Washington please pray for the Pat Hoeksema  Diane Whitch Bill Hotchkiss Joe Wieshaar deceased and their families Linda Irlbacker Tom Wouatt Doris Anne Isele Sylvia Yerty John Barry Despard Janet Janice Humpreys Joe (Brother of Margaret Waugh) Joyce Judy  Wendi Kelly 

Please be sure to call the rectory when a name should be removed. Thank you & God Bless.

Readings for the week of February 16, 2020  Sunday:Sir 15:1520/Ps 119:12, 45, 1718, 3334 [1b]/1 Cor 2:610/Mt 5:17 37 or 5:2022a, 2728, 3334a, 37 Monday: Jas 1:111/Ps 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 [77a]/Mk 8:1113 Tuesday: Jas 1:1218/Ps 94:1213a, 1415, 1819 [12a]/Mk 8:1421 Wednesday: Jas 1:1927/Ps 15:23a, 3bc4ab, 5 [1b]/Mk 8:2226 Thursday: Jas 2:19/Ps 34:23, 45, 67 [7a]/Mk 8:2733 Friday: Jas 2:1424, 26/Ps 112:12, 34, 56 [cf. 1b]/Mk 8:34N9:1 Saturday: 1 Pt 5:14/Ps 23:13a, 4, 5, 6 [1]/Mt 16:1319 Next Sunday: Lv 19:12, 1718/Ps 103:12, 34, 8, 10, 1213 [8a]/1 Cor 3:1623/ Mt 5:3848

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EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP  MILITARY LIST Ministries at Immaculate RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR Air Force Tyler Blazo, Conception Church ORDINARY MOMENTS Rachel Grobbel  Air Natl Guard & Air Ambassadors for Christ Meetings will Don’t Live a Lie Force Reserve 2nd Wednesday of each month BKS  Army, Reserves & Room 303 7:30 to 9:00 pm. All men 18 National Guard years and older are invited One day, my son was explaining to his Nick Harris, Austin Montgomery, Jesse Angels of Mercy for elderly and mother that he felt she had lied to him. Jacklyn, Christopher Chyba, Erich Gutman, It was nothing very important, but he homebound of the parish interested in Joshua Choate, receiving a visit from our Angels of Mercy. wanted to take this opportunity to share Tom Sierakowski, Hunter Muncy, Call Bea at 810-813-4069 or 810-664-5878 how important telling the truth is to Christopher Brown or Clemencia Urcos-Paul at 714-231-9858. him. He explained that he simply tells it Marines & Reserves like it is in all aspects of his life. But an Bible Study The ICC Scripture Insights Zachariah Korte, Willis Gepfrey, II, Levi Bleau Group is held in the rectory every Thursday hour later, we caught him in a lie! Marshals’/Secret Service morning at 11:00 a.m except June, July & Again, it was not about a matter of life Navy August when it’s the 2nd & 4th. and death, but it was a lie. When Peyton Bailey, Hunter Daniel Gajda , Bible Study Jeff Cavin’s Course meets Jordan Larry confronted with his own previous Thursday’s at 6:30 pm in Bishop Kelley Coast Guard words on how important the telling the School room 303. Call Tim DeShaw at truth was to him, he just smiled. Yes, Gyomory 810.333.6654 or the guilty often have no words of email: [email protected] with any defense. WHY DO WE DO THAT?  CATHOLIC questions.

 LIFE EXPLAINED Broken Rosaries Repaired: Bring your Jesus said it best in Matthew 5: “Let broken rosaries (or any extra rosary pieces your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes’ and your ‘no’ Question:  to be used for other’s repairs) to the mean ‘no.’” He was warning his Are neardeath experiences real? rectory to be repaired. FREE! Please drop disciples about false oaths and then Answer: off your requests in a plain envelope instructing them on the fullness of the There is a lot of curiosity and fascination marked with your name, phone number with the idea of an afterlife and and if it is a repair or donation. Hebrew laws. We may try to do what we say and say what we mean, but it communicating with those who have Jail Ministry: looking for husband & wife or died. In movies, television shows, and male & female team to visit inmates at the can be all too easy to fall short. We call numerous books, people make claims ourselves disciples yet provide Lapeer Jail Sundays once a month. For about their ability to communicate with more information, call Ann @ evidence to the contrary buy our actions the dead, or having had a neardeath (810) 664-3784 (or lack of them).  experience. There is no objective way to Ladies League meets at 6:00 pm on the  verify any of this. While details about last Tuesday of the month. All adult ladies Even if we feel that we have lied to no people and events can be surprisingly of the parish are welcome. (LL will be one, we may have lied to ourselves. We accurate, it is just circumstantial cancelled if BKS is cancelled due to portray ourselves as generous, thankful, evidence that might be explained in inclement weather.) No mtg Jun, Jul Dec. other ways. and loving people, yet fail to answer Mother of Perpetual Help Rosaries meets God’s call in a situation because we   the 1st Wednesday of the month after the O perceive the cost to be too great. Jesus n the other hand, when people have 8:45 Holy Mass, at the rectory in the Fr. Neil unusual experiences, sometimes called room. Questions call Jenni Hulway @ did not simply mean for his message to neardeath or outofbody, it is real to be about two words. He also meant that 586.453.4580, coordinator. them. They react with the emotions and when you say you are a , make thoughts that one would expect. At Order of St. Martha our sodality cleans the sure you are a disciple as well. times, they report details they could not church. We are always looking for new  have known any other way, such as bits members call Sue at (810) 660.1286. N Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS of conversation, or meeting people they St. Vincent de Paul meets once a month in had never known in this life. So the rectory. certainly, to the person, they experience

something. We believe in a life after Worship Commission death, we believe in the communion of Youth Group saints. These things are not a contradiction to faith, but we should not Tuesday for Middle Schoolers and Wednesday for High Schoolers base our faith on them, nor change our beliefs. They are unexplained and will likely remain so.

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MASS SCHEDULE    Key to abbreviations   EFM Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin Mass)  OFOrdinary Form (New Rite; Novus Ordo) LMM Low Mass; MCMissa Cantata (Sung)   February 17– 23, 2020  Monday, February 17 (OF)     8:45 am No Mass Monday: 6 pm RCIA Class  Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites, New  PRESIDENT’S DAY   Tuesday, February 18 (EFmc)      8:45 am Raymond Cardinal Burke by Mantey Family  Tuesday 7 pm Worship Comm. Mtg.  St. , first cousin of Jesus, crucified at age 120, Trad,         St. , New/Trad some places. Wednesday: 6 pm Religious Ed Family Faith  Wednesday, February 19 (OF)    Formation 8:45 am No Mass         Thursday, February 20(EFmc) Thursday: 11 am Bible Study 8:45 am Deceased Bishops, & Deacons    6 pm Bible Study  Sts. Francisco Marto & Jacinta Marto, New        Friday, February 21(OF) Friday:  No Activities  St. , New   Saturday, February 22 (OF) Saturday: Carmelite Meeting  8:45 am         Feast of the Chair of St. Peter (at Antioch), Trad. , New  Sunday: 9 am Quiz Bowl Sunday Vigil Mass, (OF) 4:30 pm Charles & Betty Plasters by Ann & JohnVierk (OFmc)  Sunday, February 23   7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, New   Quinquagesima Sunday, Trad 8:00am Peter J. McCann by Wife Cynthia (OFmc) 10:00am People of the Parish (OFmc) 12:00pm Basil D. Ennis by Pam Julian (EFmc)  St. Peter Damian , Trad, St. , New 



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