First Sunday in Lent February 18, 2018
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First Sunday in Lent February 18, 2018 At 8th and N Streets NW Washington DC Seton House 1317 8th Street NW Washington DC 20001 202-999-9934 StLukesOrdinariate.com Diaconal Ordination: February 22nd at 7 pm The ordination Mass for Mark Arbeen—celebrated by our bishop, His Excellency Steven Lopes—will take place on our ordinariate's feast of Fr. John Vidal title, The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter [February 22nd] here at Pastor Immaculate Conception Church. So join us Thursday evening for this happy event! Welcome to St. Luke’s at Immaculate Conception. We are delighted to have you with us. Every Friday in Lent is a day of abstinence [from meat]. This is We are a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of obligatory. Saint Peter, which was established on January 1, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI in response to repeated requests by Anglicans seeking to become Catholic. Ordinariate parishes The Bishop’s Appeal are fully Catholic while retaining elements of their Anglican Can you help us meet our goal? heritage and traditions, including liturgical traditions. The key ingredient to the success of the Bishop’s Appeal is participation. To reach the Ordinariate goal of $253,125, we need MASSES: Sunday—Friday, 8:30 am every household to participate. As we continue in the season of Lent, CONFESSIONS: Sundays & Wednesdays, please consider a sacrificial commitment to the Bishop’s Appeal and 7:45-8:15am to our work together in the service of our Lord. Help Bishop Lopes and your Ordinariate family meet the challenges we face in reaching out to all those who seek the fullness of faith. Visit ordinariate.net/ Schedule for Immaculate Conception Church bishops-appeal or return the pledge card and envelope provided to you last week to make your gift. (Gifts should be made payable to the Fr. Charles Gallagher, Pastor Ordinariate and mailed directly to the Ordinariate.) Thank you. Masses: Weekdays 12:15pm Saturday 5:30pm, Sunday 11am & 6pm Stations of the Cross Confessions: Saturday 5pm, On every Friday in Lent, we will be holding Stations of the Cross at Sunday 10:30am & 5:30pm 6:30 pm, followed by a Soup Supper. Make plans now to attend. And to help with the soup suppers, contact La-Verne Williams at [email protected]. Keep in touch with St. Luke’s! The Personal Ordinariate of Friend us on Facebook at facebook.com/StLukesOrdinariate the Chair of Saint Peter Follow us on Twitter at @StLukesDC That we all may be one Or join our mailing list for the Friends of St. Luke’s by emailing [email protected], or filling out a form at StLukesOrdinariate.com This Week Cream insert Asperges me Wednesday, February 21st Purple insert Processional Lent Prose Ember Wednesday in Lent Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the cantor Introit Invocabit me [Psalm 91: 15, 16, 1] Church He shall call upon me, and I will hearken unto him; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour: with length of days will I satisfy him. Ps. Whoso Thursday, February 22nd dwelleth under the defense of the Most High: shall abide under the HAIR OF AINT ETER THE POSTLE C S P A , shadow of the Almighty. Glory be... He shall call... Solemnity and Feast of Title Friday, February 23rd Missal p. 1 Introductory Rites Collect for Purity & Summary of the Law Ember Friday in Lent choir Kyrie Missa brevis [Rossini] Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr Missal p.2 Collect SATURDAY, February 24th O Lord who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: give use Ember Saturday in Lent grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, Know Your Faith to thy honour and glory; who livest and reignest with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Lenten Ember Days Four times a year, approximately three months sit First Reading Genesis 9: 8-15 apart, near the beginning of each season of the God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “Behold, I establish my solar cycle (winter, spring, summer and autumn), covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living the Church sets aside three days [ember days] of creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the fasting and prayer to ask for blessings upon earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant mankind, and to pray in gratitude for various with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a harvests, particularly of goods used by the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And Church in her Liturgy, such as olives, grapes, and God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and wheat. The four quarterly periods during which you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I the ember days fall are called the embertides. This set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between is also a time set apart to pray for priests, me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is particularly those who are being ordained. seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never The tradition of ordinations during the Lenten again become a flood to destroy all flesh.” ember days dates to at least the fifth century, under Pope Gelasius I. At that time, Ember all Appointed Psalm Psalm 25: 3-8 Ad te, Domine, levavi Wednesday was used for the scrutinies of Show me thy | ways, O | Lord, * and | teach_ | me thy | paths. candidates for Holy Orders in the Basilica of Lead me forth in thy | truth, and | learn me: * for thou art the God of Santa Maria Maggiore; on Ember Friday the my salvation; in thee hath been my | hope_ | all the • day | long. second scrutiny of the ordinands would take Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy | tender | mercies, * and thy loving place at Stational Mass at the Basilica of Santi -kindnesses, which have | been_ | ever of | old. Apostoli, invoking the “protection of the whole O remember not the sins and offences of my | youth; * but according Apostolic College for those who continue their to thy mercy think thou upon me, O | Lord_, | for thy | goodness. great mission upon earth.” The station on the Gracious and righteous | is the | Lord; * therefore, will he teach | Ember Saturday, at the Vatican Basilica, as the sinners | in the | way. place for the rites of ordination, conveyed “the Them that are meek shall he | guide in | judgment; * and such as are eminently Roman idea that every transmission of gentle, | them • shall he | learn his | way. ecclesiastical power, through the conferring of one of the sacred orders, was derived from the Second Reading 1 Peter 3: 18-22 supreme power of Peter.” Thus we can say that Beloved: Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the the principal character of the Ember Days is Lent unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the is the preparation of those designated to receive flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the holy orders. spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that Thus the ordination ceremony is placed in the is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds context of the Church year, rather than reducing to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an the celebration of the sacrament of holy orders to appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus a merely convenient calendar appointment. This, Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with rather than the natural season or even the angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. liturgical season, is the primary characteristic of cantor Tract Qui habitat [Psalm 91: 1-7, 11-16] the Ember Days of Lent. stand Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High: shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. V. I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my stronghold: my God, in him will I trust. V. I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my stronghold: my God, in Building Fund Mite Boxes him will I trust. Help us BUILD OUR FUTURE by V. For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the participating in the Mite Box Collection, noisome pestilence. our project to collect spare change for the V. He shall defend thee under his wings: and thou shalt be safe under his Building Fund. feathers. Don’t have a mite box? You can get one V. His faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler: thou shalt not be from the ushers after mass and start afraid for any terror by night. collecting. V. Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; for the pestilence that walketh in Bring your offering up at the end of darkness: nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day.