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December 4, 2016 The Second Sunday of Advent December 4, 2016 Mark Your Calendars— This Thursday, December 8th, is the Feast of the Immaculate At 8th and N Streets NW Conception. It is a holyday of obligation. There will be masses here at Immaculate Conception Church at 8:30 am and 12:15 Washington DC pm. If you are unable to attend here, please attend mass on that day at a convenient Catholic church. Office The Service of Lessons and Carols 4002 53rd Street will be held next Sunday, Bladensburg, MD 20710 December 11th at 7:30 pm. Please join us on Gaudete Sunday 202-999-9934 for this joyous time of meditation on the Coming of our StLukesOrdinariate.com Saviour. The service will be followed by a wine and cheese reception. We encourage all parishioners to attend and donate wine, cheese, and crackers for our guests. The Very Rev. Fr. Mark W. Lewis Next weekend is the close of our current Pastor [email protected] Corporal Work of Mercy: Christmas Toys We are almost done collecting Christmas toys for children. The Welcome to St. Luke’s toys will be delivered to St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, at Immaculate Conception. where they will be given to kids at a Christmas party We are delighted to have you with us. on December 21. Father Michael Kelley, pastor of St. Martin of We are a parish of the Tours, says that most of the kids served by the parish are mostly Personal Ordinariate of African-American; thus, dolls—always popular gifts for little the Chair of Saint Peter, girls—should reflect this. Basketballs and other items that which was established on January 1, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI in response to appeal to city children are also popular choices (footballs are repeated requests by Anglicans not popular). Toys should be purchased with infants and seeking to become Catholic. children up to the age of thirteen in mind. Tweens, Father Ordinariate parishes are fully Catholic Kelley said, particularly love arts and crafts kits to decorate while retaining elements of purses or bracelets. The usual amount spent on a gift is $10 to their Anglican heritage and traditions, including liturgical traditions. $15. We will collect the toys in the vestibule or after Mass at coffee hour. If you are visiting, Do not wrap the gifts, as they will be wrapped by volunteers at please make yourself known to church on December 19. Father Kelley emphasized that Fr. Mark Lewis and join us for refreshments volunteers for wrapping are especially needed. Last year seventy after the Mass in the school auditorium. volunteers wrapped around 1500 gifts. The gifts will be given out on December 21 at a Christmas party complete with Santa Masses are Sunday through Friday, and digital pictures to help kids create Christmas memories. If 8:30 am you would like to volunteer, the church is located at 1908 North Capital Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Keep in touch with St. Luke’s! The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Friend us on Facebook at facebook.com/StLukesOrdinariate 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 Prayers for the Sick Request a Mass Intention Those who have asked for our prayers: JoAnn Lewis, Doris You are invited to make an offering in honor of a deceased or Johnson, J.D. Ruff, Charles Sommerkamp; and all who are sick living loved one, a person’s birthday, anniversary, or any another and all caregivers who minister to the sick. special occasion. These mass intentions will be offered by Fr. Please call or email the office to add a name to the prayer list. Before calling, Lewis at our 8:30 am masses. Forms for mass intentions [as well as please be sure you have spoken to the person [or a member of his family] about mass cards to share your intention] are available on the adding the name—we do not want to inadvertently disregard someone’s desire information table at coffee hour; requests also may be emailed to for privacy. [email protected] usual mass stipend is $10. Names of those who are sick or injured will be kept on the list for 3 weeks An offered mass will give both spiritual support for your loved unless you specifically request a shorter period of time or call to ask that the ones and material support to our fledgling parish. name be removed. Names added this week will appear in boldface type. This Week Serving Next Sunday, December 11th 4 December John Damascene, Priest and Doctor of the Church Ushers Charlotte Hays, Tim Frank 6 December Nicholas, Bishop Lector Mark Arbeen 7 December Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Coffee Hour Host O OFFEE OUR N C H THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED 8 December VIRGIN MARY Patronal Feast of the United States of America 9 December Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin 10 December John Roberts, Priest and Martyr 11 December Damasus I, Pope Know Your Faith The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, is the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ. The Church Parish Ministries teaches that Mary was conceived by normal biological means, but God acted upon her soul (keeping her “immaculate”) at the time A volunteer is still needed to act as a coordinator for our of her conception. Although the belief that Mary was sinless and Hospitality ministries. Please contact Fr. Lewis if you would be conceived immaculate has been widely held since Late Antiquity, willing to assist in taking on this ministry. the doctrine was not dogmatically defined until 1854, by Pope Pius Also, consider becoming an usher or a coffee hour host. It is a IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus. The proclaimed Roman great way to support our ministry of fellowship. Contact Susan Catholic dogma states “that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the White at the email address below. first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege Administrative manager Susan White granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the [email protected] Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.” Therefore, being always free from original sin, the Evangelization Heide Seward doctrine teaches that from her conception Mary received the Programs [email protected] sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after Liturgy Programs Randy King birth. [email protected] Stewardship Programs David Lewis Some have misunderstood the doctrine to assert that, by her [email protected] immaculate conception, Mary did not need a saviour. When defining the dogma in Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX explicitly Christian Formation James Guinivan affirmed that Mary, rather than being cleansed after sin, was [email protected] completely prevented from contracting Original Sin in view of the Mission and Outreach Patrick Rothwell foreseen merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race. In [email protected] Luke 1:47, Mary proclaims: “My spirit has rejoiced in God my Music Programs Patrick Delaney Saviour.” This is referred to as Mary's pre-redemption by Christ. [email protected] Although “no direct or categorical and stringent proof of the Lectors & Ushers Ada Okafor dogma can be brought forward from Scripture,” the idea of [email protected] Mary's complete sinlessness and concomitant exemption from Altar Servers David Lewis any taint from the first moment of her existence was a doctrine [email protected] familiar to Greek theologians of Byzantium, beginning with St. Gregory Nazianzen [329-390 AD]. This doctrine of Mary's DC Metro Catholic News Immaculate Conception appears only later among Latin (and particularly Frankish) theologians, but it is claimed that the Fall Theology on Tap: Finding Inner Peace Among the Chaos - doctrine is implicitly contained in the teaching of the Fathers. December 6 @ 6 pm 8 pm - Their expressions on the subject of the sinlessness of Mary are, it Speaker: Jim McNulty, Owner, Executive Writer Producer/ is pointed out, so ample and so absolute that they must be taken Creative Director of Wurdsmith Creative and Founder of The Upper to include original sin as well as actual. Thus in the first five Room peer support group for survivors of trauma - centuries such epithets as “in every respect holy,” “in all things Join other young adults (ages 21 39) at Buffalo Billiards in Dupont unstained,” “super-innocent,” and “singularly holy” are applied to Circle for our 4 week happy hour and speaker series on “Beyond her; she is compared to Eve before the fall, as ancestress of a Politics: Working through Conflict to Build a Peaceful World,” - redeemed people; she is “the Tuesday evenings Nov. 15 Dec. 6. This fall we have encountered earth before it was accursed.” daily examples of conflict in politics, violence on our streets and The well-known words of St. across borders, and in our own lives. How do we make a change Augustine (d. 430) may be to build peace in our world, communities, and in our hearts? Hear cited: “As regards the mother from our speaker lineup featuring a priest, professor, of God," he says, "I will not communications director, and hostage survivor. - allow any question whatever All young adults (21 late 30s) are invited for Happy Hour specials - - of sin.” from 6 7pm with a talk and Q/A to follow from 7 8pm.
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