The Epiphany of the Lord 3 January 2016

Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman F R E D E R I C K S B U R G, V I R G I N I A what’s coming

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3 SUNDAY, THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD Coffee Shop after morning Masses, Parish Life Center. SCRIP on sale after all Masses except 2pm Mass. After the 10:30am Mass, Conversation and Coffee, Parish Life Center. No CYM Dinner or HS Youth Group. SAINT 4 Monday, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious Religious Education Family Week—Parents should attend class with their children. MARY 8:15pm, RCIA/RICA class, Parish Life Center (following 7:30pm Mass, Church). of the IMMACULATE 5 Tuesday, Saint John Neumann, Bishop CONCEPTION 10am, CCW Board Meeting, Parish Life Center, Room 100. Roman Catholic Church 7:30pm, Class 1 of 6: Robert Barron's Atheism Series with Fr. Rooney, Church. 6 Wednesday, Christmas Weekday (Saint Andre Bessette, Religious) HOLY CROSS ACADEMY 6:30pm, YOUCAT, John Paul II House.

7 Thursday, Christmas Weekday (Saint Raymond of Penafort, Priest) 9:30am, CCW Craft Group, Parish Life Center, Room 100. 7pm, Baptism Prep Class, Parish Life Center, Room 202. 7pm, Spanish Prayer Group, John Paul II House. 8 Friday, Christmas Weekday 9am, St. Anne Sisters in Faith, John Paul II House. 9 Saturday, Christmas Weekday SCRIP on sale after the 5pm Mass. 1:30pm, Young Adults Epiphany Party, John Paul II House. 10 SUNDAY, THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD Coffee Shop after morning Masses, Parish Life Center. (CYM) SCRIP on sale after all Masses except 2pm Mass. CYM Dinner and Youth Group meeting following the 5pm Mass. 11 Monday, Weekday 8:15pm, RCIA/RICA class, Parish Life Center (following 7:30pm Mass, Church). 8:15pm, Taize Prayer Gathering, Church. 12 Tuesday, Weekday 10am, Saint Mary Book Club, John Paul II House. 7:30pm, Class 2 of 6: Robert Barron's Atheism Series with Fr. Rooney, Church. 7:30pm, Life in the Spirit Prayer Gathering, Courtyard Meeting Room.

13 Wednesday, Weekday (Saint Hilary, Bishop, Doctor of the Church) 6:30pm, YOUCAT, John Paul II House. 14 Thursday, Weekday 9:30am, CCW Craft Group, Parish Life Center, Room 100. 7pm, First Penance and First Communion Meeting, Church. 7pm, Spanish Prayer Group, John Paul II House. 15 Friday, Weekday 9am, St. Anne Sisters in Faith, John Paul II House. 7pm, Bunco, Parish Life Center. 16 Saturday, Weekday SCRIP on sale after the 5pm Mass.

_____ W E W E L C O M E Y O U H O M E. 540-373-6491 2 express announcements contact us www.stmaryfred.org nota bene (note well, please): 1009 Stafford Ave., Fredericksburg, VA 22401 this week’s SUNDAY Saturday Vigil 5 & 7pm bulletin: c MASS Sunday 7, 8:30, 10:30am, 12:30, Conversation and Coffee: Today, 2pm (Spanish), 5pm, 7:01pm volunteers from our Music, Usher, 10:30am at Holy Cross Academy 4 Manna and Cold Night Shelter DAILY Mon.-Fri.: 6:30 & 9am; Sat., 9am from our ministries will be available in the Parish MASS First Friday 8pm pastor Life Center after the 10:30am Mass Holy Days of Obligation, as announced offering information about their good DEVOTIONS Adoration & Benediction, Wed., 7-9pm works and how they serve or parish and Novena with Exposition, Mon., 7-7:30pm 5 community. Please join us. All Night Adoration, First Friday holy cross Miraculous Medal Novena, Mon., after 9am Mass Divine Mercy, Wed., 3pm academy c Religious Education Family Week: Family Week is the first week of classes CONFESSION Wed., 7-9pm; Sat., 8am & 3:30pm, or by appt. in 2016, January 4-7. Parents join your PARISH 540-373-6491, fax 371-0251 6 children for class and make the occasion OFFICE [email protected] education Mon.-Fri., 8:30am - 4:30pm; a memorable family activity! It will be students staff office weekdays until 9pm, based on our parish theme for this year: Saturdays 9-5pm, Sundays 9:30-1:30pm 7 “People of Thankfulness Sowing Seeds Pastor, Fr. Don Rooney parish life of Mercy.” Fr. Keith Cummings Fr. Stephen Holmes Fr. Lino Rico Rostro c On January 5, we begin Bishop Barron's Deacon Alberto Bernaola 8 6-week series with Fr. Don on The Deacon Dick Delio from pope

Mystery of God: Who God Is and Why Executive Assistant, Rick Caporali francis He Matters. The Study Guide for the Business Manager, Elaine Stanislawski program costs $20. Please contact the Director of Sacred Music, David Mathers parish office with your RSVP. Secretary, Mary Fitch 10 HOLY CROSS 540-286-1600 catholic ACADEMY 250 Stafford Lakes Parkway advocacy c Religious Freedom Day: On January Fredericksburg, Virginia 22406-7234 10 the Knights of Columbus Principal, Sr. Susan Louise Eder, O.S.F.S. Rappahannock Assembly will proudly ST. MARY 373-7553 11 sponsor the 240th Anniversary of PRESCHOOL Director, Nanci Scharf liturgy Thomas Jefferson’s drafting of the Act RELIGIOUS 373-6491 of Religious Freedom for Virginia. A EDUCATION Director, Aristides Lucas parade will begin at 1:30pm at the VRE OFFICE Associate Director, Karen Sturtevant 12 operations Station in Fredericksburg, followed YOUTH 373-6491 by a ceremony at 2pm at the religious MINISTRY Director, Leo Chavarria Freedom Monument on Washington HEALTH 845-3031 13 Avenue. All are Welcome! MINISTRY Lois Sullivan, RN, FCN outreach BAPTISMS Parish registration (90 days) and class required. c March For Life: This year’s March Please contact the parish office to schedule will be held on Friday, January 22, to the date at least four weeks in advance. commemorate the 43rd Anniversary MARRIAGE Parish registration required; contact parish of Roe v. Wade. Please see page 13 for six months in advance to begin preparation. transportation details. Please plan to JOIN US New Family Registration meetings held in the join your parish family in this peaceful church on fourth Sundays, following the 10:30 protest against abortion. Mass. Please notify us of any contact changes. Articles must be submitted two weeks prior to publication. c The second collection next weekend is Send articles to [email protected]. Thanks! for the Parish Building fund. _____ S A I N T M A R Y of the I M M A C U L A T E C O N C E P T I O N www.stmaryfred.org 3 from our pastor

Dear Good People of Saint Mary, dence, or what I would call common sense (which isn't common). Prudence, a kind of natural or Having witnessed the miracle of the birth of the primal wisdom, is the glue that brings the other Son of God at Christmas, at least through the wit- three into harmony in life situations and allows ness of Sacred Scripture and the lens of liturgy, us to make choices and live our lives according to and having reflected on Jesus as a member of the our human dignity. All according to our nature. Holy Family, a model for all of what we might hope to be, today is the day we consider that Yet, God had to give us a free will in order to SAINT Jesus, in his kingship, his priesthood and foretold make these choices, and so he allowed sin to death is the fullness of God's revelation: the vis- enter the world. The Cardinal Virtues, though MARY ible form of the invisible God. present in every human person (they are argu- of the ably the attributes that actually make us human), IMMACULATE CONCEPTION To look at Jesus today is to look again. And every through sin became disordered, so order had to Roman Catholic Church time we look again, we will find more. After all, be reestablished. Not a kind of enforced order, the definition of Mystery isn't something that we but a chance for each and every one of us in HOLY CROSS ACADEMY can't understand. Mystery is something about perfect freedom to make the right decision from which we can always understand something more, moment to moment. Humanity had to be trans- but can never exhaust the infinite reality of what formed from within. God chose to send his Son we behold. So many people throughout history to make this happen, by the "putting on" of a new have spent their lives explaining, solving and mind and a new heart that has divine, not human expressing the Mystery of God, and finally arrive origin, so that our intellect and will might be at the realization that, no matter how much we informed, guided, by divine love. His divine Pres- can discover and know, we have only scratched ence, because we are so interconnected, touched the surface of the depths of God. each of us, in all times and in all places.

The Epiphany of Jesus is the ageless manifesta- What happened in Jesus (and Mary, by God's tion of God himself in time and space. We can mercy) happens for us in Baptism, as we become spend our entire lives unpacking the Mystery. adopted brothers and sisters of Jesus, he, the "first fruits." Mary was created before the order What we can celebrate immediately is that we are of Baptism to be able to say "yes" freely to God, changed. His presence in our humanity, because as we are now able to do, free from the slavery we are so intimately connected with one another, of sin through Baptism by water and Spirit. We is something that touches each and every one of are given to put on the mind and heart of Jesus us, regardless of time and space, because for God with a new set of good habits, called Supernatu- there is no time and space. God is everywhere ral Virtues, or Theological Virtues, the gifts of and in all times at once. Suddenly our human- Baptism: Faith, Hope and Love. These are the ity is charged with a new divine Presence. Even new paradigms, or measures, by which we order before we get to the sacraments and our under- our acts and "put on" the mind of Christ. To love standing of how God orders and shapes our enemies, to hope in the midst of great doubt and lives through the grace of the sacraments we can difficulty, to offer our lives through our belief, be- understand how our humanity is different. He cause we accept and seek God. These are activi- reveals it himself today, and in his love. ties in today's world that seem to be anything but "natural," yet they form the center of our spiritu- When God made us as humans, he gave us a na- ality and life in God's family. ture that includes several good habits, or virtues, which order us and make us uniquely human. All this is revealed today: Christ is made known Philosophers have long called these good habits to the nations—to those who are "outside" the (as a virtue is the opposite of a vice and a vice is chosen circle of believers. This is us, who cel- a bad habit) Natural Virtues, or Cardinal Virtues. ebrate that identity of Christ which we have They are four: Justice, or the intuition of doing received, and by which we have been changed. right from wrong; temperance, the middle road May this image of Christ be strong and generous avoiding any extreme behavior as all things are in all of us as we go from this season of joy into meant to be used in balance; fortitude, a kind of mission, in the ordinary time of daily life. ability to finish the job set before you; and pru- God bless you. _____ W E W E L C O M E Y O U H O M E. 540-373-6491 4 education holy cross academy

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We wish you a blessed New Year! The Oblate Sisters, faculty, staff, students and families of Holy Cross Academy wish you a most Blessed New Year 2016! Please enjoy the beautiful photos of our Holy Cross Academy kindergarten Nativity Performance.

Come visit Holy Cross Academy in the new year to learn about our parish school. We invite you to visit our website, www.holycrossweb.com. If you would like to see what we can do for your child, please call our HCA office at 540-286-1600 or St. Mary Preschool at 540-373-7553. _____ S A I N T M A R Y of the I M M A C U L A T E C O N C E P T I O N www.stmaryfred.org 5 education

religious educationthe authority to forgive sins in His Name in the Classes resume tomorrow with Family Gospel of John 20:19-23. The Healing of a Paralytic Week is also a good example of Jesus’s authority to The parish has prepared something special for forgive sins and an example of faith and trust in families this week. On class day, all students His healing power. It is found in in the Gospel of should go to their classrooms. Parents should Mark 2:1-12. Explain to your child that going to accompany their youngest child for opening Confession is not about getting into trouble; it’s Reminder: prayers and attendance. After attendance, about asking God for forgiveness and receiving First Penance parents and all children in a family should meet God’s Grace to do better. Listen to your child’s and First in the classroom of the oldest child in the family. questions and encourage them to learn more by Communion asking more questions. Parents Meeting Preparing for First Penance the Week will be held of January 25-28: Examination of Conscience—Teach your child on Thursday, how to pray an Examination of Conscience each January 14, Talk about the Sacrament of Reconciliation night before bed, or as often as time allows. Some 2016 at 7pm in Together—Before your child receives the families do this together as a family before bed, the church. Sacrament of Reconciliation, it is important that silently reflecting on their days while mom or they understand what it is and why we do it. dad read the Examination out loud. Spend time talking with your child about this great healing Sacrament. You can find several good Examinations of Conscience for different age groups on our Read together with your child about when Jesus website at stmaryfred.org/sacramental- instituted the Sacrament and gave his apostles preparation/. youth ministry Confirmation workbooks due January 11 All workbooks for the Confirmation candidates for the class of 2016 are due to the Youth Ministry Office by Monday, January 11. Please make sure your name is on the cover! Life is VERY Good On January 22, Saint Mary Youth Ministry is heading to the hear musical performances by protest and March to the Patriot Center and Washington, Jackie Francois Angel and Josh Supreme Court for an end to D.C. for a morning of prayer and praise at the Diocesan Life Blakesley Band. We will then Roe vs. Wade. Permission slips is Very Good Rally. We will have head to the March for Life in are available on our website. Mass with Bishop Loverde, Washington, D.C. in prayerful Space is limited so sign up early!

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important event. If you have any called in love January Family Dinner CCW Guest Speakers questions or would like further The January Family Dinner, information, please contact Rick A special and informative CCW sponsored by the Knights of Reschick at 540-368-9345 or rez55@ meeting is planned for January 19 Columbus, will be held on Saturday, cox.net. at 10am in the Courthouse Meeting January 9 from 6–8:30pm in the Room. Nurses Gail Russell and Parish Life Center. The menu Lois Sullivan will speak about includes smokey mountain chicken, Book Club's Selection Saint Mary's Health Ministry and its mashed potatoes & gravy, green The parish book club will read services. Kathy Saladino and Loli beans, cranberry sauce, and cake. Nudging Conversions: A Practical Iberra will speak about the creation The profit will be used to defray the Guide to Bringing Those You Love of the Circle of Love and who it cost of the March for Life buses. The Back to the Church for its January 12 serves and the transportation needs. dinner is open to the public and pay- meeting at the John Paul II House at As a person interviewed said “I at-the-door. Takeouts are available. 10am. Author Carrie Gress Stibora, knew I needed help but didn’t know The cost is Adults: $7, Seniors who has a doctorate in philosophy where to find it." This meeting will (60&up): $6, Teens: $6, Children (7- from the Catholic University of provide answers to questions you 12): $5, Children (under 7): Free. The America, is an active Saint Mary may have. All are welcome; please max cost per family is $25. parishioner along with her husband join us. and four children. One reviewer states, "For all those who don't feel Young Adults Epiphany like they're equipped for the work SHARE Thank You's and Social of evangelizing, Nudging Conversions good news All young adults ages 21–39 proves otherwise, offering practical, Many thanks to all of our and their families are invited to accessible guidance for how all of volunteers, customers, local our Epiphany social in the John us can bring those we love closer churches and organizations Paul II House on January 9 from to Christ through our daily prayers that have supported and/or 2–4pm. Children are encouraged and ordinary interactions." More participated in the SHARE to attend. Games and snacks will information? Contact Kathleen program this year; the program be provided. To join our email list Mahoney, 540-371-2073 or could not continue without for group updates, email Allison at [email protected]. your involvement. A total of [email protected]. 384 packages (8,064 lbs of fresh Talleres de Oracion y Vida: produce, proteins and pantry Celebrate Religious comenzando febrero 2016 staples) and 768 community Freedom Day Desarrollar una relación con el service hours were recorded this On January 10, 2016, the Knights Señor mientras aprenden métodos past year which provided for of Columbus Rappahannock de oración hermosas cada semana. 2,016 meals. Assembly will proudly sponsor Talleres de Oración y Vida es un the 240th Anniversary of Thomas servicio aprobado por la Santa Sede We would also like to extend Jefferson’s drafting of the Act of e inspirado por el Padre Ignacio a special thank you to those Religious Freedom for Virginia. Larrañaga donde los participantes who have graciously offered “It is a freedom that we must not aprenden y profundizar su fe con space for a new distribution take for granted!” With Religious el arte de la oración . Este taller de site. A new location has been persecution growing throughout the 16 semanas serán ofrecido aquí found locally that will continue world and in our own country, the en Saint Mary los sábados, de to provide easy access for all Knights urge everyone who is able 9:45–11:45am comenzando el 6 participating churches in in the to turn out to march and support de febrero, 2016. Para inscribirse, area. For more information this observance. A parade will begin póngase en contacto con Nannie about participating or at 1:30pm at the VRE Station in Espinoza , en ngespinoza@aol. volunteering, please contact Fredericksburg, followed by a com o 571-236-6904, or llame a Rick Caporali at the parish ceremony at 2pm at the religious Leticia Gonzalez al 703-473-7218. office, 540-373-6491. Monthly Freedom Monument on Washington El último día para la inscripción es Order forms can be found in Avenue. All parishioners, their el sábado, 20 de febrero. Para más this week’s bulletin or always families, friends and neighbors are información, visite www.tovpil.org. online at the parish website at invited to join in celebrating this the “SHARE” link. _____ S A I N T M A R Y of the I M M A C U L A T E C O N C E P T I O N www.stmaryfred.org 7 from annulment proceedings “The entry into force – which happily Motu proprio Qua cura given by my coincides with the Jubilee of Mercy – of the predecessor Pius IX in times very different Apostolic Letters in the form of Motu proprio from the present). Pope Francis Mitis Iudex Dominus and Mitis et Misericors signed Iesus of 15 August 2015, given to bring justice Rescriptum ex and mercy on the truth of the bond to those II. 1. In marriage annulment cases before the audientia on the who have experienced the failure of their , doubt must be cast according implementation marriage, necessitates among other things the to the long-standing formula: An constet de of and compli- need to harmonize the renewed procedures matrimonii nullitate, in casu. ance with the for marriage annulment with the regulations new law on of the Roman Rota, awaiting their reform. 2. There shall be no appeal against the procedures for decisions of the Rota in matters of the the declaration The recently concluded Synod of Bishops nullity of sentences or decrees. of nullity of strongly exhorted the Church to stoop to the marriage on 'most fragile sons and daughters, marked by 3. Appeal for the N.C.P. (nova causae the afternoon wounded and lost love', restoring trust and propositio) is not permitted before the of December 7, hope. Roman Rota after one of the parties has 2015. contracted a new canonical marriage, unless The laws that the decision can be demonstrated to be now come into manifestly unjust. effect are intended precisely to show the 4. The Dean of the Roman Rota has the Church's closeness authority to dispense with the Normae to wounded Romanae Rotae Tribunalis in procedural families, desiring matters for a serious cause. that the many who experience 5. As wished by the Patriarchs of the matrimonial failure Oriental Churches, the territorial tribunals are reached by shall have jurisdiction over the iurium cases Christ's healing work connected with marriage annulment cases through ecclesiastical submitted to the judgement of the Roman structures, in the Rota at appeal. Text of Pope hope that they may again discover themselves Francis' Rescriptum to be God's missionaries to their brethren, for 6. The Roman Rota shall decide cases Ex Audientia on the good of the institution of the family. according to the principle of evangelical Implementing gratuity, that is by ex officio patronage, the New Law on Annulment Acknowledging the jurisdiction of the notwithstanding the moral obligation of Proceedings. Roman Rota as the ordinary court of appeal the more affluent faithful to offer a just [Courtesy of Vatican of the Apostolic See, and also its office in contribution towards the causes of the poor. Information Service] safeguarding the unity of the jurisprudence (art. 126 para. 1 ) and contributing to the continuing formation of pastoral May the faithful, especially the wounded and workers in the Tribunals of the local unhappy, look to the new Jerusalem that is Churches, I decree the following: the Church as 'the peace of justice, the glory of God’s worship' and may it be granted I. The aforementioned laws for the reform to them, finding again the open arms of of marriage annulment procedures repeal the Body of Christ, to sing the Psalm of the or waive any contrary law or regulation Exiles: 'When the Lord restored the fortunes currently in force – general, particular of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then or special – eventually also approved in our mouth was filled with laughter, and our a specific form (such as, for example, the tongue with shouts of joy.'”

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annulmentreport, the organic integration of proceedings the offered a summary of conciliar www.zenit.org/en/ Explanation of marriage and the family of Christians ecclesiology, showing how the articles/explanation- 'Rescriptum' on of-rescriptum- in the reality of the Church also hierarchical role of the Roman Pontiff on-annulment- annulment proceedings requires that the ecclesial community is dedicated to service, presenting procedures Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto, dean of the pay merciful and realistic attention him as the supreme witness of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, explained to the faithful who live together or fides totius Ecclesiae, guarantor of the Holy Father's Rescriptum ex live in civil marriage only since they the obedience to and compliance audientia on the new law for marriage do not feel prepared to celebrate the of the Church with the will of God, annulment procedures in an article sacrament, given the difficulties that Christ's Gospel and the Tradition of published Friday in L'Osservatore such a choice may result in today. If the Church. Romano, and made available via the the community can prove itself to be Vatican Information Service: welcoming to these people, in various The papal rescript published today situations of life, and clearly present rests on these ecclesiological bases. “In the introductory report at the the truth about marriage, it will help It is divided into two parts, for the opening of the Ordinary Synod, these faithful to come to a decision in interpretation and integration of the Cardinal Erdo outlined one of the favor of sacramental marriage. two Motu Proprio. chief aims of the synodal meeting. Indeed, the general rapporteur The Rescriptum signed by Pope In the first, because every epoch- stated that by virtue of the sacrament Francis on the reform process, making law, such as the law to of marriage, the Christian family introduced by the two Apostolic reform the procedures for marriage becomes an asset for the Church, Letters issued Motu Proprio on 15 annulment, meets understandable but its inclusion in the context of August 2015, clearly shows that legal resistance, the Pope wished to the Church is also beneficial to the reform is perfectly consistent with the emphasise, as St. John Paul II did family, which is helped spiritually ecclesiological vision characteristic with the promulgation of the Code and community even in difficulties, of his papacy as gradually outlined of Canon Law of 1983, that the law and it helps to protect the marriage in his teaching from the beginning, has been promulgated and must union and discern the respective and which he himself has clearly be complied with (see the apostolic obligations or eventual shortcomings. confirmed in the acts of these recent constitution Sacrae disciplinae leges). weeks. The rescript of Pope Francis today, The reality and the mission of the like the promulgation of the Code of Church as defined by her divine In the homily of Mass for the opening St. John Paul II, obeys the lex suprema, founder, Jesus, therefore become of the Jubilee year on 8 December, the salus animarum, of which the clear to the Synod Fathers. The the Pontiff described the fulfilment successor of Peter is the first teacher Church in via is not the Church of Vatican Council II: 'A genuine and servant. of the perfect, but the community encounter between the Church and of the faithful who acknowledge the men and women of our time. An The second part of the rescript themselves daily as sinners and encounter marked by the power of specifically relates to the Roman therefore in need of conversion, the Spirit, who impelled the Church Rota as the apostolic Tribunal, which which is the strength of Pope Francis' to emerge from the shoals which has always been distinguished by ecclesiology. for years had kept her self-enclosed wisdom in its legal decisions, of so as to set out once again, with which it is an expression of the The Synod thus showed that the large enthusiasm, on her missionary generic doubt (whereas in the lower number of faithful who are wounded journey. It was the resumption of courts there remains the obligation or in an uneasy relationship in a journey of encountering people of the specific doubt, such as for terms of their adherence – in the where they live: in their cities example the exclusion of offspring); practice of the faith – with the truth and homes, in their workplaces. expressing, from the perspective of of the Gospel, are not a burden, Wherever there are people, the ecclesial diakonia, the concern for but an opportunity, that may Church is called to reach out to them justice in its dual sacredness: on the drive many of these 'wounded' and to bring the joy of the Gospel'. one hand, the defense of the truth to become, once reconciled and itself of the marriage bond, and on healed, true missionaries of the Earlier still, in his important the other the right of the baptized to beauty of the sacrament of marriage discourse commemorating the fiftieth receive from the Church the prompt and the Christian family. Again, anniversary of the institution of and free declaration of this truth of with reference to Cardinal Erdo's the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis the bond itself.” _____ S A I N T M A R Y of the I M M A C U L A T E C O N C E P T I O N www.stmaryfred.org 9 catholic advocacy

va catholic conferencehappens in Richmond this draw on an ancient Christian Stand, pray for life, winter. liturgy to pray for the needs of school choice, common Virginia. Please join lawmakers good at January and Most significant among these and public officials of all faiths, February events is the first-ever, mid-session clergy, educators, social service As the 2016 Virginia General Virginia Vespers: Evening Prayer practitioners, parishioners Assembly session nears, the for the Commonwealth at the and other people of goodwill Virginia Catholic Conference beautiful, historic Cathedral of at this vital gathering. A is planning special prayer the Sacred Heart in Richmond complimentary wine and Hors and advocacy events to at 5pm on Wednesday, February d’Ouerves reception follows. enable Catholics throughout 17. Hosted by both Virginia the Commonwealth to make Catholic Bishops and the Other opportunities to advocate a positive impact on what Conference, the service will and pray for life, family, educational choice, social justice and the common good include:

• Virginia Stands for Life Rally—Join the Virginia Catholic Conference and its partners at 11 am on Wednesday, January 13 on Capitol Square.

• School Choice Day—On Tuesday, January 26, the Virginia Catholic Conference will welcome students, families and individuals to participate in a special Catholics in the Capital day.

• Catholics in the Capital— We invite advocates to attend one of three newly introduced Catholics in the Capital Days: Tuesday, January 26, Thursday, February 4, and Wednesday, February 17, the day of the Virginia Vespers.

For more information visit www.votervoice.net/VACC/ Home to join the advocacy network, and to follow VACC on Facebook and Twitter.

In prayer and in public, your voices are urgently needed to bring Gospel values to bear on vital decisions being made by those who represent you.

_____ W E W E L C O M E Y O U H O M E. 540-373-6491 10 liturgy called in love Saint Mary prayer list Please pray for those who are sick or in need, Daily Mass intentions especially: Joanne Deangeous, Carol Eggleston, Patrick and readings Eggleston, Mary Jean Williams, Don Williams, Thomas Novotnak, Peter Stafford, Suzi Eggleston, Melvyn january Schreckinger, Betty Ann and Bill Dateno, Harold 4 MONDAY Gardiner, Marianne Ford, the Carlos Ortiz Family, John 6:30 Mary Alling Haas, Karen Jones, Jennifer Carlson, Adelyn Wood, 9am +Mary Grzebien Elizabeth Ryan, Dave Kelly, Kevin Murray, Robin 1 Jn 3:22–4:6; Mt 4:12-17,23-25 Humphries, Jimmy Zollman, Charleen Arnold, Joshua Burgh, Brian Keller, Linda Kaila, Cynthia McCready, 5 TUESDAY Christmas Flowers Jesse Madison, Kelly Ann Carpenter, Martha Ferrara, 6:30 Ryan Mott Tom and Prov Moeller, Debbie Lloyd, Shana Callirgos, 9am +Virginia Clay The following gifts were received after noon Cameron Richard North, Karen Danis, Maureen Flanagan, 1 Jn 4:7-10; Mk 6:34-44 on December 13 and before December 23. Gretchen Maia, Mary Ellen Normand, D.J. Smetek, Jim Evans, Megan Ramsey, Robert and Tenya Mosier, 6 WEDNESDAY 6:30 Donald Zeigler Special Intention Cesar Corretjer, Josh Oltman, Donelda Wellwood, Keith + Kovalefski, Bruce Bates, Joseph Bozicevic, Dyke Stabler, 9am All Souls By Mr. & Mrs. Michael Brooks 1 Jn 4:11-18; Mk 6:45-52 By Ms. Mary White Helen Kozyra, Meredith Dean, Bernice Douglas, Paul By Ms. Diana Gindlesperger Johnson, Alana Cross, Joseph O’Byrne, Veronica Johnson, 7 THURSDAY By Mrs. Ruth Wynn Hal Ehrhart, Lillian Held, Prudy Tarpey, Mike and Mary 6:30 +Joseph DeMartino By Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bertolet Lou Gray, Martha Clemens, Holly Smith, Byers Family, 8:15* +Connor Brown By Mr. & Mrs. Paul Glancy, Sr. Hunsley Family, Mike Harwich, Charles Dillman, Janie 9am +Kenneth Taylor By Mr. & Mrs. Thanh-Hai Nguyen Sherry, Nancy Stewart, Randy Knebal, Larry Hudson, 1 Jn 4:19–5:4; Lk 4:14-22 By Ms. Angeles Bravo Tracey Hansen, Connie Whatcott, John Whatcott, Patrick Thomas & Mary Rozzi, Tina DeCarbo Clarke, Jacqui Herr, Valconi Family, Joan Carroll, Larry 8 FRIDAY By Annonymous Dillman, Jessica Ryan, Matt Marshall, John Stehle, 6:30 +George McCue William Finley, Alice Finley, Ann Tholen Jerome Murphy, Christy Charlebois, Callie Freed, Atkins 9am +Chris Givens By Mr. & Mrs. Ted G. Tholen Family, Paul Johnson, Sandy Martin, Ryan Mott, Tim 1 Jn 5:5-13; Lk 5:12-16 Aurelio Cabudil, Marian Cabudil, Acapito Murray Family, Felipe and Mildred Sanchez, Dale Meyn, 9 SATURDAY Raymond and Barbara Stauble, Gloria Fontenot, Paul Cabudil, Benita Castro, Basilio Castro 9am +Helen Kozyra By Ms. L. Cabudil Bartman, David Duke, Betsey Ellis, Don Markol, Nancy 5pm Jeanette Potapski Borrero, Gina Wood, David Arnold, Josephine Kreider, + Burke-Derouin Families 7pm +Christopher Morgan By Mr. & Mrs. Robert Derouin Ephiny Chewning 1 Jn 5:14-21; Jn 3:22-30 Catherine & Charles Bridi, Victor Bridi Please pray for all the men and women in our military By Mr. & Mrs. Martin Bridi and civilian support services overseas, especially: 10 SUNDAY Deceased Memberg of the Rivera Family, Glenn Dickinson, Paul Fischer, John Moring, Dominick 7am +Thomas Lenhard Deceased Members of the Flores Family, Joseph Petro, Jamal Williams, Lance Schulte, Brian 8:30 For the Parish Jeff Standish Hellman, Sean Plunkett, Roy Selvidge, Patrick Fenton, 10:30 +W. Donald Rooney By Mr. & Mrs. Nick flores David James, Shawn Tupta, Vincent Petillo, Geoff Mann, 10:30*+William Sampson Deceased Members of Sambat Family Christopher Johnson III, Patrick Desmond, Andrew 12:30 +Ruth Weaver By Dr. & Mrs. Paulino Sambat Marshall Smith 2pm +Javier Alvarez James and Alma Habina Please pray also for those who have died, especially the 5pm +Mary Kelly By Mrs. Joann Boutchyard benefactors of Saint Mary Church. 7:01 Jerome Murphy Karren Stefano, Stefano & Fife Families Is 42:1-7; Acts 10:34-38; Lk 3:15- By Mr. Joseph Stefano Next 9 January— SATURDAY 22 Maria Ester Santacruz, Maria Susana 5pm Fr. Holmes Flores, Jose Serbelio Galdamez, Maria Masses 7pm Fr. Lino Please remember that Mass intentions may be requested at the parish office for Emma Galdamez, Juan Francisco 10 January— SUNDAY Galdamez any remaining Masses of the year. If dates 7am Fr. Cummings are no longer available for the date you By Mr. & Mrs. Gollopp 8:30am Fr. Don desire, you are welcome to request an N. C. Sharp 10:30am Fr. Lino intention that is “unscheduled,” and one of By Mr. & Mrs. Lou M. Sorrentino HCA10:30 Fr. Don the priests will gladly celebrate Mass for Nicolaus Young Kyo Kim, Theresa Young 12:30pm Fr. Lino your intention at an extra Mass during the Soon Cho, Donbosco Ki-Pyo Cho, Juliana 2pm Fr. Don week or as a concelebrant. Soon Oak Kim, Luke Chong Kyu Kim 5pm Fr. Cummings * Indicates Mass at Holy Cross Academy By Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Kim 7:01pm Fr. Holmes Rochelle & Jack Grey By Mr. & Mrs. John Grey _____ S A I N T M A R Y of the I M M A C U L A T E C O N C E P T I O N www.stmaryfred.org 11 operations

given in love happiness. Especially at this time Pro-Life reflection for Weekly Offertory of year, it’s important to know that 20 December Offertory $34,239. January 3 you are not alone and there is help. Parish Christmas Charities Collection 1 0 , 5 7 4 . God gives us the gift of life, There is an Al Anon meeting every Catholic Charities (add'l) 5,583. in units of years and months Saturday at 10am in Room 204 of Parish Building Fund (add'l) 1,423. and days, and we likewise give the Parish Life Center. Poor Box for St. Vincent de Paul 337. it back to Him, in days and months and years of faithful The Christmas Collection will be service. In the New Year, let us Conversation and Coffee reported in the January 10 Bulletin put the defense of the unborn Get to Know Your Parish Ministries. due to early bulletin deadlines. at the top of our priority list. On January 3, volunteers from our Lord, enable me to devote more Music, Usher, Manna and Cold Night The Second Collection on time, energy, and resources to the Shelter Ministries will be available January 10, 2016 is for the greatest human rights movement of in the Parish Life Center after the Parish Building Fund. our day, the pro-life movement. 10:30 am Mass to share coffee and conversation. Each will offer Please remember to use your Cold Weather Shelter information about their good works Offertory Envelopes to ensure that assist the parish and others in The Cold Weather Shelter will the accuracy of your end-of-year our community. Please join us. statement. The “Children’s remain open each evening Envelope” proceeds will not be until mid-March. Teams of recorded on family statements. Saint Mary volunteers assist on Now available: Tuesday evenings by greeting One-time gifts Children’s Offertory and checking in clients, through Faith Direct envelopes for January setting up sleeping areas, and Faith Direct enables your family to providing hospitality for the make parish contributions through The children’s charity that will 30+ individuals that utilize either direct debit to your checking benefit from the offering in the facility. Each participating account or through credit cards. You January is the local Hospice church is asked to bring 3 can use the convenience of direct . Camp Camp Rainbow dozen items (white socks, debit for your parish offerings in Rainbow is an overnight, small toiletries, etc.). We much the same way as you may use weekend bereavement camp are collecting donations of it now to make your mortgage, car for children ages 5 to 12 who men’s boxer underwear sizes or tuition payments. New this month have experienced a loss or are medium and large. Please currently living with a loved is the option for making one-time considered how you might be gifts through Faith Direct. We invite one with a terminal illness. The able to support this need—all you to consider this convenient Camp is organized by Hospice donations are gratefully payment method this Christmas Support Care, a non-profit, accepted at our Parish Office. season. You may enroll securely non-medical volunteer hospice For more information about online by visiting www.faithdirect. support organization providing community efforts to help the net. spiritual, practical, and homeless, please visit Micah Our parish code is VA635. emotional support to patients Ecumenical Ministries, www. and their families. The primary dolovewalk.net or Thurman- Weekly Diocesan TV goal of Camp Rainbow is to Brisben Homeless Shelter, Mass brings the Mass to teach children how to grieve in a www.thurmanbrisbencenter. the homebound healthy manner, while building org. fond remembrances. Like Kids Do you know someone who Helping Kids, Camp Rainbow can't get to Mass? Invite them also strives to normalize grief, Al Anon Surviving the to join in the Sunday TV Mass understand death and dying, Weekend group filmed in the Crypt Church and improve social skills. For Al Anon is for those who have been of the Basilica of the National more information go to www. affected by someone else’s drinking. Shrine of the Immaculate hospicesupportcare.org. Members come together to learn a Conception every Sunday at better way of life and how to find 10:30am on WDCW-50.

_____ W E W E L C O M E Y O U H O M E. 540-373-6491 12 outreach called in love Welcome to SHARE at St. Mary Parish! Order Deadline: January 11 Food Pick-Up: January 23

This is a food cooperative Friday, January 22, 2016 program with a community Pro-lifers from across the nation service requirement. Package will gather at a Rally on the Pick-up is typically the fourth SHARE Order Form Mall in Washington, D.C. and Saturday of the month at the proceed down Constitution Parish Life Center between 8 Value Package ($22) Avenue toward the Supreme and 9am. The following month’s _____ x $22. = $______Court and the U.S. Capitol. menu will be available at the Chicken Wings ($26) Participants are of all ages, from unborn babies to grandparents. time of pick-up. _____ x $26. = $______It is especially thrilling and Please contact Rick Caporali for T-bone Steak Box ($26) encouraging to note how many _____ x $26. = $______pro-life teenagers and young more information and details, adults participate! This year’s [email protected]. March will be held on Friday, January 22, to commemorate Shopping for January: the 43rd Anniversary of Roe v. TOTAL: $______Wade. Please plan to join your Value Package parish family in this peaceful ($22 + 2 hrs community service) protest against abortion. Festive and seasonal, healthy and Name Saint Mary will have two nutritious menu items such as: buses for the March. There is • ground beef (1 lbs.) Address no charge for transportation; • chicken thighs (boneless, 1 ¾ however, participants are asked lbs.) City ST zip to bring a box of diapers and/ • chicken drums (3 lbs.) or baby items for the Baby • ham steak (1 lbs.) email Closet sponsored by Catholic • potatoes, Charities. cell/phone • onions The buses for the March will • and 8-10 lbs. more of fresh, Community Service Hours: leave immediately following healthy produce. ___ hrs Church ___ Host site the 9am Mass at Saint Mary ___ hrs Youth ___ Transport and will return to Saint Chicken Wings (Ltd. quantity) ___ hrs Shelter ___ Comm. Dinner Mary at approximately 4:30- ($26 + 2 hrs community service) ___ hrs Seniors ___ Vincent de Paul 5:00pm. Participants are ___ hrs Micah ___ MW Hospital • 10 lbs. chicken wings advised to dress warmly, wear ___ hrs School ___ Parish Ministry comfortable shoes and pack ___ hrs Community Service a light lunch. Sign up sheets T-bone Steak Box ___ hrs Other ___ hrs Other will be posted this week in the ($26 + 2 hrs Community Service) vestibule of the Church. Please • 3.5 lbs. box of t-bone steaks PAYMENT METHODS: consider taking a visible stand CASH, MONEY ORDER, or EBT. No CHECKS; Payment due when to stop the slaughter of the Menu items are always subject innocent, and sign up as soon order is placed. to change. When we must as possible to reserve your seat Money Orders should be made to: on the bus. substitute, we try to give better SHARE FOOD NETWORK. value. _____ S A I N T M A R Y of the I M M A C U L A T E C O N C E P T I O N www.stmaryfred.org 13