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After 175 Years, Immaculate Conception Remains Vibrant Parish Andy Telli Ing Roughly 20 Feet by 40 Feet January 10, 2020 Tennessee Register 1 January 10, 2020 | The Voice of Tennessee Catholic Life since 1937 | www.tennesseeregister.com Photo by Andy Telli Immaculate Conception Church in Clarksville recently celebrated the 175th anniversary of the founding of the parish. It is one of the oldest parishes, and one of the largest, in the Diocese of Nashville. Father Rick Childress, associate pastor at Immaculate Conception, blesses the Nativity creche with incense during Mass Jan. 5, the Feast of the Epiphany. Deacon Dominick Azzara assists him. After 175 years, Immaculate Conception remains vibrant parish Andy Telli ing roughly 20 feet by 40 feet. marked its 175th anniversary with a The parish will host several activities In the 175 years since, that small Mass celebrated by Cardinal Justin and take on projects in the coming n the 1830s and 1840s, Catholics city on what was still considered the Rigali, the former Archbishop of St. year to mark the jubilee, said Father were spread across Tennessee in American frontier has become a grow- Louis and later Philadelphia, who now Dio, who was assigned as Immaculate Ismall pockets, where Mass was ing, bustling city of more than 150,000 lives in retirement in East Tennessee. Conception’s pastor in August 2019. celebrated in people’s homes when- people. As Clarksville has grown, the Cardinal Rigali was filling in for He would like the parish to take on ever a circuit-riding priest would be Catholic parish, renamed Immacu- Bishop J. Mark Spalding, who was in the project of replacing and repairing traveling through the area. late Conception Church in 1875, has Rome at the time for his ad limina visit the pews and flooring in the church. One of those small pockets was in grown with it and is now one of the with the pope. “Spiritually, my goal for this year Clarksville, then a small city, at the largest in the diocese. “It was really exciting,” said Father is to arrange a series of spiritual confluence of the Cumberland and “I can’t believe where all these Jacob Dio, MSFS, pastor of Immacu- events,” Father Dio added. “We have Red Rivers, surrounded by farms. people are coming from,” said Charlie late Conception. “People were really not drawn out a clear picture, but we In December of 1844, Bishop Rich- Dean, 86, who grew up in the parish, happy (Cardinal Rigali) came over are talking about it. … In the coming ard Miles, O.P., the first bishop of moved to Texas with his job, and later here to celebrate mass. Most of the months we’ll come up with a special the Diocese of Nashville, arrived in returned when he retired. people were seeing a cardinal for the program of how to make this a special Clarksville to dedicate the city’s first On the Feast of the Immaculate first time. That was a special kind of year.” Catholic Church, St. Mary’s, a build- Conception in December, the parish treat.” Continued on page 8 SundaySocietyPope of dedicatedapproves St. Vincent proceduresto wordde Paul of Godtoestablishes investigate set for council Jan.es bishopsnew8-19 26 ...hires ...… … pagepage… page page… page 2 2 page2 10 || 9| WhiteWhite Info5|| Bishopith| owthsession sockssocks… page re-consecrates… drivedrive on page 16 ESAs toto 15 helphelp planned bringbringdiocese ChristmasChristmasfor to St. Sacred Joseph cheercheer Heart School toto prisonersprisoners...... page page... page 2727 ...... 15 55 2 Tennessee Register January 10, 2020 Scripture study can enhance deeper relationship with God Carol Glatz CNS faith groups or on their own. Centered pray along with the Bible beyond just our knowledge and love of the Scrip- Theresa Laurence, Tennessee around the themes of discipleship, the listening to the readings at Sunday tures and of the risen Lord, who con- Register parables, and mercy, the guides “are Mass. tinues to speak his word and to break designed for the average person to “Today we have so many amazing re- bread in the community of believers.” o help the Church grow in love pick up anytime” and assist them on a sources at our fingertips,” Watson said. “We need to develop a closer relation- and faithful witness to God, Pope deeper dive into Scripture. Watson’s Bible study guides can be ship with sacred Scripture; otherwise, TFrancis has declared the third downloaded for free at www.dioceseof- our hearts will remain cold and our Sunday in Ordinary Time to be dedi- ‘Toward unity’ nashville.com/bible-study, and a num- eyes shut, struck as we are by so many cated to the word of God. This year, “The Bible is the book of the Lord’s ber of other online resources are also forms of blindness,” he wrote. that Sunday falls on Jan. 26. people, who, in listening to it, move available online for free or a low cost. Sacred Scripture and the sacraments Salvation, faith, unity and mercy all from dispersion and division toward Watson encourages people to read are inseparable, he wrote. Jesus speaks depend on knowing Christ and sacred unity” as well as come to understand the Sunday Mass reading ahead of time to everyone with his word in sacred Scripture, Pope Francis said in a docu- God’s love and become inspired to and to read daily Mass readings on Scripture, and if people “hear his voice ment released last fall. share it with others, Pope Francis wrote their own. and open the doors of our minds and Devoting a special day “to the cel- in the apostolic letter “Aperuit Illis,” The Psalms are also a good place to hearts, then he will enter our lives and ebration, study and dissemination of which was released Sept. 30, 2019. start, she said. “They are beautiful, remain ever with us,” he said. the word of God” will help the Church “The relationship between the risen and they can be consoling in difficult “experience anew how the risen Lord Lord, the community of believers and times.” They can be an accessible way ‘Ecumenical value’ opens up for us the treasury of his sacred Scripture is essential to our to start praying with the Bible, to use Pope Francis urged priests to be word and enables us to proclaim its identity as Christians,” he wrote. “as the backbone of prayer,” she added. extra attentive to creating a homily unfathomable riches before the world,” Without the Lord who opens people’s Watson also suggests people use the throughout the year that “speaks from he said. minds to his word, it is impossible to ancient practice of “lectio divina,” which the heart” and really helps people un- “The Bible cannot be just the heri- understand the Scriptures in depth, yet involves careful reading, meditation, derstand Scripture “through simple and tage of some, much less a collection “without the Scriptures, the events of prayer and contemplation of a chosen suitable” language. of books for the benefit of a privileged the mission of Jesus and of his Church Scripture passage. “That can help us in The homily “is a pastoral opportunity few. It belongs above all to those called in this world would remain incompre- our conversation with God,” and “see that should not be wasted. For many of to hear its message and to recognize hensible,” Pope Francis wrote. what God wants to say to us,” she said. our faithful, in fact, this is the only op- themselves in its words,” Pope Francis portunity they have to grasp the beauty wrote. ‘Amazing resources’ ‘Hear his voice’ of God’s word and to see it applied to “The Bible was written for us, the While Catholics are often stereotyped With his recent apostolic letter on en- their daily lives,” he wrote. people in the pews,” agreed Joan Wat- as not being familiar with Scripture, gaging with the Word of God, the pope The third Sunday in Ordinary Time son, director of faith formation for the Watson says Catholics may know more “invites us to hold the word of God in falls during that part of the year Diocese of Nashville. “You don’t need than they think. our hands every day as much as pos- when the Church is encouraged to a doctorate in theology to read and un- “We may not be able to quote chapter sible so that it becomes our prayer” and strengthen its bonds with the Jewish derstand it. It’s your book.” and verse, but if we go to Mass every a greater part of one’s lived experience, people and to pray for Christian unity. That said, Watson realizes that it week we hear so many Scripture read- he said. That means the celebration of the Sun- can be daunting to just pick up a Bible ings – Old Testament, Psalms and New Pope Francis said in the letter, “A day day of the Word of God “has ecumeni- off the shelf and start reading. That’s Testament – that we tend to know the devoted to the Bible should not be seen cal value, since the Scriptures point out, why she has written three Bible study context and the big picture.” as a yearly event but rather a yearlong for those who listen, the path to authen- guides for people to use in parish small Still, there is room to read, study and event, for we urgently need to grow in tic and firm unity.” Photo by Rick Musacchio Issues of faith Bishop J. Mark Spalding appeared as the guest with Ben Hall on “Issues of Faith” at the NewsChannel 5 studio in Nashville on Wednesday, Jan. 8. It was his second appearance on the show.
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