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Your Mission Advent & Two Feasts of Mary To Learn – To Love – To Build – Archbishop Raymond Burke To Pray – To Serve Two important feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary take place during the Season of Advent: the Liturgical Schedule Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8th and the Feast of Our Lady of Confession: Guadalupe, Mother of America and Star of the New Evangelization, on December 12th. Closely Saturday ...... 4:00-4:45 PM related to both feasts is the Memorial of , the messenger of Our Lady of ...... or by appointment Guadalupe, on December 9th, which will not be celebrated liturgically this year because it falls on the 9th of December, on which date the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be Mass: celebrated. The celebration of these feast days of our Blessed Mother and of Saint Juan Diego Saturday Vigil ...... 5:00 PM help us to enter more fully into the observance of the Season of Advent. Sunday ...... 9:00 AM & Noon The Blessed Virgin Mary is our model in preparing for the celebration of Christmas by disposing Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri ...... 9:00 AM our hearts to welcome our Lord more fully, both as He comes to us now in the Church and as Wednesday ...... 6:30 PM He will come to us in glory on the Last Day. She is also our intercessor who asks our Lord to : give us the special graces of Advent, by which our hearts are purified of whatever hinders both Wednesday ...... 6:10 PM our Lord’s coming to us now and our preparation to meet Him when He will come in glory. A reflection on her feasts will help us to see how the Blessed Mother is both the model of our Eucharistic Adoration: Advent observance and our intercessor for the strong graces of the Season of Advent in our Tuesday ...... 9:30 AM lives.

Wednesday ...... 7:00 PM The Immaculate Conception

On December 8th, we recall and celebrate how God preserved the Virgin Mary, from the very Parish Staff moment of her conception, from every stain of sin. In a mysterious and wonderful way, God Pastor: Rev. Welcome Chipiro permitted our Blessed Mother to receive, in anticipation, the grace of eternal salvation which her [email protected] Divine Son would win for all mankind by His Passion and Death. In this way, the Virgin Mary was prepared to receive and fulfill her call to be the Mother of God; the Virgin Mary’s heart was Deacon: Rev. Mr. Ron Jones totally pure from her conception and thus her womb was the fitting vessel in which God the Son 907-978-4018 could be received into the world. The purity of her heart is a sign to us of how our hearts must Rev. Mr. Walt Gelinas (Ret) become pure, with the help of God’s grace, in order that we may welcome our Lord ever more fully into our lives and be ready to meet Him at His Final Coming. Business Manager: Betsy Jones Mary’s Immaculate Heart is filled with love of us who are called to be true sons and [email protected] daughters of God in her Divine Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. When He was about to die on the Cross, Jesus gave us to His mother, as our mother, even as Director of Religious Education: He entrusted her into our hands through the Apostle John. As our Continued on Page 2 Heather Pariera Kimmerling [email protected] Betsy, Heather and Melody are available to assist you during the week.  Betsy’s hours are 12/9 and 12/12 6-9 pm Youth Minister:  Heather’s hours are Sun 8:30 - 2:30, Mon 11-9, Wed 10-5, & Thurs 11-10 Melody Doudna  Melody’s hours are Mon & Tue 9-2, Wed 12 - 10, & Sun 8:30 - 4 [email protected] Heather and Melody’s hours are subject to change depending on ministerial duties. Music Coordinator: Claire Cherniawski If you have a question about ... Please contact... 907-488-2595 Ext # [email protected] BUILDING USE (social hall, classrooms) Heather 22 517-331-3182 BULLETIN Heather 22 New Parishioners: Register online at FINANCES Betsy 20 fairbanks.parishsoftfamilysuite.com/ INTENTIONS (Flowers, Masses) Melody 23 December 8, 2019 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Blessed Mother was totally one in heart with our Lord Jesus in His saving mission, so she continues to exercise her maternal care for all who, through Baptism, have come to life in her Divine Son and, indeed, for all mankind for whom her Son died and rose from the dead and whom He desires to come to life in Him. Our Blessed Mother both teaches us the truth that God became man for our eternal salvation and leads us to experience the same truth through Christ’s love of us in the Church.

Saint Juan Diego On December 9th, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Juan Diego. Juan Diego was a native American of what is today Mexico, who had received the gift of faith and baptism through the ministry of the Spanish Franciscan friars. On December 9, 1531, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at that time in the Spanish Empire, he was on his way to his parish church for the celebration of the feast. He had a somewhat long walk from the home of his elderly uncle, Juan Bernardino, to the parish church. As he approached Tepeyac Hill, which was along the way, our Blessed Mother appeared to him and asked him to be her messenger in carrying out a special mission of love on behalf of his people and all the peoples of the American continent.

The mission was to have Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, O.F.M., First Bishop of Mexico, build a chapel on Tepeyac Hill, in which she might show to all peoples God’s mercy and love in her Divine Son. In her appearance, our Blessed Mother was with child. She appeared to Juan Diego three more times and once to his ailing uncle to whom she brought healing and to whom she announced her name: the Perfect Virgin Holy Mary of Guadalupe (Handbook on Guadalupe, New Bedford, MA: Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, 2001, p. 204). At her fourth appearance, on December 12th, God miraculously supplied, through her, roses in the middle of winter and on a rocky and thorn-infested hill, as a sign of the truth of Saint Juan Diego’s messages to the Bishop. Through Our Lady, God also worked an even more wonderful . Continued on Page 4

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If you want to have something placed in the SACRAMENTS AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION bulletin, please leave it in the DRE mailbox (Heather) by the Monday prior to the Baptism contact Deacon Ron weekend you want it posted in the 1st Reconciliation & 1st Eucharist contact Heather bulletin. Thank you! Confirmation contact Melody Marriage contact Fr. Welcome Liturgical Ministers: DEC 14h & 15th Anointing of the Sick contact Fr. Welcome Altar Servers: Payton Fortenberry & Isabella Grorud Vocations contact Fr. Robert at the chancery, 974-9500 5 PM Lectors: Anne Armour & Paul Karczmarczyk RCIA/RCIC contact Fr. Welcome or Heather EMs: Mike & Eileen Wehner Children’s Religious Ed contact Heather. Meets on Counters: Brede Grorud & Eve Karczmmarczyk Sundays from 10:30 to 11:45 AM during the school year. Altar Servers: Isaac Villa & Eric Deitz Youth Ministry contact Melody. Edge (6-8 grade) meets 9 AM Lector: Lois Armentor & Fred Villa on Sundays from 10:30 to 11:45 AM during the school EMs: Renee Sikorski & Mark McGovern year. Youth group (9-12 grade) from 6 to 8 PM on Counters: Linda Bullock & Delmar Lashinski Wednesdays. Altar Servers: Tristan Nicholson & Livia Farleigh Adult Ed Sundays from 10:30 - 11:45 AM during Children’s RE Class in the Conference Room. Noon Lectors: Ivy Nicholson & Barb Smith EMs: Shane & Garren Nicholson Monday Night Bible Study is year round from Counters: Jeannette Therriault & Cathy Price 6:30 - 8:30 PM in the Conference Room. Day Date Intention Feast Day Readings 9 AM - Cindy Adams Immaculate Conception of the Gn 3:9-15, 20 / Ps 98:1-4 / Eph 1:3-6, 11-12 / Monday 12/9 7 PM - Cardinal Pell Blessed Virgin Mary Lk 1:26-38 Tuesday 12/10 9 AM - Suicide Victims Is 40:1-11 / Ps 96:1-3, 10-13 / Mt 18:12-14 Wednesday 12/11 6:30 PM - Fr. Paul Kalchik Pope St. Damasus I Is 40: 25-31 / Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10 / Mt 11:28-30 Thursday 12/12 9 AM - Church Leaders Zec 2:14-17 / Jdt 13:18bcde, 19 / Lk 1:26-38 Friday 12/13 9 AM - Pope Francis St. Lucy, Virgin & Martyr Is 48:17-19 / Ps 1:1-4, 6 / Mt 11:16-19 Saturday 12/14 5 PM - Fr. Jonathon Dellinger St. John of the Cross Sir 48:1-4, 9-11 / Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 / Mt 17:9-13 9 AM - People of the Parish Is 35:1-6a, 10 / Ps 146: 6-10 / Jas 5:7-10 / Sunday 12/15 Third Sunday of Advent Noon - Theodore Edgar McCarrick Mt 11:2-11 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT December 8, 2019 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION YOUTH MINISTRY THIS WEEK AT Religious Education: Classes are 10:30 – 11:45 am. EDGE is Sundays, from 10:30 am to 11:45 am. ST NICKS... Here’s the schedule for the next month:b  December 8th: Class, Adoration at 11:15 Youth Nights are on Wednesdays, MONDAY  December 15th: Class from 6 pm to 8 pm. Hope to see you there! nd December 9  December 22 : No Class - Merry Christmas!

th Immaculate Conception  December 29 :: No Class - Merry Christmas! Contact Melody with any questions at: [email protected] RCIC: Classes are on Thursdays from 7 pm - 8 pm in the 8:45 AM Morning Prayer 3rd Grade classroom. Last class before the Christmas 9 AM Mass break is December 19th. Classes for RCIC will resume BIBLE STUDY 7 PM Mass on January 9, 2020. Sunday Bible Study: TUESDAY Meets in the Conference Room during RE classes for Wisdom: God’s Vision for Life. December 10 8:45 AM Morning Prayer The Monday Night Bible Study begins the study 9 AM Mass of the book of Philemon December 2nd. It has Adoration only one chapter - but will take two weeks. This is a WEDNESDAY great book to study if you want to see what Bible Study is like without a long commitment. December 11 6 PM Youth Group (Youth Rm) Teens! Young Adults! RCIA 6:10 PM Rosary If you are interested in becoming Catholic or are 6:30 PM Mass already Catholic but have not yet received your Adoration You are wanted for the First Communion and/or Confirmation... 7 PM Knights of Columbus 7:00 PM ...please contact Heather, the DRE, at THURSDAY Christmas Vigil [email protected] or 907-488-2595, ext. 22 Children’s Mass December 12 Classes are on Thursdays at 7 pm in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Call Claire at 517-331-3182 Youth Room. 8:45 AM Morning Prayer 9 AM Mass [email protected] FEAST & FAITH 7 PM RCIA / RCIC

Music ministers are also needed for all the Young Adults (18-35ish) FRIDAY Masses on a regular basis. White Elephant Gift Exchange December 13 December 10 Lou Gaudreau, Andrulli Family, Matt 8:45 AM Morning Prayer Armour, Geri Barrt-Abl, Evlyn Bente, 6:00-8:35 pm 9 AM Mass Christine Bravo-Cullen, Rich Calamari, Maggie Calligan, Heather Campbell & Family, Miguel’s Authentic Mexican Cuisine 1235 Airport Way SATURDAY Cara, Howard Cleveland, Sharon Corbett,

Leila Dade, Joey Daniels, Emma Davie, Dan Come meet other young adults who share a December 14 Denton, Ken Donahue, Kathleen Doyle, desire to create lasting relationships and support Mary Erzar, Nathan Evans Family, Janice Flory, Fran, each other in the faith. For more info contact 4 PM Confession Shelby Fritts, Lou Gaudreau, Rick Giles, Pat Goble, Sarah the Office of Faith and Family Formation at 5 PM Mass Graham, Dee Whitly Grant, Etta Grant, Edward Hagerty, 374-9511 or email [email protected] Harry, Tanner Hosli, Ed Hunter, Dawn Jagow, Rom SUNDAY James, Sharon James, Christina Jones, Becky Konderlik, December Rosary Intentions: December 15 Donald Joseph LaBrake, Donna Linville, Abram Lugo, Desirre Madina, Marie Malenfant, Christopher Matzie, That every country take the measures Third Sunday of Advent Mary McGovern, Vito Moncello, Evelyn Morrison, Mary necessary to prioritize the future of 9 AM Mass Rita O’Brien, Bradley Ochsner, Elisabeth O’Sullivan, the very young, especially those who 10 AM K of C Breakfast 10:30 RE/EDGE Charlie Paul Jr., Eric Rairden, Kayla Rauenhorst, Emily are suffering Reynolds, Jackie Riddell, Olivia Sala, Charles Schmidt, Bible Study James Shakoske, Crystal Smith, Luis Starbur, Teresa Stark, Noon Mass Matt Stoller, Larry Terch, Lee Thomas, Brittney Thomson, In memory of 2 PM Confirmation Thurman Family, Tietz Family, Louella Tilman, Nicholas Anita Cannon Tilman, Tim, David Uedelhofen, Mary Velasquez, Joe By Mike & Eileen Wehner Knights of Columbus Vigil, Dorothy Villeneuve, Russell & Ruth Watling, Activities for December: Bridget Wehner, Danielle & Micaiah Wells, Michael Wells, To make an Altar Flower Dec 11 Knights Meeting Larry White, Patricia Wilson, Mary Wing, Dewayne Wolf, dedication, fill out a Dec 15 Pancake Breakfast Allen Wright, the homebound, and for our brothers &

sisters in the bush communities. donation envelope, located on the bulletin Pray for a just and peaceful resolution to conflicts in areas board, and drop it in the collection basket. Interested in of the world where military troops are deployed. For our becoming a WANT TO START GIVING ELECTRONICALLY? elected officials, especially President Trump. For Bishop Knight? Chad, the priests serving our diocese and for an increase Visit www.faithdirect.net and use our church code: Contact Fred Villa in vocations for Fairbanks. AK237 907-978-3960 December 8, 2019 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Continued from Page 2 When she had arranged the flowers in the mantle (tilma or Feast of the ayate) of Juan Diego, she instructed him not to show the Immaculate flowers to anyone but the Bishop. When Juan Diego unfolded his mantle and the most beautiful flowers cascaded before the Conception Bishop, the Bishop witnessed a miracle that we continue to December 9th witness today: God imprinted the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Juan Diego’s cactus-cloth mantle. There is no human explanation of how the image is imprinted. The cactus- Mass at 9:00 AM & cloth mantle which should have disintegrated within thirty to 7:00 PM forty years remains intact today, so that we can still gaze upon the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe who is, by a very special Since the Holy Day fell title, our mother in America. on Sunday, the Second Sunday of Advent pre- Our Lady of Guadalupe We celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe empted the Holy Day, which means that this year, on December 12th, the day which marks both her the Holy Day is NOT a Holy Day of Obligation. last appearance to Saint Juan Diego, with the miracle of the roses and of the sacred image, and Would you like to participate in a daily her appearance to Juan Bernardino. On her feast Advent reflection? If so, you can sign up for one at day, the Mother of God invites us anew, as she has faithfully www.formed.org/advent, done since her appearances from December 9th to 12th in 1531, and there is a children’s option, too. to know the mystery of God’s mercy and love in our lives by You will need to have subscribed to Formed.org. coming to know and love her Divine Son. Her words to Juan Our parish code is adb581. Diego in 1531 are her words to us today: This subscription is free to you. Know, know for sure, my dearest, littlest, and youngest son, that I am the perfect and ever Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the The Diocese of Fairbanks is seeking an God of truth through Whom everything lives…. I want very Executive/Tribunal Assistant much to have a little house built here for me, in which I will responsible for supporting the Office of show Him, I will exalt Him and make Him manifest. I will the Bishop and the Tribunal by give Him to the people in all my personal love, in my providing administrative support to both the Vicar General and compassion, in my help, in my protection: because I am truly Chancellor. Primary duties are scheduling appointments, data entry, your merciful Mother, yours and all the people who live united in filing, correspondence, processing of personnel information, this land and of all the other people of different ancestries, my customer service and following up on requests regarding Diocesan lovers, who love me, those who seek me, those who trust in me policies in alignment with the mission, vision and values of the (Handbook on Guadalupe, p. 194). Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks. This is a full time position with In her maternal love, Our Lady of Guadalupe wants, most of benefits and will remain open until filled. For more information, all, to show us how much God loves us in Jesus Christ, God the please contact Leigh Scarboro via email at [email protected] Son Incarnate in her womb. She draws our hearts, which are frequently beset by fear and doubt and sin, to her Immaculate  3% of December’s Heart, so that we, with her, may place our hearts into the offerings will be donated glorious pierced Heart of Jesus, the only source of our joy and to the Retirement Fund peace, of our healing and strength. for Religious.  Immaculate Conception In a very special way, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe offerings will go to Right uncovers for us what the Coming of our Lord means for us in to Life, Interior AK Weekly Need $6,700 America. It is our Blessed Mother who teaches us how  The Thanksgiving immeasurably God loves us and treasures every human life collection of $210 was Collected 12/1/2019 $ 3836.00 without exception or boundary. 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Conclusion Guadalupe, Mother of America and Star of the New Evangelization, May the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate inspire in us a new enthusiasm and a new energy to be the heralds of Conception and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe draw us God’s mercy and love to all our brothers and sisters. With the Mother closer to Christ Who comes to us in the Church and Who will of God, may we become ever more generous and tireless in come to us in glory at the end of time. As we honor the Mother safeguarding and fostering every human life, called into being by God of God, let us make our hearts one with her Immaculate Heart, out of His immense love and redeemed by the outpouring of the life of so that we, with her, may make our hearts one with the Sacred His only-begotten Son Who became man for us and for our eternal Heart of Jesus. salvation. So may we, day by day, with the Mother of God, await Continued faithfully the Coming of the Lord. ANGELA GRORUD ANNE ARMOUR JADE FAUSTINA

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