Sexagesima February 4, 2018 At 8th and N Streets NW Washington DC Seton House 1317 8th Street NW Washington DC 20001 202-999-9934 StLukesOrdinariate.com Fr. John Vidal Pastor Ash Wednesday is Observed on February 14th This Year. Mass with distribution of ashes will be at 8:30 am. Welcome to St. Luke’s at Immaculate Conception. We are delighted to have you with us. Sunday Morning Rosary We are a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, which was established on January 1, 2012 Helene Vidal will be leading a recitation of the rosary every Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI in response to repeated requests by morning before Mass, starting at 8:10 am. Meet her at the front of the Anglicans seeking to become Catholic. Ordinariate parishes church on the Epistle side. [ N.B.—A plenary indulgence (under the are fully Catholic while retaining elements of their Anglican usual conditions) is granted for the public recitation of five decades of heritage and traditions, including liturgical traditions. the Rosary. So make a plan to join Helene in this wonderful devotion.] MASSES: Sunday—Friday, 8:30 am Corporal Work of Mercy: Socks and Gloves for the Homeless CONFESSIONS: Sundays & Wednesdays, We are continuing this month to collect socks and gloves for the 7:45-8:15am homeless. Thickness is the key consideration for both socks and the gloves. Men’s sizes are preferred. If you buy cotton socks, remember that sometimes two pairs are worn at the same time when it is cold. Schedule for Immaculate Conception Church White is the preferred color for socks. We will collect the socks and gloves at the coffee hour after Mass. Fr. Charles Gallagher, Pastor Masses: Weekdays 12:15pm Stations of the Cross Saturday 5:30pm, Sunday 11am & 6pm On every Friday in Lent, we will be holding Stations of the Cross at Confessions: Saturday 5pm, 6:30 pm, followed by a Soup Supper. Mark your calendars for the first Sunday 10:30am & 5:30pm service on February 16th and 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 Monday, February 5th Hymnal #562 Processional Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus Agatha, Virgin and Martyr Tuesday, February 6th cantor Introit Exsurge, quare obdormis [Cf. Psalm 44: 23-26, 1] Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs Arise, O Lord, wherefore sleepest thou? Awake, and cast us not away for ever: wherefore hidest thou thy countenance, Thursday, February 8th Jerome Emiliani, Priest and forgettest our adversity and misery? Our belly cleaveth Josephine Bakhita, Virgin unto the ground; arise and save us, O Lord, our helper and SATURDAY, February 10th our deliverer. Ps. O God, we have heard with our ears: our Scholastica, Virgin fathers have told us. Glory be... Arise, O Lord... Missal p. 1 Introductory Rites Collect for Purity & Summary of the Law Know Your Faith Hymnal #710 Kyrie Second Communion Service [Healey Willan] Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was Missal p.2 Collect martyred in approximately 251. She is one of O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing seven women, who, along with the Blessed that we do: mercifully grant that by thy power, we may be Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ thy Son our the Canon of the Mass. Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Having dedicated her virginity to God, fifteen- Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. year-old Agatha rejected the amorous sit First Reading Job 7: 1-4, 6-7 advances of the low-born Roman prefect Job spoke, saying, “Has not man a hard service upon earth, and Quintianus, who then persecuted her for her are not his days like the days of a hireling? Like a slave who longs Christian faith. He sent Agatha to Aphrodisia, for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages, so I the keeper of a brothel. The madam finding her am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are intractable, Quintianus had her put in prison. apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ Amongst the tortures she underwent was the But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My cutting off of her breasts with pincers. Saint days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end Agatha was then sentenced to be burnt at the without hope. Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will stake, but an earthquake saved her from that never again see good.” fate; instead, she was sent to prison where she died in prison. She is the patron saint of breast all Appointed Psalm Psalm 147: 1-6 Laudate Dominum. cancer patients, martyrs, wet nurses, bell- PRAISE the Lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises | unto our | founders, bakers, fire, earthquakes, and God; * yea, a joyful and pleasant | thing it | is · to be | thankful. eruptions of Mount Etna. 2 The Lord doth build | up Je- | rusalem, * and gather to- | gether the | outcasts of | Israel. 3 He healeth those that are | broken in | heart, * and giveth | medicine to | heal their | sickness. 4 He telleth the | number · of the | stars, * and | calleth them | all by · their | names. 5 Great is our Lord, and | great is · his | power; * yea, | and his | wisdom is | infinite. 6 The Lord setteth | up the | meek, * and bringeth the un- | godly | down · to the | ground. Second Reading 1 Corinthians 9: 16-19, 22-23 Brethren: If I preach the Gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel. For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. cantor Tract Commovisti [Psalm 60: 2, 4b, 5] Building Fund Mite Boxes stand Thou hast moved the land, O Lord: and divided it. Help us BUILD OUR FUTURE by V. Heal the sores thereof: for it shaketh. participating in the Mite Box Collection, V. That they may triumph because of the truth: that thy beloved our project to collect spare change for the may be delivered. Building Fund. Don’t have a mite box? You can get one Gospel Mark 1: 29-39 from the ushers after mass and start At that time: Leaving the synagogue, Jesus entered the house of collecting. Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in- Bring your offering up at the end of law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her. And communion on the second Sunday of each he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever month. And you can always just bring up left her; and she served them. That evening, at sundown, they whatever spare change you have in your brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And pocket on the day. No contribution is too the whole city was gathered together about the door. And he small to matter. healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. 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February's Gathering— sit Homily Sunday, February 18, 3pm to 5pm Right Proper Production House & Tasting Blue insert The Nicene Creed Anglican Folk Mass [Shaw] Room - 920 Girard Street NE, Washington, DC 20017 Missal p.25 The Prayers of the Faithful Brookland/CUA Metro Stop (Red Line) Missal p.5 The Penitential Rite See “Tomb of Christ” in Lent cantor Offertory Chant Perfice gressus meos [Psalm 17: 5, 6b, 7] This Lent, journey virtually to the Church of the sit O hold thou up my goings in the paths, that my footsteps slip not; Holy Sepulchre, the place of the crucifixion and incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words: show thy burial of Christ.