First Sunday of Advent December 1, 2019 Immaculate conception of the blessed virgin Mary catholic church IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH The Mission of Immaculate Conception Parish & St. Louise Chapel is to build a faith community that worships God and supports one another as a loving family that lives and teaches the message of Jesus Christ and that reflects through service the presence of The Lapeer MI 48446 Holy Spirit as revealed in the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. Phone 810-664-8594 Fax 810- 664-4564 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.lapeercatholic.org Ambassadors for Christ Office Hours are: Monday-Friday 9a.m.-6p.m. Harvey Vermeesch 358-0943 Saturday 9a.m.-5p.m. Pastor: Fr. Brian Hurley Sundays 9a.m.-3p.m. ([email protected]) Altar Server Captain Deacon: Deacon Joe Hulway Dimitrius Eddy 810-338-9874 ([email protected]) Angels of Mercy DAILY: Mon. to Thurs. 8:45 a.m. (Tues & Business Manager: Bea Castaneda 810-813-4069 Thurs– Traditional Latin Mass), 1st Fri & Director of Music: Hilary Thompson Choir /Music Sat. @ 8:45 am. ([email protected]) Hilary Thompson 810-627-8829 SATURDAY: 4:30 p.m. Office & Cemetery Manager: Karen Felicity Long SUNDAY: 8:00 a.m.,10:00 a.m. & DuPont ([email protected]) 12:00 p.m. (Latin Mass-Sunday 12:00pm.) Food Pantry Bookkeeper: Dan Dudzinski HOLY DAYS: Please check the Lapeer Dawn Peskey 586-924-1873 Catholic or lapeercatholic.org. ([email protected]) Funeral Luncheons Reconciliation: Tuesday following 8:45 a.m. Secretaries: Linda Barthlow Mass; Saturdays: 3:00-3:45pm; 1st Wednes- ([email protected]) Virginia Anthony day of the Month at 8:00 pm & 1st Friday of the Carol Klave ([email protected]) Millie Goemaere 664-3597 month at 9:30am. For private appointment call the rectory. Bulletin Editor/Webdesigner: Homebound Ministers Linda Barthlow/[email protected] Suzanne Palte 790-1686 Hospital Ministers Our Sacramental Policy Six-month Parish registration and Jail Ministry participation are required for Baptism, Ann Palmer 664-3784 Confirmation and Marriage. Baptisms: Arrangements must be made Knights of Columbus in advance and parents must attend a The Lapeer Catholic articles must be Phil Francis 810 728-2295 baptism class. The Church requires that emailed in by 5pmMonday. Flyers 2 Ladies League at least one of the parents be a practicing weeks prior to bulletin (pending Catholic, and the Godparents must be Dawn Walker 664-6946 active, practicing, fully initiated approval of pastor). Catholics at least 16 years of age. If two Mother of Perpetual Help Rosaries Godparents: must be 1 male & 1 female; if one Godparent: may be male or Jenni Hulway 586-453-4580 female. Order of St. Martha Arrangements must be Bishop Kelley Catholic School Marriage: made at least nine months in advance. 926 W. Nepessing Street Sue Palmer 810-660-1286 Please call the rectory office. Officiate at Lapeer MI 48446 Perpetual Adoration the ceremony must be the Parish Pastor, Phone 810-664-5011 Associate, or Deacon of Immaculate Fax 810-664-5606 Paul & Sylvia Simon 664-9742 Conception or a family member. Web: http://bishopkelleylapeer.org Prison Ministry Funerals: Officiate must be the Parish Principal: Mrs. Bernadette Barron Pastor or Associate of Immaculate Admin. Assistant: Laura Mihm Linda Barthlow 664-8594 Conception or a family member. Please note: The services of the Parish Religious Education Center St. Vincent de Paul Organist are used for all sacramental 926 W. Nepessing St. Rectory 664-8594 liturgies. Lapeer, MI 48446 Worship Commission 810-664-0808/Fax: 664-5606 For more details regarding our Mary Kay & Bob Kosal 287-0063 Email:[email protected] Sacramental policies and procedures, Office Hours: Sun:9:30am –11:30am, Mon:12-8pm, Youth Minister please refer to the Sacrament link on our Parish web-site. Tues: 10am-5pm,Wed: 12-8pm Dimitrius Eddy 810-338-9874 Religious Education Director Kenlin Botello Page 2 December 1, 2019 WWW.LAPEERCATHOLIC.ORG PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Religious Education News THE REAL PRESENCE Advent has arrived! “God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and He cannot be ‘When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent found in noise and restlessness. See each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy how nature, the trees, the flowers, of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation the grasses grow in perfect silence. see the stars, the moon and the sun, for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their how they move in silence. The ardent desire for his second coming’...CCC 524 more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.” St. Teresa of Calcutta ‘The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and “In the womb of His Mother His rest was bodily necessities’… secret, unfelt, unseen, making all who would live in Him into Himself. He is ...‘The Corporal Works of Mercy consist of feeding the as silent, as secret and hidden, in the Host hungry , sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, as He was in Advent. .He trusts Himself to His creatures in the Host as He trusted visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the Himself to Our Lady.” (Caryll Houselander) dead, Among all these, giving alms to the poor is on the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a “Becoming a baby, Jesus assumed our nature and work of justice pleasing to God.’...CCC 2447 established His covenant with the whole of humanity forever. .He came to Bethlehem to stay with us Above all, let your love for one another be intense, forever” (St. Pope John Paul II) because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable Not only is Jesus in the tabernacle in our Church, He to one another without complaining. As each one has is also exposed in the monstrance in our Adoration received a gift, use it to serve one another as good Chapel. How awesome is this! Come and pay Him stewards of God’s varied grace. Whoever preaches let homage this Advent as you're preparing for the great feast of Christmas! it be with the words of God; whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies, so that in all Paul & Sylvia Simon: (810) 664-9742 things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to [email protected] whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever. AMEN. 1Peter 4:8-11 LIVE THE LITURGY - INSPIRATION FOR Fr. Mark Prill’s Advent THE WEEK Parish Mission beginning 2nd week of December. Stay awake! With so many things competing for our Watch upcoming bulletins attention and so many details to attend to, it is very easy for more details to fall into a slumber. We can find ourselves simply going through the motions of life and losing a sense of purpose and direction. Busy with many things, we lose touch with the things of God, especially the gentle stirrings of His presence. Advent calls us to the challenge of living a wakeful life. Awake from the sleep that life’s demands can put on us, and allow God’s word to transform our hearts. Being ready for the coming of the Lord is life’s priority for the Christian. Let us walk in the light of the Lord! December 1, 2019 Page 3 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH Knights of Columbus News Knights Of Columbus Christmas Party It’s that time of the The Knights of Columbus Christmas year when we host The Party will be on December 7th in the Bishop Kelley Refuge for a week at St. Louise. Our week is Community Room. Doors open at 5:30 and the event December 1st through the starts at 6pm. All members, and any men interested in 7th. We need volunteers becoming Knights, are invited along with their to help out with lunches and dinners and families. There will be dinner, gifts for the children, and also with shifts, 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm, 11:00 fun for everyone. For more information contact Dan pm to 3:00 am and 3:00 am to 7:30 am. Mausolf 810-834-5780. See you there! Please call Rick or Angie Rhein at 810-667- 4824 OR 810-441-1080 between 9am & 4pm. Or leave your number at the rectory. ATTENTION PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC Thank you and God bless. ADORARERS It is that time of the year when weather has become cooler outside. Occasionally, this might lead to the homeless or those who have less reason to be in our church than to The Hospital Ministry pray, to wander in after hours . If this happens and it We are looking for a coordinator to head causes you to be uncomfortable or feel unsafe we ask that up our hospital ministry. This ministry is you ask this person or persons to leave the church. If they don’t leave, please call the police. As you may know we solely in charge of taking the Blessed have 24/7 Perpetual Adoration at our church which means Sacrament to the sick at McLaren Regional that people are in Immaculate Conception at all hours. We Hospital in Lapeer. Your job as the want everybody to feel safe and secure and if you coordinator would involve creating a encounter people asking for any kind of hand out, remind schedule for the ministers, arranging them that we have St. Vincent de Paul and they should hospital orientation and training as needed. leave and go to the rectory.