Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity November 4, 2018 At 8th and N Streets NW Washington DC Seton House 1317 8th Street NW Washington DC 20001 202-999-9934 StLukesOrdinariate.com Rev. John Vidal Pastor Rev. Matthew Whitehead Assisting Priest Rev. Mr. Mark Arbeen Deacon Welcome to St. Luke’s at Immaculate Conception. We are delighted to have you with us. Mass of the Five Wounds We are a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of This week, St. Luke’s will offer the votive Mass of the Five Wounds five times Saint Peter, which was established on January 1, 2012 for the repose of the souls of the beloved dead of St. Luke’s parishioners and by Pope Benedict XVI in response to repeated requests by friends. With this intention, four low Masses of the Five Wounds will be Anglicans seeking to become Catholic. Ordinariate parishes offered at 8:30 am, Monday November 5th through Thursday November 8th. are fully Catholic while retaining elements of their Anglican A fifth sung Mass of the Five Wounds will take place on Saturday November heritage and traditions, including liturgical traditions. 10th at 10 am. Please add to our Requiem Book the names of anyone you wish to be MASSES: Sunday—Friday, 8:30 am remembered. And mark your calendar to join us next Saturday morning. CONFESSIONS: Sundays & Wednesdays, 7:45-8:15am Corporal Work of Mercy: Feeding the Hungry This month we will be assisting St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church as they prepare Thanksgiving baskets with turkeys. We will collect non-perishable Schedule for Immaculate Conception Church food and checks made payable to St. Martin’s Church. St. Martin's will pack Fr. Charles Gallagher, Pastor the baskets on November 18. We urge you to send a donation earmarked for the Thanksgiving baskets [note it in the Memo line of the check] or bring non Masses: Weekdays 12:15pm -perishable items that might be used to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner to Saturday 5:30pm, Sunday 11am & 6pm Mass with you during the month of October and through November 18. Confessions: Saturday 5pm, Sunday 10:30am & 5:30pm 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 Instagram at St.Lukes.Ordinariate.DC 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 Hymnal #300 Processional Before the Lord Jehovah’s Throne Monday November 5th to Thursday, November 8th cantor Introit Dicit Dominus [Jeremiah 29: 11, 12, 14; Psalm 85: 1] Low Mass of the Five Wounds for the Beloved Thus saith the Lord, I know the thoughts that I think towards Dead of St. Luke’s you, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction: ye shall call upon Friday, November 9th me, and I will hearken unto you, and will bring again your Dedication of the Lateran Basilica captivity from every nation. Ps. Lord, thou art become gracious Saturday, November 10th unto thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Glory be..., Thus saith the Lord,... Church Missal p. 1 Introductory Rites Collect for Purity & Summary of the Law Sung Mass of the Five Wounds for the Beloved Dead of St. Luke’s Hymnal #710 Kyrie Second Communion Service [Healey Willan] Know Your Faith Hymnal #713 Gloria Second Communion Service [Healey Willan] The Dedication of St. John Lateran Missal p.2 Collect O God, our refuge and strength, who art the author Most Catholics think of St. Peter’s as the pope’s of all godliness: be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout main church, but they are wrong. The Basilica of prayers of thy Church; and grant that those things which we St. John Lateran is the cathedral of the diocese of ask faithfully we may obtain effectually; through Jesus Christ Rome, the official ecclesiastical seat of the Holy thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the Father, the Bishop of Rome, not St. Peter's Basilica unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. as many mistakenly believe. It is the oldest and Amen. highest ranking of the four major basilicas in First Reading Rome. The Basilica is also called the Church of sit Deuteronomy 6: 2-6 Holy Savior or the Church of St. John Baptist. Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Fear the Lord your God, This was the church where all Christians in you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes ancient Rome were baptized. and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of The basilica was originally named the Archbasilica your life, that your days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O of the Most Holy Savior. However, it is called St. Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, John Lateran because it was built in the fourth and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your century on property donated to the Church by fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and the Laterani family, and because the monks from honey. the monastery of St. John the Baptist and St. John Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall the Divine served it. love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your That original structure and its successors suffered soul, and with all your might. And these words which I fire, earthquake, and the ravages of war, but the command you this day shall be upon your heart.” Lateran remained the church where popes were all Appointed Psalm Psalm 18: 1-3, 47, 51 Diligam te, Domine. consecrated until the seat of the papacy moved to I WILL love thee, O | Lord, my | strength. * The Lord is my stony Avignon in 1309. When the pope returned to | rock, and | my de- | fence; Rome in 1377, he found the church and the 2 My Saviour, my God, and my might, in | whom I • will | trust; * adjoining palace in ruins. my buckler, the horn also of my sal- | vation, | and my | refuge. Pope Innocent X commissioned the present 3 I will call upon the Lord, which is | worthy • to be | praised; * structure in 1646. One of Rome’s most imposing so shall I be | safe_ | from mine | enemies. churches, the Lateran’s towering facade is 47 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my | strong_ | helper, * and crowned with 15 colossal statues of Christ, John praised be the | God of | my sal- | vation. the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and 12 doctors of 51 Great prosperity giveth he | unto his | King, * and showeth the Church. Beneath its high altar rest the loving-kindness unto David his anointed, and unto his | seed remains of the small wooden table on which for | ever- | more. tradition holds Saint Peter himself celebrated Mass. Second Reading Hebrews 7: 23-28 A Latin inscription in the Church reads: “omnium Brethren: The priests [of the former covenant] were many in ecclesiarum Urbis et Orbis mater et caput.” number, because they were prevented by death from Translated, this means, “The mother and head of continuing in office; but Christ holds his priesthood all churches of the city and of the world.” So, permanently, because he continues for ever. Consequently he unlike the commemorations of other Roman is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through churches, this anniversary is a feast. The him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. For it dedication of a church is a feast for all its was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, parishioners. In a sense, St. John Lateran is the blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the parish church of all Catholics, because it is the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer pope’s cathedral. sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. Indeed, Building Fund Mite Boxes the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the Help us BUILD OUR FUTURE by participating word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son in the Mite Box Collection, our project to who has been made perfect for ever. collect spare change for the Building Fund. Alleluia De profundis [Psalm 130: 1] Don’t have a mite box? You can get one from Alleluia, alleluia. Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: the ushers after mass and start collecting. Lord, hear my voice.. Alleluia. Bring your offering up at the end of com- munion on the second Sunday of each stand Gospel Mark 12: 28b-34 month. And you can always just bring up At that time: One of the scribes came up to Jesus and asked him, whatever spare change you have in your “Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answered, “The pocket on the day. No contribution is too first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you small to matter. shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is DC Metro Catholic News no other commandment greater than these.” And the scribe said to Catholic Beer Club him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that he is one, and The Catholic Beer Club will be meeting 4 p.m.