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Show IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH by Connie Mochizuki Today First Friday of Month Today, Friday,' Dec. 7 is the First Friday of the month. At Immaculate Immacu-late Conception Church, Copperton Holy Communion will be distributed at 9:15 a.m. and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with all day adoration. ad-oration. Benediction and mass at 6 p.m. First Friday mass in St. Paschal's Church, Lark, will be at 4:30 p.m. There will be no adoration during the day. Holy Day of Obligation - Saturday, December 8 is a Holy Day of Obligation. It is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and since this is the patronal feast of this parish we are asked to honor Our Lady by attending mass and make every effort to receive Holy Communion this day. Saturday's schedule is: Copperton 9:00 a.m., confessions; confes-sions; 9:30 a.m. mass followed by initiations of members into the Atonement Club with breakfast in the hall. Lar 3:30, Confessions; 4:30, mass. Bingham 6:00, mass. Confessions Confes-sions before mass. BAKE SALE SATURDAY The Atonement Club of this parish par-ish is sponsoring a bake sale this Saturday morning following the 9:30 mass in the church hall. Members Mem-bers of Immaculate Conception Altar Al-tar Society will donate baked goods for this project. Parishioners are asked to support this worthy project pro-ject to help the club raise funds for future activities. "LAS MANANITAS" "Las Mananitas" the traditional morning serenade to Our Lady of Guadalupe will be held on Our Lady's La-dy's Feast Day, Wed., Dec. 12th at 5 a.m. in St. Paschal's Church, Lark. Mass will be at 6 a.m. Parishioners Parish-ioners are cordially invited to attend at-tend this beautiful ceremony. SENIOR ACTIONEER'S The Senior Actioneer's will be selling tickets on a I 6 ft turkey for Christmas starting today. This organization or-ganization is also raising funds for their future activities. Co-chairmen are Sam Pino and Albert Pino. Tickets are I 0c each or 3 for 25c. INITIATION BREAKFAST The Atonement Club's initiation breakfast will be prepared by the following ladies of the parish: Mrs. Boyd Anderson, Mrs. Sergio Garcia, Mrs. Frank Serassio and Mrs. Pete Garduno. Cleaning Schedule Church cleaning for December is being done by the following ladies: Immaculate Conception Mrs. Maurine Osoro, Mrs. Margie Osoro and Mrs. Adele Delia Lucia; Holy Rosary Chapel Mrs. Carmen Lopez. ADVENT The following article on Advent which is so appropriate for this holy season is printed through the courtesy of the Sisters of Victory: Advent is a preparation for that event full of grace, the birth of our Lord. Not that Christ will be actually actu-ally born in a stable. That happened happen-ed once 2000 years ago. But it happened hap-pened for us. For each one of us. With the priestly power received from Our Lord, the Church is go- . (Continued on page four) I Isaias says: Keep on hoping I The Church opens his prophecy on the First Sunday of Advent, and reads it every day at the Divine Office until Christmas night. St. John the Baptist says: You must be converted. You must change your life. He fulfills his office of Forerunner on three of the Sundays in Advent. Finally there is Our Lady. She dominates the whole of Advent, from the beginning to end. These weeks form our Lady's month, par excellence. Looking at her, we can see o easily what our attitude of welcome should be. Every day, as she went to the fountain, as she did the housework at Nazareth, talked with her neighbors, travelled towards tow-ards her cousin, Elizabeth, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night, one thought was uppermost in her mind; one certainty certain-ty ruled all her actions, the Child Who was growing within her her own child and her Lord! During Advent, we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Concep-tion. This love which surrounded the Blessed Virgin, which preserved preserv-ed her in the state of grace from the very first instant, this love i ur-rounds ur-rounds us all, since it was for our salvation that ahe wa chosen to be the Mother of Cod. There i a prayer which reign over the period of Advent, the An-gelui, An-gelui, the perfect summary of the mystery of the Incarnation. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and we have shared this declaration, it has come down to us. Behold the Handmaid of the Lord and behold us, His servants. And the word was made flesh for always and for all of usl IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH (Continued from page one) ing to re-present that mystery to us so that we can share it. God's Eternal Love appeared in this tiny infant born of the Virgin Mary. The submission of Jesus, His himil-ity himil-ity and strength, His adoration of the Father, His offering to men, His peace, are all offered to us, and communicated to us through the Eucharist bound up in the whole celebration of Christmas. It is we who must be born to the life of the Son of Cod. The word only became one of us that we may each become Hi. The important thing for us js the approaching Christmas, for eternity is today I The graces of Christ's nativity na-tivity must reach us through the repetitions of Christmas. We, human hu-man beings, are made like that; nothing ia perfect or complete all at once, but our whole existence, human and divine, ia progressive, repetitive, accomplished by a succession suc-cession of strokes and beginning over and over again. Cod knows that quite well! The Christian Liturgy Lit-urgy is His instrument. To pass through Advent and to prepare for Christmas, we have three spiritual guides: Isaias, St ohn the Baptist and Our Blessed Lady. |