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This Sunday’s Readings:
Micah 5:1-4a
Hebrews 10:5-10
Luke 1:39-45
Next Sunday’s Readings:
1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-28
1 John 3:1-2, 21-24
Luke 2:42-52
Immaculate Conception
Last Week’s Collection
Offerings Needed Per week: $2,500.00
Last Weekend’s Collection: $1,989.82
*This amount reflects offertory, building and
restricted funds.
Give generously to Him and do so without a grudging heart; then
because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in
everything you put your hand to. Deut. 15:10
All articles for the bulletin are now due by
Monday afternoon. You may email your
article to immconchurch@qwestoffice.net,
subject line should be For Bulletin. Thank
you in advance for your assistance.
“Year of Faith” News
Christ as the new man
“The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate
word does the mystery of man make on light. For Adam,
the first man, was a figure of Him who was to come,
namely, Christ the Lord. Christ, the final Adam, by the
revelation of the mystery of the Father and his love, fully
reveals to man himself and makes his supreme calling
clear. It is not surprising, then, that in him all the
aforementioned truths find their root and attain their
crown. He who is “the image of the invisible God” (Col.
1:15), is himself the perfect man.
To the sons of Adam restores the divine likeness which
had been disfigured from the first sin onward. Since
human nature as He assumed it was not annulled, by that
very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity in our
respect too. For by his incarnation the Son of God has
united Himself in some fashion with every man. He
worked with human hands, He thought with a human
mind, acted by human choice, and loved with a human
heart. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made
one of us, like us in all things except sin.” (The
Documents of Vatican II, Pastoral Constitution on the
Church in the Modern World # 22)
OFFICE HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
The parish office will be closed on as
follows:
December 24 through January 1.
Re-open on January 2, 2013.
Father will have the following days off:
December 26—28 and January 2-4,
2013.
We will not have adoration on
December 27 & 28. We will have
Communion service and Adoration on
January 3 & 4, 2013.
Year End Contributions
Your year end contribution will need to reach the
office no later than December 31st to be
considered for 2012. This may be done by
placing it in the collection basket the weekend of
Dec. 22/23. Postmarked December 31.
Reminder that the office is closed on December
24 through January 1.
A special thank you to our Hispanic
Community, who donated a projector and
2 projector screens to the parish. May the
Our Lord continue to bless them.
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