IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH 104 EAST JOHN STREET

CLINTON, N.C. 28328 Office: (910) 592-1384

Website: www.icclintonnc.org Parish email: inri@icclintonnc.org

Pastor: Rev. Joseph Dionne, C.Ss.R. Parochial Vicar: Rev. Mark Wise, C.Ss.R. Pastoral Associates: 910-596-2210 Sister Theresine Gildea, C.D.P. Sister Maxine Tancraitor, C.D.P.

Office Hours Monday through Friday: 8:30 AM-3:00 PM

Secretary: Agata Kusmierczuk Music Director: Mary Goodwin

Mass Schedule - Horario de Misas Saturday- Sábado 6:00 PM Español Clinton Sunday - Domingo 10:00 AM English Clinton Sunday - Domingo 12:30 PM Español Clinton Sunday - Domingo 6:00 PM Español Ingold

Daily Mass—As published inside bulletin.

Reconciliation - Confesiones Saturday –Sábado, 4:00—5:30 p.m. Faith Formation - Catequesis

Immaculate Conception, Clinton Saturday, 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Primera Comunión –Año I y II (Español) Sunday, 11:00 AM-12:15 PM First Communion Year I & II (English) Monday, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Confirmation - Year I Monday, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM Confirmation - Year II San Juan, Ingold Sunday, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Primera Comunión - Año I y II Emergency phone: 910-594-0287

“But God, seeing men reduced to this miserable state, was moved with pity, and resolved to save them. But how?” He did not send an angel, a seraph; but to show to the world the immense love that he bore to these ungrateful worms, He sent His own Son in the likeness of human flesh.” — Saint Alphonsus Liguori The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ

March 6, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Lent

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13b; Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18; Jn 5:17-30 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; Jn 5:31-47 Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:17-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Saturday: Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12; Jn 7:40-53 Sunday: Is 43:16-21; Ps 126:1-6; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11; or Ez 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-8; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20- 27, 33b-45]

Please a end a weekday Mass! MASS SCHEDULE and INTENTION

Saturday, March 5 6:00 PM + Argeniz Marin Jiménez, Alfredo Jiménez, María de la Rosa Sunday, March 6 10:00 AM + Bronisław Rabos 12:30 PM + Santos Arias, Teodora Andrés, Laura Mar nez, Uriel Mendoza 6:00 PM (Ingold) People of the Parish Monday, March 7 8:00 AM + Pedro Ayala, Na vidad Hérnández Tuesday, March 8 No masses Wednesday, March 9 7:00 PM + Benito Belmares, Salvador Belmares Thursday, March 10 8:00 AM Kelly & Jordan Pike Friday, March 11 8:00 AM Paul & Jessie Ostrowski Saturday, March 12 6:00 PM + Socorro Rodriguez, Victorino Barrón, Alberta Barrón Week of Sunday, March 13 Sunday, March 13 10:00 AM + Eddie Besaw, Dick Besaw, Bob Besaw, John Besaw, Mike Besaw 12:30 PM + No inten on requested 6:00 PM (Ingold) People of the Parish

OFFERTORY REPORT

Weekly budget required: $3,100.00 Offertory received Feb.27/28 $2,269.00 Total loan amount owed: $137,783.00 Total paid to date: $14,716.44

Prepárense para la Renovación del Cora-zon. Este retiro se ba-sa en el testimonio de un equipo alentador que viene a compartir el poder de Dios y su amor para con el ser

humano en un fin de semana extraordinario. Hay oportunidad para reflexionar, orar y conocer al Señor por medio de los hermanos/hermanas en Él. Nadie sale tal como ha entra-do. No hay costo y todo está previsto. Aprovechen este tiempo de gracia y salvación que el Señor pone a nuestra disposición. Re ro de Hombres: 18, 19 y 20 de marzo Re ro de Mujeres: 15, 16 y 17 de abril

Stations of the Cross—Via Crucis Every Friday—cada Viernes 6:00 PM Soup for the Soul/Sopa para el Alma Served in the Fr. Price Center 7:00 PM Stations of the Cross/Via Crucis Celebrated in church Date: Soup for Soul provided by: Friday, 11 March Faith Formation Students Friday, 18 March Altar Society

March 7: Transfigura on, Wallace March 8: St. Mary of the Angels, Mount Olive (6:30 p.m.) March 8: Sta. Teresa, Beulaville March 9, Sta. Clara, Magnolia March 10: María Reina, Duplin County March 15: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Newton Grove All services are at 7:00 p.m. March 16: Seymour Johnson AFB , Goldsboro unless otherwise indicated.

2016 BAA We Are Almost There! We have pledged 75% of our 2016 BAA goal.

Sunday March 13th we will hold our last In-Pew collec on for the BAA. Thank you to the 40 individuals/families who have made a contribu on using their preprinted pledge cards and thank you to the numerous individuals/families who have contributed via the in-pew collec ons. We are within $5600 of achieving our goal. Please consider helping support over 20 outreach ministries that receive funding from the BAA.

“Laetare Sunday¨”is the popular name for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Laetare means "Rejoice" in La n, and the Introit (entrance an phon) in both the Tradi onal La n Mass and the Novus Ordo is Isaiah 66:10-11, which begins "Laetare, Jerusalem" ("Rejoice, O Jerusalem"). Because the midpoint of Lent is the Thursday of the third week of Lent, Laetare Sunday has tradi onally been viewed as a day of celebra on, on which the austerity of Lent is briefly lessened. on Laetare Sunday, the purple vestments and altar cloths of Lent are set aside, and rose ones are used instead.

HOLY WEEK 2016

Holy /Thursday/Jueves Santo (no 8:00 am mass)

7:00 PM Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by the Transfer of the Blessed Sacrament from the Church to the Place of Repose in the Price Center with Holy Hour Misa Vespertina de la Cena del Señor seguida por Traslado del Sso. Sacramento al Momumento y Adoración Good Friday/Viernes Santo

3:00 PM Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 5:00 PM Vìa Crucis Viviente 7:00 PM Celebración de la Pasión del Señor

Holy Saturday/Sábado Santo

(no 6:00 pm mass)

10:00 AM Easter food blessing/ Bendición de comida pascual 8:00 PM Easter Vigil/Vigilia Pascual

Easter Sunday/Domingo de Pascua

10:00 AM English Mass 12:30 PM Spanish Mass 6:00 PM Spanish Mass in Ingold

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“Forgive As Though You Have Forgo en”

Lent is a privileged me to prepare our hearts to receive God’s forgiveness, and to show it to others, by forge ng their faults. Forgiving, the Pope stressed, means opening our hearts so that God’s mercy might come and forgive us, “for, we all have need of pardon, need to ask forgiveness.”

Stressing that we are to trust in God’s mercy and goodness, Francis noted, “When God forgives, his for-giveness is so great that it is as though God forgets.” The Argen ne Pon ff said this “quite the opposite”

of what we do, “as we cha er: ‘But so-and-so did such-and-such.’ He stressed how much history we have of this and noted we do this because we don’t have merciful hearts.

Francis invited those present to have mercy on others, so they shall feel God’s mercy, who, when “He forgives,” He also “forgets.” “In the Our Father,” the Pope recalled, “we pray: ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ It is an equa on: the two sides go together. If you are not able to forgive, how will God forgive you? He wants to forgive you, but He will not if you have closed hearts, where mercy cannot enter.”

‘But, Father, I forgive, but I cannot forget the bad turn that so-and-so did me …’. Well, ask the Lord to help you to for-get.” Francis also cri cized when we people say ‘I forgive you,’ but mean, ‘You’ll pay me later.’ “This, never!” Francis said. “Forgive as God forgives – to the utmost.”

Pope Francis concluded, saying, “May Lent prepare our hearts to receive God’s forgiveness – but let us receive it and then do the same with others: forgive hear ly.”

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“Debemos perdonar como lo hace Dios, olvidando”

El empo de cuaresma “nos prepare el corazón” al perdón de Dios y debemos perdonar nosotros como Él lo hace, es decir, “olvidando” las culpas de los demás. De este modo, advir ó que la perfección de Dios ene un punto débil exactamente allí donde la imperfección humana ende a no hacer descuentos: la capacidad de perdonar. Así, precisó en la homilía que “cuando Dios perdona, su perdón es tan grande que es como si olvidase”. Y añadió que es todo lo contrario a lo que hacemos nosotros con los chismorreos: “’pero este ha hecho eso, ha hecho eso, ha he-cho eso’…y nosotros tenemos de tantas personas la historia an gua, media, medieval y moderna ¿eh? y no olvida-mos”. ¿Por qué? El Pon fice explicó que es porque no tenemos el corazón misericordioso. Al respecto, el Santo Padre señaló que “en el Padre Nuestro rezamos: ‘perdona nuestras ofensas como también noso-tros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden’. Es una ecuación, van juntas. Si tú no eres capaz de perdonar, ¿cómo podrá perdonarte Dios? Él te quiere perdonar, pero no podrá si tú enes el corazón cerrado y la misericordia no puede en-trar. ‘Pero, Padre, yo perdono pero no puedo olvidar esa cosa fea que me han hecho…’. ‘Entonces pide al Señor que te ayude a olvidar’: pero esto es otra cosa. Se puede perdonar, pero olvidar no siempre se consigue. Pero ‘perdonar’ y ‘me la pagarás’: ¡eso no!

Finalmente, manifestó su deseo para que la cuaresma “nos prepare el corazón para recibir el perdón de Dios”. Pero recibirlo y después hacer lo mismo con los otros: perdonar de corazón. “Quizá no me saludes nunca, pero en mi cora-zón yo te he perdonado. Y así nos acercamos a esta cosa tan grande, de Dios, que es la misericordia”, observó.

Al concluir, el Pon fice reconoció que perdonando abrimos nuestro corazón, Porque la misericordia de Dios entra y nos perdona, a nosotros. Porque todos nosotros tenemos mo vos para pedir perdón: todos. Perdonemos y seremos perdonados. Tengamos misericordia con los otros y sen remos esta misericordia de Dios que, cuando perdona ‘olvida’”.

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