Consecration on the Immaculate Conception

Dec 8 Sat 4pm Vigil Mass with Bishop Robert McManus: with Marian Consecration on this the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 4pm. There will be a light dinner, refreshments and coffee immediately following the Holy Mass. You are all welcome to join us for the Mass and to pray for all those making their Consecration and to pray as their Pastor, Fr. Richard, entrusts his whole parish into the hands of Mary. Our Lady of Czestochowa, 34 Ward St. Worcester, MA.

Please consider fasting in some way for a Consecration Day. Fasting can be on bread and water for a day or two or giving up something that you really enjoy - such as FaceBook, social media, cream or sugar in your coffee, desserts, eating your favorite food or fasting from gossip and idle conversations.

Dec 12 Wed 6:30pm - the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Ann's Parish is having their Parish-wide Consecration Mass. There will be a light dinner, refreshments and coffee immediately following the Holy Mass. You are all welcome join Fr. Michael, and his team, in their personal Consecration and as he entrusts his whole parish and Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine into Mary's hands. The parish is located at 652 Main Street, North Oxford.

Dec 14 Fri 7pm Reparation Rosary at Immaculate Conception Parish with Fr. Reidy
Dec 15 Sat 9am Prayer Protest on Pleasant St. across from or next to Planned Parenthood, 475 Pleasant St. Worcester
Dec 15 Sat 8am Mass - 4pm Benediction, Advent Day of Recollection with Fr. Joseph Medio, FPO (Franciscans of the Primitive Order) at St. Ann's House 254 Still River Rd, Still River, MA 01467. Mass at 8am, Talks, confessions, Eucharistic Adoration. Breakfast provided, but please bring a lunch, minimum age 13. RSVP Sr. Louise Marie 978-456-8017 or micm.rsvp@gmail.com

Dec 22 Sat 9am Prayer Protest, across from or next to Planned Parenthood, 475 Pleasant St. Worcester

Dec 29 Sat 9am Prayer Protest, across from or next to Planned Parenthood, 475 Pleasant St. Worcester

There will be no more 1st Friday Masses in the Problem Pregnancy Chapel, nor overnight Eucharist adoration, as I am unable to maintain this devotion. 1st Saturday Masses will continue, as will these emails.

Jan 17 Thu, 2019 7:30 - Life Mass St. Paul's Cathedral followed by departure of buses for
Jan 18 Fri, 2019 March for Life Washington D.C. - Cost: $80 per person by Dec. 31, ($95 after Dec. 31)

C-Fam https://c-fam.org/ does a lot of great work defending life and the unborn at the United Nations and around the world, including exposing Abortion Dominates Family Planning Conference
UN Committee Says, “Right to Life” Means “Right to Abortion”
Does “Sexual and Reproductive Health” Mean Abortion?
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | November 28, 2018
but they could use some financial help.

Mar 6 2018 next 40 Days for Life campaign will run from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday 2019, April 14, 2019)

“To love – one’s self and others – with God’s love: How needful this is in our time when love is almost completely misunderstood. How profitable it would be to think more carefully and more deeply about the radical peculiarity of God’s love. It seems to me sometimes that the first peculiarity is its cruelty. It means – MUTATIS MUTANDIS [the necessary changes having been made] – the absence of the sentimentality with which the world and Christianity have usually identified that love. In God’s love, there is no promise of earthly happiness, no concern about it. Rather, that love is totally submitted to the promise and the concern about the Kingdom of God, that is, the absolute happiness for which God has created man, to which he is calling man. Thus, the first essential conflict between God’s love and the fallen human love. ‘Cut off your hand,’ ‘pluck out your eye,’ ‘leave your wife and children,’ ‘follow the narrow way. . .’ – all of it is so obviously irreconcilable with happiness in life. This is what turned off this world from total love and what filled it with hatred. But – and this is so important – the world became turned off when in the Church itself something changed, something was ‘turned off.’ But about that I might write some other time. I must go to church and join in the Holy Week. . ." (From entry for Holy Monday, April 20, 1981, p. 291)
SELECTION FOUND IN THE FOLLOWING BOOK: The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983: Alexander Schmemann: 9780881412000
Hat Tip to Bro. Paul H.
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Jay G.
Prayer List:
Paul Thomas RIP, Phil B with disabling vertigo dizziness headache tinnitus - so he can return to work, Marie newly diagnosed with metastatic cancer - will need chemo and radiation - and her husband Dennis, New arrivals at Visitation house; Baby Boy Eliakim Lance 10/27 8lbs5oz, Baby Boy Ezekiel Noel 11/2 7lbs13oz, Baby Boy Eliam Alberto 11/5 6lbs10oz, Baby Girl Hazel Pearl 11/8 Welcome Baby Girl 7lbs12oz, Fred Davis RIP, Sister Mary Germaine, Charlie Coudert RIP, Nina, Fr. Eduardo, 2 Lucases vocations, Pricilla, Enrique, Sandra, Rafael, John Clegg RIP, Fr. Nally’s sister Marsha RIP, Deniol is a 12 year old boy who has been in foster care all if his life with no natural supports in his life but the system and he just had major surgery at Boston Children's hospital - pray for his recovery and his adoption, Donna, Margaret, Ross, Alexa, Kristina Krull RIP as well as her mom Cindi and family, Florida Hurricane victims