THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PALM SUNDAY MARCH 28, 2021
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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord March 28, 2021
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
PALM SUNDAY
MARCH 28, 2021
2540 San Diego Avenue, San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 295-4141
www. immaculate-conception-sandiego.org — parish@immaculate-conception-sandiego.org
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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord March 28, 2021
Mass Intentions Daily Readings
Palm Sunday Vigil - March 27
Monday: Is 42:1-7, Jn 12:1-11
5:15 - Priest’s Intentions
Palm Sunday - March 28 Tuesday: Is 49:1-6, Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
8:30 - †Conçeciao Virissimo
10:00 - †William & Lucille Brown Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a, Mt 26:14-25
11:30 - People of Immaculate Conception
Thursday: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14, 1 Cor 11:23-26 or Jn 13:1-15
Monday of Holy Week - March 29
†Maria Andrade Friday: Is 52:15—53:12, Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1—19:42
Tuesday of Holy Week - March 30 Saturday: Gn 1:1—2:2, Gn 22:1-18, Rom 6:3-11, Mk 16:1-7
Kalé Whitman
Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 or
Wednesday of Holy Week - March 31
Mk 16:1-7
Priest’s Intentions
Holy Thursday - April 1 Pray for Our Sick
7:00 p.m. - People of Immaculate Conception
Joane Anderson, Susan Besecker, Cosmo & Joan
Good Friday - April 2 Busalacchi, Dominic Castagnola, Reginald Custodio,
3:00 p.m. - Priest’s Intentions Joanne Daleo, Michael Denny,, Adela Diaz, Adele
Dunne, Arline Fisch, Julie Fish, Ardell Haskins, Ditas
Holy Saturday -April 3 Ibarra, Shirley Ilog, Donna Cruz Jones, Ricardo
7:30 - Pope Francis, SI Hernandez, Olivia Ingram, Diana C. Lopez, Liam
McNichol, Ardith Moore, Grace Mulvanity, Stephanie
If you wish to request a Mass intention for family Ng, Ann Orwig, Peter Salmon, Anyssa Sanchez,
member or friend, contact the parish office.
Tom Sapien, Crystal Spera,, Rita Tarango, Linda
Thompson, Marie Whitman, Barbara Wingler.
Mass Schedule
Weekdays: Monday thru Saturday, 8:00 AM
RECONCILIATION
Sunday Masses
Saturday Vigil: 5:15 PM Now that we have returned to our regular Mass
Sunday: 8:30 AM*, 10:00 AM (outdoors), 11:30 AM schedule, confessions may be heard on Saturdays
*live-streamed & open to attendees between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. in the church. One can
also ask the priest for confession after the weekday
Holy Day Masses: To be announced.
morning Mass.
Reconciliation: Saturday, 4:30 to 5:00 p.m., or after
weekday morning Mass and by appointment. Deacon Robert Fitzmorris, Parish Administrator
Baptisms: By appointment only. Please contact Deacon rfitzmorris@sandiegodeacon.com
Robert Fitzmorris to make arrangements. 619-997-9063
Weddings: By appointment only. Arrangements must be
Fr. Garrett Galvin, OFM, Liaison to the Parish
made at least one year in advance. Please contact the
parish office.
Fr. Joseph Chinnici, OFM, in residence
Fr. Vincent Mesi, OFM
Funerals: For arrangements, please call the parish. Parish email:
Parish Office: 619-295-4141 parish@immaculate-conception-sandiego.org
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Schedule
VIRTUAL Marriage
April 1 - Holy Thursday
Enrichment
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
This year give your marriage the gift of 7:00 p.m.
a Marriage Encounter Experience in the
comfort of your own home. Worldwide April 2 - Good Friday
Marriage Encounter celebrates the love Friday of the Passion of the Lord
you have for your spouse and helps you to build, 3:00 p.m.
expand, and deepen that relationship. Our next
virtual Experience is April 9-11th. Sign up today at April 3 - Holy Saturday
www.wwme-sandiego.org Easter Vigil
7:30 p.m.
Retrouvaille is Online!
Retrouvaille is a marriage program that helps couples There will be no 8 a.m. Mass during the Triduum.
in struggling marriages restore and rebuild a healthy
and loving relationship. Retrouvaille SoCal/San Diego Easter Sunday Masses
is hosting a virtual weekend on April 8-11. Visit their 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30 a.m.
website for more information and registration details:
www.helpourmarriage-sandiego.org. Amazon donates 0.5%
of eligible purchases to
HELP WANTED! Immaculate Conception
Now that we are moving toward normalcy, we HOLY WEEK CHANGES
are in need of volunteers to serve as:
Greeters, Ushers, or Lectors Considering the rapidly evolving situation of the
Covid-19 pandemic, bishops have been given
Greeters welcome parishioners and visitors, may updated guidelines to follow during Holy Week.
direct them to the main entrance, and take the
temperature of individuals above the age of two. On Palm Sunday, the Commemoration of the
Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem is to be
Ushers ensure attendees are wearing face masks celebrated within sacred buildings. More
before entering the church, guide them to the information for our parish will be provided in the
line for Holy Communion, ensure bulletins are March 21 bulletin.
available, and maintain security of the collection
box. On Holy Thursday, the washing of feet, which
Lectors read the welcome and announcements is already optional, is to be omitted. At the end
before Mass begins and read the prayers of the of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper the procession
faithful during Mass. is also omitted and the Blessed Sacrament is to
be kept in the tabernacle.
Please contact the parish office if you are able to
serve for one or more Sundays each month. On Good Friday, the adoration of the Cross by
Call 619-295-4141 if interested. kissing it shall be limited solely to the celebrant.
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STORE HOURS
Friday 1:30-4:30 pm
Saturday 11 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday 11 am - 5:00 pm 2021 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL
PARISH GOAL: $10,000.00
Pledges Paid: $8,810.00
as of March 15
Your contribution, no matter how small, helps our
diocese support Catholic schools, faith formation
programs, Catholic Charities, and priestly formation.
Please make your check payable to Diocese of San
Diego. If you plan on using a credit card for your
donation, please visit giving.sdcatholic.org.
You may drop off your donation form and check/cash
in the collection box after Mass or visit the parish office
With great sorrow, I must recall the dramatic
situation in #Myanmar, where many people,
especially young people, are losing their lives to
New items for Lent are now offer hope to their country. I too kneel in the
streets of Myanmar and say: End the violence!
available in the gift shop. May dialogue prevail!
Pope Francis, Tweet 3/17/21
LIVE STREAM MASS Dating in Today’s Digital World
The Church of the Immaculate Safe Place Community Outreach Team invites parents,
Conception is providing live stream and guardians, teens, and tweens to a free presentation on
recordings of the live streams in two Dating in Today’s Digital World: Pitfalls for Teens &
ways.
Parents at Ascension Parish (11292 Clairemont Mesa
1) On the Franciscan School of Theology on the You Tube
Blvd. San Diego 92124) on Wednesday, April 21 at
Channel called FST EDU1. During this Covid-19 Shelter in
Place period please visit the You Tube Channel to see all 7:00-8:30pm, outdoor with masks and social
opportunities for viewing. distancing practices. Such topics as healthy
relationships, digital dangers, teen dating violence, risk
2) On the parish website factors, and how to access help and resources will all
www.immaculate-conception-sandiego.org. Simply click on be addressed. Presenters include Diane Doherty,
the photo (shown above). supervising Deputy City Attorney in the Domestic
Updated equipment has been installed and the live stream Violence & Sex Crimes Unit and Jani Sepanik,
has high quality picture and sound. Domestic Violence Education & Prevention Manager
at the Community Resource Center. To reserve your
Other Franciscan lectures are available on the You Tube
Channel called FST EDU1. place, please RSVP by April 12 with Angela Elfman
(angela.elfman@san.rr.com or 858-775-4828).
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ST. BERTHOLD Pope at Audience: Christians called to
Feast Day – March 29 safeguard God's presence
Died circa 1195 By Christopher Wells, Vatican News
Not much is known about
this hermit who is considered Pope Francis continued his reflections on prayer as a
by some historians to be the relationship with the Holy Trinity, part of an ongoing
founder of the order of series of catechetical lessons on prayer in general.
Carmelite friars. Various At Wednesday’s General Audience, the Holy Father
legends had him born in focused in particular on the role of the Holy Spirit. “The
Limoges, France, educated at the University of Paris, first gift of every Christian existence is the Holy Spirit,” he
and participating in the Crusades in Turkey. What is said. The Holy Spirit opens our hearts to Christ, and
known is that he directed a group of Frankish hermits allows us to invoke God as “Abba,” that is, “Father.”
living on Mount Carmel in Palestine in the second half of
Citing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis
the 12th century. The existence on Mount Carmel of a
noted that it is the Holy Spirit, “by His prevenient grace,”
church and hermitage in the spiritual tradition of the
that draws us to pray to Jesus. At the same time, the
prophet Elijah is documented from 1163 on. After
Church reminds us that we must pray to the Holy Spirit
Berthold’s death, the hermits were led by another
as well, encouraging us to address our prayer to Him
Frenchman, St. Brocard; Carmelite houses became well-
“every day, especially at the beginning and end of every
established throughout Europe by 1300.
important action."
Copyright © 2021, United States Conference of Catholic The work of the Holy Spirit, the Pope continued, is to
Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights reserved. “remind us” of Jesus, to make Him present in the lives of
Christians of every time and place. Because of the Spirit,
Wine Distribution Jesus is not distant, but with us always: “He still
Question: Why haven’t Catholic Churches gone educates His disciples by transforming their hearts.”
the way of disposable cups for wine distribution? This, said Pope Francis, “is the experience of so many
who pray, men and women whom the Holy Spirit has
Answer: If a Catholic has ever attended a Protestant
formed according to the ‘measure’ of Christ, in mercy,
worship service and saw the communion service that was
service, prayer.” It is the experience not only of monks
offered for that community, one of the things that might
and hermits, but of ordinary people who “have woven a
have stood out was the use of small, disposable cups for
long history of dialogue with God.” Seeking God, the
distributing the wine or grape juice. This is in stark
Pope said, “they safeguard His presence” – in the Gospel,
contrast to the precious metal chalices used in Catholic
in the Eucharist, and in the faces of those in need – “like
churches during the Mass.
a secret flame.”
Although practices for Protestant Christians can vary Pope Francis said that keeping this flame of God’s
(ranging from large shared chalices, to personal-use cups, presence alive is “the first task of Christians,” a task
to dipping the bread in the wine/grape juice), the norms symbolized by the lighted lamps that burn night and day
governing Catholic practices are fairly direct: “Sacred before the Eucharist present in the tabernacles of
vessels are to be made from precious metal. If they are Catholic churches.
made from metal that rusts or from a metal less precious
Finally, and again quoting the Catechism, Pope Francis
than gold, then ordinarily they should be gilded on the
said the Holy Spirit is the “interior Master of Christian
inside. In the Dioceses of the United States of America,
prayer… the artisan of the living tradition of prayer.” It is
sacred vessels may also be made from other solid
the Spirit Who inspires “the many paths of prayer,” which
materials that, according to the common estimation in
are as unique and varied as the individual people who
each region, are precious … they are to have bowls of
pray.
nonabsorbent material” (nos. 328-330). Rather than being
“In the endless field of holiness,” Pope Francis said in
a commentary on the beliefs or practices of those other
conclusion, “the one God, the Trinity of Love, allows the
communities, these rules are intended to highlight the
variety of witnesses to flourish: all are equal in dignity,
reverence that Catholics have for the bread and wine
but also unique in the beauty that the Spirit has willed to
consecrated at Mass, which become the Body and Blood
be expressed in each of those whom God’s mercy has
the Lord. ©LPi
made His children.”
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Meet Me in the Desert
Lord of Lent, Lord of Easter,
As you went into the desert
So do I follow
Putting aside that which distracts me
Grabs at me
Falsely claims me.
To search inside
To confront myself
My best, my worst
My good works and my sins.
And each time,
I find you there
To call to me again
With words of challenge and words of mercy.
And as I fall to my knees, in prayer, in fasting
In sacrifice and penitence
Somehow, you have it in yourself to reach out and gently lift me
To renew me
To claim me as nothing of this world can claim me.
Meet me in the desert, Lord.
Claim me anew.
Amen.
“Meet Me in the Desert” is a Lenten prayer published by Catholic Relief Services in 2014.
USCCB Copyright © 2014, Catholic Relief Services, Baltimore, MD. All rights reserved.
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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
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As we celebrate Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, we are reminded that Lent is coming to close
and the Resurrection is nearing. In one week, we will celebrate Easter Sunday. Pray that the Lord
allow you to accompany him serenely during these Easter mysteries and you may emerge from
them renewed in faith, hope and charity.
Meet Me in the Desert
Lord of Lent, Lord of Easter, As you went into the desert So do I follow Putting aside that which
distracts me Grabs at me Falsely claims me. To search inside To confront myself My best, my
worst My good works and my sins.
And each time, I find you there To call to me again With words of challenge and words of mercy.
And as I fall to my knees, in prayer, in fasting In sacrifice and penitence Somehow, you have it in
yourself to reach out and gently lift me To renew me To claim me as nothing of this world can
claim me.
Meet me in the desert, Lord. Claim me anew.
Amen.
The Easter Triduum
The summit of the Liturgical Year is the Easter Triduum—from the evening of Holy
Thursday to the evening of Easter Sunday. Though chronologically three days, they
are liturgically one day unfolding for us the unity of Christ’s Paschal Mystery.
The single celebration of the Triduum marks the end of the Lenten season, and leads
to the Mass of the Resurrection of the Lord at the Easter Vigil.
Holy Thursday—April 1, 2021 Mass of the Lord's Supper
Good Friday—April 2, 2021 Good Friday of the Lord's Passion
Easter Sunday—April 4, 2021 Mass of the Resurrection of the Lord
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