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Fr. Hung Nguyen, Pastor
Fr. Patrick Twohy, S.J., Native American Ministry
Deacon Joseph Yuen, Parish Deacon
Thuy Tran, Rental (206) 822-7741
Parish Office Hours
Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. – Noon
Closed on national holidays
Tel: (206) 324-8521; Fax: (206) 324-0405
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.mountvirgin.org
MISSION STATEMENT
Our Lady of Mount Virgin is a pastoral center welcom-ing people and immigrants from different cultures.
Honoring Mother Mary and under the influence of the Holy Spirit, we are born as a community of mission-ary disciples in love, worship, service and stewardship.
Our Lady of
Mount Virgin Parish 1531 Bradner Place South
Seattle, WA 98144
(Parking on 28th Avenue S, north side of the church)
Ordinary Time Mass Schedule
Saturday 5:00pm (in Vietnamese)
Sunday 9:30am (in English / Laotian)
Sunday 11:30am (in English / Chinese)
Wednesday to Friday: 10:00am
The Immaculate Conception Mass: Dec 8th, 10:00am
Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick:4th Sunday at the end of Mass
Sacrament of Reconciliation: 30 min before Mass or by appointment with Fr Hung
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: 1st Saturday 4:30pm before the Vigil Mass
Sacrament of Baptism: contact Fr Hung
Sacrament of Confirmation for Youth: contact Parish Office
Sacrament of Matrimony — contact Fr Hung six months in advance
Advent Retreat (in Chinese) by Fr Ching Dec 8 Sat, 9am — Dec 9 Sun, 2pm
OLMV WEEKLY BULLETIN Dec 2, 2018
December 2nd ,2018
First Sunday of Advent
Liturgical Year B
First Reading JER 33:14-16
The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise
Responsorial Psalm PS 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14
To you, O Lord, I lift my soul.
Second Reading 1 THES 3:12—4:2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
Gospel LK 21:25-28, 34-36
Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.
Reflection of Today’s Gospel
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which is also the first Sun-day of the new liturgical year. The Advent season includes the four Sundays that precede Christmas. Advent is a time of prepa-ration for the coming of the Lord. In this season, we recall two central elements of our faith: the final coming of the Lord in glo-ry and the incarnation of the Lord in the birth of Jesus. The key themes of the Advent season are watchful waiting, preparation, and justice.
In this new liturgical year, the Gospel of Luke will be the pri-mary Gospel proclaimed (Lectionary Cycle C). Today's Gospel is taken from the last chapter before the passion nar-rative in which Jesus is teach-ing in the Temple. We hear Jesus speak to his disciples about the need for vigilance and prayer as they wait for the com-ing of the Son of Man in glory. This passage marks the conclu-sion of a lengthy dialogue in which Jesus predicts the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, warns about the persecution and tribulations to follow, and identifies the signs that will signal the coming of the Son of Man in glory.
The community for whom Luke wrote his Gospel may have be-lieved that they were already experiencing some of the events Jesus described. Most scholars believe that Luke's Gospel was written after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. At the time, many Christians interpreted this event as an indication that Jesus' second coming was near.
Though Jesus predicts a time of destruction and fear, Jesus indi-cates that others will be frightened; Jesus' disciples are not to fear, but are to stand tall. Yet Jesus does not promise deliverance from anxiety or tribulations. He encourages his disciples to pray for strength. The early Christian communities did not find conso-lation in the promise of a utopia, nor should we. Instead, we find in our Christian faith the means by which we witness to God's unfailing love for us in all circumstances.
Jesus' predictions about the end times may sound dire, but in the next paragraph Luke tells us that people woke early to listen to Jesus' teaching in the Temple area. In his person and in his mes-sage, those who heard Jesus found strength and consolation. Like the first Christians, we may encounter events and circumstances that could lead us to despair. Through prayer, however, we find strength and consolation in Jesus' words and in his continuing presence with us to endure all things and to witness to the action of God in our world.
https://www.loyolapress.com/our-catholic-faith/liturgical-year/sunday-connection/first-sunday-of-advent-cycle-c-sunday-connection
The Story of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
A feast called the Conception of Mary arose in the Eastern Church in the seventh century. It came to the West in the eighth century. In the 11th century it received its present name, the Immaculate Conception. In the 18th century it became a feast of the universal Church. It is now recognized as a solemnity.
In 1854, Pius IX solemnly proclaimed: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.”
It took a long time for this doctrine to develop. While many Fathers and Doctors of the Church considered Mary the great-est and holiest of the saints, they often had difficulty in seeing Mary as sinless—either at her conception or throughout her life. This is one of the Church teachings that arose more from the piety of the faithful than from the insights of brilliant theo-logians. Even such champions of Mary as Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas could not see theological justification for this teaching.
Reflection
In Luke 1:28 the angel Gabriel, speaking on God’s behalf, ad-dresses Mary as “full of grace” or “highly favored”. In that context, this phrase means that Mary is receiving all the special divine help necessary for the task ahead. However, the Church grows in understanding with the help of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit led the Church, especially non-theologians, to the insight that Mary had to be the most perfect work of God next to the Incarnation. Or rather, Mary’s intimate association with the Incarnation called for the special involvement of God in Mary’s whole life.
The logic of piety helped God’s people to believe that Mary was full of grace and free of sin from the first moment of her existence. Moreover, this great privilege of Mary is the high-light of all that God has done in Jesus. Rightly understood, the incomparable holiness of Mary shows forth the incomparable goodness of God.
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/solemnity-of-the-immaculate-conception/
Dec 3 Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, Priest IS 2:1-5; MT 8:5-11
Dec 4 IS 11:1-10; LK 10:21-24
Dec 5 IS 25:6-10A; MT 15:29-37
Dec 6 IS 26:1-6; MT 7:21, 24-27
Dec 7 Memorial of Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doc-tor of the Church IS 29:17-24; MT 9:27-31
Dec 8 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary GN 3:9-15, 20; EPH 1:3-6, 11-12; LK 1:26-38
Scripture Readings of the Week
Weekly Mass Offerings
11/24/18 — 11/25/18
Saturday 5:00pm Vigil Mass $507.00
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A CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE IN CHINA April 23 – May 2, 2019 Visit sites where Catholics today live out their witness to Christian faith in contemporary society, and where their forebears ground-ed that faith at the price of their lives. Our route takes us to Beijing, Shanxi and Hebei Provinces, Tianjin, and back to Beijing. We
will visit some of China’s premier cultural and historical sites along the way.
Tour Leaders: Dr. Anthony E. Clark Professor of history at Whitworth University in Spokane and Fr. Hung Nguyen, Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Virgin Parish in Seattle, home to a grace-filled Chinese Catholic community
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2019 LAOS MISSION WITH FR. HUNG (January 7– January 15 2019 )
As Christ’s missionary disciples, we are called to continue the footsteps of the Holy Martyrs Blessed Joseph Tien and 16 Com-panions in:
Support of the Church.
Communion with the poor.
Prayer with the unloved.
Study with the illiterate.
Solidarity with the nobody.
Thank you for your support to OLMV Laos Mission in helping:
1. Rebuild village shelter - $1000. 2. Support orphanages and schools for children to learn
how to read and write- $3000. 3. Provide medicine and medical treatment - $1500. 4. Feed the hungry with 2000kg of rice - $1500 5. 150 Mosquito Nets and Blankets for the poor - $1000.
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Saint Francis Xavier, Saint of the Day for December 3
(April 7, 1506 – December 3, 1552)
Wherever he went, Xavier lived with the poor-est people, sharing their food and rough accom-modations. He spent countless hours minister-ing to the sick and the poor, particularly to lep-ers. Very often he had no time to sleep or even to say his breviary but, as we know from his letters, he was filled always with joy.
Xavier went through the islands of Malaysia, then up to Japan. He learned enough Japanese to preach to sim-ple folk, to instruct, and to baptize, and to establish missions for those who were to follow him. From Japan he had dreams of going to China, but this plan was never realized. Before reaching the mainland, he died. His remains are enshrined in the Church of Good Jesus in Goa. He and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux were declared co-patrons of the missions in 1925.
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-francis-xavier/
Pope at Mass: Martyrdom doesn’t make the news By Barbara Castelli
At Mass at the Casa Santa Marta, the Pope comments on the day’s Gospel, saying that the Church is made manifest “in the Eu-charist and in good works. The Church, he said, is manifested “in the Eucharist and in good works,” even if they don’t “make the news.” The Bride of Christ has a tempera-ment given to silence; she produces fruit “without making a fuss,” without “sounding the trumpet, like the Pharisees”:
“The Lord explains to us how the Church grows with the para-ble of the sower. The sower sows and the seed grows by day, by night… - God gives the growth – and then the fruit is seen. But this is important: First, the Church grows in silence, in secret; it is the ecclesiastical style. And how is this manifested in the Church? By the fruits of good works, so that the people see and glorify the Father who is in heaven, Jesus says. And in the celebration, the praise and the sacrifice of the Lord – that is, in the Eucharist. There the Church is manifested: in the Eu-charist and in good works.
“The Church grows through witness, through prayer, through the attraction of the Spirit who is within,” Pope Francis said in his homily, “and not through events.” These events certainly help, he continued, but “the growth proper to the Church, that which bears fruit, is in silence, in hiding, with good works, and the celebration of the Lord’s Paschal Mystery, the praise of God.” https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope-francis/mass-casa-santa-marta/2018-11/pope-francis-homily-daily-mass-martyrdom-does-not-make-
In China's Catholic heartland, Vatican deal brings Communist Party closer
Last month’s secretive deal with the Vatican, which gives the Holy See a long-sought and decisive say over the ap-pointment of new bishops, sets the stage for Beijing to recog-nize some underground con-gregations. Details of how and when this process might happen have not been released.
The coming together reflects growing, if grudging, acceptance of government oversight by the faithful, as the Vatican pushes for a reconciliation with Beijing and many of the older genera-tion that had expressed staunch opposition to the party are ei-ther silenced or dead.
The Vatican went ahead with the provisional deal, despite it failing to address some outstanding points of contention, be-cause it feared the two Churches would split even further apart, resulting in a schism that would become irreparable, Vatican sources told Reuters. For more, please go to: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-vatican-churches-insight/in-chinas-catholic-heartland-vatican-deal-brings-communist-party-closer-idUSKCN1MT0OF
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