PARISH MISSION:

Our Lady of Fatima and Immaculate Conception Parish is a Catholic faith community called by God to holiness. Our calling is realized in a spirit of love, unity and hospitality. As a faith community we will deepen our knowledge and love of God in Christ. We will seek to contribute our time, talent and other resources in a spirit of service, based on our Baptismal commitment, founded on the Word of God and celebrated in sacramental life, especially Eucharist.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA PARISH And IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH

December 22, 2019

HOLY DAY MASS SCHEDULES

OUR LADY OF FATIMA

December 24th at 4PM & 6:30PM Please note there is no 9am mass on Dec 24th.

December 25th at 10:30AM

December 31st at 5PM Please note there is no 9am mass Dec 31

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January 1st at 10:30AM

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

December 25th at 8:30AM

January 1st at 8:30AM

Our Lady of Fatima New London

Saturday, Jn. 4, 5:00pm

KIDNEY DONOR NEEDED

If you might be willing to be that donor for Father Bob, contact Dartmouth-Hitchcock directly for information on what is required to be a donor and how the process works.

By telephone: (603) 653-3931

On line: Become a Living Kidney Donor | Transplantation

Surgery | Dartmouth-Hitchcock

PARISH WEEK AT A GLANCE

Sun Dec 22, NO Religious Ed Class Mon Dec 23, 9:45 - 11:00 Adoration No Religious Ed classes 4pm Intercessory Prayer Grp - IC 6:15 Rosary - IC Tue Dec 24, 7:30 Preparing for Sunday No 9 o’clock mass 9:30 Rosary 2-3pm Knitters LMR 4pm Christmas Vigil Mass 6:30 Christmas Mass in the Night Wed Dec 25, 8:30 Christmas Mass at IC

10:30 Christmas Mass at OLF

Sun Dec 29, NO Religious Ed Class

HOLIDAY OFFICE HOURS

The rectory will have abbreviated hours (9am- 12pm) beginning Wednesday, December 18

th

through to and including Tuesday, January 7th.

Normal hours, (9am-3pm) will resume Wednesday, January 8

th. The office will be closed

on Wednesday, December 25th and January 1

st.

Please plan accordingly.

LASALETTE SHRINE 68TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

The beautiful LaSalette Shrine Grounds in Enfield are ablaze with 40,000 lights for everyone to enjoy during the Holy Season of Advent and Christmas. They are on nightly from 5-9pm until December 31 with the Gift Shop and Cafeteria open until 8:30pm. There are also over 450 Nativity Sets from more than 50 countries on display which are housed in a small A-framed building on the Shrine grounds. Holy Mass is celebrated every Saturday in the Shrine Chapel at 6:00pm and Sundays at 11:00am

PRAY FOR THE SICK

Tim Berns Carol Giordano Dianne Johnson Lorreen Keating Elise Caplan Dolores Bausch Amy Leonard Tyler Graf Peter Phillips Jess Green Judy Lafond Chet Novak Karen Flanagan Richard Reed Bill Connors Patricia Iannuzzi Marietta Meloy Isaac Walsh Claude Belleman Shin Akiyama Marianne Rissolo Ardyth Caccavo Holly Metsch Jack Miller Bob LaGassa Fr. R. St. Louis Kenny Dearborns Mark Licitra Chelsea Cascio Charles Ginter Terrie Donnell Peggy Vasquez Richard Orlando Carole Ross Alice Rogers Connolly Melissa Newton Michele Noyer Margaret Marschner Celine Hatch Joseph DeVito Winnifred Nussbaum Paula Valentino Margaret Henneberry Doris Ebel Neil Hatch James Mitchell Mary Ofenloch Kathleen Anderson Sr. Maeve McDermott Jordan McDonnell Sande Parcell Paula McColgan

Call the office to help keep this list current.

No classes on Sundays, December 22, 29 or January 5.

RIDERS AND DRIVERS

If anyone needs a ride to church or is willing to drive, please contact Carol Conforti-Adams at 938-2562 or confortiadams@gmail.com.

VOCATIONS

“When Joseph awoke he did as the angel of the Lord directed him.” Are you prayerfully vigilant about discovering your vocation in Christ? Might He be inviting you to the priesthood or consecrat-ed life? Call Fr. Matthew Mason 663-0132, or email: mmason@rcbm.org.

Readings for the week of December 22, 2019 -24

This program offers assistance to anyone in our community who needs a helping hand. 100% of your contribution goes to those in need and is tax deductible. Brochures and envelopes are at both churches and the rectory. Please call our non-emergency help line at 1-800-978-6395.

THE VENTURES OF FAITH: ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Following Christ can entail fear, risk, and uncertainty. But as St. John Henry Newman boldly preaches, this reality reveals how crucially important and worthwhile it is to undertake such a venture. “No one among us knows for certain that he himself will persevere; yet every one among us, to give himself even chance of success at all, must make a venture...and in this consists the excellence and nobleness of faith.” This CD and others are available for $4 at the entrance of OLF Church.

HOLIDAY HOURS AND CLOSURES

December 18 - January 7

9am to 12pm

Dec 25 and Jan 1 Closed

Sacramental and Prayer Life

Pastoral and Administrative Staff

Rectory and Church Offices

724 Main St

Office Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Phone: 603-526-4484

Email: parishoffice@olfic.org

Web: www.olfic.org

Catholic Charities: 1-800-562-5249

Loaves & Fishes Help Line: 1-800-978-6395

Pastor Rev. Robert Biron

Permanent Deacon Deacon Gregory McGinn gregmcginn@yahoo.com

Religious Ed. Coordinator Teresa Jackson reled@olfic.org

Administrative Assistant Anne Brown

Music Director Paul Gorman

Music Ministry for IC Robert Minaert

Maintenance Brian Fraioli

Our Lady of Fatima

Mass Schedule For This Week Only 9:00 am Monday No 9am mass on Tuesday 4 & 6:30pm Tuesday 10:30am Wednesday 5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m. Sunday

Eucharistic Adoration 9:45-11:00 a.m. Monday

Reconciliation/Confession 4:15 p.m. Saturday

Preparing For Sunday 7:30 a.m. Tuesday 9:00 a.m. Thursday Immaculate Conception

Mass Schedule 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and Sunday

Anointing the Sick & Baptism: Please contact the Rectory to make arrangements.

Marriage: Please try to contact the Rectory at least 6 months in advance.

Homebound / Hospitalized: Communion brought to anyone unable to attend Mass. Call Paul Gorman at 526-4353

Visits to home bound. Call Betsy Anderson, 568-3511

DECEMBER 22, 2019

CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE

Our Lady of Fatima

December 24th 4:00PM

6:30 December 25

th 10:30AM

Immaculate Conception

December 25th 8:30AM

O Come, Thou Dayspring From On High

The day of celebration is nearly here. The sixth verse of O Come, O Come Emmanuel is the O Antiphon proper to December 21 the day of the winter solstice. For the next six months the days grow longer, warming the earth and bringing on a new springtime. More than a pleasant thought to sustain us until spring finally arrives, we sing today in praise of the “One Morning Star” that never sets, The “Sun of Justice” who is the Son of God, the “New Dawn” that dispels the clouds and shadows of death. The day of celebration has already come. And in these final days of Advent we sing the final verse, “O Come, Desire of all the nations,” and end our Advent hymn as we had begun, O Come our Emmanuel, be with us always!