Catholic Church of the Immaculate ConceptionPentecost Sunday

May 31, 2020

2540 San Diego Avenue - San Diego CA 92110 (619) 295-4141

www.immaculate-conception-sandiego.org

“Lord, send out your spiri t, and renew the face of the earth.”

Psalm 104

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Daily Readings

Monday: GN 3:9-15, 20, JN 19:25-34

Tuesday: 2 PT 3:12-15A, 17-18, MK 12:13-17

Wednesday: 2 TM 1:1-3, 6-12, MK 12:18-27

Thursday: 2 TM 2:8-15, MK 12:28-34

Friday: 2 TM 3:10-17, MK 12:35-37

Saturday: 2 TM 4:1-8, MK 12:38-44

Sunday: EX 34:4B-6, 8-9, 2 COR 13:11-13, JN 3:16-18

Deacon Robert Fitzmorris Parish Administrator

Fr. Garrett Galvin, OFM, Liaison to the Parish Fr. Joseph Chinnici, OFM, in residence

Fr. Anthony Garibaldi, OFM, Mission San Luis Rey

Parish email: parish@immadulcate-conception-sandiego.org

Note to parishioners: We encourage you to continue to provide support to the parish. If your financial situation allows, please mail your weekly donation to the parish. Our address is 2540 San Diego Avenue, San Diego CA 92110.

Thanks to your generosity we received $1,470.00 in mailed in donations on May 25, 2020.

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Vatican News

Pentecost Sequence: Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Come, Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home Shed a ray of light divine! Come, Father of the poor! Come, source of all our store! Come, within our bosoms shine. You, of comforters the best; You, the soul’s most welcome guest; Sweet refreshment here below; In our labor, rest most sweet; Grateful coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe. O most blessed Light divine, Shine within these hearts of yours, And our inmost being fill! Where you are not, we have naught, Nothing good in deed or thought, Nothing free from taint of ill. Heal our wounds, our strength renew; On our dryness pour your dew; Wash the stains of guilt away: Bend the stubborn heart and will; Melt the frozen, warm the chill; Guide the steps that go astray. On the faithful, who adore And confess you, evermore In your sevenfold gift descend; Give them virtue’s sure reward; Give them your salvation, Lord; Give them joys that never end. Amen. Alleluia.

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Pope at Audience: Prayer cultivates flowers of rebirth.

By Francesca Merlo Vatican News

Pope Francis began his General Audience on Wednesday [May 27] telling the faithful that “God’s plan regarding humanity is for the good”, even though “we experience the presence of evil” in our everyday lives. The Pope recounted two stories from the book of Genesis that describe the emergence and expansion of evil and sin across successive generations. The first, in the first chapters of Genesis, is the story of Adam and Eve. In doubting God’s intentions “their hearts yield to the temptation of the evil one”, said the Pope. However, “the experience goes in the opposite direction”: “their eyes are opened and they discover that they are naked”. The second, from Genesis chapter 4, is the story of Cain and Abel. “Cain is envious of his brother” and sees him as a rival, said the Pope. “Evil enters within his heart and Cain does not succeed in controlling it”, leading to his murder. Pope Francis went on to explain that though Cain’s descendants develop “arts and crafts”, “violence develops as well”. We too still experience the presence of wickedness in the world, said the Pope. Pope Francis then went on to recount a third account in the Bible. He described it as one that is “less apparent, humbler and devout, that represents the redemption of hope”. It is a story involving Abel, Seth, Enoch and Noah, who acted humbly and prayed to God with sincerity.

The peacemaking power of prayer Pope Francis described these men, “who pray in the first pages of the Bible” as “peacemakers”. He explained that when prayer is authentic, it “liberates from the instinct toward violence”. Authentic prayer is “a gaze directed toward God, so that He might return to take care of the human heart”, said the Pope, adding that “prayer cultivates flowerbeds of rebirth in places where human hatred was only capable of sowing a desert”.

Prayer is a seed of life and of dialogue with God Pope Francis then told of a story he had heard regarding a man, “a head of government” of the past who proclaimed himself an atheist. He said “He had no religious sense in his heart,” but he remembered listening to his grandmother praying when he was a child. “At a difficult time in his life,” the Pope continued, “that memory came back to his heart and he began to pray with the words used by his grandmother.” There, the Pope said, “he found Jesus; prayer is a chain of life”. Taking his cue from this story he said prayer is a seed of life and that is why it is so important to teach children to pray. Saying it gives him pain to see children who do not know how to make the sign of the cross,” the Pope urged parents to teach their children to pray: “Then, perhaps, they can forget, take another path; but that one remains in their hearts, because it is a seed of life, the seed of dialogue with God.”

Prayer transforms a heart of stone into a heart of flesh Pope Francis explained that for this reason throughout history, righteous men and women of prayer – often misunderstood or marginalised – have ceaselessly offered up intercession for the world, invoking God’s power to bring about healing and growth. “The world lives and grows thanks to God’s power that these servants of His attract through their prayer”, said the Pope. He concluded his Catechesis by saying that it is through these servants of God that His path and story are “passed down to the ‘remnant’ of humanity”, who have asked that He “transform their hearts of stone to hearts of flesh”.

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THANK YOU

Special thanks to:

Mitchelle Greenlee, Bridget-Mendia-Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Jared Rodriguez, Darlene Tucker, and Bill Tucker

For their assistance to Fr. Garrett Galvin, OFM, and Fr. Joseph Chinnici, OFM, who have been able to celebrate Sunday Mass and live stream it. The live stream will continue each Sunday at 8:30 a.m. until further notice.

Persons who remain at home for health reasons and thus are unable to attend Mass after the church reopens, are encouraged to go to the parish website each Sunday to view the live s t ream: www. immacu la te-concept ion-sandiego.org.

Saints Marcellinus and Peter Died Circa 304

Feast Day: June 2

Pinturicchio, Christ’s Ascension, Borgia Apartment, Hall of the Mysteries of Faith, Fresco, © Musei Vaticani

Vatican Museum: Beauty that Unites! 50 Beauty creates communion. It unites onlookers from a distance, uniting past, present and future. Pope Francis has recalled this on a number of occasions. The Church has always translated the universality of the Good News into the language of art. From this premise, this dramatic moment in history characterized by uncertainty and isolation, gives rise to this initiative which is a partnership between the Vatican Museum and Vatican News: Masterpieces from the Vatican Collection accompanied by comments from the words of the Popes.

Dear sons, be imbued with the hope that is so much a part of the mystery of the Ascension of Jesus. Be deeply conscious of Christ’s victory and triumph over sin and death. Realize that the strength of Chist is greater than our weakness, greater than the weakness of the whole world. (Pope John Paul II, Homily on the Solemnity of the Ascension, 24 May 1979)

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