Immaculate Conception

 Church

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on Tuesdays are from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM .

The Mass Book for 2020 is now open!
Weekday Mass Offering:  $15.00
Sunday Mass Offering:     $20.00

The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020.

The Mass schedule is as follows:
7:00am, 8:30am, 12 noon, and 7:00pm

During Lent we will have bilingual Stations of the Cross every Friday night at 7:00pm in the main church.  Stations of the Cross will begin Friday, February 28, 2020.

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La temporada de Cuaresma comenzará el Miércoles de Ceniza, 26 de febrero del 2020.

El horario de Misas es el siguiente:
7:00am, 8:30am, 12 del mediodía y 7:00pm

Durante la Cuaresma tendremos el Via Crucis bilingüe todos los viernes a las 7:00pm en la iglesia.  Los Via Crucis comenzarán el viernes 28 de febrero del 2020.

Beginning on January 20th, on all legal holidays, we will only have Mass at 8:30 am.
This will not affect our Holydays of Obligation Masses (which will still be at 7am, 8:30am, and 7pm).  The legal holidays affected by this policy are:

- January 20, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- February 17, President's Day
- May 25, Memorial Day
- September 7, Labor Day
- October 12, Columbus Day
- November 11, Veteran's Day
- November 26, Thanksgiving Day

Immaculate Conception Church

Capuchin Franciscan Friars

It's not always clear where love ends and hate begins or when hate begins and love ends because there is no clear demarcation between love and hate.  In fact, we must love God and our neighbor and hate sin and greed at the same time.  The biblical book of Leviticus (19: 17-18) tells us to love our neighbor, who was a family member or a member of the tribe; therefore, a good Israelite was not required to love everybody, especially the stranger and foreigner.  The Bible also mentions, "Hate your enemy," where the word "hate" means "attachment to or indifference from."  Jesus' mission was to complete and perfect the old law by stressing the importance of loving everybody, because everybody is our neighbor.  Speaking about love and hate, I remember the wonderful comic strip by Lynn Johnson.  It describes the simple joys and conflicts of family life.  The title of the comic strip is "For better for worse."  The teacher Lizzy has had a fight with her friend Candace over a boy.  The two are not speaking.  Here is how they act:

1. Lizzy and Candace walk right by each other having their noses in the air saying, "we don't know wach other."
2. They meet in the school corridor on the way to class.  They ignore one another.  Lizzy says to herself, "If she goes down the hall one way, I will go the other way.  If she sits near me in class, I will move."
3. When Candace comes into the classroom, Lizzy says to herself again, "If she talks to me, I'll pretend I didn't hear.  If she looks at me, I'll pretend I didn't see her."
4. Lizzy finally puts her head between her hands on the school desk and says, "Whew!  God, I didn't think hating somebody would take so much work...I am exhausted!"