Reading I :
( Is 40:1-5, 9-11)
Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins. A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; the rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley. Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Go up on to a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God! Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong arm; here is his reward with him, his recompense before him. Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care.
Reading II: (2 Pt 3:8-14 )
Do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. The
Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard "delay," but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be, conducting yourselves in holiness and devotion, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of
God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the elements melted by fire. But according to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you await these things, be eager to be found without spot or blemish before him, at peace.
Gospel: (Mk 1:1-8 )
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert:
"Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths." John the Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. People of the whole Judean countryside and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan
River as they acknowledged their sins. John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He fed on locusts and wild honey. And this is what he proclaimed: "One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes its growth spring up, so will the Lord GOD make justice and praise spring up before all the nations
Reading 1 (Is 43:16-21)
Thus says the LORD, who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters, who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out and quenched like a wick.
Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers. Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, for I put water in the desert and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink, the people whom I formed for myself, that they might announce my praise.
Reading 2 (Phil 3:8-14)
Brothers and sisters: I consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on faith to know him and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I for my part do not consider myself to have taken possession. Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.
Gospel (Jn 8:1-11)
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he bent down and wrote on the ground. And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She replied, “No one, sir.” Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”
Looking ahead to Holy Week…
Monday 3/25: Chrism Mass, 7pm, @ Rochester
Tuesday 3/26: Day of Penance – Confessions @ IC
8am to 2pm
Thursday 3/28: Mass @ IC 5:30pm followed by
Eucharistic Adoration until 9pm
Friday 3/29: Liturgy of the Word 3pm
Saturday 3/30: Easter Vigil Mass 7pm
Sunday 3/31: Easter Sunday Mass 12pm @
Emerson Suites
Blessed be the Blogger: Check out Intern Mike
Earley’s blog about living life as a Catholic on and off of IC’s Campus! http://ithacacatholicjourney.blogspot.com/
Interfaith Meditation
Come to the Interfaith Council’s meeting this
Tuesday to participate in an interfaith mediation session, led by the chaplain of Hillel, Michael Faber.
Members of all faith communities on campus will be attending! Meditation starts at 12:10pm, in the
Phillips Room of Muller Chapel. We hope you will come share this experience with us!
Easter Flowers: Help us cover the cost of our Easter flowers this year by sponsoring a pot of Easter Lilies! Cost of sponsorship is $10, and you get to take a pot of lilies home after Easter Sunday! Sign-up forms are in the back.
As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes its growth spring up, so will the Lord GOD make justice and praise spring up before all the nations

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ICCC Ministry Team:
Fr. Carsten P. Martensen, S.J.
Director of Campus Ministry cmartensen@ithaca.edu
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Aimee Shorten
Campus Ministry Assistant ic.catholic@gmail.com
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Peer Ministers
Bella Ciabattoni
Matthew Dezii
Mike Earley
Becca Neidle ic.catholic@gmail.com
Katie Ahrens & Joey Kaz
Music Ministry Directors icccmusicmin@gmail.com
THIS WEEK’S CALENDER
Sun, 3/17: St. Patrick’s Day
10:15am Communion Service @ Longview
8pm Mass @ Muller Chapel
Mon, 3/18: 12:10pm Mass
Tues, 3/19: 12:10pm Interfaith
8pm Rosary
Wed, 3/20:
12:10pm Mass
8pm Rosary
Thurs, 3/21: 5pm Reconciliation
Meditation session
4:30pm Catholicism 101
6:30pm Liturgy of the Hours
6pm Celebratory Mass for Pope Francis
7pm Soup Supper
7:30pm Stations of the Cross
Sat, 3/23: Relay for Life
Stop by and say Hi!
Our office is downstairs in Muller
Chapel, on the pond side!
Sun, 3/24:
It’s time to sign up for Spring Retreat!
10:15am Communion Service @ Longview
1pm & 8pm Mass @ Muller Chapel
Spend a weekend away with us at Mount
Savior Monastery in Elmira, NY! The retreat runs from the evening of Friday, April 12 th to
Sunday morning, the 14 th . Our theme this year
Special Mass for the celebration of Pope Francis!
In place of Fireside Mass this Thursday, we will be holding a formal Mass in the sanctuary at 6pm to celebrate the is “Come to the Water.” You can look forward election of Pope Francis. Mass will be to a variety of themed prayer exercises, group complete with liturgy music provided by activities, sharing sessions, hikes, and taking our wonderful Music Ministry! Be sure to part in the monks’ daily prayer routine. It’s join us! Soup Supper will follow Mass! guaranteed to be a fun, fulfilling, and spiritually uplifting experience. We hope you can join us! Sign up in the back after Mass!