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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 2 1 - 4 7 2 9 t h S t r e e t ~ A s t o r i a , N e w Yo r k 1 1 1 0 5
The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
January 12th, 2020
www.immacastoria.org ~ 718-728-1613 ~ [email protected] ~ 718-956-9229 (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main Email) (Fax Number)
WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE
SATURDAY 7:00AM — Weekday Mass 9:00AM — Weekday Mass 5:00PM — Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00AM — Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00AM — Family Mass 10:30AM — High Mass (Mass with Choir) 12:00PM — Spanish Mass/Español 1:30PM — Contemporary Music Mass Lower Church 9:00AM — Italian Mass/Italiano MONDAY TO FRIDAY 7:00AM, 9:00AM & 12:00PM
OTHER SACRAMENTS
Baptisms Baptisms for infants and children are celebrated monthly. Please contact the Rectory Office for an appointment.
Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory Office at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites).
Holy Matrimony (Marriages) Please make an appointment to meet with a Priest at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall.
CCD & RCIA If you or someone you know is interested in completing, or receiving all, the Sacraments of Initiation, please contact Mrs. Marylyn Crum of the Religious Education Office for more information.
RECTORY OFFICE HOURS
Monday — Friday 9:00AM — 12:30PM / 1:30PM — 8:00PM
Saturday Sunday 9:00AM — 4:00PM Office is Closed
CLERGY Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese...…………..Pastor Rev. Liju Augustine, CMI……...…….Parochial Vicar Rev. William A. McLaughlin…….…..Parochial Vicar Dcn. Francisco Hernandez Dcn. Thomas Quinn Dcn. Elkin Tamayo In Residence: Rev. Msgr. Charles Patrick Boccio Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam
Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy in Astoria Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger, Principal 718-728-1969 - www.iccaastoria.org Religious Education (CCD) Office Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director 718-956-4494 - [email protected]
CONFESSIONS
The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00PM to 4:45PM. The languages generally available are English, Spanish and Italian. Appointments for Confession outside this time can be made by contacting the Rectory Office.
PARISH DEVOTIONS
MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Monday after the 9:00AM Mass with the Rosary, and at 5:00PM with the Rosary and Evening Prayer.
WEEKDAY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration from the end of the 7:00AM Mass to before the start of the 9:00AM Mass every weekday and Saturdays. The Rosary is prayed communally beginning at 8:20AM, and Morning Prayer is celebrated at 8:45AM.
FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTION Every first Friday of the month, the Blessed Sacrament is exposed from after the 12:00PM Mass through the Parish Holy Hour from 7:00PM to 8:00PM.
FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION As a Parish specially dedicated to Our Blessed Mother, we as a community dedicate the first Saturday of every month to honoring her. This devotion includes the communal praying of the Rosary at 8:15AM, the celebration of Morning Prayer at 8:45AM, and the celebration of Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 9:00AM, where the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is also celebrated.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH DIRECTORY
Holy Helpers One of the things that impress itself on non-Catholics about our faith is the place we give to the saints. It would seem to the outside observer that heaven is divided into different departments, such that when you have a particular need you go to that department and ask for help. For example, if you lose something and, you are directed to pray to St. Anthony. When he answers you and you find what you lost, you become a devotee of St. Anthony and thank him for the favor. While this is clearly against Catholic teaching, it’s quite a common misunderstanding. Perhaps a better way of looking at the helping of the saints is to imagine ourselves asking a very important person for a favor. It is useful under these circumstances to enlist the help of someone who the important person thinks very highly of so that the request be given a little more prominence. So we get letters or even the very presence of the friend of the potentate to accompany us as we make our request or as we allow the friend in the case to make the appeal. This is the role of the saints. I ask St. Anthony not for the favor itself, since he is powerless to give it to me, but I ask him as a friend of mine to come with me to God when I ask it of Him (or I allow St. Anthony to make the request to God directly). This does not mean that I cannot go directly to God myself; but, knowing my weaknesses and my sinfulness, I ask St. Anthony to accompany me that I might not lose heart. This of course presupposes that I have a deep and lasting friendship with St. Anthony. Friendship is deepened and developed by self-communication, shared joy and sorrow and the time together which helps us to understand another. It requires that we get to know the saint and allow him or her to get to know us. This is not in place of the Adoration and service to God, but as a secondary growth in the affairs of that other world to which we are hopefully directed. It is not worship of that saint, but a friendship that is developed that has, as its firm shared purpose, the worship of the God that unites us in this friendship. It is this growing relationship with a saint or saints that helps to anchor us to the direction of heaven and the afterlife, the concerns of which should more and more occupy us as we live this short and troublesome life on earth. To illustrate what I mean, I would like to share a dream I had as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn. I was a particularly bothersome little boy of elderly parents who were at a loss how to discipline me. I was a bit of a brat! One night I had a dream. I remember it to this day even though I was about 6 or 7 years old when I had it. St. Anthony, in a very kindly way, took me aside and gently told me that I was behaving badly with my parents and that it would be good to change that. He spoke so calmly and with such love for me that I felt greatly affirmed and wanted to change, not only for my parent’s benefits, but also because I wanted to please St. Anthony who spoke to me like a big brother and best friend. When I woke up I immediately resolved to be a more behaved child so much so that my mother asked what happened that I changed so much. I told her about the dream and she understood completely and seemed very happy that St. Anthony intervened. This is what I mean by our relationship with the saints. They are our friends and guides to help us do the will of God. I sometimes imagine that, when I die and open the eyes of my soul in the next world, I will see, surrounding me with great welcome and love, all the saints that I got to know and love in my short journey here on earth, and that they bring me without any fear but much great reverence into the presence of almighty God Who created me and Who loves me more than anyone could here on earth. What a great moment that may be! May I do nothing here on earth that would prevent this from happening; and, if I must enter the purifying fires of Purgatory first, I do so happily and willingly knowing that my celestial friends and holy helpers will wait; and then, when ready to enter His presence, they will escort me into the joy I have always wanted.
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MEMORIALS THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of John J. O’Connell, Sr., requested by his wife Dorothy O’Connell & children. THE ALTAR CANDLES were not memorialized this week. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of James, Nellie & John McCauley, requested by Florence McCauley & Family. THE SECOND SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of William & Anne Thompson, requested by the Gualtieri Family.
THE 2ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME SATURDAY January 18 — Sunday Vigil 5:00PM Mary & Edward Casey & Family SUNDAY January 19 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Joseph Tortorella 10:30AM Nella Anderson 12:00PM Spanish: Ruth Magdalena Matute (Birth. Rem.) 1:30PM Eva Bonilla Palafox Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Benedetto Zito
Please pray for all the faithful departed.
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them.
PLEASE KEEP THEM ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS
THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME SATURDAY January 11 — Sunday Vigil 5:00PM Tony Borg, Mary, Joe SUNDAY January 12
The Baptism of the Lord 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Gerarda Luisa Maglio 10:30AM Alice Williams (22nd. Anniv.) 12:00PM Spanish: Alvaro Roco; Judith Araceli Poveda; Dolores Martinez; Las Almas del Pugatorio; Por los Jovenes 1:30PM Alicia Herera Lopez (Dec.) & Guillermo Herrera Lopez (Liv.), Elias Herrera Bonilla (Liv.) Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Joseph & Albina Squeri, Bartolomeo & Flavio DiVirgilio MONDAY January 13
St. Hilary 7:00AM Tomato Yamaki & Joselyn Reinoso 9:00AM Bernice Borkowski 12:00PM Giovanni Tenaglia TUESDAY January 14 7:00AM Hilda Carberry 9:00AM Anna & Giuseppe Rotolo 12:00PM David Gibbs WEDNESDAY January 15 7:00AM Laurence, Patrick & Margaret Cassidy 9:00AM Cristina & Franck DiMarco 12:00PM Margaret Mary Lynch THURSDAY January 16 7:00AM Niko Russel (Liv.) 9:00AM Gina Lopez & Andrew Jenicek 12:00PM John J. O’Connell, Sr. FRIDAY January 17
St. Anthony, Abbot 7:00AM Michelle Pearson & Atatiana Jefferson 9:00AM Donato Romano (Birth. Rem. & Anniv.) 12:00PM Brusca Antonio Providenza SATURDAY January 18 7:00AM The Souls of the Purgatorial Society 9:00AM Pietro Sbuttoni
MARCH FOR LIFE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. All are invited to join in the January 24th March for Life in Washington, D.C. The peaceful prayerful demonstration is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, legalized abortion on demand. A free bus will be leaving from in front of St. Joseph’s Church at 6:00AM (718-278-1611) and from Immaculate Conception Church at 6:30AM (718-728-1613). Please call the Rectory for more information.
“DIPE & WIPE” COLLECTION The Confirmation Class of our Parish will be collecting diapers and baby wipes to be donated to the Bridge to Life Ministry. After the Masses of Saturday, January 18th and Sunday, January 19th, please drop off your donations in Church or the Academy Hall.
PRO-LIFE MASS The Immaculate Conception Knights of Columbus Council #11449 are sponsoring a Pro-Life Mass on Sunday, January 19th at 9:00AM, followed by a prayer service in front of the Statue of the Unborn in the front of the Convent near the Grotto parking lot.
BABY BOTTLES Baby Bottles will be made available in the Church on Saturday, January 18th and Sunday, January 19th for contributions to the Bridge to Life Ministry. Please consider taking one home to donate to this important ministry. Bottles must be returned to the Church by January 26th.
CHRISTMAS PLANTS & DECORATIONS In Memory of: Grace Kelly Adler Paula Celeste Antos Attard Family & Portelli Family Joseph Aquilina, Sr. John Balkaransingh, Virginia Balkaransingh & Amy Jagdis Bonfigli, Cordani & Valenti Families Lucia & Ralph Borgia Joseph Caccamo Bruno Cavazzini Conti Family John Corso, Maria Corso & Dominick Susca Roseline Coutto Daniel Anna & Richard DeSimone DiRaffaele & Giacchina Families Veronica Derrien Anna, Andrew & Frank Docar Durst & Weinhofer Families Rosaleen, Mary & Patsy Egan Henrietta & Antonio Evangelista Alfred & Maria Falzon, Carmel Vella Elizabeth & Harry Fastenau Michael Fernandez Adelaide & John Giuttari, Andrew & Mary Kochie
Jeremy Michael, Georgeta, Constantin Ionel Ruth & Arthur Lawrence Margaret Mary Lynch Lucy McBride McCalhan Family Patrick McQuaid Ruth Magdalena Matute & Daniel Salvador Matute Martha Mejias & Johnny Mejias Roberto Murichi Michela Polino & Gennaro Polise Richards & Allano Families Harry Ruby Daniel Sandoval Segot & Milazzo Families Sister Richard Maureen Joseph & Albina Squeri Sime Vrankovic, Chris & Ana Gasparic Trudell & Tebbett Families Kathlynn Anne Zabala Gift to My Parish Isabel Carballo Ed Litcher Digna Vaquiz
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