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PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION
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 FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMEFebruary 7th, 2021
www.immacastoria.org ~ 718-728-1613 ~ [email protected] ~ 718-956-9229 (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main Email) (Fax Number)
Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes Thursday, February 11th, 2021
OTHER SACRAMENTSBAPTISMSFor Baptisms for infants and children, please contact the Rectory Office for more information. SICK CALLSPlease contact the Rectory Office at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites). HOLY MATRIMONY (MARRIAGE) 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 HOURSMONDAY � 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. Elkin Tamayo In Residence:Rev. Msgr. Charles Patrick Boccio, Pastor Emeritus Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam
CONFESSIONSThe Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdaysfrom 4:00PM to 5:00PM. 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 MEDAY NOVENAMonday after the 9:00AM Mass with the Rosary, and at 5:00PM with the Rosary and Evening Prayer.
WEEKDAY EUCHARISTIC ADORATIONThe 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 DEVOTIONEvery first Friday of the month, the Blessed Sacrament is exposed from after the 9:00AM Mass through the Parish Holy Hour from 7:00PM to 8:00PM.
FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTIONAs 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 Catholic Academy Br. Joseph Rocco, sc, Ed.D., Principal 718-728-1969 - www.iccaastoria.orgReligious Education (CCD) Office Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director 718-956-4494 - [email protected] Youth Ministry of Immac. (YMI) Rev. Liju Augustine, CMI, Director Angelica Flores, Coordinator 718-728-1613 ext. 218 - [email protected]
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH DIRECTORY
WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE
SUNDAY 7:00AM � Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 8:00AM � Italian Mass/Italiano * 9:00AM � Family Mass 10:30AM � High Mass (Mass with Music) 12:00PM � Spanish Mass/Español * 1:30PM � Contemporary Music Mass
MONDAY � FRIDAY 7:00AM & 9:00AM
SATURDAY7:00AM � Weekday Mass
9:00AM � Weekday Mass 5:00PM � Sunday Vigil Mass *
* Also Streamed on Facebook
False Heroes Last week�s essay [Saints: Heroes & Heroines of Simplicity, 01/31/21] was a reflection on Sanctity using the example of St. Margaret of York. She has a lot to say about courage and clear sightedness from her eloquent espousal of Christian Witness. But we can also learn a lot from great sinners, not by following their example but by learning from their mistakes and going the other way! If the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), we can learn from them the traps and provocations of the evil one. A book I heartedly recommend on this subject is �The Screwtape Letters� by C.S. Lewis. It contains a brilliant collection of fictional letters between Screwtape, a senior devil, and his nephew, Wormwood, who is just beginning to tempt unsuspecting human beings away from the way of goodness to the way of destruction. One would think that this is difficult to do: How does one tempt a person away from the delights of living a righteous Godly life to a life of uncertainty, pain, yearning and ultimately disappointment? Unfortunately, it is quite easy since we are burdened with the results of Original Sin! And so, the devil can count on the tendency on our part to make wrong choices. After all, Adam and Eve gave up eternal joy for a piece of fruit! Following this inverted logic, we often admire people who have a lot of money, or can do whatever they choose, or have power over others, or seem to be enjoying themselves to no end. These are what I call �baseline sinners�. Many people make idols of these types; in fact, most people do! They mistakenly think that these things can bring happiness. But they can�t. We have been made by God to seek the ultimate happiness which is God. Anything less than the infinite joy that only God can give will, in the end, disappoint. St. Augustine put it perfectly when in his book �Confessions� he wrote in a prayer to God: �Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.� This is one of the major truths in life, but most people don�t seem to be aware of it. People settle for lesser goods like wealth, power, honors, pleasure; leaving them, at most, very unsatisfied and depressed or at worst addicted. Until we find God, we are condemned to despair and the �Is that all there is?� experience.
On the other hand, having great Saints that point beyond themselves to another realm of life (heaven) and who exhibit virtue in heroic proportions is just what humanity is asking for.
But, since the banishment of Faith and the real Saints, the public tends to �idolize� (notice the word!) a singer, or a rock star, or an athlete, so that by personalizing their attraction to them they can bask in their greatness and work hard to be like them, even if it is to be an unquestioning fan (short for fanatic) who looks past the idol�s moral failings to the area that attracts them. What does it matter, if a great baseball player cheats or drinks or is far from a wholesome example to the young, as long as he continues to hit the ball and field well? But one�s moral failings do matter. In some sort of contradictory way, many in the media get this; but, unfortunately, instead of pointing to examples of true greatness, they appoint themselves to be grand inquisitors and look desperately to find something bad about the person so they can expose them as frauds. However, like all inquisitors, they reveal more about themselves than who they are trying to purify. In conclusion, I would invite anyone who wants to be inspired to be better than they are to go to the Saints. Put away your idols, whether they are from the screen or the playing field. The Saints are endlessly fascinating and lead lives that are not only great on earth, but have lasting power to open up horizons to the hereafter.
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Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially�
Gloria Paruolo Those Who Have Died From COVID-19
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in Peace. Amen.
MEMORIALS
THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Anthony Ercolano, requested by Anna & Ralph Giammarino.
THE ALTAR CANDLES were not memorialized this week.
THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Stephen Edward Parisi, requested by the Crum Family.
THE SECOND SANCTUARY LAMP was not memorialized this week.
THE 6TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
SATURDAY February 13 � Sunday Vigil 5:00PM Maria & Joe Debono ay
SUNDAY February 14 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 8:00AM Italian: Costantino Smargdas; Giannino Sabini 9:00AM Michela Polino & Virginia Maglio10:30AM Virginia Maglio12:00PM Spanish: Ines Olivera; Gustavo Toledo y Familia Pliego, Gilberto Hinestroza Perlaza1:30PM Julia Graziano
THE 5TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
SATURDAY February 6 � Sunday Vigil 5:00PM Albert J. Anderson (Birth. Rem.)
SUNDAY February 7 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 8:00AM Italian: Maria Carmine Esposito; Maria Di Marco; Monique Robin 9:00AM Ignatz & Gizella Cseri10:30AM Betty Leto12:00PM Spanish: Alvaro Roco, Almas del pugatorio y por todo los Jovenes; Angel y Blanca Benavides; Ricardo Gonzales1:30PM Robert R. Dangelo
MONDAY February 8 St. Jerome Emiliani & St. Josephine Bakhita
7:00AM Johnny Gutierrez 9:00AM Mary Egan
TUESDAY February 9 7:00AM For the Intentions of the Celebrant9:00AM Anthony Mulé
WEDNESDAY February 10 St. Scholastica
7:00AM Jackie Singletary 9:00AM Michael, Ezio & Robert Foschini
THURSDAY February 11 Our Lady of Lourdes
7:00AM John Shelley 9:00AM Maria Avagliano
FRIDAY February 12 7:00AM For the Intentions of the Celebrant9:00AM Robert & Patricia O�Rourke
SATURDAY February 13 7:00AM The Souls in the Purgatorial Society9:00AM Peter Jackson
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #11449
�Cereal Drive�
We are collecting cereal boxes to help stock our Parish Food Pantry during these times of food insecurity. Please
consider donating unexpired cereal on the weekends of:
February 6th-7th & February 13th-14th
Please be as generous as you can!
ASH WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE OF MASSES & SERVICES
Ash Wednesday will be celebrated this year on Wednesday, February 17th, 2021. Ashes will be distributed at the following Masses and Services:
7:00AM � English Mass
9:00AM � English Mass
12:00PM � English Service of the Word
3:00PM � English Service of the Word
7:00PM � Bilingual English/Spanish Mass
Please note that the Services of the Wordat 12:00PM and 3:00PM are not Masses, and thus Holy Communion will not be distributed then.
In addition to the distribution and imposition of Ashes, the Sacrament of Confession will be made available the entire day in all the major languages of our Parish (English, Spanish and Italian) from 6:30AM to 9:00PM, except during the Masses and Services.
Please note that, due to the current health crisis, the process of receiving Ashes this year will be different. It will be done in a safe and sanitary manner that maintains the dignity and solemnity of this Sacramental!
A BIG THANK YOU! Every year many of our organizations and societies help the parish financially. We are so grateful to them! A few years ago we started to acknowledge the generosity of our organization by putting the amount they gave that year in the bulletin. Our fiscal year goes from September 1st to August 31st. So the figures below are the amount donated to us by our organizations during the fiscal year 2019 to August 31st 2020. The organizations and the amounts they gave during that period of time are:
English Prayer Group: $3,532.51 Spanish Prayer Group: $3,316.05 Gruppo Mariano: $1,600.00 Filipino Apostolate: $1,250.00 Happy Seniors: $1,000.00 Knights of Columbus: $1,000.00 Squires of the K of C: $1,000.00 God the Father Apostolate: $700.00 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): $450.00 Virgen de Las Nubes: $400.00 Spanish Choir: $103.50
We thank everyone who contributed! This is very necessary and appreciated financial assistance for our parish!
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