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Parish Office Phone: 201-768-1600 Faith Formation Office Parish Web-site: iccnorwood.org Summer Office Hours: 201-768-1600 ext. 251 Parish Email: Mon.-Thurs. 9am-2pm, icc_ccd@yahoo.com Immaculateconception@iccnorwood.org Closed Fri.—Sun. Call for appointment

Saturday July 11, 2020 5:00pm John Sullivan– Fr. Leo Sunday July 12, 2020 8:00am Anne Marinaccio– Laura Neumann 11:00am Frank Murphy– Fran D’Andrea Monday July 13, 2020 8:00am Kathleen Keavey– Bridie Keaney Tuesday July 14, 2020 8:00am Ramon Fischetti– Marge & Barry Scott Wednesday July 15 2020 8:00am Mario “Skipppy” Marchiano (1st Anniversary)– Fr. Leo

Thursday July 16, 2020 8:00am NO SERVICE Friday July 17, 2020 8:00am Frank Murphy (1st Anniversary)- Fr. Leo Saturday July 18, 2020 5:00pm June Harrison– Fr. Leo Sunday July 19, 2020 8:00am The Parish Family 11:00am Jim Keaney– The Moore Family

MASS INTENTIONS

To Everything there is a Season, and a Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: St. Henry Tuesday: St. Kateri Tekakwitha Wednesday: St. Bonaventure Thursday: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Saturday: St. Camillus de Lellis; Blessed Virgin Mary

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — My word will achieve the end for which it was sent (Isaiah 55:10-11). Psalm — The seed that falls on good

ground will yield a fruitful harvest (Psalm 65). Second Reading — We, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves awaiting the redemption of our bodies (Romans 8:18-23). Gospel — Some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit (Matthew 13:1-23 [1-9]). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass (c) 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

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PARISH CALENDAR ~ JUNE 2020

“A Time To Be Healed” Please Pray for the Parish Sick:

Lorraine Lupardi, Stephanie DenBoer, Ryan MacNaughton, Dick Musacchio, Louis Frola, Otto &

Amy Kraus, Joseph Mosca, Barbara Bryant, Jean-Marie Bongiovanni, Bruce Fernstrom, Kevin Mullane, Steven Connelly, Evelyn Dambra, Hernan Sierra, Tracy Tovo, Peter Indiveri, Rosanne DiPasquale, Emma Benvenuto, 11 yr. old Alex, Mario Figueredo, Patti Mazo, Becky Mahoney

Kindly notify the Rectory at 201-768-1600 if a name can be removed from the Prayer List.

For Communion to the sick in hospitals and nursing homes, please call the Rectory at 201-768-1600.

“A Time to Mourn” JUNE LEE SIEBKE, THERESA SUCHAR

May all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Please Pray For Those in the Military: Timothy Dore, Captain, US Army; Ryan A. Griffin, SPC, US Army; John Weisberger, 2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps If you know of someone who is ac-

tively serving in the military and would like their name included in this special prayer list, please contact the rectory at louisel@iccnorwood.org.

Colossians 3:12-15

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and be-loved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful.

* SUNDAY REFLECTIONS *

NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY

by Mary Coloe PBVM

“Happy are your eyes

because they see, and your ears

because they hear.” The ground around Lake Galilee slopes up from the lakeshore and forms a natural amphitheatre that amplifies sound so that Jesus words would be heard easily by the crowd. I have experi-enced this beside Lake Galilee as voices easily carried up the slope. Last week Jesus was revealed as Divine Wis-dom, in today’s Gospel we see Wisdom teach-ing her children in parables. A parable works only if individuals in the crowd can identify with the images. The Galilean audience would read-ily picture the scene of a farmer scattering seeds on the ground. The method used by the peasant farmers was called “broadcasting”. Rather than making a furrow and planting seeds deliberately in the ground, then covering them with soil, the farmer would walk along with a sack of seeds, take a handful and simply cast the seeds around. In this manner some would fall where the breeze took them: among rocks, into weeds, on a path, and some would fall on good soil. The focus in the parable is not on the quality of the seed, but on the quality of

where it falls. What environment receives the seed? The listeners to this parable would get this point. The challenge is—where do they/you stand in relation to receiving the seed/word of God? Are you hovering on the edge, lacking real commitment and prey to other concerns? Are you a disciple for the “good times” only, lacking depth and when tough times come you have no firm roots to sustain you? The parables in today’s readings from Isaiah and Matthew provide a mirror held up to us, to see in them the reflection of our own response to God’s word. In Jesus’ day, it is likely that some found his teaching uncomfortable, and needed to leave. The word they heard made too many demands. But there is also the hope that the parable can invite change as the indi-vidual confronts his/her own behavior, realizes its inadequacy and experiences a change of heart. Looking at all three readings for today, they speak of life and creation. Isaiah draws on the image of the earth being watered and providing fruitfulness; Paul speaks of creation groaning in giving birth and Jesus uses the image of sowing seeds as a way of speaking about his mission. The natural world and its season, its produce, its cycles of life and death, spoke to people of ancient times. Since the rise of technology and science our Western society seems to have lost the sense of listening to the voice of creation, and allowing the natural world to speak. The busy-ness of our lives and our technology can mean we are out of touch with creation. If this is so, Jesus’ parables will be lost on us. In win-ter, the trees are bare, the days are shorter, the weather colder. It is a time for fires and soup; a time for going indoors; a time for in-wardness. It is a time for nurturing the soil of our inner life so that in the spring we are re-ceptive to the seeds wanting to sprout and take root. Winter invites us into an inner darkness, like the darkness of soil where we wait, savor-ing a time of stillness before the earth swings again into warming sun.

* News and Events From Immaculate Conception * GOD’S WORDS

Each day we are bombarded with thousands of words. From the moment our clock radios click on in the morning, until the last moment of the day when the television is turned off or someone bids us “good-night,” our life is filled with words. Some words that we hear bring news that leaves us feel-ing low. Some words lift our spirits. Many of the words we hear are trying to get us to buy some-thing. Some words are hurtful. Today the Church focuses our attention on hearing the word of God. Are God’s words just more of the same—part of the endless stream of words that flow into our ears each day? The challenge today is to allow God’s word to inspire us in new ways so that our outlook and attitudes align themselves more closely with the heart and mind of Christ Jesus. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; I t is in pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.” -Saint Francis of Assisi

God’s Word For Children

Know Your Saints SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA (1656-1680) July 14

Though the New York State Thruway runs close by the North American Martyrs’ Shrine, traf-fic’s roar never pierces the peace enveloping Auriesville—Ossernon to Native Americans—in the lovely Mohawk Valley, where Kateri Tekakwitha was born barely ten years after the mar-tyrdom of Isaac Jogues and his Jesuit and lay companions. Daughter of a Christian Algonquin mother and non-Christian Mohawk chief, Kateri’s parents died in a smallpox epidemic widely blamed on the missionaries. Moreover, many Native Americans had experienced exploitation at the hands of “Christian” traders and trappers, further discrediting the faith Kateri em-braced in baptism, then pledged to live even more intensely in vowed virginity. Misunder-standing led to harassment, prompting her move to a Christian village farther north along the Saint Lawrence River. Despite this, Kateri’s faith remained undaunted, her selfless charity undiminished. Both before and after her death at twenty-four, this young “Lily of the Mo-hawks” drew countless converts to Christ by the fragrance of her goodness. Through us, does “the aroma of Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:15), attract others to the beauty of his gospel? —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

We, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves awaiting the redemption of our bodies.

(Romans 8:18-23).

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