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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 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 28th, 2018
PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION
www.immacastoria.org ~ 718-728-1613 ~ [email protected] ~ 718-956-9229 (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main Email) (Fax Number)
The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Friday, February 2nd, 2018
MASS SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00 AM — Weekday Mass 9:00 AM — Weekday Mass 5:00 PM — Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00 AM — Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00 AM — Family Mass 10:30 AM — High Mass (Mass with Choir) 12:00 PM — Spanish Mass/Español 1:30 PM — Contemporary Music Mass Lower Church 9:00 AM — Italian Mass/Italiano MONDAY TO FRIDAY 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM & 12:00 PM
MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass, and at 5:00 PM with Rosary and Evening Prayer.
OTHER SACRAMENTS Baptisms Baptisms are celebrated monthly. Please call the Rectory for an appointment.
Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites).
Marriages Please notify the Rectory at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall.
RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday — Friday
9:00 AM — 12:30 PM /1:30 PM — 8:00 PM Saturday Sunday
9:00 AM — 4:00 PM 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 Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam
Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger, Principal
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Religious Education Office (CCD) Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director
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CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM. The languages generally available are English, Spanish and Italian.
UPCOMING EVENTS
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ROSARY SOCIETY Please join us for the Rosary Society Mass and meeting on Sunday, February 4th. We will begin by reciting the Rosary in Church at 10:00 a.m. You can find us in the Chapel in first few pews on the left side. We will then move to the left side of the main church facing the Ambo for the Mass. After Mass, we will go down to Lyons Hall in the academy for our meeting and refreshments. All are welcome!
Letting Them Decide A number of years ago, I attended a meeting concerning the future of Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary, colloquially called “Cathedral Prep”. At that time, Cathedral Prep had two campuses: one in Brooklyn and one in Queens. While a number of dioceses had similar institutions, they were all closing their doors. So the question arose on what should we do with our two Preps. One of the priests at the meeting said that we should close them since the boys were too young to make any decisions regarding their future. It was wrong, he said, to try to influence children who were so young. I suddenly felt angry with this thought and responded quickly and a bit testily: “I would agree with you if you also banned the teenagers from watching TV, for it will not wait until they are adults to work its own formation!” I was angry because we were putting the true good of those young boys below the influence of the culture, which did not have his true good in mind. We have a very virulent, attractive and powerful secular culture that will stop at nothing to influence our children, all for material gain. Other cultures in the world fear this power; it steals into their countries with our music, our movies, and our self-centered obsessions and completely undercuts their culture. Parents who do not take seriously their need to protect their children from the nefarious influence of our secular culture are failing in a primary aspect of their role as generators of new life that is eternal in nature. For these children will last but a hundred years in this life and eternally, for good or ill, in the transformed life to come. The secular culture, while having many vestiges still of a God-centered culture, is truly demonic in nature. To refuse the protection of the Sacraments (we forget that in the Baptismal rite there is a minor Exorcism performed to protect the child!) and the compass of the teachings of Christ in the whole Judeo-Christian enterprise is to endanger the eternal welfare of their children. What good parent would agree to such an abandonment of parental responsibility! Their child will be subject to watching a screen, often referred to as a ‘black mirror’, for endless hours a day. Think of it: TVs, computers, iPads, cellphones, etc. —all screens propagating a materialistic, nihilistic, relativist universe devoid of any ultimate meaning. Keep that in mind when a parent says, “I will not have my child Baptized. I will let them choose for themselves when they are adults.” Then you add to that trend another two: not marrying with God’s blessing in Church, nor having a proper Funeral Mass at earthly death. Now you can begin to see what everlasting harm is being done. Abandonment of religion often is abandonment of God. Parents have a special direct responsibility to God to take care of the children God sends. To neglect the most important element of that care—I am speaking of the spiritual-religious (both are essential!)—is to take away the virtue of hope from the child. Is it any wonder that, in spite of all that a child has in this rich country, there are so many suicides among our youngsters? What are we giving to them? Perhaps a future full of things and lacking in what is the most important: purpose, meaning and the blessing of God. It is a frightening fact that this culture is very subversive, attractive and powerful. Even when parents do all in their power to raise their children as good Catholics (i.e. they go to Church with them, they send them to the best Catholic Schools and Universities, and do everything to model real Catholicism), even then the culture can grab them and cause great harm. The fear that some modern parents have of taking away the free choice of their adult children is basically groundless. They can still choose otherwise and sometimes do. This is a painful experience for parents who have done all they could and still find their children walking away from the faith, oblivious of the harm they are inflicting on themselves. Parents in this situation can only keep praying for their children and allowing the grace of God to slowly bring them back. I believe that the prayers of such parents are powerful indeed.
Rev. Monsignor Fernando Ferrarese
MEMORIALS
THE BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Giovanna & Joseph Camenzuli, requested by their daughter Virginia Camenzuli. THE CANDLES AT THE ALTAR are donated this week in loving memory of Antonio & Elide Giannattasio, requested their daughter Carmelina Giannattasio. SANCTUARY LAMP #1 is donated this week in loving memory of Fr. Joseph Wiseman, requested by the O’Connell Family. SANCTUARY LAMP #2 is donated this week in loving memory of Antonio & Elide Giannattasio, requested their daughter Carmelina Giannattasio.
SUNDAY - February 4 7:00 a.m. For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00 a.m. Virginia Maglio 10:30 a.m. Paula Celeste Antos 12:00 p.m. Spanish: Sigifredo Gómez (8th Anniv.), Edelmira Sedlmeier; Luis Posada (10th Anniv.) 1:30 p.m. Indalecio Babio Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Elide & Antonio Giannattasio
SUNDAY - January 28 7:00 a.m. For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00 a.m. Salvatore & Marianna Cala 10:30 a.m. Mary Hertrich 12:00 p.m. Spanish: Julia Granados; Ramona Ferreira; Johanna Torres; Teofila Granados, Melissa Sanchez; Imedla Realpe (2nd Ann.), Bertha Denia Vargas Orellana 1:30 p.m. Eva Bonilla & Family Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Angelo Paolo MONDAY - January 29 7:00 a.m. St. Frances de Sale 9:00 a.m. Naudlee Valcin-Reese 12:00 p.m. Rev. Joseph F. Wiseman TUESDAY - January 30 7:00 a.m. Mario Nacinovich (17th Anniv.) 9:00 a.m. Lydia Grima 12:00 p.m. Bruno Matesic WEDNESDAY - January 31 7:00 a.m. Daniel Sandoval 9:00 a.m. Michela Polino 12:00 p.m. Pope Paul VI THURSDAY - February 1 7:00 a.m. Carlos Garcia 9:00 a.m. Michael DePace 12:00 p.m. Rosa Galante FRIDAY - February 2 7:00 a.m. The Calderon-Herrera Family 9:00 a.m. The Deceased Members of the Zupo Family 12:00 p.m. Rosaleen Smith SATURDAY - February 3 7:00 a.m. The Purgatorial Society 9:00 a.m. Jesse Chan 5:00 p.m. St. John Paul II & Mother Angelica
Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially…
Mateo Alejandro Ramautar Ramirez
Luzmila Landeo
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them.
PLEASE KEEP THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS
Thank you to all our Parishioners for this past weekend’s collection: Collection: $7,923.73 Attendance: 1,506 people Per Capita: $5.26
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