IMMACULA TE CONCEPTION CHURCH

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
CLERGY
Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese, Pastor
Rev. William A. McLaughlin
Rev. Liju Augustine
Deacon Elkin Tamayo
Deacon Francisco Hernandez
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 10, 2014
Truth shall spring out of the earth, and
Justice shall look down from heaven.
—Psalm 85:12
In Residence
Rev. Msgr. Charles Patrick Boccio,
Pastor Emeritus
Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Evening
5:00 PM—Vigil Mass
Sunday
7:00 AM (Mass without music)
9:00 AM (Family Mass)
9:00 AM (Mass in Italian—Lower
Church)
10:30 AM (Mass with Choir)
12:00 PM (Mass in Spanish)
12:00 PM (Mass with the Youth in Lower
Church)
1:30 PM (Mass with Contemporary
Music)
Weekday
7:00, 9:00 AM & 12:00 Noon
Holydays
Consult the bulletin
Miraculous Medal Novena
Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass
SACRAMENTS
Confessions
English, Spanish & Italian—4:00—5:00
PM, Saturday
Baptisms
Baptisms are celebrated monthly. Parents
should call the rectory for an appointment.
Sick Calls
Anytime. Call the rectory. Arrange
Communion calls by phoning the rectory.
Marriages
Be sure to notify the rectory at least six (6)
months before the marriage date.
Parish School Principal
Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger
718 728-1969
www.icsastoria.org
RECTORY OFFICE
Phone: 718 728-1613
Fax: 718 956-9229
Office Hours
Monday—Friday
9:00 AM—12:30 PM
1:30 PM—8:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
Sunday: Office is closed
www.immacastoria.org
Religious Education
Office
Mrs. Marylyn Crum
718 956-4494
Human Services Office
Sr. Bridget McGettigan,
SUSC
718 721-1099
Youth Ministry Office
Michael Meloni
718 728-1613
[email protected]
[email protected]
PARISH MEMBERSHIP
We extend a warm welcome to all new members of our parish family. If you would like to
become a member of our Parish family, please visit or contact the rectory during office
hours.
THE BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving
memory of Irene & James Dunne requested by the Boot
Family
SUNDAY - August 10
7:00 a.m.
Fiorella Bonfigli (2 Anniv.)
9:00 a.m.
Shirley & Peter Jonstone
10:30 a.m.
Angela Sarro
12:00 p.m.
Spanish—Daniel Matute
1:30 p.m.
Rose Pizzimenti
Lower Church:
9:00 a.m.
Italian– Lorenzo Randazzo
12 Noon
Georgina & Amedeo Ventura (20th
Wedding Anniversary Celebration)
SANCTUARY LAMP #1 is donated this week in loving
memory of Virginia Porcari, requested by the Caruana
Family.
SANCTUARY LAMP #2 is donated this week in loving
memory of Beatrice Schiff, requested by Rose Cavagnolo.
PLEASE KEEP THEM IN YOUR PRAYER
MONDAY- August 11
7:00 a.m.
Eileen Basedow
9:00 a.m.
Giuseppe Pisella
12 Noon
Brenda & Veronica Smith
Please pray for the recently deceased…
Hugo Maglio
TUESDAY – August 12
7:00 a.m.
John Sivak
9:00 a.m.
Flavio, Laura & Bartolomeo DiVirglio
12 Noon
Lena Colicino
WEDNESDAY
7:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
12 Noon
- August 13
Giovanni Tenaglia
Ann & Joseph Digman
Salvatore Celano
THURSDAY- August 14
7:00 a.m
In honor of our Sorrowful Mother
9:00 a.m.
Malachy McGurran
12 Noon
Giuseppe Celano
FRIDAY - August 15—Feast of the Assumption
7:00 a.m.
Anna Morales
9:00 a.m.
Margaret, Victor & Denise
Kelleher & Kata Families
12 Noon
Filomena & Rocco Sansone
Lynch,
SATURDAY - August 16
7:00 a.m.
Sally & John Lubold
9:00 a.m.
San Rocco
12 Noon
Genna Mariano
2:00 p.m.
Wedding: Raul Aguilar & Lesley Rivera
5:00 p.m.
Purgatorial Society
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may
perpetual light shine upon them
SCHOOL NEWS
Although the 2013—2014 school year has ended,
Immaculate Conception School is still very busy.
Our Summer Program began on June 30th and
will continue through August 15th. For more
information about the Summer Program, please
call 347-728-3283. And if you are interested in
registering your child at Immaculate Conception
School for the upcoming year, please visit our
website at www.icsastoria.org . You can also call
the office at 718-728-1969 to schedule a tour and
register at the best little school in the heart of
Astoria.
COLLECTION:
Weekend of:
Collection Amt:
Attendance:
Per Capita:
August 2 & 3
$8,664.00
1,627
$5.32
SUNDAY - August 17
7:00 a.m.
Dorothy Eberle
9:00 a.m.
Michele & Angela Sarro
10:30 a.m.
Filagrossi Family
12:00 p.m.
Spanish— Julio Barros (3 Anniv.)
1:30 p.m.
Donald Henderson (Birth. Remb.) &
Sheila Forte
Lower Church:
9:00 a.m.
Italian– Angela & Michele Sarro
12 Noon
Carmela & Orazio Stantini
FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION
Friday, August 15, is the Feast of the Assumption, a Holy
Day of Obligation. Masses will be at 7:00 a.m., 9:00
a.m. & 12 Noon. There will be a bi-lingual Mass at 7:00
p.m.
FR. McGIVNEY MASS
Knights of Columbus Council 11449
Invites All Parishioners
To Our Annual Mass Honoring
Venerable Fr Michael J McGivney
Founder of the Knights of Columbus
And Candidate for Sainthood
Saturday, August 9, 5:30 PM
On the 124th Anniversary of His Death
BBQ to Follow for Knights and their Families
Contact GK John O'Connell to Volunteer
CHARISMS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKSHOP
Discover your charisms; know your mission and
call. The Immaculate Conception English Prayer Group
invites you to our “Charisms of the Holy Spirit
Workshop”, Thursdays August 7, 14, 21, September 4
and 11 at 7-9 pm. Fellowship follows after each
workshop.
BIBLE STUDY PROGRAM
Immaculate Conception’s Adult Faith Formation
Committee will continue to offer Bible Study courses as a
part of our adult faith formation at our parish.
This year we will be concentrating on 2 separate studies.
Ed Prager, a fellow parishioner and Religion professor at
St. John’s University, will be giving us a look into the
scriptures based on his course development at St. John’s
University. The second half of the year will be Psalms, a
10 part bible study program starting in January 2015.
It is basic enough for those of us who have not studied
the Bible before while at the same time offering those
who have read the Bible the opportunity to go deeper.
Registration form is located at the church entrances, at
the rectory or on our website: immacastoria.org
Fall Semester:
Spring Semester:
JOIN WITH US FOR A
HISTORIC PATRIOTIC ADVENTURE
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2014
(RAIN OR SHINE)
The Commodore John Barry Assembly #712 invites you
to a day in Historic Philadelphia. Here’s the plan:
A luxury bus will take us from Astoria to Philadelphia,
leaving at 9am. There will be snacks available for the
ride.
We will tour the USS Olympia, the Flagship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War, at the Independence Seaport Museum and will conduct a
patriotic ceremony aboard the ship. Olympia Council
#394 will present a donation to the museum to help
preserve the ship.
Lunch will be provided at a local K of C council.
From there we will walk to Old Saint Mary’s Church
where we will do a ceremony at the graves of Commodore John Barry and General Stephen Moylan. At
4:30PM we will march into church with Honor Guards
and with council banners and flags to attend Saturday
vigil Mass. The Barry Assembly will present a check to
the Pastor. We will meet with local Knights, and then
head back home.
The cost for all of this: $50 per person. Includes bus,
meal, museum fee, and a small donation to the church.
Please reserve your spot today by e-mail to Mike Hilley,
FC. at [email protected]. You will be given
payment instructions. Please make checks payable to the
Commodore John Barry Assembly #712.
Sir Knight Mario Massa, Sr.
Past Faithful Navigator,
Event Chairman
Sep. 9 - Nov. 11 - Tue 7pm
Jan 7. - Mar. 25 - Wed 10am
HELP WANTED
St. Francis of Assisi Rectory, Astoria has a cook/
housekeeper position available for three (3) weeks in
September — Monday to Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. for the weeks of September 8th—11th, 15th—18th
and 22nd—25th .
If you are interested, please call Susan Woods at: 718728-7801—Monday thru Friday 9:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
9/11 MEMORIAL CANDLELIGHT CEREMONY
The Annual “9/11 Memorial Candlelight Ceremony’’
will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 7:30
p.m. at McManus Memorial Park—81st Street & Grand
Central Service Road.
GIVE BLOOD. SAVE LIVES.
Donating blood saves lives! Please donate blood at our
next blood drive scheduled on Monday, August 18, 2014
from the hours of 2 pm to 8 pm.
To be eligible to donate, you must be between the ages of
17 – 75 (16 year olds need parental consent, and donors
ages 76 and above need a signed doctor’s letter), weigh
at least 110 pounds and be in good health. The blood
you donate can save up to three lives because each
donation is broken down into parts and given to
different people. For more information on donating
blood, visit the New York Blood Center online at
www.nybloodcenter.org.
PRESENCE
It is difficult to be truly present to another. We speak of
putting in an appearance or showing up. Even when we
arrive, we are often distracted. We think ahead, or we
review an unsettled past. Nonetheless, we are at our best
when we truly show up. We are most fully ourselves
when we are absorbed in something worthy of us:
creative work, good conversation, prayer. In these
instances we are wholly ourselves and wholly outside
ourselves.
Elijah knew this kind of engagement. He was one of
God’s great prophets. In today’s first reading, he follows
God’s command to journey to that most holy place,
Mount Horeb. And there in great silence, Elijah
encounters God.
As for Peter and the apostles, they discover the presence
of God after the storm at sea. They and the sea and the
winds are stunned into silent reverence.
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PRESENCIA
Es difícil estar realmente presente ante otros. Hablamos
de aparecernos o dar signo de presencia. Aun cuando
estamos allí, estamos distraídos. pensamos en lo que
viene, o revisitamos un pasado no resuelto. Sin
embargo, somos lo mejor que podemos ser cuando
estamos realmente presentes. Somos nuestro más
completo ser cuando estamos absorbidos en algo digno
de nosotros: trabajo creativo, buena conversación,
oración. En estas ocasiones somos totalmente nosotros
mismos y totalmente fuera de nosotros.
Elías conocía ese tipo de participación. Él era uno de los
grandes profetas de Dios. En la primera lectura, él
sigue el mandamiento de Dios de ir a un sitio sagrado,
el Monte Horeb. Y allí en gran silencio, el humilde Elías
encontró a Dios.
Y Pedro y los Apóstoles descubrieron la presencia de
Dios después de la tormenta en el mar. Ellos, el mar y el
viento se quedaron mudos en silencio reverente.
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TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
Over the last several weeks, the history of confirmation
has been set out as a rite following baptism and
preceding First Communion. Eucharist was a sacrament
of spiritual maturity, attuned to the legal age of majority,
which was considered to be fourteen years or so.
Medieval bishops were often generous, if not especially
pious, in seeing to it that children were confirmed
before adulthood.
A pattern more familiar to us surfaced in the Diocese of
Toulon in France in 1748, where it was decreed that
“children are to be confirmed only after receiving First
Communion.” This was an amazing shift in practice that
undermined centuries of theology and tradition by
which confirmation was seen as a bridge between font
and table. The innovation swept through France and
across Europe, despite constant complaints from Rome.
French-trained bishops like Cheverus of Boston and
Carroll of Baltimore, founders of the American church,
established the practice here. The order of the
sacraments was thus disrupted in France and in the
United States, and remained an eccentric exception to
the rule until big developments in 1910.
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GOD’S IMAGE
Nature has perfections in order to show that she is
the image of God, and defects to show that she is only
God’s image.
—Blaise Pascal
SING
Alas for those who never sing, but die with their
music within them.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE
Hoy celebramos la memoria del santo patrono de los
cocineros, san Lorenzo. Este español del siglo tercero
fue uno de siete diáconos del Papa Sixto II, en Roma. Su
ministerio consistía en repartir limosnas a los pobres.
En el año 257 se pronunció una nueva persecución a
los cristianos en Roma y el día 6 de agosto unos
soldados romanos asesinaron al Papa y a cuatro de sus
diáconos. Lorenzo, cuyo nombre significa laureado o
premiado, fue arrestado tras la batalla y llevado ante el
alcalde de Roma. Este mandó traer todas las riquezas de
la Iglesia, pero Lorenzo ya hacía tiempo que las había
vendido para dar el dinero a los más necesitados. No
obstante, se marchó de la presencia del alcalde para
luego llegar con él, acompañado de gente pobre y
enferma, insistiendo que ellos eran las verdaderas
riquezas de la Iglesia. El alcalde, furioso, lo mandó
quemar sobre brazas para que muriera lentamente.
Según testigos de su martirio, Lorenzo, a cierto punto
dijo a sus asesinos: “Ya estoy asado de este lado,
voltéenme para asarme por completo”. Eventualmente
dijo: “La carne esta lista, ya pueden comer” y falleció
orando por la conversión de Roma.
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IMAGEN DE DIOS
La naturaleza tiene perfecciones a fin de mostrarnos
que ella es la imagen de Dios, así como defectos para
mostrarnos que es apenas imagen de Dios.
—Blas Pascal
CANTA TU CANCIÓN
Lástima que aquellos que nunca cantan, se mueren
con la música en su interior.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
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