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107 Church Street / P.O. Box 108
Gregory, TX 78359
(361) 643-4505
www.iccgregory.org
PARISH STAFF
PASTOR
Fr. James Puthenparambil
PARISH SECRETARY
Noreen Saenz
BOOKKEEPER
Womack & Womack
DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
David Daniel Solis
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION STAFF
Belen Pena, Assistant to the D.R.E.
Janie J. Garcia, Office Coordinator
C E L E B R AT I O N O F M A S S
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 pm
Sunday Masses: 7:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 5:00 pm
Weekday Masses: 5:30 pm Tuesday
8:30 am Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
5:30pm First Friday
Holy Days of Obligation: 8:30 am & 6:30 pm
Vigil Mass: 6:30 pm
PARISH OFFICE: Fax: 361-643-1509
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
9:00am - 12:00pm
1:00pm - 5:00pm
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE: 643-8327
Office Hours: Wednesday
RCIA Classes on Tuesday
CCD Classes on Wednesday
5:00pm - 8:45pm
7:00pm
6:00pm & 7:15pm
LITURGICAL MUSIC
Choirs
Saturday 5:00 p.m.
Rosendo Ortiz
Sunday
7:00 a.m.
Eddie & Gina Lopez
10:00 a.m.
Tony Rios
12:00 noon
Karla Peña
5:00 p.m.
Pedro Solis
Youth Choir Pedro & Lisa Solis
PRAYER & PRAISE
Sunday
6:00 p.m.
Bilingual
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Please register by contacting the Parish Office
MINISTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Finance Committee
Jamaica Coordinator
Sacristans
Javier Solis
Mike Lopez
Jesse Gomez
Juan Rodriguez
Choir Coordinator
Naida Rios
Communion Ministers Isidro Peña
Altar Servers
David D. Solis
Lectors
Rene Sanchez
Ushers
Ramiro Peña
Altar Society
Nena Garcia
CfC Retreat Team
Noreen Saenz
Crusaders for Christ
Fred Flores
Divine Mercy
Sonya G. Hartnett
ICC Food Pantry
Adriana Moreno
Immaculate Heart of Mary Nydia Tamez
Knights of Columbus
Edward Lara
Sacred Heart
Lupe Lopez
St. Bernadette Angels Belen Peña
Vacation Bible School Tycee Sanchez
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BAPTISMS: Third Saturday of the Month at 10:30 a.m.
BAPTISM CLASS: Tuesday prior of Baptism at 7:00pm; Must register at office
RECONCILIATION: Saturdays 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
MARRIAGE: By appointment only; Notice to Pastor
six (6) months prior to wedding.
QUINCEANERAS: Must be enrolled & attending Rel. Ed.
Notice to Pastor six (6) months prior.
ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Anytime by request.
COMMUNION FOR THE SICK: Contact the office.
June 14, 2015
ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
SATURDAY
JUNE 13, 2015
5:00 PM: + Alfredo Gomez (Alicia Ortiz)
SUNDAY
JUNE 14, 2015
7:00 AM: + Salvador Ayala (Ana, Alfredo, & Terri Ayala)
+ Richard Ortiz (Family)
+Manuela Escobedo (Avila Family)
10:00 AM: + Jesus H. Moreno (Graciela E. Moreno)
+Rachel Hinojosa (Idolina Esparza)
+ Jesus & Guadalupe Cavazos (Family )
12:00 PM: +Ray Villarreal, Sr (Family)
+ Adrian G Flores (Family)
+ In thanksgiving to St. Anthony (Amanda Avila)
5:00 PM: + Daniel E. Flores (Family)
+ Frank L. Hernandez (Dalia Sanchez)
MONDAY
FRIDAY
8:30 AM:
5:00 PM:
June 21, 2015
Estevan Cantu
Pablo Flores
Rachel Otriz
Anita Zambrano
OPEN
OPEN
JUNE 18, 2015
OPEN
JUNE 19, 2015
OPEN
+Frank L Hernandez (Guadalupe Hernandez & Family)
+Adrian G. Flores (Family)
FATHER’S DAY NOVENA
+Francisco Delgaldo & Frank Jr. (Alcoser Family)
+Benito & Eugeno Alcoser Jr. (Alcoser Family)
For the Parishioners of Immaculate Conception Church
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday:
2 Cor 6:1-10; Ps 98:1, 2b, 3-4; Mt 5:38-42
Tuesday:
2 Cor 8:1-9; Ps 146:2, 5-9a; Mt 5:43-48
Wednesday: 2 Cor 9:6-11; Ps 112:1bc-4, 9; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
Thursday:
2 Cor 11:1-11; Ps 111:1b-4, 7-8; Mt 6:7-15
Friday:
2 Cor 11:18, 21-30; Ps 34:2-7; Mt 6:19-23
Saturday:
2 Cor 12:1-10; Ps 34:8-13; Mt 6:24-34
Sunday:
Jb 38:1, 8-11; Ps 107:23-26, 28-31; 2 Cor 5:14-17;
Mk 4:35-41
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SATURDAY
5:00 PM:
June 20, 2015
Lupe, Louis, David
SUNDAY
7:00 AM:
10:00 AM:
12:00 PM:
5:00 PM:
June 21, 2015
Janie, Isidro, Pedro
Alma, Maria, Michael
Virgina, Jessie,
Juan, Jessie L. Gomez,
† Belief ~ Trust ~ Faith †
JUNE 17, 2015
SATURDAY
JUNE 20, 2015
5:00 PM: + Christina Rossel (Alicia Ortiz)
+ Diana Schicker (Family)
SUNDAY
JUNE 21, 2015
7:00 AM: + Salvador Ayala (Ana, Alfredo, & Terri Ayala)
+ Richard Ortiz (Family)
10:00 AM: + Eustacia H. Moreno (Graciela E. Moreno)
+ Esperanza Esparza (Idolina Esparza)
+Jose Valencia (Family)
+ Julio Hernandez (Diana Sanchez)
12:00 PM:
SUNDAY
7:00 AM:
10:00 AM:
12:00 PM:
5:00 PM:
JUNE 16, 2015
WEDNESDAY
8:30 AM:
June 20 2015
Isabelle Rivera
JUNE 15, 2015 ~ NO MASS
5:30 PM:
THURSDAY
SATURDAY
5:00 PM:
For the Parishioners of Immaculate Conception Church
TUESDAY
8:30 AM:
LOOSE COLLECTION
ENVELOPE COLLECTION
SECOND COLLECTION
CHILDREN’S COLLECTION
June 7, 2015 TOTAL
Prayer is the most powerful against trails, the most effective medicine
against sickness and the most valuable gift to someone we care for.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK, especially the following:
Irma Adame, Hermelinda Alcoser, Robert Alvarado, Victoria & Oscar
Arrendondo, Jesse & Ophelia Avila, Leonor Banda, Rosa Barrera, Brae L
Benavidez, Allen Bohns, Esteban Cantu Jr, Rosario Cantu, Tamara Bode,
Ben Chapa, Gabriel & Matthew Claudio, Sammy Coronado, Estella Cortez,
Pedro R Costilla III, Lino Cruz, Michael Duenes, Dominic De Leon, Nessiah
Encinia, Alma Escobedo, Adan Flores Sr, Alberto Flores, Arturo Flores,
Eudelia Flores Fabian Flores, Maria Flores, Bryce Ganley, Aurelia Garcia,
Belia Garcia, Concepcion Garcia, Jose L Garcia, Josie Garcia, Juana S Garcia,
Juanita Garcia, Oscar Garcia, Ramiro Garcia, Reyes Garcia, April Garza,
Angie Garza, Elias Garza, Joe Garza, Jacob Goldapp, Alejandra Guerrero,
Denis Guzman, Conner Heinz, Carolina Hernandez, Isis Hernandez, Juan
‘Chuco’ Hernandez, Manuela Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, Jesse Hinojosa,
Manuel Hinojosa, Sr., Fidel Labeija, Elia Lopez, Lupe Lopez, Lori Lucio, Tina
Juarez, Anna Juarez, Solomon Kahookele, Christopher Manka, Olga Moreno,
Mimi Obregon, Candelaria Ortiz,Carmen Ortiz, Diana Ortiz, Jerry Oritz,
Oralia Ortiz, Socorro Ortiz, Sophia Parker, Raul Padilla, Anita Pena, Luis
Pena, Jr., Aurora Perez, Fela Perez, Johnny Pereida, Maria Pequeno, Raul
and Lenore Quintanilla, Josie Ramirez, Ramona Ramirez, Valentin Ramirez,
Esther Rangel, Juan Reyes, Minerva Reyes, Pepe Reyes, Santos Reyes,
Datnacio Rivas, Anna Rivera, Antonio Rodriguez Jr., Domingo Rodriguez,
Elena Rodriguez, Esequiel Rodriguez, Juan Rodriguez, Tony Rios, Sr., Tony
Rios, Jr., Noreen Saenz, Richard Saldivar, Vanessa Steele, Teresa Sierra,
Alfonso Solis, Andrea Solis, Braulia Solis, Grace Solis, Licha Solis, Luis Solis,
Mona Lisa Solis, Felicitas Trevino, Gloria Trevino, Joe & Sara Trevino,
Maria L. Valdez, Chris Vela, Cynthia Vela, Miranda Vela, Alejandro Veliz,
Renee Young and Leticia Zepeda.
First Reading
Psalm 92
Second Reading
Gospel
TODAY’S READINGS
I have lifted high the lowly tree (Ezekiel 17:22-24).
Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
Whether we are at home or away, we aspire to
please the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:6-10).
It is the smallest of all seeds, and becomes the
largest of plants (Mark 4:26-34)
THE CHURCH AND THE SPIRIT
Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit
of God is, there is the Church and all grace, and the Spirit is truth.
~St. Irenaeus
ALL IS GRACE On Sundays in Ordinary Time, the Old Testament reading is selected for the light it sheds on the day’s Gospel. Today, Ezekiel
sees God lifting up the lowly tree and making the withered tree bloom. So in the second parable of today’s Gospel, Jesus encourages us by
promising that, as fragile seeds grow into an abundant harvest, and the tiny mustard seed into a hearty plant, so God will grow the kingdom
from small beginnings to an instrument of salvation for all. In the first parable, the land yields fruit “of its own accord” (Mark 4:28). Not only is
the initiative God’s, but the parable teaches that the seed’s growth, though invisible at first, is actually unstoppable! To be sure, those who
depend on the impressive or dramatic in order to be convinced or encouraged will be disappointed in the slow unfolding of the kingdom that
Jesus announces. But for those who do accept the kingdom, all is grace, and that grace is certain. Though the second reading is not coordinated with either the first reading or Gospel on these Sundays, today’s is thematically appropriate. Saint Paul argues that our experience of God’s
trustworthiness thus far should make us a people of undaunted courage and unshakeable faith. But at the same time Paul warns that faith
TODO ES GRACIA Durante los domingos del Tiempo Ordinario, la lectura del Antiguo Testamento se relaciona con el tema del Evangelio de ese domingo. Hoy Ezequiel ve a
Dios elevar los árboles pequeños y florecer los árboles secos. Y en las parábolas del Evangelio de hoy, Jesús nos anima poniendo como ejemplos el fruto abundante que puede
dar una semilla y que la semilla tan pequeña de mostaza crece y se convierte en uno de los arbustos más grandes, y así es Dios quien hace crecer el Reino de un pequeño comienzo a un instrumento de salvación para todos. En la primera parábola la tierra por sí sola produce el fruto (Marcos 4:28). Además de la iniciativa de Dios, la parábola enseña que el
crecimiento de la semilla, al principio invisible, no se puede detener. Para estar seguros, las personas que dependen de lo que impresiona o llama fuertemente la atención para
estar convencidas o animadas pues van a estar decepcionadas en lo despacio que se hace realidad el reino que Jesús anunció. Pero para quienes aceptan el reino, todo es gracia y
la gracia es verdadera. Aún cuando la segunda lectura no se relaciona ni con la primera ni con el Evangelio durante estos domingos; hay que considerar el mensaje que tiene
la de hoy. San Pablo afirma que en nuestro camino de fe confiamos en Dios y esto debe hacernos un pueblo de valor indomable y fe inquebrantable. Y al mismo tiempo
Pablo nos advierte que la fe también debe hacernos consientes de nuestra responsabilidad de hacer el bien.
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 14, 2015
They that are planted in the house of the LORD
shall flourish in the courts of our God.
~Psalm 92:14
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE
A wedding celebrated in the Eastern
Church has a form that was fixed a
thousand years ago. In the West, our
story is more complicated by
constant change and variation. As
the world’s structures tottered in the
ninth century, bishops and priests
stepped into the void left by
collapsing civil structures. For the
first time, marriage was referred to
as a sacrament, and wedding ceremonies were to be in public
(assuring the free consent of the
bride) after an Investigation of the
couple by a priest. The custom of
the blessing of the bridal room
diminished,
and
was
finally
forbidden in 1012 by the Council of
Rouen, although it continued for
centuries. In the diocese of
Perigueux in France, a ritual from
1827 had the parish priest clad in
surplice and stole sprinkling the
bridal couple as they stood modestly in their pajamas by the wedding
bed. Next the bed and all those
present were sprinkled, too! That’s a
tradition that few Americans, either
the betrothed or the clergy, are
ready to revive!
Jesús manifiesta su poder mediante
el perdón de los pecados (Marcos
2:1-12).
Por
medio
de
la
reconciliación con Dios, Jesús sana a
los enfermos, marginalizados y hasta
sus propios enemigos. Este poder de
perdonar pecados Jesús mismo lo
encarga a su Iglesia, infundiendo su
Espíritu
sobre
los
primeros
discípulos (Juan 20:22-23). Según el
Símbolo (Credo) de los Apóstoles,
los cristianos creemos en el
“perdón de los pecados”. Esta
creencia se relaciona con creer en
el Espíritu Santo, la Iglesia, la
comunión de los santos, la
resurrección del cuerpo y la vida
eterna. En el perdón de los
pecados,
el
Espíritu
Santo
manifiesta su continua presencia y
acción en la Iglesia y comunión de
los santos. Quienes reciben el
perdón de los pecados mediante la
celebración del Bautismo o el
sacramento de la Reconciliación,
están
preparados
para
la
resurrección y la vida eterna. El
perdón de los pecados manifiesta
el poder de Cristo, del Espíritu
Santo y de la Iglesia. Los cristianos
estamos llamados al perdón;
perdonando, así como deseamos
ser perdonados. Perdonando, como
Jesucristo.
The Pope tweets…. follow him at Pope Francis @Pontifex
Lord, send forth your Holy Spirit to bring
consolation and strength to persecuted
Christians. #free2pray
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Heavenly Father, You have gathered us together as a parish to
be Your visible life in our world. Here we unite in worship,
Proclaim Your word, celebrate the Eucharist, and are Sent forth
to share Your love and make disciples. Lord, we take your Great
Commission seriously and long for our parish to be so on-fire
that we draw people to You. Help us in that endeavor, as we
strive to work together - ordained, religious, and laity. Please
make our parish amazing, through Your power and Your grace.
Amen.
~ Parish News ~
FATHER’S DAY NOVENA will begin on
Sunday, June 21st. This is a special way to honor
your loved-ones and friends. Envelopes are located at
the entrance of the church or in the parish office.
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2015 HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS
St Bernadette Angels and
Knights of Columbus #8717
Scholarship Applications may
be picked up at the parish
office. Upon completion,
please returned to the parish
office by July 31, 2015.
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
To be held in July 2015
For More Details Contact Tycee Sanchez (361) 876-0904
[All Volunteers must
have a current csme card]