Church of the Immaculate Conception We at Immaculate Conception are a group of people bound together by our belief in Jesus Christ as our Savior. When we were baptized, we were called to share in His work. Therefore we pledge ourselves to build a community where all are welcomed, loved, needed and appreciated. Armed with the faith in the Immaculate Conception of Mary, we will celebrate the gift of life together in word and sacrament. March 26 and 27, 2016 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
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Church of the Immaculate Conception
We at Immaculate Conception are a group of people bound together by our belief in Jesus Christ as our Savior. When we
were baptized, we were called to share in His work. Therefore we pledge ourselves to build a community where all are
welcomed, loved, needed and appreciated. Armed with the faith in the Immaculate Conception of Mary, we will celebrate
the gift of life together in word and sacrament.
March 26 and 27, 2016 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
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Mass Schedule SATURDAY 3/26/16
Holy Saturday, Easter Vigil 4:00 pm For RCIA Candidates
SUNDAY 3/27/16 Easter Sunday
10:15 am † Kelly Buck by Howard & Joan Barker
THURSDAY 3/31/16 8:30 am Communion Service
SATURDAY 4/2/16 4:00 pm † Joseph Paukette, Anniversary, by David Paukette
SUNDAY 4/3/16 Divine Mercy Sunday
10:00 am For Parishioners
High School
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ICC WEEK AT A GLANCE SUNDAY 3/27 Easter
10:30 a Easter Mass followed by Easter Reception & Egg Hunt MONDAY 3/28 6 Cub Scouts TUESDAY 3/29 WEDNESDAY 3/30 10:30-1 Senior Cards & Conversation - H, K THURSDAY 3/31 8 a Rosary 8:30 a Communion Service FRIDAY 4/1 5-7 p Fish Dinner - SJ, Oxford SATURDAY 4/2 3p First Saturday Fatima Rosary 3:30 p Confession Parish Council Nominations SUNDAY 4/3 Divine Mercy Sunday Bread Sunday 8:45 a Rel. Ed Class 9 a Bible Study-new session, “Prophets” Parish Council Nominations Following Mass - Close the Divine Mercy Novena RCIA Reception after Mass 5 p Confirmation Class Location Codes: S—Sanctuary; H—Parish Hall; K—Kitchen;
Sacrificial Giving and Expenses for the month of February 2016:February 2016:February 2016:February 2016: Total Income: $ 11,396.45 Total Expense: $ 7,253.64 2nd Collection - 3/25 Holy Land Return Rice Bowl’s Easter weekend. Remember St. Paul’s advice: “God loves a cheer-ful giver.” (2 Cor.9:7)
LAY PERSONS SCHEDULE Saturday 4:00 pm Saturday 4:00 pm March 26 2016 April 2, 2016
E. M.’s: Easter Vigil D. Barden see schedule in S. Northrup
Lector: the sacristy C. Gibbons Servers: Adult Volunteer Adult Volunteer
Sunday 10:15 am Sunday 10:15 am March 27, 2016 April 3, 2016 E. M.’s: B. Norton Easter Sunday M. Browning see schedule Z. Urda Lector: in the L. Detweiler Servers: sacristy J. Browning N. Erickson J. Eroshevich Counters: D. Maginsky E. Browning T. Mulvey B. Norton CLOW: M. & M. H. & M. Rice Feldpausch
This year we are blessed to have Catechumen Stephanie Watson entering into the fullness of the Church at our Easter Vigil. The journey of Catechumen & Candidate is never done alone. The parish community is an integral part of their process into the faith. Let’s continue to pray for Stephanie as we walk her journey beside her. There will be a R.C.I.A reception following the Sunday, April 3, 10:15 am Mass. Please stop in and welcome Stephanie to our parish family!
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Annual Easter Reception & Egg Hunt after the 10:30 am Easter Sunday Mass.
The egg hunt is open for all children pre-K to 5th grade. Bring your basket & outdoor shoes/boots & join in the fun!
Divine Mercy Sunday, April 3. Begin the novena on Good Friday and join us after Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday to finish. Copies of the novena are available in the vestibule.
Gluten Free Hosts are now available. Stop in the Sacristy & let them know you will need one for Mass that day.
A Bequest in Your Will, no matter what the amount, can help the parish continue its mission of spreading the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Church He founded & serving God’s people. Everyone should have a will no matter what your financial circumstances, to assure that your posses-sions will be distributed as you desire. When mak-ing your bequest, please use the full legal name and address: Church of the Immaculate Conception 1180 State Highway 206 Greene, NY 13778
Be A Good Housekeeper! Please remember to take home & read a copy of the parish bulletin & do not leave it in the pew for others to clean up after you. Help keep the church, God’s House, neat & clean. Bless you!
Prayer Intentions for the Sunday Prayer of the Faithful. Do you know of someone who is sick, going in for tests, surgery, or recovering from it, or if you have had a death in the family & would like that relative remembered in the petitions, please call the Parish Office before Friday & leave the information with the Secretary. Also, if you know of any parish-ioners or family member serving in the military at this time of War on Terrorism, please leave their name(s) & we will pray each week for their safe return.
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Volunteer Opportunities Greene Food Pantry we collect non-perishable foods for our local food pantry. Please leave your donation in the basket in the Parish Hall vestibule. May & November we cover the hours at the Pantry.
It’s that time of year again! March and April for the Food Pantry are like a PBS Pledge Drive. Please be generous with either non-perishable food or monetary donations. Food may be left in the Parish Hall vestibule, funds
placed in the collection basket. Meals On Wheels Our volunteers make the deliveries for August & February: Mon, Wed, Fri, 11:15am. Call the Parish Office to join our team! Our Brother’s Keeper—We take donations of CLEAN blankets, quilts, sheets, towels, batting & fiber fill. & yarn. Please bag the items. Our next sleeping bag workshop will be this summer. Bottle & Can Drive - drop off your refundable items n the bin next to the Rectory garage. Donations will benefit the summer youth retreat to Steubenville. St. Pauly Textile collection shed in our parking lot. Donate your unwanted clothes & fabric items & ICC receives 2 cents per pound collected.
The Canonization of Mother Theresa of Calcutta~ and an inspirational tour of Rome, Pompeii, Sorrento, Amalfi, San Giovanni Rotondo, Manoppello and Assisi. The group will leave the USA on September 2, 2016 and return September 11, 2016. The canonization is Sunday, September 4th in St. Peter’s Square. The price is $3,199 for double occupancy. The price includes Airfare, Hotels, Dinners, Breakfasts, bus service, local guides, entrance fees to Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and Pompeii, hotel city taxes, transfers and porterage
in/out. Space is limited. For more information, email Father Joseph Clemente at [email protected].
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Weekend Mass Schedule Pastoral Care Area South: Saturday Vigil Mass: 4:00 pm Immaculate Conception, Greene 5:45 pm St. Joseph, Oxford Sunday: 8:45 am St. Joseph, Oxford 10:15 am Immaculate Conception, Greene 4:00 pm St. Paul, Norwich
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minimize the essential role of the Sunday Eucharist in the life of the Church. Fr. John J. Dietzen, Catholic Q & A
A Convert’s View “The day we were received into the Roman Catholic Church will always be remembered as one of the greatest days of my life: Pentecost, May 22, 1994. I can honestly say the thrill has not diminished. There hasn’t been a Sunday Mass yet when my wife Janet and I haven’t had tears in our eyes and lumps in our throats. Every Sunday it’s nearly impossible for me to get through that special line of the Nicene Creed dry-eyed, that is, that affirms our belief in ‘one, holy catholic and apostolic Church.’ Catholicism is the only thing that saves a man from the degrading slav-ery of being a child of his time. Janet & I happily rest in the sanity, peace, truth & salvation of the Catholic faith. We stand in visible unity & a most profound historical continuity with the Lord, the apostles, the Fathers, the martyrs, the saints & the whole glorious Catholic Church. Here I stand; I can do no other!” Stephen K. Ray, former Baptist and convert to the Catholic Church
An Easter Prayer For Greater Devotion Come, Lord, enter our hearts, passions, emotions & feelings. Reveal Your presence to us in our inmost being. As long as You remain absent from that intimate core of our experience, we will keep clinging to people, things or events to find our sense of belong-ing. Only when You really come, really touch us, set us ablaze with Your love - only then will we become free & let go of all false forms of belonging. May all Your children come to feel Your presence & be im-mersed in Your deep and healing love. Amen.
Wisdom From Our Catholic Tradition “A person must always be ready, for death comes when and where God wills it.” St. John Neumann, Bishop of
Philadelphia, 1811-1860
Prayer for Healing of Resentments Lord, you know both the wounds I carry and the grudges I nurse. Bring healing to my heart so I don’t have to endlessly revisit old pains and resentments. Help me to forgive, for my own peace of mind if nothing else. Remind me that when you forgive me, the past is released once and for all. May I let go of all the burdens of the past so I can live in joy today. Amen.
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A Sin to Skip Mass? Is it still a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sunday? We have
relatives who go only when they feel like it. Their ex-
cuse is that there is no more sin since Vatican II.
I am sometimes tempted to believe that one of the big-gest mistakes of the Church was to make a “law” that we must go to Mass on Sunday. For too many Catholics, the obligation to participate in Mass each Sunday is in somewhat the same category of Church law as abstaining from meat on the Fridays of Lent, or even of attending Mass on holy days of obliga-tion. It obscures the significance of the Sunday Eucha-rist for Christians. To speak of the presence or absence of a Church regula-tion as a primary motive for participation in the Sunday Eucharist radically missed the point. In early Christian times, centuries before it was a Church “rule” participa-tion in the Eucharist each week was considered auto-matic. Assuming one was not ill, only two reasons could ex-plain an individual‘s routine absence. He had either decided not to be a Christian any more, or his knowledge of the faith was seriously deficient and more instruction was needed. Sunday Eucharist, in other words, constituted the life-breath of the Christian person and community.
Both the New Testament and earliest Christian writings point out this truth. (See, for example, Acts 20:7, “On the first day of the week, when we gathered for the breaking of the bread…”) The Church has realized in the past few generations that many Catholics lost touch with this essential Christian tradition, if indeed they were ever aware of it. To par-ticipate in the Sunday Eucharist because “I have to” may be understandable at certain stages of growing up. A Catholic adult at age 30 or 50 should nave moved beyond that. To answer your question, the law is still there and per-haps is still necessary for most, or all, of us to have the opportunity to grow to a fuller appreciation of this cen-tral element of our faith. The Code of Canon Law recalls our tradition: “Sunday is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated in light of the apostolic tradition and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the Universal Church.” It then provides, “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in Mass” (canons 1246 & 1247). Vatican Council II did not, and had no intention to,
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Religious Education Kathy Nichols, Coordinator - 656-9546 Sundays 8:45 - 10:00 am Class - April 3, 10, 17, 24 No Class March 27, Easter Sunday - Egg Hunt after Mass!
Dear friends, Happy Easter! We have learned in our Adult Bible Study that the reason we attend Mass on Sundays and not say, Tuesday, is all about Easter. Because Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday, we are an Easter people! Every Sunday of the year is like a mini Easter! We had a great week preparing for today both physically and spiritually. I was going to thank all the individuals who helped in some way during Holy Week, but the list has over 40 people! From decorating to baking, from Sacristy prep to chang-ing the sign out front, our parish really rose to the occasion and worked together so that we could offer the many worship experiences this week. This is how ICC functions now- as a team with a com-mon goal: To provide a Catholic presence in Greene and try each day to support each other and be Christ hands and feet in the world! We have a Children’s Liturgy Team on Sundays, A Sacristy and Candle Team, a dedicated building and grounds committee, a Senior Citizens support group called Circle of Friends, a Knights of Columbus Men’s group, dedicated religious instruction teachers, Young Family and Youth events, and weekly opportunities for prayer and receiving the Eucharist. You may have heard the motto-Team work makes the dream work! I think our team work is definitely what makes ICC successful. Plans are underway for the Marion Memorial Garden. Make sure you check out the display in the vestibule. If you would like to contribute to this garden in memory of a loved one, there are special envelopes in the pews. The grounds on either side of the church have been worked on so that the drainage pipes are buried underground. It will be soon be ready for the garden foundation. If you are new to our parish, welcome! There are booklets in the vestibule with information about our parish life. Come be a part of ICC! Peace! ~Mary Wentlent
Church of the Immaculate Conception 1180 State Highway 206, Greene, New York 13778 Rev. Msgr. John P. Putano, Administrator Website: iccgreene.wordpress.com Email: [email protected] Facebook: Church of the Immaculate Conception And ICC Youth Group Parish Office: Tue. thru Thurs. 10:30 am to 4:30 pm Mary Wentlent, Parish Manager 656-9546 Audrée Beach, Admin. Asst. 656-9546 Fax 656-7667 Baptism & RCIA ICC Parish Office 656-9546 Religious Education: Kathy Nichols [email protected] 692-4702 Youth Ministry: ICC Parish Council: Nancy Amell, Francis Feldpausch - President, Donna Heisler, Joanne Moxley, Zach Urda. ICC Trustees: Jackie Henninge - 656-9501; [email protected] Robert Larkin - 279-3900; [email protected] Feel free to contact the Trustees or Council Members with any concerns you have about our parish. Gluten free hosts are available. Notify the Sacristy before Mass if you need one.
Divine Mercy Sunday Service - April 3, 2:00 pm at St. Paul’s, Norwich. Includes Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Sacrament of Confession, Rosary & recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Benediction & closing. All are welcome!
