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Immaculate Conception Church 16 North Broadway | Irvington, NY | (914) 591-7480 iccirvington.org - February 2, 2020 - The Presentation of the Lord
Immaculate Conception Church 16 North Broadway | Irvington, NY | (914) 591-7480 iccirvington.org - February 2, 2020 - The Presentation of the Lord
REV. R. ASHMAN, PASTOR, Chaplain IPD, IFD, GPD
REV. ROY CHETTANIYIL, Aඛඛඋඑඉගඍ
PARISH STAFF Ms. Adrienne Lauer, Coordinator of Religious Education
Ms. Mary Louise Banino, Administrative Aide Mrs. Geraldine Winterroth, Director of Music
Ms. María Amelia Bazdekis, Administrative Assistant
RECTORY CONTACT INFO 16 North Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533
Office Hours: Weekdays 9:00AM - 4:00PM Rectory Phone: 591-7480, Fax: 591-7806
Email: [email protected] / Website: iccirvington.org
REP OFFICE Classes: Wednesday Afternoons & Evenings
(914) 591-7740 / [email protected]
WE SHARE ONLINE GIVING iccirvington.churchgiving.org
ICC CHOIR
Geri Winterroth: [email protected].
ALTAR & ROSARY SOCIETY Lynn Gambardella: [email protected]
CYO
Jack Mascone and Lyndan Sawian, Co-Directors http://icc-cyo.assn.la/ [email protected].
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SACRAMENTS BAPTISMS will take place on the last Sunday of the month and are to be arranged after the birth of your child with one of the Parish Priests. Families must be registered members of ICC. Should a family not be registered, a 3 month wait-ing period will be expected. Godparents are required to obtain Sponsor certificates from their home parish and with the parents are required to attend a Baptismal Class the Monday before the scheduled Baptism at 7:30 p.m. MARRIAGES Couples wishing to be married here should consist of at least one registered, practicing parishioner of the Parish, or be registered, active parishioners at another Catholic Church, with at least one having a close tie to our Parish. Per Archdiocesan regulations, Catholic members of the couple who are not registered and active members of ICC will be required to bring documentation of their reli-gious status from the home parish where they are registered. Marriages are arranged a minimum of six months before the proposed date, directly with one of the Parish Priests. Pre-Cana must be completed. All additional necessary papers must be submitted in a timely fashion. ANOINTING OF THE SICK is a Sacrament for the physically ill, those burdened by age, anticipating surgery, or near death. Please call the Rectory to arrange an Anointing.
PARISH DIRECTORY & CONTACT INFORMATION WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS
SACRAMENTS AND MINISTRIES SUNDAY MASSES: Saturday: 5:00PM, Sunday: 8:00, & 10:00AM, 12Noon WEEKDAY MASSES: Monday - Saturday: 8:30AM HOLY DAY MASSES: Vigil: 7:30PM, Holy Day: 8:30AM, 7:30PM ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Tuesday 9:00AM-10:00AM PENANCE: Saturday 4:00-4:45PM or by appointment. COMMUNION CALLS: By appointment. Please call SICK CALLS: In an emergency at any time. MINISTRY SCHEDULING: [email protected] FORMED: iccirvington.formed.org LITURGY COMMITTEE: Helena Doley (914) 471-2480. USHERS AND SAFETY: Rectory (914) 591-7480. HOLY NAME SOCIETY: Rectory (914) 591-7480.
All Mass Intentions are being fulfilled at private Masses.
Saturday, April 4, 2020 - Lenten Weekday: 8:30AM: Deceased Members of the
Bernard Cummings Family 5:00PM: John and Vita Masiello
Sunday, April 5, 2020: PALM SUNDAY
8:00AM: Michael Gleba 10:00AM: The Parish Family of Immaculate Conception Church
12:00PM: Teresa Rosson
Monday, April 6, 2020 - Monday of Holy Week: 8:30AM: Special Intention
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - Tuesday of Holy Week: 8:30AM: Maria Teresa Giorgio
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - Wednesday of Holy Week: 8:30AM: Intentions of Fr. Roy
Thursday, April 9, 2020 - Holy Thursday: No Mass Intentions
Friday, April 10, 2020 - Good Friday: No Mass Intentions
Saturday, April 11, 2020 - Holy Saturday:
7:30 PM: Paul Adamovic Sunday, April 12, 2020:
EASTER SUNDAY 8:00AM: The Stratta and Cossa Families
10:00AM: The Magallón Family 12:00PM: The Parish Family of Immaculate Conception Church
LENT 2020
Our beautiful parish, Immaculate Conception Church, commenced this Lenten Season preparing to pray and sacrifice, fast and abstain, and give alms. We began with our annual “Lundi Gras” Celebration for all of our parishioners who give so much for ICC- our Eucharistic Ministers, Catechists and Aides, Choir, Lectors, Ushers, Liturgy Commit-tee, Parish Council, and Finance Committee. We celebrated their love of their parish family. We thanked them for their sacrifice. We encouraged each other to continue fighting the good fight for love of God, and knowledge of our Faith, and to keep up-holding all we hold dear.
In a matter of moments our world changed. Fear crept in, invisible but palpable, and with it the opportunity to attend Mass and receive the Eucharist, which give us strength, was taken away. Everything around us changed, but everything that we worked for, sacrificed for, and held dear - all that remains the same.
Sadly, we are not able to hold our Easter Egg Hunt, or have our annual Seder on Wednesday of Holy Week. We will not be able celebrate public Mass for Palm Sunday, and hand out palms to the crowds gathering and asking for more in our vestibule. We are not able to Wash the
Feet of our parishioners, or Mandate our Eucharistic Ministers. Fr. Roy and I are not able to profess our commitment to the priesthood in your presence. You will not be able to Venerate the Wood of the Cross. You will not see the Pascal Candle be lit and pass the flame to your brothers and sisters of Immaculate Conception.
It is for that reason that our bulletin this week has also changed. Instead, it is an explanation of all that occurs during Holy Week - during the Triduum. Read it. Share it. Live it this week.
May this be the last Holy Week that you will not be able to gather as one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Next year I believe our pews will be over-flowing. This year, fill those pews at home.
HOLY WEEK 2020 This Holy Week will be unlike any we have ever experi-enced. It is not a time for fear and anxiety, it is an opportunity to grow in faith and to be ever hopeful that God has a plan. Just as He had a plan of salvation that would necessitate the Death of His Son for love of us, so too these days call us not to doubt, but to be ever faithful and accepting of God’s will for us and for those whom we love. Unite the family in prayer and reassure one another in Faith.
PALM SUNDAY
There was one Passover that was unlike any other. Many thought it would be the usual celebration of the Lord’s salvific power protecting the Jews with the blood of the Lamb on the lintels of their homes, but not this year.
There was this prophet that everyone had heard or heard of. He had a new message, a message of hope, love and reaffirmed the Law of God in a very different way. He was a miracle worker, a healer, an interpreter of Sacred Scripture, He was a Truth teller unlike any they had ever experienced, and for that, they would take His life.
Truth can be very difficult to hear. Now that we have been isolated with our families for some time, there is a lot of truth that has been said or needs to. The response is not always positive. Jesus preached, taught and healed the faithful of Israel for three years. He was a good man, an honest man, and for that, they cheered as He made His way into Jerusalem this Palm Sunday for the last time.
It was this same crowd that would scream for His death five days later. How fickle the human condi-tion. Now that we have been prohibited from the thing that many have seen as optional, church, Mass, prayer… we have been given a unique opportunity to recommit ourselves to the Faith that is ours. We have been given the gift of longing. Longing for that which we called “normal”, as if it was always going to be there.
This Holy Week will be unlike any we have ever experienced. We will be separated physically, and yet we can unite in spirit and in prayer. Make your
home that which it could and should have always been: a place of prayer. Unite your family in prayer. Use this bulletin to act as a guide for your celebra-tion of Holy Week. May we reject all that is contrary to whom we are called to be: faithful followers of the Crucified One.
SPY WEDNESDAY
We all think we know better. We believe that we are the most experienced and the most knowledgea-ble. We have every right to tell others, and God, the way things should be.
Two-thousand years ago, Judas was that person. Not an evil person, he had his own idea of how Jesus should change the world. He thought that if he directly intervened in God’s plan, the outcome would be better. Could he have imagined just how
badly things would turn out when he accepted 30 pieces of silver to betray his Lord and Master? And yet, God knew his heart. Jesus knew that in the end, He would be very much alone to face the wrath of man and execute God’s plan of salvation.
Every one of us must choose, every moment of every day to sacrifice our will to God’s. Every day we have an opportunity to grow in grace and faith. As some people think only of themselves, we have the opportunity to look outward and find an opportunity for grace, to sacrifice for another, to die to self, to be humble, and to remain faithful.
HOLY THURSDAY
Before Jesus was to leave this earth, having fulfilled God’s plan of salvation, He desired to celebrate the Passover feast with His Apostles. Remember, it was this yearly celebration that recalled God’s love, protection and salvific power for the faithful of Israel. It recalled the Exodus out of the slavery of Egypt and the passing over of the Angel of Death that had stricken the firstborn. It was the blood of a lamb that would signal a faithful Jew lives here and that the Angel should “Passover” the house and
thereby save those inside. Christians recall God’s actions throughout salvation history, none more important than the Blood shed upon the Cross-for the forgiveness of sin and the salvation of the world. The Lamb of God has saved His people.
This night Jesus changed bread and wine into His Body and Blood, established the Apostles as the first priests of the New Covenant, established the Church as the eternal vehicle of salvation until the end of time. It is from the Church that the Sacraments flow and the faithful are able to gather to worship and if worthy, receive the same Jesus who celebrated this meal with His Apostles. The Eucharist is the reason the Church exists. It is the Church and the ordained priesthood that enables the Eucharist to exist.
Now that we are unable to receive the Eucharist, we long for the time when we may once again unite in celebration of that which makes our daily lives possible. Denied that which has changed lives, hearts and minds, we must now worship from a distance,
hearts filled with longing and a desire to be united with Christ in Holy Communion, cummunitas: to worship together.
Jesus, Lord of Heaven and Earth, also humbled Himself to wash the feet of His Apostles as a model of whom we are called to be. In a very self-centered world, we stand out as examples of service. During these very challenging times, we are called to be of service, looking for the opportunity to help the elderly, the sick, the housebound, the faithless and the hater. We are Christ’s voices of hope. We are His hands of healing. We are His servants. We sacrifice and do charitable works not because it’s “nice to be nice”, but because we are men and women of Faith. We know why we do what we do: because we are faithful followers of the Saviour of the world.
GOOD FRIDAY
God died. How can we begin to comprehend those two words? Jesus allowed Himself to be caught in the political and religious machine that sought to destroy Him, His message and His legacy. That formula should sound very familiar in today’s climate. People hate without knowing why. They react violently to any contrary opinion. They yearn for anarchy and confusion. They proclaim up is down and black is white, that the child in the womb isn’t human, and expect that world to acquiesce and simply nod their heads in agreement. They label, ostracize and marginalize any dissenting thought, belief or opinion because truth is inconvenient and challenges their lust for power.
Nothing has changed in 2,000 years. Never before have there been more vehicles with which to discov-er truth, and never before have there been more ways for the Evil one to influence the weak, the faithless and those who desire power.
This day, Pilate will stand before Jesus and asks the eternal question: “What is truth?” He asks this in the face of Truth itself! So very human. We are more comfortable with our own truth rather than asking for the humility to discover Truth in our lives. Truth is uncomfortable. Lies are easy. Lies are convenient, they don’t challenge, they don’t cause us to change at all: just continue in our comfortable bubble of falsehoods.
This day God died for love of us. He died so that we might live with Him forever in Heaven. This singular act gave the world hope, and conquered our greatest foe: death itself.
From 12pm to 3pm turn off all electronics, come together in prayer, read the passages of Christ’s Way of the Cross- His suffering. Pray the Stations of the Cross, and appreciate how unworthy we are that God should die for love of us. This singular act
raises one question: what will be our response to such a sacrifice?
Easter Sunday In the darkness, the light shines. Death is conquered and Heaven becomes a reality. Halleluiah! Every year we gather for the celebration of Easter. We dress up, we plan family dinner, visitations -we make this day special. Did we ever think to ask why? Easter Mass is no different from any Mass in March or June. Every Mass is special.
So dress up, pray the readings here, watch the Mass online or on the TV and rejoice! We have been given a tremendous gift: the gift of Faith. Maybe we never thought of how we could use that gift in our daily lives, we are all so busy, but that was yesterday. Now we have been forced to look at our lives, the things that occupy our day and ask, “Is it worth it?” Are the things that consume my energy and time, sacrificing family, friends and self, worth it? We have been given a tremendous opportunity to reevaluate our lives and priorities. Now that we have been denied that which unites us and that from which we draw strength from, we can come out of this better than we were. We hopefully, have learned that anything and everything can be lost, a lesson our children cannot even conceive of. Teach them. Educate them. Bring them to Truth. Help them to appreciate the very simple basics of life: our Nation, family, food and Faith.
We are an Easter people. Hope and joy are ours, if we want them. Individual rights and freedoms have been given to us, if we can protect them.
He is risen! Everything has changed! There is no need for fear
or anxiety. Christ has conquered all! On behalf of the Priests and Staff of ICC,
A Blessed Easter to All!
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