Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him, says the Lord.

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1 Church of the Immaculate Conception July 11 & 12, 2015 Church of the Immaculate Conception 1180 State Highway 206, Greene, New York Website: iccgreene.wordpress.com Facebook: Church of the Immaculate Conception And ICC Youth Group Parish Office: Mon thru Thurs. 10:30 am to 4:30 pm Mary Wentlent, Parish Manager Audrée Beach, Admin. Asst Fax Baptism & RCIA ICC Parish Office Religious Education: Kathy Nichols Youth Ministry: Jessica Trepa Young Adult Ministry: Anne Glasgow Marriage: At least six months preparation suggested. Pre-Marriage (Pre-Cana) sessions are required. ICC Facilities Scheduling: Any persons, groups, committees wanting to use any parish facility must contact the Parish Office to reserve the date & place. ICC Parish Council: Nancy Amell, Francis Feldpausch, Bob LaRocque - President, Joanne Moxley, Chris Paske, Penny Sweet, Zach Urda. ICC Trustees: Jackie Henninge ; jackiehenninge@frontier.com Robert Larkin ; robertmlarkin@gmail.com Feel free to contact the Trustees or Council Members with any concerns you have about our parish. Knights of Columbus: Council #11094 Grand Knight Anthony Browning Meets the first Thursday of every month, 7:00 pm in the Parish Hall. Prayer Chain: Contact Angie Babcock Bulletin: Information due by Tuesday 12 Noon. Sick & Shut-ins: Please notify the Parish Office when illness occurs or when the sick and aged are confined to a nursing home or hospital. New Parishioners: Welcome to our parish family. We invite you to become an active participant of our parish community. Please be sure to register by calling the parish office. 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him, says the Lord.

2 Mass Schedule SATURDAY 7/11/15 4:00 pm Mary Casey by Bruce & Helen Libby SUNDAY 7/12/15 10:15 am Family by Lucia Jackson & family Shirley Detweiler by ICC Catechists THURSDAY 7/16/15 8:30 am Communion Service SATURDAY 7/18/15 4:00 pm Geri Kroon by Rita Kroon Ellen Pilkington by Parish Family SUNDAY 7/19/15 10:15 am For Our Parishioners LAY PERSONS SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEKEND OF July 19, :00 pm Saturday: E. M. s: D. Barden ~ H. Connelly Lector: C. Gibbons Altar Servers: J. Trepa 10:15 am Sunday: E. M. s: M. Browning B. Norton ~ Z. Urda Lector: P. Husband Altar Servers: J. Eroshevich ~ J. Browning ~ N. Erickson Children s Liturgy: B. Doughty ~ K. Carey Counters: E. Browning ~ B. Norton Please contact Audrée with any changes to your availability to serve. She is planning the new schedule due at the end of August. Sacrificial Giving and Expenses for the month of June 2015: Total Income: $ 12, Total Expense: $ 7, Second Collection July 11 & 12 - Mission Appeal The Total Expenses include salaries, utilities, accountant fees, Holy Family School, bus trip, insurance. The Total Income includes rental income. Remember St. Paul s advice: God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Cor.9:7) Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, New York Page 2 ICC WEEK AT A GLANCE SUNDAY 7/12 9:45 a Learn about the Catholic Mass DVD, pt 2 11:30 Confession 11:15 Lunch with Fr. Severine, Mission Appeal - H, K MONDAY 7/13 TUESDAY 7/14 Parish Office Closed 6:00 a Bus departs for Sight & Sound - OF 7-7:30 p Bus Returns - OF WEDNESDAY 7/15 THURSDAY 7/16 8 a Rosary FRIDAY 7/17 SATURDAY 7/18 All Day - Relay For Life - Norwich 3:15 p Confession 3:30 p Learn about the Catholic Mass DVD, pt 3 SUNDAY 7/19 9:45 a Learn about the Catholic Mass DVD, pt 3 11:30 Confession Location Codes: S Sanctuary; H Parish Hall; K Kitchen; CR Cry Room; L Library; P Pavilion; AC All Church.; OF-Out Front; OB-Out Back; SJ St. Joseph s, DT Downtown. We extend our sympathy to the Christ Family in the recent loss of their loved one: Mary Christ on July 6. We pray for the happy repose of her soul. May she find a new life with God in heaven. You will not want to miss our summer Missionary Priest visit this weekend. Father Severine Yagaza will be with us to celebrate Mass. He is a Priest from the Diocese of Tanga in Tanzania, Africa. Since 1985 Tanga has lost many young parents through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. These deaths have left many children orphans with very little support system to allow them to excel in life. The Diocese has limited resources to support these children & see to their education & health needs. The proceeds from this mission appeal will help the Diocese of Tanga bring hope to these orphan children & also to provide education to the people against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We will offer a light lunch after Sunday s Mass before he heads home. Please plan to stay for lunch on July 12, after Mass, and to spend some time with Father Severine.

3 July 12, 2015 All are invited to join us for the rosary on Thursday mornings at 8 am. The parish trip to see 'Joseph' at the Sight n Sound Theater in Lancaster PA is fast approaching. We will leave the parking lot at 6:00 am sharp! on Tuesday July 14. We return home between 7:30-8:00 p.m. Bring a snack, neck pillow / lap blanket, reading material, or any electronic device, to make your ride enjoyable. Drinks should be in a spill proof bottle. Also bring any spending money and also $5 each for the bus driver gratuity. Any other questions please see Mary Wentlent. Indoor Movie Night, Friday, July 24 in the Parish Hall. We will be showing King David (1985) starring Richard Gere. Hosted by Tom & Kathy Nichols. Popcorn & beverages are provided. All are welcome! Plan to arrive to Mass a little earlier during July and August. We will be showing a 15 minute DVD presentation that will take us through a Catholic Mass explaining why we do what we do each week. This is a very interesting and engaging presentation, with lots of interesting history of the Mass. The weekend schedule will be: Saturday DVD presentation 3:30-3:45 with Mass at 4:00 Sunday DVD presentation 9:45-10:00 with Mass at 10:15 We will write up the meeting notes as hand outs each week, in case you miss a weekend. Remember, that's July and August before Mass. See you there! Remember to drop off your refundable bottles & cans in the bins next to the Rectory garage. Items collected through the month of July will benefit Tyler Unkel s Eagle Scout project; building a shed here at the church to hold church Christmas supplies and Boy Scout troop supplies. Construction to begin in August. August 1 thru September 19 will benefit the youth Lacrosse fund. Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, NY Page 5 Community Interest Volunteer Opportunities Greene Food Pantry The first weekend of each month we take up a collection of non-perishable foods for our local food pantry. May & November we cover the hours at the Pantry. Meals On Wheels Our volunteers make the deliveries for August & February: Mon, Wed, Fri, 11:15am. If you would like to take part in this ministry please call for more information. A.L.S (Lou Gehrig s Disease) Night at Water Street Brewery, Thursday, July 16 from 4-11 pm. Please join us for a fun night out and for a good cause. Come & have a good meal & fun with family & friends. Please remember the people fighting this disease & those who have lost their lives. I lost my husband 3 years ago to ALS and we hope for a cure soon! Come and join Amell s Army! Saturday, July 25 starting at 11:00 am, join our team in Otsiningo Park for the annual Walking For a Cure For A.L.S.! Hope to see you, Nancy Amell Young Adults! Join us for Theology on Tap, Thursday July 16th, 7pm at Dillingers in Binghamton. It s an event for Catholics in their 20s and 30s to enjoy free appetizers, fellowship and listen to an awesome guest speaker -Craig Rheaume who is a recent convert to Catholicism, will share his story. The Church of the Holy Trinity is once again offering our annual devotions to St. Ann. Formerly offered as a nine-day novena, this year we will offer three days of devotion; July 24, 25, 26. A reception will be held at the close of the Novena on Sunday, July 26 th. We are pleased to welcome Rev. Michael Carmola as our Novena presider. For more info. please call the parish office at Bus Trip to See Pope Francis in Philadelphia - Sept 27. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, Norwich, cost $60.00 round trip. Departure- 7:15 am, 9/27 from St. Bart's & returns after the Papal Mass. Call before July 31 for reservations.

4 CHENANGO RIVER THEATRE Bill Lelbach Artistic & Managing Director PO Box 584, Greene, NY Office: Box Office: A professional, Non-Profit Theatre Company for the Southern Tier Continuing Our Tradition of Service Since 1914 DITTO S Discount Copiers & Printers Sales & Award Winning Service Larry Lawrence, Owner A Professional Agency for Personal & Business Insurance Gray & Sons Agency, Inc. Kathy Pilkington Robert J. Greene Genesee Street, Greene, NY NEVILLE LAW OFFICE Chris P. Neville, Esq. Robert M. Larkin, Of Counsel P. O. Box 570 * 36 Genesee St. Greene, New York KENNEDY FUNERAL HOME, INC. 21 North Chenango St., Greene, NY service@kennedyfuneralhome.net Molly S. Nolan Licensed R.E. Salesperson Cell Bartles Pharmacy 10 Lafayette Park. Oxford, NY Root Funeral Home Greene s Oldest Funeral Home Member New York State Funeral Director Assoc. Serving Greene, Oxford and the surrounding communities. Charles C. Dietrich North Chenango Street Greene, New York It is the right of every woman to give birth and the right of every child to be born. Birthright of Sidney, N Y Inc. 40 East Main Street (Box 204) Sidney, New York Pregnant..need help? We can Help you! Call Monday 1:00-4:00 Thursday, Friday, 10:00-1: Hotline The Sherwood Hotel Restaurant & Bar Open for Lunch & Di nner Weddi ngs, Rehearsal Di nners, Showers (607) oodhotel.com Construction Home Improvement Lawn Mowing/Brush Hogging Excavating Gerry Reiss Mike Reiss Oxford, New York Blood Drive At ICC 2015 Schedule: 7/22, 9/16, 11/ 25 St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery Oxford, New York A beautiful, peaceful resting place Double Plot $700 1 casket & 1 urn or 2 urns

5 July 12, 2015 Father s Notes The Essential Needs of The Heart I am the Bread of Life; whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst. John 6:35 We can come to believe that in Jesus we will never hunger or thirst again only if we accept that real life is a lot simpler than we allege. Most of us get caught in the frenzy of daily living & conclude that this is what life is all about. Jesus spoke endlessly about the importance of love, of not living for possessions, of simplicity, and of living in the service of others. The genius of Christianity is that it does have all the answers to the essential needs of the human heart. Concentrate on what is essential in your life. Don t exaggerate your needs. Realize that you make life complex with inflated expectations, and complicate it by turning luxuries into necessities. What do you really need to be happy? Simplify. Try making love the one rule for dealing with others. Trust that God loves you and cares for you with infinite compassion, even in the smallest details. If you can live with the essential and not be intimidated by things that don t really matter in life, Jesus claim that you will never hunger or thirst again is not simplistic at all. Michael R. Kent, Bringing The Word to Life. Prayer of Thanksgiving O God, we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky & the blessed sun, for the salt sea & the running water, the everlasting hills & the never resting winds, for trees & the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our sense by which we hear the songs of birds, & see the splendor of the summer fields, & taste of the autumn fruits, & rejoice in the feel of snow, & smell the breath of spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; & save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory, O God our creator, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen. Walter Rauschenbusch Wisdom from our Catholic Tradition While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, New York Page 3 Communion on the tongue? When and why did the Church originate received Communion on the tongue? It does not seem likely that the bread was distributed in this manner as the Last Supper. You are right. Communion was received in the hand for about the first 1,000 years of Christian history. It was only in the late Middle Ages, generally in the 10th-11th centuries, that the change was made, about the same time that the use of unleavened bread became common in the celebration of the Eucharist. The reason seems to have been a feeling that receiving directly in the mouth was somehow more reverent. By this time, the practice of receiving Communion very infrequently, perhaps once a year or less, had become well accepted. Reception of the Eucharist by anyone but the priest had become so rare that missals of that period don t even mention Communion for lay people. Related to this decline, various customs developed with the intention of emphasizing the separation & distance between God (Jesus Christ & our selves. Receiving Communion on the tongue was one of them. The elevation during Mass, introduced into the liturgy much later was another. For the same reasons, a sense of reverence as well as history, inspired a return to Communion in the hand in the 20th century. Sticking out one s tongue is not usually considered a sign of respect in our age; extending one s hand was again seen as a sign of openness & acceptance of the gift God gives us in the Holy Eucharist. Our present ritual for receiving in the hand is patterned after that prescribed in Jerusalem Catechese about the year 350 AD. Not everyone has the same feeling about this, of course, so the Church today provides the option for each communicant to receive in the hand or on one s tongue. Fr. John Dietzen from Catholic Q & A A Convert s View Church history paints a very different picture of the ancient Christians from what I had learned in the Church of Christ from sincere, but sincerely wrong, teachers and preachers. I discovered through studying Scripture and the writings of the early Church Fathers that the Holy Spirit did indeed guide the Church into all Truth and that the Apostles and their successors spread this Truth throughout the world by means of the Catholic Church, which grew despite the many persecutions that came against her. Jeff Childres, Church of Christ member & convert to the Catholic Church

6 "Behold, your mother." From the Cross, our suffering Savior tenderly places each of us personally into the hands of His mother. Father Michael Gaitley has created a Do-It-Yourself Retreat that prepares us for Marian Consecration. He reminds us that the heart and hands that nurtured the Christ are the same heart and hands that nurture us. This do-it-yourself retreat touches on the inspiring life of St. Louis de Montfort and the personal journeys of outstanding modern-day Christian models like St. Maximilian Kolbe, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, and Blessed John Paul II. 33 Days to Morning Glory is a moving and transformative journey into the loving and maternal heart of Our Blessed Mother. Our parish has 25 books available to loan anyone interested in the 33 day retreat. You can start the retreat whenever you chose, reading the short chapters and reflecting each day on your own. We are suggesting that you begin on July 13, so that you end the retreat on August 15, which is the Marian Feast day of her Assumption. There is a chart in the book with other suggested start & end dates. When you are finished with the retreat, simply return your book to the parish office so that others can appreciate and understand more fully their own unique and unrepeatable relationship with Our Blessed Mother. Any questions please see Mary Wentlent. A 5K Walk / Run to benefit the outreach ministries of the Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. Sunday, July 19, 2015: Check in 12:00 (Noon) - 12:45 pm. Race starts at 1:00 pm. Course starts and finishes at Otsiningo Park in Binghamton. The Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MHJ), based in Binghamton, NY, is a Roman Catholic community of vowed and promised women who have been called by God to prayer and the ministry of the Word. The community serves orphans and widows in Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria and Liberia. MHJ provides the basic necessities of life to the most fragile of Gods children and widows; especially LOVE! More information about the community and its ministries on our web page: Entry fee: $10.00 suggested donation and spon- Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, New York Page 4 Dear friends, Growing up in small towns in Georgia, I didn t have the opportunity to play any sports. The concept of working as a team was something I had to learn in other ways. I did have consistent positive advice from my parents: always look for something good in difficult situations, treat others the way you want to be treated, and the importance of turning good thoughts into actions. These past few weeks, our parish has modeled what I think is a winning team spirit. We have seen several members of our parish family pass on to be with our Heavenly Father. Parish friends made home visits, gave rides to church and errands, made sure they received Holy Communion, loved them with the gift of music at their funeral, prepared a funeral luncheon for family and friends, wrote a loving sympathy card for the family, made sure the parish grounds were clean and beautiful, spent time preparing the Sacristy and ironing the necessary burial cloths, and even helping the family pick out a favorite pair of earrings for the deceased to wear at the viewing. These are the things we are called to be doing as a parish. Reaching out to help others as the hands of Christ. Thank you to everyone who did a part these past few weeks. If you are wondering what the plan is for the front circle of lawn, Bob and Joe Hanrahan decided to clean out the dead sod areas, add fresh dirt & plant new seed on top. I am hoping that because we put the French drain in near the parking lot, we won t get so much water heading into this circle area, causing the grass to attract those unwelcome insects that caused the problem these past few years. That s quite the process, but again, another sign of parish team work! Many thanks to Kelly Browning and Lisa and Maeve Fornillo for helping me at the registration table for Vacation Bible School this week. It was a fun time for our kids to share some Christian fellowship with the other Village of Greene churches. If you have never formally joined our parish, I would like to invite you to join us! You can talk to me or one of the parish council members, or call the parish office during the week so that Audrée can give you more information. We look forward to meeting you! Have a great week! Peace! - Mary Wentlent Relay for Life - held in Norwich on Saturday, July 18 th. Leaders Jess Trepa and Alison Norton have some fun ideas planned. Please mark your calendars for this summer event.