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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Third Sunday in

Saturday, February 2 nd, 2019 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION www.immacastoria.

1 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH th Street ~ Astoria, New York The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 27 th, 2019 The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Candlemas Saturday, February 2 nd, 2019 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION ~ ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main ) (Fax Number)

MASS & DEVOTION SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00AM Weekday Mass 9:00AM Weekday Mass 5:00PM Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00AM Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00AM Family Mass 10:30AM High Mass (Mass

9:00AM Mass with Rosary, and at 5:00PM with Rosary and Evening Prayer. CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00PM to 4:45PM.

2 MASS & DEVOTION SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00AM Weekday Mass 9:00AM Weekday Mass 5:00PM Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00AM Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00AM Family Mass 10:30AM High Mass (Mass with Choir) 12:00PM Spanish Mass/Español 1:30PM Contemporary Music Mass Lower Church 9:00AM Italian Mass/Italiano MONDAY TO FRIDAY 7:00AM, 9:00AM & 12:00PM MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Monday after the 9:00AM Mass with Rosary, and at 5:00PM with Rosary and Evening Prayer. CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00PM to 4:45PM. The languages generally available are English, Spanish and Italian. Appointments for Confession outside this time can be made by contacting the Rectory Office. OTHER SACRAMENTS Baptisms Baptisms are celebrated monthly. Please contact the Rectory Office for an appointment. Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory Office at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites). Holy Matrimony (Marriages) Please make an appointment to meet with a Priest at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall. WEEKDAY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration from the end of the 7:00AM Mass to before the start of the 9:00AM Mass every weekday and Saturdays. The Rosary is prayed communally beginning at 8:20AM, and Morning Prayer is celebrated at 8:45AM. CLERGY Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese Pastor Rev. Liju Augustine, CMI Parochial Vicar Rev. William A. McLaughlin.....Parochial Vicar Dcn. Francisco Hernandez Dcn. Elkin Tamayo In Residence: Rev. Msgr. Charles Patrick Boccio Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday Friday 9:00AM 12:30PM / 1:30PM 8:00PM Saturday Sunday 9:00AM 4:00PM Office is Closed Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger, Principal Religious Education Office (CCD) Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director mcrum@immacastoria.org

3 Lost and Found One of the saddest moments of my Pastorate here at Immac was the day that I said goodbye to the Holy Union Sisters who served our parish for so many years. I knew the last car would depart that morning, so I called the other priests to join me in saying goodbye. The superiors of the Sisters were here to drive the remaining Sisters to their Mother House in Massachusetts. After embracing them, they got into the car and settled in, and drove away. We all knew that this was a profoundly sad moment in our history. These Consecrated Women Religious had served the parish for many years. They had educated thousands of children in the Catholic Faith. They had left everything and embraced a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. All this sacrifice for us! And now, advanced in years, they could no longer take care of themselves and needed more assistance. Reluctantly, they accepted the inevitable. After the car pulled out, I entered the silent Convent alone. I thought to do it for safety sake: to make sure that everything was off that had to be turned off, etc. But the real reason was that I missed them and wanted to hold on to the past. The rooms were silent with only the occasional car or truck heard on 31 st Street. I went to the Chapel where the Blessed Sacrament was still reserved. As I prayed, I heard in my imagination the many prayers that were said by these great women in that now abandoned Convent. The moment of greatest poignancy was when I went to the Tabernacle to remove the Holy Eucharist, the Divine Presence from the Chapel and the Convent. Another historical moment was occurring. I could feel the great responsibility of carrying the Blessed Sacrament back to the Church. For decades, these holy women had been praying in that Chapel, offering their sacrifices for the good of the children that they taught, for their sisters in the community, and for our parish. As I turned off the light with the Blessed Eucharist clutched to my chest, I felt the great loss like a page turned for good. This sad moment apparently has been experienced in many parishes of the Diocese as the few aging sisters return to their Motherhouses. Soon, there will be so few women and men in consecrated life that it will be hard for our children, teens and even some young adults to be able to visualize these great witnesses to Christ. In growing up in the 50s, there were many priests and even more sisters in our parish of St. Rita in East New York. The Catholic presence in the neighborhood was unmistakably real and apparent. In looking around me today, I feel acutely the loss and the need in the future for a rebirth of religious life in our Church. Is that even possible? Yes, it is, and I believe that the roots of revival are in the ground, unseen. I feel hope for the future. It is so because the way of consecrated life is very beautiful and appealing when seen in its radical and worlddefying power. It relativizes not the way of God, but the way of this world, which in the long run cannot bear the weight of meaning that we give it. This transitory life cries out for another more permanent vision of being that can sustain the great hope that God gives us through our Christian Faith. It alone bears the symbolic majesty that the whole Church needs. Consecrated Life is a living signpost that points to the eternity that waits for those who are faithful to the struggles of our earthly life. It gives meaning and purpose to the journey that does not end in death, but through judgment leads us to the harbor of peace and love that we so long for in what is by comparison the desert of this life. These benefits will always be true and applicable to our life s situation. These are perennial resolutions to humanity s apparent conflicts and as such will always be needed by us in the Church. Our ecclesial imagination works on providing vibrant and compelling examples to spur the large and complicated diversity of the faithful to wish to live the virtues that they see manifested. The cult of the saints is such a dynamic. Not everyone is called to live poverty like St. Francis. A father or mother can t just say to their children: Goodbye, Mommy is going to live a life of poverty, chastity and obedience! This would be horrendous and funny at the same time! But all of us will benefit from the example of St. Francis not to absolutize material goods and to strive to live simply. This can even make economic sense for a family to live by! We need Consecrated Life in the Church for this reason. It images for us the virtues we need to inculcate and live in this earthly abode whatever our station in life may be. The Sisters of the Holy Union provided that lesson for us in great splendor and in moving joyfulness. While we are in sorrow over their loss, I firmly believe that the providence of God will continue to raise up for the Church new forms of Consecrated Life that will enrich us with both traditional and new forms of living witness. exäa `ÉÇá zçéü YxÜÇtÇwÉ YxÜÜtÜxáx

SUNDAY January 27 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Salvatore & Marianna Cala 10:30AM Arnaldo Fiorentino 12:00PM Spanish: Roberto Murichi (3rd. Anniv.

4 SUNDAY January 27 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Salvatore & Marianna Cala 10:30AM Arnaldo Fiorentino 12:00PM Spanish: Roberto Murichi (3rd. Anniv.), Mellisa Sanchez, Maria Lucrecia Gusñoy, Saul Cahuana, Virgilio Cahuana, Nicanor Cahuana, Imelda Realpe (3rd. Anniv.), Altagracia Santaella (3rd. Anniv.) 1:30PM Anthony Sciortino Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Giuseppe Sbuttoni SUNDAY February 3 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Virginia Maglio 10:30AM Jesse Chan (Liv. Birth.) 12:00PM Spanish: Antonio Lopez, Jr. Giorgia Azzopardi 1:30PM Edward, Nadine & Maude Casey & Family Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Eunizia, Gilda, & Carmela Russo; Aniello, Maria Luigia, Francesco, & Linda Saudo; Maria Di Marco MONDAY January 28 7:00AM For the Special Intentions of Sally Gallino 9:00AM Darlene Morrone 12:00PM Antonio Melone TUESDAY January 29 7:00AM In Honor of St. Francis de Sales 9:00AM Bruno Viskovic 12:00PM Nikola Franolic WEDNESDAY January 30 7:00AM Leticia G. Morales (Liv.) 9:00AM Anna Antunovich 12:00PM Carmelita LaCovara MEMORIALS THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Tina Ciminati, requested by Ada & Mario Bianchinotti. THE ALTAR CANDLES are donated this week in loving memory of Olga & Fernando Nunez, requested by their children. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Giuseppe Sbuttoni, requested by Josephine Sferrazza. THE SECOND SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Rev. Joseph F. Wiseman, requested by Dorothy O Connell & Family. THURSDAY January 31 7:00AM For the Intentions of the Celebrant 9:00AM Daniel Sandoval & Nelly Chavez 12:00PM Rogelio Farinas 7:00PM Spanish Prayer Group: Antony Iurato FRIDAY February 1 7:00AM Edward Aloise (Birth. Remem.) 9:00AM The Calderon Herrera Family 12:00PM Rosa Galante SATURDAY February 2 7:00AM The Purgatorial Society 9:00AM Anna & Giuseppe Rotolo 5:00PM Dr. Arthur Gualtieri Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially Pierre Zimmerli Patricia Hawkins Yngliana Mata Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. PLEASE KEEP THEM ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS

IMMAC ROSARY SOCIETY MASS & MEETING Please join us for the Rosary Society Mass and meeting on Sunday, February 3rd.

After Mass, we will go down to Lyons Hall in the Academy for our meeting and refreshments. All are welcome!

exposed for adoration during the mornings of weekdays and Saturdays.

Bulletin may know of this opportunity: The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration from the end of the 7:00AM Mass to before the start

The Rosary is prayed communally beginning at 8:20AM, and Morning Prayer is celebrated at 8:45AM.

5 IMMAC ROSARY SOCIETY MASS & MEETING Please join us for the Rosary Society Mass and meeting on Sunday, February 3rd. We will begin by reciting the Rosary in Church at 10:00AM. You can find us in the Main Church facing the Ambo for the Mass. After Mass, we will go down to Lyons Hall in the Academy for our meeting and refreshments. All are welcome! WEEKDAY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION It has come to our attention that many members of our parish did not know that the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration during the mornings of weekdays and Saturdays. Therefore, we have added the following notice on the inside-front-cover page of all subsequent Bulletins so that all who read our Bulletin may know of this opportunity: The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration from the end of the 7:00AM Mass to before the start of the 9:00AM Mass every weekday and Saturdays. The Rosary is prayed communally beginning at 8:20AM, and Morning Prayer is celebrated at 8:45AM. We hope that this near-daily opportunity for Eucharistic Adoration inspires us all to make more frequent visits to our Lord in His Real Presence on earth: His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity! 2019 WORLD YOUTH DAY PILGRIMS Here are our 2019 World Youth Day pilgrims waiting at John F. Kennedy International Airport for their flight to Panama this past Monday morning! We pray that they have a safe journey back!

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord January 6th, 2019 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION www.immacastoria.org (Parish Website) ~ 718-728-1613