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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New

th, 2018 The Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin

www.immacastoria.org ~ 718-728-1613 ~ info@immacastoria.

1 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH th Street ~ Astoria, New York The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time November 18 th, 2018 The Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday, November 21 st, 2018 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION ~ ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main ) (Fax Number)

MASS 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)

2 MASS 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, and at 5:00PM with Rosary and Evening Prayer. 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 CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Confession is available Saturdays from 4:00PM to 4:45PM. The languages generally available are English, Spanish and Italian. OTHER SACRAMENTS Baptisms Baptisms are celebrated monthly. Please call the Rectory for an appointment. Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites). Marriages Please notify the Rectory at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall. UPCOMING EVENTS 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 SAVE THE DATE! FALL FILM FESTIVAL THE GODFATHER TRILOGY: AN AMERICAN FAMILY TRAGEDY Our Fall Film Festival is almost finished! This year s festival will explore the Godfather trilogy of films. The remaining film is being shown as follows: Friday, November 23rd at 7:00 PM The Godfather, Part III Presented by Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese The films are shown in the Lower Church. The admission is free! VIGIL OF THE SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 7:00PM Solemn High Mass International Desserts after Mass!

3 Turnstile Forgiveness The Sacrament of Confession is a key part of the sacramental system in Catholicism. It has developed over the centuries to this present form. Today, one can receive this Sacrament as often as needed; it is available everywhere and there are no rules about it s use except the idea of Easter Duty, that is, the obligation to go at least once a year during the Easter Season. (This, by the way, fits in very well with the emphasis today on Baptism in the Easter Season. The Sacrament of Confession is the living-out of our Baptismal Commitments.) But outside of Easter Duty, there is no rule about its use, and certainly none limiting it. But this was not always so. In the early Church, it was a very serious thing to become a Christian. For one reason, it was against the law and punishable by death. Secondly, you became Christian by an adult decision. Thirdly, you entered a training period that could last a few years. Since Baptism forgave all sin, there was no need for Confession. It was expected that once you were Baptized, you were done with sin. Any Christian therefore who was guilty of a mortal sin (Murder, Adultery or Apostasy denying that you were a Christian) was cut off from the community of the saints. Later, it was decided to forgive them, but only once in their lifetime and only after a public confession of their sin and a long period of public penance that could last years. As one can imagine, this system was not popular with the people. What happened, therefore, was that people delayed Baptism to their deathbed so that they could take full advantage of the complete forgiveness of all sinfulness without the necessity of telling anyone their sins. The Emperor Constantine took this path. Another form of Penance developed in the monasteries of Ireland. A younger monk would confess his past sins with an older monk and the older monk would give him a Penance to perform so as to correct the sinfulness of the past. The advantage of this form of Confession was that it was private and could be received more than once. As the monks of Ireland traveled through Europe preaching, they brought with them this new form of Confession. At first, the Church condemned this innovation. But, once again, the people spoke with their feet and started to abandon the older form and accepted this new way of confessing. It is important to realize that the monks did not impose easy penances. There were no, Say 3 Hail Mary s as a Penance. We have the books that they used to assign an appropriate penance to the sinner, and it was not easy! But it was private and more of a process. In our own time, we have developed a religious ethos that strives for the easy way to do everything. This has spawned a habitual laxity in our living of the Christian Life and an underlying vice of presumption in our approach to sin and conversion. The Sacrament of Confession must involve a deep and interior attitude that indicates and nourishes a real change within the person, both psychologically and experientially. While one can have such an intention and still sin again, what is important is the willingness to get up and try again to eradicate the sin completely from our lives. When it is a habitual sin, it requires continual effort and a fierce commitment to following the Lord no matter what. Even after the sin is removed from a person through repentance and Confession, we still must experience a desire to heal the world we have disrupted by our sin. This is the whole area of reparation and satisfaction that is largely ignored today; but, it is essential. We must try to put aright what we have disrupted in the divine order of God s Commandments. As you may see, even venial sins have a destructive impact on our lives and the lives of the Church, even when they do not prepare us for the more serious mortal sins. We have the ability to receive Confession as often as we need it to help us in this process of reordering, always with God s assistance, the creation of God and the moral unity of Christian life. As you can see, Turnstile Confession, where you say your Hail Mary s and you get cleaned up for Mass, is an emaciated view of the Sacrament and the whole process of moral regeneration that is the Christian call to Metanoia, or true repentance. It requires a real effort to model our life on Christ and a refusal to compromise our moral vision. exäa `ÉÇá zçéü YxÜÇtÇwÉ YxÜÜtÜxáx

SUNDAY November 18 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM The Siletti & Eichele Families 10:30AM Benedetto Zito 12:00PM Spanish: Rosario Lopez (9th. Anniv.

& Rose Walsh Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Arcangelo & Michela Polino SUNDAY November 25 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Rosaleen Smith 10:30AM Maureen Mullen 12:00PM Spanish:

4 SUNDAY November 18 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM The Siletti & Eichele Families 10:30AM Benedetto Zito 12:00PM Spanish: Rosario Lopez (9th. Anniv.), Segundo Pedro Minchala, Maria Virginia Camas 1:30PM Richard Walsh, Sr. & Rose Walsh Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Arcangelo & Michela Polino SUNDAY November 25 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Rosaleen Smith 10:30AM Maureen Mullen 12:00PM Spanish: Maria Cruz & Guisao Florentino 1:30PM Alex Arellano (Liv. Birth.) & Family Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Domenico & Giuseppina Taibi MEMORIALS MONDAY November 19 7:00AM The Nenadich Family 9:00AM Patricia Pokorny 12:00PM Flavio, Laura & Bartolomeo DiVirgilio TUESDAY November 20 7:00AM Agnes Hogan 9:00AM Dr. Rosario Gualtieri 12:00PM Jennic Jovan WEDNESDAY November 21 7:00AM Anthony & Rose Musich 9:00AM Rodolfo Valencerina 12:00PM For the Deceased Members of the Generoso Dieguez Family THURSDAY November 22, Thanksgiving Day There are only two (2) Masses today: 7:00AM & 9:00AM THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Rodolfo Valencerina, requested by Christina Valencerina. THE ALTAR CANDLES are donate this week in loving memory of the deceased members of the Mascitelli Family, requested by the grandchildren THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Isabel Howard & George Demme, requested by Lucy Rago. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Dr. Arthur Gualtieri, requested by Nick, Marilyn & Joan Gualtieri. Please pray for all the faithful departed. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. PLEASE KEEP THEM ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS FRIDAY November 23 7:00AM Fr. Robert Aufuri (Dec.), The Ladies of Charity (Liv.) & Ivana Cpeda (Liv.) 9:00AM Dino & Virginia Porcari 12:00PM Ellen & Patrick Egan SATURDAY November 24 7:00AM The Purgatorial Society 9:00AM Margarita & Amparo Londono 5:00PM Daniel Salvador Matute

ARISE SCRIPTURE STUDY GROUP ARISE, our Scripture Study Group, has begun its 5th season and meets on Mondays at 6:00PM. Newcomers are welcome! The theme for this season is We Are the Good News!

For more information, call Marta Pope at: 718-278-6326 THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving Day is a family day - a time to gather relatives and friends and to remember the blessings God has given us.

5 ARISE SCRIPTURE STUDY GROUP ARISE, our Scripture Study Group, has begun its 5th season and meets on Mondays at 6:00PM. Newcomers are welcome! The theme for this season is We Are the Good News! Our next meetings will be on November 19th, 26th and December 3rd, all in the Nazareth Center, to reflect on the Word of God. Come to as many as you can. For more information, call Marta Pope at: THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving Day is a family day - a time to gather relatives and friends and to remember the blessings God has given us. This year, we will have a Concelebrated Mass on Thursday, November 22nd at 9:00AM. We ask that you bring one small food item from your Thanksgiving table to be blessed at the Mass. We suggest bread, a can of cranberry sauce, fruit, etc. Please note: There will only be one additional Mass on Thanksgiving Day, at 7:00AM, for the convenience of those who are unable to attend the 9:00AM Mass. A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Great Creator God, Giver of all good things, we rejoice in your abundant blessings. For family and friends, for food and drink, for hearth and home and for all Your gifts, we praise and thank You. We ask Your blessing on those among us who are hungry or thirsty, who are homeless and alone, who need Your guiding hand and depend on Your tender mercies. May we share our many blessings with them for they are our brothers and sisters, Your beloved children. Gracious God, Giver of all that is good, we gratefully raise our hearts and voices to You on this day of Thanksgiving and always. Amen. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 2019 DAILY LOTTERY RAFFLE The Knights of Columbus Council is starting their 2019 Daily Lottery Raffle! The ticket price is $20 for a full year of drawings. There are various holidays during the year when the prizes are higher than usual! If you want to purchase a ticket, please contact the Chairman of the Raffle at: thegoldenknight011@gmail.com Thank you for supporting the charitable works of the Council! PARISH BLOOD DRIVE The New York Blood Center will have a bus available for blood donations at Sunday, November 25th from 9:30AM 3:30PM. The bus will be parked in the front of the Church on Ditmars Blvd. Our goal this year is 45 donations. Please help us reach and go over this goal! ST. JOHN S PREP PETER F. VALLONE SCHOLARSHIP St. John s Preparatory School is announcing the date of the Peter F. Vallone Scholarship Examination. This year, the exam will take place on Saturday, December 1st, For more information, and to apply for the exam, please visit the school s website at: or call the Admissions Office at: ext. 699 Best of luck to all applicants!

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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