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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~

in Ordinary Time November 11 th, 2018 The

Tuesday, November 13 th, 2018 PARISH CONTACT

1 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH th Street ~ Astoria, New York The Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time November 11 th, 2018 The Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin Tuesday, November 13 th, 2018 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION ~ ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main ) (Fax Number)

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 FALL FILM FESTIVAL THE GODFATHER TRILOGY: AN AMERICAN FAMILY TRAGEDY Our next Fall Film Festival has begun! This year s festival will explore the Godfather trilogy of films. The remaining films are being shown as follows: 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 THANKSGIVING FOOD COLLECTION Immaculate Conception Parish will be collecting food to share with needy families for Thanksgiving. What to Bring: Canned Food Soup, tuna fish, cranberry sauce, vegetables, yams, tomato sauce and gravy. Friday, November 16th at 7:00 PM The Godfather, Part II Presented by Fr. Michael Bruno 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! Packaged Food Pasta, rice, and stuffing. When to Bring: Saturday, November 10th Sunday, November 11th ALL PACKAGES SHOULD BE NEW AND SEALED. NON-PERISHABLE ITEMS ONLY. We greatly appreciate your cooperation. God bless your generosity!

3 Anger Management One of the most common spiritual problems that people talk about in Spiritual Direction sessions is their struggles with anger. It is a very uncomfortable emotion, and even in its milder forms it seems to be uncontrollable and hard to handle. It appears to have a direct line to the tongue (another dangerous human instrument) and also to the more violent responses in our natures. The connection between anger and violence contributes to the fear that this emotion unleashes in us. We think that to be angry is to be violent and we don t want to unleash that potential within us. While anger can lead to violence, it does not have to be that way. Anger can have an important function in our lives, provided it is used in a correct way. Anger has been described as the God-given alarm system within us that alerts us to the fact that an important boundary of our lives has been breached and that we need to defend ourselves. There is an underlying note of selfpreservation in an angry response to any given situation. Another positive aspect of anger as an emotional response is that it helps us fight injustice. When we see someone being attacked, whether physically or verbally, our instinctive response is to protect. The energy of this motivation comes from our sense of justice and fairness being violated when an innocent person or someone close to us is being hurt or disrespected. The anger in us motivates us to go to their assistance and defend them. The armed response of nations to being attacked and overrun by an enemy is the communal version of this defense of boundaries and the protection of the innocent. All this is well and good; but from whence comes this discomfort we feel with anger, this view that it is a sin? There is a difference between the experience of the emotion of anger, which is immediate and beyond our choice (think of someone accidently stepping on your toe!), and an anger which is held onto and which is nurtured. This is a resentment that festers, causes us to hate the other, and even perhaps plan revenge later on (vengeance is a dish best served cold!). This is clearly done with the free choice of the person. It is also stupid and self-defeating. For instance, let s say someone slaps you in the face. There is an immediate emotional anger! But one holds onto it, and thinks about it and imagines it happening again and again. The slapper slapped once, but the slapped has lived through it a hundred times. But the slapper was responsible for doing it once and the slapped for 99 times! Insane? Yes, and profoundly self-defeating. So the first thing that we have to ask ourselves when the self-monitor inside us tells us that we are angry is: Is this the emotion of anger that flares up automatically and is gone just as fast, or is it the sin of Wrath in which we hold onto the anger and think about getting even? We find out, for example, that someone has said something mean about us behind our backs. The alarm system of anger sounds, alerting us that we have been slandered. This anger is a natural result of the sinful action of another who freely and willfully tried to tarnish our good name. Their action was sinful. My reaction was natural. But what do I do with it? There are three solutions: Solution A: I could call them up and give them a piece of my mind! This is not a good response, just an automatic reaction that will further destroy our relationship. Solution B: I could let it go and continue as though nothing had happened. This could be a good response if we know the person to be irascible and a request for clarification would blow up in our faces. Solution C: We could pray about it and speak to the offender in person, asking if it actually did occur and, if it did, ask the other what was the purpose of the unkind remark and can we deal with that and move on in the relationship. This could be a good move provided the other is capable of truthfulness and correction and if the relationship we are in is important enough to us that we are willing to clarify and reconcile with the other. Of the three solutions, Solution C is the best use of the energy of justified anger since it seeks to correct and amend a relationship, restoring it to a level of grace. Anger is a fact of life. It can be a good or an evil depending on our free choice in how to respond to it. People who simply react usually make matters worse. There is a difference between justified, positively-used anger and the destructive vortex of wrath, resentments and vendetta. The choice, I m afraid, is ours. Anger will not go away. But we can use it or be used by it. We can either manage anger or it can manage us. exäa `ÉÇá zçéü YxÜÇtÇwÉ YxÜÜtÜxáx

SUNDAY November 11 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Arcangelo Polino & Michela Polino 10:30AM Joseph & Albina Squeri 12:00PM Spanish: Maria Del Carmen Galindo (5th. Anniv.

) 1:30PM Angela Mule Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Antonietta Riviello MONDAY November 12 7:00AM Anthony Caruana 9:00AM Anthony Pietromonaco 12:00PM Antonia Montana TUESDAY November 13 7:00AM Annie

4 SUNDAY November 11 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Arcangelo Polino & Michela Polino 10:30AM Joseph & Albina Squeri 12:00PM Spanish: Maria Del Carmen Galindo (5th. Anniv.) & Jose Del Carmen Avila, Leopoldo & Genoveva Taves (Wedding Anniv.) 1:30PM Angela Mule Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Antonietta Riviello MONDAY November 12 7:00AM Anthony Caruana 9:00AM Anthony Pietromonaco 12:00PM Antonia Montana TUESDAY November 13 7:00AM Annie McCaffrey 9:00AM Giovanni Tenaglia 12:00PM Giuseppe Cacchioli (14th. Anniv.) 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.) 1:30PM Richard Walsh, Sr. & Rose Walsh Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Arcangelo & Michela Polino MEMORIALS THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Giuseppe Cacchioli (14th. Anniv.), requested by his wife Antonia. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Anton Pace, requested by his wife Mary Ann & Family. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Anton Pace, requested by his wife Mary Ann & Family. WEDNESDAY November 14 7:00AM Simon Durst 9:00AM Ugo Conti (Birth. Remem.) 12:00PM Lorenzo & Antonia D Addario THURSDAY November 15 7:00AM John Porcari, Sr. 9:00AM Jose L. Reyna, Jr. 12:00PM The McGoldrick & Najdek Families 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 16 7:00AM Giulio Salvatore DiVirgilio 9:00AM Sr. M. Fulgenetta 12:00PM Antonio Romano SATURDAY November 17 7:00AM The Purgatorial Society 9:00AM Anton Pace (5th. Anniv.) 5:00PM Violanta & Domenico Gizzi

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 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY FLEA MARKET Our Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy will be hosting a Flea Market on November 25th from 9:00AM

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 12th, 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: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY FLEA MARKET Our Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy will be hosting a Flea Market on November 25th from 9:00AM 3:00PM in Lyon s Hall. To reserve a table, call the Academy office at 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! TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE Antes de regresar a la derecha del Padre, Jesús prometió estar con sus discípulos siempre. Esta es una promesa que él ha mantenido de diversas maneras, estando con nosotros por su Espíritu, por su palabra, en nuestro corazón. Pero Jesús también desea estar con sus siervos de una manera física y real, es por eso que en su Última Cena tomó pan y vino consagrándolos como su cuerpo y sangre. La Eucaristía que Jesús inauguró el Jueves Santo continúa consagrándose día tras día en las manos de sacerdotes santos y ni tan santos. No es la dignidad del cura que importa sino, la generosidad de Cristo que desea estar con sus fieles. Uno de estos fieles, el joven uruguayo Walter Elías Chango Rondeau, ( ) en sus pocos años de vida encontró consuelo en el hecho de que Dios se entrega a sí mismo en la comunión. Según testigos, Walter animaba a sus compañeros a la reconciliación y la Eucaristía. Hablaba tan elocuentemente del Santísimo Sacramento, que parecía sacerdote. Siendo laico, él supo ejercer su sacerdocio bautismal. Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. VETERANS DAY CHURCH & RECTORY CLOSINGS In observance of Veterans Day, the Rectory Office will be closed on Monday, November 12th. The Church will close after the 12PM Mass, and there will be no evening Novena. 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! THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP The core vocation in the Gospel of Mark is the vocation, or call, to discipleship. Today s Gospel passage provides us with one last example of what the vocation to discipleship means, and one example of what it doesn t mean. A destitute widow shows us that discipleship means following Jesus way of service, even if it requires giving one s livelihood (or life). The scribes show us by their bad example that discipleship should entail a vocation to extend God s care to those who are most in need. In our reading from the book of Kings another widow and her son are close to death. They too give what little they have, but they are rewarded by Elijah with food enough for a year. And the reading from the Letter to the Hebrews reminds us that Jesus sacrificed his life to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him (Hebrews 9:28). Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time November 18 th, 2018 The Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday,