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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 MASS SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00 AM Weekday Mass 9:00 AM Weekday Mass 5:00 PM Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00 AM Low

1 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH th Street ~ Astoria, New York MASS SCHEDULE SATURDAY 7:00 AM Weekday Mass 9:00 AM Weekday Mass 5:00 PM Sunday Vigil Mass SUNDAY Upper Church 7:00 AM Low Mass (Mass Without Music) 9:00 AM Family Mass 10:30 AM High Mass (Mass with Choir) 12:00 PM Spanish Mass/Español 1:30 PM Contemporary Music Mass Lower Church 9:00 AM Italian Mass/Italiano MONDAY TO FRIDAY 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM & 12:00 PM The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 16, 2017 MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass. The Novena on Monday evenings at 5:00 PM will resume in September. SACRAMENTS Confessions English, Spanish & Italian: Saturdays from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM Baptisms Baptisms are celebrated monthly. Parents should call the Rectory for an appointment. Please be sure to bring all pertinent documents (i.e. Birth Certificate). Sick Calls If you or a loved one is in need of the Sacraments of Anointing or Communion, please contact the Rectory at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites). Marriages Be sure to notify the Rectory at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall. RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday Friday 9:00 AM 12:30 PM /1:30 PM 8:00 PM Saturday Sunday 9:00 AM 4:00 PM Office is Closed 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, Pastor Emeritus Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam Immaculate Conception Parish School Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger....Principal Religious Education Office (CCD) Mrs. Marylyn Crum.Director mcrum@immacastoria.org Pastoral Outreach Office Please contact the Rectory Office for further assistance. Youth Ministry Office Mr. Michael Meloni..Youth Minister mmeloni@immacastoria.org ~ ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ (Parish Homepage) (Main Telephone Number) (Main Contact) (Fax Number)

2 Why Me? Sooner or later our luck runs out! Things could be going well and life seems just dandy, but there comes a moment when suffering touches our lives deeply. All the assurances we give others when it happens to them fall flat before the inexorable movement of pain when it touches our lives, our family, and our faith. Then the story of Job in the Hebrew Scriptures takes on a great and incontestable importance. As one modern Rabbi put it, Why do bad things happen to good people? Underneath the shock of this experience is the unspoken assumption that if I do things right and always am faithful to God, everything will go well in my life and the lives of my loved ones. If they do not go well, then God is punishing me for something that I did of which I am not aware. It often does not dawn on us that this has not been the experience of the saints who often died for their faith nor the experience of the Son of God who never sinned yet died brutally tortured in a shameful death, cast out by the religious people he served! The happiness of the holy is not based on changeable circumstances. It is founded completely on the will of God, which transcends all situations. One can be persecuted for doing what is right and still be content. One can suffer torture and still be at peace. So there is a false equation between earthly joys that are here today and gone tomorrow and true spiritual joy, for Christ promised us a peace that the world cannot take away. This in-depth peace is a sign of the Kingdom and is given to us who only seek the Lord s will. All other searches for peace are bound to end in disaster. So there is no real opposition between being faithful to God and the experience of suffering. Suffering is but one of the ways in which that fidelity to God that we have promised in Baptism can be expressed and maintained. Many would say to this, What good is it then to be a believer if it does not take away suffering and ensure tranquility? Here we come to the nub of the issue. Love for God must have no other reason to exist except in and of itself. Love is its own reward, and love of God is the greatest reward we can have for it gives us the peace we are looking for, but not in the way we want. We want to avoid the struggle of fidelity. We want to bypass the rough and razor sharp cliffs of reality in all of its seemingly random nature. In a word: we want to do what is right for the fruits of fidelity and not for it alone. Our motivation is selfish and cannot be reconciled with the God who is love itself. As Thomas Becket says in T. S. Eliot s play Murder in the Cathedral, The highest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Fidelity in loving, even in lack of comprehension and in great pain, is the process of purification that we must submit to in our quest to love God as we ought: not for what He can do for us but simply for Himself. You may be shocked at the extent of our selfishness even in regards to God Himself. Nevertheless, it is there and it must be burned away if we are to enter the gates of paradise, which has no room for our self-will. I am reminded of the story of the sinner who went to the Rabbi despairing that God will never forgive him. The Rabbi said to him, Don t worry. God forgives you. You will get to heaven. That night God appeared to the Rabbi and expressed his annoyance that the Rabbi acted like God in telling the man he was going to be forgiven. So God said to the Rabbi, Because you are a Rabbi I have to back you up. So that man will get into heaven. But you won t! No matter how many good things you do in life! The Rabbi simply smiled at God and said, Thank you. Now I can simply love you without any hope of a reward! When we say we love God, do we have ulterior motives (to get out of pain and into pleasure)? Or do we simply love God no matter what? A good question Rev. Monsignor Fernando Ferrarese

m. The Purgatorial Society 9:00 a.m. Raul Heredia & Jennifer Manthorne 10:30 a.m. Paula Celeste Antos 12:00 p.m Spanish: Elias Herrera Bonilla y Familia 1:30 p.m Anna Ost Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Domenico & Giuseppina Taibi MEMORIALS THE BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Rosa & Silvio Cerrone, Ralph & Virginia Conte (Liv.

3 SUNDAY - July 16 7:00 a.m. The Purgatorial Society 9:00 a.m. Carmina Tenaglia 10:30 a.m. Celedonio Gonzalez 12:00 p.m Spanish: Accion de Gracia a la Virgen del Carmen, Araminta Justinico, Celia Campos 1:30 p.m Carlos Calderon & Brothers (Living) Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Onofrio & Carmelina Giannattasio SUNDAY - July 23 7:00 a.m. The Purgatorial Society 9:00 a.m. Raul Heredia & Jennifer Manthorne 10:30 a.m. Paula Celeste Antos 12:00 p.m Spanish: Elias Herrera Bonilla y Familia 1:30 p.m Anna Ost Lower Church: 9:00 a.m. Italian: Domenico & Giuseppina Taibi MEMORIALS THE BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Rosa & Silvio Cerrone, Ralph & Virginia Conte (Liv.), Margherita & Bernardino Petruso, and Nunziata & Antonio DiMonte, requested by their grandchildren Giancarlo & Stephanie. MONDAY - July 17 7:00 a.m. In Honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 9:00 a.m. Lazaro Hernandez Arevalo 12:00 p.m. Mary C. Follett TUESDAY - July 18 7:00 a.m. Josephine Vota (Birth. Remem.) 9:00 a.m. Teresa & Carmelo Facciolo 12:00 p.m. In Honor of St. Roberto WEDNESDAY - July 19 7:00 a.m. Tulla Hampe 9:00 a.m. Marcial Bendita, Enrique Bendita & Samson Bendita 12:00 p.m. Catherine Gallo THURSDAY - July 20 7:00 a.m. Ligaya Matabuene (Liv., Birth. Remem.) 9:00 a.m. Joseph Camilleri 12:00 p.m. Margaret, Victor & Denise Lynch Blanche, Denise & Jesse Smith FRIDAY - July 21 7:00 a.m. Living & Deceased Parishioners 9:00 a.m. Thomas J. Fay, Sr. 12:00 p.m. James Lanza THE CANDLES AT THE ALTAR are donate this week in loving memory of Rosa & Silvio Cerrone, Ralph & Virginia Conte (Liv.), Margherita & Bernardino Petruso, and Nunziata & Antonio DiMonte, requested by their grandchildren Giancarlo & Stephanie. SANCTUARY LAMP #1 is donated this week in loving memory of Rosa & Silvio Cerrone, Ralph & Virginia Conte (Liv.), Margherita & Bernardino Petruso, and Nunziata & Antonio DiMonte, requested by their grandchildren Giancarlo & Stephanie. SANCTUARY LAMP #2 is donated this week in loving memory of Rosa & Silvio Cerrone, Ralph & Virginia Conte (Liv.), Margherita & Bernardino Petruso, and Nunziata & Antonio DiMonte, requested by their grandchildren Giancarlo & Stephanie. Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially Belen Lard Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. PLEASE KEEP THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS SATURDAY - July 22 7:00 a.m. Linda Donovan 9:00 a.m. Diana Harabaglia (Birth. Remem.) 5:00 p.m. Elvira Lopez

Creation itself awaits the redemption of all, even as our bodies await the resurrection.

4 FRUIT OF THE WORD The seed is the word of God. The agricultural metaphors in all of today s readings give richness to the message that the word of God, cultivated in our hearts, bears much fruit in our lives. Creation itself awaits the redemption of all, even as our bodies await the resurrection. Just as we will rejoice in the fulfillment of God s word, so will all of creation sing for joy in the Reign of God. The word of God is effective and holy; it brings about exactly what it says. It is not futile or empty, but rich in meaning for those who hear and are healed. Those who hear the word of God and keep it will, with all creation, bear much fruit and sing for joy. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. TOWARD HEAVEN Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a person go to heaven. St. Camillus de Lellis COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION PICTURES Communion and Confirmation pictures are now available in the Rectory office for pick-up. Please contact the Rectory office for more information, and refer to the front cover of the Bulletin for the Rectory office hours of operation. Congratulations and blessings to those who received these wonderful Sacraments! SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Tuesday: St. Camillus de Lellis Thursday: St. Apollinaris Friday: St. Lawrence of Brindisi Saturday: St. Mary Magdalene

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 15, 2017 Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist Wednesday, October 18, 2017 PARISH CONTACT