Church of the Immaculate Conception. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad

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1 Church of the Immaculate Conception April 4 & 5, 2015 Easter Sunday This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad

2 Mass Schedule SATURDAY 4/4/15 8:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass at St. Joseph, Oxford SUNDAY 4/5/15 Easter 10:30 am Edith Lusuriello by the Mulvey Family Joseph Paukett by David Paukett THURSDAY 4/9/15 8:30 am Communion Service SATURDAY 4/11/15 4:00 pm George Kirnie by Trepa Family Blanche Greene, Birthday Remembrance, by family SUNDAY 4/12/15 Divine Mercy Sunday 10:15 am For Parishioners LAY PERSONS SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEKEND OF April 12, :00 pm Saturday: E. M. s: J. Trepa ~ S. Carlin Lector: D. Maginsky Altar Servers: N. Gabriel 10:15 am Sunday: E. M. s: B. Norton Z. Urda ~ E. Browning Lector: H. Barker Altar Servers: D. Heisler ~ D. Furman Children s Liturgy: E. & B. Furman Counters: D. Brown ~ J. Norton If you are interested in becoming a part of these ministries, Eucharistic Minister, Lector, Altar Server, Children s Liturgy or Counter, please contact the Parish Office. New schedules out soon. Please contact Audrée with any changes to your availability. Sacrificial Giving and Expenses for the month of February 2014: Total Income: $ 8, Total Expense: $ 7, The Total Expenses include salaries, utilities, accountant fees, Holy Family School, CCD expenses, insurance, 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 4/5 Easter Sunday No Rel. Ed. Class No Bible Study - H 6 a GAC Easter Ecumenical Sunrise Service - Elem. School, then breakfast at the Congregational Church. 9:45-10:15 Chime Choir 10:30 am Mass followed by our Annual Easter Reception and Egg Hunt - AC MONDAY 4/6 6-7 p Cub Scouts 7 p American Legion TUESDAY 4/7 WEDNESDAY 4/8 THURSDAY 4/9 8 a Rosary 9:30 a Bible Study- L 7 p Knights of Columbus FRIDAY 4/10 SATURDAY 4/11 9 a K of C Pancake Breakfast - K, H GY Lacrosse Bottle & Can Drive & Car Wash - OF 3:15 p Confession SUNDAY 4/12 Divine Mercy Sunday 8:45 a Rel. Ed. Class - Bread Sunday 9 a Bible Study - H 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. Annual Easter Reception & Egg Hunt after the 10:30 am Easter Sunday Mass. Everyone is welcome! The egg hunt is open for all children pre-k to 5th grade. Bring your basket & outdoor shoes/boots & join in the fun! Don t forget to turn in your CRS Rice Bowls, either in the collection basket or drop them at the Parish Office. Religious Education Class: Sunday 8:45 10:00 am. April 12- Bread Sunday, 19, 26 No Class April 5, Easter Sunday.

3 April 5, 2015 PLEASE turn off your cell phone before entering the church to preserve the spirit of prayer & reverence. Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, NY 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: Don Brown, Sue Carlin, Francis Feldpausch, Joe Henninge, Bob LaRocque - President, Chris Paske, 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. Community Interest Volunteer Opportunities Meals On Wheels ICC covers deliveries for August & February: Mon, Wed, Fri, 11:15am. Our Brother s Keeper We take donations of CLEAN blankets, quilts, sheets, towels, batting & fiber fill. & yarn Please bag the items for pick-up. Call Rita St. Pauly Textile collection shed in our parking lot. Donate your unwanted clothes & fabric items & ICC receives 5 cents per pound collected. Greene Area Churches Food Pantry - It s that time of year again! March and April for the Food Pantry are like a PBS Pledge Drive. Please be generous with either non-perishable food or monetary donations. Food may be left in the Parish Hall vestibule, funds placed in the collection basket. Our Knights of Columbus men s group meets the 1st Thursday of each month. These men from a few surrounding Catholic Churches provide charitable services, promote education of the Catholic faith and support the local parish and Priest. If you are interested in joining please see Anthony Browning or call the church office for more information. The Knights of Columbus are hosting a pancake breakfast on Saturday April 11 th in the church social hall; to benefit the Greene Youth Lacrosse Team. Following the breakfast will be a bottle/can drive & a car wash in our front lot. Please consider coming over to support our area youth. The ICC Social Committee will host the Spring Fling on Saturday evening April 25 th, following Mass. There will be a DJ for dancing!! Plan to come and enjoy some good food and a fun time with your parish friends. Bring a dish to pass and beverages will be provided. April Card Party - Join us for a morning of cards, table games, lunch and some fun conversation on Wednesday April 29 th beginning at 10:30 am. Page 5

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 Family Atmosphere Member NY s FDA KENNEDY FUNERAL HOME, INC * North Chenango St., Greene, NY Wide Range of Affordable Choices Giving Personal Attention to All Pre-Need Arrangements Home-like Setting Handicapped Accessible A Funeral Provider of Peace & Comfort in Time of Need NEVILLE LAW OFFICE Chris P. Neville, Esq. Robert M. Larkin, Of Counsel P. O. Box 570 * 36 Genesee St. Greene, New York Bartles Pharmacy 10 Lafayette Park. Oxford, NY DITTO S Discount Copiers & Printers Sales & Award Winning Service Larry Lawrence, Owner 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 A Professional Agency for Personal & Business Insurance Gray & Sons Agency, Inc. Kathy Pilkington Robert J. Greene Genesee Street, Greene, NY Your Ad Here! $ small; $ medium; $ large; for one year. The ad is shared with St. Joseph s bulletin. Call 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: 5/20, 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 April 5, 2015 Father s Notes Jesus brothers and sisters A non-catholic friend is attending a series of talks on the Bible. She reports that in this class she is told that the Blessed Virgin Mary had other children born to her after Jesus. I went to Catholic school and never heard of this. Is this true? Students of the Bible, including today the vast majority of Protestant scholars, agree that neither the books of the New Testament nor other early Christian writing offer any substantial evidence that Mary had other children besides Jesus. It is impossible to deal with al traditional arguments to the contrary, but none of them, when examined carefully, offer basis for a claim that Jesus had brothers and sisters. The extreme care that the writers of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke take to insist that the conception of Jesus was accomplished by a special intervention of God, certainly indicates a Gospel bias in favor of the virginity of Mary - a bias which would be overcome only by some pretty strong evidence. Perhaps the text most commonly brought forth to claim that Mary had other children is Matthew 12:47, which speaks of some of the disciples as brother of Jesus. This apparent problem dissolves when one realizes that the Jews of Jesus time had one word that covered all kinds of kinships, from bother or sister to distant cousins. When this particular Aramaic word ( aha ) is used to designate the relationship of some individuals to Jesus, it requires quite a stretch of meaning to conclude that they are his brothers and sisters in our sense of the words. Because the perpetual virginity of Mary was commonly taught by the great teachers in the church from the very earliest decades after Christ, the church has long held that Mary was a virgin also after the birth of Christ. She therefore bore no other children after Our Lord. Fr. John J. Dietzen, Catholic Q & A Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it. Luke 11:28 Am I merely an admirer of Jesus or am I a disciple? Both the admirer and the disciple stand in the crowd listening to Jesus. The admirer lets Jesus words influence her to a certain extent, but the disciple allows Jesus words to burn within her and bring her into a closer relationship. Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, New York Page 3 While the admirer agrees with Jesus that the world is a sinful place, the disciple grieves over her own sinfulness, accepts God s forgiveness and endeavors to change. The admirer gives thanks for all God s many gifts, while the disciple is prepared to turn gratitude into action by sharing God s gifts with the deprived. Both grieve over Jesus suffering, but the disciple walks in Jesus footsteps, willingly carrying her own cross. Both acknowledge that they are weak earthen vessels, but while the admirer guards her own security, the disciple is prepared to be broken for others, thus revealing divine love. Jesus, I want to be your disciple rather than just an admirer. Help me to respond faithfully in all my duties as your disciple. Sr. Peter Dupreé The Church s Hymn of Praise, The Te Deum You are God: we praise You; You are the Lord: we acclaim You; You are the eternal Father: All creation worships You. To You all angels, all the powers of heaven, Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise: Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of Your glory. The glorious company of apostles praise You. The noble fellowship of prophets praise You. The whiterobed army of martyrs praise You. Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims You; Father, of majesty unbounded, Your true and only Son, worthy of all worship, and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide. You, Christ, are the King of glory, the eternal Son of the Father. When You became man to set us free You did not spurn the Virgin s womb. You overcame the sting of death, and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. You are seated at God s right hand in glory. We believe that You will come, and be our judge. Come then, Lord, and help Your people, bought with the price of Your own blood, and bring us with your saints to glory everlasting,. Surrexit Christus Hodie! Alleluia!

6 Bible Study - Matthew, Thursdays, 9:30-11am; James, Sundays 9-10 am. Youth Groups: Middle School Youth Group The next youth Focus Group will be Saturday April 25 th from 11:30-1:30. Bring your bag lunch and your opinions! Contact youth leader Jess Trepa for more information. Friends welcome! The youth will be participating in the Relay for Life event, 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. They will have 2 prep events in May and June to get the youth ready Young Adult Group Theology on Tap - All college-age adults are invited to dinner at Dillinger s Pub in Binghamton at 5:30 on Thursday April 16 th. Following dinner all are invited to stay for Theology on Tap, a Catholic discussion group sponsored by our Diocese. Fr. Bourgeois of St. Ambrose, who will be speaking about "The Glory of God." Please contact Anne Glasgow if you need more information. Color Run- We have 10 spots reserved for the Binghamton Color Run on Sunday April 26 th. If you haven t heard of this fun event, the runners come dressed in white, and over the course of the race, they get sprayed with lots of different paints, so that by the end of the race the runners are a kaleidoscope of color!! Contact Anne Glasgow to reserve your spot!! There will be a young families potluck dinner Friday, April 17 th from 6-8 p.m. Coordinator Anne Glasgow has arranged for a wii tournament on the new smart TV in the church social hall. All families and their children are invited for this fun evening. Please contact Anne Glasgow via if you plan to attend and what food item you will bring. Church of the Immaculate Conception, Greene, New York Page 4 Dear friends, I remember going to an Easter Sunrise service when I was a teenager in Atlanta, led by my Dad. I was one of those teenagers that usually enjoyed sleeping in most of the morning on the weekends, but this morning, somehow I was up at 5:30 am. As we stood in the misty daybreak, my Dad began his magical way of storytelling that brought me right back to that first Easter morning, 2000 years ago. When he finished, a single guitarist began to play, See the sun rise, open up your eyes, today is the very first day Watch the morning come, now the night is done, yesterdays so very far away! I felt like I was right there, watching the stone being rolled away. As an adult, I ve learned that the words to this song and Easter morning should inspire each of us to let go of negative things in our past and celebrate this day as the first day of the rest of our lives! Our parish has bumped along on some rough patches in the road, but we are moving forward with some positive minded, amazing people! It is astounding the number of people who volunteered their time to help with our parish hall face lift! We now have a beautiful chair rail, freshly painted walls, new levolor blinds, and a game table for the youth. And the smart TV on the wall is up and ready for use as not only a movie screen but for live streaming Diocesan events, power point presentations and conversations/meetings with other parishes in our pastoral care area through Skype. The beautiful cabinet with colorful paneled doors encloses the TV and is a beautiful focal point of the room. Thank you to everyone who helped! Many thanks to all the work done by Jean Stevens who orchestrated the many volunteers for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. She made phone calls, greeted our visitors, made list after list, coordinated the linen care with her Sacristy angels, met with Father Lupa several times to make sure things were just perfect for our parishioners, and made sure our altar servers, Eucharistic ministers and lectors knew exactly what their job would be at Mass. (Did I mention her skill with an iron getting candle wax out of the carpet?) We are truly blessed to have such a giving and loving Sacristan, in Jean. Please give her a hug and a thank you when you see her. Thank you for spending Easter with our parish! You are an important part of our parish family! Peace!~Mary Wentlent