IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 14 th, 2018 The Feast of Saint Luke, Evangelist Thursday, October 18 th, 2018 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION www.immacastoria.org ~ 718-728-1613 ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ 718-956-9229 (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main Email) (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) 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 718-728-1969 - www.iccaastoria.org Religious Education Office (CCD) Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director 718-956-4494 - mcrum@immacastoria.org PARISH LECTURE SERIES October 16 th October 23 rd October 30 th 7:00PM Lower Church More information in Bulletin.
Neighborhoods Perhaps the past looks overly rosy when one looks back, but we have to admit that we are in the midst of profound changes in the way we live our daily lives. Some of these changes are very positive, but there is an undeniable loss that is hard to quantify. So allow me what seems to be a right for elders like myself to meditate on how things were and how things are, what we have gained and what we have lost. I grew up in Brooklyn. In that part of Brooklyn, called East New York, I lived in a predominately Italian- American community. Our block was like a world unto itself. The next block was foreign territory inhabited by unknown people (except for an occasional classmate or family member who was unlucky enough to have to live there!). We were on a side street bounded by busy and commercial avenues (Liberty and Atlantic Avenues). Our parish church was on our block, giving us a quasi-holy land reputation. There were tons of kids on the block, kids everywhere of every possible age. People spent a lot of their time outdoors, especially during the hot summer months. The lack of AC made the apartments blisteringly hot! I recall vividly the hot summer nights: Everyone was outside till the night made everything just a bit cooler. All the adults took out lawn chairs (What a name! No grass anywhere!). The women sat in clumps, conversing and arguing. The men sat on the stoops, when they were free of the kids that descended like locusts on any free sitting areas. Even though it was getting dark, the teenagers still used the street as their stadium, playing stickball till you could no longer see the rubber ball. The game was interrupted, occasionally, by the rare car that chanced upon our block. It is hard to describe to people today how comforting, exasperating, and ennobling this sense of community was, and being found in a place where you belonged, where everyone watched out for one another, got into each other s business, and lived a simple and uncomplicated life. The young people of today are aghast when I tell them that TV (all 6 or 7 channels of it) went off at midnight, that there were no smartphones, no computers; but people everywhere whose names you knew and who knew you also by name. Simply put: we lived in a real community. The next block had a different kind of community, different people, and (I know this sounds incredible) they were all a little foreign to our block-world; same nationality, but a different microcosm, a different community. I believe we have lost this. There are signs in this area of Astoria that the same thing was present. But that even here it has eroded. People don t stay in a house for generations (there are still, God be praised, exceptions!). We don t live in the street anymore. Our homes have their own environmental systems of heat and AC. We are stuck in front of TVs for hours on end big ones, many in a house, having hundreds of channels going 24/7. Even within the family, every member lives in their own little world represented and fed by their individual smart phone. You see this breakdown in the subway. Almost everyone is immersed in his or her own world of communication, information, and entertainment. Seldom do we communicate directly, usually virtually. This breakdown in the traditional community has increased depression, isolation, and suicides. It has made being a Church very difficult. We come into the church building still immured in our own worlds, making the culmination of Communion a purely individual reality, or at best a different kind of virtual world. Can we ultimately survive this way? God made us social animals. We grow and prosper in and through one another. The reality of a human being standing before us cannot be duplicated. The immediate interchange inherent in the relationship of one human being to another is without equal. We need conscious presence to each other, both in relationships and community. When that reality is ceded to a virtual world, where we connect through light and pixels, we condemn ourselves to a real isolation covered over with the disguise of connecting with hundreds of friends in Facebook and other media. Direct, complex and complete presence is necessary to each relationship. When relationships become distant and when real community becomes almost non-existent, we enter a world not made by God, and this is very dangerous to us in the long run. While the modern media can be helpful in communicating and keeping contact with each other, we need to put the phones down, unplug our ears and look at one another, listen to each other and enter the interactive, physical world that God created. exäa `ÉÇá zçéü YxÜÇtÇwÉ YxÜÜtÜxáx
SUNDAY October 14 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Ugo Maglio & Gerarda Pezzuto 10:30AM Paula Celeste Antos 12:00PM Spanish: Maria Huayamares, Victoria Lema, Manuel Murichi, Jose Huarotte 1:30PM The Deceased Members of the Walsh & Sansone Families Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Pasquale, Stefano & Angelina Della Vecchia MONDAY October 15 7:00AM For the Intentions of the Celebrant 9:00AM Elias Teresa Saez 12:00PM Joseph & Maureen Sullivan TUESDAY October 16 7:00AM Christine Stanis, Ben Stanis, Angela Glynn & Margaret Glynn 9:00AM Lorenzo Bianchinotti & The Bianchinotti & Saia Families 12:00PM Mary & Tony Laudone WEDNESDAY October 17 7:00AM For the Intentions of the Celebrant 9:00AM Guillerma Alvarez 12:00PM The Deceased Members of the Kumbatovic Family SUNDAY October 21 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Ugo Maglio 10:30AM Benedetto Zito 12:00PM Spanish: Lucy & Antonio Balsas & Family, Maria Luisa Tocora (2nd. Anniv.) 1:30PM John Ost Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Alfosina Fratangelo MEMORIALS THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Lucy & Antonio Balsas & Family, requested by the Suarez Family. THE SECOND SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Michael DePace, requested by his family. 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 THURSDAY October 18 7:00AM Accion de Gracia al Senor de los Milagros de Jean Carlos Diaz, Enrique y Fanny San Martin 9:00AM Vincente Bobato (Dec.) 12:00PM Thomas & Eileen McDougall FRIDAY October 19 7:00AM Rubiela de Socorro Manso 9:00AM Michael Finucane & Margaret Finucane 12:00PM Lucia & Nicolo Ruffini SATURDAY October 20 7:00AM The Purgatorial Society 9:00AM Teresa & Giovanni D Angelo 5:00PM Frank Manzione
CCD SPACE STILL AVAILABLE There is still space available for 3, 4 and 5 year olds in Our Lady s Preschool, and for grades 1 through Confirmation in CCD. For more information, please contact Marylyn Crum at 718-956-4494. 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 718-728-1969. HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE Holy Cross High School will be hosting an Open House on Sunday, October 21st from 12:00PM 4:00PM. For more information, please contact Mr. Robert Botero at 718-886-7250 ext. 558. To RSVP, please visit their website at: www.holycrosshs.org THE DOMINICAN ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE The Dominican Academy, an all-girls High School, will be hosting an Open House on Saturday, October 20th from 10:00AM 2:00PM. For more information, please contact the school at 212-744- 0195, or visit their website at: www.dominicanacademy.org BROOKLYN DIOCESAN OLMC MARIAN PILGRIMAGE The Diocese of Brooklyn and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish will be hosting a Marian Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on Saturday, October 27th, 2018. This Pilgrimage is a tribute to Mary which we, as a Diocese, make every other year. This is not meant to be a tour, but rather a spiritual journey to honor our Blessed Mother and pray for the needs of our country, our diocese and our parish family. Since this will be a one-day trip, they re aiming to make the journey with one 15 minute stop each way. The estimated time for the trip, with a short stop will be approximately 5 hours and they plan on leaving at 6:00AM so they can arrive at the Shrine by 11:00AM. Plans include being greeted by our Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, a multi-lingual Rosary service at 12 Noon, an opportunity to celebrate the Sacrament of Confession, and a Concelebrated Mass at 3:00PM. The Liturgy should conclude at 5:00PM. Departure for the trip home will begin immediately. The entire cost is $60 per person and this will include water, snacks, tip for the bus driver and donation made to the Basilica. Payment can be made by check written to Our Lady of Mount Carmel or cash and you will be given a receipt at the Mount Carmel Rectory. For more information, please call the Mount Carmel Rectory at 718-278-1834 or send an email to Neida Martinez at media@mountcarmelastoria.org. 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! IMMAC SWIM CLUB The Immac Swim Club sessions begin on Wednesday, October 17th, and will continue each Wednesday until Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 at the Variety Boys and Girls Club at 21-12 30th Rd., Astoria. There are two main sessions: 3:30PM for children who can swim 75 feet and tread water in 8 feet for 3 minutes; and 4:15PM for non-deep water swimmers and beginners. For more information, please contact Kitty Prager at: pragerkathleen&gmail.com
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