IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 21-47 29th Street ~ Astoria, New York 11105 The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 28th, 2018 The Solemnity of All Saints Thursday, November 1st, 2018 PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION www.immacastoria.org (Parish Website) ~ 718-728-1613 (Main Telephone Number) ~ info@immacastoria.org (Main Email) ~ 718-956-9229 (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 PARISH LECTURE SERIES Only One Left! October 30 th 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 FALL FILM FESTIVAL THE GODFATHER TRILOGY: AN AMERICAN FAMILY TRAGEDY Our next Fall Film Festival will begin in a few weeks! This year s festival will explore the Godfather trilogy of films. The films are being shown as follows: Friday, November 9th at 7:00 PM The Godfather, Part I Presented by Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese Friday, November 16th at 7:00 PM The Godfather, Part II Presented by Fr. Michael Bruno 7:00PM Lower Church 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!
A Good Scare When I was a kid, I used to love to be scared. Whether on a freewheeling roller coaster or at a horror movie, I would love to jump up and scream! A good scream was usually followed by the audience s laughter, both at our squeamishness and at the delight in realizing that we got scared over an illusion of danger. There was a movie out when I was in grammar school called The Tingler. The scare of this movie was augmented by an electric charge that was administered in the theater to each seat every time the monster Tingler attacked on the screen! Today, there would be lawsuits a plenty if we tried to electrify movie seats! But at that time, the concept of the movie experience was much different. However, the laughs that followed the collective scream from scary and unexpected moments instantly created a sense of community and a relief that it is all make-believe! Halloween exploits these fears and the fun that they entail. While there is nothing funny about demons and witches, by laughing at them we take away their power. Unfortunately, it also makes us easy targets for these malevolent and malicious beings. Demons and witches are not make believe: Witches can target someone and put a curse on their target. A coven of witches just called for a curse to be placed on Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This is not child s play; this is real. One of the things that Halloween and the horror films that have come from Hollywood do teach us is that there is a supernatural world of both goodness (Angels) and evil (Demons). What makes a horror movie like the classic Dracula so frightening is not the sight of blood (slasher movies prey on our fear of being dismembered), but the unearthly suggestion that the dead can still be alive. When Dracula says of the wolves howling in the distance: Listen to them: the children of the night! What music they make!, the chill that comes over us is the true feeling of horror and dread. There is something out there that is beyond nature and, in the case of the vampires, is malevolent. But the reverse of that is that there is also something good out there that is beyond nature, has enormous power and loves each of us deeply. What I am trying to suggest is that what horror movies and the fascination with Halloween communicates is the religious knowledge that there is more out there than we suspect. This is the antechamber of the religious. Horror stories have always had their deeper senses. In Frankenstein, there is the story of the dangers unleashed in trying to manipulate nature. In the Vampire myth, the nocturnal hidden side of our nature that threatens to suck the life out of us is highlighted. In Doctor Jeckle and Mr. Hyde, the destructive side of our personalities that lies side by side with the good side is explored and contrasted. While these hidden meanings are helpful, what I want to put a spotlight on is that these stories point to the supernatural both as promise and as terror. Like good science fiction, they challenge the imagination to expand and to be open to another vision of reality that might go significantly beyond our restrictive way of seeing and evaluating. This failure of the imagination is at the heart of the experience of the supposed loss of faith of many people. What people in this category are really experiencing is the inadequacy of past formations of God and the beyond. When you are in college, believing in the old man in the sky is very difficult. This is not because there is no God, but that the person s past formulation of Who this being is no longer answers the deeper questions that science and experience pose. It takes a dose of humility to realize our limitations and to consider the possibility that reality is more complex and wondrous and dangerous than we imagine. Being scared helps us as it jump-starts our consciousness into new and uncharted regions. exäa `ÉÇá zçéü YxÜÇtÇwÉ YxÜÜtÜxáx
SUNDAY October 28 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Frank & Maria Geosits 10:30AM Veronica Kilkenny & Jack Kilkenny 12:00PM Spanish: Dolly de Londono, Jorge Marroquin, The Suarez-Pestana Family, Santos Chavez Silva, Roberto Flores (7th. Anniv.) 1:30PM Joseph Caccamo (8th. Anniv.) Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Joseph & Albina Squeri MONDAY October 29 7:00AM Blessings Samir, Adam & Medina (Liv.) 9:00AM Andrew Gasparic 12:00PM Richard J. Pokorny TUESDAY October 30 7:00AM Lydia K. Reyna (Liv.) 9:00AM Nancy & Antonio DePace 12:00PM Kay, Harry & Susan Stanley SUNDAY November 4 7:00AM For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) 9:00AM Joseph Cseri 10:30AM Michael Manniello 12:00PM Spanish: Angel Orihuela & Deceased Family Members, Gaitano A. Fayony 1:30PM Bob & Pat O Rourke Lower Church: 9:00AM Italian: Carlo & Domenica D Angelo MEMORIALS THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Frank Manzione, requested by his family. THE ALTAR CANDLES are donated this week in loving memory of Didier Martin, requested by his family. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Anne & William Thompson, requested by the Gualtieri Family. WEDNESDAY October 31 7:00AM Victoria Ann Connelly & Donald Fitzgerald 9:00AM Angela & Costantino Sferrazza 12:00PM Mario Cerleni, Zora Hrelja & Anton Hrelja THURSDAY 7:00AM 9:00AM 12:00PM FRIDAY November 1, All Saints Day For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) Michael DePace Edward & Mary Casey November 2, All Souls Day Today s Masses are being offered for all the deceased parishioners, clergy and religious who have been called to their eternal reward, for all those enrolled in our All Souls Remembrance, the Purgatorial Society and especially those who have died during the past twelve months. Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially Josephine Angelo Frances R. Alongi Luz Rios Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. PLEASE KEEP THEM ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS SATURDAY November 3 7:00AM The Purgatorial Society 9:00AM Pietro Sbuttoni 5:00PM Jack Kilkenny
ALL SOULS ENVELOPES All Souls Day envelopes have been placed around the church for those who wish to enroll their deceased loved ones so they may be remembered at all Masses offered in our parish during the month of November as well as all the Masses offered on All Souls Day and at the All Souls Memorial Mass on Saturday, November 3rd at 12:00PM. ALL SOULS MEMORIAL MASS November is the month dedicated to all the souls of the faithful departed. As a parish, we recall the memory of those who have died during the past year by offering a special Mass on Saturday, November 3rd at 12:00PM. The names of those who have died during this year will be read aloud. We invite families and friends to attend this Mass honoring our beloved dead and asking God to reward them with eternal life. This is a time to renew our faith in the resurrection of Jesus. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, November 4th. Please remember to set you clock one hour back on Saturday evening! 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 October 29th, November 5th, 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: 718-278-6326 IMMAC ROSARY SOCIETY MASS & MEETING Please join us for the Rosary Society Mass and meeting on Sunday, November 4th. We will begin by reciting the Rosary in church at 10:00AM. You can find us in the main church facing the Ambo for the Mass. After Mass, we will go down to Lyons Hall in the Academy for our meeting and refreshments. All are welcome! ALL SAINTS DAY The Feast of All Saints will be celebrated this year on Thursday, November 1st. It is a Holy Day of Obligation. There will be a Vigil Mass in English on Wednesday, October 31st at 7:00PM. Masses on Thursday, November 1st will be at 7:00AM, 9:00AM, 12:00PM, and an evening Mass at 7:00PM in Spanish. All are welcome! 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. NATIONAL VOCATIONS AWARENESS WEEK National Vocations Awareness Week is November 4th to November 10th this year! As Catholics, we firmly believe that God has a plan for our lives. He calls some to marriage, some to the priesthood, and others to religious life. Some remain as generous single people. Fully living our own vocations and teaching young people how to discern God s call is a serious duty, but also a joyful one. During this week, please pray about how God is calling you to live your vocation more deeply. Encourage the young people in your life children, grandchildren, students, and friends to be open if God calls them to priesthood or consecrated life. 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!
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