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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
CLERGY
Rev. Msgr. Fernando Ferrarese, Pastor
Rev. Liju Augustine
Rev. William A. McLaughlin
Deacon Francisco Hernandez
Deacon Elkin Tamayo
In Residence
Rev. Msgr. Charles Patrick Boccio,
Pastor Emeritus
Rev. Msgr. Vincent Fullam
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
MARCH 22, 2015
I will place my law within them
and write it upon their hearts;
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
-Jeremiah 31:33
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Evening
5:00 PM—Vigil Mass
Sunday
7:00 AM (Mass without music)
9:00 AM (Family Mass)
9:00 AM (Mass in Italian—Lower
Church)
10:30 AM (Mass with Choir)
12:00 PM (Mass in Spanish)
12:00 PM (Mass with the Youth in
Lower Church)
1:30 PM (Mass with Contemporary
Music)
Weekday
7:00, 9:00 AM & 12:00 Noon
Holydays
Consult the bulletin
Miraculous Medal Novena
Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass
Monday Evening at 5:00 P.M. with
Benediction
SACRAMENTS
Confessions
English, Spanish & Italian—4:00—5:00
PM, Saturday
Baptisms
Baptisms are celebrated monthly.
Parents should call the rectory for an
appointment.
Sick Calls
Anytime. Call the rectory. Arrange
Communion calls by phoning the
rectory.
Marriages
Be sure to notify the rectory at least six
(6) months before the marriage date.
RECTORY OFFICE
Phone: 718 728-1613
Fax: 718 956-9229
Office Hours
Monday—Friday
9:00 AM—12:30 PM
1:30 PM—8:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
Sunday: Office is closed
www.immacastoria.org
Parish School
Principal
Religious Education
Office
Pastoral Outreach
Office
Youth Ministry
Office
Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger
718 728-1969
www.icsastoria.org
Mrs. Marylyn Crum
718 956-4494
MCrum@immacastoria.
org
Sr. Bridget McGettigan,
SUSC
718 721-1099
Michael Meloni
718 728-1613
mmeloni@immacastoria.
org
12:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
SUNDAY - March 22
7:00 a.m.
Living & Deceased Parishioners
9:00 a.m.
Benedetto Zito
10:30 a.m.
John & Joseph Battaglia (Birth. Remb.)
12:00 p.m. Spanish—Gabriel Londoño & Rodolfo
Londoño
1:30 p.m.
Jose Formoso (1st Anniv.)
Lower Church:
9:00 a.m.
Italian - Angiola & Rocco Tenaglia
12:00 p.m. Marcial Bendita
MONDAY- March 23
7:00 a.m.
Vincent Mileo
9:00 a.m.
Macedonio Maggi
12 Noon
Andrew Lanzilotta
TUESDAY – March 24
7:00 a.m.
Bertha Diane K. de Jesus (Anniv.)
9:00 a.m.
Miguel Paniagua
12 Noon
Deceased members of the Mirto &
Marconi Families
WEDNESDAY
7:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
12 Noon
- March 25
Lazaro Hernandez
Violanta Giannini
Anton Hrelja
THURSDAY7:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
12 Noon
March 26
Angel Calderone (Birth. Remb.)
Eugene M. Roberts
Marie & Joseph Dufficy
FRIDAY - March 27
7:00 a.m.
Maria Edith Medina (Living)
9:00 a.m.
Patrick McQuaid
12 Noon
In Thanksgiving to the Sacred Hearts
of Jesus & Mary and for living
government officials
3:00 p.m.
Wedding: John Santiago & Kimberly
Naranjo
SATURDAY - March 28
7:00 a.m.
Mary Radich (Living—Birthday)
9:00 a.m.
Lagos Haklits
12 Noon
Anna Braut
5:00 p.m.
Purgatorial Society
SUNDAY - March 29– Palm Sunday
7:00 a.m.
Living & Deceased Parishioners
9:00 a.m.
Michael DePace
10:30 a.m.
Domenica Evangelista
Spanish— Aura Lino
Joan Vacca
Lower Church:
9:00 a.m.
Italian - Salvatore Barrera
12:00 p.m. Gloria Macchi
THE BREAD AND WINE are donated this week in
loving memory of Nunziata & Antonio DiMonte
requested by their grandchildren.
SANCTUARY LAMP #1 is donated this week in loving
memory of Salvatore Rago (Birth. Remb.) requested
by his wife Lucy and Family.
SANCTUARY LAMP #2 is donated this week in loving
memory of Rose, Vito & Sgt. Patsy Rocco requested
by Florence McCauley and Family.
Please pray for the recently deceased…
Jose L. Benitez
Sr. Marilyn Spellman
Philomena Feeney
Rose Tumminello
Emma Cauchi
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may
perpetual light shine upon them
KEEP THEM IN YOUR PRAYER
HOLY UNION SISTERS CELEBRATE FEAST OF THE
ANNUNCIATION—MARCH 25TH
On Wednesday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m. there will
be a special Mass in honor of the Solemnity of the
Annunciation. During the Mass the Holy Union
Sisters will renew their vows and their Lay
Associates will renew their commitment. Annually,
on this feast, the sisters unite with all the sisters
throughout the congregation in renewing their
vows, thanking God who is faithful to us and asking
God’s continued blessings as we minister to His
people. This feast signifies the union of the hearts
of Jesus and Mary to whom all our sisters have
committed their lives. Since this is a special liturgy
during the week, we invite all parishioners to join
us at the Eucharist at 5 p.m. on March 25 for this
beautiful occasion.
WIN AN IPAD WHILE YOU HELP OTHERS!
In an effort to accelerate responses to our Annual
Catholic Appeal, the parish is offering to raffle off a
donated IPad to those who make a significant
pledge to the ACA.
Anyone who makes a pledge of $50 or more
is in the raffle:
SCHOOL NEWS
It’s official…we were notified on Friday, March
13th at 9 p.m. that our application to offer full day
(six hours and twenty minutes) Universal Pre-K
(UPK) at Immaculate Conception School has been
approved. We still have much to do to prepare for
September 2015, but first we have to register
students. So once again, we need your help to
promote the best little school in the
heart of Astoria.
a. $50 pledge = 1 Raffle Chance
b. $500 pledge = 2 Raffle Chances
c. $1000 pledge = 3 Raffle Chances
Families should apply from March 16th through
April 24th. There are three ways to complete the
UPK application:
2.
Pledges must be received by Friday, May 1
(Feast of St. Joseph the Worker).
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3.
Winning ticket (With winner’s name on it)
is drawn at that time but is not revealed.
Here is how it will work:
1.
4.
5.
Winner is announced at the Christmas Party
with Santa after our Lessons and Carols on
Sunday, December 20 at which all pledges
have been redeemed.
If the winner does not complete his or her
pledge, another winner who have completed
their pledge is chosen in December and
announced on the 20th.
This is a great way of helping others: Seminarians,
immigrants, the poor, children and parishes
(including our own - If we go over the goal!). It is
also a great way of getting a brand new IPad for
your use!
EASTER PLANTS & FLOWERS
If you are interested in donating towards our Easter
plants, either as a memorial to a deceased loved one
or as a gift to the church, please use the envelopes
we have placed around the church. Please
remember to put your account number on the
envelope. Donation is $20.00
Online at www.nyc.gov/prek
Phone by calling 718-935-2067
In person at a Family Welcome Center.
The online application is available in English and
nine other languages.
To learn more about UPK and the application
process, please attend an information session
on Thursday, March 19th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at
Flushing High School located at 35-01 Union Street
in Flushing.
Please note that families whose children already
attend Immaculate Conception School in Astoria
have priority. If you know a child who will be four
years of age by December 31, 2015, please
encourage the family to register that child as soon
as possible and to make Immac their first choice!
We look forward to offering UPK at the best little
school in the heart of Astoria!
DIOCESAN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION
Annual Diocesan Wedding Anniversary celebration
for couples married before 1990 - Saturday, April
25th at 11:00 a.m - Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph
located at 856 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY - Most
Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio-Celebrant-Light
refreshments will follow. Family members are
invited. To register please contact the rectory office
at 718-728-1613 by March 31. Fee: $35 per
couple.
EASTER BASKET BLESSING
Among the Slavic community the custom of
bringing an Easter Basket to Church on Easter
Sunday is an age old tradition. It stems from the
desire of the Christian community to ask God's
blessing on the foods that will break the Great Fast
(Lent) and from which they have abstained from
during this period. The religious significance
attached to the foods eaten is symbolic of Christ
Himself, our true Passover. Over the past several
years, we have incorporated this beautiful and
solemn ceremony into our Easter rituals. On Holy
Saturday, April 4th at 11AM we will be blessing
Easter Baskets in the School Auditorium. We ask
that you arrive at 10:45AM so that we can begin
promptly at 11AM. All parishioners are invited
regardless of your ethnic heritage.
We hope to see you all there!
PICTURE BOOKS FINALLY IN!!!
Many of you, I’m sure, have wondered when the
promised picture book of the parish are. Due to a
number of glitches, they were delayed. But, they
are finally in now.
If you sat for a picture, you have a picture book
waiting at the rectory. When you pick it up we
need you to tell us whether you received your free
picture as promised.
Thanks for your patience!
RETIREMENT SEMINAR HOSTED BY EDWARD
JONES INVESTMENTSApril 7th, 7:00pm
Please join us here at Immaculate Conception for
the presentation "Retirement: Making Your Money
Last". We will discuss strategies designed to help
you work toward fulfilling your retirement
expectations, focusing on providing not only for
your income needs today, but also well into the
future. RSVP by Mon, April 6th to Jennifer at 718361-1306 or [email protected].
DIVORCED / WIDOWED / SEPARATED
The loss of a spouse through death, divorce or
separation is one of life’s most traumatic
experiences; often resulting in feelings of loneliness
and grief. When those feelings remain, it can be
overwhelming and hard to move forward. The
Beginning Experience weekend is time to focus on
you … to feel understood by peers and experience
a sense of peace and a renewed hope for the future.
The next weekend is on Long Island on April 1012, 2015.
For information and reservations, call Mary at
(516) 413-6209, Jean (631) 903-0973 or John at
(516) 822-0635 by April 1.
MISIÓN PARROQUIAL DE CUARESMA
Una Vida de Virtud
Cuando: Lunes 23 a Miércoles 25 de Marzo del
2015
Hora y Lugar: 7:00 pm en la Iglesia Principal
La Virtud de la Fe
Lunes 23 de Marzo
P. Carlos Agudelo
Vicario Parroquial en San León, Corona
La Virtud de la Esperanza
Martes 24 de Marzo
P. Claudio Antecini
Pastor de la Parroquia de la Visitación, Brooklyn
La Virtud de la Caridad
Miércoles 25 de Marzo
(Solemnidad de la Anunciación del Señor)
P. James Rodríguez
Director de Vocación de la Diócesis de Brooklyn
Todos son bienvenidos
TACHS PREP COURSE
St. John’s Preparatory School is offering a TACHS
Prep Course, which will take place in September.
Register online at www.stjohnsprepschool.org.
Call the Admissions office for further information
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
As we approach Holy Week, the creative juices of
the ancient church of Jerusalem begin to shape our
journey. In old Jerusalem at this season of the year,
the attempt was made to recall the events leading
up to Christ’s passion. Those attempts were based
not only on time, with celebrations of events as
close to the day and hour as possible, but also on
people’s best guesses as to the actual place of these
events. Vast numbers of pilgrims flooded the city
during the forty days of Lent, many of them
catechumens in their last stages of preparation for
initiation. The fourth-century Spanish nun Egeria
wrote a delightfully detailed diary of her
experience of this lively and aerobic liturgy, which
involved hearty singing, strong preaching, and
nimble processions across vast and arduous
terrain.
Much of this energy was lost over the centuries,
with the procession of palms a noteworthy
exception. Northern climates had to reinterpret
this Jerusalem liturgy, using forsythia, willow, or
olive branches, but to this day the entry into Holy
Week by a community on the move accompanied
by joyful song hearkens back to a venerable
tradition. Egeria’s letters were rediscovered a little
more than a hundred years ago, but they reveal a
pattern of prayer: full, conscious, active
participation, to which we have a right and a duty.
—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
THE NEW COVENANT
When the prophet Jeremiah coined the term “new
covenant” he was actually doing something quite
radical. For the Jewish people, there was only one
covenant, the one made between the Lord God and
Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai. For Jeremiah
to suggest that God would somehow supersede the
covenant with a new one would have sounded
audacious to Jewish ears. But in this way he is a
predecessor of Jesus who, in the Gospel of John, is
continually portrayed as superseding the past,
establishing the reign of God in a new way. And in
today’s Gospel passage, Jesus the “new covenant”
speaks the language of his “new commandment” of
love when he tells of the dying grain of wheat, and
of our own need to die to self in order to be raised
with Christ. As Lent ends and we prepare to enter
into Holy Week, the dying grain of wheat serves as
an excellent symbol of the kind of dying and
self‐sacrifice to which disciples are called, a symbol
of that new covenant written deep within our
hearts.
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TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE
Basándose en las palabras de Jesús, Mariano de Blas,
compuso su canto: “Entre tus manos”. Este hermoso
canto nos recuerda que “hay que morir para vivir”,
es decir, que no es nada fácil ser discípulo de
Jesucristo. El mismo Jesús nos pide que nos
neguemos a nosotros mismos (Mateo 16:24); que
carguemos la cruz para seguirlo (Marcos 8:34); que
perdamos nuestra vida por su nombre (Lucas 9:24).
Todo esto porque Jesús reconoce que el grano de
trigo debe morir para dar vida, para multiplicarse
(Juan 12:24).
El canto: “Una espiga dorada por el sol”, de Cesáreo
Gabaráin, nos recuerda que los cristianos somos
trigo del mismo sembrador. Es Jesús quien nos
siembra, nos cultiva, nos cosecha, nos tritura, nos
amasa, y nos hace un solo pan consagrado a Dios.
Somos granos de trigo que, unidos formamos el pan
de la comunión que es comunidad. Para esto, cada
uno debe morir a sus egoísmos y preferencias.
Morir a sí mismo tiene sentido cristiano, sólo si es
para trabajar unidos y en la misión de Cristo, la cual
es salvación del mundo y construcción del Reino de
Dios.
—Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
LA NUEVA ALIANZA
Cuando el profeta Jeremías creó el término “nueva
alianza” hacía algo muy radical. Para el pueblo
judío, sólo había una alianza, la que el Señor Dios
había hecho con Israel por medio de Moisés en el
Monte Sinaí. Cuando Jeremías dice que de alguna
manera Dios va a reemplazar la antigua alianza con
una nueva, seguro que sus oyentes pensaban que
era algo muy atrevido. De ese modo Jeremías es un
predecesor de Jesús, quien, en el Evangelio de Juan
se presenta siempre como alguien que reemplaza el
pasado, estableciendo el Reino de Dios de una
manera nueva. Y en el pasaje del Evangelio de hoy,
Jesús, “la nueva alianza” habla con el lenguaje del
“nuevo mandamiento” de amor cuando menciona
el grano de trigo que muere y nuestra propia
muerte al egoísmo para poder resucitar con Cristo.
Al finalizar la Cuaresma y al prepararnos a entrar
en la Semana Santa, el grano de trigo que muere es
un símbolo excelente del tipo de muerte y
autosacrificio al que los discípulos están llamados,
un símbolo de esa nueva alianza escrita en lo más
profundo de nuestro corazón.
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