IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH BELLEVUE, OHIO 44811 LITURGIES THIS WEEK Saturday, November 15 4:30pm Marilyn Avery John & Alda Scagnetti Sunday, November 16 8:00am 10:30am Raymond & Marie Gates Cletus & Phyllis Fries For the Parish Monday, November 17 8:30am No Mass Tuesday, November 18 8:30am Communion Service Sunday 11/23 10:30am Gertrude Snyder Vivian Slingwine November 21 8:30am EJ & Lavern Swartz Christine Flory Saturday, November Sunday, November Sunday, November For the Parish Sunday, November 23 8:00am Theresa & Donald Breest Vincent Felker Betty & Marion Roth Richard & Bernadine Bertsch 10:30am 22 23 23 4:30pm 8:00am 10:30am Mary Ivory Rhonda Fox Brenda Hickey The next order will be November 17th. This will be the last order before Thanksgiving. The next orders will be December 1st and December 8th. December 8th will be the last order before Christmas. January 12th will be the first order of 2015. Saturday, November 22 4:30pm 1. J. Fox 2. J. Haynes 3. J. Dendinger 4. C. Dendinger 5. A. Smola 6. D. Vogel 7. G. Fries 1. R. Neill 2. Y. Landoll 3. R. Ruffing 4. J. Horn 5. A. Valko 6. M. Dendinger 7. L. Dendinger 1. R. Hartman 2. L. Hartman 3. B. Falter 4. D. Fisher 5. H. Musser 6. K. Hickey 7. G. Miller SCRIP VOLUNTEERS Thursday, November 20 8:30am Delbert Daniel Mary Laub 1:30pm Mass at the Willows Friday, Saturday 11/22 4:30pm Sunday 11/23 8:00am Wednesday, November 19 8:30am November 16, 2014 EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Offertory Weekly Budget Over (Under) Year-To-Date Over (Under) Memorial Candles Intentions: In Memory of Mark DeBlase Special Intention Special Intention Special Intention $ $ $ $ 12,089.00 10,980.00 1,109.00 (13,500.00) LECTORS Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, November November November 22 4:30pm 23 8:00am 23 10:30am Ruth Fries Jean Schafer Deb Hossler ALTAR SERVERS Sat. November 22 4:30pm Ethan Clark, MacKenzie Clark, Ryan Missler Sun. November 23 8:00am Aubrey Michaels, Taylor Woodruff, Nathan Fox Sun. November 23 10:30am Hayden Foos, Molly Foos, Gabrielle Turner SACRISTY LAUNDRY Volunteer for 11-16-14 is Rita Weitz. Laundry may be picked up after the 10:30 Mass on Sunday or during the week and returned by 4:30 Mass on Saturday. BELLEVUE FISH & LOAVES is asking ICC parishioners to donate (Cereal) for the month of November. The Fish & Loaves baskets are located by the candle room. Thank you for your generosity! Sunday, November 16 6:00pm Teen Pulse Youth Group Monday, November 17 6:30pm St. Christopher Study Club Tuesday, November 18 4:30pm St. Vincent de Paul Society Wednesday, November 19 10:30am St. Jude Study Club 6:30pm CCD 6:30pm RCIA 7:00pm Choir Practice Saturday, November 22 8:00pm AA Meeting (School) (Sacred Heart Room) (Sacred Heart Room) (Sacred Heart Room) (School) (Church Basement) (Church) (Church Basement) BELLEVUE FISH & LOAVES is asking for your help in providing a special holiday meal for their clients in the Bellevue school district at Thanksgiving. It will be distributed on Monday, November 24th. Their holiday meal will consist of: turkey, canned vegetables (corn, green beans or peas) canned fruit (peaches, pears or fruit cocktail) eggs, margarine, dinner rolls, stuffing mix, pies and cranberry sauce. They are asking for food items and/or cash donations to help offset the cost of the holiday meal. Food items can be brought to church and left in the Fish & Loaves baskets by the candle room. Checks made payable to Fish & Loaves can be sent to P.O. Box 121, Bellevue. THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Through the sacrament of Baptism, we welcome: Della Mary and Graycie Jo, daughters of Isaac and Kari (Day) Bernard, Casen Edward, son of Cole and Sarah (Koehler) Daniel, and Serenity Mae, daughter of Donald Resor and Ashton Doebel. 2015 Immaculate Conception Parish Monthly Raffle: Tickets are now being sold at the parish office for the parish monthly raffle. There are 12 Chances to win $500. The ticket cost is $60. A $500 winner will be drawn each month for 12 months. The ticket seller wins $100. Only 500 tickets will be sold. Winning tickets will be placed back in the drum for the remaining months of the drawings. The first of the 12 month drawings will begin in January 2015 and end in December 2015. Drawings will be the 4th Tuesday of each month. The winners will be announced in the Sunday bulletin. You must be 18 years old to participate. Memorial Crosses of those members of our parish that died from November 2013 to October 31, 2014 are available to the family members. They can be picked up in the parish office from 8am to 4pm during the week or after Masses on the weekend in the back of the church. Christmas Gift Tree Applications for this December’s Christmas gift program are now available in the parish office. Gifts are for needy children, (newborn to high school senior), who live in the Bellevue school district only. Families who are interested in being served through this program must complete an application and return it to the parish office by December 1st. Birth certificates or proof of guardianship is required with the application. Christmas Tree Gift Tags will be available on the Christmas tree at the rear entrance of the church starting November 22nd. Final gift turn in will be December 15th. Contribution envelopes are available at the church entrances. Monetary contributions are needed to help defray the cost of purchasing gift cards from local stores for those in need, and also for gifts for our shut-ins and nursing home patients. Monroeville Knights of Columbus will be hosting their BREAKFAST BUFFET this Sunday, November 16th at the Monroeville Knights of Columbus Hall, Peru Center Road. They will be serving from 8am to noon. Adults: $7.00, Children: $3.00, children under 6 are free. The public is welcome. Memoriam: November: Elizabeth “Bettie” Houle John Green Sympathy and Prayers are extended to the Houle and Green families. Please pray for them and for all our departed loved ones. MESSAGE FROM FATHER JONATHAN Dear Parishioners, I have hired new directors for our CYO program. They are Jim and Joy Tokarsky. Joy is a teacher in our school. She teaches middle school and is the fifth grade home room teacher. Her husband, Jim, is the principal of St. Paul High School and Junior High in Norwalk. I thank the CYO boosters and board for all their work and am happy they are willing to continue helping Jim and Joy in their new position. I thank Jim and Joy for their willingness to take on the leadership of our CYO and know they will do well in continuing the great tradition of our athletic program. Fr. Jonathan Salvation Army Kettle Drive is taking place during the months of November and December. If any individual or group is interested in being a bell ringer for Immaculate Conception Church on Friday, November 21st at Bassett’s, please sign up on the sheet on the bulletin board by November 15th. If you can’t take a two hour shift, one hour would be appreciated. Any questions can be directed to the coordinator for Immaculate Conception, Pat Westhoven at 1-850-320-0084. Join the Adult Christmas Choir! All parishioners, grade 9 and above, are invited to join the Adult Christmas Choir. This group will sing before and during the 10:00 Christmas Eve Mass. Rehearsals are as follows: December 4 7-9pm December 11 7-9pm December 18 7-9pm December 21 7-9pm Any questions, please contact Ryan Neal in the parish office or [email protected]. Confirmation Prayer Partners: Thank you to everyone who has chosen to be a Prayer Partner for our 8th grade Confirmation class. We hope that this will be a very moving and rewarding experience for both you and the candidate. If you have not given your contact information and who you have chosen to pray for to Brenda Hickey, please do so at this time. Call or text your name, phone number and the name of the student to 419-217-3749 or email [email protected]. Thank you again for being part of this wonderful ministry. th Feather Party (BINGO) will be held today, November 16 from 2 to 5pm at St. Gaspar del Bufalo Parish Hall on Co. Rd. 46. Lunch will be provided. Sponsor of the week: