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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH 2 1 - 4 7 2 9 t h S t r e e t ~ A s t o r i a , N e w Yo r k 1 1 1 0 5

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

May 17th, 2020

www.immacastoria.org ~ 718-728-1613 ~ info@immacastoria.org ~ 718-956-9229 (Parish Website) (Main Telephone Number) (Main Email) (Fax Number)

The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Thursday, May 21st, 2020

WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE

ALL PUBLIC MASSES ARE CANCELED

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

OTHER SACRAMENTS

Baptisms Baptisms for infants and children are celebrated monthly. Please contact the Rectory Office for an appointment.

Sick Calls Please contact the Rectory Office at any time. Only use the Emergency Number for cases of Extreme Unction (Last Rites).

Holy Matrimony (Marriages) Please make an appointment to meet with a Priest at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date. Please check with the Church before contacting the Catering Hall.

CCD & RCIA If you or someone you know is interested in completing, or receiving all, the Sacraments of Initiation, please contact Mrs. Marylyn Crum of the Religious Education Office for more information.

RECTORY OFFICE HOURS

RECTORY IS CLOSED UNTIL

FURTHER NOTICE

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

Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy in Astoria Ms. Eileen Harnischfeger, Principal 718-728-1969 - www.iccaastoria.org Religious Education (CCD) Office Mrs. Marylyn Crum, Director 718-956-4494 - mcrum@immacastoria.org

CONFESSIONS

CONFESSIONS BY APPOINTMENT

ONLY

PARISH DEVOTIONS

ALL PARISH EVENTS &

DEVOTIONS ARE CANCELED

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH DIRECTORY

Humanity, Humbled We can’t even see it! This invisible enemy. Yet how efficient and terrible it is! We had come to the point as a global community that we thought that we were freed from the past and that we had a glorious future ahead of us. We have traveled to Outer Space. We can visit any place on earth. We have an arsenal of weapons to protect ourselves. And yet…. This virus has humbled our world. We thought we could have it all and that nothing could stop our progress. And yet… Even people say, “God was a nice concept and maybe He is hanging out somewhere, but we really don’t need a god.” The pride of Adam is still in evidence! This idea that we don’t need God is at the root of our secular culture. Just as we have banished God from the Public Square, we have also given Him a termination notice from running the world. We thought that we were smart enough to do it. We thought we could be our own gods! For people of faith, on the other hand, we never doubted our need for God. We have always known how vulnerable we are and how, without God, we are lost. It is a sad story. On the Left, Communists said there was no need for God and that He was dead. So, they produced the agony of the Gulag and the millions lost in China’s Cultural Revolution. On the Right, the National Socialists produced genocide and the Final Solution. Even here in America, our pride has sanctioned slavery, the mistreatment of native populations and the genocide of preborn Americans. It stands to reason that God would need to get our attention and allow this virus to humble our pride; to wake us up. It is a time for prayer and sacrifice. It is a time for ultimates. By this I mean that, with sickness and death all around us, who of us has not thought about their own deaths and the sicknesses that lead there? Who of us has not asked themselves: “Does anything matter? Do I matter?” And when it comes to others close to us, we consider the possibility that they can suddenly be taken away from us, and then what? The lack of Sacraments, the dearth of opportunities to mourn our loved ones and to visit and comfort the sick create an ambience of uncertainty and isolation. A time for ultimate concerns and ultimate losses and final issues. Yet this is Easter time in which we remember that death has been defeated by Christ; that being a Christian is a vocation to hope; that, in the face of these ultimates, we say: “I believe in God. I believe in the victory of Christ. I am not alone. I live in the Holy Spirit.” These are not vague wishes. We speak them with conviction and meaning, in spite of doubts. Because, in this Pandemic, we understand perhaps more deeply what the Resurrection means in our life. After the Crucifixion and the burial of Jesus, Mary and the Apostles must have felt that all was lost. Their Lord, their friend, her Son; brutally tortured, shamed and murdered in front of them before a cheering crowd. His disciples hiding out, fearful of being arrested as part of His movement. They must have felt all was lost and there was no hope. That Sabbath must have been very quiet, subdued and tearful, just like what we are experiencing now. What a turnaround that Sunday morning! The story continues! Jesus is alive, transcendent! Hope grows. We have seen the Lord! Suddenly, the gloom had lifted and the new reality had begun. Praise the Lord! We are in that long Holy Saturday. Death and disappointment are all around us. Everything is changed. But it is not the end of the story. He is Risen! We will emerge as a global community, hopefully a little wiser, and a little humbler. We might be able to see the price of pride and the beauty of Christ who will never abandon us, not even in the E.R.s of this plague. Death may seek us out, but it has no lasting power over us, because He is Risen. And that is the last word.

Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperat!

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Although no public Masses are being celebrated, we thank those who continue to support our Parish during this

crisis.

MEMORIALS THE GIFTS OF BREAD & WINE are donated this week in loving memory of Giovanna & Joseph Camenzuli, requested by their daughter Virginia Camenzuli. THE ALTAR CANDLES were not memorialized this week. THE FIRST SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in celebration of Anna Diaz on her graduation, requested by her sister Silvia Diaz. THE SECOND SANCTUARY LAMP is donated this week in loving memory of Anne & William Thompson, requested by the Gualtieri Family.

SUNDAY May 23 (Vigil) & May 24

Tony Grech For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo)

Michela Polino, Gerarda Pezzuti & Maria Trotta Italian: Rosa & Michele LoFrano

Evaristo Perez Spanish: Daniel Salvador Matute; Dandara Dos

Santos, Francisca Ferreira (Liv.); Manuel Modesto; Ospina Castro; Emilio Rodriguez, Jr., Luis Fernando

Mesa Genoveva Bobato & Family

Please pray for all the faithful departed, especially...

Those Who Have Died From COVID-19

Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them.

PLEASE KEEP THEM ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS

SUNDAY May 16 (Vigil) & May 17

Joan & Jason DiMarco For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo)

Ruth Niemand & Family Italian: Per le Intenzioni del Celebrante

Madeline Tesseyman Spanish: Noris Lopez Rojas, Candida Rosa Sanchez,

Shay Bradley & Linda Bishop Celmira Cabrera & Hernan Calderon

MONDAY May 18

The Mother’s Day Novena Michele & Angela Sarro

Mary Marconi TUESDAY May 19

The Mother’s Day Novena The Deceased Members of the Radich Family

Patrick & Stephen Egan & Families WEDNESDAY May 20

Fausto Franco & Justino Diaz Margaret Mary Lynch

Antony Iurato (6th. Anniv.) THURSDAY May 21

For the People of the Parish (Pro Populo) Giulio Salvatore Di Virgilio

Robert McLuckey FRIDAY May 22

Laurence, Patrick & Margaret Cassidy Charles, Olga & Stanley Berkoski

The Deceased Members of the Gasparic, Skorpanic & Vrankovic Families

SATURDAY May 23

The Souls of the Purgatorial Society The Dredger & Matusek Families

LIVE-STREAMED MASSES WILL BE CELEBRATED BY MSGR. FERRARESE, FR. LIJU AUGUSTINE & FR. WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN FOR THE FOLLOWING INTENTIONS:

REMINDER

NO PUBLIC MASSES, EVENTS, OR DEVOTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. In addition to the live and pre-recorded Masses available through the Diocese and Archdiocese, we as a Parish have made Sunday and weekday Masses available, both live and recorded! Please visit our website or Facebook page for more information and links to the videos once they are posted. Please visit our website and Facebook page for up-to-date information regarding the COVID-19 crisis; and spiritual tools, such as prayers and meditations, that you can do at home. The entire Immac Parish Family is praying for the ending of this crisis. Join with us! Please use the Spiritual Communion prayer found to the right (Spanish on other side) in the absence of attending Mass and receiving the Blessed Sacrament. According to St. Catherine of Siena, she saw in a vision how precious a Spiritual Communion is. The Saint was afraid that a Spiritual Communion was nothing compared to a Sacramental Communion. In the vision, Our Lord held up two ciboriums, and said, "In this golden ciborium I put your Sacramental Communions. In this silver ciborium I put your Spiritual Communions. Both ciboriums are quite pleasing to Me."

AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION My Lord Jesus Christ, I firmly believe that You are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament as true God and true Man: Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. I love You above all things and I desire You with all my heart. Since I cannot now receive You Sacramentally, I ask You to come spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already in my heart and unite myself to You completely. Never let me fall away from Your Holy Presence. Amen. Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Amen.

O Mother of the Most Holy Eucharist,

pray for us!

UN ACTO DE COMUNIÓN ESPIRITUAL

Mi Señor Jesucristo, creo firmemente que estás presente en el Santísimo Sacramento como verdadero Dios y verdadero hombre: cuerpo y sangre, alma y divinidad. Te amo por encima de todas las cosas y te deseo con todo mi corazón. Como ahora no puedo recibirte sacramentalmente, te pido que vengas espiritualmente a mi corazón. Te abrazo como si ya estuvieras en mi corazón y me uno a ti por completo. Nunca me dejes alejarme de Tu Santa Presencia. Amén. Virgen Inmaculada, amante perfecta de Nuestro Señor en el Santísimo Sacramento, te pedimos que nos obtengas las gracias que necesitamos para convertirnos en verdaderos adoradores de nuestro Dios Eucarístico. Concédenos, te suplicamos, conocerlo mejor, amarlo más y centrar nuestras vidas alrededor de la Eucaristía, es decir, hacer de nuestra vida una oración constante de adoración, acción de gracias, reparación y petición a Nuestro Señor en el Santísimo Sacramento Amén.

Oh Madre de la Santísima Eucaristía, ¡Ruega por nosotras!

PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you.

Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us

and protect us from all evil!

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