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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ October 28, 2018
The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad indeed. — Psalm 126:3
BAPTISM: Parents wishing to have their child baptized must attend a Baptismal Prep Class. Please contact the Rectory at 201-768-1600. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: First Saturday of the Month, 3 - 4 pm. Also by appointment MARRIAGES: Arrangements should be made one year in advance. Please phone the Rectory at 201-768-1600 to begin preparation. MINISTRY TO THE SICK: Anointing upon request. Communion at home upon request. Visitation kindly notify the parish office when a family member is hospitalized or confined.
Rosary Recited Every Monday After 8:00 AM Mass
EUCHARISTIC HOLY HOUR Resumes Tuesday, Oct. 2, 7:00 P.M.
Masses Saturdays at 5:00pm Sunday – 8:00am, 10:00am, 12:00noon, 5:00pm Weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday at 8:00am Holy Days: Masses will be announced in the bulletin as they are scheduled Served by Fr. Leo J. Butler, Pastor Fr. Timothy Graff, Weekend Assistant Deacon Bernard Deschler Sr. Elizabeth Holler, S.C., Pastoral Associate Charles LaLima, Director of Music Ministry Louise Lucivero, Parish Secretary; Coordinator Grades 1-5 Faith Formation. Christina Benaquista, Coordinator Jr. High Faith Formation Michael Rooney, Confirmation Coordinator Sarah Lucero, Youth Ministry Leader Canice Cristofoletti, Business Manager
BISHOP BARRON’S, THE MASS
2 SESSION OPPORTUNITIES MONDAY AFTERNOONS: 1PM-2:30PM OR
MONDAY EVENINGS: 7PM-8:30PM DATES: 12/3, 12/10, 12/17 & 1/7, 1/14, 1/21
LOCATION: ICC CHURCH HALL Go to www.iccnorwood.org to view a trailer or obtain a
registration form. Registrations Due Nov. 12th. TOPICS
Episode 1: A Privileged Encounter: The Closest Thing to Heaven on Earth Episode 2: Called Out of the World: The Introductory Rites Episode 3: God Speaks Our Story: The Scripture Readings
Episode 4: Responding to Our God: Homily, Creed and Prayer of the Faithful Episode 5: Preparing for Sacrifice: Offertory and Eucharistic Prayer
Episode 6: The Real Presence Creates Communion: Transubstantiation and Transformation
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Parish Office Faith Formation Office Parish Web-site: iccnorwood.org Phone: 201-768-1600 Fax: 201-768-7776 201-768-1771 Parish Email: Office Hours Email: [email protected] [email protected] 9 A.M.-3 P.M. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Call for appointment Facility Rental: For Parish Hall, Center 9 A.M.-11 A.M. Tuesday, 9 A.M.-12noon Friday and Gym, contact Fr. Leo, (201) 768-1600
Mission Statement of our Parish Family We, the Roman Catholic Community of Immaculate Conception Church,
under the guidance and protection of Mary, our Blessed Mother, recognize ourselves as disciples of Jesus Christ. We strive to be a prayerful, Eucharistic Family open to the power of the Holy Spirit and conscious of our mission to use our time, talent and treasure in service to others.
Saturday October 27, 2018 5:00pm Toni Ann Nebbia & John Padavan–
Elaine & Paul Danno Sunday October 28, 2018 8:00am Lyda Figueredo– Louise Lucivero 10:00am Benedetto Ribaudo– Loving Family 12:00pm Dorothy Maher– Edna Cwirko 5:00pm Sammy Schammas (living– for healing) Monday October 29, 2018 8:00am Charles Keating– Johanna & Family Tuesday October 30, 2018 8:00am Anna Tiner– Marge & Barry Scott Wednesday October 31, 2018 8:00am Therese Haus– The Carroll Family Thursday All Saints Day: November 1, 2018 8:00am Elsie Rodriguez living)- The Family 5:00pm George D’Andrea– Fran D’Andrea Friday All Souls Day: November 2, 2018 8:00am For the Intention of All Souls 12:00pm For the Intention of All Souls 7:00pm For the Intentions of All Souls Saturday November 3, 2018 5:00pm Erik Ahad– Fr. Leo Sunday November 4, 2018 8:00am The Parish Family 10:00am Josephine C. Daniels– Joan & Eddie Mullane 12:00pm Dorothy Maher– Joan Butterworth 5:00pm Casper M. Suchar
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Priesthood Sunday; National World Youth Day (U.S.) Wednesday: Halloween Thursday: All Saints Friday: Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day); First Friday Saturday: St. Martin de Porres; Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday
TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — I will lead the people to brooks of water, on a level road, so that none shall stumble (Jeremiah 31:7-9). Psalm — The Lord has done great things for
us; we are filled with joy (Psalm 126). Second Reading — It was not Christ who glorified him-self, but rather the one who said to him: You are my son: this day I have begotten you (Hebrews 5:1-6). Gospel — Immediately the blind man received his sight and followed Jesus on the way (Mark 10:46-52). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
Oct. 28– All Saints Day / Grandparents Mass & Celebra- tion, church/church hall, 10am Oct. 28– JHYG Meeting, gym, 6pm. Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27– Gr. 1-5 Faith Formation Nov. 4, 18– Gr. 6, 7 & 8 Faith Formation Nov. 4– HSYG Meeting, gym, 6pm Nov. 13– Knights of Columbus Mtg., church hall, 8pm Nov. 18– Children’s Liturgy, 10am Nov. 18– 7th Grade Family Mass, 5pm Nov. 22– Thanksgiving Nov. 25– JHSYG Meeting, gym, 6pm Nov. 27– Knights of Columbus Mtg., church hall, 8pm Sundays– Contemporary Family Mass, 5pm Sundays– AA in Church Hall, 7:30pm Tuesdays– Eucharistic Holy Hour Resumes Oct. 2 Fridays– ICC Prayer Group, Church Hall, 7:30pm
PARISH CALENDAR ~ OCT.– NOV. 2018
“A Time To Be Healed” Parish Sick:
Lorraine Lupardi, Thomas Wendelken Jr., Stephanie DenBoer, Maria Ramirez, Ryan MacNaughton, Dick Musacchio, Louis Frola, Meghan Dolan, Otto & Amy Kraus, Joseph Mosca, Barbara Bryant, Rachel Knanishu Grossman, Jean-Marie Bongiovanni, Bruce Fernstrom, Kevin Mullane, Steven Connelly, Evelyn Dambra, Hernan Sierra, Emma Benvenuto, Sammy Schammas, Daniel Murphy, Ethan Rotante, Don Jerie, Dawn Congiusti, Gerry Voorhis, Baby Cole Kindly notify the Rectory if a name can be removed from the Prayer List. For Communion to the sick in hospitals and nursing homes please call the Rectory.
“A Time to Mourn” Joseph Kraus
May all the faithful departed rest in peace.
MASS INTENTIONS
To Everything there is a Season, and a Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Recently I was late getting a manuscript to an editor. My excuse? By far the most popular one in America: I had “no time.” Let's examine that excuse. Why do we all seem to have no time for anything, much less for prayer? I am constantly feeling guilty about this, and I suspect most of you are too. I think the single biggest obstacle to our relationship with God (after sin, of course) is “no time.” If I gave my children as much time as I give God, I could be prosecuted for child neglect and abuse. If I spent as little time with my wife as I spend with God, she'd have grounds for divorce for desertion. Yet we all know from experience that when we give God time, we are happy. When we cheat God, we cheat our-selves. We know this from thousands of repeated experi-ments. And yet we keep running away from God, from communion with God, from prayer, as if it were bitter medicine. We are so afraid of silence and solitude, which are necessary for private prayer, that we give it to our most desperate criminals as the most horrible torture our mind can conceive - ”solitary confinement!” Why don't we seem to have as much time as our ances-tors? In fact, we all have exactly the same amount: twenty-four hours each day. Technology should have given us scads of extra time. Our lives should be oozing with leisure. All those time-saving devices! Yet they've done exactly the opposite. The more timesaving devices we have, the less time we have. (The only way to get time is to turn the clock back, not forward!) What went wrong? Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time. Our great-grandmothers took many hours to scrub their clothes on a handheld washboard; we just push a button on a washing machine. Our forefathers had to grow, hunt, and slaughter their own food; we buy it at the su-permarket, open the microwave door, and push a button. Yet we are far more harried and hassled by time than they were. Why?
In most ancient societies, the rich had slaves to do their manual work so that they could enjoy leisure. Today, machines have replaced slaves; yet we have less leisure, not more. Why? This is not the place for a general diag-nosis of our society's sickness (though for a quick, pro- found hint, read Pascal's Pensées, especially on “diversion”). But it is the place for a diagnosis of our ex-cuse for not praying, and I think this diagnosis has many other applications too. “All that we are begins with our thoughts; it moves as our thoughts move, and it ends where our thoughts end.” So says Buddha, wisely. We must begin here with our thoughts about time. We don't have time for prayer because we think wrongly about time and prayer. We have time and prayer backwards. We think time de-termines prayer, but prayer determines time. We think our lack of time is the cause of our lack of prayer, but our lack of prayer is the cause of our lack of time. When a little boy offered Christ five loaves and two fishes, he multiplied them miraculously. He does the same with our time, but only if we offer it to him in prayer. This is literally miraculous, yet I know it happens from repeated experience. Every day that I say I am too busy to pray, I seem to have no time, accomplish little, and feel frazzled and enslaved by time. Every day that I say I'm too busy not to pray, every time I offer some time-loaves and life-fishes to Christ, he miraculously mul-tiplies them and I share his conquest of time. I have no idea how he does it, I know that he does it, time after time.
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CHILDREN’S
LITURGY OF THE WORD
at the 10 AM Mass.
2018 Dates: Nov. 18, Dec. 9 2019 Dates: Jan. 27, Feb. 24, March 10, April 7, May 19
All Saints Day Liturgies: Vigil: Wednesday, October, 31, 5:00pm; Thursday, November 1: 8am & 5pm. All Soul's Day Liturgies: November 2: 8am, 12noon & 7pm.
On Our Way to Bethlehem… as a Parish Family Please join Deacon Anthony Liguori and his son Christian as they present a three evening Parish Mission in prayerful reflections and heartfelt songs as we journey together through Advent… Deacon Anthony will be preaching at all the liturgies the weekend of December 8-9 to introduce the Parish Mission.
Tuesday December 11 Wednesday, December 12 Thursday, December 13
7:00pm-8:00pm Immaculate Conception Parish, 211 Summit Street,
Norwood, NJ
"PARTNERS IN MINISTRY" LEGACY APPRECIATION DINNER,
SAT., NOV. 10TH FOLLOWING THE 5PM MASS Immaculate Conception Church is blessed with so many people who give generously of their time, talent and treasure. We could not fulfill our mission without dedi-cated volunteers like you. A good number of our parish-ioners are regular members of the various ministries, committees and councils of our parish. But there are also many of you who occasionally come and step up to the plate when needed. You too are our partners in min-istry! As a Parish Family we would like to invite all regu-lar and occasional volunteers to join us as we celebrate our partners in ministry at the Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Saturday, November 10th following the 5:00 PM Mass in Church Hall. Personal and individual invitations, with RSVP cards will be sent in order to include everyone who in one way or another has offered to volunteer their time, talent and treasure in service to our church and whose identity is not known to us. We need to know the number of those coming for preparation purposes. Please drop RSVP cards in collection basket or in the parish office on or be-fore date Friday, November 2. We assure everyone that we will have a great evening together. Thank you very much!
NEWS FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE
Newark Archdiocese Respect Life Office Are you suffering from an abortion experience?
Do you have feelings of guilt and anxiety? Do you suffer from depression?
There is Hope! Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats: Rachelsvineyard.org
Have you endured physical, emotional and/or spiritual abuse?
Find healing through a retreat program facilitated by mental health professionals and centered on
Jesus Christ! Grief to Grace: grieftograce.org
For more information contact the Respect Life Office Cheryl A. Riley 973-497-4350 or [email protected]
The Theology and Philosophy Department at Caldwell University presents: “Faith with Benefits: Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Finding Relationships on Catholic Campuses” will be the theme of a talk at 4:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5. Jason King, professor of theology at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, will share how he investigates the effects of Catholic identity on the hookup culture. He is working on an edited collec-tion of essays titled “Love, Sex, and Families: Catholic Perspectives” (Liturgical Press) and a book project about the environment, children and Mr. Rogers. Human trafficking will be the topic of a lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 15. The Caldwell Dominican Sis-ters Commission on Global Issues will facilitate the pres-entation. They will discuss how trafficking of young chil-dren and adults into a sex trade is more prevalent than the average person might be aware. They will explain how lack of awareness is an obstacle to combatting a growing sex trade. The lectures will be held in the Alumni Theatre on cam-pus. For further information, call 973-618-3931.
ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVER SUPPORT
1st Monday each month, 6:30-8 PM, North Bergen Public Library, 8411 Bergenline Avenue. Free Admission & park-ing. Contact Nikki Mederos, 201-854-5702.
Benedictine Center of St Walburga Monas-tery, Elizabeth, NJ offers The Stations of Light: An Advent Reflection, a retreat pre-sented by Sister Marita Funke, OSB. Connect the Light who came into the world at Christ-mas with the ever-present Light of Easter as we reflect on the Resurrection appear-ances found in the Gospels. December 1, 9AM-3:30 PM., Open to all. $35 for the day, lunch included. November 30-December 21. Women are invited to spend the weekend $135. For information and registration contact Sr. Marita, 908-353-3028; [email protected]
Retreat on the Beatitudes, Nov. 6 – 8 (mid-week) Marianist Family Retreat Center, Cape May Point, NJ
We will pray, reflect and share on our understanding of how Jesus’ “guidelines” for growth in our spiritual life are a reality in our daily lives. Cost: $130 per person (includes program, lodging & meals). Sign up at www.capemaymarianists.org or call 609-884-3829 for more information.
ERROR-FREE A mistake
doesn’t become an error until I refuse to correct it.
—Anonymous
Bergen Catholic Open House: Thurs., Nov 1st, 7-9pm. Mass for All Saints Day will be offered in the BC Chapel prior to formal presentations. Go to www.bergencatholic.org/admissions to register. Ques-tions? Email Matt Rosa Director Of Admissions, [email protected].
It was such a success, we’re doing it again! A CANVAS TO PAINT, AND A DRINK TO SIP,
A WHOLE LOT OF FOOD AND FUN FOR ONE AND ALL!!!!!
All are invited to our next Paint and Sip evening on DECEMBER 15th!!!!! 6:30PM - 9:00PM
$25.00 DONATION PER PERSON (INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS, WINE AND CHEESE & HORS D'OEUVRES)
ICC CHURCH HALL 211 Summit Street, Norwood
RESERVATIONS & TICKETS AVAILABLE TODAY BY CALLING THE RECTORY 201-768-1600
OR EMAILING [email protected] RESERVATIONS / TICKETS DUE NOVEMBER 30TH.
TICKETS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
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