May 8, 2016 Seventh Sunday of Easter
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May 8, 2016 Seventh Sunday of Easter
© J.S. PALUCH COMPANY, INC. L’Innocence, Bouguereau, www.restoredtraditions.com, All Rights Reserved Page 2 May 8, 2016 Dear Parishioners, Mother’s Day Prayer Loving God, you wrap your arms around your people and show your everlasting love in the same way a mother loves her children. We are grateful for the love you have taught us through the mothers in our lives: our own mother who brought us into this world, the mothers of friends who have welcomed us into their homes and families, our grandmothers who took time for us, and the mothers who have helped us even though we were not their children. Bless all the mothers of this world today. May they know the fullness of love they have shared and be blessed every day of their lives. Amen. Today, as we remember all our mothers, living and deceased, let us always be thankful for the gift of our Mothers. Happy and Blessed Mother’s Day to all! Sincerely in the Lord, Fr. Joe Please consider a pledge to the We Are Living Stones campaign! Many thanks to all who have responded to the We Are Living Stones Campaign. If you haven’t, we ask that you consider making a pledge or one time donation to this campaign which will provide for a Parish Renewal Fund; Tuition Assistance Endowment; Retired Priest Care and Medical Needs Endowment and Seminarian Support Endowment. Once our goal is reached, 50% of all monies are returned to the parish for our own parish improvements. The goal is for EVERYONE to participate. All donations large or small are welcome. The amount of your gift isn’t as important as the fact that you give something, because Every gift makes a difference—to your Parish and to the Church as a whole. This is a 4-year campaign and your pledge can be divided monthly, yearly or a one-time donation depending on what is best for you. Donations/pledges may be charged to your credit card. Campaign envelopes can be found in Church or at the Parish Center. To view the campaign video go to: http://rcan.org/wearelivingstones/ video or see the posting about the campaign on our Parish website www.mtcimmaculate.org. Thank you for your consideration! Beefsteak Dinner fundraiser for July 4th events Friday, May 13th at 7:00 PM the Montclair Par ade Committee is hosting a Beefsteak Fundraiser in Madonna Hall. Catering by The Brownstone of Paterson, which will include cold antipasto/pasta/beefsteak/french fries/dessert/beer/wine/ soda, and live music. Tickets are available at Montclair Board of Recreation, 205 Claremont Ave., Montclair. $65 in advance, $75 at the door. Please make checks payable to Montclair Celebrates. For information please call Pat Brechka at 973-509-4911. For the latest news about happenings at Immaculate Conception: follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ImmaculateConceptionMontclair Seventh Sunday of Easter To All Our Mothers The beautiful display of flowers before the altar of our Blessed Mother is in honor of ALL of the mothers here at Immaculate Conception Parish, who do so much in the raising and caring of their families. God Bless all who are mothers or act in the role of mothers, be they aunts, sisters, godmothers or good friends. As we celebrate the mothers in our lives, let us also remember the special place the Blessed Mother has in our faith. By emulating her, she can help us find and say ‘yes’ to God’s calling in our own lives to be the best that we can be. We pray Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, The Memorare that never was it known, that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, our Mother! To you we come, before you we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer us. Amen Plan to attend the Parish celebration honoring Msgr. Paul on Sat., June 18 Please join us on Saturday, June 18th for a Mass and Reception in honor of Msgr. Paul's retirement after 45 years of active ministry and priestly service. Msgr. Paul will celebrate Mass at 5:30 p.m. Refreshments to follow in Madonna Hall. Please RSVP to the Parish Office by June 3rd: 973-744-5650 or samantha@mtcimmaculate.org. See insert in today’s bulletin. MAY, the Month of Mary - Pray the Rosary The rosary is a Christ-centered prayer in which we pray to the Son in the company of His Mother. With Mary, we contemplate the face of Christ an the mysteries of the life He shared with her. A clear focus on the life of Christ emerges as the mysteries of the rosary make the circle from joyful to luminous to sorrowful to glorious. Please join us in saying the rosary daily after the 12:10pm mass. Say the rosary every day” —Our Lady of Fatima 1917 Stewardship Reflection: Seventh Sunday of Easter May 8, 2016 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last the beginning and the end.” —Revelations 22:13 This is a reminder of how we should live out lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—putting God first in all that we do. Not only when I am at Mass and parish activities, but when I am in the world, at work or at school. Living gratefully and generously is a lifestyle, it’s how I make all my decisions. Page 3 May 8, 2016 I.C. CATECHETICAL MINISTRY JANET NATALE, PARISH CATECHETICAL LEADER JanetNatale@mtcimmaculate.org | 973-744-5650 ext. 118 First Holy Communion Please keep the children who will receive First Holy Communion in your prayers: Alex Bakos, Evan Bakos, Katelynn Baratta, Thomas Barton, Vaughn Brennan-Ospina, Charles Burns, Juno Capra, Maria Carey Plazas, Caitlin Cleary, Alex Coakley, Graham Coakley, Giada Contorno, Johnnie Cooper, Eloise Daddabbo, Maya Dejean, Cecilia Ferreira, Grace Fitzgerald, Brynn Foley, Daniel Gallagher, Amelia Geraci, Paige Gerdes, Andrew Guardiola, Manuel Guardiola, Katherine Habjan, Ryan Ho, Samantha Keating, Ethan Kibble, Rowan Lambie, Nathaniel Lardner, Scarlett Lonergan, Keira Malone, Jack McDermott, Lucas Mendes Martinez, John Paul Mendiola, Anabel Mira-McKenzie, Jake Naberezny, Ashley Neyra, Sean O’Connor, Terence O’Farrell, Anna O’Keefe, Milo Pizzini, Logan Porawksi, Gabriel Springer, Ian Springer, Bridget Stanton, Brooks Stoddard, Tyler Strenz, Addison Townson, Olivia Wohlgemuth Jesus, who has loved us with such exceeding great love as to give us the ineffable gift of the Holy Eucharist, inflame us with a burning zeal to promote your glory by preparing worthily the little children who are to approach your holy table for the first time. Protect, O Sacred Heart of Jesus, these young souls, strengthen their faith, increase their love and endow them with all the virtues that will make them worthy to receive you. Amen. The 2nd collection this weekend is our monthly Repairs & Maintenance Collection, and next weekend is for Communicating God’s Word. Thank you for your generosity. Seventh Sunday of Easter Our Pipe Organ’s Centenary The magnificent pipe organ in our church was installed and dedicated in 1916. Plans are underway to celebrate it’s centenary in the 2016-2017 season. As you were able to read in last week’s bulletin some information about the instrument, this week, we will offer some more detailed information. Pipe Organs are the most complex of all musical instruments with thousands of pipes and moving parts. Extensive work was undertaken in the 1995 renovation of our church to restore some of those components. Additionally, when the church choir seating was moved from the organ loft to the front of the church, a new console was constructed to make the pipe sounds from the organ loft be playable from the front of the church. At this time, new pipes were added to the front of the church to attempt to tie the two ends of our very large church together, from a musical standpoint, when playing hymns or accompanying the choir. However, to save cost at the time, the pipes you see behind the choir in the front of the church are actually just pretend and the sound you hear from the front of the church is actually electronic, not authentic pipe as is the case in the 1916 organ from the loft. Finally, not all of the restoration and improvements which were envisioned for the main organ in the loft in 1995 were realized. Some further improvements have taken place in the last 21 years as needed, but now is our opportunity to fully restore the instrument and embark on some of the improvements which were envisioned in 1995. This will of course rely on the generosity of our parishioners to make this a reality. In short, we are planning to complete the following work to the organ in celebration of it’s centenary: 1. Completing any mechanical restoration yet undone to the organ in the loft, which is 100 years old. 2. Replacing the digital sounds behind the pretend pipes in the front of church with authentic pipe sounds. Our parish has an amazing opportunity to make use of a pipe organ from a closed Catholic Church in our Archdiocese to make the sound heard from the front of the church worthy of the historic sound heard from the back of the church at a fraction of the cost if we were to purchase the pipes new. We plan to fund these renovation in three ways, none of which will involve using general parish dollars: 1. A special 2nd collection on May 21-22, where any proceeds from this collection will be used towards the organ restoration. 2. A Gala to be held on Saturday, September 24, 2016 at the Van Vleck House. 3. The remaining balance will come from the Music Endowment savings account, which has come from donations from parishioners and friends to further the music program in our parish. We ask that all parishioners reflect on the role of music and the organ in our liturgies and in the life of our parish, both now and in our church’s great history and to prayerfully consider donating towards this cause. Finally, on Sunday, May 22, the date of the special collection, Preston will offer a Q/A session in church, following the 8:30Mass and before the 11:00Mass to demonstrate some of the issues being talked about and answer any questions about the project. Any parishioner with questions or wishing to assist in the centenary year is welcome to contact Preston: music@mtcimmaculate.org Page 4 May 8, 2016 Seventh Sunday of Easter LITURGICAL MINISTERS — May 14-15, 2016 Lectors 5:30pm (Sat.) Lila Nelson 8:30am Thomas Walsh 11:00 Joseph Billi 12:30pm Ginny Iuorno Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion 5:30pm (Sat.) Robin Holcombe, Frank Borek, Ann Kraus, Ana Avila 8:30am Kevin Schlatmann, Sue & John Trapp, Floater 11:00 Ed Haas, Paul Bambrick, Marilyn Graham, Floater 12:30pm Dennis Reis, Nora Reis, Robert Dyer, Floater Altar Servers 5:30pm (Sat.) Mary, Sean & Jude Demo 8:30am Sean Trapp, Tara McCusker, 11:00 Magdalena Holland, Julia Malnak, Noah Piere 12:30pm Volunteers Needed Children’s Liturgy of the Word 8:30am Sue Trapp 11:00 Laura Kenny, Rita Deas Readings for the week Monday: Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; Jn 16:29-33 Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27; Ps 68:10-11, 20-21; Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38; Ps 68:29-30, 33-36ab; Jn 17:11b-19 Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11; Jn 17:20-26 Friday: Acts 25:13b-21; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab; Jn 21:15-19 Saturday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113:1-8; Jn 15:9-17 Sunday: Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-30; Rom 8:22-27; Jn 7:37-39 Day: Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17; Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 Saturday 5:30 Sunday May 7 Bill Gowen May 8 (Seventh Sunday of Easter) 8:30 For all the 11:00 Mothers of the Parish 12:30 both Living and Deceased Monday May 9 7:30 Joseph, Mildred & Mary Lea Savage 12:10 Henry Peter Belcsak Tuesday May 10 (St. Damien de Veuster, Priest) 7:30 In Thanks 12:10 Sarah Moum (living) Wednesday May 11 7:30 Louis Torres 12:10 Piero Nacci Thursday May 12 (Sts. Nereus &Achilleus and St. Pancras, Martyrs) 7:30 Lucia Swanson 12:10 Lawrence “Yogi” Berra Friday May 13 (Our Lady of Fatima) 7:30 For Vocations to the Priesthood 12:10 For the People of the Parish Saturday May 14 (St. Matthias, Apostle) 12:10 For the Fusi and Corsi families 5:30 Lawrence “Yogi” Berra Sunday May 15 (Pentecost Sunday) 8:30 For the People of the Parish 11:00 Efrain & Eneida Velazquez 12:30 Hugh Moriarty Sr. – 45th Anniversary Lacordaire Academy Book Sale May 19-22 Sixth Sunday of Easter In-pew donations E-debit contributions (weekly) $ 7,675 $ 6,385 $ 1,290 Guidelines for Stewardship suggest contributing 5% of weekly income to parish support, and 5% to other charities (e.g., We Are Living Stones). Thank you for your continued support of your parish. If you are not already doing so, please use your envelopes each week — only contributions in your numbered envelope (or an envelope indicating your name/address & #) or E-Giving are recorded for documentation required by the IRS. Please contact Marcie Alexander at the Parish Office if you are not receiving contribution envelopes. Help support your Parish Consider Signing Up for Electronic Giving! Direct Access via our Parish Website. Do It Yourself! It’s Safe, Easy and Accessible! Lacordaire Academy Book Sale runs Thurs.–Sun., May 19–22. features over 30,000 used hardcover, paperback and audio books, all sorted by subject and all 100% new contributions. Admission is free. Located at 155 Lorraine Ave., Up. Montclair. For more info. visit upcoming events at lacordaire.net, LacoBookSale@msn.com or 973-744-1156 x27. JUBIEE YEAR OF MERCY For more information on The Holy Year of Mercy visit the Jubilee website: www.im.va or the Newark Archdiocese website: http://rcan.org/ yearofmercy. Questions about the Catholic Faith? The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): Is the formation process which guides people inquiring about our faith as well as Catholics seeking full initiation. To learn more about this this wonderful process please contact Mrs. Deana Campion (973) 509-9036. Page 5 May 8, 2016 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” ––Ecclesiastes 3:11 “…… A time to be healed……” Sick List: Michael Quinn, Sr. Cora Marie McGuire, Anita Szarzinski, Donna Valenti, Rosemary Thomasberger, Amy Brown, Pamela Doffont, Jill Cerullo, Shelia Settle, Sr. Carol Jaresewski, Thomas D. Sheen, Damion Regan, Barbara Regan, Stephen Bacino, Edward Britt, William Crum, Joan Emerson, Maisy Chapman, Mariella Ramirez, The Puleo family, Dino Pisaneschi, Jeanette McConachie, Patricia Jimmerson, Sherri Alexander, Dorothy Leitgeb, Laura Lass, Denise Jenkins, Debbie Despirito, Gianna Ramirez, Susan Haas, Jack Daudt, Maria Dyer, Ryan Reism, Mary Seiler, Mark Emerson, Lisa Mataro, Paul Barrere, Jane Maloney, Alice Fleming Deisler, Rosemary Fedor, Sue Nolan, Don Huback, Sheila McGuire, Msgr. James Finnerty, Margie Herman, Lisa Hood, Mareliese Mihok, Rosario Alberto. “…… A time to die……” Deceased: May all the faithful departed rest in peace. Altar Bread and Wine in memory of Marilyn & William Duthie. Altar Candles burn for Anita Sgroi. Memorial Candle burns in memory of Gennaro Di Minico The Sanctuary Lamp and Flowers to the Blessed Mother are also available as memorials. We pray for national and world leaders and for those in the armed services, especially, Joshua Dibble, USN; SrA Edward Walker, USAF. Intercession for Life: For expectant mothers whose hearts are troubled: May they receive helpful, loving support for themselves and their baby; We pray to the Lord. Vocation Intercession: That Mary’s example of care for others and faith in god may inspire many women and men to serve the Church and help heal the world; We pray to the Lord. The Holy Father’s Intentions — MAY 2016 Respect for Women: That in every country of the world, women may be honored and respected and that their essential contribution to society may be highly esteemed. Holy Rosary: That families, communities and groups may pray the Holy Rosary for evangelization and peace. Catholic Charities Donation Bin in parking lot Have You Started your Spring Cleaning? A Donation Bin for Catholic Charities has now been installed in the Park St. Parking Lot between H.S. Building & Portable Classroom. Accepted items: Used Clothing, shoes, linens, stuffed animals, Small appliances & books (no reference books). Items must be bagged or boxed before leaving in bin! All of the items donated will be sold and proceeds support the programs of Catholic Charities, of the Archdiocese of Newark. Seventh Sunday of Easter I.C. We welcome all who are visiting the parish family of Immaculate Conception in Montclair, and invite any who would like to join our parish to fill out a registration form, found on the tables in the back of church. Please complete both sides and give to one of the priests or return to the Parish Center. The registration form may also be found on the Parish Web site at www.mtcimmaculate.org. To all our parishioners, please advise us of any changes to your address, phone # and email so that we can keep our files current. Immaculate this Week at a Glance Sunday, May 8 ― 1st Communions at the 12:30 PM Mass ― 2nd Collection: Monthly Repair & Maintenance Collection Tuesday, May 10 ― Mary’s Food Pantry Open-PC ramp entrance (10AM-12 PM) ― Following Christ—Session #4 in MH (7:30PM) Wednesday, May 11 ― Mary’s Food Pantry Open-PC ramp entrance (10AM-12 PM) Thursday, May 12 ― Baptism Preparation Class in PC (7:00 PM) ― Chancel Choir Rehearsal in Church (7:30PM) Friday, May 13 ―Beefsteak Fundraiser in MH for 4th of July Parade (7:00PM) Saturday, May 14 ― Following Christ offsite retreat (9:30AM-4PM) Sunday, May 15 —Pentecost ― 2nd Collection: Communicating God’s Word Parish Center Office Hours Monday & Tuesday: 9:00AM ‒ 6:00PM Wednesday& Thursday: 9:00AM ‒ 4:00PM Saturday: 9:00AM ‒ 1:00PM Friday & Sunday: Parish Office is CLOSED Call the Rectory for emergencies, 973-744-5650 follow instructions. Church of the Immaculate Conception 30 No. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042│973-744-5650 parishoffice@mtcimmaculate.org│www.mtcimmaculate.org Parish Office is located at 1 Munn St. (across from churc Rev. Joseph A. Scarangella, Pastor Rev. Msgr. Paul Bochicchio, Par ochial Vicar Rev. Robert. K. Suszko, Weekend Assistant Rev. Frank J. Burla, (Retir ed) In Residence Ms. Janet Natale, Parish. Catechetical Leader Mr. Preston L. Dibble, Or ganist and Dir ector of Music Ms. Kristin Roney, Asst. Dir ector of Music Mrs. Joan Moriarty, Mrs. Ceil Zimmermann, Trustees Mrs. Seton Feeney, Pastor al Council Chair Mrs. Samantha Fusi, Secr etar y Ms. Marcie Alexander, Bulletin Editor /Office Admin. 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