We at Immaculate Conception are a group of people bound together by our belief in Jesus Christ as our Savior. When we were baptized, we were called to share in His work. Therefore we pledge ourselves to build a community where

all are welcomed, loved, needed and appreciated. Armed with the faith in the Immaculate Conception of Mary, we will celebrate the gift of life together in word and sacrament.

May 26 and 27, 2018 Holy Trinity Sunday

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Church of the Immaculate Conception

1180 State Highway 206, Greene, New York 13778

Rev. Msgr. John P. Putano, Administrator

Rev. Paul Machira, Parish Priest Website: iccgreene.wordpress.com

Email: immcongreene@syrdio.org

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Parish Office: Tue. thru Thurs. 10:30 am to 4:30 pm

Mary Wentlent, Parish Manager 656-9546

Audrée Beach, Admin. Asst. 656-9546

Fax 656-7667

Baptism & RCIA ICC Parish Office 656-9546

ICC Parish Council: Don Brown, Lorraine Detweiler, Bev Doughty, Margaret Hanrahan, Joe Henninge, Joanne Moxley, Annie Simpson, Gloria Straniero ICC Trustees: Jackie Henninge - 656-9501; jackiehenninge@frontier.com Donna Heisler - 656-4180; donnamheisler@gmail.com, Feel free to contact the Trustees or Council Members with any concerns you have about our parish. Knights of Columbus Council 11094. Grand Knight Charles Browning-725-7516. Meetings the 1st Thursday of each month. Gluten free hosts are available. Notify the Sacristy before Mass if you need one.

CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Glory to the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Spirit; to God who is,

who was, and

who is to come.

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LAY PERSONS SCHEDULE This Week Next Week Saturday 4:00 pm Saturday 4:00 pm

May 26 2018 June 2, 2018

E. M.’s: L. Detweiler S. Carlin

J. Trepa H. Connelly

Lector: J. Trepa J. Trepa

Servers: Adult Volunteers Adult Volunteers

Sunday 10:15 am Sunday 10:15 am May 27, 2018 June 3 , 2018 E. M.’s: P. Husband B. Doughty

C. Gibbons B. Norton

Z. Urda E. Browning

Lector: H. Barker T. Nichols

Servers: C. Leonard J. Browning

K. Browning M. Browning

Counters: A. Browning K. Ives

E. Hadlick A. Simpson

Mass Schedule

SATURDAY 5/26/18 4:00 pm † Martin Delaney by Bunny Delaney& family

† Bill Barden, Birthday remembrance, by family

SUNDAY 5/27/18 Holy Trinity

0:15 am † Deceased Members of the Holy Trinity Council by Knights of Columbus # 11094

TUESDAY 5/29/18

8:30 am Communion Service

WEDNESDAY 5/30/18

12:15 pm † Donald Simpson, Anniversary, by family

THURSDAY 5/31/18

8:30 am Communion Service SATURDAY 6/2/18

4:00 pm † Ray “Skip” Stanton by Doris Maginsky

SUNDAY 6/3/18 Corpus Christi 10:15 am † Winnie Mulvey, Anniversary, by Tom & Janice Mulvey

†Julia Klecha, Anniversary, by Parish Family

ICC WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY 5/27 Holy Trinity

MONDAY 5/28 Memorial Day

Office Closed

TUESDAY 5/29

8 am Rosary

10:30 am Circle of Friends Crafts & Lunch

WEDNESDAY 5/30

12:15 pm Mass

THURSDAY 5/31

8 am Rosary

FRIDAY 6/1

SATURDAY 6/2

11 am –2pm VIRTUS Certification Course

2:30 pm First Saturday Fatima Rosary

3:30 pm Confession

SUNDAY 6/3 Corpus Christi

Sacrificial Giving and Expenses for the month of April 2018April 2018April 2018April 2018 Total Income: $ 12,988.31 Total Expense: $ 10,943.57

Second Collection 5/20 Building Fund

Income includes: HOPE Appeal overage $1428.19, Sr. Bridget $1340.00

Expenses includes: Sr. Bridget’s fund, College Age care packets, new refrigerator.

The Parish Office is closed Monday, May 28 for the Memorial Day holiday.

The Results Are In! Congratulations to our newest Pastoral Council members: Don Brown, Lorraine Detweiler, Margaret Hanrahan, Annie Simpson. Thank you to our departing members, for your service to the Parish: Eileen Browning, Kelly Erickson, Francis Feldpausch, Robert Hanrahan.

Weekend Mass Server List - hard copies are available in the vestibule. If you haven’t received your e-mail copy please call the Parish Office to update your e-mail address. Thank you.

The 2018 Annual HOPE Appeal We are half way to our goal of $10,966.89. We need your support! There

are pledge forms in the pews if you need one. No gift is too small. You can also make a secure online gift or pledge at www.syrdio.org.

We extend our sympathy to... ...The Smith Family in the recent loss of their loved one, Robert Joseph Smith, 5-18-18. We pray for the happy repose of his soul. May he find a new life with God in heaven.

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Outdoor Sunrise Service

Monday, May 28, Memorial Day, St. Joseph Cemetery, Oxford, to honor Veterans, family & friends buried in their cemetery. 8 am American Le-gion salute to Veterans, 8:15 am Communion Service with Dc. David Kirsh. Seating is limited BYOC. In case of rain the salute will still take place at the memorial but the service will move inside the Chapel.

8th Annual Running for a Reason. Saturday, June 2. We are pleased to announce this year’s recipient is the Link to Life program. This pro-gram supplies residents in the town of Greene with medical alert buttons. Greene Community Services is the not for profit group that provides this service to our residents. free of charge, subsi-dized by donations from local citizens and groups. This is a certified 5k run that goes through downtown Greene. A family friendly course that starts at the Greene Ball Flats, you may walk or run, it’s your choice. Registration & Sponsor forms are the vestibule.

MS/HS Youth Event Canoeing on Long Lake and Scavenger Hunt Saturday June 9 from 10-12:00

Meet in the church parking lot at 9:15 am. We will carpool up to Long Lake together. Brandon Cruz with "Cruz Outdoor Adventures" will lead our group in paddling instruction and water safety and a fun scavenger hunt activity. Brandon will supply all canoes, kayaks and life preservers. Youth Leaders Jess and Jim Trepa will coordinate a picnic lunch to follow the morning on the lake. Parents, friends, siblings welcome. However we do need you to sign up in the vestibule so we can plan this morning of fun. If you have any ques-tions please contact Jess Trepa at 766-8033 or trepaoffthegrid@gmail.com

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Volunteer Opportunities

Greene Food Pantry - We collect non-perishable foods for our local food pantry. May & November we cover the hours at the Pantry. Meals On Wheels Our volunteers make the deliveries for August & February: Mon, Wed, Fri, 11:15am. Call the Parish Office to join our team! Bottle & Can Drive - drop off your refundable items in the bin next to the Rectory garage. St. Pauly Textile collection shed in our parking lot. Donate your unwanted clothes & fabric items & ICC receives 4 cents per pound collected.

The Feast of Corpus Christi, or the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (as it is often called today), goes back to the 13th century, but it celebrates something far older: the institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion at the Last Supper.

The Feast of Corpus Christi is a moveable feast celebrating the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It is one of the ten Holy Days of Obligation in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. In some countries, however, including the United States, the celebration of Corpus Christi (and thus the obligation to attend Mass) has been transferred to the following Sunday—that is, one week after Trinity Sunday.

Next Parish Council Meeting will be Tuesday May 29 at 6:30. Please let Joe Henninge or Mary Wentlent know that you received this change of date information.

Circle of Friends Join us for our next gathering on Tuesday, May 29. This month we will be welcoming Jackie Henninge who will share her skills and supplies as we are guided through

creating our own stamped greeting card. This will begin at 10:30 am. Afterwards we will enjoy lunch together. Please bring a dish to pass. Coffee/Tea provided. Circle of Friends is open to anyone who would enjoy getting out, being with friends, having a laugh or two, and sharing in some Christian Fellowship. All are welcome!

The annual Metal Drive begins June 1. The roll-off is in the far corner of the parking lot - and is available to accept your donations of unwanted metal items. Please be sure the items no longer contain any fluids, i.e. freon, oil, gasoline, etc. The roll-off will be available until June 30.

To the Parish New Members

We will have a special reception after Mass on Sunday June 10 for the 20

new families that have joined the parish in the past 2 years. All parish members are invited to stay and introduce yourself to our new parishioners. Also at this reception we will have a special grad-uation gift for our high school graduates. Please plan to stop by for this special reception

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St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery Oxford, New York

A beautiful, peaceful resting place

Plot $700

1 casket & 1 urn or 2 urns

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Blood Drive at Immaculate Conception

2018 Schedule: 5/16, 7/25, 9/19, 11/21

12:30-5:30 pm

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Thank you to those that attended the Pancake Breakfast last week. Because of your generosity, we will be sending Sister Brigid $500 to help the or-phans in Haiti. Our parish is blessed with 13 young adults that were just confirmed. If you haven't con-gratulated them yet, please seek them out!

VIRTUS Certification Course is being offered Sat-urday, June 2 from 11 am –2 pm by our own VIR-TUS facilitator Lorraine Detweiler. Please register online at www.virtusonline.org. Safe Environment Training for Adults

The Diocese of Syracuse is committed to preventing child sexual abuse before it occurs. For this reason, and because the Diocese adheres to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Charter for the Pro-tection of Children and Young People, the Diocese mandates that all clergy, all members of religious orders, all parish and diocesan employees (even those who do not come into contact with children) and all volunteers who are in contact with children, young people and/or vulnerable adults undergo Safe Environment Training To learn more, visit our website: http://bit.ly/2Bd2Pbm

We welcomed 4 religious education teachers from St. Theresa in New Berlin last week for a joint work-shop of teaching our faith to our children. We had 4 of our teachers present and Andrea Schaeffer, the Southern Tier Faith Formation leader gave a very interesting lesson on "The Creed". These workshops help our teachers understand the rich Catholic faith, so they can pass these jewels on to our children. A special thank you to Claire Gibbons for making her wonderful Tiramisu for our dessert!

2018 PCA (Pastoral Care Area) Summer Book Study. The Book Study will take place in June, July and August and wrap up before Labor Day. We will meet just 6 times... twice each month. Deacon Tim has chosen a new book entitled From Atheism to Ca-tholicism, Nine Converts Explain Their Journey Home. The book promises to engage us with nine individual faith stories in the words of the people who traveled from no faith to fully embracing the Catholic faith. Please sign-up in the vestibule. Deadline is Friday, June 1. Wednesday June 13 St. Johns, Bainbridge

Wednesday June 27 St. Joseph, Oxford Wednesday July 25 ICC, Greene

Dear friends, Do you remember when you first walked into this church? I remember when we moved to Greene 22 years ago, and we made the decision to find the Catholic Church in town and become a member. Our first Sunday we trooped in with our seven kids (Grace wasn’t born yet.) Zach was a baby and when we stayed for the coffee hour, I saw Anita swinging her baby Jennifer in her infant seat. Anita was out-going and laughing with folks, and I gravitated to the music ministry because I felt most comfortable there. They welcomed me with open arms, although Dot Stolarcyk quickly let me know that certain folks had certain seats, and I should be mindful of that! Over the months Dot and I became good friends, and even though she was older than me, I would often ask her advice on raising a big family, and she was a wealth of information. Father Dellos often had his dog Bronco around, and this informal atmosphere made my loud and energetic family feel welcome. What was your experience like?

I have been reading a book on “Fruitful Congrega-tions” and the first section is on Hospitality. It begins with this verse from Matthew chapter 25 verse 35: Jesus said, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me…”. What would happen if each person took these words seriously? We would look at the new person and see they have hopes and anxieties, desires and pains. Each person is a member of Jesus’ family, and Jesus wants us to treat each other as we would treat Jesus himself. With that in mind, how would you now treat a stranger? What would be the quality of the wel-come? Your effort to ease the awkwardness? The enthusiasm to help them find a seat, the nursery, the bathrooms?

Likewise, how do we treat those we have known a long time? Do we immediately complain about something? Do we use them as a soundboard to rat-tle off our list of things that irritate us that day? Let us not take our friendships for granted! Today is a new day! Let us see Christ in each other and treat them with love and respect. If there is someone who helped you feel welcome in our church, express your thanks to them personally or with a note. If this isn’t possible, give thanks for them by name to God in prayer. My book closed the chapter with this prayer: Gracious God, give me a heart that remembers the strangers who may be in my path today. Peace!~Mary Wentlent