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Immaculate Conception Church
75 Church Street • Franklin, New Jersey 07416
September 19, 2021
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE
SATURDAY: 5:00 PM
SUNDAY: 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM
DAILY MASSES
(RECITATIONOFTHE ROSARYAFTER MASS) MONDAY: MASS, NOVENA, & BENEDICTION 7PM
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY: 7:30 AM
THURSDAYNODAILYMASS
SATURDAY: 9:00 AM
HOLY DAYSOF OBLIGATION
HOLY DAY: 7:00 AM, 7:00 PM
SACRAMENTOF RECONCILIATION
SATURDAYS: 4:00-4:30 PM ORBYAPPOINTMENT
ANDFIFTEENMINUTESBEFOREFIRST FRIDAYMASS
OFFICE HOURS:
PARISHOFFICE: MON through WEDNESDAY 10:00 AM - 1 PM RECTORY PHONE:973-827-9575 EMAIL:ICCHURCH@PTD.NET
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE: MON through WED 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE PHONE: 973-827-9501
Parish WEBSITE: WWW.ICCFRANKLIN.ORG FAX: 973-827-7375
REV. BROWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: WWW.REVBROWNSCHOOL.ORG 973-729-9174 POPE JOHN MIDDLE SCHOOL: WWW.POPEJOHNMS.ORG 973-729-9174 POPE JOHN XXIII HIGH SCHOOL: WWW.POPEJOHN.ORG 973-729-6125
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Mission Statement of Immaculate Conception Parish We, the faith community of Immaculate Conception Parish in Franklin, New Jersey, commit ourselves to share our gifts and love to make the presence of God a reality in our lives by welcoming all to worship and serving those who are in need.
Welcome to Immaculate Conception Parish The faith community of Immaculate Conception welcomes all visitors, parishioners, family and friends.
We hope you find your visit warm and inviting as well as spiritually nourishing. We will keep all of you in our prayers and wish you God’s Blessings.
New members may register by calling the Parish Office.
If you are moving out of the parish or change your address, please notify the Parish Office.
SATURDAY September 18 9:00 am
♥People of the Parish 5:00 pm
<Pamela A. Mele, Req by Debbie Paiotti SUNDAY September 19
7:30 am
<Bill, Dick, Dave & John Scott, Req by Bill Madden 9:30 am
<Pamela A. Mele, ,Req by Angela Gazzano
<Daniel D'Andrea Sr., Req by Virginia & Daniel D’Andrea Jr.
11:30 am
<MSgt. Stephen & Mrs. Mary Wronka, Req by Family
<Anna & John Kupich, Req by Family
♥Alondra, 11th Birthday Blessings, Req by Auntie MONDAY September 20
7:00 pm
< Michael Elekes, Req by Mom & Dad
TUESDAY September 21 7:30 am
<James Elekes Jr., Req by Mom & Dad WEDNESDAY September 22
7:30 am
<Pour Souls, Req by Dorothy Landtau
THURSDAY September 23— No Mass FRIDAY September 24
7:30 am
< Mike Tatka, Req by Irene & Dick Durina SATURDAY September 25
9:00 am
< Michael Elekes, Req by Mom & Dad
<James Elekes Jr., Req by Mom & Dad 5:00 pm
< Pamela A. Mele, Req by George & Elaine Tizzano
Next Week: September 26, 2021
7:30 am
<Dorothy Van, Req by Leon Van 9:30 am
<Dwayne Davenport, Req by Aurora DiGangi 11:30 am
<Maciek Banach, 30th Anniversary
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Call for Choir Members Do you love to sing?
Want to praise God through song?
If you have an interest in joining the ICC Adult Choir
contact Elaine Morrow @ 862-268-2470
Weekly Contributions
Last Week’s Collection : $3,634. * Project Faith: $441.*
2021-2022 Diocesan Assessment: Not Available Collected to Date (Project Faith): $1,289. *
♦ Includes Online Giving
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ENVELOPES FOR SCHOOL SUBSIDY AND CHURCH MAINTENANCE
Thank you for contributing to offset our church maintenance and school subsidy obligations to Reverend Brown School and Pope John XXIII Middle School. We are also responsible for the maintenance of Immaculate Conception school building and modular units.
Both parking lots have been repaved and we had to purchase seven dehumidifiers for the parish buildings.
Anything you are able to give by using the green maintenance or yellow school envelopes, located in the vestibule, is deeply appreciated.
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Mass and Memorial Donations - Please Contact The Rectory
< A Holy Mass for the Deceased
♥ A Spiritual Bouquet Mass for the Living Ex: Requests for healing, recovery or for God’s
Blessing for anniversaries, birthdays, or any other special occasion
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Giving Thanks When You Shop
Please be sure to thank the generous advertisers in our bulletin. Through their participation, our parish
receives our weekly bulletin free of charge.
Please cut out the thank you and present it the next time you patronize one of our fine advertisers
THE WEEK OF September 19, 2021
Thank you for advertising in the
Immaculate Conception Church Bulletin. I am patronizing your
business because of it.
PARISH NOTES
Please check the Parish website
www.iccfranklin.org for the latest updates.
The Parish Office is staffed Monday, Tuesday &
Wednesday from 10am to 1pm. It is requested that visitors call in advance, as office hours may change
& only one person at a time will be admitted.
Messages are checked periodically outside office hours. Please visit https://www.youtube.com/
channel/UCSujdNoY6ckultGpBU9t0_A/
Where Fr. Bogie has recorded prayers, novenas &
Masses
Protocols for Liturgical Celebrations
1. The dispensation from the obligation to participate inSunday Eucharist is lifted effective on the Vigil of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, June 5, 2021 for 2. all of those in good health.
3. Those who are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus who are not vaccinated, and especially those with one or several underlying medical conditions, may follow Mass at home via livestream or television.
4. A person with a cough or fever of any kind should not 5. take part in Mass in-person.
6. Occupancy restrictions for social distancing purposes are lifted.
7. Masks are not required for those who are vaccinated.
8. You are encouraged to bring hand sanitizer to use before the reception of Holy Communion.
9. Communion under both kinds for the faithful will not be resumed at this time. The Precious Blood in the chalice will not be made available to the faithful at this time.
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Religious Education classes will begin with in-person instruction on Sunday, October 3
rd. Calendars have been sent to all parents of children who are registered.
Please note: grade 2, First Holy Communion Class is now closed. In order to comply with COVID protocols, it is necessary to limit class size.
Confirmation Information:
Parents who are registered parishioners with students attending Pope John High School in grade 8 should have registered for our Confirmation program in order to be confirmed on April 29
th. Children do not need to attend CCD classes, but must attend our retreat, complete service hours, etc. Any relevant information will be emailed to parents.
Confirmation Retreat:
The retreat for our Confirmation students is scheduled for February 26
th, from 10:00 AM to 4:00PM at the Sacred Heart Center in Newton. All Confirmation students must attend this retreat. Additional information will be emailed to parents.
We look forward to welcoming all catechists and students back!
Please contact Christine Benson with any questions or concerns at 973.827.9501 or email at [email protected].
Immaculate Conception Cemetery
Just as in life, we believe that in death the human body deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. The cemetery is an extension of the Church that ministers to our grief as the Church ministers to our faith. Being buried in the sacred grounds of a Catholic cemetery is an assertion of faith for both the deceased and their loved ones.
In keeping with the Church’s tradition of respect for the body, remains and cremains should receive proper burial, entombment or inurnment.
Immaculate Conception Cemetery is located on
North Church Road. Contact the Parish Office at
973-827-9575 or [email protected] to make an
appointment to obtain information about burial,
entombment or inurnment arrangements
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading — The wicked say: With revilement and torture let us put the just one to the test
(Wisdom 2:12, 17-20).
Psalm — The Lord upholds my life (Psalm 54).
Second Reading — The wisdom from above is full of mercy and good fruits (James 3:16 — 4:3).
Gospel — Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me (Mark 9:30-37).
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Ezr 1:1-6; Ps 126:1b-6; Lk 8:16-18 Tuesday: Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-5; Mt 9:9-13 Wednesday: Ezr 9:5-9; Tb:13:2, 3-4abefghn, 7-8;
Lk 9:1-6
Thursday: Hg 1:1-8; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 9:7-9 Friday: Hg 2:1-9; Ps 43:1-4; Lk 9:18-22 Saturday: Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a; Jer 31:10-12ab, 13;
Lk 9:43b-45
Sunday: Nm 11:25-29; Ps 19:8, 10, 12-14;
Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
Liturgical Ministers & Alter Server Schedule September 25 – September 26, 2021 Saturday, September 25, 2021
5:00pm Lector: Renee Smith
Alter Server: Bridghid Post, Eugene, Patrick & Carly Davina Sunday, September 26, 2021
7:30am Lector: Kari Grogaard Alter Server: Mick Rehill 9:30am Lector: Mary Burns
Alter Server: Alice Slyk, Luke, Noah, & Liam DeRenzo 11:30am Lector: George Drossel
Alter Server: Elita & Vanessa Buffa
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCESSunday: Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time;
Catechetical Sunday
Monday: Ss. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn,
Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions;
Sukkot (Jewish harvest festival) begins at sunset
Tuesday: St. Matthew Wednesday: Autumn begins
Thursday: St. Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary
FEAST OF FAITH Doxology and Amen
“Doxology” comes from a Greek word meaning
“words of praise.” The Eucharistic Prayer ends with a doxology addressed to the triune God: “Through him, with him, in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, almighty Father, for ever and ever.” It is an exclamation of praise, honor, and glory to God, reminding us that we receive everything from God through the Son, in the power of the Spirit. At the consecration, the priest held up the host and then the chalice for us to see and adore. During the doxology, the host and chalice are held up again, but this time they are held up and offered to God the Father. With the doxology, the Eucharistic Prayer ends, as it began, with words of praise addressed to the Father: truly, it is right and just to give God praise, and we assent to this in our whole- hearted acclamation, “Amen.” Never was more meaning packed into so short a word. This “Amen,” sometimes and fittingly called “the great Amen,” is our response to the entire Eucharistic Prayer.
—Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
OUR BEST
The more the world is at its worst, the more we need the Church at its best.
—Anonymous
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 19, 2021
The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.
— James 3:18
THE MEANING OF DISCIPLESHIP
The geography of today’s Gospel is significant. Jesus is completing his ministry in Galilee and beginning his journey to Jerusalem, where he will meet both death and resurrection. The prediction of his death placed here is the second of three in Mark’s Gospel, and as usual it is the occasion for an important teaching on the part of Jesus. Today that lesson is tied to the need for his disciples to embrace a ministry of service. A play on words in Aramaic would have linked the words “child”
and “servant,” thus turning Jesus’ gesture of placing a child in their midst into an illustration of his understand- ing of himself as the Servant of the Lord. It is that same awareness of the meaning of their ministry that Jesus (and Mark) wishes to instill in the disciples. Theirs must be a ministry of service if they are to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. And that service might even require of them that they be “handed over” to death. What would have been—in the culture of Jesus’ day—an ordinary discussion of social status (“who is the greatest”) becomes in Mark’s context a key insight into the meaning of discipleship for the disciples and for us.
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
R C I A
If you are an adult, or know of an adult who desires to be baptized, or receive First Communion or Confirmation, please contact the parish office. RCIA is aimed at helping a person who wants to become a Catholic, or receive the Sacraments of Initiation.
If you would like to be, or are asked to be, a Godparent for Baptism or Sponsor for Confirmation, you must be confirmed.
RCIA classes begin in the Fall and end before Easter.
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Gratitude from Fr. Jim O’Rorke
Fr. Bogie kindly invited me to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of my priestly ordination on Sunday, Sept 5th. It was great to see so many parishioners present for both the mass & light lunch afterwards in the Lyceum.
I am most grateful to all who were able to attend, for your prayers & well wishes & to those who planned &
prepared the lunch later.
I was able to acknowledge most of your cards, but there were a few whose addresses I am unable to find. To them I extend my gratitude also.
It was an honor serving the Spiritual needs of your parish. Thank you for your warm welcome every weekend. You have given me fond memories of all of you.
Let us remember each other in our prayers.
Senior Moment - “Recycle me, O Lord!”
Did you ever visit an “Arnold Outlet Store?” A local shop was a mainstay for bread and other baked goods supplementing homemade confections in my child- hood household. Mealtime tenets: “Take just what you will eat” and “finish what you’ve taken" (‘sound familiar?) were ethics to which we adhered. Leftovers were creatively disguised, often into the makings of a seemingly unique new meal, and gardening, canning, freezing and composting were routine ways of life.
For many of us, the mid-1900’s mindset is indelible.
We managed with paper lunch bags, tool-opened cans, bowls with slip on covers, thin twist-tie plastic storage bags (if any), paper shopping bags for weekly trash pickup, and more. Some of today’s advances are equally conservational, but many are not.
We’re wrapping up Our Holy Father’s monthly intention for “An environmentally sustainable life- style”. He sights our responsibility for custody of resources: “make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this….Let us take advantage of their example and reflect on our lifestyle, especially during these moments of health, social and environmental crisis.”
We do sometimes see a trend away from pollution and waste: ‘Imperfect produce’ deliveries; tree plant/
harvest balance; discounted/donated day’s end food by chain restaurants, etc.. & activism of today’s informed youth is laudable!
I’d read somewhere of a prolonged hiking adventure in which the young man was limited to 20 lbs. in his rucksack. At first oppressed with the restriction, he ditched unused items along the way to realize how little he truly needed. Let us recall the lessons of our own upbringing in our simplest daily choices, as Pope Francis suggests taking cues from our ecologically- minded younger generation.
As Fr. O’Rorke spoke recently of the “Prayer Of St.
Francis”, we note the dichotomies within that petition as essentially ‘lightening the rucksacks’ of life. Fr. Bogie also reinforced this effect in mention of adherence to God’s laws last week.
As our Lord ‘recycles’ us daily within the opportunities of each new day, we can make a difference to our legacy! One instance of daily practical prudence builds a lifestyle of thankfulness for God’s precious Gifts. Let’s start by “planting a new seed” of habitual Senior mindfulness for the Season of Harvest to come!
LOYOLA Jesuit Center Weekend Retreats Sept 24—Sept 26 (Men’s Weekend Retreat)
“Meeting the Living God: Spirituality for the 21st Century”
Oct 1—Oct 3 “Making the Eucharist Matter”
Oct 8—Oct 10 “The Spiritual Decision - The Begin- ning of True Discipleship”
Oct 15—Oct 17 “Freedom & Awareness”
Nov 5—Nov 7 (Women’s Weekend Retreat #1)
“Clothed in Christ”
Nov 19—Nov 21 “The Spiritual Decision - The Beginning of True Discipleship”
Dec 3—Dec 5 “Meeting the Living God: Spirituality for the 21st Century”
Dec 10—Dec 12 (Weekend Advent Retreat) “Meeting the Living God: Spirituality for the 21st Century”
Register online: www.loyola.org
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Catholic in Recovery
Our Lady Queen of Peace in Branchville is hosting a new ministry “Catholic in Recovery”
which provides a Catholic solution to those struggling with ADDICTIONS or unhealthy attachments. One’s personal recovery is supplemented with a Sacramental understanding of Jesus Christ as our Savior & Highest Power, aided by the Holy Spirit. This is a 12 step anonymous meeting for anyone addicted to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, pornography, smoking, technology, etc. This will be an ongoing meeting every Monday starting October 18th from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at Our Lady Queen of Peace, 209 So, Rt 206, Branchville, NJ.
Any Questions call OLQP office 973-948-3185
HARDYSTON SENIOR TRIPS Oct. 28th—Octoberfest at Kruckers Nov. 10th—Radio City Christmas Show For information call Robin at 201-317-6435
Welcome! Every member should be registered in the Parish, become active, financially support Immaculate
Conception, and be known to Fr. Bogie. Letters of testimony for godparents and sponsors will not be given unless one is registered in the parish and
children in the family are receiving religious education.
When moving, please notify the parish office.
Bring your friend or someone dear to you to church… our parish community welcomes
their presence
MEMORIAL DONATIONSFORSANCTUARYLAMP,
SANCTUARYFLOWERSAND
ALTARBREAD & WINE PLEASECONTACTTHE RECTORY
SANCTUARY LAMP, a reminder of the Divine Presence in the Eucharist, may be donated in memory of loved ones
SANCTUARY FLOWERS, are a beautiful way to remember a loved one or commemorate a special intention.
ALTAR BREAD & WINE, consecrated at each liturgy, may be donated in memory of a loved one or for a special intention
.
Please consider a future gift of money, stock, real estate or other valuables to Immaculate Conception by remembering our parish in your will. Call the Rectory office for more information
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Go 2 St. Joe Pilgrimage
All people are welcome and encouraged to partake in the Go 2 St. Joe Pilgrimage hosted by
the Diocese of Paterson to celebrate the year of St. Joseph. To participate, visit inside the walls.org/go2stjoe and print the pilgrimage passport. You then have until December 8th to visit
7 of the 11 locations listed on the passport.
For more into visit:
INSIDETHEWALLS.ORG/GO2STJOE
In the Military:
LCpl. Ian Cunningham Kaitlyn Dembowski
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO PRIVACY REGULATIONS, ONLY FAMILY MEMBERS
MAY REQUEST NAMES TO BE LISTED.
Prayers for the Sick
Names included in the weekly Prayers of the Faithful are those who are currently hospitalized, undergoing surgery or who have
recently died.
The parish office should be notified by an
immediate family member to include names inPrayers of the Faithful, and when names should
be removed from the list of the sick.
If you have loved ones to add to the sick or military lists, please contact the Parish Office
([email protected] or 973-827-9575).
Prayers for those who are currently sick, in the hospital or undergoing surgery, or who have recently died are included in the General Intercessions offered at every weekend Mass. These names are usually included once unless the person is seriously ill for a number of weeks. After three weeks the name will be placed in the Bulletin and will still be prayed for at Mass, but referred to as “those listed in the
bulletin”.
Danielle Dagata Dionisio, Bryan Doherty,
Susan Lamb, Debbie & Kate Nejman, Dot Priestner, Jim Priestner, John Priestner, Leonard Riccardi, Marie Sohayda, Eileen Storms, Anne Marie Wronka, Barbara Yarusinsky, Beth DeGraaff, Margaret Christiano
