Immaculate Conception





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ALL ARE WELCOME!

We are most happy to welcome new members to our parish community and invite new members to introduce themselves to a member of the Parish Staff.

We want to know and serve you. We pray that you will also become involved in your Parish by favoring us with your prayers, presence, talents, and financial assistance according to your means.

Parish registration forms are available by contacting the Parish Office. Registered parishioners are asked to notify the Parish Office of any address changes.

P A R I S H

Conception Immaculate

BAPTISM Baptisms are celebrated individually on Sunday afternoons. To register for Baptism please call the rectory 781-324-4941.

RECONCILIATION Saturdays from 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM in the Chapel, or by appointment.

MARRIAGE Please contact the Parish Office at least six months in advance of your anticipated marriage.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK Anointing of the sick will be celebrated during the year on announced weekends at all the Masses or anytime by appointment. Call the rectory at 781-324-4941.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS Adults wishing to become Catholics or complete the Sacraments of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist) should contact the Parish Office for details.

HOME BOUND Please inform our Parish Office of any family member who is ill (hospitalized or at home) or if anyone is unable to attend church services because of a disability, illness or age.

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS All items for the parish bulletin must be submitted electronically in a Word document to the Parish Office by 12:00 PM on Monday.

MASS SCHEDULE

Monday-Friday: 6:30 AM; Saturday: 8:00 AM Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM

Sunday: 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 5:00 PM and12:30 PM Kenyan Mass in Chapel 

PARISH OFFICE: 10 Fellsway East Malden, MA 02148 OFFICE HOURS:

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM-2:00 PM Friday

Phone: 781-324-4941 Fax: 781-397-8571 Email: [email protected]





SATURDAY, JANUARY 1

4:00 PM Sister Mary Faith Harding SUNDAY, JANUARY 2

7:00 AM Helen Devine 9:00 AM Sally DeGeorge

11:00 AM Ann Marie Bannon - 1st Anniversary 12:30 PM Kenyan Catholic Community

5:00 PM All Parishioners 

MONDAY, JANUARY 3 6:30 AM McDonald Family TUESDAY, JANUARY 4 6:30 AM Kenneth L. Kelley WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5 6:30 AM Mary Tolar

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6 6:30 AM Christopher Rigano FRIDAY, JANUARY 7

6:30 AM Immaculate Conception Prayer Memorial SATURDAY, JANUARY 8

8:00 AM Bridget Cloherty

4:00 PM John Esson - 22nd Anniversary SUNDAY, JANUARY 9

7:00 AM John and Nora Stenson 9:00 AM Lorenzo DeSantis 11:00 AM Roberto Family

12:30 PM Kenyan Catholic Community 5:00 PM All Parishioners

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Please remember all our deceased loved ones, especially Carole O’Neil and Eugene P. Marckini. May they rest in peace.

before his Creator. It is because God loves us that we have equality before him. For our part we must recognize this equality in all other persons and strive, therefore, to give them what is rightfully their due.

The story of the Wise Men, which we find in the Gospels, taught the early Christians the universality of God’s salvation plan. God loves the poor, the Jewish shepherd, the rich men from the East, all are his children.

How many and what other people came to see the infant, we do not know. Yet it can truly be certain that they were all graciously received. It is an interesting tradition that we retain the shepherds in the Christmas stable, even after the time of their visit is passed, while we place the Wise Men into the scene well before their time has come.

There is something in this understanding that admits our equality before God.

Like the Magi, we come offering gifts. At each Mass we give to the offertory collection, as we offer ourselves with Christ in the sacrifice on the altar. Let us be joyful that before God, our Creator, we stand as equals, redeemed in the precious Blood of Christ.

\May the Lord bless you always,

Father Albert L. Capone

THE FEAST OF EPIPHANY

The Feast of the Epiphany celebrates the gifts of the Magi, three foreigners who came to adore the new-born King. One of the truths that the liturgy of the Epiphany is concerned with is the equality of all people before God, our Creator. It certainly is a truth that should concern us today. Christians in the early Church were confronted with the problem of exclusiveness. Like us, they had been taught that they were a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a special people through whom salvation was to come.

The early Christians inherited this idea from the Jewish religion from which most of the first converts came. After all, the Jewish people were the chosen ones from who would come the Savior of the World. They were the descendants of Abraham to whom the promise of redemption was given, and passed on through Isaac and Jacob and the twelve tribes that sprang from him. So it was natural for some of them to think of themselves as better than those who did not belong to their ranks. It was easy to forget that their faith was a gift from God, certainly not something they had merited. Equality of all people before God was admissible as a theory, but in practice there was a tendency among some Christians toward smugness and an attitude that their salvation was automatically assured no matter how they led their lives. In theory we, too, readily admit the equality of all people before God, but in practice we have a tendency toward exclusiveness and a complacent attitude of automatic salvation.

Yet, Scripture tells us that every nation on earth will adore the Lord. Saint Paul mentions frequently in his writing that there is no exclusiveness in God’s Kingdom.

He had no difficulty in admitting the equality of all people

Collection at Masses … $ 6,805.00 in the mail … $ 1,115.00 on line giving … $ 582.00 Last Week’s Offertory - Total … $ 8,502.00

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Christmas Collection … $ 10,174.00 in support of the retirement and medical care of the senior priests of the Archdiocese of Boston.

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THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

Reading II Ephesians 3:23,56



Brothers and sisters: You have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit, namely, that the mystery was made known to me by revelation. It was not made known to people in other generationsas it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:that the Gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and copartners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 

The Word of the Lord.

Gospel Matthew 2:112



When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod,behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,“Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” When King Herod heard this, he was greatly troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it has been written through the prophet: And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; since from you shall come a ruler, who is to shepherd my people Israel.”

Then Herod called the magi secretly and ascertained from them the time of the star’s appearance. He sent them to Bethlehem and said,

“Go and search diligently for the child. When you have found him, bring me word,that I too may go and do him homage.” After their audience with the king they set out. And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them,until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother.

They prostrated themselves and did him homage.

Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod,they departed for their country by another way.

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Responsorial Psalm 72: 12, 78, 1013



R.Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.



O God, with your judgment endow the king,

and with your justice, the king’s son;

He shall govern your people with justice

and your afflicted ones with judgment.



R.Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Justice shall flower in his days,

and profound peace, till the moon be no more.

May he rule from sea to sea,

and from the River to the ends of the earth.



R.Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.



The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts;

the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute.

All kings shall pay him homage,

all nations shall serve him.



R.Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.



For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,

and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.

He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;

the lives of the poor he shall save.



R.Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Reading I Isaiah 60:16



Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem!Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples; but upon you the LORD shines, and over you appears his glory.

Nations shall walk by your light, and kings by your shining radiance. Raise your eyes and look about; they all gather and come to you:

your sons come from afar and your daughters in the arms of their nurses. Then you shall be radiant at what you see, your heart shall throb and overflow, for the riches of the sea shall be emptied out before you, the wealth of nations shall be brought to you. Caravans of camels shall fill you, dromedaries from Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba shall come bearing gold and frankincense, and proclaiming the praises of the LORD. 

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At all the Masses this Weekend the

BREAD AND WINE MEMORIAL - given in memory of Andrew Benoit

SANCTUARY LAMP MEMORIAL - given in memory of John, Frances and Joan McDonough

Please, remember them in your Prayers!

PARISH MEMORIALS

Many times when a parishioner wishes to schedule a Memorial Mass on the weekend

for a loved one,

all the Masses are already booked.

We have instituted two new Memorials:

Memorial - Bread and Wine for a given weekend A $75 donation supporting the cost of

the bread and wine,

your loved one will be remembered at all Masses on a given weekend in the bulletin and at each of the Masses.

Memorial - Sanctuary Lamp for a given weekend A $50 donation supporting the cost of

the Sanctuary Lamp,

your loved one will be remembered at all Masses on a given weekend in the bulletin and at each of the Masses.

To arrange for one of these new Memorials call the Parish Office at 781-324-4941.

NEW MASK MANDATE FOR ALL MASSES

Due to the spiking numbers of new COVID cases and the likely increase in those numbers during the Christmas Season and the beginning of the New Year, Cardinal Sean O’Malley is mandating throughout the Archdiocese, that all people attending Mass in our Churches must wear a mask for the safety and protec- tion of all. This mandate is now in effect and will con- tinue for the next several weeks.

CHRISTMAS FLOWER

We wish to include the following names to the list that was inserted in our

Christmas Bulletin.

In Loving Memory and in Honor of

Richard Lane Marie Dumont Andrew Benoit Giovanni Loiacono

Angelino F. Russo Lorraine Wilson

Carole O’Neil Eugene P. Marckini

Albert and Rose Albert and Mary Charles and Catherine Powers

John and Josephine Arcanti Ralph and Rita Tarullo

MARRIAGE PREPARATION PROGRAM

We remind all couples planning marriage in the Catholic Church that they are required to attend Marriage Preparation Classes. These classes are a

time when we can assist our engaged couples in understanding the Church’s teaching on Marriage. If

you are planning your wedding please contact one of the priests of our parish to begin to make all the necessary arrangements for your Church Wedding.

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CASH-GIVE-AWAY

Immaculate Conception Parish will sponsor another

$10,000 Cash-Give-Away on Saturday - March 19, 2022

at 7:00 pm in the Church Hall Tickets will be available after Mass

In the coming weeks and at the Parish Office - just call us at 781-324-4941

and we will get a ticket to you.

Tickets are a $100 donation!

Only 200 tickets will be sold.

This is a 1-in-200 chance of winning $10,000 ...

much better odds than Megabucks.

You may purchase the ticket alone or as a group.

So, plan to get your tickets soon!

Good Luck!

The January15th Drawing is sold out!

So don’t miss out on this one!!!





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ANNUAL COLLECTION UPDATE - $136,130

As of today, we have received a total of $136,130 with $123,330 in donations and $12,800 in pledges towards our 2021 Annual Collection goal of $150,000.

Thank you to all who have contributed to this year’s collection, for your goodwill and for your continued generosity. There are Annual Collection envelopes at the entrances of Church. If you have not yet given to the 2021 Parish Annual Collection, please we ask for your help - please give your gift today.

TAX STATEMENTS - CHARITABLE DONATIONS

Immaculate Conception Parish issues Tax Statements for charitable donations by request, to parishioners

who use the envelope system or online giving.

Tax Statements will not be available until after January 25, 2021,

so please be patient with the Parish Office.

We do not record donations given by loose checks;

in this case your canceled check is your receipt.

Of course, It is not possible for the Parish to know the giver of loose cash donations, therefore, we are unable

to provide a Tax Statement to you if your donations are made in loose cash or loose checks. If you would

like to begin using envelopes or use online giving please contact Sheila Reilly or Rosemary Waldron

at the Parish Office 781-324-4941.

BAPTISM REGISTRATION

Baptisms are being celebrated individually on Sunday afternoons. Please call the rectory at 781-324-4941 to register your child for the Sacrament. We will speak with the parents of the child to arrange the date of the Baptism and we will share the necessary information at that time. We look forward to your child’s Baptism.

ON LINE GIVING - SIGN UP NOW

We offer Online Giving - visit our website: sign up and begin contributing automatically to our parish. This convenient system does not require you to contact your bank to sign up or to make changes. You can use any of your checking or savings accounts and the funds will be automatically transferred to our parish bank account.

This system is more convenient for the parish than electronic checks from your bank.

Go to www.icmalden.org and select the

Online Giving link (Give to IC Malden) to get started.

S.S.N.D. PARK PAVERS AVAILABLE

Pavers are a great way to honor someone you love.

Each paver may be engraved - 3 lines, 15 characters per line, including spaces - at a cost of $125. To place

an order for a paver, please 781-324-4941.

THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI

The Magi are moved to give three symbolic gifts that 

show some of what true faith includes.

And they are costly gifts.

Gold

In laying this gift before Jesus they and we are saying, “I acknowledge that everything I have

is yours. I put all my resources and wealth under your authority and will use them only according to your will.”

Also, Jesus is the King of Kings!

Frankincense

we promise to pray and worship God all the days of our lives. To be in His holy house

each Sunday and render Him the praise and worship He is due. To listen to His word

and to consent to be fed the Eucharist.

To worship Him worthily by frequent confession and to praise Him at all times.

Myrrh

But not for Jesus, as Myrrh was used as burial ointment, and Jesus was born into this world

as a ransom - to give His life for us.

Surely this prefigures Jesus’ death but it also symbolizes our own.

In laying this gift before Jesus we are saying, my life is yours.

I want to die so that you may live your life in me.

May you increase and may I decrease.

Use me and my life as you will.

So here are gifts that are highly symbolic.

The magi manifest more than a little homage to Jesus.

They are showing forth the fruits of saving faith.

And if we can give these gifts so too are we showing forth our faith.





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LORD JESUS, COME TO OUR AID

Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages

“curing every disease and illness.” At your command, the sick were made well. Come to our aid now, in the midst of the global spread of the coronavirus, that we may experience your

healing love. Heal those who are sick with the virus.

May they regain their strength and health through quality medical care. Heal us from our fear, which prevents nations

from working together and neighbors from helping one another. Heal us from our pride, which can make us claim

invulnerability to a disease that knows no borders. Jesus Christ, healer of all, stay by our side in this time of uncertainty

and sorrow. Be with those who have died from the virus.

May they be at rest with you in your eternal peace. Be with the families of those who are sick or have died. As they worry and

grieve, defend them from illness and despair.

May they know your peace.

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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

CHARITY: Volunteer with us in charitable

fundraising to support the needs of those in our community.

UNITY: Work together with brother Knights to support with our talents the Church in her various ministries.

FRATERNITY: Proudly stand with the Knights of all races and nationalities in a common support of Catholic men.

We invite you to join with us in the largest International Catholic Men’s Organization For information - call Antoine at 617-800-5909

Please pray for all parishioners, family members and friends who have requested our prayers, especially:

Laura Lange Connolly, Faith & Dennis Mercurio, Herb & Roberta Raistrck John Fong, Dave Crowley, Camille P., Diane Loud, Theresa O’Brien, Cecilia Sullivan, Tony Smith, Norma Marino, Nico, Helen Hall, Enid & Trevor Rodericks, Patrick Sean Swenly, Sue Hickey, Joey Testa, James Carrozza,

Maria Celestina, Bob & Terry Blaton, Kimberly Boroyan, Joseph Pesaturo, Camille & Lillian Frost, Mary Dorrington, Bruna Noe, D.J. Sirobet, Joanna Riciuti, Steve Folan, Thomas & Patricia Keane, Karen Lang, Lee Donovan, Elizabeth Kathleen White, Emrick O’Brien, Catherine Meo, Karen Bourque, Karolyn Genualdo, Cathy McCarthy, Patricia Murillo, Nicole West, Mark Christopher, Costa Family, Pat Costa, Chester Anna Correa-Graham, Roy & Donald Frost, Steven Butler, Stephanie Romano, Nancy Menolez, Rachael Romano, Paul Sidilo, Robert E., Tony P.

Maria Gonzales, Sandy Breyer, Marcia Muir, Belinda Gonzales, Maureen Butler, Eleanor Ciulla, Barbara Tracey, Ruth McCarron, Len C., Linda Paul Daniel Mahoney, Stephen DeSimone, Sean O’Neil,, Maria Marmello, Mallardo, Kylee Depradine, Dolores Saia, David DeSimone, Thomas O’Brien, Linda Benasky, Pat Byrne, Laura Desrameaux, Ann Malley, Kali, Joseph Bernard, Billy Antenor, Michael Sullivan, Ayla, Jen Aprile, Tom Zazzara, Michael Haynes, Margaret Geraghty, James Rooney, Peg Allard, Jerry Vendola, Bobby Coggiano, Ann Mestas, Julie Hannon, Rocky Mueller Joseph Musriati & Jennifer DiPietrantonio, Thomas Papile, Jr., Joseph Greg LaDouceur, Nieves Family, Harvey, Luciano, Carol Stamm, Brett Dalton, Vinnie DeGeorge, Arthur, Stephen, Betty Lou Svendsen, Michael, Ron Kapchus, Emilio & Lucy Scapicchio, Steven Jones, Michael & Merleen Cardarelli,

Bob Casella, Ellie Clarke, Joseph Family, Gloria & Albert Puopolo, Eugene Carty, Denise Lloyd Barbagallo, Helen, Kevin & Steve Curtis, Joe O’Neil, Charlie Dziedziak, Lillian O’Donnell, Kerry Bartlett, Naime,Pat & Robert Cummings, Clare Rich, Dana DeRobertis, Kathy Thrash, Regina Weizman, Kathleen Gatdula, Virginia O’Neill, Lillian Natola, Ed Yorke,Sue Smith, Jack & Jane Costello, Kenny Bettencourt, Jonathan Phillips, Danielle, Gerard, Maria DiRico, Tom Pittman, Michael Natola, Chris Della Pelle, Deb, Rena Rockard, Jeanne O’Brien, Ann Healy, Alexis Pacelli, David Foley, Donna Egan,

Robert Gray, Catherine Monahan, Alex & Bob O’Brien, Christine Michalski, John Martignetti, Stephen Serino, Diane Williams, John Williams, Mary B., Mrs. Clinton, Justin Hadaya, Jr., Arthur Lauretano, Bill Murray, Spencer Monde, Gloria & Barry Reider, Marguerite Cullen, Diane Hawkins, Tony Sullivan, Ann Marie Marckini, Liddie McCook, Bill & Anna Quigley, Chris Conway, Mairead, Rita Conti, Maureen Skehan-Neil, John Hubbard, P.B., Robert Carr,

Marion Davis, Olivia Falzone, Linda Girodano, Carolyn Curtis, John McDonald, Robert Rockwell, Bob Green, Michael D., Susan & Dan Creedon, Bill Boyd, Jack Lynch, Sally Chinchillo, Sr. Iris Marie, Betty Zumpfe, Brianna Kemp, Ken DiBlasi, Suzanne Gilpatrick, Kerrianne Capadonna, Aggie Duarte, Rea, Francis Witkus, Aileen Hagerty, Lois Brenton, Gabriel Carrteiro, Villie Giudice, Lee Williams, Judi Raschko, Cathy Palmerino, Nagle Family, Carolyn Special Intention, Ann Meffan, Sharon Bowe, Marion Davis, Stillo Family, Patricia, Mark White, Mike & Chloe, Susan & Gerard Herook, Betty Hackett, Mary & John Starr, Mark Donovan, Joyce Smith, Millie C., Mary Benoit, Joyce Rizzuto, Ross, Charles, Sue, Paul Goebel, Rosemary Coleman, Theresa L., Richard Carino, Hollyn Fisher, Geir Granlund, Anne Ockerbloom, John Parovan, Mariann Wilson, Bob Maloney, Pauline, Jesse, Joe, Susan, Reagan M., Michael Fitzgerald, Tom, Joey C., Maria C. Virginia Ruane, Stephen Shea, Lea Paoletta, Clorinda Saragosa, Doris Wilson, Florence Frasca, Fr. Gerry,

Barbara Kaufman, Anita, Craig S., Elenor, Sue, Susan, Mary, Helen L., Chris Roden, Ciara, Brendon B., James Cardigan, Alison Lynch, Bunny And for those serving our country: Lt. Paul DeWolfe, Jr. -USMC, Brian Carney, First Lt. Christopher, Lt. Col. Sean Morro , US Army,

Philip West, PFC Steven Garrity, Major Paul A. Capone, U.S.A., Lt. Brittney Capone, USA CPL Anthony M. Peluso, USMC, CPL Kimberly Vega-USMC, LCPL Sam Ferreira-USMC, Riley Hennessey , US Army, Raymond Owens, Command Officer

To add or remove a name from the list, please call the Parish Office at 781-324-4941

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