A Stewardship Community

REV. EDWARD KELLY- RESIDENT Faculty Bishop McDevitt High School DEACON PAUL A. HAGERTY Immaculate DEACON ALVIN A. CLAY MRS. DEBORAH BROWN - PASTORAL ASSISTANT

Business Manager – Mrs. Ellen Mahoney Principal - Mrs. Diane Greco Conception Rel. Ed. Elementary Program - Mrs. Nancy Grabowski Director of Music - Mr. Joseph McHugh Parish Councilors – Luci Harp, Mike Bonasera, BVM Church Amy Cantwell, Bob Gabage, Rich Hamilton, Pat Jacona, Sue Mischler and Peggy Rae, Mary Zeccardi. MASSES Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:00 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM Daily: 6:30 and 8:00 AM No 6:30 AM on Saturday July and August - 8:00 AM only (First Friday 11:00 AM during school year) Holy Day Vigil Mass: 7:00 PM Holy Day: 6:30 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:00 Noon Christmas and New Year’s Day: Special Schedules

CONFESSIONS Saturday: 3:30 to 4:30 PM Eves of First Friday: 4:00 to 4:30 PM Eves of Holy Days: 4:00 to 4:30 PM

BAPTISMS The Sacrament of Baptism is administered on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. Arrangements must be made in advance at the rectory. MARRIAGES Arrangements must be made at the rectory at least six months before the date selected.

SICK CALLS Please call the rectory in an emergency. Sick calls should not be deferred until the person is unconscious or in imminent danger of death. Parishioners will be placed on the A Stewardship Community Communion Call list upon request. Notify the rectory when there is serious sickness in the family or when someone is 602 West Avenue • Jenkintown, Pa. 19046 admitted to the hospital. web site: www.iccjenkintown.org NEW PARISHIONERS Rectory Welcome! To register in our parish please visit the rectory office from 604 West Avenue • 215-884-4022 9:00 AM to 3 PM Monday through Friday.

School RECTORY OFFICE 606 West Avenue • 215-887-1312 Except for emergencies, rectory business should normally be conducted by phone or visit Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to Parish Religious Education Program 12:00 Noon or 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Appointments are available in the evening. 604 West Avenue • 215-885-5586

Rev. Monsignor John J. Conahan, Pastor FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER The Rosary is prayed each day at 7:40 AM before the 8:00 AM Mass. Morning Prayer is prayed each day after Mass. PLEASE JOIN US.

FAMILY ROSARY MASS INTENTIONS WEEK OF MAY 2ND What a great way of spending time with your family by Monday coming to our Family Rosary held on the first Tuesday 8:00 AM Kathleen Kolsun Riggs of each month. Weather permitting the rosary will be Tuesday held in Mary’s Garden. at 7:00 P.M. Please join us on 6:30 AM Sam Boggs & Charles deGrasse Tuesday, May 4th. 8:00 AM Donald Armento Wednesday H.O.P.E. 6:30 AM Deceased Members of Costine Family If you are in need or know someone in need of a ride to 8:00 AM Fred Marinucci church, appointments, shopping or whatever, our Thursday drivers are ready and willing to help. The week of May 6:30 AM Sam Boggs & Charles deGrasse 2nd, please call Jenny Barnett @215-885-8650 or Ginny 8:00 AM Gallina & Sborlini Families Conway @215-572-0450. The week of May 9th, please Friday call Luci Harp @215-884-3805. 8:00 AM John & Delia Jennings 11:00 AM Elmore J. Boles, Jr. Saturday 8:00 AM Jack Plunkett SCRIP PROGRAM ++++++++++++++++++ Scrip is sold during the weekend in the front lobby of the school from 4:45 to 6:15 on Saturdays and from 9:15 until. 11:30 on Sundays. Scrip is also sold at the rectory during the week from 9:00 to 3:00 on Mondays through Thursdays. Debbie Martin, Cletus Stanton, Pat Nester, Shane Ziegler, Connell O’Hara, Barbara Fitzgerald, Erin Fennell, Kathleen Quigg, Kathleen Canavan, John Arnold, Elaina Doheny, Beatrice Williams, Grace BISHOP MC DEVITT HIGH SCHOOL Mullen, Jim McErlean, Paul Gabage, Roberta Nolan, THE ROYAL MASQUE OF Bishop McDevitt High Baby Liam Holden, Mary Vaughn, Catherine Weathers, School will present “DAMN YANKEES” on May 7, 8, Robert Lawrence, Jr, Irene Donahoe, John Donahoe, and 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium (Handicap Brendan Fick, Patty Vallente, Helen Carr, Eileen Pluta, Accessible), 125 Royal Avenue, Wyncote. All tickets Patricia Gleeson, Edward Bauman, Melissa Bauman, for the evening performances are $12. A MATINEE Patty Breslin, Jessica Sheaer, George Logan, Alex performance for Senior Citizens will be held on Hoag, Frank Nolan, Nancy Fallon, Andre Gaughan, Wednesday, May 5, at 2 p.m. – tickets are $5. For Nicholas Breslin, Camille Ferruzzi, D’Angelo further information call 215-887-5575, ext 238 or visit Simmons, Agnes Durkin, Joseph Kane, Kathy us at www.mcdevitths.org Reynolds, Dennis Waddington, Yolanda Chambers, Regan Amand, Jennifer Lyons, Jay Connaghan, Jerry Smith, Kevin Bythrow, Adam Kramer, Father Joseph GOLF OUTING AND DINNER Zingaro, Mimi Murphy, Adrianna Bida, Eileen Breslin, June 7, 2010 John Hunt, James Dwyer, Sr., Joanne Brown, Shannon, Old York Road Country Club DiGiuseppe Christine Lamina, Anthony Bonanno, 11:00 AM - Sign In ― 11:30 AM – Lunch Joanne Farina and Mary Jane Klemmer. 12:30 – Shotgun Start 6:00 PM – Dinner ― Awards If there is anyone in our parish who is not hospitalized Golfers - $150.00 but who would like to receive Holy Communion from Dinner Guest - $35.00 our Eucharistic Ministers, please call the rectory to Questions call Bob Gabage 215-350-7326 arrange for this ministry.

145 ICBVM MAY 2, 2010 Msgr. Conahan’s Notes Among those earning second honors are the following: Stephanie Clarke ’10, Laura Clay ’11, and Carla Ferro ~~~Many and sincere thanks to the First Communion ’11. Class for their lovely gifts to me! It came as a complete surprise but made me very happy. To all of these wonderful children, their parents and teachers, esp. Mrs. CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL Grabowski and Mrs. Cooney, my deepest gratitude. Did you know the Catholic Charities Appeal is ~~~Thank you to everyone who attended the Holy Hour sponsored entirely by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Evening of Prayer for Priests. To those who and that the money raised by the Appeal is for the arranged for it, I hope you will know how successful it benefit of programs that care for those in need in the was. Now we have to hope for more vocations to the five counties of the Archdiocese? Priesthood. Without the priest, there would be no Funds raised by the Catholic Charities Appeal are not Eucharist! We would certainly be lost in our struggle part of a national collection nor is the Appeal affiliated, for holiness! formally or informally, with “Catholic Charities USA” ~~~Cardinal Rigali has invited every diocesan priest to or Catholic Charities” in any other American city or a Convocation at Hershey, Pa. where the guest speaker diocese. Every dollar is used in the five county area of will be His Excellency the Most Reverend Timothy the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Dolan, Archbishop of New York. It will begin on Monday May 10th and last until Wednesday, May 12th. MANNA BAGS On Monday and Tuesday there will be no 8 o’clock Manna Bags will be distributed at all of our Masses on Mass in almost every church in the Archdiocese. the weekend of May 8-9. Kindly return your filled Should there be an announced intention for those two Manna Bag on Saturday, May 15 or Sunday, May 16. days, I will offer these Masses in Hershey. Fr. Kelly Canned food items in greatest need are: beef stew, tuna isn’t going, so the 6:30 Mass will be in place Tuesday, fish, fruit, vegetables, pasta, soups, and pork and beans. Wednesday and Thursday. Should we be able to locate Thank you for reaching out to people in crisis a priest to celebrate the 8 o’clock Mass, I will inform situations. you of such. Deacon Hagerty will have a Communion Service those days. I will not return in time to hear AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE confessions on Wednesday, the eve of the Ascension. Immaculate Conception Church The regular 7:00 pm Vigil will be in place. Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM ~~~Please remember that daily Masses are being School Cafeteria celebrated in St. Mary’s Chapel once again. The statues Appointments are preferred and new furnishings have all been donated and are For an appointment please call mostly from chapels in convents that are no longer in Jenny Barnett 215-885-8650 use. Thus continuing our desire to keep articles from Or sign up online at recrossblood.org being tossed or lost. Use Sponsor Code: 2616 ~~~Our second collection this week is for the Catholic Charities Appeal. ~~~Our May Procession will be held on Wednesday, SUPPORT GROUP th May 5 at 7:00 pm. Please honor Our Lady by coming SURVIVORS OF CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE to join us! Facilitated by: Network of Victim Assistance of ~~~Friday, May 7th is the First Friday of May. th Bucks County (NOVA) Confessions will be heard on Thursday, May 6 from Call if you are looking for a safe place to talk with 4:00 to 5:00 pm. The Masses on Friday will be at 8 and others. Adult men and women, who were sexually 11 am. abused as children by Clergy, regardless of where the ~~~Congratulations to the following students from abuse occurred, are invited to attend. Bishop McDevitt High School who have achieved first There is no fee for the group. Funding is provided honors: Brian Frasca ’10, Melissa Tuffy ’10, Samantha through the Victim Assistance Program of the Cantwell ’11, Regan O’Connell ’11, Veronica Stanton Archdiocese of Philadelphia. ’11, Carlee Cantwell ’12, Jilian Ehrlich ’12, Bridget FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO ENROLL: Frasca ’12, Garrett Haviland ’12, Michael O’Neill ’12, PLEASE CALL NOVA DIRECTLY AT Madeline Avallon ’13, and Jacqueline O’Connell ’13. 1-800-675-6900

145 ICBVM FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MEN’S EVENING OF REFLECTIION PARISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM Tuesday, May 11, 2010 ―Re-Registration Forms were given to the students on Fr. Daniel Hennessey L.C. April 25th. An additional copy was e-mailed out this week. The re-registration forms are due back by May 2 Speaking on th The Role of the Blessed Mother (TODAY), but no later that May 16 . Anyone who will have a new child in the program and who is not In the Life of the Church presently enrolled in our program, please call the Parish 6:30 – Light Supper – 7:00 – Reflection Religious Education Office at 215088505586 to register 7:30 Meditation – 8:00 Dismissal your child. Children who are new to the program will need a Baptismal Certificate (if not baptized at MARK YOUR CALENDAR Immaculate Conception) with the registration form. All Corpus Christi Procession families must be registered in the parish in order for Sunday, June 6, 2010 your child to attend the program. Our program is from Pre-School to Level 8 and tuition is $110.00 per SCHOOL NEWS student. ― Our Religious Education Classes will close for this year on Sunday, May 16th. The students will go to their classrooms from 10:45 to 11:15 am for final instruction and then attend the 11:30 am Mass as a community. All parents are encouraged and welcomed to join us at Mass. The children will be dismissed from the school building after Mass. Dismissal will be later than usual, about 12:30 pm. Classes will resume on Sunday, September 12. ― Special thanks to all our Music Liturgists: Mr. & Mrs. Carroll and the following students: Patrick Cawley, Rebecca Judge and Katie O’Hara for their Fifth grade students throughout the Philadelphia and beautiful gift of music at our First Communion Day suburban counties were eligible to participate in the Mass. “Build a House… Build a Dream” contest sponsored by ―We also extend our deepest appreciation and thanks Habitat for Humanity. Students were required to build to Msgr. Conahan, Deacons Clay and Hagerty, Mrs. a 3-dimensional house using a variety of materials. Brown, Pastoral Assistant, Dr. Greco, School Principal, Contestants were asked to go “green” by building Mrs. Cooney, Mr. Kodsi, Mrs. Harrigan, our teachers, environmentally friendly homes. In addition to being Miss Halie Stanton, teacher assistant, and all who interviewed and judged by professional architects, served us in special ways with their time, help and engineers, builders, and designers, students had to talent on our hospitality or in the office prior to First prepare a written description of their home, explaining Communion. Special thanks to Mrs. Benson for the features and materials. beautiful name badges for the Jesus Retreat Day and to Congratulations to the team of Betsey Carroll and Mr. Plunkett, PREP Kindergarten teacher for his help Colleen Kolsun who were first round winners! They on First Communion Day. also received “Honorable Mention” in the “Go Green” God Bless all of you for the gifts you are! category, sponsored by the Philadelphia Eagles! Congratulations also to Elly Cook for her creative and innovative design. PRO-LIFE ROSE BIBLE STUDY Our Bible Study continues this Tuesday, May 4th, with This week’s pro-life rose is dedicated to the the study of James: Pearls of Wisdom. We will meet Blessed Mother in thanksgiving for all those who foster every week at 1:00 PM in the Parish Center (formerly God’s presence to our youth. the Convent). If you would like to join us please contact Debbie Brown, 215-884-4022 asap so materials may be If you wish to dedicate a Rose to commemorate an event or ordered for you. We have been blessed with a great person that you would like to offer to our Blessed Mother for her prayerful intercession, please call the rectory for study group and would love to have you as part of our information 215-884-4022. team.

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