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Weekly Sacred Calendar for Fall 2011

The following links will take you to pages with downloadable resources for parents. They include easy, fun activities and stories you can do at home with your children.

A Collection of Parables

Faith on the Run Series

Learn about the Saints

Revised Mass Texts for Parents

The Call to Faith series used in our Religion classes includes online resources for parents. Click here to visit this site.

This [blessing] provides an opportunity to give thanks, affirmation, and blessing to your mother. Since time passes so quickly, accept this invitation to bless your mother this year.

The National Directory for Catechesis, #26 states: “The sacred duty and the joy of each succeeding generation of Christian believers has been to hand on the deposit of faith that was first entrusted to the apostles by Christ himself. We have received this gift, the deposit of faith-we have not conceived it. It is the heritage of the whole Church. It is our privilege and our responsibility to preserve the memory of Christ’s words and the words themselves and to teach future generations of belivers to carry out all that Christ commanded his apostles.”

In reflecting on this quote from the National Directory for Catechesis, ask yourself if the Lord is calling you to serve our parish. Openings are available for pre-school through grade 12. Programs meet on Sunday mornings or Wednesday evenings. Now is the time to volunteer.  The upcoming summer months afford the needed time for training and to become familiar with the resources.

Contact the Religion Office at (410) 392-3551 or email us at re@iccparish.org with any questions or to volunteer. Let us pray that God’s call will be heard and our future generations will come to know Our Lord Jesus Christ more deeply through this ministry.

Be sure to check out this FREE website!

This interactive resource is designed to give you unlimited access to easy-to-use tools, tips, family activities, blogs, forums, and advice–everything you need to build a stronger, more faith-focused family.

All of the faith-forming activities are written with a specific audience in mind such as Young Family or Teen Family or Adult/Couple, but many activities are perfectly appropriate for individuals and families of all ages and stages. See [this link] to learn more.

Mass & Mingle is an opportunity for young adults in the Diocese to meet each other and share the Eucharist.   Young adults (21-35) meet the fourth Thursday of each month at 7pm at St. Ann’s  in Wilmington for Mass followed by mingling at a local pub.  Catherine Rooney’s has reserved space and will have specials for us after Mass on April 26th.

Please e-mail Bill Larson at  with any questions or to volunteer to help coordinate, lead music, lector, or serve as an Extraordinary Ministry of Holy Communion.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently updated their website, which now features daily video reflections on Scripture. Celebrate the Easter season by taking a minute each day to view these reflections. While you are at it, explore the new site and see all that the USCCB has for you.

So many people come to our Outreach food pantry. In March 2012 we gave food to 171 families, including 304 children and 383 adults.

One of our customers is a senior citizen living alone on a fixed income. She has no family members to help her, so she comes to us.

One family had to move in with another whole family just to keep from being homeless. They have 13 people sharing one apartment, and they come to us for help.

Can you help us help them?

Our pantry is in desperate need of the following items:

• mac & cheese
• baked beans
• soup
• instant potatoes
• rice a roni
• fruit
• cereal
• pasta

This exciting, new adult education offering follows on the heals of Fr. Robert Barron’s Catholicism Series by taking up his invitation to learn how to tell the Catholic story–our story–more effectively and to live our Catholic faith to the full.  By learning how to share the truth and glory of our Catholic faith, we hope to learn its precepts more deeply, to study its roots in Sacred Scripture and Tradition more carefully, and to live it out more faithfully, consistently, and joyfully.

The Catholicism Study Sessions at Immaculate Conception Parish are perfect for adults (Catholic and non-Catholic alike) of all ages (young adult to mature), including those who have serious questions about the Catholic faith, those who perhaps grew up Catholic but have found it difficult to make the Catholic faith their own, or parents whose children are going through religious education, first communion, confirmation, etc. who would like to brush up on Catholicism.  These sessions are perfect for Catholics who have had their faith challenged by non-Catholic Christians (or even non-Christians) and would like to learn effective and loving ways to respond–ways that not only answer objections but draw others to the truth of the Catholic faith.

These sessions will provide topic-based lectures, videos, and plenty of discussion; attendees will leave each meeting with plenty of new information and perspectives on the Catholic faith, all 100% faithful to Scripture, Tradition, and the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Click here for more information and to see the session schedule!

WHEN:  Every Monday evening from 6:30–8:00 p.m. and Tuesday morning from 9:15–10:45 a.m.  Check the parish website for schedule and information regarding cancellations.  Please email Daniel Stevens at iccadulteducation@gmail.com to be added to a mailing list for the Catholicism Study Sessions.

WHERE:  The ICC Parish Center (in the conference room)

WHO:  Parishioners, Family, Friends, Co-workers, Neighbors, Catholic and non-Catholic alike!  This is a chance for us to enrich the entire Elkton/Newark community with the glorious truth of the Catholic faith, delivered to us from the apostles (Jude 3).

WHY: Because our Lord, Jesus Christ, calls us to be ready to explain our faith (1 Peter 3:15–16) and live our faith to the full.  Both of these missions are difficult to complete if we do not know the support for our faith in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterial teachings that come to us from the successors of the apostles.  Our late Holy Father, Blessed John Paul II, issued a clarion call for all Catholics to participate in the New Evangelization, a new Pentecost for the third millennium.  Let us pray for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and in our parish, that we may love Jesus and his Church more fervently and that, by this love, we may draw others to know Jesus in the heart of his Church.