Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church

* If you still have your Commitment Card, you are welcome to mail it in or bring it into the office. Everyone make a commitment to living your faith by getting involved in the parish!

* Parish Photo Directory sign-up continues. Be a part of a book that will help us all get to know each other! You will receive one free print of the portrait, other copies may be ordered only if you wish. Please visit our parish website to schedule your portrait sitting / appointment.

* The second collection this weekend is for the parish building fund.

* Saint Mary Volunteer Appreciation Dinner is Thursday, October 22: RSVPs are due Monday, October 19. See invitation on page 8.

* Upcoming: Saint Mary welcomes virtuoso organist and composer Dr. Mary Beth Bennett who will play a free concert Friday, November 13 at 8pm.

The miraculous image of Our Lady will visit Saint Mary on three occasions in the coming weeks: Tuesday, 6 October and Thursday, 15 October from 3-8pm and on Wednesday, 21 October from  9:30-1pm in the church.

A digital copy of the original tilma of Saint Juan Diego in the basilica in Mexico City, this image communicates the loving presence of Mary, our Mother, through some beautiful signs. Healings, tears and glitter follow her, and one is able to feel the heartbeat of Mary as well as the heartbeat of Jesus in her womb.

This is one of the missionary images which began to circulate at Saint John Paul II’s request in June, 1991 at the International Rosary Congress and the National Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Image Guardian Vivian Mestey, from our parish, reports such wonders as common to those who venerate her image.

You, too, can experience these graces, signs and wonders through Mary’s mediation and respond to our bishops’ call for a culture of life in our country.

“Am I not here who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy?”

* If you still have your Commitment Card, you are welcome to mail it in or bring it into the office. Everyone make a commitment to living your faith by getting involved in the parish!

* Parish Photo Directory sign-up is now open. Please visit our parish website to schedule your sitting / appointment.

* The prayer list for military men and women in the bulletin is being updated. To have a name added to this new list, please contact the parish office.

* Today, October 4 from 3:30pm – 4:30pm is the kick-off for the Middle School Youth Group. Please join us in the Parish Life Center for an hour of friends, faith and fun.

* If you didn’t have a chance to put  your Commitment Card in the second collection this weekend you are welcome to bring it next week, or mail it in, or bring it into the office this week. Everyone make a commitment to living your faith by getting involved in the parish!

* Registration continues for the Called and Gifted Workshop, to be held October 9-10. We ask all who have attended, if you can, to recommend this Workshop to two additional people and grow momentum. Please visit the parish website for more information and the registration form.

* Parish Photo Directory sign-up is now open. Please visit our parish website to schedule your sitting / appointment. Photo sessions begin September 29.

* Saturday, October 3 is a busy day! Have your pets blessed at 10am, Stafford Ave. parking lot. Come shred your confidential documents from 10am-1pm in the parking lot behind the Parish Life Center. No limit on pets; 5 box limit per vehicle on paper.

* The prayer list for military men and women in the bulletin is being updated. To have a name added to this new list, please contact the parish office.

* October 4 from 3:30pm – 4:30pm is the kick-off for the Middle School Youth Group. Please join us in the Parish Life Center!