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JUNE 12, 2022
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH
LOWELL, MA
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LOWELL
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH
144 East Merrimack Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01852
Rectory: 3 Fayette Street
Tel: 978-458-1474 ✣ Fax: 978-446-0790
Office Hours: 8:00 AM to 3 PM Monday through Friday
Pastoral Staff
Rev. Nicholas A. Sannella, Pastor
Rev. Kenneth Healey, SM, Parochial Vicar
Rev. Raju Muringayil, O. Praem, Assisting Priest
Deacon Stephen M.Papik
Deacon Carlos Desousa
Sister Irene Martineau, SASV, Secretary & Bulletin Editor
Ms. Claire Couillard
Pastoral Associate
Director of Religious Education Gr. 1-10
Catherine Fiorino, School Principal
School Tel: 978-454-5339
Mass Schedule School Fax: 978-454-6593
Weekends: Parish Website: www.iclowell.org
Saturday 4:00 p.m.
Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. ✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣
Sacraments
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION MISSION STATEMENT Baptism – On an individual basis by appointment.
Please contact the Rectory Office.
We, at Immaculate Conception Church,
Reconciliation – By appointment
are a welcoming community of faith
that strives to carry out the mission of Jesus
Matrimony – Arrangements must be made at least six months in
by journeying in faith, sharing in joy,
advance.
and living in hope. Come join us.
Ministry to the Sick – Please inform the Staff about anyone confined
in your home or in a Nursing Home. Communion is brought regularly
to the homebound.
Parish Membership
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Bulletin Deadline: Friday at Noon
All new families are welcome to the parish and
are encouraged to become actively involved. Parish Meetings
New parishioners should register at the Rectory
St. Vincent de Paul: 7:00 p.m. Monday in church basement
as soon as possible.
Off the parking lot
Adult Choir 7:00 p.m. Thursdays in church
Children’s Choir: 2:00 p.m. Friday in church
Religious Education: Sundays, bi-monthly from 9:00 to 11 AM
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Most Holy Trinity Sunday
MISSION SCHOOL STATEMENT Reflection on Most Holy Trinity Sunday
Immaculate This feast is not the time to try and explain how three
goes into one! The Trinity is not something that we can
Conception School fosters
understand and figure out with our reasoning, intellect
Students in a
or with our brain. We most certainly won’t find the
Catholic Community with a explanation to the Trinity by ‘googling’ it!
Highly dedicated staff, centered on
Outstanding academic excellence, The Trinity is a mystery that we are to experience with
Ongoing Commitment to service, and a our hearts not with our heads. It is not a puzzle or a
Love for Learning! riddle that we are expected to answer or solve. When
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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL IN LOWELL the Trinity, we are talking about a reality that is so
is now accepting registrations for the endlessly rich and profound that it will never be
2022-2023 school year. exhausted
Please call to make arrangements
for a tour by calling 978-454-5339. When we look at the news on our television or read the
newspaper any day, we are often presented with news
We offer:
of violence, segregation and building walls. There is the
-Full day Pre-Kindergarten for 3 & 4 yr.olds reality of individuals and indeed some countries
-Full day Kindergarten speaking about and defending their rights at the
-Religion expense of dialogue and cooperation with other nations.
-Academic program for grades 1-8
-Physical Education-Spanish-Music-Art The Trinity offers us a model of sharing, belonging and
-Technology Classes community. It also challenges our individualism and
-Before and After School Care programs our demand that our rights be met all the time. The
Trinity asks to be mindful of our responsibilities to
-Hot Lunch program
those around us in our families, our neighbourhood and
-Extra-curricular activities (athletic our parish community.
program, ski club, dance, art club
Drama club and homework club) In the Christian tradition, when we begin our prayers,
-Financial Aid is available for K-8 whether as individuals or a community, we do so by
students who qualify making the sign of the cross and calling on the power
✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣ and presence of the Trinity. When we pray glory be…,
End-of-the-School Year Schedule we do the same. We deliberately and consciously ask
Monday – June 6 the Trinity to be part of prayer and our daily life.
Last Day for Hot Lunch Perhaps on the Feast of the Trinity we could say these
Tuesday – June 7 prayers slower and let their meaning become part of us
Field Day –Half Day – No PM Bussing in a more intimate and personal way.
Wednesday—June 8/ Thursday – June 9
Half Day – No PM Bussing Praise and everlasting glory to God the Father, to the
Friday – June 10 Son and to the Holy Spirit through all ages. (Prayer
Mass at 10:30 M Dismissal at 11: 30 am from the early church) Michael Moore, OMI
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL 2001-2002 YEAR
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Most Holy Trinity Sunday
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
MASSES
Saturdays – 4 PM
Sundays - 8 AM and 10 AM & 12 Noon
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO:
SATURDAY – JUNE 18, 2022 Bruce and Kathleen Akashian
4 PM Patricia (Lynch) Collins, 22nd Anniversary Bonita Flanagan
William J. Collins, 8th Anniversary Robert Kemper
SUNDAY – JUNE 19, 2022 Margaret Lombardi
8 AM Terrence “Terry” McCarthy, 1stAnniversary Milissa and Frederick Moynihan
Patricia O’Brien
10 AM Kathleen (McGarahan) Dunfey Memorial M FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS
IN MEMORY OF
12 NOON FRENCH MASS (Franco-American W.) RICHARD O’BRIEN, JR.
WEEKLY COLLECTIONS
May 29, 2022
Weekly Collection: $4,125.00
Building Fund: $2,006.00
Ascension: $381.00
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Eleana Brennan
Robert and Maureen Curran
Charles and Stephanie Donahue
Kathleen Flynn
Mary E. Howe
PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL Edward and Peggy Jump
OUR ARMED FORCES Elizabeth and William Keegan
Lance CPL James Bakanosky U.S. Marines AFGHANISTAN William and Phyllis Leary
Sgt. James R. Boudreau U.S. Army Newport, RI Elizabeth Luz
Capt. Christopher Buck, U.S. Army Clarksville, TN
Lance CPL Michael P Crowley U.S. Marines-AFGHANISTAN
M/M Kevin MacLaughlan
Corp. James Farley U.S. Marines Special Forces Mideast Malavich Family
SN Michael Gendron U.S Coast Guard John P. and Mary R. McAnespie
Master Sgt. Michael G. Hill U.S. Marines, Camp Lejeune,NC John and Sandra Ryan
Captain Jeremy LaBranche U.S. Army …….Vicenza, Italy Toni Sideman
SPC Pieter Lobscher U.S. Army AFGHANISTAN
AST 3 Michael Linehan U.S. Coast Guard
John and Eileen Varoski
SN Nicholas Ludwig U.S. Navy FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS
A1C Emily McPhillips Air Force IN MEMORY OF
Master Sgt. Nicholas Owens USAF EDWARD ‘TED’ RYAN
1st Lieutenant Michael Trout US.MarinesCamp Pendleton, CA
NATIONAL GUARD ✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣
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THANK YOU FROM THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH
ST. MARY’S MISSION IN The weekend of July 23rd and 24th
LANCASTER, PA a Missionary from the Diocese of Damango
PLEASE CONTINUE TO BRING in Ghana will be speaking at all Masses
YOUR RELIGIOUS ITEMS, BUT
NO BOOKS.
They will return in September.
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JUNE 12, 2022
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
MASSES PARISH OFFICE
S SATURDAY JUNE 11, 2022 MOVED TO
4 PM Peter P. Rogers, 14th Anniversary LOWER LEVEL
Blanche Mullin, 13th Anniversary OF THE CHURCH
SUNDAY JUNE 12, 2022
8AM Joseph and Janet Sweeney IN PARKING LOT AREA
Helen L. Sousa, Month’s Mind Mass
FIRST DOOR TO THE LEFT
10AM FOR THE PARISHIONERS ✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣
12 NOON FOR THE PARISHIONERS
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PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH HOLIDAY TOUR
Lancaster, PA
Featuring “David” & “Home for the Holidays”
Plus Hershey, PA WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO:
NOVEMBER 8 to NOVEMBER 11 Gail Anne Desmond
4 days – 3 nights Enterprise Bank
$650 Per Person Gallagher & Cavanaugh
Double Occupancy John P. and Sheila V. Harrington
Registration Fee: $20.00 Brian P. and Carol A. Holbrook
PACKAGE INCLUDES: Janet M. Laverty
3 Nights Lodging 3 Breakfasts Kevin D. and Donna M. MacLaughlan
3 Dinners James Milinazzo
Above mentioned shows Steven W. and Lois A. Nikitin
Guided Tour of the Amish Countryside Mary E. Saab
Including stops at an Amish Craft Farm… Michael J. and Donna A. SullivanJohn A. and
Guided Tour of Hershey, etc…. Eileen M. Varoski
Hershey Story Museum and more FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS
Kitchen Kettle Village IN MEMORY OF
Lancaster Central Market and Souvenir Gift GEORGE W. ANTHES
Luggage Handling……
All Taxes & Meal Gratuities
Motorcoach Transportation ✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣✣
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Fr. John Hogan
1351 Main St.
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JESUS IS HERE LOWELL’S 2022 FRANCO-
AMERICAN FESTIVAL WEEK
JesusIsHereBoston.org BEGINS SUNDAY, JUNE 19
Archdiocese of Boston Eucharistic Sunday, June 19: 12 pm Mass in French
Congress honoring St. Jean Baptiste and dedicated
to recently deceased Biloxi Bishop Roger
To mark the close of the Year of the Morin of Dracut, MA. (French/English
Eucharist, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley Cap worship aid provided.) At Immaculate
invites all Catholics to a EUCHARISTIC Conception Church, 144 E. Merrimack
St., Lowell, MA. Light refreshments and
CONGRESS
naming the Franco-American of the Year
in church hall downstairs.
--JESUS IS HERE, Saturday, June 18
at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA Monday, June 20: 6:30 to 8:30 pm Family
Bingo in French/English, St. Michael’s
The day-long Congress from (8:30am-6:00pm) School Hall, 21 Sixth St., Lowell, MA
will feature nationally known Catholic speakers:
Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Daniel Flores, Tuesday, June 21: 5 to 8 pm, French
Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, and Jackie and Quadrilles/Contra Dances at the Lowell
Bobby Angel. Senior Center, 276 Broadway, Lowell.
Free Admission! Live music! No partner
The event, hosted by Bishop Robert Reed, also needed.
features music by Sarah Kroger, Ike Ndolo and
Ricky Vazques of Village Lights, a multi-cultural Thursday, June 23: 10 am, Flag Raising
collective. at Lowell City Hall, followed by coffee
and donuts. (Outdoors if weather is
Cardinal Sean will open the Congress with Mass favorable; in City Hall is rainy.) 6:30 pm
and close with Adoration and a Eucharistic Vesper Prayer Service honoring Jean
procession through the streets of Lowell. Baptiste followed by Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament, 543 Bridge St. Lowell.
Early bird tickets are $39 before March 31. Wine and cheese to follow in St. Michael’s
After that date, prices go up to $49 each. School Hall, 21 Sixth St.
-JESUS IS HERE for Youth/Young Adults at the Friday, June 24: 6 to 10 pm GALA 50th
Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Friday evening, ANNIVERSARY BUFFET DINNER with
June 17, 2022, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. The evening, cheese/crackers, appetizers, salad, dessert
hosted by Fr. Matt Williams, music by Village and traditional French-Canadian music.
Lights, talks by Jackie and Bobby Angel. Social hour at 6; dinner at 7; cash bar for
beverages. $50 per attendee; tables of 10
Adoration and Confession. Tickets for the can be reserved. Tickets must be pre-
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