REMINDER!
Please remember to turn in your Rice Bowls!
There is a container in the Gathering Space for returned Rice Bowls or you may return them to the church office!
Thank you!
Listen Assisted Hearing Devices
We are again missing one of the receivers that had recently been returned. Please check your pockets!
ROSARY IS PRAYED . . .
6:00 pm on Tuesdays following 5:30 pm Mass.
Pray with us either in church or on live-stream!
BUILDING FUND DONATIONS
Donations thru March 10, 2024
$239,908.32
Thanks to all (our very generous anonymous donor and parish contributors) who have donated to St. Mary Immaculate Conception Church for our Debt Reduction Campaign.
For the martyrs of our day, witnesses to Christ!
This month, I want to tell you a story that is a reflection of the Church today. It is the story of a little-known witness of faith.
Visiting a refugee camp in Lesbos, a man told me, “Father, I am Muslim. My wife was Christian. Terrorists came to our place, looked at us and asked what our religion was. They approached my wife with a crucifix and told her to throw it on the ground. She didn’t do it, and they slit her throat in front of me.” That’s what happened. I know he held no grudges. He was focused on his wife’s example of love, a love for Christ that led her to accept, and to be faithful to the point of death. Brothers, sisters, there will always be martyrs among us. This is a sign that we’re on the right journey. A person who knows told me there are more martyrs today than at the beginning of Christianity.
The courage of the martyrs, the witness of the martyrs, is a blessing for everyone. Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive. And to be open to the grace of martyrdom.
Respiratory illnesses
seem to have stabilized . . .
A potpourri of spiritual refreshment and enlightenment.
Click on the link below to visit the Youtube Channel of the Most Reverend Michael G. McGovern, Bishop of the Diocese of Belleville
Bishop Michael McGovern's Youtube Channel
Volunteer Form
If you wish to volunteer at St. Mary Immaculate Conception Parish, please download the form, complete it and follow the return instructions at the top of the form.
Beginning Sunday, January 7, 2024
DuBois - St. Charles Borromeo
Saturday: 5:00 pm
Sunday: 8:00 am
Scheller - St. Barbara
Sunday: 9:15 am
Radom - St. Michael the Archangel
Sunday: 10:30 am
CLEANING CREW
PLEASE!
NEW CLEANERS ARE NEEDED! Call Cindy Montgomery if you're interested.
Please click on the link below!
ALTAR LINENS
Click on the link below to view the schedule!
2024 Schedule
More volunteers are needed! Washing, drying and folding altar linens 1 or 2 months a years is the time commitment. Interested? Please call the parish office at 618.244-1559.
VOLUNTEERS
HOSPITALITY/LECTOR/
EM/SACRISTAN/SERVER
Click on the links below:
Hospitality/Lector/EM/
Sacristan/Servers
Schedules
SERVERS
If you cannot make your scheduled date(s), please contact Deacon Steve.
Server Registration p.1
Server Registration p. 2
LET THERE BE MUSIC!
MUSIC PEOPLE
2023-2024 Adult Education Refresher Course: Protecting Vulnerable Adults (Now Available 8-2-23)
NEW: DIOCESAN INITIAL CHILD PROTECTION POLICY TRAINING - PROTECTING CHILDREN IN THE 21ST CENTURY
[Replaces the "In-Person" Initial Child Protection Policy Training]
Diocesan Policy:
All clergy, employees and adult volunteers must complete the following to be compliant with the Diocese's Child Protection Policy:
Link to Updated Child Protection Policy
Forms:
Please print out form, complete and return to the parish office - not the address on the form!
CANTS - Every 2 years
Criminal Background Check - Every 4 years
Tues. Mar. 19 5:30pm †Mary Margaret Hilmes
Wed. Mar. 20 8:30am †Fr. Jose Ancheril
Thurs. Mar. 21 8:30am †Peggy Kiselewski @ SSM Hospital Chapel
Fri. Mar. 22 8:30am †Dottie Izard
Sat. Mar. 23 5:00pm †Paul & †Mary Dickerson
Sun. Mar. 24 10:30am
St. Mary Parishioners
Mon. Mar. 25 8:30am
†Grace Aydt
Tues Mar. 26 5:30 pm †Darlene Franscavitch
Wed Mar. 27 8:30 am †Margaret Pautler
TRIDUUM
Thurs Mar. 28 7:00 pm Thursday of the Lord's Supper at the
Evening Mass
Fri Mar. 29 12:00 Noon Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Liturgy of the Word, Adoration of the Cross,
Holy Communion)
Sat Mar. 30 8:00pm Easter Vigil in the
Holy Night
Sun Mar. 31 10:30 am Easter Sunday of the Resurrection
of the Lord
at the Mass During the Day
FOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE:
GO TO "MINISTRIES" IN THE GREEN NAVIGATOR BAR ABOVE,
THEN MOVE YOUR CURSOR TO "YOUTH."
Or "Faith Formation" then "Youth."