Welcome to Immaculate Conception Parish!

Fr. David Cataline will soon join us. The newly ordained priest has been assigned to our region: St. Catherine of Siena, Immaculate Conception, Cornell University, and Ithaca College. We warmly welcome Fr. David into our faith community, and pray that his ministry in our region will bring more people to Christ.

Daily Mass changes:
Beginning the week of July 20th through August 14th, the Daily Mass Schedule will change. We will ONLY have Daily Mass on Thursdays at 12:10pm. Fr. Chumo will be taking his
vacation in Kenya, but we are pleased to have Fr. Lioli cover weekly Thursday Mass for us during this time.

Immaculate Conception church welcomes summer visitors. We are grateful for your presence here at our church. May your prayer intentions you express here be granted. Always feel free to talk to any parishioner, staff, deacon or priest if you need help with anything while you are with us. You are a blessing to us! God bless.

Many thanks to the hospitality team who helped with the reception of the newlyweds of our parish for taking their 4th of July holiday to help prepare food and clean up after the event. We appreciate your sacrifice and your love for our parish community. God bless.

Regarding Coffee Hours:
Because the FAMBRE (Family Based Religious Education) group has use of the Parish Hall 2x monthly, we are limited
with dates to hold regular coffee hours. However, we are still planning on moving forward with Ministry Groups and/
or families to host coffee hours beginning in October, 2026.
The Knights of Columbus will be hosting a coffee hour once a month beginning October 11th, and the Clark Family is
also looking to host a coffee hour monthly. We are hoping to have Ministries host a coffee hour however please first contact Erika at the Parish Office to determine what dates
might be available. We would like to have the calendar completed by the end of August. There are NO Coffee Hours
for September due to the Parish Picnic.

Next weekend we welcome Fr. Bartholomew Amobi who will speak about the work of Cross Catholic Outreach around the world. The parish has for a long time been working with Cross Catholic Outreach to make a difference in the lives of many around the world. Be part of this mission with your prayers and in offering financial support if you can.

The Service Team is once again collecting backpacks & school supplies for underprivileged children. We will be collecting donations for 2 weeks only, beginning next weekend, July 24/25. Bins for will be located at the entrances of the church. The supplies will be distributed to needy children through Department of Social Services (DSS). As always, your generosity is most appreciated.

Please see the bulletin for more details and a list of items that are being requested.

We want to alert everyone to an ongoing scam affecting parishes. Scammers are pretending to be priests or parish staff and contacting people by email or text asking for urgent help or gift cards. Please know that your priest or parish staff will never ask for gift cards or money in this way. If you receive a message like this, do not respond & contact the parish office directly.

If you have retirement accounts and you must begin or are already taking taxable required minimum distributions, you can bypass a portion of the taxable income by making gifts to charitable organizations such as our parish. You can arrange
for these gifts to be made through your account custodian as a one time gift or periodic payments. If you have not taken your 2026 distribution yet, please consider designating a gift to the CMA so we can meet our goal this year, to Immaculate Conception Church, or to our Cemetery. A sincere thank you to all parishioners who support the church and its mission.

We are in need of Lectors to proclaim the Word of God , especially for the Saturday 4:30pm and Sunday 10:30am Masses. Training will be provided. If you feel you could serve in this Ministry, please contact the Parish Office 607-273-6121. Scheduling is based on each person’s Mass preference and personal availability.

We are currently looking for several people to assist with the monthly Mass at Cayuga Ridge Nursing Facility. The Mass is
held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 11am.
Assistants would arrive at the facility at 10:30am and assist with getting the residents to and from their rooms for Mass. We usually finish up by noon or 12:30pm. If interested,
please contact the parish office (607-273-6121) or Jan Nye (janmnye@aol.com)

The St. Joseph and Sacred Heart Candles still have many openings for intentions coming up. They burn for a week, and a requested donation is $10. Please call the parish office to sign up for Intention dates. Deceased and/or living.

Immaculate Conception Church has its own app for iPhone and Android smart phones. The My Parish App allows us to better communicate with you throughout the week and bring you relevant parish news and updates. The app is very well designed and very intuitive. It is a great resource for parishioners by providing daily Mass readings, Catholic news and prayers, convenient prayer and Confession reminders, our bulletins and more. Download the app from your app store on your cell phone

We do have Low-Gluten Hosts available for anyone needing them during Mass. Please come to the ciborium which has a drop-down handle as this contains the low gluten hosts. If unsure, just ask the Communion Minister to point you in the right direction. Just note that these are low gluten, not non-gluten.

Your voice matters. If you have a suggestion, good idea around the pastoral goals of the parish; spiritual opportunities, outreach/community building, youth and family, buildings/grounds, cemetery and financial matters, kindly stop by the pastoral council meetings that occur every first Thursday of each month. You will be listened to because you love your parish.

Confessions are heard every Saturday from 2:00pm-3:30pm in the Church.

Call 607-273-6121 to receive this Sacrament or if your loved one is in the hospital.

For Baptism, First Reconciliation, First Eucharist, and Confirmation email Rich at rich.rasmussen@dor.org for information or to register.

Call 607-273-6121 at least 6 months in advance of your wedding date.