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History Mission Statement Schedules You will need Acrobat Reader if you do not have it to view Acrobat Reader Eucharist Ministers (Aug) Photo Album Pictures of the Parish during the Easter Triduum Pictures of the Crowning of Mary 2010 Submit Pictures/Articles for the website to sales@rlwalker.net Article on Catholicism in West Virginia Bishop Michael J. Bransfield click here for more
The Most Reverend Lord Cardinal of the Holy Roman Catholic Church Joseph Ratzinger who has taken the name Benedict XVI More on Pope Benedict XVI Pray for our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. God grant him wisdom and strength as the Vicar of Christ and spiritual leader of the Church benedictxvi@vatican.va
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An Open Letter To Non-Catholics.pdf Read the Daily Scriptural Readings NEW PARISHIONERS WELCOME! Call or come to the parish office Did you know that the Bible has a special verse for everyone's birthday? Look up your verse now
The Body of Christ Traveling or anytime you are "On the Road" nationwide and want Mass times and church locations, just Call: 1-800-MASS TIMES Father Federico's Mailing address (Click on Image to Enlarge) Sign of the Crucified One Check it out Handy Chart for All You Say - God Says We all May need to read this Did you ever wonder why the Priest folds the napkin so neatly after Mass? (Click here) To Do List: Pray Love Forgive Be a good example Be bold Be charitable and patient Trust in the Lord
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Immaculate Conception Parish Mass Times A church site of Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston Vocations Office Diocese of Wheeling Charleston 126 East Pike Street Driving Directions Phone: Parish Office: (304) 622-8243 Email: immaculateconcep@ma.rr.com Religious Education Office: (304) 622-8257 icreligious-ed@ma.rr.com Pastor: Father Casey Mahone Email: kcinwv@yahoo.com Seminarian: Tom Gallagher Sister Maria Rukwishuro, D.R.E. smchirandu@yahoo.com Sister Berita Mhashu, Assistant - sisterberita@yahoo.com Diocese of Masvingo, Zimbabwe Sisters of the Child Jesus Support Staff Kathy Szarmack, Secretary/Bookeeper - kathys@ma.rr.com Lindsey Lowe: Secretary/Bookkeeper - lmarialowe@gmail.com Tony Ziecina, Maintenance Rob Walker, Webmaster - sales@rlwalker.net Immaculate Conception Choir The Rosary is for Everybody, Catholic and Non-Catholic The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events or mysteries in the history of our salvation, and to thank and praise God for them. Pray the Rosary Daily The Year for Priests + Pray for our priests No Priest = No Eucharist, No Mission, No Church Thank you to all our Priests for your vocation, your ministry and your care for all God's people. (NEW) Vocations Office Diocese of Wheeling Charleston Encourage Priests
8/30/2010 It's Time Again! 8/30/2010Immaculate Conception has purchased for all Parish Families Email sales@rlwalker.net to get the access code and then go to the above link to download the subscription THE GAME IN 30 SECONDS In this month's Gospel Champions game, children learn the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The children have the opportunity to perform service tasks to help others while playing the game. Can you imagine how this story would have been different if the rich man had practiced service to others during his life? _Parish Email Directory,
September 5 Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Born to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje, Macedonia (then part of the Ottoman Empire), Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu was the youngest of the three children who survived. For a time, the family lived comfortably, and her father's construction business thrived. But life changed overnight following his unexpected death. During her years in public school Agnes participated in a Catholic sodality and showed a strong interest in the foreign missions. At age 18 she entered the Loreto Sisters of Dublin. It was 1928 when she said goodbye to her mother for the final time and made her way to a new land and a new life. The following year she was sent to the Loreto novitiate in Darjeeling, India. There she chose the name Teresa and prepared for a life of service. She was assigned to a high school for girls in Calcutta, where she taught history and geography to the daughters of the wealthy. But she could not escape the realities around her-the poverty, the suffering, the overwhelming numbers of destitute people. In 1946, while riding a train to Darjeeling to make a retreat, Sister Teresa heard what she later explained as "a call within a call. The message was clear. I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them." She also heard a call to give up her life with the Sisters of Loreto and, instead, to "follow Christ into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor." After receiving permission to leave Loreto, establish a new religious community and undertake her new work, she took a nursing course for several months. She returned to Calcutta, where she lived in the slums and opened a school for poor children. Dressed in a white sari and sandals (the ordinary dress of an Indian woman) she soon began getting to know her neighbors-especially the poor and sick-and getting to know their needs through visits. The work was exhausting, but she was not alone for long. Volunteers who came to join her in the work, some of them former students, became the core of the Missionaries of Charity. Other helped by donating food, clothing, supplies, the use of buildings. In 1952 the city of Calcutta gave Mother Teresa a former hostel, which became a home for the dying and the destitute. As the Order expanded, services were also offered to orphans, abandoned children, alcoholics, the aging and street people. For the next four decades Mother Teresa worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor. Her love knew no bounds. Nor did her energy, as she crisscrossed the globe pleading for support and inviting others to see the face of Jesus in the poorest of the poor. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On September 5, 1997, God called her home.
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