Welcome to Immaculate Conception Parish!

You may notice some reserved signs on certain pews in church. These are for Handicap Seating. Please DO NOT REMOVE these signs from the pews. Your understanding is appreciated!

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.

The next Movie Night has been scheduled for Friday, June 12th at 7:00pm in the Parish Hall. The movie being shown is “Triumph of the Heart: the story of St. Maximillian Kolbe”, a Franciscan priest who volunteered to die in place of another man’s life at Auschwitz concentration camp. Bring a friend and learn about this dedicated priest.

We wish to thank YOU, our parishioners, for the overwhelming response to the recent “Soap for Hope” drive to benefit the Samaritan Center. We received many wonderful donations throughout the past weeks, and it seemed like our bins were always full. Your gracious generosity is so greatly appreciated and will go far to assist people in need in our community. Many, many thanks!!!

Birthright of Ithaca would like to thank all who contributed to our Mother’s Day fundraiser. You made this new endeavor very successful, and words cannot express our gratitude. It is a gift to be a part of the mission of Birthright and to be able to witness how God moves those to help us achieve it. We would like to thank the Knights of Columbus for sponsoring this fundraiser. Their contribution of the baby bottles made this endeavor possible, and we appreciate the leg work they put in to deliver and pick up bottles at various churches. Thank you so very much for your continued support of what we do. May God richly bless you all.

We would like to thank all those who have contributed to CMA campaign. Although our participation rate was lower than last year, we were finally able to not only meet our goal, but exceed it. Your generosity was so vital in helping us achieve this. Thank you for your support.

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 welcome these new members to the Pastoral Council who have been nominated and have accepted:

Robert Levine, Julia Conklyn, Robert Chapman, Rob Gibbons and Laurie Konwinski

Pray for the success of their ministry.

Our Outgoing Pastoral Council Members are:

Patricia Welch, Dan Carney, John Balmer, David Guaspari and Lorene Jump

 We greatly appreciate their dedication and thank them for their service to our community.

The parish communication ministry is fully constituted. This ministry is designed to help the parish staff, parish ministries/committees to share information effectively with parishioners and the wider community. Their core responsibility is information distribution using the weekly bulletin, quarterly newsletter, to promote the parish locally and beyond, ensuring the parishioners are informed about the parish events/news. Together with the staff they will create clear and consistent messaging and timely updates to meet the pastoral needs of the parish.

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 ([email protected])

If you pick up the “Word Among Us” booklet, there are blue envelopes to donate $1 for this. By donating just, a single $1, it helps us cover the cost so we can keep providing this wonderful booklet for you.

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.

We thank God that after more than 4 years of waiting the gift shop is finally being taken down. Many thanks to the buildings and grounds team for their tireless effort to make this happen. It feels good not to be surrounded by a ghostly building!

 The big question now; what happens next? There are many questions being asked on this matter. First, in the immediate, it will remain a vacant lot. In the long term, the lot will house the future rectory/parish office. The plans are already drawn up and are ready to go when the funds are available for this proposed project. For it to happen in the future we will all need to work together. Nothing is impossible with the help of God who has helped us to be where we are today.

 The current rectory is not in the best shape as we all know. It has many structural issues, accessibility is a great challenge, and not energy efficient. It is not worth putting more money into repairs.

 Ideas on this subject are welcomed. Our parish is blessed with generous and resourceful people. Feel free to share your good ideas with the members of the Building and Grounds Team.

 Fr. Chumo

Brett Burt from LPI, our bulletin printer, will be securing new ads for our church in the coming weeks. As a valuable member of the business community, we invite you to expand your reach and grow your business with a print ad in our parish bulletin and/or a digital ad featured on ParishesOnline.com You can contact Brett Burt at [email protected] or call him at 585-206-0678.

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 [email protected] for information or to register.

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