Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Springfield, IL

Mass Intentions

Monday, March 8

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath 
(Augustine Eleyidath)

12:05pm – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(The Anselment Family)

5:15pm – Jack Koester
(Cindy Vahling)

Tuesday, March 9

7am – Special Intention for Sheree Graves
(Sheree Graves)

12:05pm – Mrs. Jack Koester
(Cindy Vahling)

5:15pm – Special Intention for Rev. Brian Alford
(Chris Sommer)

Wednesday, March 10

7am – John Montgomery
(John Busciacco)

12:05pm – Fr. Lambert Leykam,OFM
(Cindy Vahling)

5:15pm – William F. & Shirley Logan
(Lisa Logan & Lori LoganMotyka)

Thursday, March 11

7am – Jean Reno Greenwald
(Richard & Joan Rogers)

12:05pm – Joseph A. DelGiorno
(Patricia Kornfield)

5:15pm – Rosemary Dougherty
(Lou Ann & Carl Corrigan)

Friday, March 12

7am – Patria & Rufino Gontanco
(Hati & Joe Uy)

12:05pm – George Friedel
(Roy Ponce)

5:15pm – Special Intention forBianca
(D. A. Drago)

Saturday, March 13

8am – Catherine Ponce
(Larry & Sue Ruder)

4pm – For the People

Sunday, March 14

7am – Mary Ann Midden
(William Midden)

10am – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(The Anselment Family)

5pm – Sally Sedlak Vaugh
(Becky & Woody Woodhull)

Mass Intentions the Week of March 1st

Monday, March 1

7am – Rosemary Long
(Lou Ann & Carl Corrigan)

12:05pm – Sophia E. Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

5:15pm – Pat Sumpter
(Linda Pierceall)

Tuesday, March 2

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

12:05pm – Bruce Scopel
(Rebecca & Woody Woodhull)

5:15pm – Bettie Rapps
(D. Vandrew)

Wednesday, March 3

7am – Patricia Scherrills
(Friends & Family)

12:05pm – Jean Greenwald Reno
(Jim & Sandy Bloom)

5:15pm – Truman Flatt
(Phil Flatt)

Thursday, March 4

7am – George Friedel
(Linda Sabol)

12:05pm – Joseph A. DelGiorno
(Lou Ann & Carl Corrigan)

5:15pm – Eugene Nalesnik
(Fr. Augustine Tolton Council16126)

Friday, March 5

7am – Catherine Ponce
(Ed & Frances Brown)

12:05pm – Patricia Scherrills
(Al & Bobbi Lewis)

5:15pm – Betty Rapps
(Lou Ann & Carl Corrigan)

Saturday, March 6

8am – Sophia E. Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

4pm – Deceased Members of theMcGee, Schweska & KaufmanFamilies (Susan Ochoa)

Sunday, March 7

7am – Deceased Members of theBee Family (Mark & Sharon Price)

10am – Charles & MercedesNesbitt (Kathy Frank)

5pm – For the People

St. Polycarp: Fleeing Faithless Affairs

Feast Day: February 23rd 

Polycarp was fond of telling stories about his teacher.  One tale stands the test of time and brings a smile to my face as I tell it here: on the famous day his teacher entered the bathhouse in Ephesus only to explode forth a few seconds later – no bath having been accomplished – “let us fly” he exclaimed, “lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.” [Ireneaus, Adversus Haereses, bkIII.ch3.p4]  Polycarp’s mentor had good reason to flee.  Cerinthus professed, and proclaimed, a whole hodgepodge of beliefs he had drawn from Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and the many other philosophies that were passed around in those days – a perfectly human reaction to the costly decision to risk one’s intellect by surrendering to real faith – but one that meant he was toxic to those who professed the Christian faith.  Cerinthus claimed that Jesus was not divine, that God did not really create the world, that St. Paul was an apostate, and the Jewish Law was still required.  

The man who catapulted out of that bathhouse was St. John the Evangelist.  The “disciple who Jesus loved”, the man who saw with his own eyes the transformation of water into wine, the magic catch of fish, the multiplication of the loaves, the transfiguration and agony in the garden.  This disciple, who had laid his head upon Jesus’ heart at the Last Supper and heard the heartbeat of God, and had seen that same heart pierced, and His blood pouring down the cross, would not remain in the presence of someone who denied his Savior’s divinity.  “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son”, this apostle had penned, and he would not even remain across the room from someone who flagrantly rejected that truth.

Who of us has as great of faith as St. John the Apostle?  Yet do I flee the mixed half-truths and underminings of our faith that are even more prevalent in our world as he did from that bathhouse?  St. Polycarp sat at the feet of John.  He saw the love and faith of the now-old apostle as John preached the Love of God, and Polycarp remembered that this staunch, bent, weather-beaten man – his life completely transformed by Jesus’ call to “come follow me and I will make you a fisher of men” – with a faith uncrushable by the might of Roman torture, yet who had scattered from the presence of one who blasphemed His Lord.  

Mosaic of St. Polycarp, Sant’Appollinare Nuovo, in Ravenna, created in the 5th or 6th century.  This is a closeup of the portraits of many male saints mosaiced upon the south wall.

Irenaeus, in the next generation of Christian saints, points his own readers back to Polycarp: “There is also a very powerful Epistle of Polycarp written to the Philippians, from which those who choose to do so, and are anxious about their salvation, can learn the character of his faith, and the preaching of the truth.”  [Ireneaus, Adversus Haereses, bkIII.ch3.p4].  What great truths do we find in this letter, one of the earliest that we have just decades after the Gospels were written and Paul crisscrossed the Mediterranean?  He recalls the words of his friend, St. John, “For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist” [1 John 4:3] and continues:

and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan. Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us … “watching unto prayer” [1 Peter 4:7] and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God not to “lead us into temptation.” [Matthew 6:13]. [St. Polycarp, Epistle to the Philippians, ch7]

Perhaps we should take his teaching to heart as we flee the occasions of sin and falsehood in our own lives?  Is this the saintly invitation to turn away from profane words and conversations this Lent?

– Fr. Dominic Rankin continues to blast through audio books at a rate of one every 2 or 3 days.  With St. Polycarp’s words on his mind, he is going to be more discerning about whether the books are bringing him closer to God, or not.  Popular is not the same as good, beautiful, true, or godly.

Mass Intentions Week of February 22

Monday, February 22

7am – John & Edith Bakalar
(John Busciacco)

12:05pm – Helen Call
(Becky & Woody Woodhull)

5:15pm – Sharon Mester
(Linda Pierceall)

Tuesday, February 23

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

12:05pm – Repose of the Soul of Mary Ann Zerrusen
(Cindy Vahling)

5:15pm – Frances Klein 
(Andrew & Cheryl Klein Family)

Wednesday, February 24

7am – Lawrence Jaros
(Emily Walton & Family)

12:05pm – Jean Reno (Greenwald)
(Jim & Sandy Bloom)

5:15pm – Catherine Ponce
(Michael Mecava)

Thursday, February 25

7am – Sophia E. Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

12:05pm – Eugene Nalesnik
(Fr. Augustine Tolton Council16126)

5:15pm – George Friedel
(Richard & Janice Willaredt)

Friday, February 26

7am – Sophia E. Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

12:05pm – Sr. Valeria, OSF
(Becky & Woody Woodhull)

5:15pm – Lawrence Jaros
(Emily Walton & Family)

Saturday, February 27

8am – Patricia Scherrills
(Bill & Sara Metcalf)

4pm – Sarah McGee
(Tom McGee)

Sunday, February 28

7am – Mary Ann Midden
(William Midden)

10am – For the People

5pm – Rita DesMarteau
(Christ the King Staff)

Mass Intentions

Monday, February 15

7am – Repose of the Soul of Adeline Weber Barclay
(Cindy Vahling)

5:15pm – NO MASS 

Tuesday, February 16

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

5:15pm – Gavin Brandon
(Bernie Ely)

Wednesday, February 17

7am – Sophia Bartoletti 
(Bartoletti Family)

12:05pm – Mary Priester
(Becky & Woody Woodhull)

5:15pm – Bettie Rapps 
(D. VanDrew)

Thursday, February 18

7am – Eugene Nalesnik
(Father Augustine Tolton Council 16126)

12:05pm – Otis Huber
(The Huber Children)

5:15pm – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(Jim & Sandy Bloom)

Friday, February 19

7am – Norma Fairweather
(Andrew & Cheryl Klein Family)

12:05pm – Gavin Brandon 
(Bernie Ely)

5:15pm – Rebaq Cloyd 
(Ann Hosteny)

Saturday, February 20

8am – Lawrence Jaros 
(Emily Walton & Family)

4pm – For the People

Sunday, February 21

7am – Deceased Members of thePrice Family
(Mark & SharonPrice)

10am – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(The Anselment Family)

5pm – Rita DesMarteau
(Family)

Mass Intentions

Monday, February 8

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

5:15pm – Sophia Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

Tuesday, February 9

7am – Special Intention for Sheree Graves
(Sheree Graves)

5:15pm – Richard McFadden
(Linda Pierceall)

Wednesday, February 10

7am – Special Intention for Brother Anthony McCoy
(Friend)

5:15pm – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(Jim & Sandy Bloom)

Thursday, February 11

7am – John Montgomery
(John Busciacco)

5:15pm – Special Intention for Barbara Ozanic
(Chris Sommer)

Friday, February 12

7am – Dannie Roe
(Rebecca & Walter Woodhull)

5:15pm – Special Intention for Bianca
(D. A. Drago)

Saturday, February 13

8am – Angeline Sherman
(Warren Sherman)

4pm – For the People

Sunday, February 14

7am – Mary Ann Midden
(William Midden)

10am – Valeria Shaughnessy
(Mr. & Mrs. Michael Shaughnessy& Family)

5pm – Mary & Stanley Posnack
(Becky & Woody Woodhull)

Mass Intentions for the Week of February 1

Monday, February 1

7am – Special Intention for Steve Roach
(Chris Sommer)

5:15pm – Sophia Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

Tuesday, February 2

7am – Jean Reno (Greenwald)
(Phillipa Porter)

5:15pm – Norma Bartoletti
(Carl & Lou Ann Corrigan)

Wednesday, February 3

7am – Lawrence Jaros
(Emily Walton & Family)

5:15pm – Valeria Shaughnessy
(Mr. & Mrs. Michael Shaughnessyand Family)

Thursday, February 4

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

5:15pm – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(Rob & Jan Sgambelluri)

Friday, February 5

7am – John Piccinino
(John Busciacco)

5:15pm – William F. & Shirley Logan
(Lisa Logan & Lori LoganMotyka)

Saturday, February 6

8am – For the People

4pm – Deceased Members of theMcGee, Schweska, & Kaufman Families
(Susan Ochoa)

Sunday, February 7

7am – Russell Steil, Sr.
(Steil Family)

10am – Charles & Mercedes Nesbitt
(Kathy Frank)

5pm – Mary Rita DesMarteau
(Criscione Family)

Mass Intentions for Week of January 18

Monday, January 18

7am – NO MASS

5:15pm – Sophia E. Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

Tuesday, January 19

7am – NO MASS

5:15pm – John Montgomery
(John Busciacco)

Wednesday, January 20

7am – NO MASS

5:15pm – Cheryl Broughton
(Carl & Lou Ann Corrigan)

Thursday, January 21

7am – NO MASS

5:15pm – Diana J. Schumacher
(Daniel J. Schumacher)

Friday, January 22

7am – NO MASS

5:15pm – Dorothy Huber
(The Huber Family)

Saturday, January 23

8am – Catherine Ponce 
(Linda Sabol)

4pm – For the People

Sunday, January 24

7am – Mary Ann Midden
(William Midden)

10am – Pius Onyejiaju Chineke
(The Anselment Family)

5pm – Frank Orris, Jr.
(Phil & Celeste Furmanek)

Mass Intentions for the Week of Monday, January 11

Monday, January 11

7am – Tony Forlano, Sr.
(John Busicacco)

5:15pm – Richard Judd
(Carl & LouAnn Corrigan)

Tuesday, January 12

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

5:15pm – Florence Travis
(Lou Ann Mack Corrigan)

Wednesday, January 13

7am – Repose of the Soul of AverilRossiter
(Jane Fornoff)

5:15pm – Special Intention for Richard and Kay King
(Kathy Howard) 

Thursday, January 14

7am – Sophia E. Bartoletti
(Bartoletti Family)

5:15pm – Lawrence Jaros
(Katie Konsky & Family)

Friday, January 15

7am – Bonnie Donnals
(Roberts Family)

5:15pm – Frank Orris, Jr.
(Phil & Celeste Furmanek)

Saturday, January 16

8am – Diana Schumacher
(Daniel Schumacher)

4pm – Deceased Members of theMcGee, Sheweska, & KaufmanFamilies (Susan Ochoa)

Sunday, January 17

7am – Deceased Members of theBee Family
(Mark & Sharon Price)

10am – For the People

5pm – Special Intention for CarlosKhairallah
(Carlos Khairallah)

Week of January 4, 2021 Mass Intentions

Monday, January 4

7am – Anna A. Eleyidath
(Augustine Eleyidath)

5:15pm – Mae Stribling
(LouAnn Mack Corrigan)

Tuesday, January 5

7am – Special Intention for Sheree Graves
(Sheree Graves)

5:15pm – William F. & ShirleyLogan
(Lisa Logan & Lori LoganMotyka)

Wednesday, January 6

7am – Edward F. Dombrowski
(John Busciacco)

5:15pm – William F. & Shirley Logan
(Lisa Logan & Lori LoganMotyka)

Thursday, January 7

7am – Michael Poggi
(Family)

5:15pm – Special Intention for the Homeless
(Linda Pierceall)

Friday, January 8

7am – Repose of the Soul of Averil Rossiter
(Jane Fornoff)

5:15pm – Special Intention for Bianca
(D. A. Drago)

Saturday, January 9

8am – Angeline Sherman
(Warren Sherman)

4pm – Pat Mathews 
(Stanley & Thelma Rhodes)

Sunday, January 10

7am – Deceased Members of the Price Family
(Mark & SharonPrice)

10am – Joseph Wichmann
(Catholic Conference)

5pm – For the People

Liturgy

Sunday Masses (unless noted differently in weekly bulletin)
Saturday Evening Vigil – 4:00PM
Sunday – 7:00AM, 10:00AM and 5:00PM

Weekday Masses (unless noted differently in weekly bulletin)
Monday thru Friday – 7:00AM and 5:15PM
Saturday – 8:00AM

Reconciliation (Confessions)
Monday thru Friday – 4:15PM to 5:00PM

Saturday – 9:00AM to 10:00AM and 2:30PM to 3:30PM

Sunday – 4:00PM to 4:45PM

 

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Parish Address
524 East Lawrence Avenue
Springfield, Illinois 62703

Parish Office Hours
Monday thru Friday – 8:00AM to 3:30PM

Parish Phone
(217) 522-3342

Parish FAX
(217) 210-0136

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