Immaculate Conception Parish and St. Jude Mission Church

The ICC Faith Formation Committee is pleased to announce these exciting opportunities and resources for adults that will serve to enrich your faith life as a member of our parish and help you to share your faith more effectively with others.  We invite you to consider taking part in one or more of the activities below:

Adult Faith Formation Group Session:

No Greater Love - A Biblical Walk Through Christ’s Passion

Walk with Jesus from the garden of Gethsemane to Mount Calvary. Experience a deeper understanding and appreciation of God’s immeasurable and unconditional love for you. Enrich your Lenten journey with our new faith formation session:

Share this journey with fellow parishioners in this 5 week course, beginning February 27. Sessions will be held in the parish center Monday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm and Thursday mornings from 9:00-11:00am.

Will you Follow Jesus to Calvary?    Click here and download the registration form

Will you Follow Jesus to Calvary?    Click here to register online

This course requires a study set which can be purchased through Ascension Press (https://ascensionpress.com/collections/no-greater-love)

ICC Divine Mercy Prayer Group 

We invite all adult parishioners to join us. Come learn about the message of divine mercy and pray with us. This group meets weekly on Tuesdays at 4:30pm via ZOOM. Please contact Heather Ulmen at [email protected] for the zoom invitation.

Spiritual Book Group

This book group meets via Zoom on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30. It is open to all adults and is focused on enhancing spiritual growth. Participants purchase their own books. For further information, you may contact                Mary Ann Hopkins at [email protected]

Liturgy, Eucharistic Adoration, and Prayer

Our Eucharistic Lord waits for us in every tabernacle and monstrance, and He longs for us to be in His presence.  Come
spend some time with Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration, for Christ’s Eucharistic presence is “the source and summit of the Christian life” (CCC1324). 

Lectio divina

A VERY ANCIENT art, practiced at one time by all Christians, is the technique known as lectio divina – a slow, contemplative praying of the Scriptures which enables the Bible, the Word of God, to become a means of union with God. This ancient practice has been kept alive in the Christian monastic tradition, and is one of the precious treasures of Benedictine monastics and oblates. Together with the Liturgy and daily manual labor, time set aside in a special way for lectio divina enables us to discover in our daily life an underlying spiritual rhythm. Within this rhythm we discover an increasing ability to offer more of ourselves and our relationships to the Father, and to accept the embrace that God is continuously extending to us in the person of his Son Jesus Christ.   For moreinformation and guidance on this, click here.

Marriage and Family Life

Marriage, unique for a reason. Insights from the USCCB.

For Your Marriage - For Your Marriage helps couples at all stages of life to understand and live God’s plan for happy, holy marriages by providing educational and spiritual resources.

Faithful Citizenship

Look here for more information from the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) about being a faithful citizen,   click here for a link to the USCCB’s Faithful Citizenship website.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mare Draper at 410-392-3560 or [email protected]