Immaculate Conception Church - Columbia, Illinois

06/09/2026

ICY is making HOMEMADE pies and will be selling them after all Masses June 13 & 14. Funds support their annual Mission Trip to Cairo, IL, to help those assisted by Daystar Ministries. Support our youth as they support others!

06/07/2026

TEENS & Chaperones: The annual mission trip to Cairo (IL) is set for the last Saturday in June. (It will be a very busy day!)

Please join the fun! T-shirts need to be ordered SOON, so please sign up to attend by tomorrow, June 7. (Signing up later will get you there, but probably without a cool shirt.)

PARISHIONERS: check the list of accepted donations collected June 21-25.

Information & registration right here:
https://icyouth.my.canva.site/navigation-cairo

06/05/2026

Meet our new bishop at a special Mass of Thanksgiving at 6pm on Thursday, June 18. A light reception will follow. We are delighted to welcome Bishop Godfrey and the clergy and parishioners from the Metro East Vicariate (our location within the Diocese of Belleville).

06/04/2026

The Medical Mission Trip in action.

05/26/2026

The Pope’s first encyclical to read and download!

Now you can download and read Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of his pontificate. The document was released by the Holy See on May 25, 2026.
The encyclical develops the Churchʼs social teaching in light of artificial intelligence, situating new questions of human dignity, labor, and the common good within the tradition that runs from Rerum Novarum through Centesimus Annus and Laudato Si'.
Download and read the full encyclical as a PDF here: https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/full-text-of-magnifica-humanitas-read-pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical

05/25/2026

05/22/2026

Memorial Day 5/25:
Mass at 9a at the Cemetery &
Parish Office Closed

05/21/2026

EDIT:
Summer Parish Office Hours begin this week:
M-Th 8a-3p
Friday 8a-Noon

05/19/2026

Great interview with our new bishop (actually just a few days before he was installed). 38 minutes, worth every second.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Benedictine monk Bishop Godfrey Mullen to lead the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois. Jonah McKeown of the National Catholic Registe...

05/16/2026

It’s been a very shiny school year!

We are CALLED TO SHINE!