Immaculate Conception Parish (St. Jude's Mission)

06/08/2026

We took our faith to the streets yesterday! 🕊️ Our community came together for a powerful Corpus Christi procession, bringing the real presence of Jesus from the altar to the world. A beautiful testament of faith, community, and public adoration. ✨ A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made this possible. Check out the full photo album on our website!

🔗 https://www.iccelkton.org/parish-memories-photo-album

06/08/2026

🌍 “The family that prays together stays together” — and on June 13, our global Catholic family is coming together in prayer!

We are excited to share this special invitation for the Worldwide Global Rosary. Shrines of Mother Mary across the globe will connect for this powerful broadcast, led by the National Shrine of Our Lady of Knock in Ireland. It is a beautiful opportunity to connect our community with the universal Church.

When: June 13 at 7:00 AM ET
Watch the video for all the details on the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ez8CzjGbLs

Save the date and let us unite our hearts in prayer with millions across the globe! ✨

Pray the Global Sacred Heart Novena here: https://www.sacredheartch...

06/08/2026

JUNE 8 + Today is the Feast Day of Spiritual Warriors Saints Gildard and Medard + Pray for us

These two saints of France were twin brothers. They were born on the same day in the year 448 AD, consecrated bishops on the same day, and died on the same day in 525.

Medard was Bishop of Noyon. Gildard was Bishop of Rouen. Their memories are most loving ones in northern France. Medard began the custom of crowning each year as the Rose Queen the most virtuous and holy young Catholic girl of his diocese. If it rains on the feast of Saint Medard, the loving Catholic peasants of northern France take it as a sign that it will rain for forty days more.

06/07/2026

Today we celebrate the profound and beautiful Solemnity of Corpus Christi (the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)! ✨

This is a special moment to publicly honor our Catholic faith and witness our love for the Real Presence of Jesus. By walking together in our Eucharistic Procession, we show the world that lives can still be transformed by Christ. Despite any challenges we face, we joyfully proclaim the beauty of having Him at the center of our lives.

Join our parish family in this special tradition today at the conclusion of the 11:00 AM Mass at ICC. Let’s share our love of the Lord with one another and our community! 🙏🤍

06/06/2026

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ ( Corpus Christi) June7, 2026. June7, 2026. Music used with permission under One License

06/06/2026

Guess who's back? 👀 Father Rich is returning to our screens for a very special journey this June!

To celebrate the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are launching a new daily video series. The inspiration? A beautiful 1920s devotion manual belonging to Father Rich’s grandparents, filled with timeless prayers. ❤️

Following the national consecration to the Sacred Heart by the U.S. Bishops on June 11th, our daily reflections will officially kick off on Friday, June 12th!

Watch today's welcome video to learn more, follow along with us every day this month for a brief, peaceful moment of prayer. 🙏✨

06/06/2026

JUNE 6 + Today is the Feast Day of Spiritual Warrior Saint Norbert + Pray for us

Norbert started out as a frivolous and worldly cleric, but was changed by God’s grace into a powerful preacher and an important reformer of the Church during the early 12th century and is the founder of the Norbertine order.

Born around the year 1080 in the German town of Xanten, Norbert belonged to a high-ranking family with ties to the imperial court. As a young man he showed a high degree of intelligence and sophistication but Norbert's gifts and advantages would prove to be a source of temptation even after he joined the ranks of the clergy.

Norbert was ordained as a subdeacon, and enrolled with a group of clerics in his town, before moving on to an appointment with the Archbishop of Cologne. He went on to serve the German Emperor Henry V, in a position which involved the distribution of aid to the poor. In all of this, however, Norbert displayed no particular piety or personal seriousness, living a rather pleasurable and luxurious life.

But all of that changed when a thunderstorm had boiled up suddenly as Norbert was out riding. High winds pushed and pulled at his fashionable coif, rain slashed at his fancy clothes, and dark clouds pressed night down upon his light thoughts. A sudden flash of lightning split the dark and his horse threw Norbert to the ground.

For almost an hour, Norbert lay unmoving. Even the rain soaking his clothes and the howl of thunder did not bring him back to consciousness and life. When he awoke his first words were, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" — the same words Saul spoke on the road to Damascus. In response, Norbert heard, "Turn from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it."

He immediately returned to Xanten to devote himself to prayer and penance. He now embraced the instruction for the priesthood he had avoided and was ordained in 1115. His complete conversion and new ways caused some to denounce the former courtier as a hypocrite. Norbert's response was to give everything he owned to the poor and to go to the pope for permission to preach.

With this commission in hand, he became an itinerant preacher, traveling through Europe with two companions. In an extreme response to his old ways, he now chose the most difficult ways to travel — walking barefoot in the middle of winter through snow and ice. Unfortunately his two companions died from the ill-effects of exposure. The bishop offered Norbert land where he could start his own community. In a lonely valley called Prmontr, began his community with thirteen canons. Despite the strictness of his regulation his reforms attracted many disciples until eight abbeys and two convents were involved.

When two rival popes were elected after the death of Honorius II, Norbert helped try to heal the Church by getting the emperor to support the first elected, Innocent II. At the end of his life he was made an archbishop but he died soon after on June 6, 1134 at the age of 53.

06/04/2026

JUNE 4 + Today is the Feast Day of Spiritual Warrior Saint Francis Caracciolo + Pray for us

Francis was born of a royal family in the Kingdom of Naples. As a little boy he started reciting the rosary daily. Very early in his life he contracted a troublesome skin disease resembling leprosy, and was miraculously cured of it. He spent every possible moment of his life in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. While kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, his face blazed with light, which everyone could see. His favorite devotion was visiting the Blessed Sacrament in unfrequented churches, where few people came.

In 1588, Francis founded the Clerics Regular, whose main work was the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. He died when only 44 years old, on the eve of Corpus Christi. His last words were, “Let us go, let us go to Heaven!”

When his body was opened after death, his blood spouted a red and scented fluid and his vital organs were incorrupt. Francis' heart was found as if it were burnt up, and these words imprinted around it: "Zelus domus Tuæ comedit me" — "The zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up."

06/03/2026

JUNE 3 + Today is the Feast Day of Spiritual Warrior Saint Clotilde — Queen of France and the Patron Saint of adopted children, brides, parenthood, parents of large families and widows. + Pray for us

Clotilde was the wife of King Clovis, who established a dynasty that ruled in France for several hundred years. When they were married in 492, Clovis was not Christian, but she brought him to the Catholic faith.

Clovis was baptized on Christmas Day as well as the most important chiefs of the Frankish people converted with Clovis. It was the first nation as such that converted to the Catholic faith. On the day of the Baptism of the Franks, an Angel brought Clotilde the new banner of the Franks. Before, the banner had three frogs on it; now it had three fleurs-de-lis.

Together Clovis and Clotilde founded a church in Paris that they named after Saints Peter and Paul, which was later renamed St. Genevieve. Clovis and Clotilde are still buried there.

When Clovis died, their three sons feuded for the throne — even murdering family members, including women and children. The struggles and murders broke Clotilde’s heart, and she left the royal household and moved to Tours, where she spent the rest of her life in prayer and service to the poor.

Her two sons who had survived the family conflict finally took up arms against each other. Clotilde heard of an impending battle between the two, and prayed at the tomb of St. Martin of Tours that the struggle come to an end. Her prayers were answered when a great storm drove the armies from the field of battle.

Queen Clotilde died on June 3, 545 in Tours. When she passed on, a dazzling light and heavenly incense filled the room. She was buried next to her husband, in Saint Genevieve in Paris, a church that she and Clovis founded.

Beautiful vocations like hers are often born from the worse storms and disasters. They are born from great sufferings, tragedies, deceptions, contradictions and incomprehensible situations. In such souls, it becomes clear that the success of these vocations does not rely simply on human merit. They are due to the will and action of God, which often comes to us through the intercession of Our Lady.

06/02/2026

The Path of Jesus is making its way to our diocese! 🕊️

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is coming to the Diocese of Wilmington on June 11-12. From the Chesapeake Bay to the Delaware River, join us for Masses, processions, and adoration along the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Route. Check out the flyer for the schedule and let’s walk with Him! 🥖🤍

🔗 All events are open to the public. Registration is encouraged: cdow.org/cabriniroute