Immaculate Conception Hoosick Falls

09/07/2026

Ashley Kitisya preaches for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, offering a reflection on climate and environmental justice as a call to communal responsibility:

"My neighbour is not only the person beside me. My neighbour is the family living near a polluted river. My neighbour is the farmer whose crops have failed because the rains no longer follow familiar patterns. My neighbour is a community forced to move because a wildfire, flood, or rising sea has made their home unsafe..."

Ashley Kitisya currently serves as Director of Africa at the Laudato Si Movement , spearheading continental initiatives that unite faith-based communities, youth, activists, and policy influencers to champion fossil fuel divestment and sustainable energy transitions. Ashley’s academic background in Law (LLM Strathmore University, LLB Catholic University of Eastern Africa), complemented by advanced training in justice, peace, and environmental governance, underpins her rigorous approach to policy advocacy and campaign development. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/09062026 to learn more about Ashley, to read her preaching text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.

09/05/2026

Check your mailboxes - letters have been mailed to families on our parish list with information about the Family Faith Formation program and First Reconciliation/Eucharist preparation. If you didn't receive a letter, we may have an incorrect address or we do not have a registration. Please call the parish office if you need a registration. Let's kick off a great year!

09/05/2026

As the new school year approaches in a few days -- we offer this prayer

09/03/2026

Join Us in Song this week:

576 O Bless the Lord, My Soul
614 How Great Thou Art
649 There Is a Longing
831 In Christ There Is No East or West

Click on the link below and you can search for the songs - we sing from the JourneySong hymnal

www.music.youtube.com

08/31/2026

It is not always as plain as a burning bush. When a door opens to us, when a threshold appears with our name on it, that invitation and call can sometimes be wildly difficult to perceive at first. In the midst of all the distractions around us and within us, may we keep learning how to clear our attention. May we know what is ours to do, and may we receive the courage to do it. This day, this blessing is for you.

BLESSING AT THE BURNING BUSH

You will have to decide
if you want this—
want the blessing
that comes to you
on an ordinary day,
when you are minding
your own path,
bent on the task before you
that you have done
a hundred times,
a thousand.

You will have to choose
for yourself
whether you will attend
to the signs;
whether you will open your eyes
to the searing light, the heat;
whether you will open
your ears, your heart
to the voice
that knows your name,
that tells you this place
where you stand—
this ground so familiar
and therefore unregarded—
is, in fact,
holy.

You will have to discern
whether you have
defenses enough
to rebuff the call,
excuses sufficient
to withstand the pull
of what blazes before you;
whether you will
hide your face,
will turn away,
back toward—
what, exactly?

No path from here
could ever be
ordinary again,
could ever become
unstrange to you,
whose seeing
has been scorched
beyond all salving.

You will know your path
not by how it shines
before you
but by how it burns
within you,
leaving you whole
as you go from here,
blazing with
your inarticulate,
your inescapable
yes.

—Jan Richardson
from How the Stars Get in Your Bones: A Book of Blessings
janrichardson.com/books

Image: "The Burning Bush"
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

(Blessing & image inspired by the story of Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3:1-15.)

08/29/2026

So cool! Send in your questions

Ever have a question about Mass, Catholic traditions, or faith in general that you’ve always wanted to ask? Here’s your chance - ask Fr. Jay!

Drop your questions in the comments below. We’ll pick a few to feature and answer in an upcoming video!

08/28/2026

Late Post --I Apologize. This is the music for the weekend.

850 This Day God Gives Me
650 Christ Be Beside Me
796 Taste and See
737 God, Whose Glory Reigns Eternal

All of the hymns can be found on YouTube and we use the hymnal, JourneySong.

With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere else.

08/27/2026

This morning the light was shining through the windows on the the mural... ❤️

08/20/2026

One of the boards that the murals will be attached to.