Parish Office

2250 – 150th Street, Surrey, BC V4A 9J3

Phone: 604-531-5739 Email: parish@starofthesea.ca

For After Hours Emergencies, please call: 604-831-1162 or 604-541-8036

Office Hours

OPEN to the PUBLIC:

Monday - Friday 8:30am - Noon

Find Us Online:

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14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ July 5, 2020

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.. Matthew 11:28

Serving our Parish: Pastor: Fr. Glenn Dion (ext. 223) gdion@starofthesea.ca Assistant Pastors: Fr. Francis Mallya, ALCP/OSS (ext. 225) fmallya@starofthesea.ca Fr. Guy Zidago (ext. 273) gzidago@rcav.org Office Administrator: Mario Ylanan (ext. 276) mylanan@starofthesea.ca Office Assistant: Anne-Marie D’Mello (ext. 221) parish@starofthesea.ca Accounting: Lorena Grange (ext. 224) lgrange@starofthesea.ca Ministries/ Janice Hamanishi (ext. 280) Volunteers: janiceh@starofthesea.ca PREP Coordinator: Irina Slijouk (ext. 227) prep@starofthesea.ca Youth & Tim Mok (ext. 500) Young Adults: tmok@starofthesea.ca Music Director: Trudi Stammer (ext. 222) tstammer@shaw.ca Facilities Manager: Tom Cremer (ext. 274) tomc@starofthesea.ca

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Call the Parish Office 604-531-5739

Monday - Friday, 8:30AM - NOON.

. The Parish Office will contact you to let you know when it is YOUR TURN to attend Mass.

AT GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH

Weekday Monday 9AM

Tuesday 9AM

Wednesday 9AM

Thursday 9AM

Friday 9AM, 10:30AM

First Friday 6:30PM Weekend Saturday 5PM → LIVESTREAMED

Sunday 9AM

Sunday 11:30AM

Sunday 7:00PM Public Visitation

Adoration chapel remains closed for now,

but all are welcome to sit in the presence of the Lord in the Church

Monday to Friday 9:30AM - Noon

AT GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH

Wednesday 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Saturday 10:00am - 11:00am

For Confession outside of these set times, please contact the Parish Office for an

appointment.

Provincial health authorities continue to

call for physical distancing, frequent

handwashing and appropriate use of masks; and

to limit all public gatherings to no more than 50.

Individuals and families must take

responsibility for protecting themselves

and others. Those who MUST STAY HOME

for the sake of the wider community are:

People with COVID-19, live with someone with

COVID-19 OR been exposed to someone with

COVID-19

Anyone with even the slightest symptoms or

feelings of sickness, especially upper

respiratory or flu-like symptoms

Anyone who has recently travelled outside of

Canada

Those who are ENCOURAGED TO STAY HOME for

the sake of the wider community are:

People who live with someone with upper

respiratory or flu-like symptoms

People, especially the elderly, with underlying

or compromised medical conditions

Family members who live with elderly people

or those who are at risk

For contact tracing purposes, anyone entering the

church for Mass or visitation must be pre-

registered. Sign-up for Mass online at

www.starofthesea.ca

Everyone is required to check-in use the

hand sanitizer upon entry. Physical

distancing is to be observed at all times

on church property. Use of face masks is

left to individual discretion. You are

expected to sanitize your pew area and

any area you’ve touched with

disinfectant spray provided and take all your

items with you when you leave. WASHROOMS

ARE CLOSED at this time.

Pastor’s Corner

Dear Parishioners, Today we are adding the Sunday 7pm Mass to our schedule of weekend Masses, so we hope that this will assist many of our parishioners in being able to attend Mass on a more consistent basis, even though we can still only admit 50 people at a time to each one. The church still seems pretty empty with so few gathered, but we hope that, along with the weekday morning Masses, many of our parishioners will take a turn to attend, and have at least a modicum of sacramental grace at these irregular times of being present. Did I mention that I wore a face mask for the Confirmations and Baptisms. It was custom made in red, to match the appropriate liturgical color, an experience that seemed quite awkward at first, but gradually became more easily managed. My glasses were fogging up and my right ear doesn’t want to co-operate, but we got through it and everyone was properly baptized and anointed. I wonder what the little ones make of all this, as they observe all of us adults with our faces covered? Anyway, I hope you are keeping the protocols for distancing and sanitizing with your families, as an expression of trust in the ways to keep ourselves and others safe from being infected with this virus. The Church is doing its best to cooperate with our civic officials, so let’s work together for the good of everyone. Have a good week,

to those Baptized and Confirmed and nourished with the Body of Christ:

Octavia Choi

Walter Maute Vicki Yuan

Victor Zheng

and to those received into the Catholic Church, Confirmed and

nourished with the Body of Christ:

Anthony Hadlow Sarah Shih

Sophie Sohn Matthew Stewart

Christine West William Waddacor

and sealed with the Gift of the

Holy Spirit and Confirmed:

Poon Villanueva

Also Baptised were the following children of the candidates:

Victoria Cai Jordan Shih Caitlin Shih Vivien Shih Eden Shih

We warmly welcome all of you to our Catholic our community of faith! There will be a second group receiving the Sacraments of Initiation on July 19th. Please continue to pray for all those whom God has called to be His own ~ that their relationship with Jesus Christ will deepen with each passing day.

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ July 5, 2020

Zechariah 9:9–10 Psalm 145:1–2, 8–11, 13–14 Romans 8:9, 11–13 Matthew

In order to manage our anxiety, we seek understanding. Understanding, or perhaps simply deluding myself into thinking I understand, helps me feel like I can control any situation. Maybe

Gospel Reflection by Fr. Gaetano Piccolo catholic-link.org

this is why we so rarely truly debate things because we are sure that we are always right. We are always quite sure of how things ought to be. Every time there is room for doubt and uncertainty, it becomes a crisis; we feel lost. Pretending to understand gives us a false sense of possession: possessing life, possessing others, and even possessing God.

When it is too hard for us to just accept that we don’t understand, or to control our anxiety, we welcome any prefabricated explanation to fill the void. We go to the marketplace of explanations and trust what we find or we try to simplify reality. We label others and whole situations in order to feel control over them. We think somehow that we are wise, all the while blinding ourselves, making it impossible to discover the truth. This is why the falsely wise are always violent: because they are always imposing their names on things.

Preconceived ideas and easy explanations are a heavy yoke because they wear us down over time; we must work hard to maintain them even if they are not working. They become a weight we must bear around our necks. We become like oxen that are no longer free. We have no choice but to let the yoke we are bound to drive us.

In the rabbinic tradition, the yoke was a symbol of the Law: as the yoke helps the ox to trace a straight furrow, so the Law prevents us from leaving the furrow God has traced for us. Jesus overturns this image and proposes that we take up a light yoke. Jesus replaces explanation with relation. Rather than

seeking out explanations, Jesus invites us to be in relationship with Him. It’s there, with Him,

If our spiritual lives are merely intellectual, perhaps that means that we are not living in a relationship with Jesus, but rather living in a hopeful quest for an explanation. But it’s exhausting to try to be a know-it-all!

Today’s liturgy”, he began, “speaks to us of meekness, of humility; it speaks to us of God’s comfort when we are weary, oppressed; it speaks to us of kindness”. This is precisely “what Jesus tells us in the Gospel, when he praises the Father: ‘Lord, you have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to babes’”. Indeed, the Pope said, citing the day’s passage from the Gospel of Matthew (11:25-30), the Lord “speaks to us of lowliness, of that lowliness that pleases God”.

In today’s Gospel the Lord offers to relieve our burdens: "Take my yoke upon you . . . and you will find rest for yourselves." What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own self. When I am puffing myself up with my own self-importance, I’m laboring under all that weight. Jesus is saying, "Become a child. Take that weight off your shoulders and put on the weight of my yoke of my obedience to the Father." If we are humble we can live at ease, with the peace of one who feels that they are being cared for and looked after.

Here’s how it works: If you have two animals yoked together when they’re both pulling, they are doing each other’s work. Jesus is saying that if your life is heavy and burdensome, it’s probably because you are caught up under the weight of your own sense of self-sufficiency. Get rid of that and take the yoke of Christ’s obedience upon your shoulders. Allow yourself to be led.

that we can find the meaning of things, the meaning of another’s words, the meaning of an experience, the true value of others. It is only in the relationship with Jesus that we discover which direction to go.

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ July 5, 2020

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ July 5, 2020

Prayer Requests

Please Pray for:

Menal Ibrahim, Janet Rushinko,

Murray Carpenter, Victor Espinoza,

Rey Alvarado, Orlando Alvarado Jr.,

Dolores Alvarado, Helen McLellan,

Morley Underwood, Edna Reti,

Wade Carpenter, Bruna

Sbrunchella,

Nicole McKaig, Ronald Schlase,

Neil Jangula, Kim McClelland,

Helen Ferrier, Nikolas Fleming,

Trish & Les Jones, Norm Menzies,

Margaret Whyte, Michael Scott

Lucarz, Jan Sahota, Larry Cook,

Toni P., Rolf May, Max Bissegger,

Evdokia Slijouk, Chanelle Lim,

Lionel & Beverley Lesage,

Ted van Zanten, Trudy Desjardine,

Ang Djiet Nio, Dolores Demiannay,

Catharina Noble, Brianna Ginn,

Cassandra Victoria Ugalde,

and Ken Wharton. Please pray for the Repose

of the Souls of:

Agnes Brady

John Verhoeve

REVERENCE

RESPECT

RESPONSIBILITY

My name is Jason Borkowski and I am so pleased to be the new Principal of Star of the Sea School next year. I have spent the last 22 years as a Catholic educator; first as a teacher and most recently as Principal at Cloverdale Catholic School. I am proud to be an educator, but even more proud to be a husband and father of 7 kids.

I am really looking forward to sharing my vision for Catholic education in this beautiful and vibrant community. As the gift of faith has been given to us, so we must pass it on to those around us. This starts, but does not end, with our children. All of South Surrey needs to know our Lord Jesus! It is my hope that I can help our community share the love of Christ in everything we do. I am writing to invite you to share in the evangelizing mission of our school by spreading this news: Star of the Sea still has some spaces available for September 2020. Applications can be found on the school website staroftheseaschool.ca and at the Parish office. We are looking forward to welcoming new families and continuing to evangelize and live our faith every day at school.

Parish Religious Education Program (PREP)

The goal of PREP is to assist parents in the religious education of children attending public schools and homeschooled in Kindergarten to Grade 7 and to prepare them

to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the First Holy Communion in Grade 2 and Confirmation in Grade 7. Two years preparation is required for the sacraments. Classes will be held at Star of the Sea School on Thursday evenings 6:15pm - 7:30pm from September to May. PREP classes in September will be held in strict accordance with COVID-19

Provincial Health Guidelines and as set out by the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Visit starofthesea.ca/prep/registration for Online Registration. Email PREP office at prep@starofthesea.ca or contact Irina 604 319-9392 if you have any questions regarding religious education of your child: • PREP classes in September • PREP grade of your child • Baptismal information

• Sacramental preparation • Receiving Sacraments • Fees

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