St. Helen Church SUNDAY OCTOBER 25, 2015 | 30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B)
Pastor
Fr. Philip English
Office Administration
Aggie Agnino ext. 1 ______________________________________________________
Opened - October 2, 1938
Schools St. Mark School
Principal: Steven Ward
Phone: (905) 563-9191
St. Edward School
Principal: Adrian Bishop
Phone: (905) 562-5531
Sacraments
Baptism
Available Sundays at 1:00 pm. Call
parish office.
First Communion & Confirmation
Arranged through school. If your
child is not in a Catholic school or is
not baptized in the Roman Catholic
Church, contact the parish office.
Reconciliation
Before or after mass or by appoint-
ment.
Marriage
Six months’ notice; marriage prep
required.
Anointing of the Sick
Please let us know when someone
has a serious or prolonged illness or
is to have surgery. This sacrament
celebrates the healing of mind and
body and the forgiveness of sins.
Catholic Funeral Rites
When a death occurs in your family,
please call the parish office and we
will assist you in making the neces-
sary liturgical arrangements.
4157 Maple Grove Rd. | PO Box 222 | Vineland, Ontario | L0R 2C0 www.sthelenscatholic.ca
Phone (905) 562-7427 | Fax (905) 562-7789 | [email protected]
Established as a Parish - January 1, 1986
Kindly complete the following and place in collection basket
☐ New Parishioner* ☐ Change of address ☐ Moving
Name________________________ Phone__________________ E-mail___________________
Address______________________________________________ City_____________________
Postal Code__________________
☐ I will use offertory envelopes If ☒, pick up in foyer: ☐ St. Helen Church or ☐ St. Mark School
We welcome you and invite you to share in the spiritual and social activities of your parish
Upcoming Events
- Wednesday Morning Mass time - 10 a.m. - All Souls Remembrance
Envelopes
- Chili Take Out Night November 20th, 5-7 p.m. - November 25th - Diocesan Anniversary Mass @ Cathedral - November 28th - Christmas Bazaar @ St. Mark School - Join us for a cup of brew after morning mass on Tuesdays & Thursdays www.facebook.com/
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Stewardship of Treasure October 18: Offertory Envelopes (148) $ 3,638 Offertory Loose $ 253 Syria Emergency Relief (5) $ 190 World Mission Sunday (26) $ 434
“MAY GOD BLESS YOU
FOR YOUR FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP!”
Sr. Ministry for the Sick and Homebound We are grateful to those who give of their time and care to bring holy communion to our parishioners who cannot make it to church due to sickness or in-firmity. If you know of anyone who would like to re-ceive communion in their home, please contact the
parish office.
Weekly Bulletin Delivery If you would like to have the weekly bulletin emailed to your inbox, just send a request to the parish office email ([email protected]) or you can visit our website www.sthelenscatholic.ca and check the bulletin archive.
Momentum Choir in concert Nov. 8 Momentum Choir, a group of 55 singers living with a disability, will share their music and personal jour-neys in a special concert ‘A Year in the Life’ Sun-day, Nov. 8, 3 p.m. at Bethany Community Church,
1388 Third St., St. Catharines. This special concert will bring to life the personal stories of the talented singers whose lives have been transformed by the opportunity to share their gifts onstage. And they don’t hold back, giving their all to a wide repertoire of songs that will be interactive with the audience and interspersed with video clips that come straight from the heart. Concert tickets are available at the door of Bethany Community Church or online @ www.eventbrite.com The cost is $10 per person; $7 per student or supported individual; $25 per group home. For more information contact [email protected]
Remember Your Parish In Loving Memory
Keep your love for your parish alive. Remember your parish in your will and when recommending expressions of sympathy.
Mass In
tentio
ns
Year B - October 26 - November 1, 2015
Day Requested for Requested by
Mon No Morning Mass
Tuesday
8:30 a.m. No Morning Mass
Wednesday
10:00 a.m. No Morning Mass
Thursday
8:30 a.m.
† Teresa Commisso
† Rosa & Giuseppe Feola
Maria D’Archi
Maria & Piera Palmieri
Friday 10:00 a.m.
Menno Home
† Richard Murray Huguette & Maurice Murray
Saturday
5:00 p.m.
† Keith, Kathleen F. & Freddie Muldoon
† Rino Iannotta
Shirley & Ernie Brunet
Hrvatin Family
Sunday
9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. St. Mark School
For the People of St. Helen - L&D
† Janet Bolzan
† Olga D’Alessio
Nagler Family
Teresa & Rick Balanowski
L & D (living & deceased)
Christmas Bazaar Saturday, November 28th from 9 a.m.-1p.m. in the St. Mark's School Gym. Get
your Christmas shopping done early!! Join us for refreshments, door prizes and Christmas gift ideas! Vendor tables $30 - there are only a few tables left! If interested in a table or vol-unteering on the day, email us at:
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus Asks a Question
Jer 31:7-9 Jeremiah delivers God’s promise of res-
toration to Israel. Psalm 126 The Lord has done great things for us. Heb 5:1-6 Jesus Christ is the perfect high priest
uniting God and humans. Mark 10:46-52 The healing of blind Bartimaeus.
Genesis opens: “In the begin-ning, when God created the heav-ens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland and darkness covered the abyss.” Those words describe the formless blackness of the world of Bartimaeus, the blind man who believed that Jesus
could give him sight. Vision is impossible in darkness, but when there is light, a miracle begins. Photons find their way through the eyes and project themselves onto the retina. The image is projected on the back wall of the eye, making nerve receptors pulse. Those puls-es travel through the optic nerve, through passage-ways to the brain. And there, the brain reassembles the pulses and creates the image inside our head. The image is all in our mind, like dreams. But it all begins with light. Blind Bartimaeus went to that Light to beg, “Master, I want to see.” Immedi-ately he received his sight. -- Deacon Dick Folger
Next Week’s Readings… Rev 7:2-4, 9-14 A vision of God’s faithful people Psalm 24 Lord, we are the people who long for you. 1 John 3:1-3 What we shall be has not yet been re-vealed. Matt 5:1-12a Jesus teaches the Beatitudes.
St. Helen Raffle St. Helen’s Church Lottery tick-ets are available for you to pur-chase through our church office. 4 winners each month. Tickets
are $100 each, payable by cash or cheque. We in-vite you to be a part of our “RAISE THE ROOF” campaign. For tickets, contact John Stewart at [email protected] or call 905-563-0062 or the parish office.
Change of Information Have you moved or changed your phone number or email address? Please notify the office to keep our records accurate. You can also use the tear off on the front of the bulletin to notify us.
St. Helen's Chili Take Out Night
Friday, November 20th, 5 - 7 p.m.
Complete your order form inserted in this weekend’s bulletin and either drop it off with payment at the par-ish office or place it in a sealed en-velope marked Chili Take Out in
the Sunday Collection Basket. Please join us and volunteer! Phone Anne Marie at 289-566-9090 or send an email to the office.
Diocesan Anniversary Mass Married couples celebrating a 25th, 40th, 50th or 60th anniversary in the year 2015 are invited to the diocesan anniversary Mass, Wednesday November 25, 2015, 5:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. Cathe-rine of Alexandria, St. Catharines. To register and to receive a formal invitation from Bishop Bergie, contact the parish office to fill in a form by October 16. A dinner will be held at Club Roma, St. Cath-arines, at 7:00 p.m. Details of dinner cost will be in-cluded in the formal invitation.
All Souls Remembrance All Souls Remembrance enve-lopes are available in your box of envelopes or at the doors of the Church. All names of deceased loved ones will be remem-bered during the month of No-
vember. Please place your intentions in the col-lection basket with the Sunday Collection.
"WAKE UP THE WORLD!" 2015 Year of Consecrated Life
Diocese of St. Catharines celebrates Consecrated Life Saturday, November 14 (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) St. Thomas More Church, Niagara Falls. Cost is free (donations accepted); lunch included. Register by Saturday, November 7. Guest speakers: Bishop Gerard Bergie, Sr. Helena Burns, F.S.P., Fr. Stan Fortuna, C.F.R. To register or for more info, call Fr. Michael (905/684-0154), Sr. Margherita (905/732-4542) or Br. Bill (905/834-0553). Come, join us!
Pray for the Pope’s November Intentions ... Universal: Dialogue ~ That we may be open to per-sonal encounter and dialogue with all, even those whose convictions differ from our own. Evangelization: Pastors ~ That pas-
tors of the Church, with profound love for their flocks, may accompa-ny them and enliven their hope.
“Thank You” for remembering the poor box!
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