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St. Helen Church SUNDAY JUNE 28, 2015 | THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN
ORDINARY (YEAR B)
Travellers Prayer
(Before Starting a Journey)
My holy Angel Guardian,
ask the Lord to bless the
journey which I undertake,
that it may profit the health
of my soul and body; that I
may reach its end, and
that, returning safe and
sound, I may find my fami-
ly in good health. Do thou
guard, guide and preserve
us.
Amen.
Pastor
Fr. Philip English
Office Administration
Aggie Agnino, ext. 1
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Mass Times Saturday
5:00 p.m.
Sundays
9:00 a.m. - St. Helen Church
11:00 a.m. - St. Mark School
Gym, Beamsville
Opened - October 2, 1938
4157 Maple Grove Rd. | PO Box 222 | Vineland, Ontario | L0R 2C0
www.sthelenscatholic.ca
Established as a Parish - January 1, 1986
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I will use offertory envelopes If , pick up in foyer: St. Helen
Church or St. Mark School
Phone (905) 562-7427 | Fax (905) 562-7789 |
[email protected]
We welcome you and invite you to share in the spiritual and
social activities of your parish
Schools St. Mark School
Principal: Dean Stunt
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.
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Stewardship of Treasure
June 21:
Offertory Envelopes (129) $ 3,082
Loose $ 179
Building Fund Envelopes (55) $ 2,301
MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR
FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP!
Ministry for the Sick and Homebound We are grateful to those who
give of their time and care to bring holy communion to our
parish-ioners who cannot make it to church due to sick-ness or
infirmity. If you know of anyone who would like to receive
communion in their home, please contact the parish office or
Frances @ 905-562-5475 and arrangements will be made to bring Holy
Communion to your home.
Prayer Shawl Ministry The Prayer Shawl Ministry continues to
create handcrafted shawls for parishioners, their families and
friends who are coping with illness, loneli-ness, pain or trouble.
During the past year, we have distributed many prayer shawls and
lap blankets. The shawls are knitted with compas-sion and
prayerfulness. They are available to an-yone who needs one. Please
call the office to request a shawl or lap blanket or if you would
like to join this ministry. We meet monthly and wel-come new
members.
CWL St Helen's CWL wishes to thank the Senior Pa-rishioners and
CWL ladies who attended our Strawberry Social at Colleen Drakes
home. A special note of thanks to Colleen for being so generous in
offering her home to host our social. Thanks also go out to the
organizers who took great care to plan the event and to all those
who helped. Every one enjoyed the nice sunny day and especially the
cake and berries. We hope you will come and join us next year.
The Catholic Women's League meetings will re-sume once again in
September. We would like to wish everyone a safe, happy and blessed
Sum-mer.
St. Helens
congratulates all
of our Graduates!
Bulletin Advertising Our advertising sponsors on the back of the
bulle-tin support us and make your bulletin possible; their
advertising revenue helps reduce our print-ing costs. Please
support them when you can.
Year B - June 29 to July 5, 2015
Day Requested for Requested by
Mon NO MASS
Tuesday 8:30 a.m.
Intentions of Linda & Nick Bruch Kathleen Bruch
Wednesday 9:30 a.m.
Stacey Family
Dario Grisonich
Misetich Family
Vilma & Milan Jaglic
Thursday 8:30 a.m.
Intentions of Sue & Ron Bruch Kathleen Bruch
Friday 8:30 a.m.
Dora Geczy & Elizabeth Barna Alex Geczy
Saturday 5:00 p.m.
Silvestro Izzo
Camillo DiTomasso
Maria Iannotta
Maria DiTomasso
Sunday 9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. St. Mark School
For the People of St. Helen - L&D
Amelia Landin
Helen & Andy Hendriks - 55th Anniversary
Bill Zettler
Nancy Winslow
Mass In
tentio
ns
L & D (living & deceased)
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June 28, 2015 - 13th Sunday Ordinary Time Led Beyond Fear
Wis 1, 2 God overcomes evil and death. Psalm 30 Lord, you have
rescued me. 2 Cor 8, 9 Imitate Christ by giving generously of
yourselves. Mark 5 Jesus heals the hemorrhaging woman and raises
Jairus daughter.
Jesus restored life to Laz-arus, to the daughter of Jairus, and
to a widows son. These three stunning acts of compassion were
preceded by pleas from family members. The story of Jairus
daughter is found in all three synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark
and Luke. The story begins with the father falling at Jesus feet,
pleading for the life of his child. On his way to the dying
daughter, Jesus passes by a woman who reaches out to touch his
cloak. She is immediately healed of her hemorrhage. The daughter
dies be-fore Jesus gets to Jairus house, but even then, Je-sus
restores her. Todays Gospel assures us that with fervent pray-er
and our own absolute confidence in Jesus, we too, can reach out to
touch the power of Christ, who saves even when all seems to be
lost. -- Dc. Dick Folger
Next Weeks Readings Ezek 2 God calls Ezekiel to prophesy to
Israel. Psalm 123 Our eyes are fixed on the Lord. 2 Cor 12 Paul is
called, despite his weaknesses. Mark 6 Jesus is rejected in the
synagogue.
A SUMMER BLESSING
Walking along beside me, Jesus, as I begin the months of
summer.
As I work, play, enjoy family time and friendships, may I hear
your voice within me,
guiding me toward all that is right and good. Give me faith in
your presence,
knowing that you walk beside me in everything I do. Gracious and
Loving Jesus, thank you for the gift of
summer. May the warmth of its sun and the beauty of its
light
remind me daily of Your love for me. Amen
Dear Parishioners, When Constantine named his mother St. Helen
as Augusta Imperatrix he also gave her unlimited ac-cess to the
imperial treasury whereupon she built and refurbished three
churches during her travels to holy places in Palestine. The key to
the bank went missing somewhere in the shuffle to the 21st century
and we need your connections to potential organizations and
busi-nesses that may be willing to support our new church building
campaign. Corporate sponsorship is an integral component of our
fundraising initia-tives. The Corporate Sponsorship Fundraising
Committee is organizing a dinner September 30 and is asking for
parishioners help to submit the names of those businesses that
might be invited to attend. Your help is vital to the success of
the din-ner and the building of our beautiful new St. Helen
Church.
Please send your suggestions to: Rose Luppino:
[email protected] Joanne McDonald:
[email protected]
A PRAYER FOR CANADA Let us pray and live for a world where
people of all nations will be united in thought, word and deed;
help us to be honest, pure and loving in our relations with others
in our world. Let us pray for peace and harmony for every person in
this na-
tion and every nation; help us to work and live so that all
people everywhere will live a good life, that hunger, poverty,
ignorance and disease will disap-pear and the kingdom come indeed.
Amen.
Parish office is closed Canada Day.
St. Helen Church Parish Office Summer Hours
(July & August) Tuesday to Friday
9:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Emergencies will be tended to. In an
emergency situation, please call the parish office and press #2 to
leave an urgent message.
Childrens Liturgy This Sunday (June 28) is the last day for
Childrens Liturgy for the summer. It will resume again in
Sep-tember. we welcome volunteers and new ideas for Children's
Liturgy. Also, donations of crayons, pen-cils perhaps even
children's bible stories would be appreciated as well.