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St. Helen Church SUNDAY MAY 17, 2015 | ASCENSION OF THE LORD
(YEAR B)
Upcoming Events
May is dedicated to our Blessed
Mother Mary
- Popes Pastoral Works Col-lection May 16/17
- CWL Diocesan Convention begins May 26th
- CWL Potluck, June 3rd
- Knights of Columbus Char-
ter Installation, and Dinner,
June 20th
- Next Lottery Draw, Sat.
May 23rd
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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
Kindly complete the following and place in collection basket
New Parishioner* Change of address Moving
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Address______________________________________________
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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
May 10:
Offertory Envelopes (150) $ 3,686
Loose $ 312
Facility Maintenance (3) $ 30
Building Fund Envelopes (50) $ 2,746
Emergency Relief - Nepal (43) $ 3,788
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.
St. Helen CWL News CWL members are encouraged to attend the
Di-ocesan Convention Opening Mass on Tuesday, May 26th @ 6.30 p.m.
to be held at Our Lady of Scapular Church, 6557 Thorold Stone Rd.,
Niaga-ra Falls. Members information Session, Bishop Bergie.
Reception in parish hall. We will car pool, contact Frances,
905-562-5475.
Save the date - June Potluck Mark your calendars for Wednesday,
June 3rd for a Potluck dinner @ 6:30 p.m.
Canadian Tire Money Keep up the housecleaning and send in your
Ca-nadian Tire money. It will be used for purchasing raffle/door
prizes for future fundraising events.
Campaign Pledge Cards/Payments Your response card is important
to us. If you havent already done so, please be sure to com-plete a
pledge card even if you are unable to fi-nancially support the
fundraising campaign. Pledge cards are available at the church
entranc-es. The efforts that we make together will contrib-ute
toward the mission of our Diocese and our Parish. Please remember
to honour the pledge that you made and pray for a successful
fundrais-ing campaign. Thank you for your commitment to St.
Helen.
Bulletin to your Inbox 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.
Year B - May 18 to 24, 2015
Day Requested for Requested by
Mon NO MASS
Tuesday 8:30 a.m.
Intns of Hendriks & deKoning Fam. L&D Helen & Andy
Hendriks
Wednesday 9:30 a.m.
Vaz Family
Geoff Barlow
Misetich Family
Catharine Craig
Thursday 8:30 a.m.
Carmela & Antonio Guerriero Guerriero Family
Friday 10:00 a.m.
Albright Manor Maria & Gerald Murphy Paul Murphy
Saturday 5:00 p.m.
For the People of St. Helen - L&D
Sunday 9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. St. Mark School
Eileen Burns
Cecilia Vy Nguyen & Phancisco Ngon Bui
Intns of Redmond Family - L&D
CWL
Ann Bui Nguyen
Jim Redmond
Mass In
tentio
ns
L & D (living & deceased)
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May 17, 2015 - Ascension of the Lord To the Ends of the
Earth
Acts 1 Jesus earthly ministry ends with his ascension. Psalm 47
God mounts his throne to shouts of joy. Eph 1 Pauls extended prayer
for the Ephesians. Mark 16 Go and proclaim the Gospel.
If you listened carefully to the words of todays Gospel, you
heard Jesus say, These signs will accompany those who be-lieve: in
my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents with their hands. Some religious groups
take this literally.
Jesus left his disciples on that hilltop near Betha-ny with the
assurance that he would give them the power they needed to fulfill
their mission. Scripture tells us that the disciples went forth and
preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed
the word through accompanying signs. Whatever risks we face or
problems we have to handle as disciples, Jesus promises that he
will al-ways be with us. -- Dc. Dick Folger Next Weeks Readings
Acts 2 The disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit. Psalm 104
Lord, send out your spirit and renew the face of the earth. 1 Cor
12 There are many gifts in the one body of Christ. John 20 Jesus
appears to the disciples, bestowing peace and the Holy Spirit.
Have You Ever Considered Adoption? Would you like to hear more
about the process through CCASH? Upcoming Adoption Information
Night Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:00 p.m. Cath-olic Childrens Aid
Society of Hamilton, 735 King St. East For more information and to
register call Jocelyn at (905) 525-2012 ext. 3125
Visit our website at www.hamiltonccas.on.ca
Momentum Choir in concert May 20 & 24 Momentum Choir, a
group of 50 singers with devel-opmental disabilities, will thrill
audiences in two year-end concert performances, Wednesday, May 20
at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 24 at 3 p.m. at Beth-any Community
Church, 1388 Third Street, St. Catharines. Wrapping up its 8th
successful season, Momentum, the only choir of its kind in Canada,
continues to break new ground as a powerful and professional
platform where disability takes a back
seat as soon as the music begins. Audience mem-bers will laugh,
cry and be inspired in this unforget-table experience featuring
toe-tapping song favour-ites. Concert tickets are available at the
door of Bethany Community Church or online at
www.eventbrite.com
Plant Sale - Great Turnout! Thank you to all who came out to our
plant sale. It was a great day with $1,335.00 donated to our church
building fund. May your gardens thrive! Spe-cial note of THANKS to
our plant & herb suppliers and helpers.
Knights of Columbus St. Helen of the Cross Council 15999
Charter Installation Ceremony Announcing the New Council in
the St. Catharines Diocese Saturday June 20, 2015, St. Mark
School Gym,
Mountain St. Beamsville St. Helen of the Cross Council 15999
will be host-ing a dinner followed by the charter presentation of
the newly formed council and its officers. We welcome everyone to
celebrate mass with us at St. Helen Church at 5 p.m. All wives,
parishion-ers and KofC councils are encouraged to attend this once
in a lifetime event for St. Helens parish. Doors at the school Open
at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 7 p.m. $25 per person. For tickets
con-tact Martin Marko 905-401-5646 or email [email protected]
Lottery Proceeds To date, the Lottery Committee has forwarded
$15,000 to St. Helens. We are grateful to every-one who has worked
so hard to make this a suc-cessful Lottery year and for all who
participated by purchasing a ticket! Good luck on the remaining
draws.
Pledges & Donations - Did you know? If you are planning to
make a charitable donation to the building fund, consider this
tax-saving strategy. If youve already determined that you will be
selling some of your current investments, you have an op-portunity
to reduce the tax you would otherwise have to pay on the sale of
your investments if you donate the investments directly to a
charity. Alt-hough a donation of property is considered a
dispo-sition for tax purposes, as a result of these tax in-centives
the taxable capital gain realized on a do-nated publicly-traded
security is eliminated. In ei-ther case, you will receive a tax
receipt for the full amount of your donation regardless of the tax
treatment of the capital gain.
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