May 17 â Ascension Sunday - Pro
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May 17 â Ascension Sunday - Pro
17 MAY 2015 ASCENSION SUNDAY Our Parish Mission Statement We, the members of the Pro-Cathedral of the Assumption community, believe that we have been called through Baptism to live the Good News of Jesus Christ under the patronage of Mary, our Mother. We accomplish this by proclaiming the Word, celebrating the Sacraments, and reaching out to others. PASTOR Most Rev. Jean-Louis Plouffe, D.D. Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie RECTOR Msgr. Dave Tramontini ASSISTANT Rev. Rex Lumine IN RESIDENCE Msgr. Normand Clement Chaplain, Nipissing-Parry Sound District Schools Marriage: Please pick up a Marriage Information Booklet in the Church Vestibule to review prior to contacting the parish office. Anointing the Sick: Please call the parish office for information. Reconciliation: Every Saturday from 3:00 until 3:45 PM. Eucharist: Please see mass schedule published in this bulletin. Call the parish office to arrange for a Eucharistic Minister to visit the sick and shut-in who are unable to attend Mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: On the First Friday of each month from 10:00 AM until 12:00 noon. Baptism: Please pick up a Baptism Information Booklet in the Church Vestibule to review prior to contacting the parish office. Rev. A. Man-Son-Hing Pastor, St. Peter the Apostle & St. Elizabeth Temagami PERMANENT MINISTERS Deacons Diocesan Order of Women Rev. Rev. Rev. Rev. Rev. Mrs. Mrs. Miss Mrs. Mr. Albert Falconi Mr. Donald Milligan Mr. Donald Shago Mr. Rick Hamelin Mr. Gary Westenenk Shirley Falconi Norma Milligan Ruth Godon Frances-Clare Fraboni CONTACT US TELEPHONE: (705) 472-3970 FACSIMILE: (705) 494-8222 Monday Acts 19. 1-8; John 16. 29-33 Tuesday Acts 20. 17-27; John 17. 1-11a Wednesday Acts 20. 28-38; John 17. 11b-19 Thursday Acts 22. 30; 23. 6-11; John 17. 20-26 Friday Acts 24. 27; 25. 13b-21; John 21. 15-19 Saturday Acts 28. 16-20, 30-31; John 21. 20-25 Sunday Genesis 11. 1-9; Romans 8. 22-27; John 7. 37-39 EMAIL: [email protected] Our faith community dates back to 1886 when we were originally located on Main Street West and called St. Mary’s of the Lake and the cornerstone of the existing Cathedral was laid in 1904. The history of our parish is recorded in the memories of thousands of people who built our community. Monday Tuesday—Friday VICTORIA DAY/OFFICE CLOSED 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Knights of Columbus Council #1007 Lottery Draw (Lic. #6276) Winners for March & April 2015 DATE TICKET # NAME OF WINNER March 5 March 12 March 19 March 26 330 751 072 516 Victor Andrew Annette Roberae Walter Pamic Mary King Don Mills Sturgeon Falls Ottawa Toronto April 2 April 9 April 16 April 23 April 30 678 338 635 125 241 Andy Brule Joan Turcotte John Gagnon Richard Cushing Doris Hartman Tilden Lake North Bay North Bay North Bay Waterloo Monday, 18 May - Weekday in Easter Season Monique Brown - Shirley Valenti Jim Abud - Elizabeth Foisy Intention of Murray and Sybil Cangiano Tuesday, 19 May - Weekday in Easter Season Anne Wilcox - Brenda Lecours-Bowker Claudette Murtha - Jack and Maudena Farnsworth Intention of Betty Moseley-Williams - Jack and Monica Sullivan Wednesday, 20 May - Weekday in Easter Season Giuseppe Tedesco - The Family Intention of Geri Laframboise - Bob and Mary Lee Moynan In Thanksgiving to St. Anthony - Roy and Bunty Swanson Thursday, 21 May - Weekday in Easter Season Vi Keenan - Pat and Garry Murphy SOCIAL SUNDAY THANK YOU! Thank you so much to everyone who made last weekends Social Sunday such a success! A special thank you to Michelle Chew who continues to host our Socials and who wanted to wish a sincere thank you to Cecil Whiting and Cecile Robert who helped her in a big way! A big thank you to Kenisha Chew who continues to volunteer her time in assisting with this event. Once again we had the pleasure of having great music and singing provided by Brian Risk. His music certainly made a difference in creating a fun atmosphere for our social and everyone enjoyed the music. Giuseppe Tedesco - Maria Gosselin and Family Intention of Sr. Jean Fortier - Bonnie Parslow Friday, 22 May - Weekday in Easter Season Leo Campanaro - Angela and Lambert Ceccanese James, Catherine and Louis Allard - Vicki Doucette Cecile Boucher - Laurette Goyette 4:00 PM Saturday, 23 May - Pentecost Sunday Rev. Angelo Oliverio - Birthright Volunteers Anne Wilcox - Catholic Women’s League Al Villeneuve - Madeleine Brideau Sunday, 24 May - Pentecost Sunday 9:00 AM Intention of Marisa and Vincent Lobo Freda Adams - Maureen Marchildon Intention of Robbie 11:00 AM Intention of the Parishioners - Msgr. Dave Tramontini ~ REMINDER: NEW DIOCESAN POLICY ~ Spirituality Mission - Friendship Mass Stipends are now $15/Mass Sunday Offering ~ 10 May A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT FOR RETIRED Sunday Offering Building Fund and OLDER PERSONS $6,311.50 $666.00 Everyone Welcome to Our Gatherings Thursday, May 28 at 2:00 PM in the Parish Hall Topic: Pentecost Sunday Thursday, June 25 at 2:00 PM in the Parish Hall Topic: The Sacred Heart of Jesus Come and reflect and share on these themes. Why not get your ARISE groups together to participate? INFANT BAPTISM PREPARATION A Baptismal Preparation Meeting will be held in the Lower Sacristy on TUESDAY, May 19 beginning at 7:00 PM. Those who wish to register for this meeting to have their child baptized are asked to call the parish office by Monday, May 18. Baptism Preparation is mandatory by Diocesan Policy. CATHOLIC WOMEN”S LEAGUE Women Helping Women Tea & Dessert Fundraiser Saturday, June 13 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM Pro-Cathedral Parish Hall $5 a ticket and can be purchased at the parish office or at the door. Proceeds will go towards The Ojibway Women’s Lodge, The Nipissing Transition House and Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre of Nipissing in support of local women in crisis. Tea & Dessert Fundraiser volunteer information: baking donations will be accepted Friday, June 12 between 1 to 4 PM and Saturday, June 13 starting at 10 AM. Hall set up will be between 1 to 4 p.m. on Friday, June 12th. Please contact Debbie Laframboise at 478-8353 or Lisa Henry at 493-4164 if you can help out or need more information. Relay For Life Friday, June 12. Currently there are eleven CWL members registered for the One Heart, One Voice, One Mission Pro-Cathedral of the Assumption Relay For Life team. If you wish to pledge a relayer visit www.relayforlife.ca, enter North Bay, Ontario in the field ‘First find your event’, click on search, then click on ‘select this event’ hosted at Hornell Heights, ON (that is the actual location of CFB North Bay), scroll down to ‘see all teams’, and search for team name – One Heart, One Voice, One Mission Pro-Cathedral of the Assumption. From there you can make an online donation. For more information contact Leah Pierce, Team Captain, at 705-472-5687. Just remember today, over 60% of Canadians diagnosed with cancer will survive compared to about 25% in the early 1940s when we started funding research. There is now a direct link to prayers on the national website www.cwl.ca. The theme prayer for One Heart, One Voice, One Mission is there. More will be posted as they are received at national office. Feel free to submit prayers and/or services that you wish to share keeping in mind copyright rules. Our Annual Dinner will be held on June 3 with the General Meeting. Maudena Farnsworth shall be on the church steps from 9.45 AM untll 12:00 noon this Sunday for those wishing to purchase tickets. Diane Esch will cater the meal. Tickets are $25 each and MUST be purchased in advance. Deadline is May 29. Contact Diane Carmichael. This June dinner will be special in that we will be celebrating 95 Years as a Parish CWL Council - one of the first councils in our Diocese!! Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate this milestone with fellow members! May 17 is the 49th World Day for Social Communications. This year’s theme is Communicating the Family: A Privileged Place of Encounter with the Gift of Love. For more information visit http:// www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-s-message-for-worldcommunications-day Catholic Women’s League Bursary Program Two (2) CWL Bursary Awards in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300.00) each will be available to two students proceeding to post-secondary education in September 2015. Bursary Criteria 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Applicants must be members of the CWL or daughters or sons of members of the Pro-Cathedral Catholic Women’s League Council in good standing. Where the mother is deceased, consideration will be given to granddaughters/ sons of a member in good standing. Applicants must be entering their first year of college or university. A copy of a valid Letter of Acceptance from the college or university will be required. Applicants must have a reasonable academic achievement. Presentation of the bursaries will be made on Thanksgiving Sunday in the Pro-Cathedral of the Assumption Church at one of the Sunday Liturgies. Closing date for submissions of applications is 4:00 PM on May 22, 2015. Mail to: CWL Bursary Committee Pro-Cathedral Parish Office 480 McIntyre Street West North Bay, ON P1B 2Z4 Applications are available at the Parish Office and they can also be emailed to you. For more information, contact Education and Health Chairperson, Tessa Clermont at 249-358-1858 (Local #) OR [email protected] Blessed white candles are available ½ hour before and ½ hour after all masses on the weekend and weekdays. You may enter the Sacristy and ask our Sacristan for your vigil candle. It will be lit and at that time you may place your candle on the stand. An offering of $5 per candle is suggested to help defray costs. The act of lighting your vigil candle is a meaningful prayer offering—a silent way to show our love of God and our desire to express our love for others. Pope Francis MAY 2015 Prayer Intention FOR UNIVERSAL: CARE FOR THE SUFFERING That, rejecting the culture of indifference, we may care for our neighbours who suffer, especially the sick and the poor. FOR EVANGELIZATION: OPENNESS TO MISSION That Mary’s intercession may help Christians in secularized cultures be ready to proclaim Jesus. A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY for YOU to be a part of THE LITURGY OF THE WORD FOR CHILDREN The Pro Cathedral of the Assumption is in need of men and women who are available to assist in this ministry with our children ages 4 to 12 years. The children meet with a team of three adults who work together each Sunday at the 9:00 AM Liturgy and each team is responsible for ONLY 4 weeks of the Liturgical Year ( September to June). Want to see what we are all about? Feel free to come down to the Lower Sacristy any Sunday at the 9:00 AM Liturgy to reflect with the team and the children. Our Liturgy of the Word for Children provides an opportunity for you as an adult to share your faith and listen to the amazing responses of the children. The reflections are all prepared for you in the Liturgy of the Word for Children weekly guide. If you want to be part of this process please call the Parish Office at 705 472-3970 for more information. How do I love thee? Gospel teaches how to count the ways, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Real love is constant, concrete and communicates -- it is action over words and it obeys the Beatitudes, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. True love is not "soap-opera love," or "a whim" or something that "makes our heart beat a little faster," and then nothing more, the pope said May 7 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. Love is found "in concrete actions," he said, which is why Jesus told his disciples that only those who do the Father's will would enter into the kingdom of heaven, not those who just call out, "Lord, Lord." The pope said there are two things that distinguish real love from imitations. "True love is concrete, it is in deeds, it is a love that is constant. It isn't plain enthusiasm. Also, many times it is love that is painful," like when Jesus carried the cross out of love for humanity, he said. God is real and concrete, having "become flesh to save us," and he asks people to love in ways that are just as concrete, he said. Whoever loves lives according to the Beatitudes, which is "Jesus' pastoral program," he said, and cares for others in the specific ways outlined in the 25th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew: caring for the hungry, thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and the imprisoned. The Promises of Fatima: Come pray the Rosary with a group of dedicated people who form a Fr. Gobbi Cenacle honouring our Blessed Virgin Mary. Wednesday mornings at 9:30 AM at St. Peter’s Parish followed by Mass. North Bay Regional Eucharistic Adoration: Holy Name Church, Mon-Wed-Fri (Noon – 6 PM), Tuesday (Noon - 9 PM), Thursday (Noon - 5 PM). Come and visit Jesus in this Sacrament of love. To make a commitment call Lena Butler, 497-3434 Open Adoration: St. Alphonsus in Callander every Friday 8:30 AM to 12:00 Noon. First Friday 8:30 AM to 8:30 AM (24Hrs). St. Joseph’s Motherhouse first Sunday of the month from 3:30-4:30 PM in Holy Family Chapel and Pro-Cathedral First Friday 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. Springtime of the Spirit Regional Prayer Group at Holy Name of Jesus Parish Wednesdays at 6:30 PM. Recitation of the rosary, praise and worship, meditative prayer, sharing and fellowship. St. Joseph Motherhouse presents a Shalom Directed Retreat Sunday, July 19 at 7:00 PM to Saturday July 25 at 1:00 PM. Offering: $450:00. For more information contact Sr. Phyllis O’Connor at 474-3800, extension 213 or email her at [email protected] Good Shepherd Atrium Located at the Pro-Cathedral Church, the atrium for the Catechesis of the program provides a special place for children 3 to 5 years old to follow the church calendar, come to know Jesus, through parables, songs, art work, geography and more. Materials are faithful to the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Faith. For information, visit www.cgsac.ca, call Erin Tayler 476-8509 or Lynn Boivin at 494-7226 or email [email protected] St. Anthony’s Feast Pasta & Meatball Dinner on Saturday, June 13 at St. Peter the Apostle Church. Mass at 4:30 PM, followed by procession and Dinner at 6 PM. Tickets $12/adult; $6/ children 11 & under; children under 5 free. For tickets, call Nella at 494-9424. Proceeds to the Nipissing Serenity Hospice. Right to Life Yard Sale—1498 Pinegrove Crescent May 23 begins at 8:30 AM. Find some great deals while supporting a worthy cause! All proceeds stay local to our Right to Life Office in North Bay. Members—if you can donate to the sale (PLEASE—NO CLOTHING) drop off donations at 1498 Pinegrove at least two or three days before the sale. Call the office at 474-3666 if you can help out or have questions. Regional Catholic Charities used clothing for free distribution to those in need. Seasonal clothing for men, women, children and infants, shoes, or accessories, can be dropped off at the ProCathedral Rectory or the Catholic Charities entrance any Tuesday from 9-11:30 AM. Items should be clean and in good repair. Marriage Preparation Program Weekends October 23-24. Couples should register early by calling 472-5821. Series limited to 18 couples – register early! Material cost $40/couple payable at time of registration. Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board Carousel Evening “Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Kids” with keynote speaker Dr. Julie Corkett Wednesday, May 27 at St. Joseph-Scollard Hall. Evening of free workshops covering important topics across the special education spectrum. Free childcare. Registration 5:30 PM, Speaker 6:00 PM, Refreshments 7:00 PM, Workshop 7:30 PM. For details and online registration visit www.npsc.ca or call 472-12-1, ext 2261. Celebrate Recovery – a Christ-centred recovery program for any hurt, hang-up, or habit.. Meets Tuesdays at 7:00 PM at First Baptist Church, 1250 Cassells. Visit www.celebraterecovery.ca or www.fbcnb.ca for more information. Join us! Summer Retreat at Villa Loyola ~ Praying with the Words of St. Ignatius: a pilgrimage through the Spiritual Exercises. Sunday August 9 (7pm) to Friday August 14 (1pm) with director, Fr. Joseph Schner, S.J. Cost $475.00 (spiritual direction, private room, meals and taxes included). Register by calling 705-5223502 Monday to Friday or by email at [email protected]