our parish family · 2019-09-19 · our parish family st. christopher’s 68 union street, rev....
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Our Parish Family S t . Chr i s topher ’ s
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A welcoming Catholic faith community who gathers to celebrate the Word of God as a Eucharistic People.
Pastoral Team
Pastor: Father Tom Donohue
Forest Office: Connie Burns
Watford Office: Martha Moons
Deacons: John Lammers 519-490-3832
Tony Hogervorst 519-670-0891
Sunday Eucharist
Saturday 4:30 pm Forest 7:00 pm Watford
Sunday 9:00 am Watford 11:00 am Forest
Reconciliations:
After weekday church Masses Or by appointment
Office Hours: St. Christopher 9:00—4:00
Monday through Friday
OLHC 9:00—4:00 Tuesday and Wednesday
www.lambtoncatholic.ca
Please Pray each day for:
Rev. Mr. Nick Fournier Rev. David Johnston Dcn. Cyril Cogghe Rev. Raymond Masse Rev. Jaison Tellis Rev. Murray Kuemper Rev. Brian Jane Rev. Patrick Beneteau Deacon Raymond Girard Seminarians of Diocese of London Rev. Tony DelCiancio Rev. John Betkowski Rev. Robert Rocheleau Dcn. Gary Coyle
Sunday, October 21, at St. Christopher 5:00 pm—Migrant Worker Mass
Tuesday, October 23, at OLHC—SPC School Liturgy 9:00 am—Liturgy with Deacon
Wednesday, October 24, at OLHC 9:00 am—Prayer Service
Thursday, October 25, Cancelled
Friday, October 26, at St. Christopher 9:00 am—Prayer Service
Tuesday, October 30, Cancelled
Wednesday, October 31, at OLHC 9:00 am—Prayer Service
Thursday, November 1, Cancelled
Friday, November 2, at St. Christopher 9:00 am—Prayer Service
Please note that Fr. Tom Donohue will be away October 15 through November 2. The parish offices will remain open.
Care & Anointing of the Sick.., Holy Communion is brought regularly to parishioners that are in nursing homes and hospitals. Please notify the parish office if you know of someone that is in need of receiving holy communion. For the Anointing of the Sick please contact the parish office. Note: ln order to receive sacraments when in hospital or continuous care facilities, please inform the facility's administration of your Catholic faith. Funeral... After your initial contact with the funeral home, please contact the parish office for mass preparation.
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 21, 2018
Through his suffering, my servant
shall justify many. — Isaiah 53:11b
Memorial Mass ~ All Souls A special Mass of Remembrance for those who have died since All Souls Day 2017, will be held at the Saturday evening Masses on November 10, in each of our cluster parishes. We hope many of you will join the families for this special Mass as we remember our loved ones.
St. Christopher, 4:30 pm : Ed Vanderheyden; Julienne Wouters; Keith McGregor; and, Eric Greaves
OLHC, 7:00 pm : Albert Edwards; Dick Moons; Anne Wester; Vincent Brown; Steve Kucera; Catherine Orrange; Peter Smolders; and, Robert Alderman
“Crisis does not create character; it reveals it.” Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 28, 2018
The Lord has done great things for us;
we are glad indeed. — Psalm 126:3
Please note that the bulletin will now be prepared and printed on a bi-weekly basis.
Book of Remembrance—A special Book of Remembrance will be in the church for the month of November. Please pause to read the names in the book, pray for them and add the names of your loved ones whom you would like to remember. We will pray for all those named in the book at each of the Masses during November.
Lord Jesus Christ, we continue to need your support in order to grow our faith. Renew within us the faith, the
hope and the charity. Stimulate our attentiveness toward others. Invite us to continuously transform our hearts.
Lord, the world needs your light, your kindness and your love. You send us to bear witness to your kindness
and mercy. Lord, accompany us in our mission; work with us and confirm your Word through the signs that
come from you. In your name, who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.
Cluster Parish Council 2018/19 — Please check out our bulletin board and see who your parish repre-sentatives are. If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns about parish life please speak with one of our council members who can bring your ideas to the table.
The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation — Bible Study This 24 week series will track the growth of God’s family from creation to the establishment of the Church. The course is open to anyone seeking a deeper appreciation of scripture. The two year study has six weekly sessions held in the fall and winter each year. The first session commences:
St. Philip’s Parish, Petrolia, Tuesday evenings following 7:00 pm Mass beginning October 30. Our Lady Help of Christians, Watford, Wednesday morning following 9:00am Mass beginning October 31
There is a fee of $50 per person/couple for supplies used for the entire two year study. To register: www.jp2centre.org/events or with Deacon John, 519-490-3832, [email protected]
OLHC CWL NEWS—Our CWL League will be celebrating our 60th anniversary on Wednesday, November 7th. We will begin with Mass at 5:00pm followed by a social at 6:30 and dinner at 7:00pm. Watford Cen-tennial Hall. Dinner tickets are $25.00 per person. Presentations and entertainment at 8:30. For tickets or more info contact Ila Joris 519-849-6483 or Cathy Migchels 519-849-6871—Tickets are also available in the parish office.
Bazaar — Immaculate Heart of Mary, Grand Bend. Saturday, November 3, 9:30 to 1:30. Fresh local vegetables, Baked goods, Christmas planters, Handicrafts, etc. Everyone is welcome!
2018 Christmas Campaign For Everyone—Providing a Christmas Food Hamper and gifts for all children 16 years and younger. Food boxes are packed according to family size and contain at least one week’s worth of food as well as Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings. We serve all of Lambton County (Sarnia has their own program). County volunteer fire departments assist in deliveries. 2017 over 400 families were served delivered by 13 fire departments! We look forward to making this Christmas festive for all in our community. Gift depot location as of November 5, Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 5:00, at 4156 Petrolia Line, Petrolia at rear of building. All gifts must arrive by December 3, for wrapping and packing. Please, no clothing. Gift cards are a wonderful idea for the older children. VOLUNTEERS are crucial and needed for December 16—19. There is an application process required to receive a Christmas hamper, call 519-882-3950.
Please plan to attend the St. Christopher Fall Bazaar, Sunday, November 3, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm—lots of PIES! Baked goods, crafts, and luncheon. This is a fundraiser for your parish, don’t miss it. If you have items to donate for the bazaar please bring to the table at the back of the hall. Also, pie baking day is Thursday, November 1, please come to the church at 10 am if you wish to help out. Corrie Degroot is organizing.
We are looking for volunteers to assist with serving and cleaning up at the luncheon, if you are available the day of the bazaar to help out, male or female, Please speak with Monica Whelan.
St. James Forest invites you for a morning of fun driving Lambton County in a car rally, Saturday, October 27. Meet at St. James at 10 am to register —$5 per person, lunch included. All are welcome.
Grocery Cards are available at St. Christopher’s after Mass and during office hours. These cards are for any IGA, Foodland or Price Chopper. Available in $100 amounts—with each card sold $5.00 is earned for the church and school programs. Doing the math, if 100 households (should be easy between the church and school) each spent $100 over the course of a week on groceries using our $100 card, the church and school would receive $500.00! Or $24,000.00 per year!!! This is easy fundraising as it costs you nothing, its just a different way to pay for your groceries. Lets see if we can increase our sales on these.
The St. Vincent de Paul Recycling Group would like to send a special thank you to all who generously donated goods for the Fall Warehouse Open House and Sale on Saturday, October 13. Also, a thank you to those who came out to see the warehouse and purchase goods in support of the Tradeship Scholarship Fund. All things are possible when people work together. God Bless, Your Recycling Group
Life Teen, A Catholic youth group that leads teenagers and their families into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church. Friday's - St. Patrick's High School - 7:00-8:30pm. Open to all high school students. No cost. Come out and learn more about your Catholic faith in a fun and engaging way.
A BIG thank you to Trish Anderson for coordinating and hosting an enjoyable social evening making
signs — while not a fundraiser because so many attended a nice donation was made to the church as well!
Check out her next project on the bulletin board and website, “I Am Unique” an evening for our youth.
THANKS GIVING APPEAL
A letter has been mailed and donation envelope for each parish to all of our registered
families. All donations for this appeal stay within the parish. OLHC has set a goal of
$35,000.00, and will have door to door canvassers on Sunday, October 28.
This year we are also running a campaign for St. Christopher parish as we did not
have our golf tournament this year, which is a large fundraiser, and are struggling to
meet our current operating costs.
Please consider if you are able to make an extra donation to this Appeal. We are very
grateful for the support you regularly give to our parish.
Catholic Women’s League DUES are now due! St. Christopher CWL, while not active, will still pay dues to the National office and your membership continued.