All Saints Parish, Cumberland County NS In the Archdiocese of Halifax Yarmouth

JANUARY 12th, 2020 BAPTISM of the LORD SUNDAY

Our Parish Family is made up the Children of God from;

St. John the Baptist, Springhill St. Thomas More, Pugwash St. Paul the Apostle, River Hebert St. Cornelius, Streets Ridge

St. Thomas Aquinas, Joggins Holy Family Church, Amherst St. Brigid’s, Parrsboro

All Saints Parish Central Office (902) 667– 5244 Office Hours Mon.—Fri. 9 - 12 pm Noon

Father Craig Christenson Parish Pastor Glenna O’Quinn Pastoral Administrator Evelyn Currie Office/ Finance Mgr Deacon Howard Gotell (Amherst) Deacon Howie Goldstein (Parrsboro) Deacon Mike Lynch (Pugwash)

Holy Family Office—Mary Comeau Office Manager Laurie Perry Holy Family Caretaker Holy Family Office (902)-667-2523

LOOK UP!! There is a NEW Header for our bulletin, communicating who we are together as a Parish and what it is we are doing. We are All Saints Parish, within the Archdiocese of Halifax Yarmouth, and created by the family of (listed) the “7 churches, 1 MISSION, Stronger Together.” Our MISSION??

What would be your answer today if you were asked, “what is GOD asking the parishioners of All Saints Parish to do as a MISSION?” or asked “what is GOD asking you to do in All Saints Parish, in His name? Our parish is only as good as the work we do for GOD. That’s it!! The true measure of our success (or not), is in the works done for GOD’s priorities.

What are those priorities? Very simple...sing the song “Blessed Are They” in the GP (or google) and you will know that the true measure of our parish is not our buildings, land, stained glass windows, the $$$ in the bank or even the numbers of ac-tive parishioners. The measure if we are successful shows up around us and in the homes around our parish…..Are there people in our Parish or community, who are hungry, people in need of heat for their homes, people who have no visitors in prison, people homeless, people who are lonely, people who are sick and afraid, people who are fighting illness without anyone or people who are desperately or working poor?? If we said YES to one of those answers, then we have work yet to do and still working on being successful in GOD’s name and our MISSION.

If living by the two great commandments, LOVE GOD and LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR (ONE ANOTHER) then; if our neighbor is one of those in need and we aren’t helping, then we are not doing the MISSION of GOD or our Parish. Simple. Mother There-sa said “If you can’t feed 100 people, then feed just 1 person” and “If you are Judging people, then you have no time to LOVE them!” That 1 person is our neighbor, it is the person living next door (or down the road, over a street, or showed up at church unknown, or at your gym or the drunk, the drugged, the lost, the “different one”....). They are our MISSION, if they are living in need. This means you don’t even have to travel to help make our parish be successful. If each person of our parish (approx. 650+) decided to help with the need of one of their neighbors; lifting them up, listening, learning, meeting their needs and loving them….then we will be multiplying GOD’s work in the 1,000’s or more. Then we can start to believe

our church/parish is successful. Can you help your neighbor today?? g

The Season of Christmas— Living HOPE, PEACE, JOY & LOVE

Be Scent-sitive!

There are parishioners that attend Mass and Lay Service

throughout the county, that are VERY allergic to SCENTS,

from all sources such as laundry sheets, detergent, per-

fumes, deodorant, sprays, lotions, etc.

This severe allergy, can cause weeks of sickness, severe

breathing issues and hospitalization.

Help Keep Our Place Safe For All Who Join Us!!

Thank you to the Knights

Holy Family Church would like to thank the Knights of Columbus for their donation of the “Consecration to the Holy Family” art-work in the Gathering Area. If you would like to assist us thanking the Knights, pick up the prayer card on the Gathering Area table

and say this prayer for the month of January in honor of the Knights work with the poor, sick, lonely and more. In prayer we give thanks for the Knights of Columbus good works.

Dear Jesus we pray that the Australia wildfires are stopped, that all emergency workers, firefighters, volunteers are kept strong

and those affected by this incredible tragedy, including the animals are safe, supported and surrounded by our LOVE.

CHRISTMAS —The Season of Celebrating Our KING Audio-Visual Helpers Needed: URGENT!!!!!

WITHOUT Audio-Visual help we have 1/ NO Live-Stream for

those at home watching Mass, 2/ NO location for announce-

ments and 3/ limited audio-visual support for Ministry

groups, etc.

WE NEED HELPERS TO CONTINUE USING THIS TOOL. No skills

needed (but welcomed!!), training is

provided. Joseph Salah is the key con-

tact and he needs help. Contact Mary at

902-667-2523 to find out more or to

offer your name.

Life in the Spirit Seminars

STARTED: January 9th, 2020, 7 pm

Mary Mother of Mercy Prayer Group began “Life in the

Spirit Seminars” @ Holy Family on Thursday.

If you did not join up yet for the series, you can still join

this week. Life in the Spirit reveals the Holy Spirit’s pres-

ence and work in your life. The seminars are a time of

Praise, Prayer, Learning, Sharing and Fellowship. In times

of trial and change, it is the Holy Spirit that brings peace to

our lives. Should you want to join these amazing seminars,

call Deacon Howard at 902-667-9598.

Bell “Let’s Talk” Mental Health Day

When: January 29th, 2020

10—3 pm

Where: Holy Family Church, Amherst, NS

What: 10 am—12 pm

Breakout Sessions— Different rooms will have different topics such as Seniors Depression, Chronic Pain, Addictions, Schizo-phrenia, etc. Topics confirmed in next Bulletin. Specialists lead-ing the breakouts are from different care agency’s Cum. County.

Lunch: 12:10 pm—12:50 pm Soup & Sandwich Lunch

with Guest Speaker. Topic: “The tools to help those impacted by

Mental Health challenges themselves to someone you love”

1 pm—3 pm Breakout sessions— Same as the morning sessions and one room will be showing at 1 pm, the movie with Russell Crowe, “A Beautiful Mind” that centers around the topic of Schizophrenia.

Please join us for this great day being hosted by our OUTREACH

TEAM, through the Friendship Club!

Open to Everyone in our parish community and any other person

interested in the day activities. We are very excited to share this

day with the larger community of Cumberland County.

Like to create or work on

“Publisher”?

Have a couple of hours to

share from your home?

WE NEED: YOU to assist in preparing the weekly bulletin. Training Provided.

TIME: 2-3 hours per week to prepare approximately

WHY: #1 tool communicating within our parish to reach those who visit our churches, to see the life and news of our parish community.

We Need Help! Interested and want to find out more? Contact Glenna at the Central Office at her email of glenna@holyfamilyamherst.ca. We look forward to having someone, (maybe YOU!) soon! Thank-You!!

How Can I Help Make A Differ-

ence in 2020?

Have you asked yourself how can

you find a new way to make a differ-

ence in 2020? Maybe you don’t volunteer anywhere and

looking for a place to use your skills and volunteer? We

have been contacted by a parishioner who, although 40+

has not learned to read and write. They hope to change

this, so they can get a job in 2020. Are you someone who

might have the skills, time and want to make a HUGE

difference in this young person’s life? Then we need to

hear from you!! Holy Family church will provide space, as

this person is from the Amherst Area. Please contact Mary

at 902-667-2523 to provide your name or to find out more.

All Saints Parish OUTREACH Making a Difference One Person at a Time!!

All Saints Parish—The Season of Christmas Holy Family Meetings & Activities:

Mon.’s 9-10 am Intercessory Prayers - Church Mon.’s 10:00 am Prayer Group Executive Team Sun/Mon’s 6:45 pm K of C BINGO—5 Robie St.

JANUARY 2020 Jan.12th 9:45 am J.A.M’n Family Session (Hall) SCIENCE/CRAFT/BAKE SUNDAY 6:00 pm M&M Practise (church) Jan. 13th 6:30 pm HF Pastoral Lead Team (D. Room) Jan. 14th 11:30 am TUESDAY LUNCHEON (M.Hall) Jan. 15th 6:00 pm Sunday Choir Practise (church) 7:00 pm ASP Leadership Team (ZOOM) Jan. 16th 7:00 pm Life in the Spirit #2 (M. Hall) 7:00 pm GOD SQUAD Night (church) Jan. 17th 10:30 am Liturgy Committee (D. Room)

7—9 pm CHASE THE ACE WEEKLY FUNDRAISER Jan. 19th 9:45 am J.A.M’n Family Session (Hall) POPCORN & MOVIE SUNDAY Jan. 21st 11:30 am TUESDAY LUNCHEON (M. Hall)

Holy Family Catholic Women’s League

Next Regular CWL Meeting: NO Meeting January

Next Executive CWL Meeting: January 15th 10 am

Membership Dues Due NOW: $25.00

The CWL wish to congratulate

Makenzie O’Quinn studying at Acadia University in

Science Major in Biology and Sociology

and

Adrianna O’Quinn studying at Mount Allison University

in Arts Major in Psychology

as the recipients of this year’s CWL Bursary’s of $750.00 each to assist in

their studies going forward.

Knights of Columbus: Breakfast

$7.00 pp on FEBRUARY 8th, 8-11 am

Eggs, Bacon, Beans, Hash Browns, Toast,

Juice, Tea or Coffee

Regular Meetings:

#2916 Council Regular Mtg: January 23rd, 7 pm

#1639 Council 4th Degree Mtg: January 9th, 7 pm

Grand Knight - Rick d’Entremont 902-667-7820

Faithful Navigator- Gary Graham 902-694-2843

Hall Rentals— Barney 902-667-5715

Knights BINGO:

Sunday’s 6:45 pm/Monday’s 6:45 pm

5 Robie St, Amherst NS

The Knights of Columbus would like to congratulate Adrianna O’Quinn for being 1 of 6 NS recipients of the Simon J. Khattar Scholarship for $1,000.00. The Knights hope this assists Adrianna in her goals and studies at Mount Allison University.

Tuesday Luncheons are for Everyone!

11:30 doors OPEN on Tuesday’s

Come check out our growing family at Tuesday Luncheon,

made up of our community friends, parishioners and amazing

volunteers! Meet new friends, have a HOT delicious, healthy

meal and a new home and friends to call your own!

Society of St. Vincent de Paul:

Co-Presidents: Shirley Leblanc 902-667–8848 or Shirley-Ann Porter 902-297-4267

Did You Know SSVP in 2019 in Canada? # of home visits was 151, 651.

# of families served 353,652. # of children served 164,246 # of volunteer hours shared 1, 578, 436 # of inmates visited 3,669 Thank you for helping SSVP for doing this work here in Cum-berland County for those in need. You Make A Difference!

Baptism Preparation Program:

Baptism Preparation Program first session: January 21st, 2020—6—7pm

You must pick up a package at the office and drop off the completed forms by January 14th to the office.

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OF GOD!

Where: Holy Family Church

Who: All those preparing/planning Baptism for

babies or older children.

How: Reserve your spot at the Holy Family Office .

What: Pick up the Preparation Package at the office at 63 Church St. Amherst, NS

Next Friendship Club:

February 5th , from 1—3pm

The Friendship Club is on the 1st Wednesday of each month,

(weather permitting). If you haven’t been, than you MUST

check it out in 2020!! The club is made up of Men and

Women and has a large age range. It’s open for everyone to

enjoy, so drop by and check it out!

JANUARY 18th/ 19th, 2020 — SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME —Masses / Lay Service

Jan. 18th 4:00 pm St. Paul the Apostle, River Hebert MASS for Florence Willigar (by Patricia Gouchie)

Jan. 18th 6:00 pm Holy Family Church, Amherst MASS for Linda Rodrigues (by Ann Pereira)

Jan. 18th 6:30 pm St. Cornelius Church, Streets Ridge MASS for Mary Esther Doucet

Jan. 19th 9:00 am St. Thomas More Church, Pugwash MASS for Chris Myers

Jan. 19th 10:00 am St. Brigid’s Church, Parrsboro (hall) MASS for Leroy Bailey

Jan. 19th 11:00 am St. John the Baptist Church, Springhill MASS for Eugene MacIsaac

Jan. 19th 11:15 am Holy Family Church, Amherst MASS for Catherine Gould (by Sharon Gould)

JANUARY 18th/19th, 2020 Weekend SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Prepare for Mass and Read in Advance

1 s t R e a d i n g : I S A I A H 4 9 : 3 , 5 - 6

2 n d R e a d i n g : 1 C O R I N T H I A N S 1 : 1 — 3

G o s p e l : J O H N 1 : 2 9 — 3 4

In Deep and Sincere Condolences to Our Family:

To all our parishioners who have experienced the loss of a loved

one recently from our home community and those in our larger

world community. We also pray for the family and friends of:

MICHAEL PERSAUD —brother in law of Sean and Glenna O’Quinn.

Light a candle in memory of a loved one. For a mini-

mal cost, it is a special way to honor or remember.

Mary, Mother of Mercy

PRAYER GROUP:

Thursday Nights at 7pm

Music, Prayers, Support, Friend-

ship, Laughter and Fellowship are in abundance.

Mondays from 9-10 am

Adoration with General Intercessory Prayers in the Church,

Prayer is Powerful, Prayer in Numbers is life-changing.

***PRAYER LINE—902-664-9396*** Let’s Pray for You or Someone you Love.

Prayers for those in NEED of our HELP & HOPE:

“Jesus, may Your pure and healthy blood circu-

late in the ailing bodies of those needing healing,

and may Your pure and healthy body transform

any weak, unhealthy bodies, and may a healthy

and vigorous life flow within them, if it is truly

Your holy will”:

LOUIS MANUGE - nephew of Chris JIM NELSON JUDY BUCHANAN RITA DAVISON

MARY AND GEORGE HOBBS ROY MCINNIS

And for those ill and suffering, not asking for prayers but in

need of healing, grace, mercy and love.

3, 092, 673 HAIL MARY’S PRAYED—Since Dec. 1st, 2016

Stronger Together as a Parish —Praying Together as Family of GOD

Praying in JANUARY for all who are suffering from the MANY environmental catastrophe's happening all over the world.

Floods, earthquakes, wildfires, mud slides and more, causing loss, damage and pain. We pray for our brothers and sisters who

suffer and we ask GOD to come forward to lift these people up in their loss, love them in their fears and show them HOPE.

AMEN

JANUARY 11th/ 12th, 2020 — BAPTISM OF OUR LORD SUNDAY—Masses / Lay Service

Jan. 11th 4:00 pm St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Joggins MASS for Florence Willigar (by Patricia Gouchie)

Jan. 11th 6:00 pm Holy Family Church, Amherst MASS for Father Michael Ryan (by Viola Corbett)

Jan. 11th 6:30 pm St. Cornelius Church, Streets Ridge Lay Led Service

Jan. 12th 9:00 am St. Thomas More Church, Pugwash MASS for Martina Doyle

Jan. 12th 9:00 am St. Brigid’s Church, Parrsboro (hall) Lay Led Service

Jan. 12th 11:00 am St. John the Baptist Church, Springhill Lay Led Service

Jan. 12th 11:15 am Holy Family Church, Amherst MASS for Alice Melanson (by Nancy & Family)

All Saints Parish - Being Good Stewards for GOD

Cumberland County - Stronger Together

Mass Intentions:

Have you thought about having a MASS intention said for someone spe-cial? Contact Mary Comeau at the Ho-ly Family office, 902-667-2523 to re-quest MASS INTENTIONS for All Saints Parish, in memory of a loved one or for a special celebra-tion for all the Parish. Open to anyone who would like intentions said. Mass intentions have often been used as a gift in honor a special date, event, person. A great gift idea for that “hard to shop for person” for their birthday or special occasion.

Please specify which church in the Parish to have these intentions said. Also, indicate if a preference to a weekday or weekend (Sat or Sun) MASS. We will try to meet all requests and thank you. Cheques to All Saints Parish.

2020 All Saints Parish Envelopes:

All Parishioners have been issued a new envelope number.

It is VERY IMPORTANT to use the NEW envelopes 2020 now and destroy any old envelopes.

It is possible in the preparation of all the boxes for the 7 churches, some parishioners names have been

missed. We apologize for this and there are extra boxes at each church to give you a new box with a new number.

Contact your local Leadership and/or Finance Team member to have your new box set up. We appreciate your patience and support.

All NEW Envelopes are in the Gathering Areas

of each Church. If you have not PICKED UP yours, please do it this weekend. Thank You.

WILL YOU BE THE NEXT

CHASE THE ACE WINNER? 39 cards remaining

Approximate JACKPOT—$3,000.00

Join the Fun on a Night Out!

2 hours out of the House!

Next Chase the Ace Friday, January 17th 7—9pm

Holy Family LOONIE DRAW WINNER—

Number: # 216

WINNER: NOT PLAYED

Next Draw on January 5th

PRIZE: $ 52.50 THANK YOU for your Support!!!

*** Please make sure your loonie number is CLEARLY LABELED when putting the sticker on your donation. We have had trouble reading some of the entries.

Pre-Authorized Remittance All Saints Parishioners:

Have you considered joining other parishioners in using the PAR option for making financial contributions to your church. PAR (Pre-authorized Remittance) is a great way to set up your donations without worrying about enve-lopes or having money for the envelopes. All PAR users receive an income tax receipt, the same as those with en-velopes. Here’s another PAR happy customer, that switched….

“it seemed that it could make things easier for me. So I am going to try it for a year.” - parishioner on PAR.

Contact Evelyn at 902-667-5244 to set up the PAR for your contributions or to ask any questions of the PAR process. This option is available to all parishioners of All Saints Par-ish. Check out how easy and safe it is to sign up and use this program. Call Today To Find Out More!!

COLLECTION UPDATES As your Leadership Teams continue work-ing to address the 3 priorities of the All Saints Parish parishioners - improved Com-munication, building Trust and transparent

Finances, we will continue to use the bulletin as our #1 tool to assist in achieving these priorities.

Starting in the next few weeks in the bulletin, we will begin to do a Week-end Collection Update for All Saints Parish vs. individually for churches. Due to the turna-round of each church depositing their weekend collec-tions, this recap will be a 2 week delay but it will begin to give us all a bigger picture look of the parish viability.

As was shared at the Town Hall Meetings, the expected date to be able to provide a overview of a financial report for All Saints Parish will be (at this time) in March.

All Saints Parish - FAMILY AND YOUTH NEWS

Sister Teresa Currie —Christmas Blessings

The staff of Holy Family received a Christmas

card from Sister Teresa Currie and we pass

this along to the parishioners.

“At Christmas, we’re all beautifully connect-

ed by the Love born that holy night. The baby in the man-

ger belongs to all of us and so does this wonderous sea-

son when we remember His Birth. Joy to you as we cele-

brate all that Christmas means, Love & prayers S. Teresa.

Thank you to the ones who sent me Birthday Cards, Miss

you all!! There is a Novena of Mass offered during

Advent and one Masses a month throughout the New

Year for You and our benefactors intentions. Sisters of St.

Martha of Prince Edward Island.”

M&M YOUTH CHOIR - MUSIC & MINISTRY

WHAT? NEW M&M’S to join the fun!!

WHO? Youth 4+ or you have a “Youthful Heart”!!

WHEN? Practise Sunday Nights 6pm, except on the FAMILY MASS Sunday. . Family Mass Sunday is the last Sunday MASS or Lay Ser-vice in the month between Sept—May. The M&MS lead the music and more!

NEXT FAMILY MASS: January 26th at 11:15am

A HUGE THANK YOU to all those who made donations in memory of a loved one for the Christmas Poinsettias for the Christmas Season. The following is the full list of those donations:

Flowers in memory of Donated By:

Doug & Shirley Downey Donna & Curtis White

Our Parents Ross & Linda Ward

Linda Rodrigues Milu & Plassey Rodrigues

Margaret & Ray Pollard Evelyn Pollard

Cheryl Doiron Evelyn Pollard

Stanley Gould Sharon and family

John Boyle Marcella Andreas

John Boyle Doris Boyle

Dorilla Melanson Shirley Leblanc

Charles Comeau Comeau family

Mary MacLeod Carolyn MacLeod

Jude & Mildred Terrio Roger & Linda Terrio

Raymond & Ada Robichaud Roger & Linda Terrio

Arnold Chisholm Marion Chisholm

Jonathon Estabrooks Helen Estabrooks

Donald Wry Marina Wry

Mary Haley Kathleen Baxter

The Gothreau Family Betty O’Reagan

Phyllis Simons Pauline & Harold Pettigrew

John T. & Laura O’Quinn Sean, Glenna, Makenzie & Adrianna

HOLY FAMILY YOUTH GROUP—The GOD SQUAD

Youth Group is on Thursday Nights at 7 pm. All youth from Grade 4 and up are invited to join in the fun, games, snacks and more that happens at Youth Night.

January 9th—February 20th/20

Youth will be using the church or at an outside location for their night event. Keep posted on the GOD

SQUAD Facebook page! Like Us and Friend Us!!

NEXT J.A.M’n Workshop:

February 3rd, 10—12 pm.

Are you free for an hour or two to

come and help out with creating,

building, painting and/or any other fun project for our

J.A.M’n Sunday School program for Families. Just drop by

and see what we are working at, and how you can lend a

hand!

Join the Fun of our J.A.M’n Sunday Classes

Sunday’s at 9:45 am before MASS

Here is how we are J.A.M’n in JANUARY!

Jan. 12th SCIENCE/CRAFT/BAKE SUNDAY

Jan. 19th MOVIE & POPCORN SUNDAY

Jan. 26th GAME—J.A.M’n JEOPARDY, FOOD &

REVIEW SUNDAY

Our program is for ALL families with

children and any of our parishioners

too. We invite you to join the fun and

faith being shared in a BRAND NEW

WAY!!

Father Craig and the staff of ALL SAINTS PARISH want to

say a special THANK YOU to everyone who said a prayer,

sent a card, gave a gift or baked goodies for us for Christ-

mas! We are always touched by the love and kindness

that comes to us. Thank You!