SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISH OCTOBER 25 TH BULLETIN, 2020 844 Notre Dame Avenue, St Lambert, QC, J4R 1R8 TEL: (450) 671-6149 FAX: (450) 671-6792 email: [email protected]Website :- www.saintfrancisparish.ca Priest:- Fr. Gérard Lachapelle SAINT JOHN PAUL II PASTORAL UNIT Fr. Manus Bradley, Pastor : [email protected]Susan Gardner, Coordinator [email protected]Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saint-John-Paul-II-Pastoral- Unit/983390895019278 Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil - Bishop, Claude Hamelin Diocesan website: www.dsjl.org Saint John Paul II website: http://johnpaul2.weebly.com WARDENS:- Chair of the Fabrique – Ted Colavecchio 450-671- 6818 Anne-Marie Armeni Treasurer 450-671-1042 Richard Zavergiu .........Bld. & Maint. 450-671-8908 Marianne Hinger Secretary 450- 465-0827 Craig Mcara Fundraising 514-618-3352 Julie Belanger Special Events 450-466-3303 Amanda Simard Hall Rentals 450-671-9164 30 TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME Let the hearts that seek the Lord rejoice; turn to the Lord and his strength; constantly seek his face. PRAYER INTENTIONS –Remember in your prayers Brian, Leona, Emmanuel, Diane, Howard and our armed forces. Pray for the repose of the souls of all our deceased. Pray for the repose of the soul of Pauline Hayston who passed away recently. https://www.simplycremations.ca/obituary/Pauline-HaystonneeAzzopardi To add a name to our prayer list, call the office 450-671-6149 and leave a message. Sunday Masses have resumed at St. Francis of Assisi. To reserve your seat please call
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SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISH OCTOBER 25TH BULLETIN, 2020844 Notre Dame Avenue, St Lambert, QC, J4R 1R8
Craig Mcara Fundraising 514-618-3352Julie Belanger Special Events 450-466-3303
Amanda Simard Hall Rentals 450-671-9164
30TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIMELet the hearts that seek the Lord rejoice; turn to the Lord and his strength; constantly seek his face.PRAYER INTENTIONS –Remember in your prayers Brian, Leona, Emmanuel, Diane, Howard and our armed forces. Pray for the repose of the souls of all our deceased. Pray for the repose of the soul of Pauline Hayston who passed away recently. https://www.simplycremations.ca/obituary/Pauline-HaystonneeAzzopardiTo add a name to our prayer list, call the office 450-671-6149 and leave a message. Sunday Masses have resumed at St. Francis of Assisi. To reserve your seat please call 450-671-1042 on Wednesdays from 2 pm to 4 pm and 7 pm to 8 pm.MASS INTENTIONS October 25th Man Hin Benedicta Chan – the Colavecchios
Jacques Breault – Aline BernierNovember 1st Deceased members of the Slonosky & Leadbetter families – Victoria
DONATIONS: Churches rely on the generosity of their parishioners to maintain their day-to-day operations and those expenses don’t necessarily go away when the church is closed. To donate to your parish you may safely send a cheque in the mail by Canada Post. Please clearly indicate on your cheque the amount, your name, address and if you have, your church envelope #. Tax receipts will be issued as per usual. Thank you!
POPE FRANCIS’ PRAYER INTENTION FOR OCTOBER. The Laity's Mission in the Church : We pray that by the virtue of baptism, the laity, especially women, may participate more inareas of responsibility in the Church.
EVENING ADORATION AT ST. MARY'SOctober is the month of mission and the mission starts with adoration. To give you further access to Jesus, who is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, St. Mary’s Church will open its doors for an hour of silent adoration, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, on Thursday evenings, beginning October 15th and will continue into December. Because of the provincial sanitary regulations, a maximum of 25 adorers will be allowed in the Church and registration prior to the event is mandatory.To register, two options are offered:Option 1) Call Alex La Salle at 514-641-9135 orOption 2) Send an email to Alex La Salle at [email protected] be officially registered, you need to receive a confirmation number (1 to 25). Leaving a voice message or sending an email is not enough. The church will open at 7:10 pm and close at 8:50 pm. St. Mary's Church, 735 Miller, Greenfield Park J4V 1W6Blogs and Reflections: by Alex Lasalle, Pastoral Agent; available on the Website : http://johnpaul2.weebly.com/blog
Daily Reflections from Fr. John Torrance : Scripture, Reflection, Prayerhttps://www.facebook.com/stgabrielssthuberthttps://www.facebook.com/parishofstraymondcandiac
WEEKDAY MASSES OCTOBER 27 TO 30Registration at the door - presently 25 limit
Tuesday, October 27, at 4:00 pm, St. Gabriel's Parish (in person & on Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/stgabrielssthubert Wednesday, October 28, at 9:00 am, St. Mary's Parish Thursday, October 29, at 9:15 am, St. Augustine's Parish Friday, October 30, at 9:30 am, Good Shepherd Parish
CELEBRATIONS IN THE SAINT JOHN PAUL PASTORAL UNIT VIRTUALLY:Weekend Celebrations in the Saint John Paul Pastoral Unit (on Facebook Live)St. Mary's on Saturday at 5 pm and St. Augustine's on Sunday at 9:15 amhttps://www.facebook.com/mass.saintjohnpauliiSt. Gabriel's on Sunday at 11:00 amhttps://www.facebook.com/stgabrielssthubertWeekend Celebrations in the Saint John Paul Pastoral Unit (on ZOOM)Holy Cross on Saturday at 4:30 pm invitation by: [email protected] Celebration in the Saint John Paul II Pastoral Unit (on Facebook)Tuesday Mass at St. Gabriel's at 4:00 pmhttps://www.facebook.com/stgabrielssthuberthttps://www.facebook.com/parishofstraymondcandiac
We yearn to come together as a faith community, but first andWe yearn to come together as a faith community, but first and foremost, we must be a safe faith community.To reserve a place at any of the parishes listed below you must call the number on the days and times indicated below. We will not take reservations outside of those hours and we cannot take voicemail, email or texting as we need to speak with you when you call. There are specific questions we must ask you and some information that we must give you. A phone call is required. Registrations will be taken each week for the upcoming weekend only. The protocols state that in order to sit in the same pew in the church, you must live under the same roof; therefore please register accordingly. We will do our best to ensure that each parishioner in the Saint John Paul II Pastoral Unit will get to attend once, before anyone else attends twice.DISPENSATION FROM MASS. We know that this is difficult but during the time of this pandemic, the dispensation of Sunday Mass is given for those who cannot go, and for those advised not to go, to church. Rather, these faithful are invited to read the Word of God and to pray in their homes and to participate in the celebrations of the Mass via TV, radio and/or the Internet.WE WANT YOU TO FEEL SAFE INSIDE YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP.Please know that before each Mass, every pew, railing, door handle and all bathrooms will have been cleaned and sanitized by a crew of amazing volunteers! Please help them by making sure that you take all of your belongings with you when you leave. Maybe this ‘new normal’ won’t be exactly what we want it to be, but it will be what we need it to be.WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN COMING TO MASS• Arrive 15 to 30 minutes early to allow the check in process.• In the parking lot, stay safely 6 feet apart.• With your mask on, stop and allow the volunteer to check you in.• At the door, stop and you will be given hand-sanitizer (your hands will be ‘squirted’).• Inside the church, follow the volunteer to your assigned seat.• During Mass, follow all arrows and markings on the floor, so we all stay safely 6 feet apart.• There will be one Lector for all readings• There will be no Altar Servers• You will notice that there are no Missals (bring your own).• You may bring water if you think you will need some.• You will notice that due to air transmission of Covid -19, there are no fans, electric or manual.• During Mass, enjoy the Music Ministry, but for now, no singing in the pews.• We will wish each other the Peace of Christ by nodding, smiling, bowing and waving.• During Communion there is no verbal exchange, simply silence.• Following Mass, to leave the church, please follow the directions of the Hospitality Minister and remember to bring all personal items home with you.• When leaving, respect the safety of keeping the 6 feet between you and your fellow parishioners in the church and when out in the parking lot.
• Lastly, although Mass will be 'different', it is still wonderful. It is still Mass, still reverent, still holy!
WEEKEND CELEBRATIONS IN THE SAINT JOHN PAUL PASTORAL UNITGood Shepherd, 7900 Naples, Brossard J4Y 1Z9Saturday, October 31 at 5:00 pmSunday, November 1 at 11:15 amTo register please call: 450-676-7577Tuesday, October 27 from 10:30 am to 1 pm and 7 pm to 8 pmSt. Augustine’s, 105 de Cherbourg, St. Bruno J3V 2K8 (entrance, Roberval)Sunday, November 1 at 9:15 amTo register please call: 450-653-4402Thursday, October 29 from 2 pm to 4 pm and 7 pm to 8 pmSt. Clare’s, 820 Montarville, Longueuil (Church)Saturday, October 31 at 4:00 pmTo register please call: 450-463-3206Tuesday, October 27 from 10 am to 12 pmThursday, October 29 from 10 am to 12 pmSt. Francis of Assisi, 844 Notre Dame, St. Lambert J4R 1N5Sunday, November 1 at 9:30 amTo register please call: 450-671-1042Wednesday, October 28 from 2 pm to 4 pm and 7 pm to 8 pmSt. Gabriel’s, 5070 Gilbert, St. Hubert J3Y 2K7Sunday, November 1 at 11:00 amTo register please call: 450-656-4433Thursday, October 29 from 3 pm to 7 pmSt. Mary’s, 125 Grove, Greenfield Park, J4V 2X2 (entrance, Miller)Saturday, October 31 at 5:00 pmSunday, November 1 at 9:00 amSunday, November 1 at 11:30 am (in French with St. Anastase)To register please call: 450-671-0416Tuesday, October 27 from 3 pm to 7 pmSt. Raymond’s, CRVP : 135 chemin Haendel, Candiac, QC J5R 1R7Sunday, November 1 at 9:15 amTo register please call: 450-659-6678Thursday, October 29 from 5 pm to 8 pmCELEBRATION IN THE SAINT JOHN PAUL PASTORAL UNIT ON ZOOMFr. Gerard Lachapelle will celebrate Mass with Holy Cross Parish on Saturday, October 31 at 4:30 pm. To register on ZOOM (invitation by: [email protected])
WEARING MASKS IN THE CHURCH IS MANDATORY
At the beginning of August, the Management Team and I reread what happened to launch the year in a relevant way.When the pandemic started, I urged our pastoral staff to be in service. In May, I wrote a pastoral letter in solidarity with all the members of the Management Team:Oser la proximite (Dare to get close).In this letter, I was inviting our pastoral staff to reread everything they had experienced in the first months of the pandemic; what they saw, what they heard, what they understood, but above all what they remember and how these experiences will transform our ministry.The theme of this year is Oser la proximite, autrement… (Dare to get close, differently…) How to do our ministry differently; how to get out of our usual structures to meet others. Specifically, how to join community networks; how to get close to people and in specific the most vulnerable, the most fragile. How to reinvent all our means of communication. With the Management Team, I have chosen three areas that we will focus on this year. The whole communication block: can we learn toreach all the diocesans? Are we relevant to join and work with the community networks? The second pole is the pastoral care of the most vulnerable people: the sick, the elderly, the young, the poor, the destitute, the immigrants. Finally, the third pole: to be able to listen to the Word of God; how the Word of God comes to reinvigorate our actions. Let us remember that our primary mission, as Church, is to humanize the world in the light of the Word of God! We also realized that our pastoral staff, like all our diocesans, are more vulnerable. This pandemic is causing some stress for many of our staff. How to be more attentive to support one another.I expect and hope from our pastoral staff and from all the baptized that we learn something from this time of the pandemic. That we listen better to people, being able to discern and becoming better bearers of hope; to be able to take the road and to create new paths. I am asking to all of us, what I try to live myself, to have some audacity: the audacity of the Gospel. What Pope Francis is asking is for us to get out of our comfort zones to meet people where they are. To be a Church on the outskirts, a Church on the way out! This is what I want and what I expect from us for the next year.
Mgr Claude HamelinÉvêqueDiocèse Saint-Jean-Longueuil
“Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”~ Luke 10:37 ~
Luke 10:25-37The problem with any parable or public statement is that after it is received – with varying degrees of deference or politeness – is that it gets shelved. The history of Christianity is, sadly, all too often an account of how the story of the Good Samaritan is overlooked or simply ignored. In writing Fratelli Tutti, with what amounts to its call to a new global order based on compassion, justice and the inclusion of the marginalised, I fear the same will happen.Though he eloquently speaks the language of political philosophy and political theory, will the politicians listen to Francis? (I am tempted to say: will they even bother to seek out this document and read it?) While theologians and philosophers will probably read it, comment on it and critique it, will clergy and religious leaders do the same? Will the latter, particularly those obsessed with details of worship or personal ethics try to see how Francis is calling us to a deeper living of the essentials of faith – or will they simply shelve it among other church documents gathering dust?And what will we do about it?It is, after all, about us – whatever our station in life. The call to a new life based on compassion and ‘political love’ goes out to everyone on the planet. Just as everyone has a responsibility to care for our common home, the Earth (the subject of Francis’ Laudato Si’), so too we have responsibility for our neighbour. This may be most significant for those who have more access to power – politicians, professionals, public intellectuals, and religious leaders – but it applies to everyone. Since the principles in Fratelli are universal – central to all faiths and to the best values of secular humanism alike – they can be appropriated by everyone.If ordinary people everywhere embraced the call to political love and resolutely, through how they voted (indeed, by voting) and how they called out the hatemongers that infest our social media, we’d already make a start.Let us make a start.Lord, in answer to the lawyer’s question ‘Who is my neighbour?’ let us have the courage to answer: “Everyone .Everything in Creation”. Give us the courage to go that step further, to go and do likewise. Amen.Reflection prepared by the Jesuit Institute (@jesuitinstitute)
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people into poverty. Only 1 in 5 people in low-income countries are covered by safety net
programmesAnd it is the most vulnerable and marginalized, such refugees, women and Indigenous Peoples, who will disproportionately suffer the worst impacts. We are at critical juncture for our common home. We must come together to support a global recovery to the pandemic that moves us towards a more sustainable and equitable future for all.GIVE NOW https://www.devp.org/en/campaign/recoveringtogether
Building Positive Relationships between Indigenous & non-Indigenous PeoplesTuesday, November 24, 2020 – Social Injustice in the Court SystemsPlease note registration link will be sent separately for this event.For more information, please contact Carole Umana at [email protected] more information, visit our websites: www.kairoscanada.org and www.kairosblanketexercise.org.Donate to KAIROS today! KAIROS Canadian Ecumenical Justice InitiativesYou're Invited to a Climate Justice ForumFor the Love of Creation, of which KAIROS is a leading organization, is hosting a Fall Online Forum to introduce the work of the initiative and invite everyone into this joint advocacy, theology and local engagement work. Join us at one or all of these events.Four out of five of these one hour sessions will have simultaneous translation in French and English.Every Monday in November from 7:30-8:30 pm EST on Zoom. Register at: http://bit.ly/flcforum2020
The Assistance and Referral Centre (ARC) is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness & accessibility to
English-Language Health and Social Services in the Montérégie-Centre region. Click on this link to go to their website and list of upcoming events https://www.arc-hss.ca/
***************************************************************************CAREGIVERS VIRTUAL MEETINGS AND RESPITE CARE AT HOME
Virtual Meetings 1 meeting per month Max. 15 participantsMonthly meetings, structured and facilitated by counsellors, offering caregivers andformer caregivers a precious opportunity to exchange with others and receive support. A different theme each month.The virtual meetings are supported by the Webex platform. It is possible to connect via the Internet.You need a computer or a tablet that has a camera and a microphone.It is also possible to use Webex with your landline or cell phone.We offer technical assistance, by phone, to facilitate your connection to this new service.Theme for October My Internal dialogueFormer Caregivers:Afternoon meeting: Wednesday, October 28 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.For more information - [email protected] Home Respite CareThe rules for granting respite services to caregivers have changed. We can now offer you the respite service, In-home Supervision, for 4 hours a week to allow you to recharge your batteries. In addition, the Respite Getaway service offers respite in your home for 50 hours for a peaceful escape from everyday life.To take advantage of these free respite services, contact Yvan Provencher at450-465-2520 extension 206, or by email at: yprovencher@centredesoutienentraidantsCertain conditions apply.
SENIORS AND CANNABIS:
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!
Presentation 1: 9:30 AM-10:30 AMAlain Deschamps: Your Legal Responsibilities and RightsMr Deschamps is a former defense lawyer working as a Plain Language Specialist and Translator with the legal information centre Éducaloi. Mr. Deschamps will be addressing the following: Cannabis and driving: what are the limits?; What powers do the police have with regards to cannabis?; Possession of cannabis: how much can you have and where can you have it?; and What are the laws around travelling with cannabis?Presentation 2: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AMAnn Millet: Learn About the Different Types of Cannabis and the Potential Medical Benefits of Cannabis for SeniorsAnn Millet, a microbiologist and industry specialist, will be focusing on the following topics and questions: The differences between THC & CBD, how cannabis affects the body, who can benefit from cannabis as a medical treatment and different ways to consume cannabis.Presented by Éducaloi and Seniors Action Quebec.
Register by November 12 by sending us an email with your contact info (name, phone number and organization) at: [email protected].
A confirmation email will be sent to you within 2 working days.
450-445-0372 or by email at : [email protected] Included: Praise & Worship, Scripture, Reflections/Sharing, Intercessory prayer & Rosary. If you don't have anyone to pray for prayer intentions at your parishes, then please forward Lorraine prayer requests which she will then share with the Prayer Group.
PRAYER NETWORK - VIRTUALWe will pray for anyone from anywhere and for anything. Anonymity is an option for those who prefer it. There is just this one central e-mail for receiving prayer requests: [email protected], and all requests will be forwarded from the same! Also, if you wish to be on the list of people willing to pray, email [email protected] and you will be added to the pray-ers list!
