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Page 1: St. Paul Roman Catholic Parish Fort McMurray Gift · St. Paul Roman Catholic Parish Fort McMurray 480 Signal Road, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 4R7 780-791-4305; ; Fax: 587-258-6898 Visit

St. Paul Roman Catholic Parish Fort McMurray

480 Signal Road, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 4R7

780-791-4305; ; Fax: 587-258-6898 Visit us: Website at www.stpaulparishwb.com

Email: [email protected]

33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Parish Staff

Pastor

Fr. Reddy [email protected]

Assistant Pastor Fr. Jhack Diaz

[email protected] Bro. Jayson

[email protected]

Parish Secretary: Janet Alipio [email protected]

Liturgy Schedule Monday-Friday

Rosary & Mass 8:40 am Saturday 7:00 pm

Sunday 9 am & 11 am

Mass/Adoration

RCIA- Every Wednesday at 7pm at St. Paul’s Church

Spanish Rosary -Every Second Friday of each month at 7pm

THANK YOU for your donation made to St. Paul Parish. November 11th and 12th General collections

$4,499.85

St. Paul Parish Confirmation/ First Communion Schedule 2017-2018

Gift’s of the Spirit Sunday- November 25, 7:00pm November 26, 9:00am Confirmation- December 6, 7:00 pm December 7, 7:00 pm Passo-

ver Sunday January 27, 7:00 pm January 28, 9:00 am

BAPTISM Baptism prepara-tion on every third Tuesday of the month. Next one will be held on November 21st at 7 pm at St. Paul Church. And The Sac-rament of Baptism will be celebrated on every fourth Sunday of the month at 2 pm in St. Paul Church.

2017-2018 Sunday Missals

and Youth Missals

are available for sale .

Please ask church’s office or

when you go to masses they

can be found at the front of

cry room.

Sunday Missal cost $5.00

Youth Missal cost $10.00

There’s a box beside where

the missals are. Please in-

sert your payments in the

box.

UNREGISTERED ENVE-LOPES

If you are using an Unregistered Donation

envelope for 2017 you will not be receiving

a receipt for income tax purposes. Please

check this list to determine if is this applies

to you.

Please write your name, address and phone number on the next envelope you use. Thank you.

2017 UNREGISTERED EN-VELOPES

529, 619, 642, 643, 644, 647, 671, 703, 764, 774, 783, 797, 802, 829, 831, 839, 847, 848, 864, 866, 877,

865, 844, 912, 918.

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Sunday Reflection By Dn. Raymond 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time November 19

Banquet. I’m still pondering on the last sentence of my last week’s reflection. After three long ‘feast-drought’ years, my wife finally got a chance to feast for the last two weeks: home-made seafood cuisine, wel-come home banquet, wine tasting banquet and wedding banquet. She was blessed to spend time in Hong Kong with family and friends whom she hasn’t seen for a long time. Hong kong is 15 hours ahead of us. In spite of busy sched-ule, she sacrificed her sleep and got up at 5:00 am their time (3:00 pm ours) to FaceTime with me to express her love and make sure I am OK.

As for me, after a long three years eating (swallowing) and speaking drought, I finally had an appointment with the ENT (ears, neck, and throat) specialist and surgeon at U of A Hospital two weeks ago to talk about the chance of trach tube removal. After a detail examination, the answer is no. My vocal chord is not functioning well due to the stroke and any operation to widen the airway based on the current technology will increase the risk of aspi-ration and pneumonia. So, there goes my hope, even the last talent is taken away from me. Maybe I am not follow-ing the commandments as expected in my life in the past, not using the gifts from God wisely. Because of my pride (I like to do things my way), I fail to recognize that even a small talent is a gift from God. Our sins are like the trust-breakers. They show we aren’t ready for God’s greatest gifts, so we have to start with the small things. Each grace we respond to opens the door to receiving another grace. If we are trustworthy in very small matters, we can be trust-ed with the greater. Part of earning trust with God is getting our priorities straight. Taking a God-and-mammon ap-proach to life is similar to saying the rosary while watching television. It erodes our commitment to the Lord, showing God that we are not spiritually mature enough to be fully trusted. God must come first! I believe keeping the trach tube now is God’s test for me, to test my trustworthy. It’s his way not mine. Few years from now, who knows .......

This Sunday’s gospel story is pretty simple (Matthew 25:14-30). A wealthy man gave his fortune to each of his three servants to care for while he went on a trip. When he returned, the owner saw that two of the three servants invested his money and got back twice the amount. He delighted in their trustworthiness. So they were entrusted with more. The third servant, the poor soul did not invest the money at all. He buried it in the ground. Quite simply, he was afraid of investing and losing it. This poor guy just wanted to keep the owner’s money safe!

Now assuming that the parable is about God. Maybe God entrusts even more to us. We are given life, talents, love, people around us with unconditional love. God gives all these free of charge. He gives us our lives with all the rewards and disappointments and catastrophes and he says to us, dive in! Make whatever you will of it! You are beloved to me! This is truly wonderful. But then an awful question arises. Does God curse those who are afraid and who bury what they are given? Jesus at least seems to say yes: “To everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away”. That hurts. How are we to inter-pret these words? Well, in the realm of spirituality there is only one thing that can completely go away if you only have a small bit of it and do not use it. But it gets greater if you have it and use it. Love. If we love those around us, even just a little bit, that love peaks and grows. But if we slam the door against love out of fear or for whatever rea-son, not just at God, but at ourselves and neighbours too, then we will be in the darkness outside, wailing and gnash-ing teeth.

Could the Good Lord accuse us in misusing his gifts, using them unwisely, extravagantly? What about all the graces that God has given to us: our faith, the sacraments, the scriptures, the example of the saints, the time we have been offered, the talents we have been given? How can we respond better to the many gifts Our Lord has giv-en us? How can we better “invest” our talents for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven? I am scared of mis-investments. We are all frightened. It is not so unusual. God waits for ages to see if we will accept just a tiny bit of the forgiving love he offers through the unconditional love from our love ones and neighbours and by the sacrifice of His son. And to see if we will even find just enough courage to invest some of that love in other people. It is a big risk he takes, and he may say, “Oh no, not again” when we fail. This is not a harsh reaction. It is just a disappointment of someone who loves us very much. However, knowing our God is a God of abundant love, I think he will most likely say, “It’s OK, try again. I love you always.” So, let love in. The merciful Lord is there waiting to walk with us and talk with us, and tell us we are His own. And the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known. He speaks and the sound of His voice Is so sweet the birds hush their singing. (Anne Murray, In the garden)

Let us support and act with women who hold out their hands to the poor and open their arms to the needy. Development and Peace is putting human dignity before the exploitation of natural resources in Brazil. We work with our partner MAB (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens) to teach people how to docu-ment cases of human rights violations. During these workshops 842 women who had suffered such violations during the construc-tion of the Jirau dam in the Amazonian state of Rondônia made quilts to express their suffer-ing. Through art and creativity, they found a source of hope and a strengthened commit-ment to social justice. May Peace be with Her!

Tagalog Mass

Sunday Novem-ber 26th 6pm at St. Paul ‘s

Church. All are welocme!

“The Lord, our good shepherd, looks for the lost sheep and heals the sick. Thank you for working as an instrument of God through Development and Peace. In Syria, women are working together for peace within socie-ty through our partner House of Peace (HOPe). They provide social peacebuilding workshops in Syria and Lebanon for local community groups and humanitarian NGOs that ease social tensions and establish pathways towards peaceful coexistence and reconciliation. May Peace be with Her. Source: Women at the Heart of Peace and Reconciliation P22

There will be a training ses-

sion for altar servers on Sun-day, 03 December 2017 after the 11a.m. mass. Snacks will be provided. There is no need to pre-register, just come. If you have questions, please

contact Br. Jayson through the parish office.

Spanish Adoration will be held on December 8th at 7pm

at St. Paul’s Church.


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