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Central Office, PO BOX 1075, 63 Church St, Amherst, NS, B4H 2E3
CUMBERLAND COUNTY / STRONGER TOGETHER
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ALL SAINTS PARISH 15TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - JULY 12TH, 2020
“The seed that fell on good soil produced a hundredfold” - Psalm 65
Buildings and such...
SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS IN PLACE
So many exciting things have happened since we re-opened for services on July 4th/5th. We have had good feedback and we are grateful for all your assistance in making it a success!
As a reminder, our churches are open for weekend services, however not for general use or for parishioners to be coming and going outside the weekend times. If there is a request to hold a church ministry or council meeting, then they need to contact the local Leadership Team member to decide if this will be possible.
Because of the specific protocols that must be followed, some meetings in person may not be able to be held at this time. As well all areas used must be disinfected before any new use of the building can be done. As we must ensure that all safety protocols are in place, some meetings may not be possible at this time and other options are suggested to have this meeting occur.
If you have any questions, please contact your local Leadership Team contact or reach us at the Central Office at 902-667-5244.
Reflections from All Saints Parishioners
VERONICA RICHARDS
This is a great time of year to be hearing this parable. Green, leafy trees, shrubs, lupins, buttercups, peonies, strawberries, peas, potatoes, and there is more to come as those who have been sowing seed await the harvest.
The Parable of the Sower was first told in Israel, which is rich in agriculture. 40 different types of fruit are grown there. When I was there in 2016, and I saw the abundant growth in the fields, it became obvious to me, why Jesus referred to natural elements of the bountiful land to convey truths about God. In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus speaks of a sower who
seems to scatter seeds indiscriminately, giving no care to where the seed lands. It seems to me that the intention of the sower is to do just that, seed and sow. If we consider God to be the sower, what is God sowing?
Jesus spoke in parables leaving the one listening the opportunity to interpret what was heard. As I reflected on today’s reading, I thought of the seed, the word of God, not as something only contained in Scripture but as something that each of one of is. Every one of us is a word of God. Thomas Merton, a deceased Trappist monk said: “God utters me like a word, a partial thought of Himself.” It strikes me now that this quote from one of Merton’s books is called New Seeds of Contemplation. How fitting is that title for this gospel reading! cont….pg 2
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All Saints Parish July 18/19th Weekend
July 18th, Saturday
4pm River Hebert St. Paul the Apostle MASS
6 pm Amherst Holy Family Pre-Regis Details Below:
6:30 pm St. Ridge St. Cornelius, Lay service
----------------------------------------------------------------- July 19th, Sunday
9 am Pugwash St. Thomas More, Lay service Pugwash Pre-Regis Details:
Email: [email protected] or Phone: Liz Roscoe at 902-257-2713
9 am Springhill St. John the Baptist MASS
10 am Parrsboro St. Brigid’s, Lay service
11:15 am Amherst Holy Family Holy Family Pre-Regis Details Below:
Call or Email: Wed’s from 10 – 12pm
Email: [email protected] or Phone: 902-667-2523 or 667-5244 leave message,
with Name of each person attending, Phone numbers, # of the family bubble sitting together and
which Mass, Saturday, or Sunday.
Cont.….Digging Deeper
Also, we see in the book of Genesis that God spoke and as a result, the various parts of creation came into being. As God continues to speak, the creating continues and human beings continue to be created.
How many of us know of an infant who was born since the pandemic started? That infant is a word of God spoken. An infant can’t speak in words, but God can speak through an infant. And God speaks through each of us. Each time God speaks, through scripture or another human being, we are invited to listen. God’s words can fall on hardened, arid soil if we fail to listen. God’s word can fall on rock, bounce off us, if we fail to see that the people and events of our daily lives is how God communicates with us
The soil that God’s word falls on can be seen as the individual circumstances, events and relationships of our lives. If we are in a harmful relationship with someone or something, we, the seed that is God’s life, will not flourish there. We will need to listen to God’s word and see how we can respond, so we can bring forth life, the abundant life that we are called to live. As Isaiah says, each of us, as the word of God, spoken by our loving God, will return to our Source after we have accomplished all that we were sent to do.
PRAYER LINE: 902-664-9396 For anyone need special prayers for
themselves or for someone you love.
HAIL MARY’S
3, 222, 342
Prayed by All Saints
Parishioners since Dec.1st/2016
Praying for the end of Racism
in our world.
Thank you to our wonderful parishioners who share their reflections each week! If you would like to share a reflection for “Digging Deeper” please contact us at [email protected]
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COMFORT CORNER:
“A Little Good News….”
PRAYERS OF
FAITHFUL:
“…I was sick
and you cared for
Me”
WEEK OF
JULY 11-17TH
*We pray for those who
are sick, alone, afraid
and feel abandoned.
Praying especially for:
William MacDonald,
Phil Leblanc, Michele
Leblanc Jim Nelson,
Shae Fage, Brody
Smith Ricky Lirette,
Heather Babineau,
William Babineau,
Denis Babineau, Lorrie
and Fr. Craig
Christenson.
*We pray for all who
have died. May God
welcome them with His
open arms. We pray
especially for:
Georgia Donovon
(granddaughter of Bob
and Diane Hanley)
*We pray for the world
and those affected by or
died from COVID.
May God protect all
those who face this
disease.
*We pray for all
churches opening this
weekend that God will
protect us and keep us
safe at this time.
Mark Wahlberg
Hearing the faith journey of Hollywood actor and businessman Mark Wahlberg left an impression on the hearts of many young adults at the Archdiocese of Chicago’s first (re)Encounter event. “It’s powerful for a celebrity to feel that way about religion,” said Omar Lopez, 21, from St. Gall Parish. “For me, when I think about a celebrity, I think cockiness, selfishness, but to hear an artist say that he takes time to just pray, that’s an incredible feeling. I came to hear him because personally I feel lost myself,” Lopez told the Chicago Catholic, the archdiocesan newspaper. “At first I was really skeptical about it. I came here just to hear different stories and to hear different aspects of life.”
About 2,000 young adults attended (re)Encounter — an evening of music, speakers, faith sharing and eucharistic adoration aimed at energizing the faith of young adult Catholics. The highlight was a question-and-answer session with Wahlberg and Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich.
Star of movies such as “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “Ted” and “Deepwater Horizon” and producer of the popular HBO series “Entourage,” Wahlberg takes his faith seriously, often attending daily Mass and making time for quiet prayer each morning. He emceed the Festival of Families with Pope Francis during the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in 2015.
His faith wasn’t always important to him. Youngest in a family of nine children, he dropped out of school at 13, and served prison time. At 16, he was charged with attempted murder, but he pleaded guilty to assault. Today, he said, he’s committed to being a good father and husband and giving his children the Catholic education, he didn’t have.
“I am a street kid from Dorchester, Mass. Grew up
“”..when I heard the jail doors close...I started praying…”
in St. Greg’s and St. William’s parish,” he told the crowd. Because his parents worked a lot, he was often unsupervised and took to running the streets. “Ended up getting into a lot of trouble, incarcerated, tried as an adult at 16, 17. That was a big wake-up call for me,” he told Cupich. “A lot of people go to God, especially when they get in trouble. When I heard the jail doors close behind me, I started praying right away.” It was then that he turned his life around.
“Still, every day it’s a process. That’s why I start my day, every day, by getting on my hands and my knees and starting a time of prayer and reading Scripture. Then I feel like I can go out there and conquer the world or at least do my job and give back because I’ve been blessed so much,” Wahlberg said.
He keeps in daily touch with his parish priest from when he was growing up, Father Ed Flavin, who married him and his wife and all his siblings and baptized his four children. When
A Little Good News Cont. Pg. 2….
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All Saints Parish EMAILS have CHANGED:
ASParish has new emails. Please change your contact information for the following.
Mary/Central Office: [email protected] Evelyn/Finance: [email protected] Glenna: [email protected] Father Charles Offor: [email protected]
The old email addresses will be available for a short time, however please update your computer so we don’t miss any emails.
Thoughts from Pope Francis:
“Heavy Burdens”
“Jesus not only sows the seeds; he pulls the thorns. Jesus invites us today to look inward: to give thanks for our good ground and to work on the ground not
yet good,” he said July 16.
"Let us ask ourselves if our heart is open to welcome with faith the seed of the Word of God. Let
us ask ourselves if the rocks of laziness are still large and numerous within us; we identify, and we
call by name the brambles of our vices."
"We find the courage to make a beautiful reclamation of the land, bringing to the Lord in Confession and in prayer our stones and our
stumps. In doing so, Jesus, a good sower, will be happy to do an extra work: to purify our hearts,
removing the stones and thorns that stifle his Word. The Catholic News
Cont.…….
Wahlberg decided to turn his life around, the priest was one of the people he looked up to. Wahlberg, 46, said his biggest mistake was quitting school. Despite having a successful career as an entertainer and businessman, that haunted him, so he got his GED at age 42.
Responding to a young adult’s question about making time for prayer and Mass in a busy life, the actor said it is a “must.” He goes to bed early every night and wakes up before his family to pray in the chapel he built in his home. Addressing another audience question about knowing when one has made the right decision in life according to God’s will, Wahlberg shared how he felt God was calling him to more involvement with his faith leading up to the World Meeting of Families and his role as emcee at an event featuring the pope. Somebody came to speak at the church … they were saying, ‘Are you a participant in the church and the community or are you a spectator?’ And I was like, ‘Whoa.’ I felt like, yeah, I’m a bit of a spectator right now,” Wahlberg said. “I’m coming and getting what I need, but I’m not really giving back, you know, reciprocating the kind of love and support I’m getting.” That encounter resulted in him saying “yes” to ushering when asked a few days later and saying “yes” to the event with Pope Francis when asked a few days after that. Duriga is editor of the Chicago Catholic,
newspaper of the Archdiocese of
Chicago
READINGS FOR
16TH SUNDAY OF
ORDINARY TIME
July 19th, 2020 1ST READING: WISDOM 12:13, 16 - 19 2ND READING: ROMANS 8: 26 - 27 GOSPEL: MATTHEW 13: 24 - 43
SPECIAL DATES:
July 16th
Our Lady of Mount
Carmel Feast Day
July 31st
St. Ignatius of
Loyola Feast Day
Aug 1st, 2020
WELCOME
Father Charles!!!
Aug 3rd
Civic Holiday
Aug. 6th
Transfiguration of
the Lord Feast Day
Aug. 9th
Blessings of the
Crops, St. Denis
Church, Minudie
2pm Mass
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Have you ever thought or wondered about becoming a Catholic? Would you be interested in knowing more about the wonderful R.C.I.A experience (Rite of Catholic Initiation for Adults)?
Do you know someone who has asked you about the Catholic faith?
We would love the opportunity to tell you more and to share with you the R.C.I.A opportunity to grow in faith and in becoming a Catholic.
We will begin with R.C.I.A in October 2020 and would love you to be a part of it.
To find out more and have your questions answered, please contact the office, reach out to any of our Deacons and/or Father Charles.
Chalice Sponsor Child Update:
Tobias Riveras, 11 yrs old and living with his parents, loves sports - soccer, mathematics and helping at home.
Dear Sponsor Family, I write this letter to greet you! I hope you are doing find as well as my family and I are. I enjoyed my summer vacation playing and drawing with Isaias. My siter Dahiana is in the university and
she would like to become a Primary School Teachers. My mom Nidia weaves A’anduti and my dad makes shoes. At this moment, my dad is designing shoes for winder. I send you my best regards and I wish you a good year. Love, Tobias
As of July 1st, our Pastor’s residence will be the St. John the Baptist Rectory in Springhill. Work has been being done on the rectory to upgrade for Father Charles
New flooring, doors, moldings up, stove, dishwasher, counter-top and living room furniture were needed and work has been happening during the month of June.
We will be hosting an OPEN HOUSE of the rectory, so keep posted for dates.
Thank you to all who have assisted in the work!!
Mass Intentions for
All Saints Parish
July 11th 4 pm JOGGINS
Florence Willigar By Patricia Gouchie
6 pm
Amherst
Nellie Shannon By Marlene Gould
(daughter)
July 12th 9 am Pugwash
Leroy Bailey By Anonymus
11:15am Amherst
Doris McCabe By Wayne McCabe
(son)
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St. John the Baptist Patron Saint – Born 1st decade BCE, Judaea, Palestine, near Jerusalem Died 28–36 CE; Jewish prophet of priestly origin who preached the imminence of God’s Final Judgment and baptized those who repented in self-preparation for it; he is revered in the Christian church as the forerunner of Jesus Christ. After a period of desert solitude, John the Baptist emerged as a prophet in the region of the lower Jordan River valley. He had a circle of disciples, and Jesus was among the recipients of his rite of baptism. Feast Day June 24th CHALICE FUNDRASIER – BIKING for CHALICE
All Saints Parishioner Bert van Vulpen will be "Biking for Chalice" again this year, his 21st year of raising money by biking for Chalice. New sponsors are Welcomed. Tax Receipts will be sent by Chalice. Please send sponsorship donations and your mailing address to:
Bert J van Vulpen 479 Route 307 Wentworth, N.S. B0M 1Z0
SUMMER CHURCH TOUR:
St. John the Baptist Church Springhill, NS We may not be able to go into our churches at this time, but as the weather gets nicer, why not consider doing a “Summer Church Tour”! Get out a map and head out to see where our faith family lives, works, and prays! Take a picture of the 7 churches and post them on our Facebook. We will put your name in for a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from a local retailer in Cumberland County!! (Bonus Churches St Denis Minudie & St Cyprian, Wallace River.) Not on Facebook? Email us your entry at [email protected]
NEWS AROUND THE PARISH!!!
Welcome to St Brigid’s Church Community Parrsboro, NS Sandra Schwinghamer, David Brown and Patricia Burke are relaxing in the new “Mary Garden” they have been creating below the St. Brigid’s Church. They have carved out a wonderful space that enhances our church grounds immensely. If you do not feel comfortable getting back into a church right now, this is perfect, quiet garden to pray, meditate or just sit quietly and enjoy the surroundings! All are Welcomed!! This is the first year of a three-year plan and the plants have been donated by these three and other gardeners. Warmest Thanks to all for the love and work and countless hours to create this beauty!
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ALL SAINTS PARISH SUMMER NEWS:
Archdiocese of Halifax Yarmouth News:
Calendar of Events: Fall 2020
Living through a pandemic provides some incredibly challenging days, so here are some dates to look forward to celebrating in the coming months. All these festivities happen at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Halifax, and we will gather as dictated by current public health directives. All events will also be live streamed.
● August 15:
● Feast of the Assumption: Diocesan Feast Day and Ordination to the Diaconate of Patrick Salah
● September 8:
● Feast of the Nativity of Mary and the Chrism Mass
● October 5:
● Mass of Thanksgiving to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica
● October 17:
● Ordination to the Priesthood of Rev. Mr. Robert Elford
● November 6-7:
● 9th Annual Assembly of the People of God
● November 27:
● Mass of Thanksgiving for the Ministry of Archbishop Anthony Mancini
Further details will be shared as we get closer to each of the above events. Please mark your calendars!
Plan to Be There!!
Steubenville LIVE - July 17th/18th Every wonder what this Steubenville
“thing” is all about? This is the year to find out!! We Are Going LIVE for High-
Schoolers and their families too. Everyone who registers for LIVE gets free
access to “Real Live Catholic’s I AM” a 30-day coaching program.
Go to www.halifaxyarmouth.org for more details and to register!
NIGHT OF HOPE - July 19th We find the brightest light in the deepest
darkness and we cannot help but be drawn to it. You do not need to feel alone
or disoriented by the shadows hanging over our world. Join us for
“A Night of HOPE” to come together as Church, to be
encouraged and to pray with one voice to Christ our Light. Keynote talk, Worship
and Adoration plus a live Q&A. No Charge to this program and you connects
online.
Go to www.halifaxyarmouth.org for more details and to register!
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Share your photo: Take a picture of your finished colored photo and send it to us via Facebook or Email
at [email protected]. Put your Name, Age on picture and we will post your picture and put your
name in for a monthly draw of a $50.00 gift certificate from a local retailer. Thank You for Sharing!
