April 5th Palm Sunday

Sat. April 4th 4:00 p.m. For the People (Missa Pro Populo)

Sun. April 5th

Palm Sunday 11:00 a.m. Holy Mass † Donal Christopher Kearney by Carmel Russell

Thurs. April 9th 6:00 p.m. Holy Mass † Jimmy Deguara by Rita Deguara

Sun. April 12th

Easter Sunday

11:00 a.m. For the People (Missa Pro Populo)

Please note the following Holy Week Services:

1) On Saturday, April 4th at 4:00 p.m., the blessing of Palms

and Mass will be celebrated privately at Our Lady Queen

of Peace. Blessed Palms will be left outside at the side door

for you to pick up at your convenience. Palm Sunday Mass

at St. Aloysius will be celebrated privately at 11:00 a.m.

Blessed palms will be left outside the door for you to pick

up at your convenience. Please continue to practice social

distancing at this time.

2) Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday will be

celebrated at 6:00 p.m. at St. Aloysius privately.

3) The Passion of the Lord on Good Friday is not to be

celebrated.

4) Easter Vigil is not celebrated in any parish.

5) Easter Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at

St. Aloysius privately.

A parishioner has proposed a Prayer Group using Bell Conferencing Line. Fifty to sixty people

may sign up by calling or emailing the parish office and proving your phone number. There’s

no financial obligation on your part. This wonderful undertaking is being looked after. This is a

blessing from God to come together to pray during this pandemic time.

Please pray for the fifteen residents who are presumed to have died of COVID-19 at Pinecrest

Nursing Home and thirty-four (34) workers - more than half of Pinecrest’s staff - who had

symptoms of COVID-19. It is indeed a sad situation.

PALM SUNDAY MASS

The Mass for Palm Sunday will be celebrated by His Excellency Most Reverend Bishop

Miehm and broadcast from the Cathedral of St. Peter-in-Chains. It will be available on

the YouTube channel for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Cd0rFPwUxMtMRhS_UtCxg and it will also air

on COGECO.

Beware of scammers asking for money in the name of the Church via email.

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From the Parish Office

Contact Information: If your address, email address, or phone number will be or has been changed,

please contact the parish office.

Mass Offerings: Father Luis is accepting Mass Offerings for his private Masses. The intentions will

be published in the bulletin so parishioners may pray for your intention from home.

Working from Home: Due to regulations recently set in place and the most recent decree from the

Bishop, the Parish Secretary, Suzanne McCarthy, is currently not permitted to be in the Parish Office.

You will still be able to reach Suzanne via email at office@staloysiusfenelonfalls.ca or via home

phone at 705-324-5975 only during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. You may also choose to

leave a voicemail at the regular office number: 705-887-4149.

Prayer for a Spiritual Communion

My Jesus,

I believe that You are present

in the Most Holy Sacrament.

I love You above all things,

and I desire to receive You

into my soul.

Since I cannot at this moment

receive You sacramentally,

come at least spiritually into my heart.

I embrace You as if You were already

there and unite myself wholly

to You. Never permit me to be

separated from You.

Amen.

Directive on Funerals

On Saturday, the provincial government issued new directives limiting the size of public gatherings to

five (5) people, with an exception for funerals which may include up to ten people.

In light of this, I have issued this directive for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough effective March

30th, 2020:

There will be no funerals in churches at this time, only graveside committals. The limit for

attendees imposed by the government must be observed.

Families are encouraged to consider having a Memorial Mass sometime after the pandemic has

ended.

Losing a loved one is a deep sorrow and I encourage grieving families to pray for the loving

consolation of God and the strength that comes through our faith.

Yours in Christ,

+Most Reverend Daniel J. Miehm

Bishop of Peterborough

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From the office of the pastor…

Hello everybody!

This is a very unusual time for the Church. COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down.

Schools are closed. Non-essential businesses are closed. Thousands of workers are laid off.

Things during this pandemic are suspended. There is fear and uncertainty in the air. When will

this corona pandemic end?

In the face of this trying time, let us direct our attention to the Solemnity of Palm Sunday and

Holy Week because there is something in these celebrations - a very important truth that gives

us hope and strength to face the fear and uncertainty of this time. Palm Sunday is a day of

extreme contrasts. It begins with great joy as Jesus enters into Jerusalem on a donkey: as

long predicted by the prophets, but soon our joy will turn to much sadness as we read

together the Passion of Jesus.

Why such contrasts? The answer lies in what happens during the rest of this week and your

private participation. The three days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil are called

the Triduum. Each of these days delves us deeper into Jesus’ Passion.

On Holy Thursday, we celebrate the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. At the end of the

Mass, the Eucharist is removed from the tabernacle, leaving it empty to represent Jesus’

absence after His death on Good Friday.

On Saturday evening, we can truly participate in the risen Lord at Easter Vigil. We go beyond

the burial that ends today’s liturgy by proclaiming that “He’s alive!”

The Passion should have affected our comfort zone. The Son of God underwent agony in the

garden, betrayal, trial, sentencing, desertion by his disciples, mocking, crucifixion, and finally

death.

The Passion did not end in the death of Jesus Christ. It ends on His resurrection on Easter

Sunday. COVID-19 pandemic which has sown fear and uncertainty in our minds and hearts

will be defeated. As a community, as a people, and as a nation together we will defeat this

disease and come out whole and victorious.

God bless.

Fr. Luis

Please click these links

below for a Blessing from

Pope Francis and also a

message from our Bishop

Daniel Miehm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

AXTCW-WaIs4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

VlxrOUAPWNI

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Let us remember in our prayers all who are sick

Bobcaygeon – Paul Sirois, Edgar Thompson, Joseph Ehmann, Judith Dann, Jody Kucera, Gene Carreiro, Erwin Fernandez, Evelyn Lalonde, Helen Vozza, Anne Hayes, Cindy Schwarzli, Raymond Tobin, Kathy Tobin, and Deacon Bill Steenburg. Fenelon Falls – P. McKeaveney, Anne Stinson, Alvin Bennett, Rita Lenton, Gilmore Brand, Patrick White, Cindy Schwartzli, and Deacon Bill Steenburg.

Pope’s Prayer Intention for April: We pray that those suffering from addiction may be helped and accompanied.

COVID-19 Prayer for the World By Archbishop Terrance Prendergast & Rabbi Bulka

O God,

We gather together separated by life-saving distancing, but united more than ever in spirit; We know we are in a war against COVID-19 together, and the more together we are, the better and stronger we will emerge: We know the challenges are enormous, yet so are the opportunities; That whether we are in isolation with loved ones, or alone, we will have abundance of time; We commit to using that time to the max, to help those in greater need in whatever way we can; We know we all have the opportunity, and time, to be life savers and life enhancers; We give thanks for those who are on the front-line taking care of those who are not well; We give thanks for the researchers who are working at breakneck speed to find cure and vaccine; We give thanks for our leaders, federal, provincial and local, for their dedication to all of us; We give thanks for the providers of our daily needs who go to work in spite of the risk; We give thanks for those who have ramped up their ability to produce life-saving supplies. We pray for the well-being of all our life savers; for those who are not well, that they recover fully; For those enduring difficulty, that they may overcome their challenges. We pray that a cure and vaccine will soon be available, And that we all – family, friends, all Canadians, the entire world may be healed in body and spirit. We ask you, O God, to bless our leaders, our front-line care givers, our life savers and life enhancers. We ask you, O God, to bless Canada, to bless the world, to bless everyone. Amen.

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