St. Helen Church SUNDAY MAY 17, 2015 | ASCENSION OF THE LORD (YEAR B)

Upcoming Events

May is dedicated to our Blessed

Mother Mary

- Popes Pastoral Works Col-lection May 16/17

- CWL Diocesan Convention begins May 26th

- CWL Potluck, June 3rd

- Knights of Columbus Char-

ter Installation, and Dinner,

June 20th

- Next Lottery Draw, Sat.

May 23rd

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Pastor

Fr. Philip English

Office Administration

Aggie Agnino, ext. 1 ______________________________________________________

Mass Times Saturday

5:00 p.m.

Sundays

9:00 a.m. - St. Helen Church

11:00 a.m. - St. Mark School

Gym, Beamsville

Opened - October 2, 1938

4157 Maple Grove Rd. | PO Box 222 | Vineland, Ontario | L0R 2C0 www.sthelenscatholic.ca

Established as a Parish - January 1, 1986

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New Parishioner* Change of address Moving

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Address______________________________________________ City_____________________

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I will use offertory envelopes If , pick up in foyer: St. Helen Church or St. Mark School

Phone (905) 562-7427 | Fax (905) 562-7789 | office@sthelenscatholic.ca

We welcome you and invite you to share in the spiritual and social activities of your parish

Schools St. Mark School

Principal: Dean Stunt

Phone: (905) 563-9191

St. Edward School

Principal: Adrian Bishop

Phone: (905) 562-5531

Sacraments Baptism

Available Sundays at 1:00 pm. Call

parish office.

First Communion & Confirmation

Arranged through school. If your

child is not in a Catholic school or is

not baptized in the Roman Catholic

Church, contact the parish office.

Reconciliation

Before or after mass or by appoint-

ment.

Marriage

Six months notice; marriage prep

required.

Anointing of the Sick

Please let us know when someone

has a serious or prolonged illness or

is to have surgery. This sacrament

celebrates the healing of mind and

body and the forgiveness of sins.

Catholic Funeral Rites

When a death occurs in your family,

please call the parish office and we

will assist you in making the neces-

sary liturgical arrangements.

Stewardship of Treasure

May 10:

Offertory Envelopes (150) $ 3,686

Loose $ 312

Facility Maintenance (3) $ 30

Building Fund Envelopes (50) $ 2,746

Emergency Relief - Nepal (43) $ 3,788

MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR

FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP!

Ministry for the Sick and Homebound We are grateful to those who give of their time and care to bring holy communion to our parish-ioners who cannot make it to church due to sick-ness or infirmity. If you know of anyone who would like to receive communion in their home, please contact the parish office or Frances @ 905-562-5475 and arrangements will be made to bring Holy Communion to your home.

St. Helen CWL News CWL members are encouraged to attend the Di-ocesan Convention Opening Mass on Tuesday, May 26th @ 6.30 p.m. to be held at Our Lady of Scapular Church, 6557 Thorold Stone Rd., Niaga-ra Falls. Members information Session, Bishop Bergie. Reception in parish hall. We will car pool, contact Frances, 905-562-5475.

Save the date - June Potluck Mark your calendars for Wednesday, June 3rd for a Potluck dinner @ 6:30 p.m.

Canadian Tire Money Keep up the housecleaning and send in your Ca-nadian Tire money. It will be used for purchasing raffle/door prizes for future fundraising events.

Campaign Pledge Cards/Payments Your response card is important to us. If you havent already done so, please be sure to com-plete a pledge card even if you are unable to fi-nancially support the fundraising campaign. Pledge cards are available at the church entranc-es. The efforts that we make together will contrib-ute toward the mission of our Diocese and our Parish. Please remember to honour the pledge that you made and pray for a successful fundrais-ing campaign. Thank you for your commitment to St. Helen.

Bulletin to your Inbox If you would like to have the weekly bulletin emailed to your inbox, just send a request to the parish office email (office@sthelenscatholic.ca) or you can visit our website www.sthelenscatholic.ca and check the bulletin archive.

Year B - May 18 to 24, 2015

Day Requested for Requested by

Mon NO MASS

Tuesday 8:30 a.m.

Intns of Hendriks & deKoning Fam. L&D Helen & Andy Hendriks

Wednesday 9:30 a.m.

Vaz Family

Geoff Barlow

Misetich Family

Catharine Craig

Thursday 8:30 a.m.

Carmela & Antonio Guerriero Guerriero Family

Friday 10:00 a.m.

Albright Manor Maria & Gerald Murphy Paul Murphy

Saturday 5:00 p.m.

For the People of St. Helen - L&D

Sunday 9:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. St. Mark School

Eileen Burns

Cecilia Vy Nguyen & Phancisco Ngon Bui

Intns of Redmond Family - L&D

CWL

Ann Bui Nguyen

Jim Redmond

Mass In

tentio

ns

L & D (living & deceased)

May 17, 2015 - Ascension of the Lord To the Ends of the Earth

Acts 1 Jesus earthly ministry ends with his ascension. Psalm 47 God mounts his throne to shouts of joy. Eph 1 Pauls extended prayer for the Ephesians. Mark 16 Go and proclaim the Gospel.

If you listened carefully to the words of todays Gospel, you heard Jesus say, These signs will accompany those who be-lieve: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands. Some religious groups take this literally.

Jesus left his disciples on that hilltop near Betha-ny with the assurance that he would give them the power they needed to fulfill their mission. Scripture tells us that the disciples went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs. Whatever risks we face or problems we have to handle as disciples, Jesus promises that he will al-ways be with us. -- Dc. Dick Folger Next Weeks Readings Acts 2 The disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit. Psalm 104 Lord, send out your spirit and renew the face of the earth. 1 Cor 12 There are many gifts in the one body of Christ. John 20 Jesus appears to the disciples, bestowing peace and the Holy Spirit.

Have You Ever Considered Adoption? Would you like to hear more about the process through CCASH? Upcoming Adoption Information Night Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:00 p.m. Cath-olic Childrens Aid Society of Hamilton, 735 King St. East For more information and to register call Jocelyn at (905) 525-2012 ext. 3125

Visit our website at www.hamiltonccas.on.ca

Momentum Choir in concert May 20 & 24 Momentum Choir, a group of 50 singers with devel-opmental disabilities, will thrill audiences in two year-end concert performances, Wednesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 24 at 3 p.m. at Beth-any Community Church, 1388 Third Street, St. Catharines. Wrapping up its 8th successful season, Momentum, the only choir of its kind in Canada, continues to break new ground as a powerful and professional platform where disability takes a back

seat as soon as the music begins. Audience mem-bers will laugh, cry and be inspired in this unforget-table experience featuring toe-tapping song favour-ites. Concert tickets are available at the door of Bethany Community Church or online at www.eventbrite.com

Plant Sale - Great Turnout! Thank you to all who came out to our plant sale. It was a great day with $1,335.00 donated to our church building fund. May your gardens thrive! Spe-cial note of THANKS to our plant & herb suppliers and helpers.

Knights of Columbus St. Helen of the Cross Council 15999

Charter Installation Ceremony Announcing the New Council in

the St. Catharines Diocese Saturday June 20, 2015, St. Mark School Gym,

Mountain St. Beamsville St. Helen of the Cross Council 15999 will be host-ing a dinner followed by the charter presentation of the newly formed council and its officers. We welcome everyone to celebrate mass with us at St. Helen Church at 5 p.m. All wives, parishion-ers and KofC councils are encouraged to attend this once in a lifetime event for St. Helens parish. Doors at the school Open at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 7 p.m. $25 per person. For tickets con-tact Martin Marko 905-401-5646 or email ftw@talkwireless.ca

Lottery Proceeds To date, the Lottery Committee has forwarded $15,000 to St. Helens. We are grateful to every-one who has worked so hard to make this a suc-cessful Lottery year and for all who participated by purchasing a ticket! Good luck on the remaining draws.

Pledges & Donations - Did you know? If you are planning to make a charitable donation to the building fund, consider this tax-saving strategy. If youve already determined that you will be selling some of your current investments, you have an op-portunity to reduce the tax you would otherwise have to pay on the sale of your investments if you donate the investments directly to a charity. Alt-hough a donation of property is considered a dispo-sition for tax purposes, as a result of these tax in-centives the taxable capital gain realized on a do-nated publicly-traded security is eliminated. In ei-ther case, you will receive a tax receipt for the full amount of your donation regardless of the tax treatment of the capital gain.

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