St. Helen Church SUNDAY OCTOBER 25, 2015 | 30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B)

Pastor

Fr. Philip English

Office Administration

Aggie Agnino ext. 1 ______________________________________________________

Opened - October 2, 1938

Schools St. Mark School

Principal: Steven Ward

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.

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

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

Established as a Parish - January 1, 1986

Kindly complete the following and place in collection basket

☐ New Parishioner* ☐ Change of address ☐ Moving

Name________________________ Phone__________________ E-mail___________________

Address______________________________________________ City_____________________

Postal Code__________________

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

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

Upcoming Events

- Wednesday Morning Mass time - 10 a.m. - All Souls Remembrance

Envelopes

- Chili Take Out Night November 20th, 5-7 p.m. - November 25th - Diocesan Anniversary Mass @ Cathedral - November 28th - Christmas Bazaar @ St. Mark School - Join us for a cup of brew after morning mass on Tuesdays & Thursdays www.facebook.com/

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Stewardship of Treasure October 18: Offertory Envelopes (148) $ 3,638 Offertory Loose $ 253 Syria Emergency Relief (5) $ 190 World Mission Sunday (26) $ 434

“MAY GOD BLESS YOU

FOR YOUR FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP!”

Sr. Ministry for the Sick and Homebound We are grateful to those who give of their time and care to bring holy communion to our parishioners who cannot make it to church due to sickness or in-firmity. If you know of anyone who would like to re-ceive communion in their home, please contact the

parish office.

Weekly Bulletin Delivery 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.

Momentum Choir in concert Nov. 8 Momentum Choir, a group of 55 singers living with a disability, will share their music and personal jour-neys in a special concert ‘A Year in the Life’ Sun-day, Nov. 8, 3 p.m. at Bethany Community Church,

1388 Third St., St. Catharines. This special concert will bring to life the personal stories of the talented singers whose lives have been transformed by the opportunity to share their gifts onstage. And they don’t hold back, giving their all to a wide repertoire of songs that will be interactive with the audience and interspersed with video clips that come straight from the heart. Concert tickets are available at the door of Bethany Community Church or online @ www.eventbrite.com The cost is $10 per person; $7 per student or supported individual; $25 per group home. For more information contact info@momentumchoir.ca

Remember Your Parish In Loving Memory

Keep your love for your parish alive. Remember your parish in your will and when recommending expressions of sympathy.

Mass In

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Year B - October 26 - November 1, 2015

Day Requested for Requested by

Mon No Morning Mass

Tuesday

8:30 a.m. No Morning Mass

Wednesday

10:00 a.m. No Morning Mass

Thursday

8:30 a.m.

† Teresa Commisso

† Rosa & Giuseppe Feola

Maria D’Archi

Maria & Piera Palmieri

Friday 10:00 a.m.

Menno Home

† Richard Murray Huguette & Maurice Murray

Saturday

5:00 p.m.

† Keith, Kathleen F. & Freddie Muldoon

† Rino Iannotta

Shirley & Ernie Brunet

Hrvatin Family

Sunday

9:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. St. Mark School

For the People of St. Helen - L&D

† Janet Bolzan

† Olga D’Alessio

Nagler Family

Teresa & Rick Balanowski

L & D (living & deceased)

Christmas Bazaar Saturday, November 28th from 9 a.m.-1p.m. in the St. Mark's School Gym. Get

your Christmas shopping done early!! Join us for refreshments, door prizes and Christmas gift ideas! Vendor tables $30 - there are only a few tables left! If interested in a table or vol-unteering on the day, email us at:

sthelenfundraiser@gmail.com

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus Asks a Question

Jer 31:7-9 Jeremiah delivers God’s promise of res-

toration to Israel. Psalm 126 The Lord has done great things for us. Heb 5:1-6 Jesus Christ is the perfect high priest

uniting God and humans. Mark 10:46-52 The healing of blind Bartimaeus.

Genesis opens: “In the begin-ning, when God created the heav-ens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland and darkness covered the abyss.” Those words describe the formless blackness of the world of Bartimaeus, the blind man who believed that Jesus

could give him sight. Vision is impossible in darkness, but when there is light, a miracle begins. Photons find their way through the eyes and project themselves onto the retina. The image is projected on the back wall of the eye, making nerve receptors pulse. Those puls-es travel through the optic nerve, through passage-ways to the brain. And there, the brain reassembles the pulses and creates the image inside our head. The image is all in our mind, like dreams. But it all begins with light. Blind Bartimaeus went to that Light to beg, “Master, I want to see.” Immedi-ately he received his sight. -- Deacon Dick Folger

Next Week’s Readings… Rev 7:2-4, 9-14 A vision of God’s faithful people Psalm 24 Lord, we are the people who long for you. 1 John 3:1-3 What we shall be has not yet been re-vealed. Matt 5:1-12a Jesus teaches the Beatitudes.

St. Helen Raffle St. Helen’s Church Lottery tick-ets are available for you to pur-chase through our church office. 4 winners each month. Tickets

are $100 each, payable by cash or cheque. We in-vite you to be a part of our “RAISE THE ROOF” campaign. For tickets, contact John Stewart at patjohnst2009@yahoo.ca or call 905-563-0062 or the parish office.

Change of Information Have you moved or changed your phone number or email address? Please notify the office to keep our records accurate. You can also use the tear off on the front of the bulletin to notify us.

St. Helen's Chili Take Out Night

Friday, November 20th, 5 - 7 p.m.

Complete your order form inserted in this weekend’s bulletin and either drop it off with payment at the par-ish office or place it in a sealed en-velope marked Chili Take Out in

the Sunday Collection Basket. Please join us and volunteer! Phone Anne Marie at 289-566-9090 or send an email to the office.

Diocesan Anniversary Mass Married couples celebrating a 25th, 40th, 50th or 60th anniversary in the year 2015 are invited to the diocesan anniversary Mass, Wednesday November 25, 2015, 5:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. Cathe-rine of Alexandria, St. Catharines. To register and to receive a formal invitation from Bishop Bergie, contact the parish office to fill in a form by October 16. A dinner will be held at Club Roma, St. Cath-arines, at 7:00 p.m. Details of dinner cost will be in-cluded in the formal invitation.

All Souls Remembrance All Souls Remembrance enve-lopes are available in your box of envelopes or at the doors of the Church. All names of deceased loved ones will be remem-bered during the month of No-

vember. Please place your intentions in the col-lection basket with the Sunday Collection.

"WAKE UP THE WORLD!" 2015 Year of Consecrated Life

Diocese of St. Catharines celebrates Consecrated Life Saturday, November 14 (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) St. Thomas More Church, Niagara Falls. Cost is free (donations accepted); lunch included. Register by Saturday, November 7. Guest speakers: Bishop Gerard Bergie, Sr. Helena Burns, F.S.P., Fr. Stan Fortuna, C.F.R. To register or for more info, call Fr. Michael (905/684-0154), Sr. Margherita (905/732-4542) or Br. Bill (905/834-0553). Come, join us!

Pray for the Pope’s November Intentions ... Universal: Dialogue ~ That we may be open to per-sonal encounter and dialogue with all, even those whose convictions differ from our own. Evangelization: Pastors ~ That pas-

tors of the Church, with profound love for their flocks, may accompa-ny them and enliven their hope.

“Thank You” for remembering the poor box!