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Niagara's Largest Memorialist ® Experience Saint Patrick's Church Superior Quality LIFE WELL CELEBRATED™ Value HETHERINGTON & DEANS FUNERAL CHAPEL Proud New Owner of 4673 Victoria Ave. Niagara Falls, Ontario L2E 4B8 Tel: (905) 354-7451 AMADIO AUTOMOTIVE CENTRE NIAGARA FALLS Rigg Mooney Monuments 57 Years 905-354-5614 HetheringtonandDeans.com 4798 Montrose(905) Rd. 374-8000 Served by Carmelites Since 1875 Fax: (905) 354-4800 4605 Queen St. 905-357-5800 Niagara Artcraft Woodwork Co. Ltd. †Registered Trademark of CARP, used under license. CHUCK JOHN 4417 Kent Ave. 905-354-5657Daniel Trabucco Dignity Memorial is a division of Service Corporation International (Canada) ULC. Email SPOT Certified Management Accountant and Certified Financial Planner [email protected] RISTORANTE Michael J. Carroll,CMA, CFP Parish Staff Private Banquet Rooms 3848 Main Street, Unit C (Chippawa), Niagara Falls, ON L2G 6B2 Rev. Gerard Power, O.Carm., Pastor (Chaplain, Niagara Regional Police) 8 to 60 guests Phone 905-295-0050 Fax 905-295-0040 Rev. Marc Bell, O.Carm., Associate Pastor WEDNESDAY Debbie Herman, Secretary Anne Marie Atkinson, Accountant Secretary DATE NIGHT Peter Feltrin, Property Manager & Custodian $69/couple SERVICE • VALUE • FAMIL Y Music Ministry 3518 Portage Rd. 5917 MAIN STREET Carol Martin - Director of Music 905-356-3550 905-356-5410 www.lococos.ca Sandra DiCienzo - Organist Tim Marrie - Pianist and Soloist casamiaristorante.com 3 Generations of Morgan Family morseandson.com Anthony Scaringi - Pianist and Organist Haircuts Ashley Gallardi - Soloist Perms • Tints Hilights 4407 Queen St. 4854 Bridge St. Office Hours: 905-358-3964 5781 DUNN ST. NIAGARA905-354-2733 FALLS 905 356 6905 QUEEN CONDOTTA, MERRETT & COMPANY Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. - 12:00, 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. STREET Niagara Falls Closed on Weekends & Holidays PHARMACY INSURANCE BROKERS INC. 905.356.FENA (3362) St. Catharines Home Health Care Equipment Centre - President Sunday Mass Schedule FREE DELIVERY 10008 Lundy's Lane 905.358.5811 Amedeo Condotta 905.682.2525 4421 Queen St. 905-354-5604 www.countrybasketniagara.com3770 Montrose Rd Tel: 905-357-3006 Ext. 122 www.fenainsurance.ca Saturday 5:00 p.m.

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Newcomer to Canada? Reconciliation We offer FREE English Classes: Saturday 4:30 p.m. 4835 VICTORIA AVE. niagaracollege.ca/newcomer "YOUR FRIEND DOWN THE STREET" or by appointment (905) 371-TIMS FUNDED BY IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES AND CITIZENSHIP CANADA Come be a part of our family Baptism Making great gelato Once monthly at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday and coffee since 1978 A serene setting for the Preparation for Parents 5458 Victoria Ave. 905-356-3866 above ground committal and Godparents required. The Monastery StoreHome • Auto • Commercialof caskets and cremation urns Kandu Pools Life & Employee Benefits4764 Portage Rd. (at Morrison) Christian & Inspirational Gifts Michael Delduca Pools • Hot Tubs 7020 Stanley Ave.(At Mount Carmel) Rick Rampado Marriage 5681 Thorold Stone Rd. Technology Support & IT Help Desk 905-356-0047 Please contact the parish office 905-374-7000 905-357-8876 Computers / Servers / Networking Printing Solutions & Supplies 905.357.4147 CarmelNiagara.com INSURANCE BROKERSwww.youngsinsurance.caFairviewMausoleum.ca at least six months in advance. Public Wi-Fi Solutions Preparation weekend is required. Cloud Hosting Solutions Microsoft Office 365 IP PBX Telephone Systems Hetherington & Deans SIP Trunking & Fax-over-IP Schools Funeral Chapel St. Patrick School (905) 354-6631 Roman Cheese St. Mary School (905) 354-7744 6062 Main Street Repairs You Can Rely On PRODUCTS LIMITED Niagara Falls Joe Bruno 905-374-7020 Manufacturers of 6410 Drummond Rd. Italian Cheeses 905.358.3513 and Frozen Foods 905-356-6300 [email protected] Diocese of St. Catharines (est. 1958) 4916 Montrose Rd. 905-356-2640 www.csninc.ca/mapleleaf www.hamblets.ca Most Rev. Gerard Bergie, D.D., Bishop Parish Established 1858 2 1 Most Rev. John A. O'Mara, D.D., Bishop-Emeritus Church Dedicated 1895 UPER FOR Olsen-Sottile FREE DELIVERY THE BEST PIZZA IN TOWN Insurance Brokers Inc. VINCENT HOCKTON Pizza & Wings All Types of Insurance New Parishioners are asked to complete a parish registration form. 6815 Cropp St. 905-374-7822 4564 Victoria Ave.(905) 353-88884307 Queen St. 905-357-2140 53 - 1 - 53 . St.

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“A Lenten Sacrifice” for St. Pat’s! for St. Pat’s! “A Lenten Sacrifice” followed by or Weekday Mass Schedule for Lent facilitate a change of heart and conversion in our lives. As one writer says, the point of Lent, they are the tools of Lent." like three legs of a tripod. Fasting please make cheques payable Three Traditional Lenten Practices Stations of the Cross feeds upwards to 1200 children at local Catholic Schools. This is Ryan’s Bowl Food Program CHURCH ENVELOPES- From our Accountant

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in Parkland, Florida. This is just so hard to comprehend. You know the church. All donations will assist a food program which one of our Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament parishioners, Ken Walsh, has helped initiate in Eastern Uganda. Each day these containers during Lent! If you wish to donate by cheque, please make Once again this Lent, we will have a special container at the front and back of Ryan’s Bowl payable to the only hot meal these children get each day! Please place your donations into Dear God, as we were celebrating Ash Wednesday and St. Valentine's Day, another senseless act of violence took place against your children, our brothers and sisters. This time it was at School O God, that we pray constantly for an end to violence. How much more do we have to endure? When will this violence end? Please send a stronger Spirit of peace across our world. Be there O God, to comfort the victims and families, the students and staff, and the First Responders of this violent attack. Grant wisdom to all our government leaders, and lawmakers so that they can make the necessary decisions to protect all citizens! May peace prevail. Monday- Tuesday- Wednesday- AM 8:00 Thursday- 8:00 AM & 7:00 PM AM 8:00 8:00 AM PMFriday 7:00 Prayer, This is a Registered Charity under the Canada Revenue Agency, and they issue their own receipts for Income Tax Purposes. Approximately 90% of their funds go directly to the Lunch Program. The other 10% is used for school fees for the most desperate, a school uniform to replace the most tattered, also notebooks and pencils, and in dire cases, to purchase a goat for very needy families. Check out their website: ryansbowl.ca Once again we wish to remind our Envelope users that if you use the Vincent de Paul offertory boxes, The parish office issues a cheque to each organization at the end of the month, and also issues a parish tax receipt. If you wish to make a donation directly to the organization, Envelopes Official Church the other than receipt for cheques made payable to another entity or organization! Thanks for your cooperation! Friday- AM 8:00 consider during Lent. Properly approached and utilized, they will indeed we commit ourselves to the good of others. with those who suffer from hunger; and and

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Dear Friends: Dear Friends: Lent has officially begun! On Wednesday, hundreds came out to Mass to have ashes marked on their foreheads. These ashes, from last year's burned Palm Branches, are a reminder in God's care. We are human, made lives, nothing that the world throws at us will defeat us. He is the the victor ov conqueror of temptation, In the desert, Jesus was tempted by Satan to save his own life and to reject his Father’s plan. But love for his Father and than anything powerful Satan or the world could tempt him were more with. When we choose Christ, These 40 days of Lent can be spent looking for ways to grow in our love at fighting off each other. Can we work harder for God and temptation? Can we give God our sins in the Reconciliation? participation in the Eucharist andout of all forms of prayer? Can we get our own wills and allow God’s grace to to we increase our help for the poor? We pray courage and strength live Fr. Gerard Virtue is nothingconflict without the trial of temptation, for there is no without an enemy, no victory strife. Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in midst of these things. Augustine) (St. fights with us, never gives up on us, especially when evil or sin makes inroads into our lives. everywhere longer subject to temptation, is the day we should take our pulse, because we’re probably dead. All sin is attractive! If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be tempted by it. And God who created us, calls us into relationship… and calls us back our mortality, Ashes are also a reminder of when we wander. "

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Important Dates for 2018 for 2018 Important Dates , Baby Hope, Donna Bradley, Cher Patricia O'Reilly, Mary Brennan, JoAnne Biamonte Ely, May 5th ... details and tickets to be sold soon!!! Carlo Trasmundi, Frank Sica Many thanks for your generosity! Baptism Schedule for 2018 2018 for Schedule Baptism February 11 & Heating: $5,908.00 ...see flyer on the bulletin board at the back of the church …Our Parish Office will be closed on Family Day, Monday, Jessica Johnstone & Kevin Gillies

meeting for Parents and Godparents will be held in the Church on Upcoming Wedding at St. Patrick's in February February Patrick's in Wedding at St. Upcoming Family Day mandatory February 19th. Maybe we could use this day to do some activity to promote Francois Chayer, Julie Nicholson, Mary Jo Julie Nicholson, Francois Chayer, O’Kell, Alessia Commi Sebastian, Lorraine Murray, Vital Jr., & Emmanuel Chayer,Pepper Martin Mi Lorraine Shirley Ma chulla, Helen Rotella, Spence, Trina Washington, Paraskevopoulos, Andy Dr. Fisher, Jeanne S, or hospitalized infirm, homebound, of those who are list us update our help Please parish office. the by calling Toni Brideau, John Nicks, Leon Dopke, Anna Hunt, John Kealey, Brenda Hyde, Helen Hyde, Brenda John Kealey, Anna Hunt, Leon Dopke, John Nicks, Toni Brideau, Baby Julian, Samuel Potapczyk, Lelievre, William JA De Foe, Emily Hanover, Leo Mart Edna McDonell, Pauline Miner, Fr Tony McNamara, Gerry Bob Marshall, Laffradi, Weiss, John Gloria Smelko, Fran Smelko, O.Carm., Danielle Vicki Lea-Dawson, Conner Hawkswell, Donna Cormier, Maria Rosiana, Lucy Rizzo, B Manning, Stan Jeanne Lea, Audrey Vendramin, Mary Ann O'Shea, Ro Albanese, Francesco Rebecca Bilski, Charlene Shannon, Jozefa Baker, Rose Decicco, Evelyn Kitty Heimbigner, Evans, Marie Massolin, Maria Guerin, Anna Ve Vince(Jim) Bal Rose, Nancy Jean Leronowich, TomMuriel Pivarnyik, Walter Walla Hilton, Smit Faith Margaret Kerrie Szuch, Amadio, Theresa Poirier, Vito Fuccillo Please pray for those who are hospitalized: Marie Cadman, Sherry Wales,Jack Horth, Allan Power, Carrie-Lynn Sones-Taylor Please pray for those who are ill Doody, Courtney Ja Erika Bell, Mary Power, Baptisms will be celebrated in St. Patrick Church at 15, May 13, June 17, July 15 & August 19 A Tuesday, April 3, May 1, June 5, July 3 & August 7 at March 3rd - Marriage Preparation March 17th - St. Patrick’s Dance April 1st - Easter Sunday April 14th - 5:00 PM- Confirmation May 6th - First Communion- St.Patrick/St.Mary School 1:30 PM (9:30 AM- Children in other schools) who does not attend and have a child Church, Patrick at St. a parishioner you are (If to sacraments here, their celebrate and would like Mary Schools, or St. Patrick St. office for theforms.) contact the parish please registration C.W.L. News ... -Annual Diocesan C.W.L. Retreat, Gethsemane Ministries ...Sat. March 17th or Wed. Mar. 21 ...please contact Maggie S. if you ar -60th Anniversary C.W.L dinner / dance ... April 21st -This year we are changing things up a bit ... instead of our usual Spring Fling Dinner, we are going to have a this is our fundraiser this year for all of the scholarships that we give!! Please save the date… More info for Midland & Trivia night for the bulletins following these ones!!! -We are also planning a bus trip to Midland Shrine on Saturday May 26th ... keep your eyes peeled for details about this adventure!!! bulletin board at the back of church ... please contact Maggie if you are interestedFeb. by905-246-6212 18th

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by Dora & Jim req. by Vince & Carol Campaner & Family req. by the Genovese & Radice Families by the Genovese req. SHADOW req. by the Children of St. Pat's req. by Muriel Lafford www.wpcprolife.com req. by Pasqualina De Mizio & Family req. by Anna Bortolin & Family req. by the Family or the Church Office the or [email protected] Interested persons please contact Colleen February 14-March 25 req. by Maria Rossi & Family req. by Maria req. by his Family req. by Anna Bortolin & Family req. by the Family – Be part of this peaceful campaign by prayerand this peaceful campaign by of part – Be Decorations and Raffle Draws the night of the dance. Church for many important notices and events. Check out our website: http://www.stpatricknf. Check http://www.stpatricknf. out our website: St. Patrick's Day Dance, Saturday March 17, 2018 Dance, Saturday St. Patrick's Day 2018 Church Envelopes & 2017 Tax Receipts New volunteers needed especially for set up & clean George Morrison req. by Helen & Peter Lelievre People of the Parish Lawrence Kitney & Lucy People of the Parish Angela Genovese John & Helen MacDonnell Lucia De Lucia Fr. Ben, Fr. Bart & Fr. Brian Krys Potapczyk req. by Les Potapczyk & Peg Krys Donald Jackman Daminh Vong & Daminh Hung Bruna Forte Frances & Bob Comeau Pacifico Sacco Giuseppe & Gina Argenta Dante Rossi 905-374-4025 / Tickets are now available in the Church Office, $10.00each Office, the Church Tickets are now available in This Fun fund-raiser is run by a dedicated committee of volunteers. Salvatore Sam Cundari Maria Gulla Wendy Calder Please refer to the Bulletin Boards at the back and side entrances of the to make phone calls prior to dance, put up posters, collect Prizes, help with The Coordinator needs a 9:30 11:30 Elizabeth, Dom & Tony SeneseElizabeth, Dom & Tony & Spouses req. by their sister Cecilia Sunday, February 18 First Sunday of Lent 8:00 Nora & Charles Daley Domenic Rondinelli 7:00 Sunday, February 25 Second Sunday of Lent 8:00 9:30 Saturday, February 17 The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order 5:00 Monday, February 19 8:00 Tuesday, February 20 8:00 Frances Campaner Saturday, February 24 5:00 11:30 Carmen Elefante 2017 Tax Receipts are at the doors Envelopes & main Offertory pick Please of the Church. Life 40 Days for Lent, fasting during give to more people two or pm, with from 8 am – adopt ONE DAY at the Portage Street standing on hours two one or public witness for Abortion – end “Pray to a sign General Hospital, holding Niagara Falls is Church Patrick St. The date for Life.” 40 Days for yo if 905-357-0432 @ contact Kathy Please line at: up on can sign Church Bulletin Advertising… advertisements for our Church bulletin. The advertising will begin in May 2018 & supports the bulletin service. Please support the bulletin & advertise your product or service. Call Liturgical Publications at 1-800-268-2637. Thursday, February 22 Chair of St Peter 8:00 Stephen & Georgette Lafferty Friday, February 23 St Polycarp 8:00 Robbie Loro

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