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This Sunday’s Readings Couples For Christ Ministries The members of St Vincent de 8th September, 2019 celebrates its 20th Anniversary with Paul Holy Family Conference will a week of activities under the theme First Reading : Wisdom 9: 13-18 host their 19th annual Dinner and “Live as Children of Light”, from Responsorial Psalm : In every age, O September 8th to 15th, 2019. Floor Show on Saturday 14th Lord, you have been our refuge. September, 2019 at Cortsland Hotel Second Reading : Philemon 9-10, 12- Week of Activities is as follows: 17 Monday 8th ...Special Assembly ...7 pm at 7:00pm. Entertainment will be by Gospel: Luke 14: 25-33 Wednesday 10th ...Bible Quiz….7 pm Local Artists, Great Door Prizes to

Readings for Monday to Saturday Thursday 12th... Social Evening … 7 pm be won. Donation is $175.00. Monday 9th Colossians 1: 24— 2:3 Friday 13th … Bingo Fundraiser ….7 pm Dress - Elegantly Casual. Help us to Psalm 62: 6-7, 9 Attractive prizes to be won help others. Luke 6: 6-11 Sunday 15th... Beach Lime ….11:00 am St Peter Claver, priest Little Fryes ************************************** Tuesday 10th Colossians 2: 6-15 The Charismatic Renewal Prayer Psalm 145: 1, 2, 8 - 11 Group will celebrate its 42nd Luke 6: 12-19 ****************************************** Anniversary from September 25th— Wednesday 11th Colossians 3: 1-11 The Homecoming Committee of 27th, 2019 under the theme Psalm 145: 2-3, 10-13 “Encounter with the Living Jesus”. Luke 6: 20-26 CKHS 85 Alive wishes to extend Presenter will be Brother Rommel Thursday 12th Colossians 3: 12-17 heartfelt gratitude to the Church and Psalm 150: 1-6 its congregation for your support and Lawrence and team from Barbados. Luke 6: 27-38 best wishes throughout the 85th It will be a time of Praise, Worship, Holy Name of Mary celebrations. Reflection, Deliverance and Healing. Friday 13th 1 Timothy 1: 1-2, 12-14 ****************************************** Come out and enjoy these three nights of encounters at Holy Family Psalm 16: 1,2,5,7,8,11 Employment Opportunity Luke 6: 39-42 Cathedral from 7:00pm. St. John Chrysostom, bishop & doctor A vacancy exists in H.F.C. Parish ****************************************** Saturday 14th Numbers 21: 4-9 for a Maintenance Person. The Members of the Parish Council Psalm 78: 1,2, 34-38 ideal candidate should have a are asked to meet with Fr. George Philippians 2: 6-11 working knowledge of various on Wednesday 11th September at John 3: 13 - 17 maintenance fields to include but 6:00pm at the Presbytery. All Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross not limited to the following:- members are encouraged to attend. Weekday Mass Schedule: CATHEDRAL Electrical, Carpentry, Plumbing, ****************************************** Mondays & Wednesdays: 6:00pm Mass Automotive. CHURCH ON A MISSION Tuesdays : 6:00am Potters 6:00pm Interested persons should contact Faith, Hope and Charity Thursday ….VILLA 6:00pm Fr. George Williams at 560-2693 or 461-1127 Fridays: 6:15 am & 1 2:15 noon - Mass The catechists of Holy Family Cathedral Deadline for applications is Saturday: 8:00 am - Mass Parish will host a Prayer Breakfast on Monday 16 September, 2019 Saturday October 12th, from 7:30 am WEEKEND MASSES **************************************** to 9:30 am at Indies Greens in Renfrew SATURDAY: Cathedral - 8:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. The Cathedral Book Shop’s off All Saints main Road. SUNDAY : Cathedral- 8:00 a.m. opening and closing hours will be Hispanic Mass: Cathedral-11:00 a.m. reviewed shortly. Presently you can call the Book Store for any Start your day right with praise and St. Martin De Porres, Parham: 9:00 a.m. worship, feature speakers and a guest St. Anthony, Potters: 11:00 a.m. queries or gift idea items at 462- 2410 between the hours 9:00 am to artist. Stay tuned for ticket outlets. St. Francis of Assisi, Villa: 11:00 a.m. Proceeds are in aid of the parish’s Good Samaritan, Donovans (1st & 3rd 2:00pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays. catechetical programmes. Sundays) 9:00 am

Let us pray for the sick and shut-ins: CATECHETICAL NOTICES Prayer for Hurricane Protection

Dear Jesus, Divine Physician and CATECHETICAL SUNDAY 2019 Lord Jesus Christ, Creator, and Healer of the sick, we turn to you in The Church will celebrate Catechetical Lord of the universe, You have set this time of illness. O dearest Sunday on September 15, 2019. The 2019 the earth on its foundation comforter of the troubled, alleviate our theme will be "Stay With Us." Those All elements of nature obey your worry and sorrow with your gentle whom the Community has designated to command. While on earth you love, and grant us the grace and serve as catechists will be called forth to be saved your apostles from perishing commissioned for their ministry. strength to accept this burden. Dear in the storm by calming the wind God, we place our worries in your Catechetical Sunday is a wonderful hands. We place our sick under your opportunity to reflect on the role that each and waves on your command. We care and humbly ask that you restore person plays, by virtue of Baptism, in humbly beseech you Our Precious your servant to health again. Above handing on the faith and being a witness to Lord, to protect us from the all, grant us the grace to acknowledge the Gospel. Catechetical Sunday is an unpredictable elements of nature your will and know that whatever you opportunity for all to rededicate themselves keep us safe during hurricane do, you do for the love of us. Amen. to this mission as a community of faith. We season and give us favorable will celebrate, commission and re- weather. Please help us to calm all commission our catechists in October, the storms of life that threaten us: joining the worldwide in most especially from the observing the Extraordinary Mission Month. destruction of hurricanes, help us

to remain safe in your refuge and FINAL REGISTRATION DAYS FOR Emerald Matthew, Phyllis Mayers, THE NEW CATECHETICAL be grateful for all you have done Irene Lake, Shawn Phillip, Aldith PROGRAMME for us. In Jesus’ name we pray, Mercer, Gillian Howie, Nelister For parents and guardians who missed Amen. Sebastian, Catherine Durand, Dion registration during the months of June and Thomas, Genevieve Kentish, Margaret July, please note that you have another ******************************* Ryan, Cecilia John, Evelyn Jolly, opportunity – September 9th to 20th. Please There will be training for Georgina Glave-Toussaint, Horsford register at the office. Remember to bring persons interested in Hill, Catherine DeTouche, Edward the baptismal certificate. broadcasting, group management, Lewis, David Morris, Gweneth Bryan, Pre-Communion (for Sunday or Monday) technical assistance and fund- Monica Jacobs, Ruth Shannon, Maude children born in 2012 raising—all in an effort to Joseph. First Holy Communion – children born in restructure Catholic Radio as of 2011 October 2019. Interested persons PS… Please inform the Parish Office Confirmation – young people born in 2006 are asked to contact Fr. George. of phone contacts for this list of sick Training will be announced at a and shut-ins. CATECHETICAL SESSIONS for the later date. existing groups will begin in October. More ******************************** details for the upcoming dates, retreats, DEATH OF YOUR LOVED ONES: meetings with parents will be given in Do you wish to have the death of your subsequent notices. loved one announced on Catholic Radio? Please call the Pastoral Centre 560-2693 for more information. LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION— 1st September, 2019 ******************************** MARRIAGE & FAMILY MINISTRY

Couples intending to get married in the Catholic Church should register at First Second the Pastoral Centre and make an Cathedral Saturday $ 3,863.12 $1,211.07 appointment to see the priest. Sunday $ 5000.17 $ 714.40 Furthermore, six months’ notice should be given prior to the date of the Potters $ 574.05 $ 163.01 wedding. Please do not set the date Parham $ 690.10 $ 130.00 without the consent of the priest. Villa $ 1,799.50 $ 838.84 Donovans $ 748.27 $ 62.95 *********************************** Please note that The Sacrament of Hispanic $ 312.20 $ xxx Confession is held on Saturdays from Diocesan Schools $ 112.00 9:00 am to 12:00 noon and anytime after Mass. Thank You for your generosity CONTACT KNOW YOUR CHURCH The archbishop had been imprisoned from 1983 to INFORMATION 1988 for “anti-Soviet propaganda.” As a Jesuit - After the consistory to create new priest, in 1972 he began publishing the Chronicle HFC Presbytery of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, an Michael’s Mount cardinals in early October, will have underground newsletter documenting communist Phone: 461 1127 chosen more than half of the men who will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect his successor. repression of the Church. Despite repeated HFC Pastoral Centre And despite what critics of Francis filled social questioning by the KGB, he managed to publish Michael’s Mount media with Sept. 1 about him setting up the and distribute the chronicle for more than 10 years Phone: 560-2693 college to elect a successor just like him, it should and, once he was arrested, others continued his Email: be remembered that then-Archbishop Jorge Mario work. One of the new cardinal electors will be [email protected] Guatemalan Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of Website: hfcantigua.org Bergoglio was created a cardinal by St. John Paul Huehuetenango, a human rights defender whose II. And he was elected pope in 2013 in a conclave Catholic Book Store: where 42 percent of the cardinal electors were support for environmental activists has earned him Phone: 462-2410 created cardinals by John Paul and the remaining death threats. Two Roman Curia officials tapped to 58 percent of the voters were named by Pope become cardinals hold positions that would have Diocesan Offices, SSVP Benedict XVI. Personal opinions about the been considered automatic red-hat posts before Church Street, W503 needs of the Church at any given moment and Francis came on the scene: Spanish Bishop Miguel Phone:462-9581 about who would be the best person to lead Angel Ayuso Guixot, 67, president of the Fax: 560-2168 obviously are at play in a conclave. But the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; and Portuguese Archbishop Jose Tolentino Medonca, cardinals also invoke the inspiration of the Holy 53, Vatican archivist and librarian. The surprising Chancery Office Spirit and make a very solemn oath in casting Langfords, Friars Hill Road their ballots: “I call as my witness Christ the Curia pick was Jesuit Father , one Phone: 461-1135 Lord, who will be my judge, that my vote is given of two undersecretaries for migrants and refugees Fax: 462-2383 to the one who before God I think should be in the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human elected.” After arriving late for the midday Development. Czerny, who was born in 1949 in Mt. Tabor Retreat recitation of the Angelus prayer Sept. 1 because what was Czechoslovakia and who migrated with Centre he was stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes, his family to Canada when he was 2, worked in a John Hughes variety of social justice ministries in Canada, [email protected]. Francis announced he would create 13 new cardinals Oct. 5. Ten of the prelates he chose are Central America and Africa before coming to the Phone: 461-1135 under the age of 80 and, therefore, would be Vatican. According to canon law, he will need to Phone: 734-1358 eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a pope. A be ordained a bishop before receiving his red hat cardinal who has turned 80 before the papacy is Oct. 5, although he could request a dispensation. vacant participates in pre-conclave meetings to He did not respond Sept. 1 to a question about his Catholic Radio 89.7 FM discuss the needs of the Church but does not possible ordination. Phone: 562-6868 Francis’s choices continue to pay little attention to Fax: 562-6870 process into the Sistine Chapel and does not cast the large archdioceses traditionally led by Email: [email protected] ballots for a new pope. Barring any deaths or resignations, once the new cardinals, such as Milan and Venice. But he will Catechetical Office cardinals receive their red hats in early October, give a red hat to Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Michael’s Mount the will have 128 members Bologna, , where all but one of the Phone: 461-7208 eligible to vote in a conclave. Within 10 days of archbishops in the last 400 years had been a E-mail the consistory, four cardinals will celebrate their cardinal. The only exception was Archbishop [email protected] 80th birthdays, leaving 124 electors. Of those Enrico Manfredini, who led the archdiocese for 124, Francis will have made 66 of them cardinals, only eight months in 1983 before he died at the St. Joseph’s Academy which is 53 percent of the electors. The other age of 61. In selecting cardinals, Francis has made Stapleton Lane electors will include 16 cardinals created by John it a point to increase the geographical profile of the Phone: 462-2121 Paul II and 42 by now-retired Benedict XVI. College of Cardinals. The conclave that elected While a majority in the next conclave will have him included participants from 48 nations; the 128 Christ The King High Francis to thank for their red hats and new electors in the expanded college will include School prelates from 68 countries. Old Parham Road responsibilities, to be elected pope a candidate **************************************** Phone: 462-0570 must receive two-thirds of the votes. Announcing the new cardinals, Francis said they IN MEMORIAM St. John’s Catholic illustrate “the missionary vocation of the Church Primary that continues to proclaim the merciful love of In Memory of our loving father, Aubrey John Old Parham Road God to all men and women of the earth.” Camacho who entered into the nearer presence of Phone: 462-0113 A commitment to the poor, to caring for migrants the Lord a year ago. He is fondly remembered by and refugees and to engaging in dialogue with all his children and other family members. 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