To St. Mary's Parishioners - Group Email/Cell Message #14 – June 25, 2020

Please make this message known to your friends, relatives and neighbours in your daily conversations. Not all of our parishioners have email and cell internet access. You may wish to print the attachment for relatives and friends that do not have email access. Dear Parishioners, How is your summer coming along? Hope you will find some time for quality rest and relaxation. I’m also planning to take a summer break for the next 4 weeks, beginning July 2nd. So, let us welcome in our Fr. Jacek Cydzik, C.Ss.R. - belonging to the Order of Redemptorists (just like our new bishop), who will replace me during my vacation time. God bless you Fr. Jacek, have a great time in Wilno and Round Lake.

Please Note: During vacation time there will be no Mass in our church on Thursday at 9.00 am. A mass is being said in Round Lake on that day at 10:30 am.

Our new bishop’s installation will take place this Friday, July 3 during the Liturgical celebrations at 11.00 am in St. Columbkille , Pembroke. Due to present conditions, only priests and a handful of lay people can attend the celebration. Please remember of our new Shepherd in your prayers. More info about our new bishop in the text below.

In today’s liturgy our Lord is encouraging us to set our priority right. So, He gives us some clear guidelines about the quality of love which He asks to give to Him. The norm, He says, must be greater than the love we have for parents and children. Our love for Him must be greater, although we can’t see Him or throw our arms around Him... It is a demanding love indeed. We know that he opened His arms on the cross as far as possible to show for all time his tremendous love for us. Since that time, the cross is basic to Christianity. It signifies the real cost of living, of loving and of following our Lord.

God bless you all. Fr. Roman Majek, OMI

Schedule of Masses Sat, Jun 27 5 pm Peter & Magdelen Yaraskavitch & Family (Doreen Yaraskavitch) Sun, Jun 28 11 am For all of our Parishioners Mon, Jun 29 10 am Anthony Yaraskavitch (Ronnie & Diane Kosnaskie) Tues, Jun 30 No Mass Wed, July 1 7 pm John & Annie Stamplecoski & Clemence Stamplecoski (Rose Stamplecoski) Thurs, July 2 No Mass Mass in Round Lake at 10:30 am Fri, July 3 7 pm Alfie Stamplecoskie (Marilyn Glofcheskie) Sat, July 4 5 pm For all of our Parishioners Sun, July 5 11 am Patrick Yaskolskie (Audrey Yaskolskie & Family)

Canada Day

This week on Wednesday, we celebrate our national holiday - the day of Canada’s birthday. It celebrates the anniversary of July 1,1867, the effective day of Canada Act, 1867, which united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into the single Dominion within British Empire called Canada. Originally called Dominion Day, the holiday was renamed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed. HAVE A GREAT CANADA DAY!

Annual Chicken Supper 2020 cancellation You may already know from the media and last week’s message from Fr. Roman that our annual supper is cancelled for this year. There are multiple reasons for the decision with foremost being the safety of everyone concerned, our workers and our visitors. The Chicken Supper Raffle will not occur as well. The distribution, but particularly the collection of the sold tickets would be a huge task. We thank all the potential donors toward the ticket prizes in hopes that we can tap your resources for next year’s raffle. As a replacement for this annual fund raiser, and in lieu of the of time, money and materials our parishioners brought forth each year, we would have you consider only the green bordered envelope for July 26 in your envelope package.

His Excellency the Most Reverend Guy Desrochers, C.Ss.R.

Biography

Bishop Desrochers was born in 1956 in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Québec. Upon completion of secondary school, he entered Algonquin College, Ottawa, to pursue studies in Fine Arts and Commercial Art which, in turn, led him to work as a graphic artist for seven years with the Ottawa French-language newspaper Le Droit.

He later entered the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) to pursue his vocation and was ordained to the priesthood in 1989.

Following his ordination, he worked on a special evangelization project in the Gaspé region of Québec. He went on to serve for several years as Rector of the former Redemptorist monastery in Aylmer-Gatineau, before being appointed to the Shrine of Saint Anne-de-Beaupré. After a brief period as superior of a retirement home for Redemptorists near Québec City, he returned to Saint Anne-de-Beaupré as director of the Annals of Saint Anne magazine, serving in that capacity for three years and, in July 2011, became Rector of the Basilica Shrine of Saint Anne-de-Beaupré. He devoted part of his time to preaching retreats all over North America and, in June 2015, returned to this ministry in a full-time capacity as well as serving as Director of Vocations for the Redemptorists.

He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the of Alexandria-Cornwall of Ottawa on 12 December 2018 and ordained Bishop at Alexandria on 22 February 2019. Bishop Desrochers has subsequently worked closely with the Most Reverend Terrence Prendergast, S.J., the then Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall and Archbishop of Ottawa, both of which were then united in persona episcopi.

On May 6, 2020, His Holiness Francis appointed Bishop Desrochers, Bishop of the Diocese of Pembroke.

MOTTO Bishop Desrochers’ motto in Latin, Praedica Verbum, embodies the command “Proclaim the Word.” From the very beginning of Bishop Desrochers’ conversion in his early-twenties, this has been the inner call that he received from God when he was inspired to become a priest—a divine mission he continues now as a bishop.