The 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Respect Life Sunday October 4, 2015

The third thing is this: Out of , Jesus and His blessed I might be too late. In our North America of the fickle parents fled. Out of Egypt, under threat of persecution, violence, 24-hour news cycle I may have long missed my chance. and death, the took flight. Jesus was a refugee. Besides, there’s been our candidates with their promises, The crisis in continues and this is no time for our Donald Trump, and the Blue Jays are on fire. Syria is old news, collective shoe gazing. This is the time to make a wholehearted right? Well, no. response and we, the Christian faithful, have nothing short of Not for the nearly 12 million Syrians who have had to flee for a mandate to respond. their lives. For those real people the crisis continues despite our St. John Paul II said: “Justice will never be fully attained diminishing interest. Whether we choose to pay attention or not, unless people see in the poor person, who is asking for help in there is a crisis in Syria. A crisis that the order to survive, not an annoyance or a burden, but an Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling the “worst opportunity for showing kindness and a chance for enrichment.” humanitarian crisis of our time.” Jesus, the refugee, never one to mince words, was even more Besides the 12 million Syrians displaced from their homes it emphatic, “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one would serve us well to remember, likewise, that an estimated of these brothers of mine, the least of them, you did it to Me.” 220,000 have already been killed. A “conservative” estimate ********* according to the United Nations. But ordinary life plods on and The Canadian Conference of Bishops (CCCB) has our attention is crowded out by so many competing interests. As endorsed a joint campaign aimed at involving all the in is our compassion. But the crisis remains; the plight of 12 in order to assist Syrian refugees. This campaign million Syrians is real. Three things demand our attention. involves the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development The first is this: we must do something. and Peace, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and CNEWA To do nothing is to cease to heed to the call of Christ. To do Canada. The Government of Canada announced on September nothing is to commit the grave sin of complacency because 12th it has established the Syrian Refugee Relief Fund. Every Jesus calls us to be His hands and feet, to be His compassion eligible dollar donated by individual Canadians to registered and His justice, and to be the light of the world. Canadian charities in response to the impact of the conflict in The light of the world does not turn itself out when our Syria will be matched by the government. I hereby authorize a neighbours come calling. And what is a greater example of special collection for the Canadian Catholic Organization for God’s justice than to provide those violently stripped of their Development and Peace to be taken up in all parishes on the livelihoods something as simple as safety. weekend of October 3-4, 2015. Development and Peace works No, there is no Christian—least of all Catholic—response that with Caritas Internationalis to provide emergency assistance in says, “Sorry, we’re all full up.” Our compassion cannot end. this and similar crises. Bishop Douglas Crosby Second is the lesson that Christ Himself taught us in a recent Sunday’s Gospel reading. After performing extraordinary WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS miracles, Jesus is approached by a Canaanite, a non-Jewish Tues. Oct 6 – 7:30 a.m. – Francis Simpson woman, who begs Him to heal her daughter. Wed. Oct 7 – 7:30 a.m. –Feast of Our Lady of the “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!” she cries. deceased of the Kelly & Hunter Families “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel,” Jesus tells her. Thurs. Oct 8 – 9:00 a.m. – Mary Guralski He was sent, first, to the Jews. It was not yet her time. He says: “It’s not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to dogs,” Fri. Oct 9 – 7:30 a.m. – Maria & Giovanni Cinelli “Yes it is, Lord,” she replies, “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that Sat. Oct 10 – 8:30 a.m. – Elsie & Thomas Sullivan, Mary fall from their master’s table.” And with that, Jesus declares her Guralski, Blanche Cook, Alessi Giuseppe, Sam faith to be great, and her daughter to be healed. Scime and deceased members of the family The woman, St. Mark tells us, “was a Greek, born in Syrian DIOCESAN PRAYER CALENDAR Phoenicia.” A Syrian. MON – Rev Roger Yaworski TUES – Rev. Pat Aiello When has the Gospel been more applicable than this? Even the WED- Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table. Does our THURS-Rev. Bernie Hayes(RIP) FRI.– Rev.- Jim Johnstone (RIP) faith—does the Christ we follow—demand more than our SAT. – Rev. Bill LaFlamme complacency? Our inaction? Our lack of compassion? Saturday, October 10 - 5:30 P.M. And what is it to provide for the meager needs of these millions Lector Marcia Piedigrossi of displaced Syrians? Commentator Karen Corsini I see no one queueing at the borders of our countries demanding Euch. Ministers A. Settimi, M. Stauth, D. Kaluzny - C to be housed in mansions. I see no one struggling across the Gift Bearers Elizabeth Burgie, Annie Settimi open ocean on a cruise liner. I see no one piling onto trains Sunday, October 11 - 9:00 A.M. demanding the first class carriage. No. Lector Robinson Instead, those queueing at the border are begging for space in a Commentator Gilles Bouchard tent, or a few square feet space on a floor—behind barbed-wire Euch. Ministers N. Bouchard, C. Larocque K. Robinson - B fences. Those crossing the tumultuous sea are doing so in Gift Bearers Dunn Family nothing more than a dingy, a so-called life raft, ironically, and Sunday, October 11 - 11:00 A.M. many don’t survive. Those clamouring onto trains, in Lector Samantha Galipeau desperation, are piling in like dogs. Commentator Karen Galipeau Are we liable, as people of faith, to give, in the least, those Euch. Ministers A. Catania, F. Manuel J. Capretta - C meager scraps from our tables? The crumbs? Gift Bearers Andrews Family

The 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Respect Life Sunday October 4, 2015

‘Let’s Get Together’ All are Our Poinsettia Bazaar: Please start setting aside invited to attend this gathering of a new your gently used books (for adults and season to share ideas, interests, children) and any costume jewelry in expectations, topics for guest speakers, activities etc. Bring excellent condition, for donation to the your crafts. Time for cards, refreshments and conversation. Poinsettia Bazaar. Collection of items will Next get together is Wed. Sept. 30th at 1:00 p.m. start in early November! Details to follow. Contact Karen 905.574.6097. Our Bazaar Team has begun Contributions to – Sept. 26/27 preparations for our big event December 5th and we need Envelopes: $ 2,556.00 Loose: $397.00 your help! Needs of the Canadian Church $546.00 Please join us for the LIFE CHAIN this Sunday Oct. 4th ‘Celebrate the Word’ has started - every from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, from 2:30 to 3:30, come and join us to take @ Mohawk and Upper James, (park at a look at the readings of the coming Sunday. Attend Immanuel Christian Reformed) when you can – not a weekly commitment if you can’t. @ Main Street West, Hamilton across

The Living Rosary will be held on our lawn from McMaster Hospital (park at this week on Tuesday, Oct. 6th at 12:30 p.m. Canadian Martyrs Parish). Any questions, please contact our Please come out and celebrate this wonderful Hamilton Right to Life office at 905-528-3065. prayer time with the children of school. Thank you the for helping! Planetary Pope: the Ecology Encyclical th The next CWL meeting is this Wed. Oct. 6th Everyone is welcome to join on Sunday, October 4 at at 6:30 p.m. Rosary and Meeting and 7:00 p.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King, for Evening Prayer with Bishop Crosby followed by a talk by refreshments. All ladies are most welcome. internationally renowned speaker Fr. John McCarthy. The Join the Youth Groups this week. The Jr Youth Group evening will be filmed and shown live by Salt & Lite TV. (Grades 2-6) meets from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Sr. Prayer and Fr. John’s talk will help us see the importance Youth Group will meet from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Please of ‘encyclical, “Laudate Si”. Copies of the bring a non-perishable food item for our local food banks. encyclical will be available for purchase that evening. A permission form must be on file to attend. Time for Two: Growing in Love Halloween for Hunger Forms are in the Narthex. Do you ever wish you had more time as a couple? Then Confirmation Candidates may use this event towards their this is the weekend for you! This may well be the most Confirmation Service Hours. valuable two days you will spend together as a couple –

NO-SALE GARAGE SALE: Saturday, October 17th, enrich your love and knowledge of each other!! The from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.at the Hamilton Diocese storage Marriage Encounter/Enrichment weekend will be held facility, 661 Beach Blvd., Hamilton. Furniture, fixtures, on Oct. 17/18 at the St. Ignatius Retreat Centre in appliances, carpets, filing cabinets, wood and so much Deemerton, Ontario. Contact the Family Ministry Office: more. No prices. Donations only in support of Syrian [email protected] 905-528-7988 ext. Refugees. Sponsored by R.Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 2249 Information and on line registration can be found on our website at www.hamiltondiocese.com. Our Resurrection Choir is now accepting new members. We are responsible for providing song and hymn leadership The Youth/Children’s Choir sings at the 5:30 mass and during the funerals in our church. If you are interested in practices Saturdays at 4:45 (just before the mass). We’d participating in this important ministry, please call the love to have additional youth and children from grade 3 right up to university and beyond! parish office and leave your name and telephone number. All new members are most welcome! St. Charles Garnier CWL Treasure Sale Sat., Oct. 17th 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Rectory Hall 129 Hughson St. S. The Adult Choir is preparing for the Christmas Season. If you are interested in participating in the music ministry of Congratulations to Bishop Douglas Crosby - elected for a our parish and being a part of the evening Mass on two year term as President of the CCCB, the Canadian Christmas Eve, please join us in the choir loft for practice, Conference of Catholic Bishops! More work for you!! held every Tuesday evening at 5:30 p.m. Practices last for Retrouvaille week-end – for couples having serious one hour and weekly attendance is a must! So COME ON difficulties in their relationship. There is still hope. UP and joining the singers that so beautifully enhance our Weekend Oct. 23 – 25. [email protected] Sunday Mass! All newcomers are most welcome!!! Call 905-664-5212 or visit www.retrouvaille.org.

The 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Respect Life Sunday October 4, 2015

something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical and our spiritual nourishment!

Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in your Home Our Legion of Mary would love to do the enthronement in your home. It is a short

ceremony of prayer, committing yourself and your family to the Sacred Heart of Married Singles Lifestyle –The Married Singles Lifestyle Jesus. It takes 10-15 minutes and we give describes couples that may have lost a sense of closeness you a beautiful picture of the Sacred they once had as marriage partners and are living more like Heart, and the benefits will be plentiful. If roommates. Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi with a long you would like us to come to your home, i) teaches couples how to survive times like these in their put your name and phone number and address in an marriages. This program has thousands of couples envelope addressed to the Legion of Mary. You can put the experiencing difficulty at all levels of marital distress. For envelope into the collection on Sunday or bring it to the confidential information about, or to register for the parish office. Someone from the Legion of Mary will Hamilton Diocesan program which begins with a weekend contact you and set up a time to visit your home. No on October 23 - 25, 2015 in Niagara Falls please call 905- refreshments required, and no fee accepted. 664-5212 or email: [email protected] or visit the web site at www.retrouvaille.org. The following is an announcement about a special diocesan Mass for the Year of . Please include this in

your parish bulletin during the month of October.

All are invited to gather with Bishop Crosby and the men and women Church envelope #22 & #127 Please call the parish office religious of the Diocese of Hamilton for a Mass of Thanksgiving for the WHY GO TO CHURCH? Year of Consecrated Life at 3:00 p.m. An answer to 'Why go to church?' on Sunday, November 1, 2015 at the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate (28 If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If Norfolk St., Guelph). you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope! A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. 'I've gone for 30 years now,' he wrote, 'and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons, but for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the priests are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.' This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column. Much to the delight of the editor, it went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: 'I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today! 'When you are DOWN to nothing, God is UP to