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Reconciliation https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/ By Appointment topics/mental- health-wellness.html SUNDAY JULY 4, 2021 Baptism : FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN Expectant parents ORDINARY TIME welcome to register, and St. Elizabeth of - Feast Day July 4th Ph: (705) 253-9411 speak with Fr. Ron after Today’s was also known as Elizabeth of . She was born into a royal Spanish family with a saint in its Hall: (705) 253-4352 bloodline. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary was her great aunt and namesake. In a pious age, the piety of today’s Saint [email protected] Matrimony : Elizabeth stood out. She loved the Lord and all that it meant to be Catholic. She was wed to the King of Portugal Must register at least eight months in advance. Book the at a tender age, moved to his land, and had a family with him. The holy child Elizabeth became the holy adult Church before the hall. Elizabeth. She involved herself in matters of war, state, and politics. But she was more concerned with her own Parish Priest: soul, the poor, and the sick.. Fr. Ron Ambeault Communion at Home :

Lay ministers are available to Elizabeth had the luxury of leisure due to her wealth and noble status. She could dedicate time to Mass, to prayer, and to her spiritual exercises. Her resources of time and money also allowed her to assist the poor, which she did bring Communion to shut- Parish Council Chair: ins. Phone the parish office. generously, even to the annoyance of her husband, the King. It is easy to say that money doesn’t matter when you Santa De Marco have money. Only people with money, in fact, say that money is not the only thing. Money did not matter to Prayer-Line : Elizabeth, precisely because she did not lack it. She simply gave it away. And she fortified her financial Children Sacramental Rose Marie Spina generosity with her personal example of prayer, fasting, poverty, and holiness, edifying her people. She was not 254-4064 an advocate of social justice, but justice. She did not promote charitable giving, but living charity itself. Prep. Coordinator Alberta Mammarella Fran Boyle 949-2963 After her husband died and her children were grown, she entered the convent of the which she herself (Italian) had founded in . She took vows as a Third Order Franciscan, abandoned her royal status, and lived in CWL President: obscurity with the other sisters. Coimbra had a long attachment to the Franciscans. It is the city where Fernando Visiting & Card Rose Linklater Ministry: of Lisbon, an Augustinian, decided to become Anthony, a Franciscan, the future saint whose shrine is in Padua. Saint Elizabeth’s choice to become a lay Franciscan shows just how far If you wish to send cards or and wide the influence of Saint Francis of Assisi was felt, even among the upper classes. Knights of Columbus have someone visit people The Queen of Portugal gives away her wealth, cares for the poor and the sick, is devoted to John Sullivan who are confined to their homes. Contact the parish the Sacraments, actively promotes peace in her domain and in her family, establishes a office. female Franciscan convent, and herself becomes a Franciscan, and all within one hundred Parish Secretary: years of Saint Francis’ death. After Elizabeth had given away all that she had, she gave away herself, and then there was nothing left to give. She was a model Catholic Queen. Lisa Maville REGULAR CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Saint , help us to see all wealth, of time or money, as a gift and an “Don’t let anyone rob you of hope.” opportunity to serve the Lord and our fellow man. You promoted peace in your realm and in CLOSED UNTIL your family, in the spirit of Saint Francis. Help us to do the same. - Pope Francis FURTHER NOTICE Shalom Place Presents….. WEEKLY OFFERINGS SATURDAY MASS IS LIVESTREAMED AT 4:00 PM Growing in Wisdom: Seeking Deeper Generativity website: veronica.church Shalom Place is offering a two-hour Zoom presentation on a program geared to During this time, we will be collecting donations during Mass spirituality for our later, and hopefully wisdom, years. This is a “Come and Sunday 11:00 A.M. See” presentation for those who might be interested in taking this two-year or you can please choose to drop course sponsored by Queen’s House Retreat and Renewal Centre in off your donation envelopes at our Saskatoon. The presentation is on Tuesday July 6 from 10AM to Noon. Register office any time by depositing your Capacity limit is 25% by Monday July 5th at [email protected] or 705-254-4690 or on the contact envelope in the mail slot of the pages of our website - www.shalomplace.ca office door. Thank you TELEVISED MASS ON SHAW CABLE Channel 10 to all who give! and on BLUE CURVE 105 Every Sunday at 9:00 AM Website: veronica.church Pope: Be like Peter and Paul, free but humble

WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE Addressing the faithful gathered for the Solemnity of Peter and Paul, Pope Francis tells the story of these two Apostles and of how just like with them, Jesus neither judges nor humiliates us when we face fear.

June 29, 2021 Livestreamed Saturday Masses at 4:00 PM Vatican News By Vatican News Staff Writer Website: veronica.church Peter Also available to view Sunday on the website The Pope explained that “Peter, the fisherman from Galilee, was set free above all from his sense of Televised Mass on SHAW CABLE CHANNEL 10 and inadequacy and his bitter experience of failure, thanks to the unconditional love of Jesus”. He said that Peter, a skilled fisherman, often thought of giving up when he saw that he would catch nothing. He tasted BLUE CURVE CHANNEL 105 - Every Sunday at 9:00 AM fear, explained the Pope. “Albeit a fervent disciple of the Lord, he continued to think by worldly standards, and thus failed to understand and accept the meaning of Christ’s cross. Even after saying that Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time he was ready to give his life for Jesus, the mere suspicion that he was one of Christ’s disciples led him in fright to deny the Master”.

Saturday, July 10, 2021 “Jesus nonetheless loved Peter and was willing to take a risk on him”, explained the Pope. He encouraged 4:00 PM MASS Peter not to give up and gave him the courage to risk everything and the joy of becoming a fisher of men. “It was Peter whom Jesus called to strengthen his brothers in faith”, he added. All that was possible only because Peter himself had been set free, said the Pope. Jean Roussain by Sandra and Hank Baltussen. Paul For the intentions of all parishioners of St. Veronica’s. Turning then to the Apostle Paul, Pope Francis noted that he, too, experienced the freedom brought by Sunday, July 11 2021 Christ. “He was set free from the most oppressive form of slavery, which is slavery to self”, noted the Pope. He was also set free from the religious fervor that had made him a zealous defender of his ancestral 11:00 AM MASS traditions and a cruel persecutor of Christians, said the Pope. God, however, did not spare him the For the intentions of all parishioners of St. Veronica’s. frailties and hardships that rendered his mission of evangelization more fruitful and Paul thus came to realize that “God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong”, said the Pope.

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“The Church looks to these two giants of faith and sees two Apostles who set free the power of the AUTO-DEPOSIT E-TRANSFERS FOR DONATIONS Gospel in our world, only because first they themselves had been set free by their encounter with Christ”, said the Pope. He stressed that they were neither judged nor humiliated by Jesus, who instead “shared their life with affection and closeness”. He does the same with us, said the Pope. A convenient way we are now accepting donations is We too have been touched by the Lord; we too have been set free. Yet we need to be set free time and time again, for only a free Church is a credible Church. through Auto-Deposit E-Transfer. Send your E- “Peter and Paul bequeath to us the image of a Church entrusted to our hands, yet guided by the Lord with Transfer to [email protected] and the donation fidelity and tender love”, said the Pope. This, he described, is “a Church that is weak, yet finds strength will automatically be deposited into our Parish’s in the presence of God. A Church set free and capable of offering the world the freedom that the world by itself cannot give: freedom from sin and death, from resignation, and from the sense of injustice and account without the need to create a question or the loss of hope that dehumanizes the lives of the women and men of our time” answer! If you are not registered with our Parish, Ending his homily, Pope Francis noted that it is “in giving his life that the shepherd, himself set free, please include your address with the E-Transfer for a becomes a means of bringing freedom to his brothers and sisters”. We pray for all Pastors, concluded the Pope, for the Church and for all of us: that, set free by Christ, we may be apostles of freedom throughout tax receipt. Thank you all for your continued support! the world.