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ST. PIUS X CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 16 Smithville Crescent, St. John’s, NL A1B 2V2 Tel.# 754-0170 Finding God in All Things 29th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME October 18, 2020 IGNATIAN INSPIRATIONS Our cover this weekend features a short introduction to Ignatian Spirituality. We invite you to try this over the next few Sundays. To Begin For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another”. (John 13:34) Prayer Lord God, as I look at the day ahead and wonder how I will get everything done, I think about why I am here in the first place: because you love me. How simple, and yet, how magnificent! You have created me to love, praise, and serve you, so that I might live forever with you. Help me see everything I do today as an expression of my love for you. Action I will write the word “love” next to each item on my to-do list as a reminder that when I do things for love of God and neighbor, nothing is too difficult. SOURCE: 30 Days with Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Page 3 Fr. Earl Smith, SJ (Pastor and Superior of St. John’s Jesuits) ([email protected]) Fr. Wayne Bolton, SJ (Associate Pastor) ([email protected] ) Maria R. Kelsey (Pastoral Assistant and Religious Education Coordinator) ([email protected]) Parish E-mail: [email protected] Webpage: www.spx.ca Archdiocesan Webpage: www.rcsj.org www.spx.ca SCRIPTURE READINGS CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE FOR NEXT SUNDAY NOTES October 25, 2020 You could read/discuss/pray with your family, The month of October is dedicated to with friends or by yourself.’ the Most Holy Rosary First Reading: Exodus 22:20-26 During this month, members of the Second Reading: 1st Thessalonians 1:5-10 CWL invite you to join the praying of Psalm: 18 the Rosary after the 9:30 am Mass (approximately Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40 10:00 am) on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. CWL General Meeting SOMETHING TO THINK The next General Meeting of the ABOUT ... CWL will take place in the Parish Hall on Tuesday , October 20, 2020 “I believe in God, only I spell it after the morning 9:30 am Mass and Rosary. We Nature.” will adhere to Health and Parish pandemic Frank Lloyd Wright guidelines. Wear a mask, keep social distancing and no food permitted. OFFERTORY COLLECTION ELDER MINISTRY’S THOUGHT OF THE WEEK October 10 and 11: $4,521.10. Envelopes: $4,447.00 Loose: $74.10 PRAYER AS A FORM OF KINDNESS Thank you for your continued generous support. As Mom’s years dwindles, one way her generosity continued to grow through her prayer WORLD MISSION SUNDAY COLLECTION life. Mom liked to “do” little kindnesses for others. Today is World Mission Sunday. Today, every When her health waned, praying for people gave Catholic community and parish throughout the her a way to continue to be kind. world is involved in World Mission Sunday. It is Her spiritual practice taught me a day that we show that all Catholics are missionary that when elderly people become less physically disciples who all have a role to play in the active missionary activities of the Church. It is a global and unable to accomplish a “good deeds”, effort to bring spiritual and material assistance to the continue to contribute significantly those who long for the love of Christ. Your kind to the well-being of others through the gift of support will help new Churches to become strong prayer. and vital faith communities. Please continue to pray How I long for more senior persons for those who serve in mission countries and please to realize the power of their prayerful presence. be generous in your support of their world. Thank SOURCE: Joyce Rupp, Fly While You Still you in adance for any financial support that you can Have Wings, page 93 provide on this World Mission Sunday. (Sr. Rosemary Ryan, Director for the Pontifical Mission Societies) www.spx.ca DE MELLO FOR KIDS OUR ‘PIUS’ SMILES OF ALL AGES Sow and Grow JOKE #1 If you plant daisy seeds in your One day God was looking down at Earth and saw garden, what do you think will all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So grow? Daisies, of course! The he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Bible tells us that whatever we Earth for a time. plant in our heart is what will grow When he returned, he told God, in our life. So if you fill your heart “Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and with mean thoughts or bad feelings, it will be hard only 5% are not.” for you to be the kind, loving person God wants you to be. But if you let God fill your heart with God thought for a moment and said, his love and care, you’ll be able to show love and “Maybe I had better send down a second angel to care to others. Let God plant good things in your get another opinion.” heart and watch what grows! My heart is full of God’s great love and care, So God called another angel and sent him to So I can share love with my friends Earth for a time. everywhere. When the angel returned he went to God and said, “Yes, it's true.The Earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good.” CALLING ALL PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS God was not pleased. So He decided to e-mail the 5% that were good, because he wanted to Quick Tips for Teaching Kids to Pray encourage them, and give them a little something Prayer habits that last a lifetime are most often to help them keep going. formed in childhood. That’s why it’s so critical to teach young children how to pray. Prayer is caught Do you know what the e-mail said? more than it’s taught. As parents model Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn't get meaningful prayer lives, kids will learn how they, one either. too, can talk to their Creator. JOKE #2 Here are the basics of teaching children how to Little Johnny was caught swearing by his teacher. pray. "Johnny," she said, 1. Help children talk to God. "you shouldn't use that kind of language. Where 2. There’s nothing too big—or too small—for did you hear such talk, anyway?" God. 3. Anything is okay to talk to God about. "My daddy said it," he responded. 4. Making prayers relevant to children’s lives "Well, that doesn't matter," explained the teacher. enables them to grow in prayer. - "You don't even know what it means." 5. God listens to ALL prayers. "I do, too!" 7. Help children understand that God may Little Johnny retorted. answer prayers in several ways. "It means the car won't start." 8. The right place is any place. 9. Prayer is never inappropriate. (SOURCE: Maurcia DeLean Houck www.christiansministry.com www.spx.ca FR. EARL DREAMS COMMUNION DISTRIBUTION: GENTLE REMINDERS We continue to welcome healthy sized Mass I continue to be impressed by the manner we attendance since this summer’s re-opening of our respectfully approach the altar for Communion. We church. We are not yet allowed to open our are reminded to come for Communion after placing church to greater than 100+ persons. We hope our masks over our mouth and nose. After sanitizing for the day when conditions permit increasing the our hands either with liquid we bring from home or number of participants in the church building. with what is provided at the first pew, we approach Meantime, we are also grateful for the the Communion Minister with hands out reached. parishioners who enjoy a worship and prayer life The Communion is given, we walk a few steps the through the Internet and other social side, and we then lower our mask to consume media. Contact via telephone calls, emails and Communion before returning to our pew. bubbled social distanced encounters are Fr. Earl Smith, SJ encouraged. Our Parish Council continues to prepare CHURCH SANITIZATION AND CLEANING: for the renewal of our website that will be soon GRATEFUL WORDS managed by a competent IT person. A hiring process is underway. This is very good news. A Our Hospitality Ministers are regularly available to good website is touted by professionals - like assist with the cleaning and sanitization of our parishioner Gerry Carew of church after Mass. There are other hidden jobs they newfoundmarketing.ca - to be ‘the’ foundation do without credit. God provides. Karl Wight and on which a modern online parish is rooted, able Paul Noftall, front office staff, also do much to to survive and prosper. This initiative is a cause make ready, clean, and safe our church for scheduled for hope. We are planning on making our and the occasional unplanned uses of our website more user friendly for ourselves and church. These persons are to be commended as they potential new members of our faith offer to us an essential service in unassuming selfless community. May God +bless our efforts. ways. Fr. Earl Smith, SJ CHURCH ENTRY PROTOCOL PARISH FINANCES Our conscientious Hospitality Ministers remain We continue to pay our bills, in part, due to a alert in their service at our church.