All Souls Day is a holy day set aside for honoring the dead. On Thursday, November 2nd at 12:00 pm, we will be celebrating an All Souls Day Mass in our Parish for all our deceased members. In this mass, we will mention the name of your Beloved. Please bring the names of your deceased members to the secretary’s office or give it to Patrick Sullivan.
Please come and join us in praying for those who have passed away from our parish in the past year and before. There is no cost for this mass.

NIBBLES & BIDS IS JUST ONE DAY AWAY!
We are very excited to announce our annual Nibbles & Bids Loonie & Toonie Auction, fundraising event. Nibbles & Bids is running this November 3, from 6 PM to 11 PM. It is our hope to see all of you in our Parish Hall enjoying the event as part of our Parish Life, Come, play, enjoy, win and together let’s build community.

BUILDING COMMUNITY

Through our Baptism we are welcomed into the community of faith, the Church. We believe that a warm welcoming attitude is a first step to building fellowship and meaningful relationships within our community. We strive to treat every person with respect and care, as brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Office for Evangelization and Catechesis has prepared English-language resources for celebrating Catechetical Sunday 2017. The theme, Missionary Disciples in the Vineyard of the Lord, focuses on four topics: catechists are called to be missionary disciples, facilitate encounters with Christ, accompany others, and live in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. The resources are available on CCCB website at http://www.cccb.ca/site/eng/office-for-evangelization-and-catechesis/4757-catechetical-sunday-2017.

The resources can be used at any time throughout the pastoral year by clergy, directors of religious education, parish pastoral workers, chaplains, Catholic teachers and parents to emphasize the special role of the catechist. They have been designed in such a way that they can be used for reflection by individuals or in larger group settings. Dioceses and parishes may wish to use the liturgical suggestions for a special blessing of catechists either on Sunday, 1 October 2017, or at another time when catechists are gathered together.

PASTORAL COUNCIL…

When Jesus first came among us, he offered us a whole new way of living. In the Gospel, we learn that we have been invited to be branches connected to the vine of the Lord, to eat the bread of everlasting life and to hear words of truth, words that endure forever. This is the mission of the Church in and through the ministry of the parish each Parish has the Mission to proclaim the Good News to all people in all ways, here and now.

All of us are mindful that the New Evangelization is not one specific action, but rather a way of seeing a whole range of activities carried on by the Parish to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Like a family, the parish is an organic community shaped by particular relationships. With the Pope as pastor of the Universal Church, the local church is shepherded by the Bishop.  e Pastor is the Bishop’s representative in the parish and the pastor is responsible to the Bishop for the life and vitality of the parish. For the Pastor, carrying out the mission of the parish is dependent on the full and active participation of the faithful laity.

For this reason, it is important that in each Parish should have a Parish Pastoral Council when the pastor see it is necessary for the good of the Parish. A Parish Pastoral Council is an important consultative body that comes together under the direction of the pastor to provide him advice and support for the good of the parish community.

During these past months, I have been working on it with the intension to get this important piece in the structure of our Parish. In the next coming weeks I will introduce the new Parish Pastoral council to all of you.

My hope is that this Parish Pastoral Council will assist me as pastor and you parishioners alike in revitalizing our Parish Life and to get a more fervent and vibrant experience of God’s love poured out in our Parish.