The Week Ahead NATASHA KOUK Sacramental Life

Mass Schedule
Sacramental Life
Saturday, Aug 2nd -18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
4:00 p.m. (Fr. Kelly) † Damaso Francisco Sr. - req. Francisco family
Sacrament of Baptism – For more information or to
schedule your child’s baptism please contact Nicole at
nicole@stvitalparish.ca or (204) 803-6556
Sacrament of Reconciliation – Beginning 30 minutes before every Mass, weekdays and weekends.
(No confessions after Mass)
9:30 a.m. (Fr. Barry) - † Nela Casal Linatoc - req. Olave family
11:30 a.m. (Fr. Barry) - Int. of parishioners
8:00 p.m. (Fr. Kelly) - Int. of Fr. Vincent - req. Parish staff
Monday, Aug 4th - No Mass
Tuesday, Aug 5th
9:00 a.m. (Fr. Kelly) Int. of Ms. Dell’Acqua
- req. Luke (student)
7:00 p.m. (Fr. Barry) - Int. of R. K. Suri & family - req. K.E. Suri
9:00 a.m. (Fr. Kelly) Mass at the Rotary Villa
† Paul Ruest - req. Aunt Carmelle Beauchamp
7:00 p.m. (Fr. Barry) † Theresa Bossuyt - req. mom & dad
Thursday, Aug 7th
Friday, August 8th - St. Dominic, Priest,
Religious Founder
10:00 a.m. (Fr. Kelly) Mass at the Riverwood Square
Int. of Mr. Gavin - req. Nathan (student)
7:00 p.m. (Fr. Barry) Special thanks to St. Anthony
- req. Jacqueline Godard
Saturday, Aug 9th -19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
4:00 p.m. (Fr. Barry) † Parents & deceased brothers
- req. son Harry Mahoney
Sunday, Aug 10th - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
9:30 a.m. (Fr. Kelly) † Denis Lepine - req. Iris Lepine
11:30 a.m. (Fr. Kelly) - Int. of parishioners
8:00 p.m. (Fr. Barry) - Special Intentions
- req. Elice & Leon Sanders
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Sacrament of Marriage – We must be notified 6
months in advance to allow for marriage preparation
classes. Please contact the parish office.
Wednesday, Aug 6th -The Transfiguration
of the Lord
9:00 a.m. (Fr. Kelly) Int. of Victor Ifedayo Fasae &
Nancy Abimbola (Wedding Aug. 9/14)
- req. Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Fasae
7:00 p.m. (Fr. Barry)† Claude Vigier
- req. Daniel, Nathalie & Emma Belisle
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Mission in 1861 – Parish in 1914
August 3rd, 2014
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
For advertisement information please contact Nicole Savard – Ph (204) 453-0933 or nicole@stvitalparish.ca
Sunday, Aug 3rd - 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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The Week Ahead
Tue August 5th5:00 p.m.
Choir Practice
Wed August 6th 9:00 a.m.
Mass at the Rotary Villa
Fri August 8th 10:00 a.m. Mass at the Riverwood Square
7:30 p.m. Baptism Preparation
(pre-registration required)
Sun Aug 10th11:30 a.m.Baptism
Join the conversation and learn more at www.StVitalParish.ca
Tel. (204) 453-0933 | office@stvitalparish.ca | Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 1 – 5 p.m.
1629 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2G6
Fort Garry RC Cemetery 826 Crescent Drive, Winnipeg, MB R3T 1X5
St. Maurice School (204) 453-4020 | St. Maurice Daycare (204) 475-4045 | St. Maurice Nursery School (204) 284-0881
Prayer
St. Maurice
DAYCARE
We joyfully welcomed into
the family of God
St Maurice Daycare
and Nursery School
Parishioners wishing to
enroll their children into
St. Maurice Daycare and
Nursery School are asked
to notify me when applications are made, so that
we might ensure that their
children are placed at the
top of our waiting lists.
I may be contacted at
fb@stvitalparish.ca
Stewardship of
Treasure
Owen Jacob Kurniadi
Baptized on Sunday, July 27th, 2014
“Think of the love that God has lavished on us,
by letting us be called God’s own children; and
that is what we are.”
– 1 John 3:1 –
Financial Gifts to God
Congratulations to
(Includes Visitor envelopes and
pre-authorized contributions)
July 26 & 27
Ryan Chenier &
Rosanna Crudele
Regular Offertory $ 7487.77
Cemetery
$ 704.75
Sharing God’s Gifts $ 137.50
St Vincent de Paul $ 33.85
Children’s
Treasure Box
$ 17.95
Thank you
for your generosity!
who were joined in marriage at St. Vital
Parish on Friday, August 1st, 2014
May you be witnesses to God’s presence in
your lives by the love you show each other.
Faith Formation
Parish News
Craft Supplies Needed - we are in
need of some craft supplies for our kids
camp:
• Paper towel or wrapping paper rolls
• Roll of craft paper or newsprint paper
• large and small cardboard boxes
• Butcher paper
• Dowels, bamboo poles
Donations must be at the church by
Wednesday August 6th. All items can be
put in the box marked “craft supplies”
by the church office.
An Evening with Ernesto Quilban - Mark your calendars! We are so excited to announce a
very special summer concert that will
be held here on Thursday, August 14th
at 7 p.m. ‘An Evening with Ernesto
Quilban’ will be an all ages concert
featuring an extremely talented, versatile classical guitarist from Washington (originally from the Philippines).
Tickets will be $15 in advance, $20 at
the door (unless it’s sold out). The concert will end by
9:30 p.m. and will include an intermission. Be sure to buy
your tickets early as Ernesto has sold out several times in
the past when he has performed in Winnipeg (including
at the casinos). Tickets are available from the Parish office during office hours. All proceeds from the
concert are in support of the parish. Be sure to google or
search on youtube to learn more about Ernesto and to
hear some of his music.
Our Religious Education Ministry is
Looking for You! If you have ever considered sharing your faith and love of God
with a child, then our catechism program
would love to have you join our team. Any
older teen or adult who has been confirmed. No experience is necessary and
all training, resources, and materials are
provided. If you are interested or would
like some more information please contact Candace at 204-890-5978 or email
Candace@stvitalparish.ca.
Be ye fishers of men.
You catch them
He’ll clean them.
Let Us Pray For Those Who Are Sick: Marcelline La Pointe, Helen Davey,
Mike Falavena, Francisco Castaneda, Alice Lachance, Liling Villaceran, Karl
Buchart, Mary Trottier, Shirley Schulz, Roger Hamelin, Hubert Vermette,
Olive Shachtay, Marisa Bucciarelli, Emily Osborne, Lilia
Sarmiento, Purisima Ocampo, Juliet Dias, Coen Padilla, Mary
Kent, Liliana Gan, Raymundo Calixterio, Kathleen Michaud,
Margaret Kendall, Judith Maguet, Alain Sarrasin and Cody Kerr.
~ May they be comforted and given hope!
Parish Staff
Pastor/Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. Barry Schoonbaert p.p.
Parochial Vicar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. Kelly Wilson
Pastoral Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Savard | (204) 803-6556
Financial Manager/Assistant Director. . . Dionisia Roman-Osicki
Religious Education. . . . . . Candace Anthony | (204) 890-5978
Administrative Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynne Pelland and
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jo-Anne Souyri
Choir Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Natasha Kouk
Parishioners with a gluten intolerance/Celiac Disease we are very happy to now have low-gluten hosts
available. You are asked to contact the parish office to arrange to pick up the hosts. A pix is required and will be
available for those who do not have one. Please refer to
the parishwebsite or call the office for more information.
Serving Our Lord & Our Parish
Volunteers needed for Parish Concert Fundraiser - We are in need of
people to help in the following ways…
parishioners of all ages (teens especially!) are encouraged to please help:
Reception: 10+ people; baking cookies or muffins, set-up, preparing and serving coffee, juice,
muffins and cookies. Call Joyce at 204-895-0098.
Greeters &Ticket Sales/Takers: Several people are
needed; must be available beginning at 6PM. Call Kristine at 204-477-0272.
Hallway Monitors: 2-3 people; directing people to the
washrooms in the school before the concert, during the
intermission and after the concert. Call Kristine at 204477-0272
CD Sales: 2-3 people; selling CDs during the intermission and after the concert. Call Nicole at 204-803-6556.
Clean-Up: 10 people; to be completed immediately following the concert: going through all of the pews after
the concert to ensure they are tidy, cleaning washrooms,
vacuuming, taking out the garbage and recycling. Call
the parish office at 204-453-0933.
The St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Vital Parish News
Recently the Society, on behalf of the parishioners of St. Vital Parish, allocated $1000 to assist Catholic Development and
Peace in dealing with the humanitarian crisis happening right now in South Sudan. The recent worsening of the crisis in
South Sudan was brought to our attention by the Archdiocesan office that sent an appeal for aid to all parishes.
Donations slow down a little in the summer months, but the Society has confidence that parishioners will continue to support the parish’s efforts in the many areas of stewardship that St. Vital Church is currently engaged in through the St. Vincent
de Paul Society.
This includes continued support for...
• Catholic Education (including St. Maurice School )
• St. Vital Parish Food Bank
• Missionaries of Charity
• Catholic Near East Welfare Association
• Chez Nous (inner city drop in)
• NET Canada – Catholic Christian Youth Outreach
• Villa Rosa
• Development and Peace (Disaster Relief)
The Society also helps out parish families in need during times of financial distress. This has included assistance with basic
food items, children’s and baby furniture and medication.
If you have any questions about the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, please contact the parish office at 204-453-0933 and a
Society member will contact you. We are always welcome to new members!
Our next meeting will be at the church at 7:30 p.m. on September 18th.
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Fortifying yourself
against bitterness
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18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
August 3, 2014
God’s Free Samples
By Janel Esker
I
love free samples—perhaps a little
too much. You’ll find me happily
munching away at the grocery-store
sample tables, wondering if I’ll get
another sample if I come back wearing
sunglasses or a hat. My friends tease
about my ability to make a whole meal
from the samples at a big discount store
on a Saturday afternoon. I can’t help
it—I love free food!
Perhaps that’s why today’s Scriptures
appeal to me so. Isaiah voices God’s free
offer of water, grain, wine, and milk to
SUNDAY READINGS
Isaiah 55:1–3
The Lord invites all people to come
to him. Those who heed God are
promised life in addition to the goods
of this world.
Romans 8:35, 37–39
Saint Paul declares that nothing will
separate us from the love of God: neither the forces of this world, things of
the eternal realm, time, nor death itself.
Matthew 14:13–21
After a long day of healing and teaching,
Jesus is approached about the crowd’s
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the hungry and thirsty. Jesus miraculously feeds more than 5,000 people, who
pay nothing for the meal. These sound
like the ultimate free samples.
As we know, the free samples at grocery stores are teasers intended to leave
us wanting more and lead to the purchase of some item we can’t live without.
But God’s free samples aren’t limited to
a tiny cup of juice or a minuscule bite of
pizza. The nourishment God offers isn’t
a teaser that leaves us hungry—it’s an
all-you-can-eat, life-giving feast. Isaiah
declares that God provides free food
to draw us into deeper relationship “to
make with you an everlasting covenant.”
We’re not asked to buy something but
to listen to and heed God’s word, which
leads to life.
So, too, in the Gospel, Jesus insists
there is “no need for them to go away,”
though he came to a deserted place to
be alone. He welcomes the burgeoning
crowd into a deeper relationship through
listening to and being fed by him. God
is constantly welcoming us into a deeper
relationship of trust, commitment, and
love. It’s up to us to step up to God’s freesample table, listen to God’s word, and
discover God’s abundant gifts for us.
• What else, besides or in addition
to food, is abundant in your life?
• How can you more deeply believe
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care, and mercy?
Lord,
Your love and compassion
are always with us
in times of trouble.
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solidarity with those
who are suffering
and show them your
love and compassion.
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e live in a messed-up world:
Countries pursue weapons
that could wipe out the
planet. Parents turn guns on their
children. We justify derision, bigotry,
and violence in the name of God. Young
people objectify themselves and their
peers because they lack good models of
how to give and receive love.
The problems are easy to identify.
What’s hard is figuring out what to do
about them. They’re big, sprawling, and
tightly woven. Where do I begin? What’s
the right plan of action? How can lowly
little me, with my couple of hundred
social-networking friends, interrupt the
momentum of this juggernaut?
My impotence angers me. I’m jaded by
the partisan bickering that ensures nothing ever gets solved. I’m tempted to throw
up my hands and write off the future
altogether. What do my actions matter,
anyway, amid so much brokenness, so
much willful ignorance? But when I spend
my energy on anger, I cease to recognize
the beauty, the potential for good, that
also exists and is sometimes intertwined
with the bad. The voices shouting vitriol,
anger, narcissism, and greed drown out
the whisper of the divine.
I bury myself in self-righteous judgment until, without realizing it, I become
part of the problem instead of the
solution. I go looking for a safe, insulated enclave, where the problems can’t
reach me, where I’m absolved of the duty
to act, but it’s usually uncomfortable.
It’s easier to stand back and complain
Mon.
WEEKDAY
READINGS
August 4-9
From Faithful Meditations for
Every Day in Ordinary Time,
by Rev. Warren J. Savage
and Mary Ann McSweeny
Wed.
The Redeemer,
Mary, and You
By Br. Daniel Korn, CSsR
Just Live It
than to dig in, get my hands dirty, and
risk learning—through abject failure or
mediocre success—how small I really
am. I think this is why St. Paul tells us
to contemplate what is true and pure:
What I focus on determines my reality. If
I wrap my worldview in anger, I leave no
room for kindness and compassion. But
if I fix my sights on all that is good and
holy, I’m fortified against the bitterness
and disillusionment that might otherwise
cripple me as I fight the unwinnable
battle against the effects of sin. After all,
let’s face it—as Henri Nouwen observed,
the world will always be dark. My efforts
aren’t going to change that.
Fortunately, God doesn’t look at the
bottom line when measuring my job
performance. As Mother Teresa famously
said, “My job is not to succeed, but to be
faithful to my mission.”
St. John Vianney: Jeremiah 28:1–17 /
Matthew 14:22–36
Dedication of Basilica of St. Mary Major:
Jeremiah 30:1–2, 12–15, 18–22 /
Matthew
Matthew
15:14:22–36
1-2, 10-14
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2 Peter 1:16–19 / Matthew 17:1–9
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August 3, 2014
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By Kathleen M. Basi
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cons have been described as windows
into the Divine Mystery. The vast
amount of gold in the icon of Our
Mother of Perpetual Help is striking. It
does more than highlight objects and the
folds of the garments. It represents the
light of God coming through the icon,
radiating to those who pray before it.
Mary presents the essential
message of the Gospel: Jesus Christ’s
redeeming love for us. Through our
prayer and reading of the icon, we must
become messengers of God’s healing
love to the world, imitating the life and
virtues of Jesus and Mary. “For God so
loved the world that he gave his only
Son, so that everyone who believes in
him might not perish but might have
eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world might be saved
through him” (John 3:16–17).
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I Kings 19:9, 11-13 / Romans 9:1-5 / Matthew 14:22-33
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