All Saints Pastoral Unit Bulletin – October 12, 2014

All Saints Pastoral Unit Bulletin – October 12, 2014
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christ the King, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. John the Baptist
Pastoral Centre 390 High St., New Glasgow B2H 2X7
Phone: 695-3433 Fax: 752-0805
Email: allsaint@eastlink.ca Fr. Gary MacPherson: 695-3107
Email: fathergary@eastlink.ca
Website: www.aspu.ca
Weekend Eucharist
Saturday
4pm Christ the King
6pm St. John the Baptist
forms can be put in the collection
basket or dropped off at the pastoral
office.
Sunday
9:30am St. John the Baptist
11:30am Our Lady of Perpetual
Help
All Saints Weekday Eucharist
Tuesday
6:30pm Ivey’s Terrace Nursing
Home, Trenton
Wednesday
9am St. John the Baptist
Deanery
Weekday Eucharist
Our Lady of Lourdes
Mon, Wed, Fri-9am
Tues, Thurs-6:30pm
Holy Name, Westville
Mon, Wed-9am
Stella Maris, Pictou
Tues-6:30pm
Christ the King
Collection ………………. $943.21
Fuel Jar ………………..
26.05
Donation …………….
20.00
St. John the Baptist
Collection...................... $2,452.00
Cemetery Offering........
500.00
Needs of Can Church...
25.00
Faith Formation Offering
25.00
St. John the Baptist Liturgy
Committee will meet next
Sunday, October 19, at 1:30pm
in All Saints Pastoral Centre
Meeting Room.
Confirmation
Please note The Sacrament of
Confirmation will be celebrated
December 3, 7pm with Bishop Brian
Dunn presiding. Confirmation
Parent meeting will be Tuesday,
October 21, 7pm and enrollment for
Confirmation will be Saturday,
October 25 at 6pm Mass. Sessions
begin Sunday, October 26, 7pm St.
John’s Hall. Confirmation registration
sheets can be found in the
Gathering Area of Christ the King,
Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St.
John the Baptist and the completed
Teens who are in Grades 9-12
are invited to meet over pizza for
an opportunity to form an actionoriented youth group within the
Pictou County Deanery. Plans
will be discussed as to how this
can go forward and we are
looking forward to input from
you. Please join us Monday,
October 20 at 6pm in All Saints
Pastoral Centre Meeting Room
and bring your friends!
by June 2015. Upcoming tasks
include fact finding to get an
accurate picture of our present
status; arranging a public
meeting to present these facts
and seek input from parishioners;
drafting a proposal for the future
and presenting it at a public
meeting for further comment;
and finally writing a proposal for
submission to the Bishop for
action.
Would you list at least three
things you are grateful for?
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Father Gary is inviting
individuals to have some coffee
and a time of prayer reflecting on
the Sunday Gospel for the week.
This is to be held on Saturday
mornings in the Meeting Room
of the Pastoral Centre beginning
next Saturday October 18 from
9:30am-10:30am. We will be
reading the Gospel passage for
that Sunday and reflecting on it
until it becomes like a mirror in
which we see ourselves, our lives
and our world reflected, and then
responding to God in prayer.
Office of the Bishop
Please see the letter from Bishop
Brian Dunn on the bulletin
boards of each church regarding
the first anniversary of our
Diocesan Renewal Congress.
Pictou Deanery Pastoral
Planning Committee
Parish representatives along with
Fr. Colin MacKinnon met with
Bishop Brian Dunn and Fr.
Donald MacGillivray on October
6 to establish the guidelines for
Pastoral Planning in Pictou
County. The committee will be
meeting regularly over the
coming months with the goal of
having a plan for implementation
Happy Thanksgiving Day
from
All Saints Pastoral Unit!
World Mission Sunday
Every parish across the world
will celebrate World Mission
Sunday next week. It is a global
sign of the Universal Church and
Mission. Your prayers and
donations will help support
churches, hospitals, schools and
vocations in countries where the
Church is beginning, where it is
new. Please be as generous as
possible to the collection for the
Propagation of the Faith, for
more than 1,120 dioceses in
Asia, Africa, Latin America, the
Pacific Islands and some of our
Canadian dioceses depend on the
World Mission collection.
Next Sunday
The Shining Lights - An
evening of music, like none
other, is promised at 7pm on Oct.
19 at St. John the Baptist
Church. You will be able to
meet, hear and sing along with a
group called “The Shining
Lights. “ What is so unique
about this group is that the
members have either been
homeless or at the risk of being
homeless. They are coming
from Halifax and there is no
other group like this except in
Montreal. How come they are
coming to New Glasgow? The
Sisters and the Shining Lights
have been invited by St. John the
Baptist Parish. The Parish and
its various ministry groups have
been very supportive of those
who struggle with the injustice
of poverty through the Street
Ministry of the Sisters of St.
Martha. These singers are friends
of this ministry and one of the
Sisters sings with them. Do not
let money keep you away from
this special event!!!! There is no
cost for this concert. However,
if you wish, a donation can be
made to the Street Ministry of
the Sisters of St. Martha.
What: The Shining Lights
Concert
When: next Sunday
Oct 19 7pm
Where: St. John the Baptist Church
Ham & Salad Supper
Knights of Columbus Council
1667 are holding their semiannual Ham and Salad Supper
next Saturday, October 18, at
Christ the King Parish Hall,
Trenton. Cut off date is October
14. Cost $7. Take-out only
between 10:30 and noon.
Contact any member of KOC
Council 1667.
KOC New Glasgow Council
1667 will have their regular
monthly meeting this Tuesday
October 14 at 7pm in Christ the
King Hall.
Thank-you Heartfelt thanks to
all CWL members and
parishioners who helped make
last weekend’s Bake Sale such a
huge success. Monies raised are
being donated to the St. Vincent
de Paul Society.
ANTIGONISH COMMUNITY
GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
As we go through life, loss in its
many forms can cause very
difficult challenges. An
8-week grief support program
is being offered to help people
walk through the grief process
as they encounter a most difficult
and painful yet normal
experience.
NEXT GROUP: Beginning
Monday,Oct.20 to
Monday,Dec.08, 2014
7 to 9pm. St. Ninian Place
No Fee - To Register contact
facilitators:
Gladys MacDougall,
902-863-1375 or Mica Francis,
902-863- 6221 or
macdougallgladys@gmail.com All
are warmly welcome!
Challenge Retreats
There will be two Challenge
Retreat weekends for young
adults between the ages of 15 to
20 held this fall. The 116th
Young Women's Challenge
weekend will be Nov 7,8 & 9
and the 76th Young Men's
Challenge will be the weekend of
Nov. 21, 22 and 23. These
weekends will be taking place at
Camp Breton Dean in Hillside
Mira. Anyone wishing to attend
or work these weekends can
contact Elaine MacLeod,
Challenge Lay Director, at 902
794-2596 or email
fmacleod@ns.sympatico.ca.
These action-packed weekends
are at time of personal and
spiritual growth which have seen
hundreds of young people attend
through the years. See you
there!
Ultreya
There will be an Ultreya at
Sr. Catherine Steele Centre in
Lourdes next Wednesday,
October 22, at 7:30pm.
Riverview Volunteer
Association The annual
campaign for Riverview Homes
is underway. Please take one of
the brochures at the back or side
of your church. Your past
donations have made a big
difference in the lives of the
residents at Riverview Home.
Please help this weekend by
dropping coins in the jars in your
church. Every donation is
appreciated!
Please keep in your prayers
this week Little Harbour
Presbyterian Church, Little
harbour and their Congregation.
Questions Catholics ask
Is the Mass a holy sacrifice or
celebration? When I celebrate, I
don’t think of it as a sacrifice,
and vice versa. Ancient religious
sacrifices, however, were both:
part obligatory expense, part
festival. The use of the phrase
the “holy sacrifice of the Mass”
is rooted in this earlier
understanding. Jewish shrine
and temple worship could be a
messy affair. Because the
covenant with God involved
blood, the word sacrifice was not
misused. But when people gather
together, it’s time to party, and
the good news at these events far
outweighed the bad for
participants. Personal and
communal sin was expiated:
We’re back in the black on
God’s books. What better reason
to eat, drink, and be merry?
By the time of Jesus late Judaism
had already begun to steer away
from the idea that ritual sacrifice
was what God wanted.
Obedience and fidelity could be
symbolized by the ritual moment
but should not originate or end
there. The “sacrifice of praise”
was pleasing to God, as were
hearts uplifted and whole lives
rendered to God’s service.
The Roman Catholic Council of
Trent in 1562 took pains both to
affirm that the Eucharist is the
“unbloody” sacrifice of that
same Jesus and to clarify that his
self-offering is not repeated but
“made present” in every
Eucharist. What better reason to
celebrate?
–Alice L. Camille
Christ the King
Ministry Schedule
Saturday, October 18
Altar Server
Marliene MacGillivray
Reader
Rosemary Gillis-Bowers
Ministers of Holy Communion
(B) Marion MacKenzie
(C) Rose McTague
Gift Bearers
Mary Fraser
Marlene Martin
St. John the Baptist Parish Ministry
Schedule for
October 18/19
Readers
Saturday: George Manos
Marie MacKay
Sunday: Del Atwood
Jacob Brown
Altar Servers
Saturday: Jason Purnoko
Ivan Willis
Justin Purnoko +
Sunday: Rebecca DeCoste
Abby Moir
Hailie Eisan +
Ministers of Holy Communion
Saturday: Pat Gillis
Clinton Keay
Kimball Lucas
Sunday: Becky Grant
Jan Hodgson
Gary Hollett
Gift Bearers
Saturday: Oscar & Carina Baldeveia
Sunday: Mary & Al Sutherland
Ministers of Hospitality
Saturday Carina Baldeveia
Oscar Baldeveia (ramp)
Sunday
Philip Eisan
Peggy Eisan
Robert Simpson (ramp)
The Pastoral
Office will be
closed this
Monday for the
Thanksgiving
Holiday.