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LAKE HURON CATHOLIC FAMILY OF PARISHES EXETER—GODERICH—GRAND BEND—MT. CARMEL—ST. JOSEPH—ZURICH
SUNDAY, OCT. 11, 2020 — 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
PASTORAL TEAM PASTOR: REV. ANTOINE (TONY) LAFORET
ASSOCIATE PASTORS: REV. MATTHEW GEORGE AND REV. VINCE GULIKERS PASTORAL WORKER: LISA MASELLI
DEACONS: JOHN LAMMERS, BRIAN MCDONALD, FRED TRUCHON
PARISH STAFF
BUSINESS MANAGER: JIM VAN LANEN SECRETARIES/RECEPTIONISTS: TINA BOUTILIER AND JANE LANSBERGEN
BOOKKEEPERS/RECEPTIONISTS: KAREN KESTER AND LORI LAPORTE
OFFICE HOURS
MONDAY—CLOSED
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY
8:30 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M.
OFFICE INFORMATION 156 NORTH ST.
GODERICH, ONTARIO N7A 2V3
TEL. 519-524-8174 [email protected] WWW.LHCFP.DOL.CA
OFFICE LOCATED GODERICH
22 MARY ST.
ZURICH, ONTARIO N0M 2T0
TEL. 519-236-4191 [email protected]
[email protected] WWW.BLUEWATER.DIONET.CA
OFFICE LOCATED ZURICH
69219 BRONSON LINE RR 8
PARKHILL, ON
N0M 2K0 TEL. 519-237-3593
[email protected] WWW.OLMCPB.DOL.CA
OFFICE LOCATED MT. CARMEL
WEEKEND MASSES
GODERICH
SATURDAY 5:00 P.M. SUNDAY 11:00 A.M.
GRAND BEND
SATURDAY 5:00 P.M. SUNDAY 8:30 A.M.
ZURICH
SATURDAY 5:00 P.M.
SUNDAY 8:30 A.M.
EXETER SUNDAY 8:30 A.M.
MOUNT CARMEL
SUNDAY 11:00 A.M.
ST. JOSEPH
SUNDAY 11:00 A.M.
PRAYER LINE REQUESTS
The Story of My Life
Hello everyone! Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself to the wider community of our Family of Parishes. I am the sixth child of Bruce and Shirley George of Delhi, a little tobacco town down by Lake Erie. (Prior to that, my family was military, so my siblings had a very difficult experience of growing up.) Dad taught history and English in the local high school, so we kept up on everything! (Before the internet, we had four daily newspapers and six weeklies delivered to our house: it was literally read, or be crushed)!
We were all served by the priests in Delhi and Fr. Mike Dalton was a friend of the family and a hero of mine. I told my grade 1 teacher I wanted to be a priest and that sentiment remained with me my entire life. (While most vocations are happening later in life like marriage, I went off to the Seminary at 18, too young to drink)! I served my internship/diaconate at St. Clair Beach, a suburb of Windsor. I was an Associate Pastor at Our Lady Help of Christians in Wallaceburg for two years, with two years at St. Justin’s in London to follow. My first placement as a pastor was five years at St. Mary’s, Tillsonburg. After asking for more than ten years, I was allowed to go to the Missions: two years at Watson Lake, in the Diocese of Whitehorse. While there, I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and so I returned to London for treatment. Following the surgery, (permanent colostomy and ileul conduit) I filled in at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Windsor, while the pastor was having by-pass surgery. After nine months there, I was appointed to St. Boniface in Zurich and St. Peter’s in St. Joseph.
Growing up, my family was very involved in Pro-Life and other justice issues: as a priest, I have served as the chaplain to the Catholic Rural Life Conference and the Diocesan Development and Peace Committee; as director of the Mission Office and currently, as a member of the Ecumenical Commissions.
When it comes to recreations, I like to think of myself as an outdoorsman: my family camped each summer and I had 10 years in the Scouting Movement as Cub, Scout, Venturer and a Cub leader.
I look forward to meeting more parishioners God willing when our epidemic ends. Until then, we’ll probably meet at an Adult Faith Development event: while I’ve tried to avoid becoming a teacher like my father and brothers, you cannot escape some of this stuff!
Thank you to all the volunteers and people in the pews who have gone out of their way to introduce themselves and make me feel welcome in our Family of Parishes!
God Bless, Fr. Matthew George
Employment Opportunity
We are looking to hire a cook./housekeeper for the rectory in Goderich. This position would be 2-3 days/week. If you are interested in this position please call the parish offices or email Fr. Antoine (Tony) Laforet: [email protected]
October Office Notations
The Zurich office location will be CLOSED on Tues., Oct. 13.
The Goderich office location will be CLOSED on Friday, Oct. 16.
The Mt. Carmel office location will be CLOSED Fri., Oct. 20 — 23.
Reaching out by Telephone
We are working on updating our parish data bases. In the near future, you will be contacted by someone from your parish to verify and update your contact information.
Sacristans
We are looking for Sacristans for all church sites. If you wish to become a Sacristan or would like more information, please contact Rev. Antoine (Tony) Laforet at [email protected]
New Parish Website
Please look for our new Lake Huron Catholic Family of Parishes website coming this Fall.
Sacramental Preparation
Please keep an eye on the bulletins for updates regarding sacramental preparation.
Bulletins
Due to Covid restrictions, we are unable to print bulletins for distribution. At this time, we may only offer on-line bulletins. If you wish to subscribe to the bulletin please visit www.lhcfp.dol.ca and sign-up to subscribe. In order to spread the news we encourage those who do receive the on-line bulletin to print a copy for someone without computer access. Let’s all help to spread the good news!
Parish Email
Effective immediately, we ask that all email correspondence be sent to: [email protected] Please note that emails are checked periodically throughout the day (Tuesday — Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF October 12 — 18, 2020 MONDAY: October 12 (We pray for Rev. Gregory Bonin) St. Boniface, Zurich — 9:00 a.m. Int. of Virginia Denomme — Kathryn Regier Joe Carroll — Kate & Michael Moriarty TUESDAY: October 13 (We pray for Rev. Francis (Jack) Hurley) St. Peter’s, St. Joseph — 12 p.m. Noon Int. of Ana & Jaime Cabral — Christa Ihrig Patrick Mihm — Elaine Mihm St. Peter’s, Goderich — 7:00 p.m. Carol Wilson — The Family WEDNESDAY: October 14 (We pray for Rev. Mukucha Kathemo) IHM, Grand Bend — 12 p.m. Noon Cathy McLennan — Jill Young St. Boniface, Zurich — 7:00 p.m. Kay Sharp — Warren & Helen Regier Tony Regier — Clarence & Joan Regier THURSDAY: October 15 (We pray for Deacon Charles Stillwell) St. Peter’s, Goderich — 9:00 a.m. Int. of Bernice Omahen — Fritz Family OLMC, Mt. Carmel — 7:00 p.m. Jane Gillespie — Bridget Ryan & Greg Petrie Tom & Mary Ryan — Joe & Lynn Ryan FRIDAY: October 16 (We pray for Deacon Gerald Clement) St. Boniface, Zurich — 9:15 a.m. Int. Richard & Rose Marie Rader Rev. Paul Mooney & dec. Fam. Mem. — Estate Precious Blood, Exeter — 12 p.m. Noon Harry Winters — The Family SATURDAY: October 17 (We pray for Rev. John Juhl, O.F.M. Cap.) St. Peter’s, Goderich — 9:00 a.m. Friends of Maria Lourenco — Maria SATURDAY: Oct. 17 — 29th Sun. in Ordinary Time IHM, Grand Bend — 5:00 p.m. St. Boniface, Zurich — 5:00 p.m. St. Peter’s, Goderich — 5:00 p.m. Our Parish Family SUNDAY: Oct. 18 — 29th Sun. in Ordinary Time IHM, Grand Bend — 8:30 a.m. Precious Blood, Exeter — 8:30 a.m. St. Boniface, Zurich — 8:30 a.m. Our Parish Family OLMC, Mt. Carmel — 11:00 a.m. St. Peter’s, Goderich — 11:00 a.m. St. Peter’s, St. Joseph — 11:00 a.m. Our Parish Family
Phone System
Please be advised that we have a new telephone system for our new Lake Huron Catholic Family of Parishes. We ask for your patience while we get accustomed to using this new telephone system. Your calls will be answered and then transferred to the appropriate person. We are trying our best to be efficient and as helpful as possible.
Blessings Foodbank—Zurich
A food drive is taking place during the month of October at Blessings in Zurich. In need are gift cards and canned meet. During Covid, we will not be collecting items through the churches, but items may be dropped off at Blessings.
Choir Notes
We are looking for a Choir Director and musicians for Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Grand Bend. For more information contact, Fr. Antoine (Tony) Laforet: [email protected]
Join Us for our first Alpha in our Family of
Parishes!
Alpha is a series of sessions to help you explore questions about God and faith in a welcoming environment. Anyone can attend - Catholic, Christian, or not! Bring friends and family! Alpha will run Online on Tuesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. for 8 weeks beginning this Tuesday, October 13. Contact Lisa Maselli to sign up at [email protected] or call 519-236-4191-x-225. If you are not familiar with using Zoom, let Lisa know and she will be happy to teach you.
St. Boniface C.W.L.
Congratulations and thank you to our members for their faithful years of service; Betty Grenier & Theresa Regier 70 years, Virginia Denomme & Marie Cyr-Whitney 65 years, Linda Regier 50 years, Loretta Ayotte 40 Years & Mary Earle 25 years. Membership Dues Collection for 2020: there will be a mail out to all members this year.
Catholic Register Please enjoy the following newsletter, as we find new ways to tell our stories of Faith as one Faith Community from Mt. Carmel to Goderich. https://liguori.uberflip.com/i/1293946-god-stories-c2010a/0?m4=
Confessions following Weekday Masses
Our priests are available to hear confessions following weekday Masses including Saturday morning Mass.
Directives for Attending Mass
For everyone’s safety we must adhere to the following direc-tives when attending Mass: 1. Please check your temperature and other symptoms
before leaving for church such as; an elevated tempera-ture, or are suffering from cough, sputum production, shortness of breath, undue fatigue, loss of appetite, muscle aching, runny nose, chills involving shakes, loss of taste or smell. Those who feel sick, are expected to stay home.
2. As per the Huron-Perth Public Health masks will be re-quired when entering the church.
3. You may bring your own container of water from home and have it blessed as we cannot offer holy water in the church.
4. Everyone will be seated in the church and due to fire regulations no one is permitted to stand at the back of the church.
5. Due to the need for physical distancing and the 30% capacity restriction, please use the clearly marked des-ignated seating areas. You will be ushered to your seat as you enter the church.
6. All our prayers and responses will be recited by the as-sembly at Mass. The Cantor will sing on behalf of those present.
7. The washrooms will be available for emergency purpos-es only. Please use your washroom at home before at-tending Mass.
8. During Mass, all other areas of the church will not be in use.
9. Copies of church bulletins will be emailed or may be found on the parish website. Please forward your email address to your parish office if you wish to subscribe to the on-line bulletin.
10. Collection/offertory will be received at the doors of the church as you exit. Thank you for your continued gen-erosity.
11. Please arrive well in advance to Mass as we must follow the necessary screening & sanitizing procedures that will take a few moments. Once we have reached maxi-mum capacity in the church, no further people will be allowed entry.
Following Mass, we ask that you to leave the church directly without gathering with other parishioners at the door or in the parking lot.
WEEKEND MASS REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
Grand Bend, St. Joseph & Zurich
Our online registration for our weekend Masses opens Wednesdays at 9 a.m. and closes once we reach our 30% capacity or Fridays at noon - whichever comes first.
You must register weekly for our weekend Masses.
Please visit our parish website and sign-up to attend the Mass of your choice or go to https://stpstbav.weebly.com/register.html.
If you are able to register as a social group that will help us with our seating. Please make sure you come to the church with your group so we are able to seat you together.
If you have registered for a Mass and then realize you are unable to attend please cancel your reg-istration or call the office and leave a message so we can free up your seat for someone else.
If we have reached our capacity or registration has closed for a weekend Mass please feel free to drop by the church before Mass as there may still be room to seat you once we have seated every-one who has registered.
Please help us by passing on this message. If you know someone who would like to attend Mass, but does not have access to the internet please have them call the office to register before Friday at noon. 519-236-4191 or 519-238-8556.
Goderich ALL those with email access are required to register on-line to attend Mass by visiting our parish
website.
https://stpetersgoderich.dionet.org/
Only those without email access may call the office (519-524-8174), press # 7 and leave a detailed message. Note: we currently do not have a working telephone system at this time. Please register only ONCE. How will I know if I am selected? When you are selected for a seat for Mass you will be contacted on Friday (8 days prior to the weekend in question) by email or voicemail. Please make note of the date of the Mass. You must acknowledge this contact by 11 a.m. of the next Tuesday. (Please do not call or email to see if you have a seat.) If you do not reply, your name will be removed and the seat offered to another group. Please confirm or decline promptly, as this requires a significant amount of time to coordinate. Please note that you CANNOT exchange/swap your reserved seat with another parishioner for a different Mass time/week due to the strict Covid-19 tracing guidelines. Everyone MUST register to attend Mass and face masks MUST be worn at Mass. We ask for everyone’s patience during this time. Exeter & Mt. Carmel Please remember to register for weekend Masses by Wednesday at 5 p.m.: [email protected] or call 519-237-3593. In your email please indicate which Mass you wish to attend, your name, the num-ber from your household who wish to attend and your phone number. You will receive an email noti-fication if you have been assigned a seat at Mass.
Pray with Us: Oct. 4 — 12
We invite you and your family to join brother Knights and fellow Catholics around the world in a Novena for the Cause of Life beginning on Sunday, Oct. 4, and ending on Mon-day, Oct. 12. Throughout these nine days, we will pray for an end to abortion, euthanasia and other social ills that result in broken families and unhappiness, and which threaten the most vulnerable. The novena calls upon the intercession of Our Lady and draws upon
unique quotes from the teachings of Pope Francis regarding the sanctity of all human life. Join brother Knights and their families to pray this novena for the defense of life and invite your pastor and fellow parishioners to do the same. By uniting in prayer, we’ll be able to stand up against — and ultimately defeat — threats against life.
A downloadable version of the novena can be found here. You can also sign up to receive a daily email, which will include the unique petitions for each of the nine days of the novena. Click here for details.
Christian hope is not the same thing as optimism, Optimism is a tendency to emphasize the good
part in a situation at the expense of noticing: the bad part, or the feeling that the future good things
are more likely to happen than bad things. In the thought of the German philosopher G.W. Leibniz,
optimism is the belief that we are already living in the best of all possible worlds.
Christian hope is very different. According to Thomas Aquinas, hope is the virtue that gives us confi-
dence that a very difficult and arduous task to be completed or a goal to be reached can be
achieved with the help of God's grace. So, Christian hope is fully aware of the difficulties that will
have to be fated to overcome a present injustice or evil. Christian hope also acknowledges our
weakness and the fact that only God's help will see us through. But Christian hope is also confident
that just as God's labours have empowered us in the past, so now God's faithfulness will not fail us.
This month, we enter into the final weeks of the liturgical year, and the Scriptures begin to be filled
with eschatological images of judgment and future victory. It is important that we approach these
images through the lens of Christian hope.
Isaiah and Jesus call us to confront the very real injustices and evils in our midst: racism, economic
injustice, colonialism, exclusion based on gender or orientation, among others. They call us to
acknowledge that God condemns all forms of persecution of the neighbour. We are to purify our
hearts of all these evils. They also present a vision of what a recreated and reconciled humanity will
look like, and they want us to hunger for the coming of that vision of the reign of God, to ache for
God's final eschatological wedding banquet. They speak confidently that just as God's labours have
empowered us in the past, so now God's faithfulness will not fail us. Like Isaiah's Servant, we are
given grace that enables us to participate in the coming of God's reign. This year has been filled
with many struggles and difficulties, enough to destroy any and all optimism. But Christian hope lib-
erates us to look reality in the face, to ask for the divine help we need, and to work alongside Jesus
as he labours to bring about a re-created and reconciled humanity. We may not see the eschatologi-
cal wedding banquet any time soon, but we are confident that the coming of God's reign is worth
the effort.
Gilles Mongreay. S. J.
Wishing everyone a safe and blessed Thanksgiving Weekend!
Family Financial Report
August 2020 Year to Date Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Donations/Receipts $8,400.01 $49,318.28 Expenses 5,730.02 58,256.52 Surplus/(Deficit) $2,669.99 ($8,938.24) Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Donations/Receipts $9,704.18 $62,167.73 Expenses 4,726.90 70,758.66 Surplus/(Deficit) $4,977.28 ($8,590.93) Precious Blood Church Donations/Receipts $9,982.38 $67,126.82 Expenses 5,161.87 68,412.13 Surplus/(Deficit) $ 4,820.51 ($1,285.31) St. Boniface Church Donations/Receipts $12,686.70 $87,688.42 Expenses 7,619.13 78,182.30 Surplus (Deficit) $5,067.57 $9,506.12 St. Peter’s Church, Goderich Donations/Receipts $20,148.20 $132,607.72 Expenses 27,171.02 138,598.01 Surplus (Deficit) ($7,022.82) ($5,990.29) St. Peter’s Church, St. Joseph Donations/Receipts $7,893.01 $47,282.42 Expenses 4,794.07 46,155.55 Surplus (Deficit) $3,098.94 $1,126.87 Note: All the Parishes in our Family have received financial relief from the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (~10-15% of Donations/Receipts). Without this assistance Parishes would in a worse situation. Please keep this in mind when planning your donations. Donations may be brought to weekend Masses, delivered to the parish offices or E-transferred to one of the addresses below: St. Peter's, Goderich - [email protected] St. Boniface - [email protected] St. Peter's, St. Joseph's - [email protected] Immaculate Heart of Mary - [email protected] Precious Blood - [email protected] Our Lady of Mount Carmel - [email protected] Or call the offices to set up automatic withdrawals. Thank you all for your generosity.
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