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St. Paul Roman Catholic Parish Fort McMurray
480 Signal Road, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 4R7
780-791-4305; ; Fax: 587-258-6898 Visit us: Website at www.stpaulparishwb.com
Email: [email protected]
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Staff
Parish Priest
Fr. Reddy [email protected]
Assistant Priest
Fr. Jestoni Porras [email protected]
Bro. Jayson [email protected]
Parish Secretary: Janet Alipio [email protected]
Liturgy Schedule Monday-Thursday
Rosary & Mass 8:40 am Friday 12 Hours Adoration 9:00am –
9:00pm and Mass at 7:00pm
Weekend Masses
Saturday 7:00 pm Sunday 9 am & 11 am
RCIA- Every Wednesday at 7pm at St. Paul’s Church
THANK YOU for your donation made to St. Paul Parish. June 23rd and
24th , 2018 General collections $4,576.
God has chosen you as a true witness to Christ, the Good Shep-herd. May He endow you with wisdom and ever deepening holi-ness as you guide the flock entrusted to your loving care. Con-gratulations on Your Ordination Deacon Joe!
From St. Paul Parish Staff
BAPTISM Baptism preparation on every third Tuesday of the month. Next one will be held on July 17th at 7 pm at St. Paul Church. And The Sacrament of Baptism will be celebrated on weekend masses Saturday 7pm, Sunday 9:00 am and 11:00 am. in St. Paul Church.
Welcome all to Shalom retreat 2018 Fort McMurray:
" A Catholic Charismatic Retreat that will shine the light of Christ into your heart and lead you
to forgiveness, freedom, and healing". by Shalom Media Ministry.
For more info about the ministry please visit www.shalommedia.org
and www.shalomworldtv.org
Retreat Dates: From July 06-08
Retreat Venue: Fr. Turcotte School Retreat Schedule: 8.30 a.m- 9.00 am Registration each Day
Retreat : 9.00 a.m to 6.00 pm
Register now to reserve your seat Registration is free, Donations are welcome
Lunch and light refreshments will be provided
Fill up Registration Form and hand it to any of the Parish Offices
or Register Online: www.shalommedia.org/retreat/fortmcmurray
or Contact : 780 370 2883
This summer the 9:00 am morn-
ing mass will be celebrated in
the evening at 7:00 pm starting
on July 2nd until August 31st,
2018 .
Parish Office Hours for this summer:
Tuesday until Thursday
9:00am-4:00pm.
Friday 9:00am till 12:00 noon.
Sunday Reflection By Dn. Raymond Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B - Love conquers Death July 1, 2018
God does not plan our death or suffering; since the fall, we must face suffering and death with faith that love conquers all. The first reading of this Sunday from Wisdom is (Wisdom 1:13, 2:24) abundantly clear: “God did not make death, and He does not delight in the death of the living.” Cancer, miscarriage and all kinds of tragedy are not God’s plan. He grieves with us in our losses and sufferings of every kind. It is “the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who belong to his company experience it.”
Angels were created before humans. They were given free will. They could choose God or reject Him. Some angels in their pride attempted to make themselves equal to God. St Michael the Archangel, whose name means "Who is equal to God?" defeated them, and banned Satan from any contact with the Lord of Life. Satan went from being Lucifer, the name that means God's light bearer, to the Prince of Darkness. Satan could not defeat God's angels, but he could make war on God’s most beautiful creation, man. He tried to destroy mankind with the same sin that he com-mitted: the sin of envy and pride.
We just finished watching a Singapore Chinese drama on cookery “Served H.O.T.” (燒賣). The story is about
three young men who promised the owner of a small eatery before she died to continue running it. With the help of a young lady and the coaching of her dad, a once famous chef, they team up together and become good chefs. Their mission is to serve customers with good foods giving them joy. They not just put tastes into their cooking but their feel-ing and hearts as well. One of the young men actually comes from a restaurant enterprise family. His older brother envies him for his talents and bullies him because he is afraid of losing the inheritance of the family business. The great success of the small eatery deepens the envy. He tries hard to wound the team by hiring bullies to beat up one
of the young men (who makes yummy cha siu 叉燒 Chinese style BBQ pork) into coma, poisons his younger brother to
lose his taste buds, prevents the eatery from placing ads, exerts pressure on gourmet journalists on good honest re-ports and forces some reporters to resign. He even tries to bribe the third young men forcing the restaurant into bank-ruptcy. Finally, he convinces the daughter of the previous owner to sell the restaurant to him. He claims to be a superi-or, perfect, flawless cook. In reality, he is impervious to criticism and ignores cooking ethics. At the end, his dad finds out his deeds and scolds him for serving the customers with second class foods in order to make money. He is full of anger and challenges his younger brother to a cooking competition but lost. Even with all these, his younger brother still loves him and forgives everything he had done. For he understood his bigger brother is suffering too: loneliness with no friends, senior chefs despise him, young chefs don’t like to work with him, his wife controls everything. Envy, fear, material goods become the devil, the poisonous snake almost destroy the brotherhood relationship. This drama is not a religious story. God is never mentioned but it reflects Love and Forgiveness. Our abundance or want in life are not measured by our prestige, wealth or material goods but by our nearness to God. In the Gospel reading (Mark 5:21-43), God reveals himself as the giver of all that is good and the one who sustains our lives with His love. He heals our wounds, as Jesus did with those he encountered on "the other side" of the lake. Today's liturgy invites us to be grateful and share our gratitude with all especially the poor among us. As Fr. Jhack said in one of his homilies: “Gratitude is the best attitude.”
God is radically committed to our freedom but also to the gift of creating life. In spite of Satan continually creat-ing sins, suffering and death, God continues to love His creation and human beings are a part of it. For reasons we will not know on this side of heaven, God still believes life is worth giving to us as a gift. He sent His Son to live
through it with us, and to have victory over death in the Resurrection. Whatever suffering we are walking through, God does not delight in it, and He did not plan it. But He will walk through it with us and work Resurrection out of it. That is the promise of abundant, eternal life.
Bishop Paul of our Diocese just ordained four new Permanent Deacon on Friday, Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. Thanks for the blessings and friends’ support. my wife and I were able to travel to St. Paul to attend and stayed overnight in a nice hotel, the first time since the stroke. With the first group of 8 ordained 11years ago starting to phase out due to health or age, we will have new blood called to embody the image of Christ the servant. They represent the church in the community, and at Sunday Mass. Like St. John the Baptist, the Nativity we celebrated last Sunday, they herald the coming of Jesus, the way, the truth and the life to all the people of the world. Like Jesus, they will serve others by washing their feet and proclaiming the good news by preaching. They bring the needs of the community to the attention of the church. The dual role in parish and community makes deacons ideal for “connecting the dots.” Deacons Believe what they read, preach what they believe, and practise what they preach.
St. Paul & St. John Catholic Parishes Fort McMurray
12 Hours Adoration Every Friday
St. Paul’s Catholic Church From 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Canceled for this Summer. Resume on September 7th.
Contact : Syriac & Celin 780 - 370 - 2883
Looking for volunteers for Shalom re-
treat:
July 5th Thursday evening 5pm-8 p.m
Friday, July 6th- 6pm-8pm Saturday, July 7th - 6pm-8pm
Sunday, July 8th - 6-8 pm
If you would like to volunteer please contact Celin
780 370 2883
or email [email protected]
Prayer for the Newly Ordained Deacons.
Let us pray for the four newly ordained Per-manent Deacons: Deacon Greg Ouel-lette, Deacon Ryan Sales, Deacon Mitch Goulet, Deacon Joe Simangan: as they
begin their ministry and service to the Church; may their acts of goodness and generosity lead the faithful closer to Christ. We pray to the Lord.
Reminder
CWL or Catholic Women’s League monthly meeting will be held on July 2nd at 6:30pm at St.
Paul Church’s Hall.
Vacation Bible School will be running this sum-mer on three separate weekends. July 16-20, July 30- August 3 & August 13-17. Children ages 4-11 are welcome to come out from 8:45-11:30 on those days for a morning of faith, fun and food. The cost is $5 a week and children can attend one, two or
all three weeks as they will all have a different theme. We are also looking for adult and youth
volunteers to help out. Volunteering includes help-ing set up and take down, adults can lead the sta-
tions and youth can lead small groups. For more information or to volunteer please contact
Rebecca @ [email protected]
