St VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH
Rev. David L. Arle ~ Pastor
OFFICE:
13031 Palm Beach Blvd.
Fort Myers, FL 33905
TELEPHONE:
239-693-0818
FAX:
239-693-8459
E-MAIL:
[email protected]
WEBSITE:
www.stvincentftmyers.org
PARISH STAFF & EXT #
Business Manager
David Reigle
Bookkeeper
Letha Smith-Walsh
Parish Secretary
Mary Ellen Rossback
Adoration Society
Religious Education
303
302
300
327
306
Emergency Line
Press 4
Mass Schedule
Press 2
MASS SCHEDULE:
Saturday Evening Vigil:4:00PM
Sunday: 9:00AM, 11:00AM
Daily: Tuesday through Friday
9:00AM
RECONCILIATION: Saturday 3:00PM
OUR LADY’S CUPBOARD PANTRY:
694-3985
10 AM to Noon Monday - Wednesday
Friday - 2 to 4 PM
BAPTISMS:
Preparation class is required.
Call office for appointment.
MARRIAGE:
Please call office at least 6 months ahead
of time.
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MASS INTENTIONS
Sat
11/01
Sat
11/01
Sun
11/02
Sun
11/02
Mon
Tues
11/03
11/04
Wed
11/05
Thurs
11/06
Fri
11/07
Sat
11/08
Sun
11/09
Sun
11/09
November 1st—9th
9:00 AM
All Saint’s Day
People of the Parish
4:00 PM
Louis Ritchie Sr (RIP)
by Florence Ritchie
9:00 AM
All Souls Remembrance
by People of the Parish
11:00 AM
All Souls Remembrance
by People of the Parish
9:00 AM
No Communion Service
9:00 AM
Christof Stoehr (Living)
by Gisela Schwab
9:00 AM
M/M Frederick and
Virginia Korb (RIP)
by Gisela Schwab
9:00 AM
All Souls Remembrance
by People of the Parish
9:00 AM
All Souls Remembrance
by People of the Parish
4:00 PM
Priscilla Walling (RIP)
by Her Mother, Claire
Labonville
9:00 AM
Mary McCarthy (RIP)
by Mary Hilliard
11:00 AM
All Souls Remembrance
by People of the Parish
To schedule mass intentions for weekend and
weekday masses please contact the parish office
during the week. The 2015 calendar is available for
mass intentions.
COLLECTIONS 10/26/2014
OFFERTORY
$5,123.01
MORTGAGE REDUCTION
$2,532.00
CHILDREN’S
$14.76
Prayers 5 Good Works 0
Our Lady’s Cupboard Parish Pantry is open to help families in need
of food on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
The pantry is open
on Mondays & Wednesdays from
10 AM to noon and
Fridays 2 to 4:00 PM.
If you know of someone in need of food
please have them call 239-694-3985.
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DATES & TIMES TO REMEMBER
Sun
11/02
Mon
11/03
Mon
11/03
Tues
Sat
11/05
11/08
Sun
11/09
Sun
11/09
Martha & Mary’s Hospitality Room is
open after 9 AM Mass for coffee
Women’s Spirituality Group—7:30 PM
in the social hall
Knights of Columbus meeting—7:30 PM
in the social hall
AA Meeting in Hospitality Room - 8 PM
Women’s Spirituality Group’s Bake Sale
Saturday and Sunday after masses
Martha & Mary’s Hospitality Room is
open after 9 AM Mass for coffee BUT get
your goodies from the women’s
spirituality group’s bake sale today
Religious Education classes after 9 AM
Mass until 11:30 AM
MESSAGE FROM THE FLORIDA CATHOLIC...This
weekend is Florida Catholic Sunday. As Catholics
embark on a journey of faith, let the stories in the
Florida Catholic serve as an education and inspirational guide. Let us walk with you as you explore
your faith. Prayerfully consider subscribing to the
newspaper or offering a loved one a gift subscription. Printed editions are available for home delivery. e-edition is available for PCs, tablets, including
ipads. Subscribe online at
www.thefloridacatholic.org. or call 1 888 275 9953
Monday: Phil 2:1-4; Ps 131:1bcde-3; Lk 14:12-14
Tuesday: Phil 2:5-11; Ps 22:26b-32; Lk 14:15-24
Wednesday: Phil 2:12-18; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14;
Lk 14:25-33
Thursday: Phil 3:3-8a; Ps 105:2-7; Lk 15:1-10
Friday:
Phil 3:17 -- 4:1; Ps 122:1-5; Lk 16:1-8
Saturday: Phil 4:10-19; Ps 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a, 9;
Lk 16:9-15
Sunday:
Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9;
1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17; Jn 2:13-22
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“WHAT MAKES A CATHOLIC ‘CATHOLIC’?”
Adult men of all ages and parishes in Lee County are invited to our upcoming event on Thursday, November 13,
2014, at the Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord. Reverend Patrick Manning, Chair of the Theology Department
at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, will be our
guest speaker. His topic, “What Makes a Catholic
‘Catholic’?” promises to be both interesting and informative!
Pizza & refreshments ($10 donation) will begin at 6 PM.
Reservations are requested by email
([email protected]) or by contacting local
parishioner, Jack Quinlan at 810-434-3406. Please visit
www.faithandale.com/fort-myers
SEASON DATES & SPEAKERS
December 11, 2014
January 15, 2015
February 19, 2015
March 19, 2015
April 16, 2015
Rev. Tom Heck-Pastor,
St. Therese, N. Fort Myers, FL
Michael Reese-Bishop Verot H.S.,
Theology Dept. Chair
Dale Ahlquist-American
Chesterton Society
Jim Towey-President, Ave Maria
University
Rev. George Ratzmann-Pastor,
St. William, Naples, FL
In November we honor our
veterans, young and old.
We will have a display to
honor our veterans and will
celebrate our veterans on
November 16th at the
9 o’clock mass.
Please bring a picture of your veteran in
uniform, we do not need your pictures in
frames, but if you want your pictures
back please put your name and phone
number on the back. Bring your pictures
next weekend when you come to mass.
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November
8th & 9th
Next weekend is the
women’s spirituality
group’s bake sale. If you
are able please bake
something for the sale
and drop off before
mass when you come next weekend.
The women are raffling two handcrafted lap
quilts. The third item is a beautiful countedcross-stitch of butterflies. Get
your tickets now, donation
$1.00 per ticket or $5.00 for
6 tickets.
First ticket drawn has their
pick of the three prizes!
The ladies have the two quilts
and the cross-stitch on display
outside after masses.
Friday November 7th is First Friday of
the Month. Adoration of the Blessed
Sacrament begins at 7:00 AM and
concludes at the start of the 9 o’clock
daily mass. All are welcome to spend
some time in prayer.
The Commemoration of
All the Faithful Departed
(All Souls' Day)
November 2, 2014
If we have died with Christ,
we believe we shall also live
with him.
-- Romans 6:8
His Holiness, Pope Francis
Apostolic Palace
00120 Vatican City
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Grrrowl ...help keep kids stomachs from making this sound
Our Lady’s Cupboard fighting hunger Demand rising;
supplies dwindling as holidays approach at jet speed..Thanksgiving
just weeks away
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♦ Donating is as easy as filling a shopping bag and bringing it along when you come to Mass.
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♦ Call ahead and ask if there are any shortages of certain items or special needs at the moment.
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♦ Call ahead and let us know if your donation requires any special effort such as moving heavy boxes.
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♦ Please make sure your product is nonperishable, however we do accept some perishable items which
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♦ Check to make sure no one in your family opened the product and used some of it.
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♦ Drop you donation off during pantry hours (see below) if it’s more convenient.
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♦ If you arrive after the pantry closes, do not leave the food by the door, either take to the parish office or
need special handling. Please call the parish office for details and arrangements.
bring on the weekend and leave in the back of the church.
PANTRY HOURS & PHONE NUMBER 239 694 3985
10 am to Noon – Monday and Wednesday and 2 pm to 4 pm -- Friday
Here’s what’s needed at Our Lady’s Cupboard Pantry
canned fruit
canned meats
canned veggies
cereal
dry beans
dry milk
evaporated milk
grits
macaroni & cheese
pancake mix
pasta
powdered potatoes
peanut butter/jelly
ready to eat meals
rice (white & brown)
snacks
soap/shampoo
soup
spaghetti sauce
stuffing
tuna
toilet paper
toiletries
baby food/formula
GATHER TODAY! to help support Our Lady’s Food Pantry
Gathering tips: Ask friends to make a donation to attend a wine and cheese party at your home
♦ Shop for BOGOs
♦ Fast one meal a week, use savings for food
♦ Save spare change each month to buy food
♦ Set a personal goal to help each week or month
♦ Check your cupboard for unused products
♦ Hold a garage sale and put profits into food
♦ Ask neighbors/friends for donations from their shelves
♦ Share a talent or skill in exchange for food donations
♦ Ask employers or organizations to put how-to-help information on a bulletin board or in their
newsletters
♦ Pick a new item from the above list to donate each week.
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From the Pastor’s Desk:
My Dear Brothers and Sisters and Visitors:
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about what one person could do to help bring world peace. Certainly that sounds
like an impossible undertaking and a fool’s reflection. But then I tell myself it has to start somewhere with someone. Also,
since my earliest recollections I have been taught that with God “all things are possible”. And I think that is actually the
crux of all the problems we are experiencing in the world today; we’ve forgotten or removed the “with God” part of the
equation.
I decided to do some research into what some of the great saints and contemporaries of our time who I admire have to
say about peace.
Mother Theresa: The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace.
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at; do it for peace. Let us radiate the peace of God and
so light His light and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.
Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child
is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks
and generals?
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families.
If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
Today, nations put too much effort and money into defending their borders. They know very little about the poverty and
the suffering that exist in the countries where those bordering on destitution live. If they would only defend these defenseless people with food, shelter, and clothing, I think the world would be a happier place.
The poor must know that we love them, that they are wanted. They themselves have nothing to give but love. We are concerned with how to get this message of love and compassion across. We are trying to bring peace to the world through
our work. But the work is the gift of God.
Pope Francis I: From the beginning, Jesus takes up the plan of the Father, acknowledging its primacy over all else. But
Christ, with his abandonment to death for love of the Father, becomes the definitive and new principle of us all; we are
called to regard ourselves in him as brothers as sisters, inasmuch as we are children of the same Father. He himself is
the Covenant; in his person we are reconciled with God and with one another as brothers and sisters. Jesus’ death on the
Cross also brings an end to the separation between peoples, between the people of the Covenant and the people of the
Gentiles, who were bereft of hope until that moment, since they were not party to the pacts of the Promise. As we read in
the Letter to the Ephesians, Jesus Christ is the one who reconciles all people in himself. He is peace, for he made one
people out of the two, breaking down the wall of separation which divided them, that is, the hostility between them. He
created in himself one people, one new man, one new humanity (cf. 2:14-16).All who accept the life of Christ and live in
him acknowledge God as Father and give themselves completely to him, loving him above all things. The reconciled person sees in God the Father of all, and, as a consequence, is spurred on to live a life of fraternity open to all. In Christ, the
other is welcomed and loved as a son or daughter of God, as a brother or sister, not as a stranger, much less as a rival or
even an enemy. In God’s family, where all are sons and daughters of the same Father, and, because they are grafted to
Christ, sons and daughters in the Son, there are no “disposable lives”. All men and women enjoy an equal and inviolable
dignity. All are loved by God. All have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, who died on the Cross and rose for all. This
is the reason why no one can remain indifferent before.
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Pope Paul VI: We believe this is demanded by Our duty as universal Pastor; because We see Peace to be threatened so
seriously and with intimations of terrible events, which may prove catastrophic for entire nations, and perhaps even for a
great part of mankind; because, during the latest years of our century's history it has finally become clearly evident that
Peace is the only true direction of human progress - and not the tensions caused by ambitious nationalisms, nor conquests by violence, nor repressions which serve as mainstay for a false civil order - We do so because Peace is part and
parcel of the Christian religion, since for a Christian to proclaim peace is the same as to announce Jesus Christ: "He is our
peace" (Eph. ii. 14) and His good news is "the Gospel of peace" (Eph. vi. 15).
Through His Sacrifice on the Cross, He brought about universal reconciliation, and we, as His followers, are called to be
"peacemakers" (Mt. v. 9). In fine, it is only from the Gospel that there can spring forth true Peace, not in order to make
men dull and soft, but to replace the impulses to violence and bullying in their minds, by the manly virtues of reasoning and
heart characteristic of true humanism. We do so, finally, because We would not wish ever to be rebuked by God and by
history for having kept silence in the face of the danger of a new conflagration between peoples, which, as all know, could
take on sudden forms of apocalyptic awfulness.
Men must always speak of Peace. The world must be educated to love Peace, to build it up and defend it. Against the resurgent preludes to war (nationalistic competition, armaments, revolutionary provocations, racial hatred, the spirit of revenge, etc.), and also against the snares of tactical pacifism, intended to drug the enemy one must overcome, to smother
in men's minds the meaning of justice, of duty and of sacrifice - we must arouse in the men of our time and of future generations the sense and love of Peace founded upon truth, justice, freedom and love the lot of our brothers and sisters.
Pope John XXIII: A peaceful man does more good than a learned one. The true and solid peace of nations consists not in
the equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The world will never be the dwelling place of peace, till peace has found a home in the heart of each and every man, till
every man preserves in himself the order ordained by God to be preserved. That is why St. Augustine asks the question:
"Does your mind desire the strength to gain the mastery over your passions? Let it submit to a greater power, and it will
conquer all beneath it. And peace will be in you—true, sure, most ordered peace. What is that order? God as ruler of the
mind; the mind as ruler of the body. Nothing could be more orderly."
The Dali Lama: When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the
same sad news: violence, crime, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible
happening somewhere. Even in these modern times it is clear that one's precious life is not safe. No former generation has
had to experience so much bad news as we face today; this constant awareness of fear and tension should make any
sensitive and compassionate person question seriously the progress of our modern world.
It is ironic that the more serious problems emanate from the more industrially advanced societies. Science
and technology have worked wonders in many fields, but the basic human problems remain. There is
unprecedented literacy, yet this universal education does not seem to have fostered goodness, but only mental restlessness and discontent instead. There is no doubt about the increase in our material progress and technology, but somehow
this is not sufficient as we have not yet succeeded in bringing about peace and happiness or in overcoming suffering.
We can only conclude that there must be something seriously wrong with our progress and development, and if we do not
check it in time there could be disastrous consequences for the future of humanity. I am not at all against science and
technology - they have contributed immensely to the overall experience of humankind; to our material comfort and wellbeing and to our greater understanding of the world we live in. But if we give too much emphasis to science and technology we are in danger of losing touch with those aspects of human knowledge and understanding that aspire towards honesty and altruism.
As one brought up in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, I feel that love and compassion are the moral fabric of world peace.
Let me first define what I mean by compassion. When you have pity or compassion for a very poor person, you are showing sympathy because he or she is poor; your compassion is based on altruistic considerations. On the other hand, love
towards your wife, your husband, your children, or a close friend is usually based on attachment. When your attachment
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changes, your kindness also changes; it may disappear. This is not true love. Real love is not based on attachment, but on
altruism. In this case your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.
This type of compassion is what we must strive to cultivate in ourselves, and we must develop it from a limited amount to
the limitless. Undiscriminating, spontaneous, and unlimited compassion for all sentient beings is obviously not the usual
love that one has for friends or family, which is alloyed with ignorance, desire, and attachment. The kind of love we should
advocate is this wider love that you can have even for someone who has done harm to you: your enemy.
Fr. David: I believe the answer to world peace is boldly visible in the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Love. We even symbolize
that requirement on the front steps of our church. “What-so-ever you do to the least of my brothers and sisters; that you do
unto me”.
Love, Fr. David
GO GREEN...WE RECYCLE
NEWSPAPER RECYCLE BIN: White Paper,
Magazines and Catalogs can now be recycled in our red &green recycle bin in addition to the newspapers. Please be sure not
to put any plastic bags in the bin when you
drop off your papers.
Reminder to turn in your All Souls Envelopes with the names of your loved
ones to be remembered in all
the masses from
All Souls Day
until the mass on
Thanksgiving
Day.You can
drop the envelopes in next
week’s collection basket or drop off at
the office during the week.
The names of your loved ones are added to our Books of Remembrance for
our families and friends.
Aluminum cans - Bin is in the white fenced
area behind the social
hall.
Printer Ink Cartridges &
Cell Phones: In cabinet in
back of church, by the
sound booth.