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St. Joseph Box 9 Balgonie, SK S0G 0E0 Ph: (306) 771-2387 Fax: (306) 771-4260 Hall: (306) 771-4202 [email protected] www.catholic-church.org/ stjosephbalgonie Pastoral Council: Joe Maierhoffer Ron Dielschneider Cheryl Behrns VACANT VACANT Rod Rieder Chairman Accountant/Treasurer Building & Grounds Parish Council Secretary James Siebert Laurier Donais Ed Fetsch Diane Fahlman Bulletin Editor Margaret Kiel Representatives: Adult & Youth Ministries Judith Cayer / Vacant CWL Judith Cayer, President Deanery Rep Rod Rieder Ecumenism Cheryl Behrns Knights of Columbus Blair Baller, Grand Knight Prayer Group Judith Cayer School of Religion Lori Donais Social Justice Ken Fahlman Church Hall Bookings: Trevor & Nicole Dech (771-4632) St. Agnes Box 367 Pilot Butte, SK S0G 3Z0 Ph: (306) 781-4499 Pastoral Council: Chairperson Kim Lang February 22, 2015 From the Pastor’s Desk…. Our Lenten journey has begun. What is this season all about? On Ash Wednesday, God calls us once again as his very own people, ‘Even now, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and nor your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful.’ Today, we remember the end of the story of Noah. God establishes a covenant with Noah and his sons, a covenant in which God commits to protect life from then on and to never again destroy all flesh. St. Peter reminds us that Christ suffered once and for all in order to bring us to God. Through baptism we are one with Christ and so we have hope to one day be with God at the right hand of God. So lent is that time we open ourselves up to everything that leads us to God. This is the time to repent and believe the Good News. It is the time to put into practice, in our lives, the Good News that we have received. That Good News is Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of Mark, we are simply told that Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness. There he spent forty days being tempted by Satan. At the end of that time Jesus came forth and proclaimed, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe the good news.’ What did Jesus mean by this? What does ‘repent’ and ‘believe’ actually mean? It certainly meant more then just getting to know the things that Jesus came to teach. It certainly means more than just knowing those truths today. A spiritual writer Fr. Ed Hays has said, ‘The original followers of Jesus imitated him long before they worshiped him.’ What he means by this is that Jesus’ first disciples didn’t drastically change their life-styles and follow him from town to town, synagogue to synagogue, because they believed he was God. They followed him because they saw the value in imitating the way he thought and lived. He focused on things and people they had never before noticed. He showed them how to change the world in which they lived. He showed them how to integrate his unique insights into the faith they already professed. Imitating Jesus, the disciples began to realize that he was God. During this Lenten Season, let us with renewed vigour to take up the work of imitating Jesus and so come to recognize him as the Good News that changes the world in God’s love. Representatives: CWL Pat Laturnas, President Secretary Darlene Loucks Deanery Marian Zsombor Treasurer Fran Rieder Knights of Columbus Building & Grounds Blair Baller Norm Halipchak Pastor: Fr. Ed Hengen Dear Sisters and Brothers Chairman Vice-Chair Liturgy Catechesis Pastoral Care Deanery Rep Finance Council The Roman Catholic Parishes of St. Joseph and St. Agnes In Christ, Fr. Ed EUCHARIST TIMES St. Joseph St. Agnes Saturday 7 p.m. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Sunday 9 a.m. Music Blair Baller Liturgy Debbie Rieder School of Religion Pastoral Care Jackie Peat Cheryl Lachambre Social Justice Ed Zsombor For weekday Mass schedule please see inside bulletin. Please call St. Joseph’s Rectory at 771-2387 to arrange for a baptism, wedding, or funeral. Call as well for any requests for prayer intentions, and if anyone is sick or distressed so we can arrange for visitation and communion for the sick. They followed him because they saw the value in imitating the way he thought and lived. He showed them how to change the world in which they lived! 1st Sunday of Lent (B) February 22, 2015 ST JOSEPH PARISH Welcome to all visitors and guests Monday, Feb 23 Tuesday Feb 24 No Mass Parish Reconciliation Celebrations for Lent: 7:00 pm For the intentions of the Parish Council Wednesday Feb 25 CHANGE OF MASS TIME FOR SUNDAY MARCH 8TH St. Joseph @ 9:00 am St. Agnes @ 10:30 am This change is made because of the AGM at St. Agnes that day. St. Joseph: Wednesday, March 4 @ 7:00 pm. St. Agnes: Wednesday, March 11 @ 7:00 pm. 10:45 am Wm Albert For the intentions of the residents. .Thursday, Feb 26 8:00 am For the repose of the soul of Diane Deibel requested by Bill & Janette Rieger. P Friday, Feb 27 8:00 am For the repose of the soul of Gabe Camirand requested by Robert and Lynne Kardash. NEXT Brunch MARCH 1st Regina Deanery Pastoral Council is hosting a Lenten Mission at Holy Trinity Parish (5020 Sherwood Dr. Regina) March 9-12 : 7:00 to 9:00pm each evening. Mission directed by Fr. Ben St. Croix Donations or free will offering. Parishioners from all parishes in the Deanery are invited to attend all or some of the sessions. SCHOOL OF RELIGION Grades 1- 8 Dates for School of Religion Feb 22 March 1,8,15,29 Schedule for Readers & Communion Ministers READERS Stations of the Cross St. Joseph Friday’s at 7:00 pm. through the rest of Lent COMMUNION Feb 21 Feb 22 John & Sharon Lauren & Gisele Marlene Feb 28 Mar 1 Jacqueline & Kenny Margaret Florence & Jodi Diane, Terri, Russ, Angeline(Cathy) Cecil, Lori, Monika, Vivian (Nick) NOTE: If you are NOT available on the day assigned to you, PLEASE find someone to replace you Development & Peace The Bishops of Canada endorse the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. Each Lent, in cooperation with other churches, they continue to bring the needs of the Third World before the people of our country and encourage all to respond to God’s generosity by supporting the works of CCODP. On the 5th Sunday of Lent, a collection is taken up for developing countries. Christians are urged to share their goods with others and thus express in a concrete way their desire to come closer to God and all God’s children as a result of their Lenten efforts. The offering should reflect the money saved through penitential fasting and set aside for God’s people. Are All The I’s Dotted & T’s Crossed? AN ENCORE PRESENTATION. This is a workshop for working with Children and Youth. Some of the Topics to be Covered include: Registration Forms – Medication - Abuse/Neglect - Parental Involvement Who Should Come? Parish Workers - Parish Volunteers - Youth Ministers If you are new to your position and/or have never attended a Archdiocesan Protocol for Responsible Parish Ministry Workshop, you should be there. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015 from 7:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. in the Kinlin Room at St. Martin de Porres Parish, 4720 Castle Rd., Regina To Register Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] call (306) 352-1651 Extension 239 Conducted by the Protocol Department Archdiocese of Regina Stewardship The waters of Baptism make us part of the new covenant in Christ. But the bishops’ pastoral letter on stewardship reminds us that “there is a fundamental obligation arising from the Sacrament of Baptism . . . that people place their gifts, their resources – their selves – at God’s service in and through the Church.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weekly Readings Febs 23 Weekday Leviticus 19.1-2 Ps 19 Matthew 25.31-46 Feb 24 Weekday Isaiah 55.10-11 Ps 34 Matthew 6.7-15 Feb 25 Weekday Jonah 3.1-10 Ps 51 Luke 11.29-32 Feb 26 Weekday Estger 14.1 Ps 138 Matthew 7.7-12 Feb 27 Weekday Ezekiel 18.21-28 Ps 130 Matthew 5.20-26 February 22 , 2015 MARCH SAINTS’ DAYS The following saints are traditionally remembered in March in Canada 4 Saint Casimir 7 Saints Perpetua and Felicity 8 Saint Joh of God 9 Saint Frances of Rome 17 Saint Patrick 18 Saint Cyril of Jerusalem 19 Saint Joseph, Principal Patron of Canada 23 Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo ST. AGNES PARISH MISSION STATEMENT We, the parishioners of St. Agnes, strive to live by Gospel values.We support each other with mutual respect and concern as we journey together, hope, and love towards the Kingdom of God. Coffee and donuts this Sunday after Mass. Everyone invited ~~~~~~~~~~ AGM is on MARCH 8th CHANGE OF MASS St. Joseph @ 9:00 am St. Agnes @ 10:30 am . Nash Memorial Lecture: Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues Education Auditorium, Main Campus March 5, 2015 07:30 PM Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, will present the 35th annual Nash Memorial Lecture entitled Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues. Book sales and signing to follow . Parking is available in lots 13M & 14M. Sister Helen Prejean has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue in the United States on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to state executions. She travels around the world giving talks about her ministry. She considers herself a southern storyteller. Sister Helen is a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph. She spent her first years with the Sisters teaching religion to junior high school students. Realizing that being on the side of poor people is an essential part of the Gospel she moved into the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans and began working at Hope House from 1981 – 1984. During this time, she was asked to correspond with a death row inmate Patrick Sonnier at Angola. She agreed and became his spiritual adviser. After witnessing his execution, she wrote a book about the experience. The result was Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. It became a movie, an opera and a play for high schools and colleges. Since 1984, Sister Helen has divided her time between educating citizens about the death penalty and counseling individual death row prisoners. She has accompanied six men to their deaths. In doing so, she began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. This realization inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, which was released by Random House in December of 2004. Sr. Helen is presently at work on another book - RIVER OF FIRE: MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. Lent changes things Alms change our spending habits from earth to heaven. Fasting changes our eating habits from fleshy indulgence to spiritual satisfaction. Prayer changes our attitude from self-importance to humility. So what we get from Lent is not simply a change of liturgical cycles. We get a change of heart, a change of attitude, a change of life. The Holy Childhood Association (HCA) is designed for Catholic Children so they can help other children around the world. The HCA helps children in Ghana, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Sri Lanka. CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN is a project for children in our parishes and many schools! No one is too little to care about others. What can you do this week? Use the Lenten calendar available for download on our website: http://archregina.sk.ca/pontifical-missions/childrenhelping-children . Help your family make a Lenten Chain! Cut purple construction paper into one-inch horizontal strips. Once a week, during Lent, invite everyone in your family to write down their Lenten goal for the week: a prayer they plan to say each day, a sacrifice they plan to commit to, a work of mercy they plan to perform, etc. Loop the strips around one another, taping them together to form a chain. Display the Lenten Chain prominently and watch it grow during Lent as the family strives to grow closer to Jesus. A silent PERSONAL DIRECTED RETREAT is being offered at St. Michael’s Retreat in Lumsden from Friday, May 8 at 7:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 10 at 1:00 p.m. This retreat is part of the practicum for those in the second year of their formation and training program to be commissioned as spiritual directors in June. - - The cost of the retreat is $256.00 and is to be paid by the person making the retreat. A non-refundable downpayment of $50.00 must be paid at the time of registration. The remainder can be paid at the start of the retreat. Cheques are to be made out to Spiritual Directors Group as St. Michaels will bill this group for accommodations and meals by those making the retreat. - To register, please send your registration form below along with your down-payment to Marlene Miller at 14 Scott St.,Regina S4S 4A2. We would appreciate if you could send this in by the end of February as we need a sense of how many will be participating when we proceed with further plans for the retreat. A silent directed retreat can be a grace-filled opportunity for you to spend some quality time with your loving God, and God with you. We hope you are able to take this time away from the busy-ness of life, and come aside and rest awhile. REGISTRATION FORM NAME _________________________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS__________________________________________________________ PHONE ____________________________________________________________________ DOWN-PAYMENT MADE OUT TO SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS’ GROUP ENCLOSED ____________YES __________NO Together, through our prayers and actions, let us build a culture that respects and cares for the dignity and value of each person from their first moment to their last. Spend time with someone who is lonely, suffering an illness or feeling alienated. Share happy memories with your children, parents and grandparents. NEW PARISHIONERS / CHANGE OF ADDRESS Please complete this form and place in the collection basket. Name(s) __________________________________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Phone ____________________ New Change of Address Wish to have Church Envelopes Wish Home Visit
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