EASTER LILIES Bonnie Allen The Bentley Family The Boudreau Family Dr Margaret Churcher The Frankel family Fr Jonathan and Peggy Gibson Anna Hamilton The Ip-Poon family in loving memory of Wesley Fach in loving memory of William Herbet & Mary Lilian Bentley Lester Gordon & Lorraine Mildred Grasdal and Dora Buck in loving memory of Leonard Boudreau Victor & Theresa Martell Joseph & Theresa Boudreau Vander & Violet Boudreau and John & Mary Myatt in loving memory of Frances & Lee Churcher Nelson Smith Sr & Lillian Smith John & Adeline Churcher and Gwen Evans for The Frankel and Hardy families and in memory of those that have gone before us and in thanksgiving for the generations to come in loving memory of Barbara & Douglas Gibson and Douglas Thomson for the health and wellness of Chiara Sanchez-O’Brien and for Christopher Hamilton in loving memory of Allen GH Poon CH & Arline Poon Ip Kam & Ip Au Yeung King Eva Burton, Monica Persaud & Olive Hutchinson and Bob O’Connor Sharon Joseph & Gary Prette in loving memory of Dolly & Charlie Joseph and Jack Prette Fr Lee and Elizabeth Kenyon in loving memory of Edward & Clara Kenyon William & Florence Pilkington and Thomas Leighton Webster The Maxwell Family in thanksgiving for God’s blessings The Robinson family in loving memory of Vincent, Maude, Cecil & Carlton Davis Robert & Ivy Newman & Lesleyanne Layne Wilbert, Daisy, & Hazel Robsinson & Lennox Brown and Iris Plummer, David Thompson & Connor Maguire Nicolas & Cristina Villemaire in loving memory of Albert Prévost SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CALGARY A Roman Catholic Parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter – under the Patronage of Our Lady of Walsingham – ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1423 8th Avenue S.E., Calgary, Alberta, T2G 0N1 · Telephone : 403.265.5072 E-mail : [email protected] · Website : www.calgaryordinariate.com Parish Office : Tuesday to Friday 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12 APRIL 2015 – DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY We share in the Resurrection of Christ. We do not need to seek him in secret places: He comes to meet us as soon as we turn to him. HAPPY EASTER AND WELCOME to St John’s today! We’re happy to have you worship with us. The full Order of Mass can be found in the Mass booklet, which you may take home with you. The hymns are found in the blue hymnals. Please return your hymnals to the Sidesmen at the end of Mass. CHILDREN’S LITURGY. For children 4 and up a Children’s Liturgy of the Word (a programme of teaching and catechesis) is available in the St Gregory Room below church. Children leave after the Vidi Aquam and return at the Offertory for the Liturgy of the Eucharist. A NURSERY ROOM for our youngest worshippers (ages 0-3) is available downstairs. Children are welcome to remain throughout Mass, but if you, or your child, would be more comfortable, please use the door by the pulpit to take your child downstairs at any point. REFRESHMENTS & FELLOWSHIP. Following the Parish Mass we gather in the Cross Hall, adjacent to church, for refreshments and fellowship. Tea, coffee, juice, and a selection of goodies are available. If you are new, please make yourself known to the Clergy and congregation. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ATTENDANCE: Maundy Thursday 97 · Good Friday 157 · Easter Eve 113 · Easter Day 144 (Mattins 2, Parish Mass 132, Evensong 3, Low Mass 7) CONFESSIONS are heard on Sundays from 9-9.30 a.m., and after all Masses, by request. MATTINS & EVENSONG are recited on Sundays at 8.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. THE COLLECTION last Sunday was $7,137.90 ($5,190.90 General Operating Fund, $1,947.00 Building Fund). Copies of the January & February Financials are available at the back of church. CONGRATULATIONS to Nicolas and Cristina Villemaire on their wedding yesterday! We wish them every blessing as they embark on their life together, now united in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. BOOK LAUNCH. A book launch for two books on beloved Calgary priest Fr Gino Violini will be held today, following the Parish Mass, at 12.30 p.m. Kathy Roe’s book Memories of Fr Violini and Patrick Owens’ book My Spiritual Repairman will be presented. A brief video on Fr Violini will also be shown. All are welcome. THE DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET will be recited today at 4 p.m., just before Evensong. Please do come and join us in reciting this short chaplet of the Rosary in praise and honour of the Divine Mercy of Jesus. EASTER FROM KING’S. Our annual Eastertide gathering at the Rectory to watch the BBC service of Easter hymns and readings from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge (which our pilgrims will be visiting next month), will take place today at 7 p.m. Music includes pieces by Lotti, Weelkes, Duruflé, Mozart, Tavener, Purcell, Gibbons, Wesley, Blow, and Ireland. The story of Jesus’s death and resurrection is told in the well-loved words of the King James Bible, with poetry by Wilfred Owen, Malcolm Guite, and others. Drinks will be provided, but please bring goodies to share. All welcome! THE FINANCE COUNCIL meet this Wednesday 15th April at 6.30 p.m. in the Blessed John Henry Newman Room. THE PARISH COUNCIL meet this Wednesday 15th April at 7.30 p.m. in the Canon Gale Room. WESTERN CANADIAN STEWARDSHIP CONFERENCE will be held in Calgary from 12th June – 14th June at the Telus Convention Centre (120 9th Avenue SE). The theme of the conference is: Stewards – Radiating the Joy of the Gospel. Early bird registration is $195. After 30th April 2015 registration is $235. To register visit wccsc.ca or call Samantha Jones at 403.218.5531. INTERCESSIONS Those expecting children: Fr Lee & Elizabeth Kenyon, Chris & Melina O’Neill, Robert & Emily Reid, Mike & Sue Heimbecker. The sick and those in need: Louis Boudreau, Jody & Bruce Ireland, Cathy Dubé, Mary, John, Neil Bentley, Erik Nissen, Judy Rodgers, James Guy, Greg, Dylan Hardy, Tamara Madej, Gwyneth Harding, John, Jan, Anastasia, Anne Langdon, Shirley, Harry Hilterman, Lihsuan Law, Louise Sheffield, Jim Tilley (priest), Jewell Avery, Heather Lam, Sebastian, Christine, Phil Dahdona, Ava Hadfield, Trent Seymour, and Norbert Reichl. The departed: Kingston Ireland, Helen Wong, Barbara Gibson, Blanche Barnes, Jack Kenney, Frits Jacobsen, Jane Zarn, Lesley Ann Layne, and Joy Pritchard (Year’s Mind, 10th April) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THIS WEEK AT ST JOHN’S Mon 13 St Martin I, Pp. & M. 7.00 p.m. Low Mass (for Christians in the Middle East) Tue 14 Easter Feria 11.30 a.m. Low Mass (for Rene Asprer) Wed 15 Easter Feria 10.30 a.m. Low Mass (for the repose of the soul of Desmond George) Thu 16 Easter Feria 11.30 a.m. Low Mass (for the Cichon family) Fri 17 Easter Feria 11.30 a.m. Low Mass (for the Faithful Departed) Sat 18 Easter Feria 11.30 a.m. Low Mass (for greater devotion to Our Lady) Sun 19 EASTER III 8.30 a.m. 9.00 a.m. 10.00 a.m. 4.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m. Mattins Confessions (to 9.30 a.m.) THE PARISH MASS (pro populo) Evensong Low Mass (with hymns) (for our Capital Campaign) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OUR CAPTIAL CAMPAIGN PRAYER O LORD AND HEAVENLY FATHER, strengthen us, we beseech thee, in love to one another, and increase in us the love of thyself. Deliver us from self-seeking in the work that we undertake for thee; and grant us grace faithfully to serve thee with one heart, mind and soul in the fellowship of thy Church on earth, that rock upon which we build, that hereafter we may be united in the communion of Blessed Mary, Our Lady of Walsingham, and of all thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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